and I ask, do you give up?

Hello From the Gypsy Wagon. Got a little video for you. Check out the next Arte Journal Prompt and then read on below.

                         

You can add fabric to your pages and then paint over it.  Yes, I covered over the pretty pattern. I want to be a girl who leaves the pretty pattern but sometimes you have to keep going.  That is a big part of not giving up.  You have a plan in your head, all artists do, the inspiration, what makes you sit down to create. Rarely. Rarely is this 100 percent perfectly executed. Often what comes out goes in a different direction, just an inkling of what you were thinking of. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse. And you continue on.

                          
  Learn to love the uncomfortable part where its not working. This is the fun stuff. This is where you are a little god.  You can change it. You can begin again - right there in the middle of your not working painting. Too many of us stop before the miracle happens. We associate the struggle with proof that we can't be good enough because it is not coming out exactly like we hoped.  Yes it's good to practice, to try to get close to our vision, but like everything in life, the Universe has something better in store for you than you can imagine if you will just let go.

You can make great things. Yes, even you. In fact, especially you.  I need YOU as big as you can be, get it?  I meet ordinary people every day. I want you to be extra-fab. Big. Giant.  I want big people in my world.  I want them everywhere. They make life interesting.

                            
But you aren't living big if you stop in the middle and quit.  Keep keep it going.  Don't give up. Ever.  Keep pushing even if it means painting over that pretty vintage fabric that you tried so hard to make into a modern collage.  Better to push it and see where your art will lead you.  That is wAy more fun anyway.

It isn't noble to have low self esteem, it's a waste of time.  Stop the drama, get down from the tree and entertain me.

                               

A new semester is coming upon us at the Petit Academy and I'm getting excited about new things. New products, new colors. It's spring and I want color.

I need to paint the wagon too. My studio. It needs to be more inviting. Because its just me in there I don't think about making it beautiful, just functional. Decorating is usually done for the benefit of other people. But what about ourselves? How much more inspiring is it to create in a place you LOVE rather than one that is generic?

Lot's to do. Crazy lots. But I love it.

Are you going to go to BRAVE GIRLS CAMP with me?

Here is the link to my students blog I was speaking about:

Lisa Klow

Here is where I will be teaching May 1 + 2
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Teesha Moores Journal Binding Tutorial of Love