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I am revisiting Inner Worlds (my Etsy shop), taking new pictures for the prints listings, and adding new prints that I was sure to have shared in the past. I LOVE my teal wall in my studio, it makes pretty photos.

Here are two new prints available (please, click on the captions under the pictures to be redirected to their page in the shop):

OwlCtopus

This is a new Sprixie (my Sprixies serie is about all these creatures that come into my mind, that do not exist in our World), called OwlCtopus. The Owl and the Octopus are two of my Totem Animals, they have similarities in what they both teach me.
This Sprixie is about seeing what is beyond the first impression. She is also teaching me that blending with our surrounding is at the same time a blessing and a curse. There is A LOT behind what you can see in this painting. And I really love how I can have a look and always see something new (even if I am the one who created this lol).

Cherell

«Cherell» was created months ago (at the beginning of the year).

She is all about embodying Love. Embracing the fact that WE have the power to spread Love all around us and make it a better place to be.
You can learn more about Cherell’s story in the shop.

Sometimes

I’ve already talked to you about «Sometimes» (if you missed it, it was on this blogpost).

You’ll be able to watch my {Painting In Motion} video, to see my process. It came from very ugly to this 🙂

Thanks for checking <3

Hello !

A new video is here, yaaaaaay 😀 You know how I love recording them, the editing process and then sharing with the world. I am still trying to figure out how to use the video option on my Nikon D5100 and had some bad surprises noticing it stopped recording or did not focus well sometimes. So bear with me 😉 I’ll get it eventually, right ? I even recorded a voice-over explaining what I was doing. I find it easier to record and comment once the painting is done, instead of speaking while working. It would be too distracting for me. And I tend to sing along the music that is bursting in the studio while I create; trust me you don’t want to hear that, no no no.

This time, I decided to go back to painting on stretched canvas, a deep edge one (because I love playing with the edges at the end).
I just try to come back. Come back to what I love doing. Come back to sharing my Story, my way. Come back to listening to my Inner Voices, the good loving inspiring one, and shutting the nasty ones up.

I intentionally let the wording vague. Because this painting means something to me that you may not see, and what it brings to you when you look at it is probably different. However, I did write a little something…:

Sometimes…
… I wanna disappear,
I want it all to be clear.
Sometimes…
…I look at the sky,
Just wishing I would know why.
Sometimes…

Can you see how much I love using the stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop ? I really like that some of them are as good used with a spray than used as a «stamp» (you’ll see what I am talking about in the vid). This doily one, designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is one of my favorite, I think I will have to get my hands on her more tribal one too.

If you’d like a more detailed list of the supplies I used, please just ask and I will do something about that 🙂

Prints will soon be available in the shop, as well as the original painting.

Here is the video, hope you enjoy !

Trist is one of my newest Nixies. She is here to tell you that it is okay to feel what you feel.

I am one of those chicks who firmly believes in the power of thoughts. That believes in the fact that our thoughts build our worlds, both inside and outside of us.
Thoughts and emotions are closely intertwined (thanks my dear friend Sweety Falafel for saying that to me again and again (and again and…)) and we are not the slaves of our thoughts.

OK, I have no idea where this was leading to, I guess I just had to write it here (this is the downside of starting a blogpost and coming back again several days after)…

I don’t hide anymore that I used to be what I call «Spleenic» (in the Baudelaire’s meaning nothing to do with any organ, but it seems like something you don’t learn about in the US as he was a French Poet in the 1800s. It describes an everlasting state of Melancholy without any reason. *if you read french, here is a good article about it*). I woke up sad, felt it all day long and would go to bed crying without really knowing why.
It was a vicious circle, my whole life was evolving around this sadness (the music I was listening to, the movies I adored, friends that would understand, a boyfriend that was as broken as me…).

My Nixies have all an important message to deliver (even when I think I am not quite ready yet to hear it, to work through it at that moment). Sometimes, however, this message is quite unexpected to me. I like that they are all someway positive, this is something that matters a lot to me. Even if sometimes they touch sensible points, like Amelia’s.
It never fails to make me nervous to share them when it happens. However, I do know that there is a positive reason behind everything, including these messages around difficult areas of Life.

