Designing Your LIfeBy Making Money In Your Sleep Start dreaming in color! I recently picked up a book by Mark Anastasi and am super impressed. He really took the time to explain each social media platform and gave real life examples on how to make money from your lap top hence the title of his book: The Lap Top Millionaire...:-) My dream is to encourage everyone to DO more ART... but the age old excuse is I can't I DON'T have time - oh that precious commodity! Well if you consider that the world is changing in the way we all do business and if we were open minded and just applied a small amount of energy into designing our life instead of our weekends, maybe just maybe, then...we could turn those pennies into gold... I love helping people create more time and money in their lives click here to find out how...:-) I'll leave you with this question - What would you do if time and money were no object? Pretend just for a moment that you won the lottery...Start to dream... Email me your answer would love to hear...xo dlm
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The Drive to CreateFREEDOMAs I was sprucing this USA canvas up and I got my first stroke of red oil paint from the brush onto the canvas what came out of my mouth was ahhhhhh... It felt so good to just slather on the paint and go with the flow - I guess it was true FREEDOM... so here is to all the freedom that art allows you to have... God Bless - Here is a link from some famous artists on the drive create in regards to freedom. Please join us at the gallery for toddler classes during the day and after school classes for all ages... Every Thursday Night and Fri Night... are free flow painting classes join us for the fun... The FREEDOM to create! Bring you big fun canvas! If you LIKE our page, Share with your feed or followers and are a subscriber to our New Letter - Email me for your FREE COLORME postcard. xo dlm Pour - Paint - Drip Last weekend I was pleased to volunteer with Girls Rule - An organization empowering our young girls 12-18. We teamed up at the entrepreneur Bootcamp with Susan Ratcliff read the blog post HERE. We are please to auction off the 'COLORME' canvas see pix HERE and place your bid HERE. Blow is the calender for the month of March at the Inspiration Gallery - please come by and express yourself - we have a new addition to the gallery it's called the Happy Process Art area in the Creation Station room. Come get happy with us...:-)
With all the gift giving these days around Valentines Day - here is a home made gift that does not look home made and helps express the inner artist in everyone... Give 'COLORME' a try with her pre-made shrink plastic art hearts called Necklace LOVE. Just create on with your favorite colored pencils bake at 350 in your oven or toaster oven and snap the gift is done and ready to give to your loved one. Having a group party on Valentines Day... look right here - a fun clean activity which will last for years. When creating a celebration 'COLORME' is a great way to engage your guests at any age. 'COLORME' makes it so easy to have fun and before you know it everyone is chatting and encouraging each other... Break down barriers to "THINKING" that you are not artistic... and release yourself into the world of endless imagination...xo dlm It was so much fun drawing on the clear plastic picture plane. To be able to draw a foreshortened view of your hand by simply tracing was amazing. Again you were concentrating on perception of edges and getting into the R mode... drawing world. So what is drawing? Copying what you see... are you seeing "right"... After completing this book you sure will. Using the picture plane Betty says, "is like magic". Let me once again reiterate: EVERYONE can draw... given the right instruction and desire. And EVERYONE should learn how to draw... not to necessary to become a professional artist - but to simply be utilizing your 'whole brain'... to do what ever it is your doing. Off to more hands... Leana my buddy is right there with me... Way to go Lee! dlm This is my 2nd upside down drawing. This took me about 57 mins and the time did fly. When I got frustrated I just worked on a different part. I am amazed on how quickly I am seeing different. I remember just focusing on the edges and lines and not thinking now this is a hand or a head. As I got half way through I felt I was sketching more, my pencil shifted away from line drawing. Below you'll see my 1st upside down drawing in 2009. These are 2 pictures exercises from the book. On to hands... I am finally going to finish this book..."Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by: Betty Edwards. I found it in '08 and have done almost 1/2 of the book... I have read the beginning now 3x and I am more fired up then ever. I makes me crazy that we are not already teaching this in all our schools everywhere! So to hold myself accountable to finished the book and get properly training in drawing... I'm going to blog my journey. So you start by making a record of where you are now... below are some other drawings I have done in the past. Everyone can draw... with the proper training of 5 basic's and learning how to "how to see right" you can do it ... I can, you can and everyone can draw... "Would you expect yourself to solve a problem in algebra without any instruction?" "All drawing is the same, except for the degree of complexity - the same skills and ways of seeing are involved in drawing still life, landscapes, figure and of course portraits,." says, Betty Edwards. I hope I have inspired some of you to give it a try... "When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he become an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive create. he becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible." Robert Henri The Art Spirit, 1923 I am also attempting to bring both of my kids through this journey with me, Lucas age 10 and Leana age 6. "Be the change you want to see in the world"... hopefully my husband will also be inspired and want to join the fun...:-) My goal is to try and draw everyday until the book is completed...bye for now...off to draw. ps - painting is so much easier... |
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