Showing posts with label insights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insights. Show all posts
Wednesday 28 July 2021
Creating in Faith - Kindred - What do you feel connected to?
This weeks word is Kindred on the Realityarts Podcast Episode 29 of Creating in Faith. Check out the podcast episode HERE
What do you feel connected to in regards to your creativity? Is it a supply, technique, way of doing things? Are you part of a group of artists, do you have someone to share your joy with?
We often think about our connections and the impact they make to our lives as well as the impact that we make on others. When you think of your creativity how is that manifesting itself within your work. We can sometimes be really connected to a particular art supply because it enables us to express ourselves and the things that are on our hearts.
I found I during the first stages of the 'global event' I was guided to sewing. I found the simple stitches to be surprisingly therapeutic and still do. I was able to quiet down all the chatter and just focus on being present.
It is a good idea to think about your creative activity that will be that for you when you need it. You also need to allow yourself the space to explore what it could be.
What information do you need to access to do what you need to do?
It is important to listen while we create so that we can really hear through our senses what wants to be manifested. Do not judge the particular activity that you are being inspired to do, just go with the flow and enjoy that moments creative activity and maybe even schedule the regular time for yourself? Join me on the podcast today.
As we take a look at moving forward in our art and creativity how does the word 'Kindred' impact on you and your world and how you move through it.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts....
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Monday 30 November 2020
Creating in Faith - Word for the Week - Relaxed
Welcome to this weeks Creating in Faith on the podcast. The episode number is 249 and the word for today is Relaxed. What ways do you find to relax in your creative journey? You need to carve out time for yourself (different lengths of time to suit your needs), and find different creative activities that will also help keep you going when you are not 'feeling it'
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You can listen to previous recordings HERE
Stay blessed and be a blessing
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Sunday 1 December 2019
New Season - Creating in Faith - Podcast Episode on Realityarts
Weekly Podcasts |
Creating in Faith
Well I have come to the end of Season One of Creating in Faith and I have decided to shift things up a bit for the next season which will begin tomorrow!!!
For Season Two I will be sharing more Art Journaling tips and techniques which will accompany each podcast episode
on my YouTube Art Channel YouTube |
My Patreon Blog will also have some behind the scenes video for those who want to take their art journey even further.
Realityarts Patreon |
You will be getting a monthly video where I will be creating an art journal, and I want you to look at the supplies you have, any unfinished journals you started making and you will spend time completing these each and every month.
Weekly podcasts posts will be accompanied by an art journal page video as well with an encouraging word. I am thankful for all those who have stopped by and connected.
I have selected some of the podcasts that you can take a look at, and spend time thinking about some of the points raised in each episode and what it means for your own creative journey.
Fruit |
I am really looking forward to sharing the art journal videos with you along with the podcast episode
Mothers |
Each episode is created to inspire and bless you, helping you be your true creative self, getting out of your own way as you inspire others
Space |
It has been an amazing journey creating the content for the podcast and I have grown creatively as well.
Stepping Out of the Boat |
Come and join me for Season Two and see how the episodes can inspire you - having the faith to know that you can be creative.
Time for changes and reflections as we go into the next series. If you are an artist who is interested in the impact of the arts on our health and well-being and you would like to join me on the podcast I would love to hear from you!
Looking forward to growth and the journey, stay blessed and be a blessing.
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Friday 2 August 2019
Inspirational Shorts - Authenticity
Welcome to this
week's Friday Podcast - Episode 113.
Authenticity
The doors are opening, are you ready to walk through? The time is coming - you have put in the hard work, you stayed up late and got up early, you made the sacrifices and carried on making your mark despite the circumstances. The time has come for you to look back at where you came from, look at all your achievements, no matter how small, you have come a long way! Be proud of what you have achieved, be proud of your authenticity.
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I thought I would give you an insight for the weekends,
and prepare you for Mondays. These
Friday podcasts will be typically under 3 minutes, and just a pit stop.
Each Friday I share
with you an insight or revelation and I hope that It will bless you as it
blesses me. Today it is to encourage you
to go out and do some exercise, in whatever way you want to do it. have a journal or art journal handy, so
that you can either make notes or create something from what inspires you.
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Monday 17 September 2018
Letting go of words - The Negative ones!!
Letting go of the Negative Words
After listening to a snippet of a Ted Talk, I stumbled on it and thought that I had book marked it, but when I went back to listen to the rest I couldn't find it.
The short of it was a question which asked you to think of a negative word that you commonly use, and think about removing it from your vocabulary.
What word would you remove and why?
When you remove the word you have to give more thought to your situation. My word was Insecure, and rather than use that word I had to dive deeper into the situation I was trying to explain away under the banner of 'insecurities'.
It then began to be clear that there were many things that I didn't do because I explained it away as me being insecure.
But when I let go of the word I found that I got to the root of how I was feeling and why, instead of fobbing myself off.
What negative words are you using to describe how you are feeling that you could omit from your vocabulary that only makes you feel stuck and doesn't really describe how you might be feeling.