Trista is about sadness. She is here to remind me that sadness is just an emotion that passes through me, that yes sometimes decides to settle in for a while, but that always eventually go away.
I used to fight it. Hard. And the harder I tried to push it back, the longer sadness stayed. I never really won against her on the long run, to be honest. This is how I learned to embrace it, to make peace with it, and then to let her go.
Trista reminds me that sadness is not a fatality. It does not define me.

Your emotions DOES NOT define who you are. Repeat after me: «My emotions are not me». Good !

Original SOLD
Prints available here

Here is the video (click on the little gear button to watch it in HD):

Ok, as you may know I jumped on the train and signed up for the live version of Mindy Lacefield (from Tim’s Sally)’s online class «Paint Your Story».
I committed this year to really be careful when deciding about a class I wanted to take. Because honestly, last year I signed up for way too much classes, did not follow properly most of them and so it felt like I was wasting my money.

I often speak about how I feel like something is missing in my artwork, how something is kinda off. All of my Nixies have a story to share, but I was feeling like writing paragraphs of them was boring (I am bored very easily). I was lost and confused and needed direction.

This is what I found in «Paint Your Story». A new way to tell my stories, to fill my art with my own symbols and non sense and wildness. It helped me to accept that it does not have to look perfect to be meaningful, that a face does not have to actually look like a real face to be expressive. Acceptance is the key (I should count how many times I’ve written you that mantra in here ! ;)).

I will tell you more about them, but I have now a new… genre of painting, that I am calling «the Sprixies» (thank you Anu for spending time with me brainstorming to come up with this name). They are not human looking neither beast like, they are something totally different. I know I am just chanelling whatever comes. Maybe are they from a different Universe than ours ? Who knows ! Each have a strength to share.
And I would have not dare sharing them without what this online class opened for me.

So… back to Sonya 🙂

I created her on a 11×14″ canvas board. I used color I don’t use much like this red *Pyrrole red* for example. But love how it came together. From Chaos comes Calm.
I had lots of fun seeing her emerge from it. But at first, I was a bit confused by the paradox between the sadness I feel coming from her and the message she gives: PLAY.

And after thinking of it deeper, I realized that her message is more than that. She is there to show me (you) that no matter how sad you are, no matter how beaten by life you feel, if you keep a sense of playing, it will be better. Lighter on your Heart. Don’t let the dark part of you take over, give it some love because it needs it for sure, acknowledge its presence inside of you, but know that it does not define you entirely.

About the video… I finally was able to record a voice over, not without sweat and hair pulling (I am blessed with a wonderful husband who can help me when it comes to technical computer stuff). It makes me really nervous to speak on a video but i did it. FEARLESS I am. Uh.

So here it is:

If you have questions, and/or want to know more about the supplies I used, just tell me 🙂

I thought I would share a tidbits of what’s been on my art table lately. I am not ready yet for the big reveals but… I really want to share some of it with you all.

Today, something weird happened. It’s been a while since I last recorded and shared a video, after several attempts that ending being big failures (camera’s battery dieing in the middle of the recording, me having to cut it off because of some duties implied by being a mom……..), I decided today would be the day and nothing could actually stop me.

And I just abandonned myself in the painting… trusting something positive will come out of it. But honestly, I would never have thought of THIS. You’ll understand when the video will be ready (tomorrow I hope). What ended on my canvas is either abstract or a Nixie, I don’t know how to call it yet. But I simply LOVE it, which makes me feel a bit ill-at-ease for a reason I don’t understand yet (oooh personal message to my dear friend Anu: it has a mouth !!)

Here is a sneak peak of it:

I recently shared on Inner Voices facebook page this tidbit of my latest Nixie, named Kowana:

Yes, Kowana is different from all the previous Nixies. And I fell in love with her.

This one has no name yet (this seems common this month…), see that gorgeous texture ? YUM !