A Focused Journey: Finding a focus on the other side of 50.

I believe everyone’s life has a purpose. We are here to discover that purpose then use whatever gifts were bestowed upon us to make this world a better place. Some of us are fortunate as we know at an early age what that purpose is. Others, well, we go along, often digressing from the road that will take us there. This is me. Now on the other side of 50, I am finding my way back to that road that will lead to my life’s purpose. Welcome to my journey.

Friday, July 17, 2015

Get up. Get Dressed. Paint.

Another early morning painting session with Rae Missigman’s SUMMER RE-RUN SERIES - 15 MINUTE FAVORITES. This is week 17 of this painting journey and I find I still look forward to getting up with my morning coffee and painting the morning away.

I have decided to begin a “play practice” where I allow myself to practice and play with the different techniques I stumble across while blog hopping. My Pinterest boards are full of inspiring journal pages and techniques but what good are they sitting there in cyber space? I want to create a space where I can try these techniques without judgement where I can learn and play.

Do you have a journal in which you allow yourself to practice and learn; no judgement just a place to play? If so, please leave a comment on how it helps you in your creative journey.

SOC week 6: orange + orange + blue

By coincidence, this was the quote on my Seize the Day calendar yesterday. I have been focusing on cleaning, organizing, and purging my home, trying to regain some control after the looong school year. This quote spoke to me, reminding me of my commitment and my One Little Word, simplify. I chose to use the dandelion seed stencil because of its association with growth, warmth, clarity, healing, radiance, and illumination. Most of us can remember making a wish then blowing on a dandelion seed head. My wish is purge my home of everything we don’t need and have a less cluttered life.

Colors used:

Dina Wakley tangerine

Dylusions ink spray in squeezed orange

Apple Barrel laguna

You are cordially invited to snoop around in my creative space HERE.

Paint Party Friday

11 comments:

WandaJuly 17, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Wow, I just love your colors and textures and details. What a great piece. And of course I like the quote. Years ago I read a book called "Seize the Divine Moment". I'm have tried to do that and have had some rather special divine moments in my journey of life.
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SCarolJuly 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM
Great quote and fabulous page. Just love the textures and all the interest. Wonderful.
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Linda KunsmanJuly 17, 2015 at 4:07 PM
Love these pages and that quote too! I once made an art journal just for basic techniques and practice -even made little cards with an explanation of each technique but now I feel like every page I create in any journal is a matter of practice and play!
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ValerieJuly 17, 2015 at 5:47 PM
Beautiful pages! Nice quote on your SOC-entry :-)
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ChristineJuly 17, 2015 at 9:29 PM
Lovely work! I don't really practice in my journal, I just paint my pieces and that's it!
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GigglesJuly 17, 2015 at 9:52 PM
Such pretty work...I love how you put colour together so perfectly!!

Hugs Giggles
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KristinJuly 18, 2015 at 1:49 AM
Thank you! xo
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Sharon FritchmanJuly 18, 2015 at 5:56 AM
I love what you did with the Summer of Color colors this week! Your work of art is amazing and so cool that you found the quote you used on your Seize the Day calendar the day before! I love your first pages, too. They are so pretty and creative! It has been a pleasure following you through the SOC this year! Hugs, Sharon
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Robyn OliverJuly 19, 2015 at 7:40 AM
ooow super, I love your page, great colours and texture
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BJJuly 19, 2015 at 5:27 PM
Gorgeous SOC piece, BJ
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Renee DowlingJuly 19, 2015 at 9:54 PM
I really like all of the textures, layers and the quote too! How you used the colours of orange and blue are very appealing.

Decluttering is always a goal for me too! I have to declutter my work space both at my art desk and in my classroom daily in order for me to be able to think clearly and get my creative juices flowing!

Thank you for sharing!
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THE JOURNEY

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could

The Dark Night Of The Soul
By Saint John of the Cross
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Songs of the soul rejoicing at having achieved the high state of perfection, the Union with God, by way of spiritual negation.

Once in the dark of night,
Inflamed with love and wanting, I arose
(O coming of delight!)
And went, as no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose

All in the dark went right,
Down secret steps, disguised in other clothes,
(O coming of delight!)
In dark when no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose.

And in the luck of night
In secret places where no other spied
I went without my sight
Without a light to guide
Except the heart that lit me from inside.

It guided me and shone
Surer than noonday sunlight over me,
And lead me to the one
Whom only I could see
Deep in a place where only we could be.

O guiding dark of night!
O dark of night more darling than the dawn!
O night that can unite
A lover and loved one,
Lover and loved one moved in unison.

And on my flowering breast
Which I had kept for him and him alone
He slept as I caressed
And loved him for my own,
Breathing an air from redolent cedars blown.

And from the castle wall
The wind came down to winnow through his hair
Bidding his fingers fall,
Searing my throat with air
And all my senses were suspended there.

I stayed there to forget.
There on my lover, face to face, I lay.
All ended, and I let
My cares all fall away
Forgotten in the lilies on that day.

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Get up. Get Dressed. Paint.

SOC week 6: orange + orange + blue

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