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Lately, I’ve been listening a lot to Hana Pestle songs. I discovered her in my Twilight saga obsession phase, I don’t remember how but I listened to her song “Need” on YouTube, she wanted it to be on the New Moon movie soundtrack but didn’t get it eventually.

The song “The Red Death Ball” makes me think of the novel “Carrie” by Stephen King.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of his books and loved this one, I love the power he gives to women, they’re abused by men but are still strong and full of will to get the negativity out of their lives.

Hana Pestle reminds me a lot of Evanescence, a group that I use to listen everyday, all day long. In 2003. She’s produced by Ben Moody, the guy who founded Evanescence with the lead singer Amy Lee… so no coincidence I guess.
It’s the kind of songs I was litterally drowning into. But today, even if I still like them, I don’t let myself being immerged in the sadness it brings. I aknowledge myself for this huge step I made.

It’s easy to let the Past come and swallow you, your emotions take control and it’s the end… But you can decide the Past is the Past, you can’t change it so stop to focus on it. It does influence the person you are now, but you still have the power to become who you really want to be.

YOU DECIDE.

Merry Christmas !

I must confess, I planned the publication of this article, right now I might be busy discovering if Santa Claus thought of us and help my daughters open their gifts, taking pictures for the family who is far far away and enjoy the moment.

I hope your Christmas Eve was wonderful and filled with Joy. Ours is tonight (it’s 10:20am as I am writing this), it will be just the four of us. My husband will be on vacatin from tonight until the beginning of January, I wish he would be home today but still…

I try not being sad, really hard.

I may update this note later on today 🙂

This week, I am thankful for..:

⚙ The Love the fill my heart everyday, and comes from different sources. The greater one is my Lover one.
⚙ Hana Pestle songs, that create beautiful images in my head and make me want to pull them out and create.
⚙ The painting time with my daughters. They seem to have enjoyed it.
⚙ I started to read the book Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater and it seems really really good (I’m just at the very beginning of it).
⚙ No rain, no snow. A beautiful shiny sun instead.

Creativity is like a big wave: sometimes you’re on top of it and ideas flow in you mind, so much that it is hard to build them all concretely, so you better keep a note of these ideas somewhere, especially for time when your creativity seems to have take a vacation from you and nothing is going the way you’d like…

Currently, my creativity is on the ascendent side so I write my ideas and create as much as possible.

As you may know, I’m searching my own style… and I finally begin to have a clearer idea. My mum says it’s “naive” but I don’t think so. Yes, the drawings are “simple”, just because I’m not a drawer.

I discover that I really enjoy (need) to use more than only one medium in each artwork. I love acrylic paint but I prefere when it’s mixed with something else, like stamping (I looooooooove stamps, sometimes too much), I love using Neocolors II also, and sometimes collage (I really need to learn how to incorporate them into an artwork, because when I do it, it gives something that is not consistent).

My Universe is like me: full of paradoxes. I love bright colors but dark themes. My dual personality is shown in what I create and finally, I like that. Art is a way to be fully myself, no matter what.

I would love to know how to paint with textures and abstract stuff… But one thing at the time. I may learn at Emily Carr (the design & art institute here in Vancouver) where I attend the “certificate program” until mid-2012.

I love how this artwork turned out. At first, i only had in my the round-headed character… the rest followed.

It’s not complete, I may add stuff in the sky 🙂

My husband likes it so much that he asked me to create him a big piece inspired by this one (it’s in progress at the moment I write this). I’ll show you if you want 🙂

Don’t be ashamed of your style, don’t be afraid of explore all the things you like and that inspire you, to go deep inside yourself to find what moves you. It may seem gore or too fluffy but if it is what calls you, go for it without thinking of what others might think. Just listen to YOUR voice 🙂

Christmas is now just around the corner, only a few days to go. How do you feel ? Will you celebrate ?

It will only be the four of us this year (our Trollettes, my husband and I). Despite my mum absence (she is in France), I hope we will celebrate joyfully (especially me, indeed).

The end of the year is often a sign of introspection and also of thinking back. I am really excited about the end of this year, the year of change, and the fact that 2010 will come soon. Do you ?

This week, I am thankful for..:

❂ The Christmas Brunch we were invited for by Nathalie & Jérôme. It was delicious, and we really have a good time. Thanks for the presents for the four of us.
❂ The love gave and received to/from my Husband and my 2 Daughters.
❂ The chocolate truffles made with Nathalie.
❂ The gossip talk with my dear friend Cocotte ;-).
❂ The presence of Alice & Sophie after I was panicked
❂ The (creepy) hello of my aunt
❂ The cuddling with Cheridoo and his patience, he’s not bother to see two times each Star Wars movie because I always fall asleep during the first watch
❂ My creativity is back and I’m discovering my paradoxal personal Universe.

Last Sunday, we were invited by a couple of friends for a Christmas Brunch.
They recently buy their first home and I wanted to offer them something handmade.

So I thought a painting would be great. But then, the doubty-trolls came in my head: “and what if it’s not their style ?” “what if they don’t like it ?” and I let you complete all these sentences you probably already heard yourself…

"To love and be loved is to feel the Sun on both sides"

I wanted something blue with some touches of pink (because pink is Nathou’s favourite colour). And then, just let the ideas come…

I used the technique tought by my dear friend Isa for the green stretches. I love doing that 😀

Another technique I almost always do, is the bleedings of acrylic ink. Here, they are simply used as a base for the flowers.

I think I’ll do a kind of “serie” on the same theme, because I really enjoyed doing it, and finally, despite the Fear, I am quite pleased with the final result !