And Everything Fell Out

Daily Scrap

Brave love.

Heart

opened wide

and

everything 

fell out. 

Life over the past couple of weeks has been full and hard. I'm working on release. Letting go and picking up the pieces. My heart feels like it's taken more blows than a heart ever should but that pain lets me know that I love BIG and HUGE, not halfway, not just a little but love so big that it has to spill out; I can't contain it all. Easier to just let the love go where ever it needs to and hang on for the ride so I am hanging on. 

Yesterday I began a series of art journal pages I am calling my daily scrap. The  pages are from one of my 'Infinity' style journals which has 160 pages. 

The pages are 5" by 5" so they are perfect for capturing

those moments of self reflection, outward expression and spilling. I background painted and inked all the pages that I created in Roben-Marie Smith's Art Journal Conversion class which is hoot if you are looking for some seriously messy fun. I highly recommend it. It's also great way to reduce stress; throw some paint around. It's good for the soul. 

I've always loved working with paint. I love it even more when I can bring it to my journals but I also want to be braver with paint on canvas. I am going to be taking Flora Bowley's, Bloom True e-course which begins in a few weeks and I am so looking forward to it and I am thinking I am going to use a little birthday money I received to take Mindy Lacefields on-line class Paint Your Story which begins in the spring. It feels very good to be excited. 

And one last bit before I head down to the art cave. Right around the end of November I stumbled upon one of the most inspiring artists I've come to discover on the web. Her name is Mystele and her blog is loaded with free videos of her creative process. She sometimes dubs them with music and speeds up the process but other times she shares the step by step and takes you through the creation of an entire canvas. To say her site is loaded with video's is an understatement. Her archives are worth checking out.  She is also fun just to watch even if you have no desire to pick up a paint brush. I've become quite smitten with her work and style find myself wishing I could paint that effortlessly. She is an angel of INSPIRATION!!!!  You can follow her creative journey by taking a peek at her flickr site which shows, that if you have the desire to grow and nurture your skills, your creative dreams can come true. Seriously, don't wait, click on the link and head on over there. 

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