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Thursday, January 24, 2008

The daily painting- Memories

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'Memories'
18" X 24"
Oils and mixed media
Finished sides, ready to hang
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This work has real leaves and the imprints of those leaves,
it makes it hard to tell what is real and what is an impression...
This work has tiny round mirrors to catch your image in,
shadows of fast moving water in the winter,
puddles played in on cloudy spring days and
the golden bronze colored memories of youth. (and of summertime, when it's hot!)
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Here is the quote that inspired the work:
My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."
~Kahlil Gibran
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Have a great day!
Heather
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~ Shakespear

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Quotes and an update:
This sense of honor is the sense of right. It is the soul's instinctive love for the good, the true, the commendable, and its instinctive scorn of the base, mean, and vile. There is a confusion between that false honor which cares only what another thinks or says, and the true personal honor which cares first for what we are. It is too true that many a man who would resent with a blow the epithet of "thief" or "liar" will lie and steal in secret apparently without a qualm of conscience. The true root of honor demands reality and hates shams. One should be taught to abhor and reject in his own heart everything which he would resent in an accusation made by another. He should learn not to tolerate in his own inner consciousness what he would fear or blush to have known to friends or foes. This is the sense of personal honor that dominates and molds character and that endures the heaviest stress of life.
~Edward O. Sisson
Source: The Essentials of Character, The Macmillan Company, 1915
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Which is the woman, which the child?
The joyous laugh that opens doors,
steals sugared moments from the shelf?
Or the dreamer mixing metaphors
with tears to make a book of self
To read aloud in winter's rooms
When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?
~Katie Louchheim
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
~Howard Aiken
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Hello all.
I have been buried alive in work, life and travel.
The weeks have flown by.
As a family we have been offered an opportunity recently, and as we ponder our course of action and our need/desire list, I see that life isn't ever going to be easy. Like Bruce Lee said, " Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength for a difficult one." I used to really play the pain game with these issues, these days I find that I respond to challenges with a quiet, panicky calmness.
Internally I seem to seethe and boil with the thought process...the talking to myself, my higher self about the situation at hand. I even run a low grade fever when I am processing...so that burning smell, that's just me over here thinking.
I find that these days, I am spending less time second guessing everything and everyone. Concentrating on what is right for me...then moving outward to the rest of the people in my life. Needing to know what my own feelings are well in advance of trying to then compromise an entire families needs against that inner truth.
Compromise is a total act of love.
While I think, chew and ponder this situation, this stage that I find myself in...the vault of memory gets opened to lend in the effort of uncovering truth, motivation, and resistance. The past is really so very un-useful to my needs right now. Rarely do I find myself rifling the files of past experience for answers, the answers are not in things I have done already...but lie in what will I do with what has been presented?
New work in the studio is showing my experimental side right now...and I am so easily influenced these days by the outside world.
I am having fun at the easel again. I am working on a new technique that looks promising, and just farting around with materials in general. I am working on a booking for another show in September-October 2007...I will announce that show when the details are all ironed out. I am still waiting for the results from my submission to a juried art event in November that looks really promising. That too will be announced when I get the information if I made through the process or not. Fingers crossed.
I was accepted/joined the Sketchbook Project and will soon begin that huge undertaking for a really fun large scale event. I am looking forward to opening my new sketchbook and diving into the topic of fear. When all 500 books are displayed it should be quiet powerful in it's statements.
Fun right?
I may be prone to bouts of morbidity right now,
so...let's just enjoy it shall we?
I hope you all are well and good in your lives.
I leave you today with this thought that was a recent topic on Zaadz:
If you had an extra hour today, how would you spend it?
I would paint uninterrupted while listening to my favorite music up really loud, drinking a Bloody Mary and dancing...yeah baby...don't forget the dancing.
Yours today
Raw & Radiant,
Heather

Friday, July 06, 2007

I am different from ordinary people



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Quotes for the day

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“Continue in the direction of the Pyramids”, said the alchemist.

