My Creative Space - Painting

Thanks to the generosity of Effy Wild I'm participating in her splendid e-course "The Elements of Art Journaling". I have already blogged about it here, here and here. Now we have got 2 weeks devoted to water and can sit in with our emotions and allow them to transform. This would be my first result of this process.

 Another one is staring to emerge.

Actually, Effy's e-course is having an incredibly deep impact on my life and artist's path. I've started to live out my biggest dream: to speak to people through my art. I must have adopted the negative attitude towards being an artist of the society I grew up in, that I even didn't realize I still have this dream (after all those decades!). Until Effy (and the incredible Maisy!) encouraged me to just start using paper, paints and brushes again and to try out many supplies and techniques unknown to me until now! And I really feel like I'm starting to become a part of the magnificent family of female artists. *happy sob*
Now I'm arting every day and can't imagine, how I could survive all those years without it. This tribute to the life and death of Amy Winehouse is one of the images emerging out of my fresh adventures with simple and cheap painting supplies.

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My creative space - Air

As some of you know, I'm participating in the e-course The Elements of Art Journaling by Effy Wild. And I'm feeling terrific! Effy and the whole e-course family is so loving and supporting in spite of tough times some of us are going through right now!

Here you can see the spreads I worked (and am still working) at this week devoted to Air. Would you like to see my attempts from the first two weeks? I blogged about them here and here. Keen to see at least some spreads of other participants? Our groups at Wild Precious Studio and Facebook are closed, but you can go to our Flickr group and be inspired! Can you believe, it is created by "ordinary chicks" of all ages? If I wouldn't be one of them, I couldn't! But now I just soak in this flow of love and creativity and adventure!
The only hassle is to stop arting to do anything else! Believe me, being a freelancer and a single mom of 2 teens and 2 cats, there would be loads to do every day. Have reduced it to the absolute minimum for these 6 weeks. Thank goodness, my babies don't mind :)!
And actually there is one more headache for me: the lack of art supplies! Effy and the other Wild Precious chicks are sharing so many creative ideas I'd love to try out right away, but you can't do it with thin air! Hoping to get some new stuff to play with next Monday, when I'll be in town (could you, please, cross something for me, so it isn't hell-ish expensive?).


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My Creative Space - Earth

These are my first ever art journal pages devoted to Earth, the first element we are working with on the e-course "Elements of art Journaling" by Effy Wild. Feeling like on an intense spiritual retreat there! Love the way Effy is leading us and all the loving and inspiring community!


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My Creative Space - First Steps in Art Journaling

These are the stages of preparing a notebook to be my first ever art journal (whatever it means) :)

Have never thought, I'd return to paper - the medium of my childhood. Thanks to Effy Wild's generosity I'm participating in her e-course "The Elements of Art Journaling".  Registration is still open here


Having dual feelings about what I'm doing right now:
- thrilled to learn and do something new, to meet Effy and other sweet creative ladies, to forget everything over playing with my stash,
- guilty for the "waist" of supplies, time, energy just to play and grow (seemingly nothing for my classes, for sale or to wear) ...
Don't like the last ones and don't think they have any alibi to crap up my well deserved fun, but they just show me something I thought to be long gone: the fear of "wasting" and lacking of something afterwards...
Back to "work" now :)
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