I Found My Purpose in Life!!!!!

I've been looking for my "purpose in life" for a loooooong time.  Now I realize it has already been a part of my life.  No need to search.  No need to "get on track".  This feels so freeing.

These are my new life guides:

  To go on Adventures.

  To do all kinds of Wonderful Things.

  Forever.

In my video for The 100 Day Reality Challenge I talk about how this all came to be.

On To The Next Challenge!

Lilou Mace has been very inspiring to me for over a year now.
www.youtube.com/user/liloumace

A month ago, her co-created venture called The 100 Day Reality Challenge came to my attention.  At first, I was hesitant.  One Hundred Days!!!  Can I ever commit to something for that long?  Starting August 1st I decided to find out.

My intentions for the next 100 days are:
Health:  mental, physical, spiritual and emotional.
Energy: learning new ways to keep a higher and positive vibration
Purpose:  move towards what I am meant to do in this Universe

It's only day 5 and I am already seeing results and having fun.  Maybe 95 more days will not be too bad.

Check the challenge out and see if it might be something that will call you one day.
www.cocreatingourreality.com

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. REVIEW.

These 30 days of painting have proven to be not as long and hard as initially expected.
Mental note:  Expect things to be easy and fun instead!

Day 1.

My intentions were:
To Create Without Judgment.
To leave perfection and criticism behind.
To move towards being artistic while feeling good.
To play and have fun.







Day 30.

Instead of pre-planning my daily paintings and using precise images that I have previously sketched, I slowly switched to painting from whatever entered my reality.  Everything inspired me from a picture, nature or an image in my mind's eye.




Letting go of the Self Critic felt freeing.
One moment thoughts would come to mind like;
     "You can't."
     "That looks terrible."
     "Even a turtle can blend colours better than that."
Then I catch them and let that critical voice go.  The changes are immediate!  Happiness levels go up. Creative energies flow through.  The results in the painting are amazing. And to make everything better the painting comes out faster!

I now work towards applying these skills to not only art by my daily life.
Who needs that Constant Critic anyways?!
I banish thee!

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. DAY 30 !!!

I may have been 6 or 7 years old when Monet and I first met through an art book which illustrated photos of his lily ponds and lotuses.  The images were love at first sight for me.  His compositions were so beautiful that I never dared to paint a lotus until tonight.  Since that day, somewhere deep inside me, I held a belief that lotuses are never to be painted again as they will never look as beautiful as Monet's. 

Twenty years later, I was introduced to the idea that a lotus is well loved all around the world.  This mystical flower holds many meanings in different beliefs. 

Last week, I strolled through a local gallery shop and noticed beautiful paintings of lotus ponds by a local artist.  They inspired me.

Today, for my final daily painting I created my very first lotus.
To me it symbolizes; Beauty, Rebirth, Enlightenment,  Fortune. 

Thank you for viewing my month of painting fiasco!  

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. DAY 29.

Using only 2 colours of green.

Inspired by a greeting card.

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. DAY 28.

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. DAY 27.

Playing around with shapes and colours for a bigger Under The Sea themed painting.