“And continue to pay heed to the omens.

Your heart is still capable of showing you where the treasure is.”
“Is that the one thing I still need to know?”
“No”, the alchemist answered.

“What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way.

It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert,

one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck.

And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

~Paulo Coelho

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What?

You’re thinking for yourself?

You’re deciding on your own?

You’re applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values?

Who do you think you are, anyway?

And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.

~Neale Donald Walsch

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I have just been asked to do a new large commission...4 paintings! I am excited by the project, for one because when asked to paint for someone else, as an artist I have to get myself into that place in my head; that place where it is empty of my own directives, desires and thoughts. To paint someone Else's vision I need to be emptied out. This is perfect timing, I am already empty...so therefore at my most useful point for this work. I don't have to struggle to attain that state...I am there already...and I am grateful for that. What a gift, to find yourself ready for something new and then the gift of an opportunity arrives with bells on.
So, that's some kinda fun!
I have my new effigy doll coming along...I want to mount it on a canvas then drown it all in resin. That'll be fun. I will take some pictures soon when I get to a point that the project feels like it makes some visual sense.
The day has started without me...I must go get with the program.
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Heather
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.








The new work...this is an ART Update...
"Travelers are We"
acrylics/mixed media
24"X 30"
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The quote on it says:
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves."
~Boris Pasernak
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It's got like I think... 15 layers of rich glaze on it now...I still have two more effects I want to do to it before I call it good, one has to do with the faces...funny how when you take a picture of work that you have done, it removes you from it and you can see where things need tweeking...at least this is my experience. Some of the things I tried raised the collage elements a little and at first I was really frustrated. Then I kept playing with it and it turned into an imperfection that I really like now...I am thinking of using it again on purpose. I have not worked with my acrylics in awhile so I thought why not? It's fun and fast...I like that in an art medium.
Well anyway...that's the new work...on with the rest of this post.
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Quote for the day:

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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.


~Salvador Dali
The title to this post is also from Salvador.
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I need a vacation.


The cat made a escape attempt yesterday...she ran like the wind and didn't come back till this morning...no one got much sleep because of it. She is a tiny little kitty, we all love her, but she belongs the Middle Child, and he...well...he loves that cat...so he couldn't sleep and therefore I couldn't sleep...aaiieee!




Uuuummm, let's see...Middle Child turned 10, and we had an all boy party to celebrate. He had a good time, but mentioned a few times that it was hard without Oldest Child around...he misses his big brother...we all do, it's hard.

Anyway...Middle Child is ten, and he is glad that he is now a double digit!




They grow up so darn fast.




Studio time has been slow and frustrating of late...I have had many ideas and grand plans, but the day job keeps slowing me down. I didn't realize how much I depended on easel time to keep my sanity and hold depression at bay. I'm not like totally depressed or anything, just blue around the edges...and that doesn't make for great creative time...not for me anyway.




So...today when I get off work...I have set the day up to be able to paint for the afternoon...and I have no plan as to what my subject matter will be. Yippeee! It'll be a surprise. I love surprises.




Anyway...I must get to the work day, I have 14 coaching clients lined up for the morning and early afternoon...I should, if I am lucky be off work around 1:30 pm. Then it's painting time for at least a couple of hours.




I'll post pictures of the new work later on...still waiting for sunrise round here.




OK so my friend Blue Jude




tagged me with the 7 meme list...I don't know what else I have to divulge around here...but here it goes:




1. I have little to no patience. I am a very calm impatient person...you wouldn't know I am suffering from the "hurry up and wait's" but I am so...impatient in reality.




2. I live in a messy/clean house. By that I mean...the place is totally messy most of the time, but the important stuff, like kitchen sinks, bathrooms, floors, bedsheets, and the garbage are taken care of...laundry is another issue all together.




