collage art
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Increase your Creativity through Art
How do you increase the creativity in your life? How do you feed yourself to inspire and make ideas pop? This has always been a mystery to me. Living with empty walls is boring and uninspiring. It makes sense that when walking into your home, art is there to remind you of vibrancy and life.…
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Growth Mindset defines your World
The power of mindset. The question is how do you maintain and insure that you have a growth mindset and not a fixed one? How do you insure that the negative does not affect you? The difference between growth and fixed is one of looking at the future. To have a growth mindset means that…
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Dreams can create Change
Dreams can create change. The defining of the “desire” to be someplace else, be someone else or to increase your pleasure in life comes from the ability to dream. As we look out into the world at this time, we see many having to change their lives and deal with intense amount of change put…
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How are your happiness levels?
How do you feel? How are your happiness levels? Do you self check on a daily basis to see how you feel? Is there a time, at the end of the day, that you feel you are OK and you had a happy moment that day. I have this quote pinned to my wall; “Happiness…
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Look for Light
Look for light as you go through your day. “Look for light”, says my mom as I work through the realization that my life is so drastically different. Without art fairs to travel to in the US and events canceled in Canada, there is a coming to terms with the fact that the Covid effect…
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What is your perfect day?
How to decide on what is a Perfect Day? What is your perfect day? A day where everything lands just right. Have you gone through the process? From the beginning till the end looking close to the things and actions that make it perfect. Your breakfast, your work, your day to enjoy the outdoors, the…
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Happy Place of Escape
How to find your Happy Place? Finding a way to salve your soul, to give you a respite from the tensions of the daily life is a way to survive. A way to make certain that you heal and take care of your mental state. There are many ways to take care of yourself; get…
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Brighten Someone’s Day
Think Beyond Yourself How do we brighten someone’s day as we progress through The Great Pause? During this time we are reminded of the essentials of life. Family, friends, safety, kindness and freedom. We are reminded that we must have the ability to step outside of our own plans and be in the moment. To…
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Postcards of Paradise
Special Messages of Love What is in a postcard? Really the question should be asked; when is the last time you received a postcard? A short message, with a great picture and a sensation that someone, somewhere took the time to think of you. They took the time to write a note, put your address…
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Resisting Delay of Creativity
Resist the voice that says No. What does it take to create? To make something- a piece of art, a piece of music, a new business? The making something out of nothing takes an enormous amount of initiative, motivation and perserverance. Most of the effort is the resisting of creating that seems to envelop us.…
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Is Art Dead?
Is the power of art dead? Does art still have power that it used to have? Is art dead? Do we care about the handmade or the one of a kind? Does it have the same power that art had in the 17th and 18th centuries? Although it does not have the same power as…
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Is your Children’s Art enough?
Children’s art in your home does not help your children. Can your home just have your children’s art? Is it enough to hang the naive, lovely, personal pieces of art that your kids make in your home? A few weeks ago I was invited to a beautiful home in Seattle. The people who lived here…
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Art in the Digital Age
Art and the digital question. Is there an “aura” to art that that doesn’t appear in a digital form? Or is it the idea that is the main value of the piece? In the age of digital reproductions, there seems to be a dissolving break between the “original” and the “print”. Is it important that…
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Memory and Forgetting
We are all a String of Memories. We create our identity by experiencing moments. Every moment is a memory as soon as it passes. I often think of a moment in the past and put myself back at that time. Like trying to remember my daughter at the age of two walking for the first…
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Art Has a Power.
Art and its Power Can the power of art change your life? Can art change the world? It’s a question that many have asked and answered. Art, in its many forms, can reveal the power that we can acquire through the engagement and understanding of the stories behind art. For this reason, just filling a…
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Enjoy the Everyday Sounds of Life
Sounds of everyday life can be taken for granted. When my daughter was young, she would wake up everyday with a song. Singing in her childlike voice I would listen as I wake up and revel in this moment of happiness. Just to stop and listen. The other day I asked my 14 year old…
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Choose to bring the Joy in your Life
It is Your Choice to be Happy Choosing the joy in life can come in many ways. It can come from walking your dog in the morning as the sun comes up. It can come from just sitting at a cafe and enjoying the last few moments of warmth and sunshine before the winter descends…
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Commission a Painting and Preserve a Memory
Commissioning a painting creates a family heirloom. Commissioning a painting from me preserves a special memory. The client often realizes the importance of their family, and the experiences they had as they were growing up. The question becomes how do they represent these past moments? Of course, a wall of photos or a mantel piece…