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Artist, pattern designer and believer in healing powers of art making.

  • Lady of Compassion

    There is  this lesson in Life Book 2016 where we were supposed to find out where we are hard on ourselves and where we need to be better to ourselves. And I was thinking and thinking and realized that I am not really hard on myself at all. I am really really nice to myself. It’s the others that are suffering my hardness. And it’s not a nice thing to find out about yourself at all… However, even though I am hard on others at the same time it’s also me who is missing on things. You see what I mean: if I hurt someone, I also hurt myself, because I am not really enjoying hurting people, I am not enjoying not trusting people, I am not thrilled about not showing love and compassion to people I actually truly love. So, the big discovery is: through being hard on others I am really hard on myself. It all came together nicely and I could do the lesson :). Here are the four things with which I have problem with, that are supposed to be placed in the corners of the painting: trust, love, compassion and acceptance. And the lady is the Lady of Compassion who is helping with stuff. Useful insights come out of dwelling on stuff you thought is obvious…

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  • Underwater…

    I have no idea where she came from, but I am glad she did. Obvoiusly I need to practice doing the eyelashes… I almost totally ruined her…

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    I am still feeling totally unproductive art wise… I do sit to art every morning but somehow things are going slow and I am not so excited about it. Ah well… I am sure it’s just a phase I am going through…

  • I can trust…

    It’s a big thing for me to trust people… no matter that I understand  how important it is for a relationship… I seem to ruin them all with lack of trust. I am trying… more nervous doodles for today and more affirmation. I can trust… all is under control…

    Beautiful sunny day… do people trust me?

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  • Accept Life

    Good thing about art journaling is that you can pour out your frustration and it still looks pretty.

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    I am healthy. I am strong. I am ok. I accept what I am.

  • It’s not what you think

    These days I am thinking about perception of reality and how we all have our unique representation of what reality is and how it is really strange that we will never know how it is that another person feels and perceives what is. And then… it’s not real what you think is real and you will never know what real actually is…

    More meaningless doodling because I am restless and unfocused and uninspired…

    And happy  Easter to all 🙂

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  • Now is time for something else

    We have to set our priorities, right? And self-care is currently my number one. My mood is strange but bright colors help and messy pages seem to reflect my state of mind and emotions. That is how it should be. That’s what art journals are for…

    I cut a new stencil yesterday (white flowers on the spread). I am out of transparencies have to go shopping today…

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  • Let it go…

    Here’s finished page from yesterday.

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    I have to say that I really enjoyed the bright colors and not thinking about the outcome just making it happy and relaxed. The question is how do you stop… I pronounced this finished but I am sure I could continue… hmm… let me do some more 🙂

  • Procrastination

    What else to call it?! I am very good at it… Hell no! I am excellent. I hate myself for wasting time and for delaying things I don’t enjoy doing and sometimes I don’t enjoy anything. Like these days… I’ve become too fat and realised that if I do not pull myself together, it is going to be totally out of control. It’s not out of control yet :). So, I have started a diet from Monday and it is supposed to last for 7 weeks in which I need to lose 7 kilograms which should bring me to my ideal weight. So, do I have to say that I am bit on edge since Monday? And that things are even harder to do than usual? Right… I had fun creating my “Food Mood and Diet Diary”. I’ve cut a few stencils. I almost did zero journaling since Monday.

    Anyway… Life goes on, diet or no diet… And this is what I created since last time I posted:

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    This one is done for Life Book 2016. Fun and easy with watercolour pencil and watercolours.

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    Then I cut this little stencil and tried using watercolour on it. It was good. I covered it later with gel medium as I intend to work on top of it. It smeared just a little…

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    This one I really like. It’s inspired by Moon Child from Never Ending Story. They say she had white hair and golden eyes… anyway this is what came to me. I used my new stencil in the background and oil pastel on top. The effect is quite nice plus I have blisters on my fingers from smearing the oil pastel on top of modelling paste. Ouch!

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    Finally, this I started today. It’s a new lesson in Life Book 2016. I was feeling so uninspired this morning, but I tried to follow the instructions from the lesson and it worked. The colors made me almost ecstatic with joy. I was amazed. Art is truly healing, people!

  • Storm

    I started doing Book of Days finally. Effy is doing, among other things, an art card a week so we can print them out and in the end have a complete deck of inspirational or oracle cards, depending on what works for you. So I  thought I will use my art to make my own deck… quite an ambitious project I know… but let’s see, maybe it will work. The first card I posted yesterday. It was called ’emerge’. This one is called ‘storm’. Fifty more to go 🙂

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  • Emerge…

    It’s been a couple days since my last post. Not that I did not do art, just I was too lazy to write a post… If I don’t do it first thing in the morning, then it does not get done. I am a morning person, like from 6-10 am and after that I am good for nothing… Except procrastination, of course! LOL!

    So what was I doing in these days past? Here first is a spread from my art journal which was made when I was not really feeling all happy. Frankly saying I was pretty pissed and nervous for no particular reason, probably hormonal 😉

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    I used oil stick in black. Pretty nice, you can make all sorts of marks with it and also, because it is kind of dimensional, you can scratch it, which was THE thing for me that morning, helped with my being nervous and all 🙂 The drawback is, oil needs time to dry, this dried pretty quickly though – in only one day! So, all is good.

    The next thing is last week’s lesson for Life Book 2016. We were supposed to use modelling paste over watercolour background, but I realised I did not have any at hand, so I used gel medium. The effect is ok, though not quite as it was supposed to be…

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    And then again a spread in my art journal:

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    This one took some time, but I really enjoyed doing all the details. See what a change in comparison with the one which was made in bad mood…

    And finally, the piece I finished this morning:

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    This was done in response to the prompt from Journal 52 and Book of Days with Effy Wild. I really enjoyed doing her.

    So, it’s Saturday and we have a long weekend ahead, because the next working day will be Wednesday. YAY! Lots of art coming, I think…