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Breathe. And see that everything that comes after the I am is irrelevant to your peace and happiness. 

Really.

You are the peace and happiness you seek. 

Let the rest drift by. Its simple.

Want to talk about it? Id be delighted. Especially if you think this cant possibly be a real and easily accessible thing. Because that was me. Sister I feel you. Message me; well talk. 💜💜💜

#inspiration 
#dailycreation
#artfullife
#lifelonglearner
#reigniteyourlife
#lightyourspark
Stripes, 12x9 on .75 deep canvas.

I dont usually take three days with a painting. Or was it four?

I sure did this time. I didnt give up when I mightve before. I took my time, because I saw the possibilities!

>> Never give up on a painting. Never give up on _________. Never give up.

I wanted to do a painting in layers, using my method of flooding with pouring medium over dried paint to allow for the paint to move as well as to let whats beneath show through (because the pouring medium dries clear).

Its tricky though. When you flood a painted canvas with opaque pouring medium, you cant see whats below — youre working blind. 

I painted over the striped background three times. (I didnt give up, and I came close.)

I did a open cup swipe which turned out great except I went a bit too far on the bottom. So I scraped that part off, let it dry.

Then I painted the shapes on the far left and right, and swiped the bottom again. Now it looked great. Except for the bottom left corner. I let it dry.

One more pouring medium flood coat, this time just in the bottom left corner. I didnt want to lose sight of the edges of the area I wanted to fill, so I decided to risk a hard dried edge of pouring medium, which Ive seen before. Happily, didnt dry with an edge this time. I think Im developing a lighter touch (finally 😎).

Anyway Im delighted. I never cared about cells before, but now that Im getting them on the natch (no additives), I want more and more!

Id love to know what you think.

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All artworks for sale (until its not — its all one-of-a-kind and handmade 🙃). This piece — Stripes — is $300 plus tax and shipping.

Buy some art. I’d be delighted, and I’ll make it easy. Message me and Ill get you sorted. Shipping, handling, sales tax additional. Commissions welcome. 💜

#dailycreation
#artfullife
#lifelonglearner
#reigniteyourlife
#lightyourspark
#abstractart
#fluidart
#collage
#creativity
#expressyourself
#makeyourmark
#northbayartist
Oh the things I can use to move paint. 

Lately I’m making art that’s made using both pulling and swiping techniques. 

I’ve got ball chains in five sizes and then some link chains and beads. 

And then there are the wedges and kitchen tools like these spreaders and the turner. 

Of course palette knives are in the mix. 

I buy my art supplies in the housewares department, in the cake decorating section, at the hardware store (if I can’t find what I’m looking for at a garage sale of course), and sometimes in the actual art supplies store. 

I love this art form!

#dailycreation
#artfullife
#lifelonglearner
#reigniteyourlife
#lightyourspark
#abstractart
#fluidart
#collage
#creativity
#expressyourself
#makeyourmark
#northbayartist
Letting go, lightening up.

I let go of a couple sizable things this week.

First, I ditched my long-time internet provider. 🥳

I’m gonna be polite(-ish) and try to avoid naming said internet provider (yup, those guys). They were the only game in town for decent-ish speed — they had zero competition.

That internet provider had me over a barrel and acted like it. They tripled my forever rate without notice and then told me they’d never given said rate to me in the first place. Didn’t matter that they’d accepted that amount from me for four years. Nope.

It’s maddening to try to settle a dispute this way, when you’re told, in all kinds of ways, that what happened didn’t happen. Maddening AF.

It’s painful to even remember what happened when I tried to get them to reverse this rate increase; I bet you can imagine the support conversations. 🙄

I got lucky. Finally, fiber came to my block. Faster, reliable, much better customer service so far (local phone number, answered by humans, how refreshing!)

Bonus: Fiber costs less than I was paying those other guys! Woot! Returning the hardware to you-know-who was a celebration.

Then I let go of the car I bought new and drove for the last 20 years.

I said good-bye to the 2002 Camry that I bought with 7 miles on it in 2002, for cash. I donated it to Habitat for Humanity this week. When I released it, the odometer read 187,158. 😳

Interesting to watch myself moving through all this change. Which seems to be happening relentlessly these days.

Losing and grieving my sister.

Celebrating her first grandchild, born on June 6th, Bina Mae, who’s still in NICU.

My daughter’s pregnancy being discovered on the same day. My first grandchild is gestating.

Now I’m driving a new-to-me Subaru Forrester, which apparently came with a family of spiders in the mirror mount. I’m trying a vinegar spray to encourage them to find a new home.

Letting go and lightening up.

As a wise friend once said, “Relax, open your hands and your heart. When you walk around with clenched fists you just can’t receive the gifts that are coming to you.”

What are you letting go? What might you let go? I’d love to know. Leave a comment or message me.
Tech note for my #pouring friends.

Some tile surfaces make for a wrinkly result.

Tiles are tricky. The high-gloss ones are challenging because sometimes the paint just peels up in sheets — great for acrylic skins, iffy for finished art that stays in place.

Then there are coarser tiles, which provide interesting situations of their own, like uneven surfaces, and wrinkly results.

Ive heard that some sand/rough up the tiles before pouring. I havent tried that yet. Im always about the expression and the flow, but then I end up sometimes worrying about the results I get.

Sigh.

Id love to hear how other tile artists get their best results. Leave a comment or message me.

This ones a pour-over; I decided it was a bit too mono-chromatic and needed to pop. So I popped on another layer.

6x6 acrylic paint on ceramic.

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All artworks for sale (until its not — its all one-of-a-kind and handmade 🙃). This piece is $75 plus tax and shipping.

My ceramic tiles make great trivets/coasters and they also look really nice on the wall (hangars and surface protection included).

Buy some art. I’d be delighted, and I’ll make it easy. Message me and Ill get you sorted. Shipping, handling, sales tax additional. Commissions welcome. 💜

#dailycreation
#artfullife
#lifelonglearner
#reigniteyourlife
#lightyourspark
#abstractart
#fluidart
#collage
#creativity
#expressyourself
#makeyourmark
#northbayartist

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