I am feeling a bit overwhelmed lately with all the great ideas and information I am getting through Kelly Rae Robert’s e-course Taking Flight. In a good, the flood gates have opened, and let the creativity come flowing out of me kind of way! I’m on a roll this week, and hope that I can keep the momentum going. I have a lot of painting and organizing to do as I am participating in an art fair next month. More on that real soon!

I am getting distracted over here as I keep thinking of things I want to look at, or ideas to write down. So will wrap up this post. The painting above is part of a series; I hope to share those here soon as well. Lots of cool things coming this summer I can hardly wait to share them all with you!

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Works in progress…

A bunch of small steps will get you across a great distance.

Getting into the studio one time in the past seven days is a small step to celebrate. Sometimes I wonder if I have the dedication, the passion to keep taking those small steps. Some days I wonder if I am even taking any steps in the right direction. Although ending up back at the beginning isn’t all that bad, because I know more now than I did the last time I came around this way…

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I really cannot believe that it has been over two weeks since I have posted here. I really need to get my butt in gear and start working on keeping this site up, I mean really the overall maintenance has gone downhill. I really should talk to whoever is in charge. Oh wait. That would be me. I will make no apologies as I’ve really have been overwhelmed with life lately, and in the bits and pieces of time I manage to snag for myself they have been used to just maintain some resemblance of sanity for me. I hope to find some time this weekend to not only get going on some paintings, but also to actually update my etsy shop with some cool new cards and prints.

So if you haven’t already deleted my blog from your rss feed, or got rid of the link in your bookmarks thinking I’ve abandoned ship. Know that I haven’t, and I am still here and still chasing the dream even if it feels that this year I’ve taken a major step backwards and am closer to the starting line than making any progress towards my goals and dreams.

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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” –Ernest Holmes

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Finding my style has been a hunt I’ve been on for quite some time now. The funny thing is somewhere in the past year I stopped looking for it, and I didn’t even realize that until I was flipping through an old sketchbook for some inspiration. Page after page of trying to force a style out of me, trying to recognize it, and just stressing over it way too much. That was when it dawned on me that I am not looking anymore, I have stopped trying to find it, I stopped obsessing about in my sketchbooks and journals, and I finally let go and just let my art be whatever it wanted. I have also noticed a bit of a shift in my art over the past few years. A shifting towards that unique element that makes it mine. I am still experimenting with different media, and stepping outside my comfort zone a lot in hopes of finding the one that fits me best. Maybe that is what is me though, the many different types of media I use to create my art. Part of the reason I know the reason my  hunt for my style faded to the background was acceptance. I accepted this place where I am in my journey, I accepted that I will get to where I want to be no matter what the pace or path, and I accepted that my art will take many forms and won’t always be good.

I really believe creativity isn’t something that can be switched on and off, that we sometimes have to work to find it, and sometimes that means down time, and doing nothing creative at all, or trying a completely new media no matter how disastrous the results turn out. It means being gentle with ourselves, having patience, and accepting the pace, the path, and that you will get where you ultimately want to go.

So if you’re like me and are or were hunting for your style, it really comes when you stop looking for it, and give into the process. Try new things, and don’t give up. I can’t believe I was so caught up in having to find my style that I wasted so much time not enjoying the process of creating. Lesson learned, the hard way of course.

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