I’d like to wish everyone an awesome new year filled with love, peace, health, happiness and artfulness. This is going to be a very busy year for me as I have many plans to fulfill and I am already off to a flying start. This year in numerology for me is a year 4, which means it’s the time to establish a secure base for future development. A year to concentrate on hard work to put a solid base under endeavours, and to put everything in order for future potential growth.
This year I am participating in ‘Life Book 2013’. It’s a year-long mixed media art class organized by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. She is joined by 21 incredible art teachers who share their mixed media techniques. I’m also doing an additional course ‘Ultimate World of Whimsy’.
I’d like to share with you my ‘Fairy Art Mother’ whom I have created and whom will give me kind and positive encouragement and advice in times when I am thinking just a little negative about my artwork. I am after all still very new to mixed media art. I must confess though that this is the second ‘Fairy Art Mother’ I created. After creating the first ‘Fairy Art Mother’ I felt for her an intense post-natal disconnection. So we parted our ways on very friendly terms. ย I am including in this post a canvas entitled ‘I create my day and my life with the thoughts I think’. ย It is a reminder for each and every day to think only in a positive way about each and every event in our life, the choice is always ours.
As the year progresses, I will post updates on where I am at with my plans and all that I wish to achieve for 2013. So what are your plans and hopes for the coming year?
Lynn ~
I love your Fairy Art Mother! I also love all of your mixed media work! I am excited about the year with Like Book being the star on top of it for me. Your blog looks lovely and signing up to follow it. ~ Thanks for a wonderful post for me to start my day. : )
“Life” Book… ; ) Also I enjoyed the picture of your workspace!!! It is helpful to see as I am creating mine. : )
Thanks Karrlin, and for following my blog too ๐
Hi Lynn, your Fairy Art Mother is just so adorable and very wise… and I love your mixed media collage with quote as well. One of my words for this year is balance… I know my year is going to be a bit of a balancing act as well… so many projects and things to do! Thanks for a beautiful post! ๐ xx
Thanks Caroline and yes balance is going to be certainly my word and the sub-word grace, which I hope to do the balancing with ๐
Your Fairy Art Mother is beautiful. I love the little envelope that says “What If” … indeed. What if. And I love your painting. Wonderful quote.
Great post ๐
hugs from Amsterdam
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On my blog (above)I have posted my plans for this coming year as well.
Thanks so much Renee. Hugs from Australia ๐
Hi Lynn, lovely fairy art mother, her wings are adorable (I love polka dots!! :)) I haven’t had a chance to create mine yet, still waiting for my paper to arrive ๐ฆ One of the pit falls of living in a small town, no art supply shops!!
Hi Kelly, hope your paper arrives soon. I couldn’t wait to get started so I used some Strathmore paper I had. Not my preferred paper of choice for this but it’s what I had. Hope to get some of the smooth paper soon. Toowoomba doesn’t have much in the way of supplies for a mixed media artist either, though there are some scrapbooking shops. Waiting to see your fairy art mother/father. Happy creating!
HI Lynn,
I am inspired to comment as I love you mixed media work – & I love the clean fresh layout of your blog too! You are further along the path than I am with the wordpress thingy, but I have just jumped in & blogged anyway….mmmm…might need to change themes on wp….Anyway…it’s been a long time since I reconnected with any flyers – you are the first! Happy 2013 and keep cool in this oven we call Australia ๐
Hi Belinda, Thanks for the lovely comments. Not so hot up here at Toowoomba tonight, but I expect it’s not staying like this as temperatures are expecting to get very high over the coming week. Take care ๐
Lynn, your Fairy Art Mother is adorable! You are way ahead of me since I haven’t even started mine yet, but hopefully tomorrow. I too am new to mixed media and still have so much to learn… Well, almost everything actually. It will be great fun to follow each other with LB2013 and as Flying Sisters as well, we can learn together. ๐ hugs, Kathie xo
Hi Kathie, Thanks. Yes, we can learn together. So excited about Life Book 2013 already. hugs, Lynn ๐