3. I am a professional stacker. I have the neatest stacks of all time. I rule at stacking stuff and knowing what stack...uuummm let's say the electric bill is...when I get around to remembering to think about the fact that it seems to be time to pay that again.




4. # 3 brings me to...paying bills...I am not the queen of this...at this I do not rule. I do a fair job at this activity, well enough to keep things running smoothly enough...but it's something I have to force myself to think about...all I can say is thank the Universe I am also ...




5. a total cheep skate. Frugal, a real non-spender. Spending money on stuff...I don't mean the important stuff, I mean like clothes, entertainment, you know wants...makes my ass twitch. I like having money in the bank...in my life poverty has been the norm...and kind of like the hoarders...I like to be ready for the unexpected...as it always seems to happen anyway...my thinking is keep it simple, and it may just save your bacon in the end.




6. Practical. that's me. Simple...yeah in a really complicated way...I like living a simple life...yeah it's like that...that's how I roll.




7. I don't make my bed everyday. I make it at night before I get into it. However...I do have incredible dresser drawers. I like really neat drawers...everything else...stacked neatly ready to go into drawers that may or may not be empty at the moment, because I have not taken the time to transfer said stacks into already mentioned insanely neat drawer spaces...




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I am not tagging anyone...if you feel inclined to talk about yourself...go ahead..I'll certainly read it. Otherwise...carry on!

Have a good day one and all,

Heather

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Determination is the down payment on sales achievement.


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Quote for the day:
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~Calvin Coolidge
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Good morning brave readers!
It's been a very busy couple days here at the studio.
I brought the show home from the gallery yesterday. It was a good show, no sales but with the crazy-ness that that gallery has gone through recently...it was still a good show, good for my resume, good for promotions, and good for introducing myself to the area. I got a big write up in the paper...and well, simply put... it's not always about the sales figure...it's a success when you feel good about something...it's not always coupled with dollar signs...but those don't hurt either! Anyway, it's nice to have the collection back home at the studio...and the show in the can. I'm ready for the next close up Mr. DeMille!
I also ran an auction last week and sold two paintings, to the same bidder...they are shipping out today to a brand new patron...that's always exciting. (Yippeee!)
I will be adding new art for auction later today, so check it out when you have a chance...the link button is right over there in my side bar...you can't miss it.
I am determined to start making sales again...enough of the waiting around...I said Enough! So, I will be auctioning again on a regular basis...and getting this party started. I am also shopping around for a nice gallery to join forces with in my local area...wish me luck in getting represented here and soon!
In the art success plan book I am also going to be entering a few jury shows this year...it's good for the resume I am told...well what I have researched anyway...so it's on the to-do list...finding good events to enter and seeing what happens.
It's supposed to help with the getting into a gallery effort, and being that I have never spent a lot of time worrying about that in my career so far (getting into a gallery)...I have just been selling art like a Mo-Fo up to this point...what did I need a gallery for? Well, now that my average price for a work has risen...I've stalled out in sales...I need some wind beneath my wings and try to gain some altitude. I went 5 months without a sale...never again I say! :) So, now I am re-defining my art career goals (fluid not fixed goals) and getting on it. Watch out world...here I come. "Carry on!"
Middle child's birthday will be celebrated this Sunday...with lots of boys to party hardy with...fun(!) He is very excited. It's his first double digit birthday, he'll be ten. I really can't believe that it's already been ten years, I fought to keep him alive (it was a real rough pregnancy...8 months in bed) and now here he is...almost as tall as I am and becoming quite the young man. Sheesh...where does the time go?
Uuuummm...let's see...
I have a crazy busy day...I want to spend time at the easel, but don't know if that's in the cards for me today, what with all the running around I have to do, starting new auctions, and doing the Life Coach gig.
Well, I better get busy and burn rubber on my day...
have a good one...
Heather
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Friday, April 13, 2007

The day after...





