Miracle Life: inspiration

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Monday

Moving On

Working from home

always inspires me.

So,

We are moving on:

Me and this painting.

Both

loving,

living,

moving,

breathing,

challenging

ourselves

and

each other...

Not finished

yet.

Previous stages here, here, here, and here.

To see more inspiring creativity jump over to these sites

Inspire Me Monday

Creative Every Day

And you know I'm always happy to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Wednesday

A PIECE A WEEK - AUGUST 13 - 19

Are you up to A PIECE A WEEK?

Let's share and inspire each other! Adding your link to the pool is easy-peasy: just follow the instructions! And if you want your blog visitors to see all your pieces together don't forget to tag your posts with apieceaweek!

If you'd like to steal the badge, you don't have to. It's for free! :) Just save the image from my side bar to your machine and connect it with this link wherever you put it on your blog.

Everybody is welcome, but only with post related to this challenge, OK?

Do you like to connect and chat?

Join our closed group on Facebook and let's see, if we are the right match!

And you know I always love to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Monday

A PIECE A WEEK - AUGUST 6 - 12

Everybody is welcome, but only with post related to this challenge, OK?

Do you like to connect and chat?

Join our closed group on Facebook and let's see, if we are the right match!

And you know I always love to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Tuesday

A PIECE A WEEK - JULY 30 - AUGUST 5

Everybody is welcome, but only with post related to this challenge, OK?

Do you like to connect and chat?

Join our closed group on Facebook and let's see, if we are the right match!

And you know I always love to hear from you, right?

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A PIECE A WEEK - JUNE 4 - 10

Everybody is welcome, but only with post related to this challenge, OK?

Do you like to connect and chat?

Join our closed group on Facebook and let's see, if we are the right match!

A PIECE A WEEK - MAY 28 - JUNE 3

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Wednesday

A Couple of Great Hump Day Finds

Namaste

Tuesday

Free E-Books by Andrea Hiltbrunner

I'm spending my morning with these 2 beautiful free e-books. Thank you so much, Andrea Hiltbrunner!

Monday

Another Find - A New Story Of The People

Namaste

A PIECE A WEEK - JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4

Are you up to a A PIECE A WEEK?

Let's inspire each other! Add your name and the link to the post on your blog about your piece for the respective week to the link pool below. Please, only posts about your experience with this challenge and one post from person/blog per week! And don't forget to tag your respective posts with apieceaweek, so your blog visitors can see all those posts at once.

I'm still struggling with the badge code, so, if you would like to add it to your blog to spread the inspiration, please, feel free to save the image from my side bar to your computer, and to add it to your side bar with this link: http://alatvianrita.blogspot.com/search/label/apieceaweek

Everybody is welcome,

but only with posts related to this challenge, please!

Would you like to connect with other participants on a daily basis?

Feel free to join our closed groups on Facebook and Flickr !

Sunday

Happiness in a Dark Moment - The Story of an Art Journal Spread

Most of my art journal spreads are filled over more than one day and many shorter or longer arting "sessions" (have never tried to count them, but I mean MANY :). The one I finished this morning survived many stages, some of what would never let me see the end result even in my most wild imagination :D

So I decided to show at least some glimpses of my process hoping to inspire you to art through your inner darkness and chaos, to be devoted to your thoughts and feelings at a particular moment and never stop, until you KNOW deap down, you have to.

It was the morning of the Equinox day. I woke up early and started with a cuppa and 1 whole hour of arting. I felt pretty satisfied with the result. I knew, it's far from being finished, but I also seemed to know, what was the idea wanting to materialize on that spread, and to see the way it was starting to do it.

Than I sat down on the compy, checked my FB wall and discovered my tribe in a deep crisis and one artist/teacher throwing buckets of poop on the tribe Mama (sleeping) and her right hand ... It was extremely confusing and saddening to me and many of the tribe ...

I was returning to my spread again and again ... And it was becoming all black and red and messy no matter, how much I was trying to get love and balance into it ...

Than I stepped away from it and went to the post office to get a parcel, I knew sitting there for a couple of days already. As I came back and opened it, there was a book I had wanted very much, but could not order by myself, so a dear artist/internet friend did it for me and sent it from the UK. And she had added some gorgeous goodies to use in my art. I was so happy and thankful, but just couldn't feel it because of the dark emotions stirred by the awful situation in the tribe ...

So I started to cut off and glue down pieces of one of the beautiful new tissues to cheer up my spread and my mood ... But it didn't change much ...

It needed one really good nights sleep, many sessions, 2 layers (even 3 in the center) of the beautiful tissue and some white, gold and yellow acrylic paint to start expressing more of the happiness I new sleeping in me.

Some more tissue paper, ink stampagge, acrylic paint started to cover spot by spot of the dark mess and a heart, a crown and a butterfly joined the scene to hold together both sides of the spread ...

And I knew, it was all about my dear friend in the UK and my appreciation for her being her, being my friend and the way she acted in this critical situation for our whole tribe, its leader and everyone of us ...

And I had found THE WORDS deep down in my heart and written them on the spread with graphite, as there was a moment, that made me breathless and my heart just jump up and down like a happy puppy:
THIS FRAGILE (and anatomically impossible:) SPIRIT MADE HER ENTRANCE

My hands didn't have to do much: just to add a little bit of graphite, ink, water and white acrylic.
Now, I just can't stop looking at the spread again and again beholding the miracle ...

Wording: Love IS all, that IS

Update: To see even more creative spaces and to share yours, jump over to Our creative spaces

Thursday

My Creative Space - Mixed Media on Paper

A week is over again, and it's time to show you, what's going on in my creative space. What can I say? It was a very creative week, and I'm still re-discovering paper and the many fun ways to create on it and with it! The results?

Another Water spread at "The Elements of Art Journaling" by Effy Wild - my first almost only in acrylics!

A lily in oil pastels for the

Illustration Friday theme "Obsession"

A sketch for the

August Sketchbook Challenge theme "Everyday Objects"

Two mixed media pieces for the

Being Creative July theme "Summer"

A small one

and an A3 one

(Especially happy, how this turned out! :)

Now, I'm at a very meditative stage with this mixed media piece, slowly emerging out of loads of different impulses

I'm happy with all this, still having one big issue though: new impulses from all sides seem to swap me in a effervescent ocean of inspiration without any shores and islands. Thank goodness, the challenges have got deadlines! But often I'm too late to participate. For now, it's really hard for me to surface from the swirls and streams of ideas and get to the actual creating. Any suggestions?

To see even more creative spaces and to share yours, jump over to Our creative spaces

Monday

Monday Moodboard - Winter Landscape

The winter landscape around my home inspired me to this

Monday Moodboard.

Wednesday

Struggling with Lack of Motivation - Wednesday Wisdom

Having more distinctions for your demotivation will help you to identify the real reasons for your unwillingness to commit to action, so that you can pick the right tools and strategies to get motivated again. Cath Duncan

Read the whole article here

Many thanks to Stephanie for giving me a link to this blog!