Today is the Day!

Today, I begin the journey into a new painting. The inspiration came quickly, and I have been dying to paint all summer, and today is the day I will start.

If anyone is interested in buying any art work of mine posted on the blog, please let me know!

Overwhelming Inspiration

Sometimes as an artist you just have this need inside of you to draw, paint or whatever. That your artistic ability is just spilling over. Your mind is overwhelmed and the only way to fix it is to draw. Lately this has been happening to me alot. I wake up with drawings in my mind, and when that happens the picture never goes away. Sometimes I don't even know what the picture means until I draw it.

I had forgotten a sketch book and all I had was the book that I was reading. So I grabbed a pen and let my mind do the rest. This is what happened. At first it was a squiggly circle and then it became a tree. I didn't have a plan. I just let the inspiration and thoughts fill the page.

Sometimes when I get in periods like this when I have pictures in my mind going all the time of good ideas, I just get headaches. I can't stop seeing it. My mind is full of color and thoughts and inspiration and without anywhere to put it my mind overloads. Because I can't forget a picture until I draw it.

The Beginning

Everyday is an adventure. But no day is finished till I do some sort of art work. Today I painted my first set of TOMS for a paying customer!! Business started.

Nothing gives me more joy than painting, let alone someone thinking you are good enough to paint something for them and they pay you! When someone tells you "You are talented" or "I would love to buy your painting." Its like a rush. When they tell you that you have a gift and they want to invest in you.

Finally I am starting to become what I have dreamed of my whole life. An Artist. Professionally. The older I get and the more I practice and learn the closer I become to what I have always dreamed of.

This may be only a little step, but a little step is the beginning of a great journey.

These are two pairs of TOMS that I have painted. Palm Trees and SunFlowers. If you are interested in purchasing some please email me, or comment below.

Good Day

Things always have a funny way of working out. Everyday I learn something new. Everyday is like a little adventure.
I started a painting the other day and I haven't had the desire to finish it. I'm not sure why that is really. I think it will be really cool once it's completed but it's getting the finished product that can be the battle.
Isn't life like that sometimes. Some days you just have to "get through" in order to get to the "good" days again. But I'm tired of looking at life like that. Everyday has good in it, sometimes it's just a little harder to find.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow nor sun without rain, but he did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and light for the way.

Colors of My Mind.

I know I haven't posted in awhile. But I'm back! I have some art work I'm going to share. And I'm going to be posting more of just my art and photos from now on. Explaining why I did them. My inspiration and such.

This is a self portrait believe it or not. I did this painting in about two hours. The inspiration would be myself. As I am reflecting on who I am I wanted a painting to show who I was. I always paint nature, but I wanted to paint something that meant something to someone. I wanted to show me. My hair shows all that makes up who I am. The colors and creativity, certain things that are important, and certain things that have made me who I am. When I go through life day by day I see things in colors. Like every person has a certain color and all my feelings have a color. Most of those colors are shown here in my hair.
That's the inspiration, now to how I did the painting. The background was done first. I mixed acrylic paint with water to make it thinner and to make it splatter better, and also run. I then mixed a color that looked like my skin tone that is under the figure, then I added all the colors of the hair. It was painting in 5 sections each their own color and then slowly it all mixed. Last I painted my face black. I painted my face black to show that I wasn't the focus. That the focus was on my hair, my world.

I hope you like it!

Growing Like the Colors

Thursday, today was a good day! Tomorrow is friday I can't wait. This week of art work week is coming to an end! But I am going to start posting art work more I think. Thanks everyone for reading it! You are all amazing.

I did this painting last year. This is my view on the light spectrum. You can probably tell this is a light bulb, but the colors are suppose to be growing out of it. This was a really fun painting to do! I learned a lot about how much shading and highlighting can really make a painting come alive! I like this painting a lot! I really struggled because of how abstract this painting is but It helped me grow along with the color.

Every painting or piece of work helps me grow.

Humans and Trees

Wednesday, pat yourself on the back because you made it half way through the first half of the week! Just think we are that much closer to Friday and the weekend. This week is art work week! Hope you are liking it!

This is a tree done in watercolor. I did a whole segment in a watercolor pad of trees doing different things. This one the sun is setting, in one it is going through a storm, in another it is starting to grow leaves again after the long winter. I did this segment or study on trees one because I really like trees and two because I think that a tree is a good representation of a human. Because when you just a tree down you see the ripples in the trunk, and you can see everything that the tree went through. You can see when the tree went through a drought, or when it would get hit by lightening, or even when it would go through a good season and it would grow. Humans are like that, we each have a core and when we look at that we can see everything that we have been through. We can see how everything has effected us. I did this little series because I wanted to represent the different things that people go through.