Halloween can still be fun....

   I do miss the days of making outfits and doing faces and the sheer excitement of "Trick or Treating" with my littles.  But those days are gone...my youngest wanted to squeeze in one last year of possibly getting some free treats.  (She is 15)  But she didn't need me to decorate her face or make her a costume and didn't pull on my hand...saying "can we pleeeeeez go now??!!"  Nope.  She got ready on her own and met up with a group of girls and went out on the town. Soooo....my bestie and I took an alternative route.....

   Don't feel bad for her....after about half an hour....she really became at one with her "Bee" self.  We walked around for about 2 hours and watched all the kids run around.  Our weather was +5...it was a perfect Halloween evening.   I guess if you are stricken with a poodle and your kids are grown and there are so many cute outfits...you might as well make the best of it. 

   Here is my finished page for week 1 of Willowings; Art, Heart and Healing class...

 I did this first class with Tam's colors and Tam's style of drawing.  And now that I learned her techniques I will draw a more true but stylized self-portrait using my own colors...so we will see how this one turns out.  Here is the drawing so far....

 And now with the evil voice in my head.  My lovely inner critic who is always supportive and kind...ummm....not!

And now covering over all the words with gesso and meditating, turning the negative comments around and trying to understand what my inner critic is trying to protect me from.

    Hopefully I will be near done this page and I will post it next week along with a progress report of my poor studio.

   Amazon came through and I received my books this week.  A belated birthday present from my bestie...thanx Jackie :)  I got this one...

                                                      and this one....

    I am expecting one more book to come.  "Creative is a Verb" by Patti Digh.  One of the best books I ever read was her first book, "Life is a Verb" so I can't wait for the second one to come.  
   
   
 Art Heart and Healing Week 2
   I am looking forward to doing Willowing's-2nd week.  I enlarged the only picture I have of myself as a 3 year old and played a bit in photo shop and printed it on acetate paper so that I can do a transfer into a board book.  I haven't done image transfers before so wish me luck :)  Jackie is going to do this healing exercise with me it will be so fun.  Doing art with artsy friends is awesome isn't it??  And we had to write what we wish for our 3 year old selves, very healing and emotional I might add.

  

"To create something like the Mona Lisa from little blobs of colored oil...now that is real power"