Stepping out of the Box

'I stepped WAY out of my box' and I liked it!

Often we get stuck in our ways...pretty little trees, perfect flower petals, asymmetrical always.  I stood in front of this blank canvas and said no more same ole same ole today. You know what? It was fun. 

We all remember the word fun but do we remember  how to actually  have fun? Remember the things you did as a child? Ring around the rosie, jacks, hop scotch,super mario  (threw that in to keep from giving away my age), the list is endless and if you search back you will remember that feeling. 

Today I challenge you to stand in front of your empty canvas and ring around the rosie until you all fall down then pick yourselves up and paint that feeling. The subject does not matter but the feeling will live forever. 

I found this scrolling through a social network feed. I have no clue about the author but I know I  like the message and I will leave you today with it.  

"Invite fun into your life and it will find it's way into your work." - author P.H. Original's aka Pam Hartfield

Spooktacluar Giveaway!!!

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Tweets about Where did my muse go?

Dang Muse.......... Come Back!

Okay, again today I have looked high and low for my muse.  I looked on Facebook, it's not there.  I looked on Twitter, it wasn't there.  I looked in Gmail, it didn't show up in there.  I even looked in my old AOL mail and it wasn't hiding there either.  I think someone stole it. As a matter of fact I am convinced of it.  Did you do it?

I asked Twitter and received some awesome responses.  

I just love these creative minded people.

@pluslily just suggested probably the @bronxzooscobra.  
Oh my, I hope the Egyptian cobra didn't get her.  Now, I am really worried. What if I never get her back?

@imaflipsidder said, "I am my own muse (amusement, that is.) ha ha. I find it by looking at the good in people. In the little things. Challenge." Oh and something about that what the imaflipsidder was all about her flip side is her muse. Now she says she's borrowing her for a while but she'll send my muse and her flipside home together! (suspicious @imafipsidder keeps changing her story)

@callmaggie said, Wow finding a Muse is tough. Look at your life & speak of things that make u light up, usually U will light someone up 2 :) (yes, I tried to trip her up too but she doesn't have it)

I just heard from  @DanicaFontaine  responding to that twitter search I did and she said. "I have her hog tied and gagged and locked in a trunk in my basement. You didnt need her today, did you? (LOL)"   I asked @DanicaFontaine to please untie her and send her home.  I told her she was supposed to help me work today but that girl will do anything to get out of work. @DanicaFontaine said she was now loafing around counting zebra stripes and cheetah spots  and busying herself trying to grow platforms and heels. Then she went on a walkabout with a painted butterfly that turned into a black widow,  Now she's all tangled up in something. Imagine that.

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Y'all know I have been busy getting my crafty side on. So busy that I decided to share by giving away my latest 'one of a kind' snowman pin cushion(or voodoo doll if you prefer...lol)  Follow the rafflecopter instructions and You're all done!!

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The Year of 2014, so far...

Yep, I have been away for a while and making money elsewhere, starving artists do that.  I have dabbled on my crafty side in the past year. I went through an apple phase last fall ...

I had a ball creating these.  Kinda... getting back to basics.  

And that led me right into doing this. I am pleased with this piece and am sure Robert Henri would find something to say about it, although I am sure it would be negative but dang it, I like it. I have signed it and since removed it from my easel.

That all I have for today but remember happy trying to paint y'all.

Starving Artist gets FREE Burt's Bees Sensitive Skin Products

You may find this funny, annoying or plain silly but I promise you it will be honest.  I'm a BzzAgent, which means I get new products to try for FREE along with coupons and samples to share. Burt's Bees is my very first real Bzz Campaign and I want to do a good job so they'll give me more products to try.  I received a full size bottle of Burt's Bees Moisturizer and Face Cleanser for Sensitive Skin.  I have been using them for about 3 weeks now and I find them to be very comparable to Aveeno. My skin is sensitive and it has not broken my face out, as a matter of fact it feels rather smooth. It did not erase my wrinkles but it didn't promise to do that. On a grading scale 1-10, with 10 being highest, I give it an honest 9 ... I'd give it a 10 if it had a pleasant smell but there is no smell at all.

This is what they sent me Free!

You may think this a little off the mark for an Artist's Journal but I am an Artist and a Woman that likes her skin to look and feel good.  But, let's think about it ... the artistic chemistry involved in making this stuff is ART in the ultimate sense and way surpasses my ability. On second thought, a painter's mind constantly mixes hues to create values and shades of color that will portray an image or feeling.  You think I could mix a concoction to make face cleanser and cream? Nah, I'd probably blow the lab up.

(cough, cough) I wouldn't have to be a 'starving artist' if some of you would buy my artwork. (hehehe)

Know it all people ....

“Those who simply collect technique have at best only a second hand lot. A great artist is one who says as nearly what he means as his powers of invention allow. An ordinary artist often uses eloquent phrases, phrases of established authority, and if he is skillful it is surprising to see how he can nearly make them fit his ideas---or how he can make the ideas give way to a phrase. But such an artist is not having a good time. 

A snake without a skin might make a fair job of crawling into another snake's shedding but I guess no snake would be fool enough to bother with it. ...

IF IN your drawings you habitually disregard proportions you become accustomed to the sight of distortion and lose critical ability. A person living in squalor eventually gets used to it.” Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

Not promoting this book just an example

Wow, this an artist after my own brush! I have often been told in my life that those who can do and those who can't stand by and tell you how to. I must admit, that really gets under my skin sometimes. I just hate for someone to say to me "if you did this" and speak in terms that only one can find in what I call 'idiot books'. You know the books I speak of. The ones that convince people (that don't have a clue how to hold a brush must less how to keep the paint from sliding off the canvas) that they can tell you what and how to do. These are the people I want to take my paint brush to. I'd probably paint question marks all over their tiny little beady-eyed faces so when I looked back at them I could simple say, “Question? Why the hen are you here invading my space if you don't like the quality of my air? Crawl back in your own snake skin.” I mean really--gets on my last nerve.

enough said for today ... happy creating ya'll. P.H. Original's aka/Pam Hartfield