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arTist, dEsigner, loveR, dreAmer, wifE, photogRapher, Adventurer, maMa, chorEographer, wOrshiper, wRiter, singEr..........

Friday, May 28, 2010


Daily Creativity
So whatever you do as a living, it can only help to add a bit of creativity to your day. My husband & I hear " someday we will write songs again", "someday" i will dance again", ect.... The perfect time may never come. Let's start now "SOMEDAY is TODAY"!!!!!
Commit to 5 minutes a day. That's it. Not too scary! Get a notebook, a fancy pen, & a spot in or by your house. Write for 5 min. a day. Forget abt. laundry, kids, work, ect. Start small. You can simply write how you feel abt. this exercise. Get it out. Dont worry abt. the end result, you're just getting in the habit which takes a couple of weeks to do. I will give you more ideas later. Today it's enough. You just started being a bit more of the person you want to "someday be"> CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010


Life or Death

to all of us who choose to use creativity to express ourselves. this is a reminder. we can ( and do) express life or death with our art. . Example: i know an artist who is quite successful. she has a gallery and even does vollunteer work. she goes into schools and teaches art. she is very sad about pollution and the state the earth is in. she teaches the children how to make very realistic fish skeletons. this teaches the children what we will pass on to their children if they don't do something about it. i say her perspective is wrong. why not teach them to make beautiful ,colorful fish.? lets teach them what the earth CAN look like if they do something about it! then plant a tree together ,or clean a beach as a class project. does your music as a whole, express hope? do your pictures suggest darkness or light? when someone leaves with a piece of your creativity, what do they leave with? what are you wanting them to leave with? there is enough darkness and difficulty in this world already. if we can encourage others, why not do it? plus, if you are a student, and child of the Ultimate Creator, i believe it is your responsibility! just a reminder...( and I know that there is a time and place for showing the dark side of life, just not the majority of the time!) dawne

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

spring




What a wonderful way to welcome spring....

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

My Artwork...


Title: Hatching...
mixed media assamblage
size: 11" by 17"
One of my Light boxes. It's a real egg that lights up. It reads" She just knew people could tell she was hatching"











Title: The Watcher
Mixed Media
This one was dedicated to my adopted Grandpa who was on the 1st boat we sent to the battle of Normandy & has his original handwriting on it!



Title: Emerge
Mixed Media Assemblage
Another of my light boxes. The Praying Mantis Case is a Chandelier that actually lights up! Of course I had to put graffiti on the tree.






Title: Unrelinquished Love
Mixed Media Assemblage
It reads " They gave it a whirl, but in the end, they were just too different..." ( One of my light boxes, & part of my Bird Brain Series.) I think wasp nests are so sculptural so I made this one a chandelier. It actually lights up.



Title: Texas Ranger
Mixed Media Assemblage
THIS IS MY TRIBUTE TO THOSE IN UNIFORM WHO KEEP TEXAS SAFE. HE IS EXTRA SPECIAL BECAUSE I LIKE TO USE BUGS THAT HAVE LIVED FULL LIVES & MOST ARE MISSING THEIR ANTENNA. THIS ONE HAS HIS ORIGINALS!( PART OF MY TRIBUTE TO TEXAS SERIES)





Title: Take Flight
Mixed Media Assemblage





Title: Destiny
Mixed Media Assemblage





Title: Thankful Reminder
Mixed Media Assemblage





Title: Texas Tea
Mixed Media Assemblage
( part of my Tribute to Texas Series)






Title: Swimming in Space ( part of my Bird Brain Series)
Mixed Media Assemblage...


Title: Bloom
Mixed Media Assemblage...



Monday, May 10, 2010

Thankful

Texas Tea

Part of my 'Tribute to Texas" series

Destiny

Take Flight

I love nature and wanted elevate it to art ( which is what God made it anyway :)