Intuitive Painting - "Listen to your Wisdom" An Owl!

Ok, so this really is good therapy and a lot of fun.  And I've been incorporating my doodling that I love so much.  So glad that I took Flora Bowley's e-course.  And I even sold one-- to my physical therapist who has been working on my wonky wrist!!

In between cleaning and showing houses, I finished this one:

"Listen to Your Wisdom"  36"x36"

Please let me know if you are interested.  I'm selling these for $250 each.  Thanks for looking!!

New Paintings Completed - Intuitive Art - Dragonfly and Puggles!

Ok, just to update the WORLD, because I know EVERYONE is wondering (ha), my right hand is moving!!  The bone has healed and I'm in physical therapy three times a week until I can bend it close to normal.  I can write and type, but it's still pretty stiff.  So with my right hand in tact, I completed these paintings in-between house showings.  (House still for sale! UGH):

Puggle Party 36"x36"

Dragonfly Colors 36"x36"

"Sprockets" 36"x36"

Eyes on Spring 36"x36"

All going up for sale in my Etsy store or my website - carolscanvas.com!!

Completed Flora Bowley's Bloom True e-course. Great experience, even with only left hand!

OK, so I managed to get through Flora Bowley's intuitive painting course with only my left hand.  I'm so glad I got over my pity party and pushed through.  I really enjoyed the experience and found that if you really let go, amazing things can happen on the canvas with little effort.   It was definitely more about the process than the end result for me.  It was very therapeutic!

Each day (except Sunday) we were given a little bit of information over a 5 week period.  There were lots of videos of Flora painting, which I found to be very interesting to watch.  There were also general instructions about how to get into the painting "space" as well as how to "let go."  The goal was not to finish a painting until the end, but really even then, she instructed that the final painting may not reveal itself.  It was about learning different ways of applying paint to canvas-- colors, patterns, using stamps, varying marks, etc.  Each session with your painting creates a new layer until at last, you have some interesting shapes and combinations.  Then you add imagery, go bold and add whatever comes to mind, then finally simplify the composition by reducing your color pallet and covering things you don't like or highlighting and enhancing things that you do like.  Sounds complicated, but it's really not so.  Anyone can do this.

I found that I would get stuck when I wasn't in a great frame of mind… but when I was grounded, maybe just back from a walk or meditation,  things simply FLOWED.  So for me it was all about the FLOWING.

30"x30" Swan Reflections

18"x24" Untitled

As you cans see with these two, I got very into the paint drips-- using Golden fluids (which are very expensive!!) and spraying water to allow them to drip. 

I highly recommend this e-course to anyone who likes to paint. I wanted to paint loosely, and now I can!! 

Finished another Intuitive painting- "Water World"

I guess my paintings are showing the chaos that is my life right now.  We are getting ready to list our house for sale. It is bittersweet -- a touch sad and a touch exciting.  Not sure where we are going to go yet, but downsizing is a MUST as we send my youngest daughter off to college this summer.  Thinking of Florida… do you think the magical seaside water world is coming out in my latest intuitive painting??

30"x30" "Water World" 

Busy days ahead…. 

New Intuitive Painting with Bear

Ok, so here is the first painting that I finished (I think) during the Brave Intuitive e-course with Flora Bowley. Check out her work-- its's amazing!

This painting is very busy because I wanted to keep so many different areas of this painting.  The multiple layers created lots of cool designs.  I also didn't commit to a color scheme, so just went with a bunch of different colors!  So I'm hoping my style will simplify a bit as I practice more and more.  It's mostly about the process for me-- I can't begin to describe how great it feels to paint like this. I just get so into a "zone".  It's very therapeutic--even with just my wrong hand! LOL

AND.. I didn't even care that I couldn't use my right hand until the final touches.  It just took me a little longer and I had less control over the paintbrush with my left hand.

Speaking of --I've been in this wrapped splint thing for my right broken wrist now for 3 weeks.  I go back on Tuesday and get a short arm cast. The current fiberglass thing on me goes past my elbow so I can't straighten my arm.  I can, however, use my fingers a bit for typing. Can't really hold onto anything yet, like a pen or paintbrush.  Can't shave my left pit, hook my bra or put my hair into a pony tail. Life goes on…

Taken with my camera phone because I still can't hold the real camera  30"x30"

I skipped taking some pics of a few layers, but u get the gist! Ok, off to work on another one!!

Broke the other wrist!!! Buddha painting and Intuitive Wine painting

So during the ice storm we had two weeks ago, I slipped on the ice and broke my RIGHT WRIST! So mad at myself and finding it hard to do lots of things. (including typing)

But before that happened, I drove to my friend's place in Fl and spent 4 days with her in Tampa. Loved the warm weather!  We played tennis, caught up on life, drank wine and painted!  We signed up for one of those wine & painting classes and had so much fun!  Here is my "Tranquil Buddha":

His right ear is cut off in this photo, but you can get the idea.  Wine and paint-- they did an excellent job teaching us how to paint the Buddha!

So my friend got the painting bug and we bought a few colors and painted some more the next day. Here is my intuitive wine painting! HA

And here I am smiling thru the pain…

New Golden Retriever Painting and Getting Ready for #BloomTrue Class

Ok, so I finished this painting today so I have a blank slate (well not really, but no one waiting on me!) I'm starting the e-course on intuitive painting tomorrow!

This is my friend Sue's dog, Rosie, painted on 18"x24" stretched canvas (picture taken with cell phone):

And today I got my painting space ready for Flora Bowley's e-course: 

And now I'm a happy camper!!