Leggy Likes: My Art

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

naturey collage paintings

Bear likes art.

I think this is the start of something fun...

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Winter Wonderland

My lovely sister on a lovely winters day in lovely Michigan.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

the pattern of leaves

Sewing patterns, gesso, house paint, pens and watercolor pencils...

....are just a few of my favorite things.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

This piece was inspired by my most favorite season. I made the leaves using a wood burning tool that the hubby got for me as a surprise one afternoon. I didn't learn until after I did this that it is NOT a great a idea to burn this treated type wood....eek! But I survived/learned my lesson and got some basswood. It still turned out even though my wood burning skills are not up to par. The rest of the piece is done with oils.

Never Complete

This is one of those paintings that at first I dislike greatly but then it sits around long enough that I start doing strange things to it....then I start to like it...kind of. Let's see if it sits around long enough for me to do more strange things so that I will like it more.

Get real

So lately I've been feeling kinda bad because last winter I started an amazing yoga teacher training program at InBody and I have not had the ability lately to work on completing my hours to become certified like I want to.

I was home photographing some artwork that I have done in the last year and all of a sudden I stopped "feeling bad". I realized that even though I have not yet completed my hours yet to become a yoga teacher I still received what I had been looking for. And what I was looking for was not necessarily to memorize Sanskrit name for poses or to be able to bend into a pretzel....What I was looking for was something to shake me to the core, wake me up and make me realize what I need in life to feel whole.

As a part of our training we went to a retreat where I made this collage. I don't even remember what directions were given to us...but something snapped in me the moment I sat down in front of all the magazines, papers, scissors and glue sticks . I knew I wasn't going to be judged on if my collage was "good" so I just went for it and created what I felt represented my true self.

The collage hangs in my studio now and I am so grateful for it and the experience of that retreat. It is changing the way I think about art and craft and more importantly it changed the way I think about myself. It is more important to be authentic in everything you do...even if it doesn't make for the prettiest picture.

1st photo taken by Daisy Johnson