I think I will post tomorrow as we seem to be drinking ourselvesstupid....lol.....

thanks,
Valerie

via, e-mail to 30day artist.

P.S it's not as bad as it sounds. I'm sure she'll clearify.

Ming

Our artist is away at her grandma's funeral.

She'll be back soon.

She'll make art soon.

And she'll post soon.

You haven't started..and we miss you already!

Beloved readers and art lovers, thanks for checking in.

ming

Hi, I am here. My brain is on overload, and I just got back from Vancouver. I have lots to say, so more will follow in the next few hours......as I collect my thoughts.
Sorry for the delay as things are out of my controle right now.
Valerie

This journey for the month of May has taken a turn.
My heart is broken
and my spirit is large.

My thoughts are big,
and blending into one.

I have lost someone who was very important to me.
She taught me strength, intelligence, femininity.
She might have been a troubled soul
and I often feel connected to her in the sense that If I had been born at a different time and a different place, I would have been exiled and condemned for my differences. She made me realize how fortunate I am to be here and now.

And to connect myself to the universe.
My connection runs deeper, my questions have changed, and my significance has been challenged
So here I am.

Where do I go?

My lord god, I have no idea where I am going…..
For I am alone and in the shadow of death.

As I search for peace in my soul, I need to express myself deeper and with direction.
Where do I start?

My passion for florals is not as elementary as it may seem.
It is genetic and connects the generations of my family.

She was a flower nut.
My dad is a flower nut.
I am a flower nut.
We all are a flower nut.

My truth is in nature,
and I will seek healing of my broken heart in what I naturally seek comfort in.
My nature, my art.

I don’t know where it will change me
The healing is in the process
The process connects me
To everything.

I aspire to seek the qualities I have experienced in my sensitive heart.
The ones that I have to learn to live with.

I will slow it all down,
as in the past I think I was overwhelmed with the emotions that translate in my art.

I will find what I am looking for this month of May,
As blossoms bloom, trees grow, skies change
And my heart heals and accepts the softer,
and the harsher side of nature.

And I will listen to what it tries to tell me.

In my quest to learn, understand and accept the universe.
As my emotions are the cause and the solution of all my problems.

I miss you Nona,
And I will always love you.

Valerie

This is a three hundred year old Cameo I inherited. I love it so much, it is delicate yet strong, it is simple yet intricate. I will frame it as I see it as a mini sculpture.


These are some numbered Henri Matisse prints I inherited. They are 2/49. I feel privileged to have them in my possession.


Contour drawings are something I will work on in applying to my art.
the water colour in behind is an uncle Jack water colour. HE used to fly in the 1st world war. Then he painted for the rest of his life. He was my dads uncle. I have always been surrounded by his work. I think it had more of an impact on me than I can imagine.


These pictures I took in Vancouver. I am starting to collect the ones that inspire me. I am looking for composition, line, values, light, absence of light, balance and uniqueness.
I will take these images to my studio and then take them apart. Abstract them. Find the truth in nature.
Are they not beautiful?



Tags: art , inspiration

Horray horray it's the seventh of may, outdoor screwing starts today!
lol,
lightening things up.

as events unfold,
enquiries@30dayartist.com wrote:

Hi,

Don't let the comments get to you, they're nothing compared to what chin
yew and i went through when we started 30dayartist.

Just show your stuff!

OH, can you please label the post by day, followed by a title,

thanks, and have fun.

someone commented to me that they come to see art, they sympathies and all,
but they want to see how you respond through your art.

30day artist, is not just about great art, it's about art every day.
that means something to the readers. Otherwise they kinda feel cheated.

and on my part, I'm sorry i haven't written more, to guide you through
the process.

It's going to be the ride of your life. In what's left of these 30days
you'll experience something very diff rent from normal art making,

it feels a bit like being on stage, performing, and that has it's merits
and it's pressures, but hopefully great hings will come out from it,

for you, and the audience!

God Speed!

and forgive my bad spelling.

Regards,
Ming




I understand, but i can't start until I am ready to start.
They will just have to wait for a couple of days while I get my shit together mentally.
I am not going to shit out a painting just for the sake of shitting out a painting. That would be wasting my time and theirs.
The process is part of making art, like it or not.
it is what it is.
if they feel cheated then that is not my responsibility, rather an acceptance that the process should be as individual as the artist.
that is what makes me successful.
I will not change my formula and perhaps people will learn something from the way I do things.
artists have always been a bit of a challenge for me, that is nothing new.
I don't fit the mold.
I can live with that.
the main reason why i wanted to do this was to spend time in my own head.
I will follow through with that.
the results will show, and excel above the rest.
it proves itself time and time again.
I will always follow my intuition.
don't worry about me.
I just happen to see things differently.
but that is for me to do, and you to watch.


I just arrived back in Montreal an hour ago.
I plan to go into my studio tomorrow for a few hours.
I have some interesting compositions brewing in my head.
thinking of starting with some works on paper tomorrow,
then on monday I want to pick up a large tripteck.
80 inches by forty. I think I will have the side panells running along the theme of delicate and wild, something more focal in that mid pannell.
a field or a micro view of some of the pictures I took and posted in the previous post.
like a camera, from different angles.
small patterns mixed with large.

later on in the week I will be returning to ottawa for some plein air paintings at the tulip festival.
i think i will remain consistant with the sizes.....36x30.
I have a landscape show in Montreal this september.....my idea was fields and trees in bloom.
that will be completed this month of MAY.


don't worry the dialogue will soon be replaced by work.
and when it starts it is hard to stop.
I usually work up to 16 hours a day.
I can't do that on an empty tank.
I should be finished refueling today.

oh the suspense.....lol.