{sunday snippets}

 

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I'd love to see how your weekend looked.  Leave a link in the comments if you decide to play along this week.  If you're wondering how to play along, just post some photos that capture snippets of your weekend on your blog.

{blocked}

painting, writing, dreaming.  none of them happening.  it's as if i'm standing outside the walls of a great impenetrable fortress .  life is such a damn roller coaster sometimes.

{sunday snippets}

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This is becoming a nice way to close out the weekend.  If you'd like to join me in sharing some Sunday snippets post some to your blog and leave a link in the comments so I can come and have a look.  I'll get a linky list organised at some stage.

{remembering}

Remember Where You Are*

Acrylics on canvas

10 x 10 inch

$110

• what it's like to feel settled
•  how to slow down
• the way the pieces of my life fit together
• how much i love Le Tour de France
• who i am
• what i truly hope for
• the things that really matter

 

 
Remember Where You're Going*

Acrylics on canvas

10 x 10 inch

$110

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*I've created a set in my Flickr account with original works I currently have for sale.  If you see something that takes your fancy email me at tinniegirl/at/optusnet.com.au to arrange a purchase.  I'll be adding more pieces soon, or reopening my Etsy shop!


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Have a fabulous weekend peeps.  Whatcha got planned?

{on knowing...}

"... exactly what I want for my life:

to make art: to sell and exhibit my work: to write: to be published: to make unique works: to make a full time living from my creativity: to live authentically: to teach: to lead: to share my story and my life in a way that inspires others, gives them hope and leads them to action"

I wrote these words on the front page of my notebook in late 2009.  A notebook I fill with all my creative ideas, dreams, hopes and plans.  I love coming back to those words.  There is such a complete clarity in their simplicity.  Even though I often don't know how, or when, or what to do next, there are some things I do know.  I know exactly what I want for my life.

{it's true}

These words from my friend, fellow artist and blogger Tracy Verdugo resonated so strongly with me yesterday I had to write them down and carry them with me.  A reminder that yes, sometimes all things seem possible, and indeed how wonderful it feels when that happens.  Don't you agree?

EDITED TO ADD: These words actually from Lewis Carroll via Tracy.  Thanks for letting me know Ronnie and Tracy.

{sunday snippets}

This last photo inspired by a post {and a dare} over at be present, be here.  Thanks for the prod Liz.

I wonder if you have some Sunday Snippets you'd like to share?  A photo or a few, with or without words.  Leave a comment if you decide to join in.

{my week in a painting}

work in progress

Gazing at this painting this morning I thought how it was quite a good visual representation of my week.  Lots of colour and movement, some clear lines and direction, small amounts of black and white, and plenty of texture and interest.  If only I had more time I could tell you all about it, but I'll have to save that for another day.

How's your week?

{sunday snippets}

{the question}

new work started this morning

It's perhaps more a series of questions that I'm sitting with at the moment.

• Will I ever make a sustainable living from my art?
• How will I do that?  Over the last 6 months I've realised that my passion when it comes to painting is to create original works of art.  I don't want to spend my time and energy on prints and reproductions, and building a business based on products.  It's just not where my heart is.  It's not what drives me.  Am I cutting my nose off to spite my face thinking this way?  Or am I simply listening to my truest voice?
• How do I follow my own path, but also remain open to opportunity?
• What exactly is my path?
• How can I make writing a part of how I make a living?
• Will I ever stop believing that it has to be one passion or another?  Will I start to see my life and my livelihood as a series of activities that weave together to form a whole?
• Will I ever find the motivation and confidence to push through to making a living from my creativity?  Is it actually an issue of motivation and confidence?  Or is it something else?  Timing perhaps?
• How much do I surrender and how much do I push?
• Do I want to teach?  I know there are things that I can share with others.  Painting, blogging, writing, storytelling.  But I never seem to reach a place of feeling ready or convinced.  Is it just fear?  Lack of confidence?  Or is it again a case of feeling like that's something I should do because I see everyone else doing it?  Do I want to teach?
• How do I sort through all the different questions, thoughts, and feelings?  The external influences also?  How do I tap into to my truest self and listen to the answers that are buried deep within?

{truth be told}

Where Dreams Grow

Acrylics and mixed media on canvas

12 x 12 inch

I could happily spend all my days in the studio painting at the moment.  Playing with colour and form, dancing with old ideas and merging them together to create fresh ones, ducking out to the backyard to squirt spray paint through a stencil, and then back into the studio to add some paint from my finger tips. Take a detail brush and create some fine lines, add some of my signature fine dots and a couple of treasures from the stash of ephemera.  Smiling as I watch it all come together.  Feeling so present in those moments.

There just doesn't seem to be enough creative time of late.  The cold winter evenings make me want to snuggle up in bed with a book or the tv, the days are filled with the 'day job'.  The weekends seem to rush by at a speed I can't even comprehend.

I think I'm still playing catch up after a HUGE couple of months.  Things are feeling a lot more settled, but they're not completely there yet.  Hopefully soon.

In the meantime I'll dream of painting, and Spring.

{sunday snippets}

{really nice things: a list}

• an annual leave day
• pockets of painting throughout the day
• riding around in my hood in the most amazing winter sunshine
• russian blintzes at my favourite cafe
• buying myself an enormous bunch of flowers
• riding all over the place with the flowers in my bike basket
• treating myself to paint, coffee beans, fresh baked bread, decadent chocolate
• being stopped in the street by someone to tell me I'm beautiful
• feeling connected to what's real and letting the superficial fall away
• heading out tonight to the Hottie Exhibition to see my dear friend shine
• 2 free days stretched out ahead