Color POP!

Thank you for playing in my last post, fun fun fun!

(giveaway recipient announced down below.)

I love interacting here on the blog <3

I know nothing is as a good as the blog, not even Instagram, but if you watch my stories there (stories are 24 hour videos) you see that I am often up to all different types of art.  It depends totally on my mood. Sometimes I want to try something new, other times I just want to smoosh all my fave colors around.

I've made stacks of fluid art pieces and now I'm making stacks of old school abstracts.

Just for the fun of it.

No other reason.

Just for the sheer joy it brings to my soul to have an outflow.

I read once that creative type people are highly emotional and if they do not have an outflow their own thoughts can drive them a bit bonkers (raises hand, been there!). And so, in order to have some balance, there must be an outflow.  This is where my painting emotions comes in for me.

I also find a creative outflow in cooking, playing piano, gardening – and I find a good dose of mindfulness in treasure hunting.  I love to go alone, at an odd hour when a rickety antique store is usually empty.  I listen to the fans and smell the old smells that waft around with beautiful familiarity.  I listen to the old time music and I just decompress totally, looking from shelf to shelf and nook to nook.

I love old things.

I am surrounded in my life by old things.

Antique furniture, books, dishes, collectibles, houses, paintings.

I think there is nothing more beautiful than the mash up of old with wild color.

Color pops.

Antiques and explosions of color.

It's a thing, it works and it creates a sort of balance of opposites.

And so, I have been gravitating back to my old love again.

An outburst of emotions on canvas.

The nonsensical but joyous explosion of splashing paint.

Turn up the music and mash it up!

Wishes and dreams and stars and places…

It's your joy and your truth.

Whatever you want it to be.

You might have someone you care about dearly say to you flippantly, It's not my thing. And you can do what I do, just say to yourself, I don't care.  I love it, it's my thing, it's my joy.  It's so easy for us to allow people to crush us.  Not everyone has to like what we do, and that is great.  It's wonderful to be so different from each other. But if you love it, and the outflow is amazing, do you really honestly care what someone thinks?

I've had people say to me that they don't like something I've made and then a couple weeks later say, I've been thinking a lot about the piece I thought I didn't like and now I LOVE IT and I need to own it.

So, you see, people's opinions are changeable and fleeting.

The important thing is what you yourself think.

That's all and nothing more.

You can also have someone you also love say to you…

I LOVE THIS! 

The colors are amaziiiing!

Can I have it?

So you see, not everyone likes the same cup of tea.

Some people prefer coffee.

And other's might prefer mineral water with ice.

You just never ever know.

My dad says every brain is its own world.

You can't even try to make sense of it or please others.

You only get one chance in life.

So, you best be making yourself smile, right?

I think I heard Paul Allen say, do things with a sense of urgency and determination.

DO what you love friends.

Live in them moment.

Live in the moment with urgency!

That means stop to smell the roses, skip, smile, laugh!

Yesterday is history, gone adios.

Tomorrow is an invention in your mind.

But today is here now.

Embrace it <3 <3

And so, that's a random sort of explanation, of how I came to mash up my old stuff with some color pop 🙂

The only thing I find annoying is how my crisp photos become blurry when I upload them here into my blog platform.  But I guess, in the grand scheme of things, oh well, who cares 🙂

You can click on them to see a clearer version if you fancy.

And so, I'm joyfully painting very often.

In fact, right now I'm working on a very detailed painting.

But fun too, to get serious and hunker down and be really present.

But it's the wild and free that brings me back to me.

Here are some others…

The crescent moon wants to keep showing up, as well as scribbled thoughts here and there.

BUT!

Above all.

LOVE.

I think I was listening to this on repeat when I was painting a lot of these.

Incidentally, I'm really obsessed with playing this loud right now.

High high hopes my friendsss!!!

Here's one of my ink and pigment and paint and sparkle on paper…

Fun.

That's all I want to do.

Have a ton of funnnnn!

Smiles, laughs, joy, freedom of self, arms outstretched in the air.

Painting, dancing, crying, laughing, loving.

That's where I'm at.

My dad says you should cry and laugh every single day.

You can cry from joy too ya know?

Well, you know that I'm certain.

And splashing that paint!!!

 

I wish you…

 

Stars and hopes and joy and love!

xoxo

 

 

ps:  And the winner from our giveaway on the last post is….

 

Number 40!

KIM!!! You won! <3 <3 <3

Let me know what print and card pack you'd like from my shop, xoxo!