Throw yourself

"The only way we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow, is if we change.The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed, is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it throw yourself...-C. Joybell C.

"As the crow flies....so will I." (self portrait)

(sorry about the glare..paint is still wet.)

This quote hits home with me...For so long I have been afraid to really throw myself out in the open. Am I the only one that feels that way? I started out painting on rocks! The more I paint...the more I want to paint. I love this art journey and learning experience, art is teaching me more about myself than I ever realized was possible.

Make Art...

Blessings and Peace

Free on the Inside

I started this picture of my Brother, who at present is serving time in prison for drinking and driving. I sketched from a photo that he sent me. This first pic, I kept having to redo his mouth and nose (in pencil) having to rework it about 5 times, so I got frustrated...then drew it in pastel pencil....making his lips red...and looking like the joker!...Whew! 

Starting to do some underpainting..

Starting to put in some tattoos. He has many and they are too complex to add....so I just placed color in the general vicinity.

This is what I have so far...Still have to add more color and do more blending. One of my good friends and artist says.."you just got to know when your licked and walk away from the painting." I've got a hard head though...LOL!

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned in life: It goes on."-Robert Frost.

Playing with oil

I decided to paint this little girl, looking around a tree in amazement, and I have played around with the oils and the canvas not knowing where it would lead me.

Then I added this...It is so much fun to create! 

I decided to stop with this layer, and I am calling it...ooh I do believe.

Got to head off to bed now, work tomorrow!

No Child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infintesimal forest and seeing it grow  populous with fairy armies....Robert Louis Stevenson.