Busy Monday

It’s been one of those days where there’s so many ideas buzzing around in my head and just too many other distractions going on to really focus on them.

Hopefully I will have a chance to work on some of these tomorrow.

Sonoma - Combined Media – 8 X 10

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or the another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” – Kandinsky

New Blog Theme

Now that I have been blogging for 8 months I decided to look for a new theme for my site, and I found one that has three columns instead of two.

As I work on updating my blog I may be switching the header images from time to time as a way to showcase my art work, and I hope to finish the rest of the revisions over the next couple of weeks.

Have a great weekend! Any comments will be welcome.

Shiny Baubles

Today, I played around with some of my favorite gemstones and created a necklace. The necklace is made  with jade, citrine, blue lace agate combined with rich golden freshwater pearls, swarovski crystal beads, copper spacers and a copper closure.

Some lore of the gemstones used in the making of this necklace

Citrine is useful for balancing and aligning the chakras and increase prosperity.

Copper is said to be an excellent conductor of energy and healing.

Blue lace agate is a gentle, calming stone that promotes tranquility.

Jade is considered a stone of good fortune and divine blessing.

Pearls attune the wearer to the ebb and flow of life, and promote faith, charity, integrity and truth.

Tranquility – Necklace length: 16″

Crows In The Belfry

Crows everywhere this morning! A group of crows descended on our oak tree this morning, squawking and making such a ruckus they woke me up.

As I peaked out our kitchen window I saw two squirrels making a run for it over our neighbors rooftop. I didn’t see anything else out of the ordinary, so I went back to bed.

Later I met a friend for coffee and we spent some time catching up on whats going on.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” - Anais Nin

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.”

–Robert Louis Stevenson

In the Studio

Spent the morning working on a painting and I’m almost finished! Hallelujah!

Later I played around with a couple of new ideas I wanted to try.  As with all things, especially related to art, there are no guarantees.

After a couple of hours I finally had one painting which kind of worked for me. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I had fun creating it

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the Phoenix.” - Christina Baldwin

“It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix Bird in you so you can rise from the ashes.” – Anne Baxter

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