Sky Angel
Dream Walker
I love this time of year, when the bees are buzzing and everything is starting to bloom. Life feels enchanted. These paintings are pages that I altered and then painting on with watercolor, gouache and metallic acrylics.
Thanks for your sweet comments always and thanks for stopping by.
Love and Magic,
Julie
xo
born awake
in a world asleep
trying to keep eyes open
trying to stay awake
all the while
the sleeping voices
whisper . . .
sleep
sleep
sleep
There will never be another day exactly like today . . .
All is quiet
All is still . . .
Just a quick note today, I'll soon be adding some new prints to my gallery
So if there are any paintings you'd like to see available, just let me know
and I'll include them.
Thanks
Love and Joy,
xo,
Julie
December 21, 2012 is finally here. I've been curious about this day for a long time. There has been so much talk about this date. I always viewed this day as a new beginning, a clean slate, a reset. I heard someone say once that instead of calling it December 21, 2012 we should rename it Day 1 Year 1. I like that idea, a fresh new start. Whatever this day means I am grateful that I get to live in these times, even with all the chaos, I feel these are exciting times. Maybe people of all times felt this way. Well I wish you a beautiful enchanting new beginning in this coming new year.
Happy Solstice,
Blessed Yule,
Merry Christmas,
Joyful Holidays!
Love,
Peace,
and
Magic,
Julie
Wish Bottle
I'm continuing with my experiment to transform plastic bottles so that they won't be sitting in landfills, floating around the ocean or lying on the ground. I call this a wish bottle. It's an up-cycled soda bottle with a lid that was originally a kimchi jar lid.
An Early Thaw
The long night awakens
There is a chill on the ridge
There are signs
Signs in the grey forest
Signs in the ivory pond
Signs in the waning moon
Signs in the hare's eyes
There are signs
There are signs
Signs of an early thaw
Now for something completely different . . .
When I go for walks and I see trash on Mother Earth, I first get angry, then sad, then angry, then sad again. Well the last time I went for a walk I decided instead of getting angry or sad I would turn trash into something else. I would take a plastic bottle and look at it in a different way and recycle, up-cycle, re-purpose it into something, unique? pretty? whimsical? Well this is what I came up with for this plastic bottle, it's now a vase type of thingy. During my last walk I picked up trash that I saw lying around like I usually do but I wasn't angry or sad, I was just thinking of things I could create. :)
Xo,
Julie
Dancing in a Field of Roses
Some days you just need to dance in a field of roses . . .
A Fairy Mermaid and a Dragon
Reality is for people who can't handle fantasy! . . .
Cat Nap
Today is a day
to imagine
to rest
to sip tea
to taste soup
today is a day
to watch birds
to watch clouds
to watch raindrops
today is a day
to dream
to breathe
to be
A Unicorn in the Meadow
This morning
I saw a unicorn
in the meadow
he ran in the purple grass
he spun in the mist
and then he was gone
I saw a unicorn
in the meadow
this morning
Dive Deep
dive deep
into an unknown sea
dive deep into the mystery
As I painted this intuitive painting, I waited for the paint to tell me what was waiting to be created. And I saw a bird/fish fish/bird creature. Sometimes what is waiting to be created isn't something known but something unknown.
Owl-Esk
November is art every day month, you can find out all about it here.
I usually paint intuitively. One of my favorite ways to intuitively paint, that I've been doing for years, is to simply throw some paint and water on paper or canvas at night. Then I let it sit overnight to steep, percolate, gestate. In the morning I see what is trying to be born. Sometimes I need to flip the paper around a few times but 99.9% of the time I “see” something. In the case of this painting I first saw the eyes of an owl-esk creature, that was my starting point and I took it from there. Some people have told me they tried this and didn't “see” anything. I usually tell them to call upon their inner four year old. She or he will see something if you don't censor them.
Trick or Treat!
Happy Halloween
Blessed Samhain
(This tomato was one of the last tomatoes in my garden,
I love Mother Earth's sense of humor!)
I turned and saw the heron fly
I turned and saw the pumpkins
on the porch
one orange
one white
I turned and saw the maple leaf spiral
I turned and saw the walnut fall
I turned
Mother Earth turned
Autumn's
return
