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I Like You...Lots

I do, I really really do.

Today has been a really hard day.  After waking up at 4:30 driving three hours to class, giving a presentation I had a week to prepare in a giant auditorium in which I couldn't refer back to my notes because it was so dark I couldn't see them, I had to go to my research class. 

I hate this class.  This classes causes me more anxiety than any other class ever has in the history of classes because there is so much black and white information, and math, and numbers, and math.  The professor asked us what we wanted to learn about research during the class.  I responded, in tears mind you, that I understood virtually nothing and needed to learn everything.

Today has been a hard day.

I am happy to say I am onto my FAVORITE class EVER!  And during this class I will be able to do a bit of research processing thru art.  Also my research professor kindly offered lots of help and some meetings to work together.

Well here is my doodle of the day.  I feel like I need a little magic in my life right now and what's more magical than even David Copperfeild (ha ha) you ask?

Unicorns.

Trust Yourself

I trust my work. --Kikki Smith

 

The other day in my Processes and Materials class we read this quote.  It immediately resonated with me.  "I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."

 

I do.  I trust my work.  In fact I think everyopne should trust their creative work.  Your work speaks to you for a specific reason...listen to it, work to understand it, and trust your work.

Art Every Day 2.0 | Free Choice | Work In Progress

Here is a work in progress.

Lots of hair and some shoulder action still needed..among other things.

Little Prism Boy

I'm really liking this guy.

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Sharpie

 

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Since I graduated from UMW in May I began a graduate program in Art Therapy.

This is very exciting for me.

With this program I will be making a lot of art, and reading a SHIT TON of books, articles, and all that jazz.  Sooooo I thought I would re-start my Art Every Day via school stuff.  Some of it will be visual journaling, some in class exercises, and then just some miscellaneous stuff.

Sounds good right?

Right.

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This is something I worked on in my Process and Materials class.  It is clay.  We were working through sensory art making, so this piece was done with my eyes closed, with no preconceived notion of what it might become.

When I opened my eyes and looked at it I immediately thought of a peony. 

My favorite flower.

While I was working with the clay a flower was the last thing on my mind.  In fact, my mind was wandering through things that need to be read, clothes that needed to be dropped at the cleaners, toothpaste that needs to be bought...flowers?  Nope, but it didn't take my mind more than a split second to see a flower.

That seems like a good sign.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I proceeded to smash and smush this into a few other shapes before retiring the ball of clay back to the pile. 

This was all about the process.