You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. ~Auden

New Work in progress...

Plaster, oils and vintage coasters (1950's)

20" x 16"

Let me just say I am sorry for the crappy pictures...they look really great in person, I'll try for better ones soon.

Effigy Doll work in progress...pre-resin.
16" x 20"
Oils

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BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quotes for the day:

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You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting

You only have to let the

soft animal of your body love what it loves.

~Mary Oliver

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The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers.

To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods.

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

~Janet Finch

Source: White Oleander

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I suggest that sufficiency is precise. Enough is a place you can arrive at and dwell in. So often we think of "abundance'" as the point at which we'll know we've really arrived, but abundance continues to be elusive if we think we'll find it in some excessive amount of something. True abundance does exist; it flows from sufficiency, in an experience of the beauty and wholeness of what is. Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people.

~Source: The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life, Page: 86

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Monday again...and I have so many things to get done this week. Three paintings are going into the Divine Intervention show in Fort Collins Colorado. The three paintings have to be prepared...I have been so busy that I am now behind schedule...Aaaiieee!

Oldest son turns 18 at the end of the week...I can't believe that I have a child that is now a legal adult. OY! I have to get his stuff out to him too...I wish we could spend the day together...I miss him so much. It's wonderful that we are now working on our relationship and it's getting so much better. It makes me so very happy to be able say simple things like I love you, and hear it back too! What a gift my Men are in my life.

Art wise...I have been working on some new things, my effigy doll...(above). Cynthia and Jafabrit and maybe by now some others, and I are all doing an effigy doll thing...it's great fun doing a project like this with other crazy talented artists...so check theirs out too. If you would like to join in on the fun, drop one of us a line and let us know...the more the merrier I think. I also have been working on a plaster and mixed media work that is very fun...I am fully addicted to resin right now, it may be the fumes. I want to cover everything in layers of resin...I have been playing with adding inks, pigments and floaty things to the resin in different stages of it's curing phase. What I have manged to do mostly is waste a lot of product, make a huge mess and also...had success! So now I am going to add it all together and see what happens. I feel like a mad scientist and it's too much damn fun I tell you.

I must get busy with my day...16 clients for coaching, the art to prepare for the upcoming two openings I have scheduled and marketing, marketing, marketing.

Then there is of course my daily Mom duties, the errand running, and gift wrapping and shipping.

*sigh*

I am tired already.

Have a good one everyone!

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/