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The Morning after a night on the town.
(above) Spring flowers from the garden and some Japanese painted ferns...from last spring that is...I don't see any of this yet here! Aiiieee!
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
~Albert Camus
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OK, well...last night we had the gallery opening. It was really quite nice, not many people but the ones that came were wonderful and talkative. This is the first show I have done where there were so many technical questions asked of me about my work. It was fun getting to explain that I didn't know the rules of art, so I just do what I do and when it works...it's really fun to see what happens for me too.
Everyone that came into my space was visibly taken with my work, that was too much fun to watch, people would come into the room, and then you could see it on their faces...wow, what's this? That really was great fun to see...because they all liked it, and they all wanted to talk to me and ask me questions about the work...it was fun. I didn't make any sales, but I did get a lot of validation about what I do and that was really nice.
The photographer from the newspaper came and asked a bunch of questions and was super nice...and he took like a bazillion pictures...my smile muscles started twitching at one point...LOL.
I met one of the high school art teachers and she asked me a metric ton of questions and then asked me if I would come back to the gallery next week and talk to her students about art and my mixed media work...I said yes of course...what a fun time that will be! I am excited about that.
I did get a new pair of super sexy black shoes to wear...OMG! My feet hurt so bad by the time we got home...but I was uber cute so who cares?
We also got to go without taking the boys with us, Mate Man found a super nice young woman at his work that agreed to watch the boys for us, and they had a good time too...and I got to be out with Mate Man...after dark...alone! Gasp!
So...that's the day after report.
I did get more work done on the new painting...and I have just a few more things to do before I call it quits on her...I really will be happy to move on to new things to be honest, I am sick of this work...which tells me I almost done.
I hope everyone has a good day today...it's Friday! Woot!
Happy hour is only....10 hours away now....and counting. Tonight it's Margarita night...uuummm yummy...do join me if you can. :)
Heather
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Quote for the day


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Quote for the day

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Two amateur artists were asked to paint something depicting "peace."

On the appointed day, both artists brought their paintings to be shown.

One picture was of a quiet, rippleless lake.

Here indeed was peace as seen by an artist.

The other painting showed a gnarled tree standing on the precipice in a rugged canyon.

Nearby was a thundering waterfall, and the river dashed on, angrily below.

In the tree, near her nest, a bird was perched, singing above the clamor of the torrent of the water below.

A sudden change in the wind could bring disaster to the frail limb upon which the bird and her nest were located.

But instinctively she knew that if that happened, she and her young ones could use their wings and mount to the sky.

Yes, the two artists had fulfilled what they had been asked to do.

One painted a scene depicting the quiet beauty of peace.

The other had seen the majestic splendor that accompanies inner peace.

~Unknown
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I started the new work...and have no idea where it is going.
I don't have clue one as to what I am trying to say with it.
I have no notion as to what it will end up being.
I started it with no direction.
I have no story to tell, it's just a
relaxing jaunt through my colorful but tired mind.
I have no plan.
I don't know where it will end.
I don't know if it will even be any good when I am done.
I don't care if it's good or if it stinks.
I am lost.
Isn't that exciting?
I am off to discover,
what I mean to say.
Heather

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Art, Actions,Thoughts and Prayers


