{shooting for the moon}

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
{Artie Shaw}

I spent a bit of time painting with encaustics this week. I have a growing collection of art and am continuing to learn and grow. My goal is to create a {somewhat} cohesive body of work so that I can start approaching local galleries. It still seems sort of silly for me to think of myself as "good enough" to be in a gallery - hence the reason for the above quote. Right now I am shooting for the moon so-to-speak, but I will be content to land somewhere among the stars...

P.s. Did you see the full moon this week? It was beautiful here in NW Washington!

{walking, maybe jogging}

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

{Friedrich Nietzsche}

I feel that I am firmly on my creative path, given that I just picked up the brush again in December. I'm not quite running, climbing, or dancing yet but I am making my way and slowly gaining momentum! 

Where are YOU on your path?

{my new art}

Here are the photos of my new work that I promised. I am *loving* encaustics! I am so drawn to the texture encaustic medium adds to a piece. So rich and so beautiful...

{"Golden Moments" 8X8 mixed media encaustic}

{"No Winter Lasts Forever" 5X5 mixed media encaustic}

{"Beauty Exists For Those Who See It" 5X5 mixed media encaustic}

{"The Weather's Fine" mixed media encaustic}

{"Autumn Morning" 5X5 mixed media encaustic}

{"Purity" 8X8 mixed media encaustic}

All of them are now available in my new shoppe. 

I am a little {ok, A LOT!} intimidated to send my art out into the world. I kind of just have to "not think about it" and just do it. Sort of a pretend to be brave until you're not pretending anymore kind of mentality.

I am trusting in that quote that I blogged a few days ago:

"Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down."
{Danielle Steel}

Here's to new wings!

xo

jen

{the first step}

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step towards making it happen."
{Lee Iacocca}


I have decided to start blogging again. I've spent the last 2 weeks writing and re-writing that dreaded "first post". I've decided to speak from my heart and get something {anything!} down on here so that I can move forward.


I have had quite a few blogs in the past and I've always hit a sort of writer's block and ended up quitting. It seems that once I get readers there is a certain pressure that I feel to perform and make sure that what I say is interesting enough to publish. Since I don't consider myself much of a writer, I end up with performance anxiety and it is no longer fun and becomes more of a chore and source of stress for me.


Well, 2011 was my year of FOCUS {my word for the year} and I did a lot of growing and ultimately discovering my true self again. More about that in another post perhaps, but I've given myself permission to fill this blog with just me. Things that I'm feeling or thinking or creating or even just a photograph that I took of something that I found beautiful. No pressure to fill this space with clever, witty, or humorous words. Just my artistic life how I see it. Hopefully you will visit and be inspired too.


Till next time,
Jen