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I am so so happy to introduce you to what makes what seems to me to be a 180° turn. Abstract. No Nixie. No Sprixie. Yes, you have read right.

See, I have been willing to go more abstract for the past year. Because it is something I love looking at from other artists. But me, doing it, was another story. I used to be one of these people thinking «How can a square with a dot in the middle sell for millions of dollars ?» but until you know the artist’s process, who are we to judge. Right ?

I hate wasting my supplies, so I usually use what I call «the end of my palette». When I have leftovers paint on my painting palette at the end of a session in the Studio, I will use it to start (or continue) a page in my Art Journal. But this time I decided «why not actually start a background on a wood panel instead, and see where it leads me», so I played around and loved it too much as it to actually wait for a Nixie or a Sprixie to appear.

As usual, they are meant to be touched, they all have a fantastic texture. And not only the colors tell a story, but each stroke as well.

There will be more to come during this month of July 🙂

I hope you’ll enjoy watching me create one of them:

«Colorful Chaos» is in the shop right here.

«Gentle» is in the shop right here.

«Hidden» is in the shop right here.

«Shine On» is in the shop right here.

«Underneath it all» is in the shop right here.

When I’ll finally dare making a video tour of my Teal Studio, you will see how much «old» paintings I have around. Waiting to be reworked.

This is how this painting started. I started by rolling some white acrylic paint over with my brayer, but leaving some of the color showing through here and there. It brings such a good feeling of freedom. Starting anew.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about where I want to go. With my career as an artist. With my family life. With my body image. Which lead me to this realization: I can get there only by sticking to a CREATIVE DAILY PRACTICE. And with something that feels huge to me: SURRENDER.

This painting was totally me being in the flow and going with what was there, and making it work (any of you who tried to paint over this amazing Midnight color of Dylusions spray knows this is a biatch and so damn hard to do anything on top. Love it, still, but learning along the way. Thanks Samie Kira for the tip ;)).

She was in her boat, and her cloud was actually a wave when I began painting it, but then it became a cloud and then another one appeared, and another one. They are subtle and I like that. 
You can’t see, but the Moon is filled with nice silver fine glitter.

This Nixie is looking for a new loving home: go to my shop for more infos.

This is a quick video this week. Sharing how easy it can be to make a spread in your art journal without any crazy supplies.

As I say in the video, I use my art journal as a mirror of who I am at a precise moment (the one I stop everything, step in the Studio, open the journal and do something in it).

You know I love me some new supplies to play. So when Lindy Stamp Gang released their new kind of sprays, I could let it pass. They are in the Flat Fabio line, meaning there is no shimmer in it. However, they are more opaque, so more opaque. I really love experimenting with them and I’m already impatient for new colors in this kind of sprays.

Here is the video, I hope you’ll enjoy watching my process:

Here is the supplies I used in this video (the journal is one I made myself years ago):

Bonjour Butter	Château Rose	Alcohol Ink-Stream	Heating Tool	Stabilo All pencil Black	Golden Fluid Acrylic
Blick Matte Acrylics	Aztec 6×6	Archival Ink-CORNFLOWER	Foam Blending Tool	Mini Rain stencil	C’est la vie Cerise

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I am attached to every single one of my paintings this year. But there are some that I just can’t seem to let go and propose to you.

This is the case of Antonia, that I recently shared with you here. And this Nixie too, that has no name for now (she will share it with me later, I am not afraid).

It all began with a piece of round hardboard I found in my stash of stuff. Yes, I do rediscover things I had no idea where there… I covered it with scrapbook papers and tissue papers. I love adding crackle medium (I use the one from Kroma, which is local from here in Vancouver but can be found worldwide now). Once dry, I then I cleaned my palette from another painting on it, and it looked like this:

I really really wanted to use the technique taught by the amazing Mindy Lacefield in one of her online class, it became this (can you tell that at this point, I wass all lovey-dovey and could have easily left it like it was ? yes.):

I wish a picture could convey the amazingness that this step brought to the all thing. I ran my fingers over it, again and again (I am weird like that), finding the crevasses, the bumps of my signature texture that I created all around on the border, the cracks from the crackle media…

I sketched a little something I wanted to paint for my daughter’s room (it involves a unicorn, kind of) but for some reason I don’t know, it is not what appeared.

I am taking Willowing (Tam Laporte)’s class, LifeBook 2014, and this week is a lesson by another of my Kindred: Danielle Daniel. It inspired me so much that I decided to use this beautiful background instead of my journal.

I know she is FAR from being perfect, but I don’t mind. It does not bother me at all, in fact.

Meet Marietta, she is joining the Beyond The Obvious family. She told me so many things about her story… I wonder what you feel and see when you look at her (please, share: I would love love to know).

To learn more about this new series, check this blogpost.

Marietta is looking for a new home, and is available in my Etsy shop.

And then there is Antonia… there is something about her I can’t really pinpoint, I can’t let her go (maybe later ?). She speaks directly to both my Heart and my Soul.