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Art of the day...
and the thinking behind the work.
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'Prayer for the Living'
18" X 24"
oils
For Sale Here
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I needed to read this message again.
This came to me as this painting
came to being, and today I
share it here with you.
This is a much shorter version
of the whole message,
but the part that I
needed for today's work.
I hope you enjoy.
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With but a shift in perception,
what you thought was miles or lifetimes
away may be but feet and moments
away or already right in your arms.
Words are the least part of communication;
energy and action speak far more truly.
You do not need to import greatness from another;
you just need to act on your own.
You already know.
You always have enough energy to do the things you love.
You always have enough time to do the things
that Spirit would have you do.
You are doing better than you think you are.
You are in integrity when the life you are living
on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
You are lovable not for what you do.
You are lovable for who you are.
You are not desperate, so don't act as if you are.
You believe that if you had more time,
you would have more peace.
It's the other way around:
if you had more peace, you would have more time.
Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.
You can tell what you believe by what you get.
You can afford to be generous because
you have access to an unlimited supply.
You can be helping many people,
but if you are not helping yourself,
you have missed the one person
you were born to heal.
You can never love too much.
True loving only multiplies itself
and returns to bless us many times over.
You can't get a right brain answer to a left brain question.
Ask your heart, not your mind.
You can't get to heaven by putting other people through hell.
You can't prepare to be great, because you already are.
You can't worry love.
You cannot achieve perfection.
You can only discover it.
You cannot fix yourself because you are not broken.
The more you try to fix, the more you find to fix.
Only wholeness heals.
You cannot gain worth by achievement.
You can only claim it by self-recognition.
You deserve only love because you are only love.
You do not need to gain or import powers,
for you were born with infinite power to create.
You simply need to claim
and use the power you already own.
You don't always need to know beforehand.
You don't have to make anything happen.
Just line up with what wants to happen and let it.
You don't have to make someone
else wrong for you to be right.
You don't need to beg for what you already deserve.
You don't need to get anyone else
to agree with your truth.
You just need to live it.
You don't need to make good things happen.
You just need to let good things happen.
You don't need to punish yourself for love.
Or sex.
Or money.
Or your past.
Or anything.
You have more options than you recognize.
You know where you belong.
Your good flows to you most easily when you are
relaxed, open, and trusting.
You only live once but it's forever.
You own what you own not by money or force,
but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.
You were born a genius, and you still are.
Claim it and it will work wonders for you and the world.
You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.
You will be paid for your services in
proportion to the depth of your passions for them.
You will find truth more quickly
through delight than gravity.
Let out a little more string on your kite.
You will help more people through your
delight than through your suffering.
You will not get rid of your pain by glamorizing it.
You will not solve lack by getting more.
You will solve lack by recognizing abundance
where you once saw lack.
You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal.
Whatever you invest it in will yield significant returns.
Your core being is your pure being.
Your entire world could open up with one expansive thought.
Your fears of oblivion are unfounded.
Your first and greatest contribution
to world peace is your own.
Your future isn't what it used to be.
Your gift to the world is not what you do.
Your gift is your happiness.
Your history is not your destiny.
Your inability to adapt is not a sign of your weakness,
but the strength of your inner guidance
to remind you where your passion lives.
Your issues do not retard forward movement;
they propel it.
Your journey of relationship is an
adventure to reunite with yourself.
Your thoughts do not create reality,
but they do create your experience.
Your thoughts do not create reality.
They either permit it or not.
Your true power lives
in acting with a whole heart.
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Let it be.
Have a great day everyone,
Heather
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Friday, February 23, 2007

New Fairy World WIP


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Work on the new Fairy World continues...
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So, this is the fairy that lives in the new Fairy World painting...I finished her yesterday, I put a background behind her just so you could see better. I did finish the flower pods, the stems and the touch up on the background yesterday too, and will be working on the ground collage elements today, (scroll down for a picture of the WIP...) as well as the final touches on the leaves. When the moon dries I'll be ready to finish the assembly, glaze and add the final details. I used Titanium white for the moon, and am now waiting what feels like forever for it to dry...I meant to use flake white because it dries so much faster, but grabbed the wrong one because my paint tubes have gotten so covered in paint from my hands, I couldn't tell which one was which until I had finished sculpting it...argh!
So, anyway I have the other new work 'Secret 2' (scroll down for a shot of the background for that work too) to work on today, and I am looking forward to a day in the studio with loud music...a must for me when I do assemblage work. I'm listening to the soundtrack from 'Even Cowgirls get the Blues'...I love that CD.
Hope everyone has a great Friday, and a happy, happy weekend.
Woot!
It's almost the weekend...and it's only 8 more hours to happy hour!
What could be better?
Heather
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