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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 !

Hey Loves,

You know how I love being a teacher in 21 Secrets (don’t know what I am talking about ? you can read more about it in this previous post). The doors will close for registrations in just two weeks (October 1st), but the playground will still be open until January 2013. So still months to watch and play with us 🙂

The price was just lowered to $39 (regular price: $59), so if you were hesitant, now is your time to join us 🙂

You can sign up right here (just so you know, each teacher has a unique link for registrations and part of our pay comes from it. I would appreciate for you to use this link. Thanks).

I hope to see you there <3

What direction ?

I am still working on this blogpost that I started weeks ago. I am.

It’s also been weeks since I really painted. I did work in my Art Journal but that is kinda it. I don’t know what to do (this is a recurrent theme in my life).
I feel totally lost. Confused. I feel like I am fighting, whatever it is (Fear, Indecision, Sadness). I feel alone, and lonely; even if I know deeply I am not really.

This is not the first time I have plenty of weird thoughts, questioning my path, my career (if we can call that this way…), myself. But it does not last that long.

So I am pushing my limits, trying some new things in my art. And see where that goes…

The current art journal I am playing in seems so far from what I used to do inside my former journals. It feels weird but good at the same time. They follow my journey, the complexity and simplicity of it, it’s paradoxicality.

I don’t know how come I am currently passing through a rough patch in my creativity, being in the lowest part of the wave. Wanting to paint, to do something, but once I get in my studio, knowing i actually have some time available for it, nothing comes…
I guess it has to do with the weird place I am right now in my life. Where I know the direction I wanna go toward to, but in the «Now» I have no clue how to actually get there. So there is frustration, and also sadness, and sometimes envy (i hate this one specifically). I try to work on that and wash them all away; some days are easier than others but I see real progress in how I do handle the negative thoughts that go through my mind now and then.

I just had kind of an epiphany about what is actually really happening with me. I am mourning. Grieving. FINALLY should I say, as I guess it should have happened before right now. But as we keep saying in France «mieux vaut tard que jamais» (meaning: «better late than never») ! I am saying goodbye to the Nolwenn I thought I would become, all the things and experiences I did not have and maybe will never have because of lots of things. However, I refuse to live in a place filled with regrets and filled with «What If-s». So I am trying to move on, to accept (I should count the number of times I speak of acceptance here ;)) what is and what is not, and just enjoy and do my best. Do my best.

I am currently taking Mindy Lacefield‘s art journaling class called «Neat Stuff» (that is actually over but available for you to take at your own pace), all about honoring our childhood and keeping it alive in our journal (or outside of it if we want). This class is jampacked !
In one of the last day, Mindy shared her way of painting a more realistic face, I was waiting for this to inspire me and to show me how it is possible to combine child-ish and realistic (you can see it in the class button on the left <——).

Mindy is simply an amazing woman, with such a bright and beautiful Soul…

While I am in the midst of finding myself again, I just grab my journal and see what happens. And this all thing reminds me how it feels good to do so. And that I should do it more often again.

Here is a journal spread I titled «My Messy Mind»:

«My Messy Mind». Print available in Inner Worlds

It just started with the desire to practice my faces, and to play with my not-so-new-now stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop (most of them on this page, if not all, designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer). I wanted muted colors and simplicity. The words came by themselves at the end. I really really like this page.

This blogpost took me WEEKS to write and publish, I apologize if it does not make a lot of sense. But I hope it may resonate with someone so I publish it now or it will stay in my drafts for ever and ever.

6:30-ish pm. Richmond Night Market, BC (Canada)