Just Show UP

So…. I am committing right here in front of you all…” To just show up” and do my art practice DAILY… I am not picking how long, or how much , just “ I will do this daily” Todays picture started with a picture in a magazine… sometimes your imagination is on hold, so I am taking what i can from observation. I loved this picture and tried to add some of my creative touches from it… or maybe it is calling me to get busy and pick my own apple trees before they are on the ground. I had a great day yesterday with my Granddaughter Maeve in the apple trees, I saved all the apples on the low branches for her, she’s only 3 but got the “ twist and pull” method down.

Whatever your creative spirit inside of you says. Write it, make it, create it, garden it… Just do it … now I will have to post more just to show you that I am making this a DAILY PRACTICE

Just Do It

Is there ever a time that you have no idea what to do? bored? i just don’t get bored, I thought. I just retired from a well loved job and it left me without a purpose .. my days became days without a deadline. I had time and lots of it. Not being able to get out to even go to a job, staying safe within my cocoon of a house protecting me from COVID and now all the wild fire smoke. Its been a week and i haven’t gotten a lot accomplished. I keep trying little things, i try and set a routine, what are the things i want to be good at?

FINALLY…. i just got out my paints and started working on a board that i have used as a pallet with all the great colors and just experimented, played with scratching , layering and flinging paint on the surface. I am not sure its done, but the journey improved my mood.

Mindset; If you treat a painting or drawing as an experiment you don’t ever have to claim it as done. Its just an experiment

Hunkering Down

As of Wednesday I am “ taking 2 weeks off…. to be evaluated later” for my job. I work at Seattle Childrens hospital and they are down to the bare minimum of people now. Good for me because I can really catch up on all this art I want to do as well as buckling down to work on the web site.. Here’s a little of my to do list that I have just started. I hope you can find something wonderful you want to do that you have been putting off. This is a perfect opportunity to not only learn something but call those people you care about hear their voice and really find out how they are doing ,get some socialization for yourself and your health.

As you can see, I have things I want to do , can do, inside and outside but it would be great to make a list of something I have always wanted to learn… maybe that Italian language.. or maybe not.