Amazing words that I need to hear at this very moment just keep popping up everywhere. I am so grateful that I have found these amazing peoples blogs, and have gotten to meet a few of them. The world seems just a bit more cozier when we take the time to get to know each other.

Here is the video I promised yesterday. Took a little longer to make than I thought it would. It is super simple, and short. Not the most interesting video out there on the web, but still I wanted to mark this accomplishment with something special. Sorry the quality is kinda crappy.

Letting Go, originally uploaded by stacy kathryn.

Painted this yesterday with my hands and a brayer. I just got on the ground with two tubes of a paint white and black. I went nuts. I realized it was the first time I had really gotten my hands in the mess and truly painted with my hands. It was a way of letting go for me. I am trying to figure some stuff out lately…like my style, what I want to paint, how I want my paintings to look. I have been sketching like crazy trying to get ideas on the paper, coaxing them out if you will.

I finished my first sketch book ever today. I have a ton of sketch books, mostly half filled, but I finished one today. I started it in January of this year, and more than half of it is sketches from just the past few months. I did a mini sketch-a-thon to finish the last 20 or so pages. I am going to make a video of it tomorrow. Hopefully will be able to get it up here.

Did this for the self portrait challenge over at shutter sisters.
I feel lighter today like something lifted out of my subconscious, not sure yet what that is or how it will affect me in the coming days, but I feel like the fog has cleared up a little today.

That’s how many days are left in this month. Only twelve days to finish 30,000 words for NaNoWriMo, only twelve days left to post for NaBloPoMo, twelve days left until I can finally stop going after these goals that seem to take over my life settle in, and allow me to do nothing more than be stuck.

Not sure where I was going with that. I just find myself thinking an awful lot lately. Thinking instead of doing, thinking instead of painting, or drawing, or creating illustration. Thinking instead of contacting galleries, and art directors. Thinking instead of trying to find ways to keep promoting myself, and to get my art out there into the world.

To much thinking, not enough listening to my heart and doing.

Mother.Son., originally uploaded by stacy kathryn.

posting for postings sake

Need to go walk this guy in a few here. My wrists are hurting and I can’t seem to type straight. Managed to write 7,000 words in the past two days in an attempt to catch up, so I can slow down the pace just a touch on the novel writing. I hope to be at 30k by Wednesday then I won’t be too far behind. It is nice to set goals and reach them, I think that is why I am refusing to give this up this year. I don’t even know if I will ever get around to editing this novel, but it is nice to set out that goal that I will write 50k in a month, and then to achieve it. I know the feeling I had two years ago upon completing the challenge was amazing.

So with that my legs need a workout now that I have sat here planted for the past three hours typing away…

Another painting for the group show I am participating in next month.

I’m procrastinating here on this lazy Saturday morning. I want to write, as I have a word count to hit. Yet I am not feeling all that motivated to write. I feel right now the story I am writing is losing momentum, or maybe I am. I will not bore you today with my thoughts on writing 50k in a month, instead I will open the file and try to up my word count a little, so that I could get just slightly closer to that goal.

Spin - 10" x 8" gouache on board, originally uploaded by stacy kathryn.

Wish I had some thoughts, so instead I give you art to fill the void…