Element Earth Trees.

Hello, dears! I am so happy to share this piece with you. The lives of trees inspired this piece. It's in the shoppe.

Flame.

Dears, Wishing you a lovely weekend. This piece is called flame. He might make his way into the shoppe one of these days.

Staying open to surprises.

Hello hello,

Have you ever made a huge mistake, only to have the mistake lead to an even more wonderful surprise than you expected in the first place?

I imagine you have, and in many different circumstances, too. Well, I made a huge "mistake" on a painting this week, or series of "mistakes" I should say: first, I used a water-soluble ink instead of my indelible India ink; second, I forgot to lay down a layer of medium on top of the ink before adding another layer of watercolor paint. Whoops. What resulted was a bit of messy, streaky ink mixed with my pigments. Instead of tossing the whole piece into my file of scrap paper, I decided to keep working with it. And am I ever glad that I did! After letting the ink-paint smear dry out, I went back to the piece. Now, I like it more than I did before I messed it up! I love life's ways of reminding us of the power and inspiration that open minds and hearts can offer.
Here is the piece!



Now, I love this mistake so much I don't even want to part with it.

Elements: earth.

Part two of the elements series focuses on earth. In ayurveda, the dosha (or type) associated with earth (and water) is Kapha. Kapha's properties are generally cold, wet and unctuous and offer stability and immunity.