A Lovely Dream

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God's Refrigerator Art

Commission for two Lovely Aussie girls.  I like doing more detail to the face lately but keeping a primitive feel to the rest of the painting. It's a nice contrast. The primitive folk art faces are sweet but I feel more connection to these types of paintings. Not a lot different but they are more expressive. Sweet simple faces are good too it's just a matter of what you are into at the time. Perhaps I'll get so complicated with portraits that I will long for a button nose and start painting only that. Remember, allow yourself to change. Don't listen to people, ever, who say, Ohhh, you have to be this way all of the time. Do this. Be that. It's what's expected. If you suddenly want to make gnomes out of clay when all you've done is landscapes all your life, by golly make the friggen gnomes. When you are dead, and your friends are dead, and we are all in the dirt, it will matter NOT AT ALL if you behaved accordingly just to please people. Take risks. Risk making screwed up little gnome paintings just because you are following a whim. It is not a waste of time. Even if they are quite horrible. You still learn. And there is a niche for horrible art. www.badart.com  And yeah of course, something that is 'bad' aesthetically is beautiful in the eyes of god (the universe, whatever that means to you).  When you are making nothing but crap tell yourself GOD LIKES MY ART. Cause she does. She has all your pictures you have ever made taped onto her refrigerator. She is very proud of you.

   Have you thought about your art goals for 2010? Nina says she is going to make faces for the first time.  I am concentrating on bodies. Elaborate clothes. Different kinds of hands. Bigger paintings. Unique frames.  And combining the Art journal with the Scrap book and making memories that you can touch and feel.

I'm going home to Jersey next week and will be there for a few weeks. Visiting the cutest boy in the world (will get him on cam for you) and staying with my family. They have a chihuahua now, Charlie, and I want to get her to howl with Gigi (who is breaking world records with her high pitch. I'm proud of her.) 

If you would like to sign up early for January-May Petit Academy classes registration is now open. More classes will be added by the end of the week.

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And you dare say it belongs to you

   No, you don't need me to tell you this.  Of course you are an artist without anyone having an opinion about it one way or the other.  And you might be like well FINE SUZI pshaw...I guess cause yOu say I am one then I must be, right? (your eyes rolling the whole time).  You already know who you are: you are very good in your art skills or else don't care but have fun being artsy anyway. You make art for joy, communication, expression. When you feel like buying new brushes or paints, you do.  You might not be an artist full time but when you are in the mood you do it. You might stress if it's good or bad but you allow yourself to do it. Through masterpieces and mistakes you know you have the natural born right to make art. Whether Suzi Blu or Tim Buck TWO says you are an artist you care very little. I mean, what's with this girls ego anyway?

 And to you I say this,
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU.

Want to know who it is for? The little meek ones out there who want so very badly to be able to let themselves play but can't.  Just. Can't. They might take an online class and download the videos but never try it themselves. They are watchers, readers, lurking and wanting, so very much, to play and let go. That is who I write for, have always written for, talked to, made laugh. I remember when I first started drawing and as I toiled over the features a 'friend' said to me, "Um, you're not going to leave it like that are you?" with all the sweet passive aggressive venom she could muster.  I knew it wasn't good but I knew I had it in me to be good, eventually, but I didn't know how to tell her that. Not at that time. And there are those out there who feel the same way too and feel they have no one in their corner.  Of course we all want the kind of self esteem that comes from being centered and focused and loving towards ourselves all the time. Ideally. That's awesome. But sometimes we try so hard and stuff goes wrong and piles up and then holy crap my life sucks and who am I to draw faces I mean, isn't so and so right when he says, "Why are you working so hard at this if you are not going to make a living at it?" And you might give up. Right there in front of the dishwasher while the idiot slices another piece of chocolate cake and takes it into the back room to watch a Kung foo movie.  Your dreams smashed. Your spirit stomped on.

  The only reason I exist is to help the one person that feels this way. It's gravy that I help those who already feel grounded and deserving of the gift of art but my passion lies within for my little chickies. THOSE are my chickies with whom I write for. (For who? I need an editor.) So they have somewhere to start. Sometimes if we cannot give ourselves permission we need someone to give it to us. To them I say

YOU ARE AN ARTIST!
And if you don't believe it yet
believe that I believe!

So if you are a slinky clever gal with too much time on her hands to poo poo whatever I do or say, remember, not everything is about you.

Let's make Angels!

Almost Angels

Being an artist
means, not reckoning and counting,
but ripening like the tree

which does not force its sap
and stands confident
in the storms of spring

without the fear that after them
may come no summer."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Gigi Sings!

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