LD Artist Journal | Painting is not Weeding | September 24 2016

Hello friends,

It was a lovely sunshiney day today. I had the most wonderful moments playing with different mediums and letting little thoughts develop into bigger ones down the road.   

I took a lot of joy from little moments in our garden with birds a chirping and blooms a blooming. 

I especially adored the last moments of light today. I mayyyyy have been a bit cheeky today, in that I planned and set out to do some weeding, and was completely romanced by the sensational afternoon light dancing across our world. So I swapped my gloves for a brush and paper and some gorgeous tubes of my favourite Aussie Aussie Aussie made Art Spectrum paints, opened my heart and began capturing some of the feeling.

It felt incredibly good, and if not for the gangs of flying guns for hire masquerading as mosquitos, I would have stayed and painted every surface in sight. 

There is really and truly nothing like being at home. A whole beautiful world to delight in. 

LDxx

Painting happy

On my table

Garden glamour

LD Artist Journal | Creatively Invincible and LD Blog no.1 | September 23 2016

Hello friends, first post on this blog, and it feels like wonderful timing.

Along with Spring, I welcome so joyfully a burst of unbridled creative freedom! I feel like I have just stepped up to a whole new level of openness, creatively, and feel completely free and without boundary or impediment to bring to life this wonder I feel inside. I feel like a grown-up all of a sudden.

I understand for a number of years as I have been beginning and then building my artistic path, I have had outcomes in mind at various stages, and have curbed things a little accordingly. This is all well and good and as it needed to be, but it seems as this world becomes ever more saturated with imagery and creative 'sharing', and trend-centric visuals, originality shines brightly. Whilst I was feeling slightly suffocated a little while ago, with open and shameless copying having become so rampant and seemingly so accepted, I feel I'm experiencing a creative-bra-burning liberation of sorts; a realisation that with this IP free-for-all comes a whole new hero level for originality. 

I am openly okay with being a bit of a weirdo. Walking my own path, dancing to a wholllllllle other drum and laughing to myself along the way... Its how I roll. And I like it. It seems to work. It means I look mostly inward for response and approval, or to those close to me, and along the way (whilst laughing and dancing!), another little rainbow brick of identity gets added to the castle. When I wish to draw upon creativity, its like I run through the castle, roam through the grounds and whirl through that world, and its all glistening full of those little rich pieces collected on the journey, through introspection. Not so normal, but, it seems to work. And I think the same is true for all originals out there.

So I feel that the restrictions are off, the creative floodgates are open. Its time to live creatively large and free. And originality... if you've got it, balance it with a dash of practicality, pepper it with open hearted goodness, and beammm it to the world. I predict things are about to get pretty interesting creatively, and that brings me enormous joy!

So my first artist's diary got a little serious, but I aim to share where I'm at creatively along the way, and I am most certainly, firmly here! I cannot wait for all the wonder that is ahead.

Much goodness to you all, may you find your drum and bang it loudly!

LDxx

Landscape commission workings rediscovered and oh so inspiring!