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Hello !

I’m very happy because today I finished up two paintings.
I also want to talk to you about a new challenge Samantha Kira and yours truly came up with last week. In order to get some motivation, we set the goal to paint an artwork a week, that we may feel like finished (of course if we want to come back on it later, nothing against it).
Sharing it together helps because we have someone to be accountable to, we can share where we are in the process, what blocks we face etc.

So, in January 2012, we’ll have 52 paintings. In this much artworks, some will be frigatastic for sure ! No theme to work on, no size: if our week is busy it can be a small canvas, if we have spare time it can be huge. On canvas, stretched or not, on wood block, wood panel, whatever. BUT it must not be in our journals though.

If you wanna play along with us, Sam started a facebook page so don’t hesitate to tell me 🙂

Here is what i’ve done on this first week (I’ll share more about it on Saturday):

The other artwork I finished today is the untitled one I talked about a few days ago. As you can see, I only added a few words. Now it’s done:

I’m also lucky to have one of my latest artwork, Unexpected Gift, put in the new candies gift shop located in Kitsilano, Grenadine & Co.  The painting is for sale.

I hope you are having a wonderful week so far ! Love you.

Hello beautifuls !

I have finally figured out a place to do some pretty prints of my artworks to sell. I only have a few for now, but I’ll do more very soon.

You have two options: you buy only the print, so you can frame it as you want, or you buy a matted print.
I will put them in my Etsy shop that is currently totally empty (do you know if I can add the items and let them not viewable for a time ?).

If there is specific artwork(s) you would like a print of, don’t hesitate to ask me, okay ? it can be from art journal pages as well as mixed media artwork. I am looking for a way to create a gallery but did not find how yet. Working on it.

I am SO excited and yet so scared at the same time !

Hello shiny You !
I wanted to share a little bit about what I mean by “my new creative process” in the last few blogposts I wrote.
As I told you, I now start by painting entirely my canvas instead of looking for a precise idea, drawing it on the canvas and then filling it with colours. And then, the magic happens: I start “seeing” something beyond. It can be a shape, a face, whatever. I don’t fight it by thinking “you’re are totally CRAZY my dear”; it reminds me when I look at the sky until I find a shape in the clouds, I love to do that, even at 25 !
“Listening” is what changed everything. Listening to my Intuition, to the Muse, to what the painting has to express, to the Universe maybe; they all eventually whisper something in my Soul while my hands are moving creating.

The picture above shows what the underpainting looked like. At first, I was seeing birds and mountains. Until face clearly appeared, it was so strong that I couldn’t look at the canvas without seeing it clearly there. I just had to follow 🙂

Here is the painting now:
In person, her hair are as bright as the yellow green in front of her, the picture does not do it justice. I realize that She’s like wrapped up by a sea of… of what ? tiny little Souls that never let her alone ? Love it !

There is something missing, something I don’t see yet. More than just the words. But I absolutely do not worry: it will eventually  come to me.

I’ll share what’s next with you (oh and I am planning on writing a long boring post explaining why my Girls do not have a mouth; it’s a rocky debate with friends and my mom and my older daughter ;-)).

Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

January is already coming to en end… We were surprised yesterday morning to wake up under the snow, totally not planned by the meteo guys.

This week was marked by three days when we, one after the other, got the stomach flu. That’s how we rock: we share everything, even the germs. Despite the chaos of the beginning, the week then got filled with pretty surprises.

I am grateful for the wonderful print I ordered to the fantastic artist Samantha Kira: You Can Fly (photo above). You can visit her Etsy shop here. I am also much grateful for the discussions we had this week, her kindness and what she shares with me about her journey. Gives me faith.

We received a HUGE package from Nantes (France), were Santa Claus let some gifts for us under my mom and my aunt’s trees. My mamounette (pronounced like… “mamoon”) created the most amazing gifts for my husband and I. For me, she found three short stories I wrote when I was ten and illustrated them, then she put a spiral binding so it’s like a book. She titled it “stories between us”. And the note that was with it just brought many tears to my eyes.

Thank you to the stomach flu that released me from two kilos. Of course, i gained back some weight but just a little and it was the thing that makes me decide to change my “diet” (aka eating habits) and to find a way of working out that would work for me. And to help, I’m reading along Marianne Williamson’s book “A course in Weight loss, 21 spiritual lessons to surrendering your weight forever” (I’ll talk to you about it, I have a copy to giveaway).

It’s the third week in a row i’m talking about it in my Gratitude Friday blogposts but gosh I LOVE FRINGE !!! And I’m over the moon that I insisted to buy the first season to watch with my husband, we finally have a tv show we both really enjoy and can watch and talk about together 🙂

Thank you for the beauty of snow yesterday, all washed out by heavy rain today.

Thanks a lot for inspiration striking me right in the face, to the Universe for conveying ideas and images and messages. And to show me I am on the right path.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the singer p!nk. For standing up in what she believes, for fighting for causes she thinks deserves attention, for her songs and her music videos. Thank you for having overcomed the hardness of filming such an heartfelt video for her song “f**kin perfect”, it put me on the floor yesterday but was the sign I asked for. I don’t know if I should share the video here as it contains some difficult images to watch (there is a “clean version” of it though).

This week, I am just thankful to be alive.

After having thought a lot about it, i decided to put the video here. BUT you are warned that some scenes may be difficult to watch:

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