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September has seen less paintings being born in the Inner Voices land. Not that I painted less, but I have to listen to my body when it yells at me because I am pushing it too far, too much, too many times. Learning to rest.

SO here is a picture of my easel, just so you have an idea. And you can see there are paintings on the floor as well as «in progress» behind the ones that are finished or almost:

I am struggling writing this blogpost about the evolution happening for Inner Voices. Words don’t really want to come out, maybe because of the pressure I put on the consequences they may have. But these consequences could be very good so I should just let them go. I know they are slowly coming out, and as soon as this article will be published I will be able to tell you more about these lovelies 😉

I firmly believe that one of my mission in this current life is to connect. Connect people with their beautiful inner self. Connect myself to my Higher Self. Connect people with each others……..

This quote is, in my opinion, kind of the sum up of one of my bigger value. Thanks to my friend Jennifer who shared it on Facebook right when I was waiting for the message that should be on this painting.

I know some people find it crazy to think that we DO create our world, our life, our universe, with our thoughts. That thought is energy and that energy is creation.

This can be scary, for sure. But don’t be afraid. At first, when I was introduced to positive thinking a few years ago now, I was totally freaked out. It was a time when my thoughts were mostly negative. And I decided to give it a try, and… it was the beginning of a better life.
It is not a miraculous trick of some sorts. And just think: what if for a day or two, you pay attention to what you are thinking and how it is formulated in your head. And for every thought that has a “not” try to shift it the other way around. Or to find something positive regarding the fact in your thought.

Regarding the painting, I started with this vision of a girl with a lotus flower on her forehead. That’t it, to be honest. And as usual, the face just came along.

It is totally out of my comfort zone, I am not a green kind of person, I used to HATE green.

I got attached to this painting, representing so much to me, where I am on my path right now.

The original is for sale, as well as prints, in my Etsy shop. I won’t lie, I am a bit nervous about selling the original because it is a big canvas board and the price is the higher I listed anything to this date. Pricing is SOOOOO damn hard. Fearing that people would think I am asking way too much.
But I also know in my heart that someone will love her as much as I do 🙂

Hello !

Following the amazing of Nessa and then Mindy… I am calling for mail art exchange 😉

You know, you simply create something in a format that fit an envelope size, then you put it in this pretty enveloppe you customized with love and ship it to someone who will be thrilled to receive it.

If you are interested by the idea, simply send me an email with your snail mail address and I will then send you mine: nolwenn@inner-voices.net

Here are the backgrounds for the ones I started:

And with the sketches:

I am learning a lot in the process. For example, working on several smaller size paintings at the same time put me in a kind of happy transe. Going back and forth from one to another etc.

Can’t wait to actually ship them 😀

No pressure, just create something that makes you very happy, ok ? I hope you will join me in the exchange !

I am finally back at painting outside of my journal. Which I love, don’t get me wrong. But it feels good to be really working again.

Despite the few fears and Gremlins that tried to attack me, my Creative Juice was flowing back pretty fast, I was surprised to be honest…

So here is what I have done today for day 6 of  “Get Your Art ON“:

I started by pulling three colors from my paint box: primary yellow, a light but bright blue, hot pink, and I added white just because it is good to blend everything together and soften these bright colors a bit. I painted the all background with my fingers and even the palm of my hand. Bliiiiiiiiss. Back in my element again (note: I do this with non-toxic paints).
Then, a hat appeared clearly and I started sketching the face… I have a question for you: what do you use to sketch on canvas ? Because I tried several graphites and all are VERY hard to erase, they either are invisible if used on paint, or they let a greasy trace when erased. I am pulling my hair looking the right pencil to use. I painted her skin kind of «as usual». Here eyes are not done yet, usually I paint them last.
The picture above shows where I left her before dinner, at the end of my work day 😉
I started hearing her message, which makes me feel good.

Saying that, I have an repeating issue: one eye is always more distorted and/or smaller than the other. I seem not to be able to get both eyes right. I have no idea why, as it happens even when I draw guiding lines. You should know that when I put eyeliner, I usually mess up one of my eye LOL

I have another question for you: Do I add her some hair or leave her like she currently is ? What do you think ?

Hello there !

How are you doing ?

I just wanted to share with a bit of inspiration found in my flickR contacts recently (or not that recently).

1. make the most of yourself…, 2. A lovely dream cover journal, 3. My current view (painting in progress ), 4. Art Journal – Moleskine – Dylusions blog hop, 5. Moment of Saturday, 6. altar, 7. Owl (atc), 8. Alice, 9. Four of Cups