Wishcasting Wednesday

Wishcasting Wednesday I just came upon this link today http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/wishcasting

Todays wish " What do wish to let go of ?"

I wish to let go of negative thinking about myself and about others. It is so easy to get caught up in allowing myself to feel negative instead of positive.

I also wish to let go of feeling sorry for myself when things don't go exactly the way I expect them to.

I wish to let go of fear and the negative critic that holds me back from believeing in my own creativity and dreams!

Leaves of Autumn

Autumn

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no." And tonight the heavy earth is falling away from all other stars in the loneliness. We're all falling. This hand here is falling. And look at the other one. It's in them all. And yet there is Someone, whose hands infinitely calm, holding up all this falling. Rainer Maria Rilke

Torn paintings

I just finish this painting yesterday. I had been deliberating if it was finshed. Unfortunately today someone in my family left the door open to the room I was painting in. The cat jumped on the easel knocking my painting down putting a hole in the canvas! I am pretty upset about that right now. I know that the cat didn't know any better. There for I have to forgive her. It is just so difficult to make people understand how much time and yourself you put into a painting. It took several months to paint the layers of different paint. Ocean Peace was painted with acrylics first and then with oils on a linen canvas. Does anyone know how to fix a hole in a canvas? This is the second painting in 2 months that has been ruined. The other painting was a portrait of my daughter. That was on the fire place mantal leaning, my daughter and her husband took it down to show some people on there wedding night. They placed it on the mantal wrong down it fell hitting the corner of the brick putting a hole in it. I will fix it the best I can and give it to her. I have to say I would never have imagined this happening once let alone twice... sigh. Did anyone else have something this horrible happen?? How did you feel about it? I feel like crying and I don't want to become so upset that I can't paint. There are so many worse things that could happen in my life. Well I am going to go outside now and look for the metor showers maybe falling stars instead of paintings would make me feel better unless they fall on me haha.....

Evening In the city Painting

Evening

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.

- Rilke Maria Rainer

Water Lily

Water Lily
No desire opens me: I am full, I never close myself with refusal- in the rythm of my daily soul I do not desire-I am moved; by being moved I exert my empire, making the dreams of night real: into my body at the bottom of the water I attract the beyonds of mirrors... Translated by A. Poulin  Rainer Maria Rilke

Megan Chapman's Paintings at Wear Art Thou

Megan Chapman is one of my favorite abstract artists.  I love her use of color and emotion in her paintings. I first discovered Megan and her art on myspace. I later followed her blog, which was informative to artists and allowed a glimpse into Megan's journey as an artist. I recently visited  the lovely shop Wear Art Thou http://wearartthouaustin.com/in Austin, Texas. If you are in Austin you should definitely visit their shop and check out Megan's beautiful paintings. Andrea the shop owner is really wonderful.I look forward to seeing more of Megan's work.  You can find and purchase more of her work at these links. 

http://meganchapman.blogspot.com/

This is Megan's Etsy site.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5013386

Creative Path

  Where does the path of creativity take you? I have always loved art and have explored many different forms of creativity along the way.  It drives my husband crazy because he believes in focusing on one particular thing at a time.  I love painting , stained glass and photography. I am fascinated with color shape and light. The following photos are of the beautiful Mayfield Park and  Preserve in Austin Texas.  My plan for my future is to take the path that will lead me to being the full time working artist that I have always wanted to be.