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Friday, January 6, 2012

Happy New YEAR!!!

They say time flies when you are having fun! So here it goes, it is Friday January 6, 2012... I just now sat down to say Happy New YEAR!!! Have you made any resolutions? I have decided not to make any resolutions this year. I have taken on a new outlook in life and taken the Joy DARE by Ann VosKamp...really excited about building "thankfulness to God" in my life. Her website is found at www.aholyexperience.com. I have been a christian for a long time, and even in ministry. But find with the daily grind of life, one can start grumbling instead of counting one's blessings. I am guilty at times. In seeking the face of God at the beginning of the new year, I find myself refreshed in His presence. I feel better as a person, knowing my relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important relationship I have. If that one is right, well, everything else will fall into place. It really is the best thing a person can do is Seek the Face of God in their everyday life. And I know seeking the face of God, I will find him. I have a lot of decisions to make this year as well, so will be putting them under the blanket of prayer.

Looking forward to the new year, new beginnings. Creating more art, creating joy in my home school, laughing more with my children...doing random acts of kindness-just celebrating each and every day of life God gives me. I am so thankful.

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Thoughts on Creative Practicing...

I have been teaching painting classes for several years now. I started with oils then moved into acrylics. Dorothy Dent is an artist from Missouri who paints country scenes on wood and saw blades of all shapes and sizes. As I would purchase her books with her patterns and replicate different pattern designs onto different objects, it didn't seem to bother me that I was "copying" her work. I mean after all I did purchase her permission, so to speak, right? So I think for me, I support Creative Practicing by Danielle Donaldson, is an EYE opening thought, idea, and wake up call for this artist. I was always bothered by the thought, of copying others work...but isn't that the way we learn? We learn by doing, and repeating, and studying material that others have gone on to conquer before us. It's adding our touch, our sense of color, light and dark, our personality, our, spirit, our soul, our vision to a piece of work, that maybe another person, before us created. I have been teaching what I call "Master Studies for Kids," for several years now. We read about the artist, and get to know him, then admire his work, and technique, then reproduce it somehow, in our own way. I have loved doing this with the kids. So very thankful for the article written by Danielle Donaldson...you too, can read it for yourself on her blog...www.danielledonaldson.com/creativepracticing.