Let me know what word you will stop hiding behind. Create a journal page, play with your supplies, or write about how it feels.
Stay blessed, pass it on and be a blessing!
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Wednesday 5 September 2018
Moments to Ponder - Feeling Grateful
What are you grateful for?
It has been a while I know and I miss posting for those of you who have been visiting my blog. I think we have all been there where so many things come at us at the same time that you feel that something has to give. You make choices, and changes and often the very things that you put a pause on you miss the most.
I have really missed blogging and intend to change things up and start my regular schedule again, and will be sharing in another post some of the things that you can expect each week.
For this weeks Moments to ponder which should have been posted on Monday the question is What are you grateful for?
In the past I have done a Gratitude's and Celebration Journal in which each week I posted a journal page and something that I felt grateful for, along with a word for that week. It was a great way to remind yourself of what you have at your disposal, but what you can do to be a blessing for others.
I am grateful that I have a platform, many that I can share my writing, art and more and be a blessing to someone who may see my work. I am also grateful to be able to work in beautiful surroundings and feel the sunshine and sea breeze.
Take some time each day to think about what you are grateful for whether you do it first thing in the morning or last thing at night, take 10 minutes out of your day and write something down, do a journal page, record your own video and post it so that others can share their heart as well.
Let me know how you get on, if you start an art journal or depict your gratitude's in a creative way that is great!
Listen to the podcast
Stay blessed and be a blessing.
Let me know how you get on, if you start an art journal or depict your gratitude's in a creative way that is great!
Listen to the podcast
Stay blessed and be a blessing.
Thursday 6 February 2014
I love you today because....You didn't give up
I Love you today because... |
You didn't give up!
We ALL have at least one thing that took us close to the
edge and we thought we couldn't go any further, but didn't give up, we pulled ourselves up, took
another step and we kept on stepping, and when we looked back we were surprised
that we not only got through we were able to breath again.
Pen and Ink portrait |
Show some love
Take a look back and stop for a moment to remind yourself how far you have come today.
Share some love
We could all do with some encouragement. Find a way to encourage someone today
To find out why 'I love you today' February Series click on the image below
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Tuesday 7 January 2014
Course Review and Insights - Life Book and Soul Food
Life Book and Soul Food are in progress and as I said a few days ago HERE the focus for Tuesdays on the blog for 3 weeks out of the 4 will change slightly as I share insights and Ahha moments from the courses that I am doing, while sharing some of the work. In an ideal world I would just be doing my work on the courses, but the reality for most of us is that life still goes on in the meantime. There is no pause button, so being realistic you can’t get everything done at once, it just isn't possible and choices have to be made.
In both courses we have already had quite a few videos to watch and techniques to try out, while we battle with the ‘Critic’, and mine tells me ‘I don’t have the time’ and that it isn’t necessary to grow or stretch myself, and by no means climb out of my comfort zone. My critic is the one who wants me compare myself to other artists as I sit up watching anything on sky tv – flicking through the channels until at least 1am rather than be in my studio space being creative, perhaps what the critic needs is a holiday with a roller coaster ride of adventure to shake it up a bit!
Within all the chatter and the noise the still small voice says ‘don’t be afraid, everything will be alright, you can do all things, I will give you the strength, step out in faith, your steps will be ordered and when you can’t stand, I will carry you, standing in the gap for you!’
What I‘ve been doing so far on the courses is thinking about what I am learning from each contributor, what is it that is an encouragement to my own work and the processes that I use. There isn’t always going to be something, but even doing something different from the way you would normally do it will help you come back refreshed.
A couple of things that I am trying to do is be freer with the techniques and playing with the materials, thinking about colour and how I use it in my work and whether I can be bolder experimenting more with the materials that I have.
In Life Book Tam did some useful exercises around the colour wheel and i thought about the different ways I use it and how I can experiment with colour more within my work.
My Encourager |
Be strong in heart because miracles can happen
This image came out for me as that gentle reminder that I just need to be who I have been called to be through my work.
In Soul Food, Mystele shared with us how she uses her gelli plate, I don’t have one but have been improvising with a Perspex plate using the tools I have and I created a few backgrounds which led to this image;
Fly |
The perspex is hard and it dries quite quickly, so I’ll continue to experiment and see what I come up with over the weeks.
Yesterday I spent time watching Gwen Seemels contribution
working with coloured markers and pens and working in layers. I’ve been using Promarkers pens and more recently Spectrum Noir and revisited a page I did
Love yourself.. |
And thought that I would spend more time working with the pens as I quite enjoyed it. I had stopped using the Promarkers because I felt that I’d hit a wall, but again just needed to push.
I intend to do more pen based images. What also resonated with some of the things she said was about layers and self portraits. Over the course of around 20 years I have only done 2. I guess with all the faces I have done over the years there is a little bit of me or my personality in each.
Doing self portraits really gets us to look at ourselves and we need to do this from time to time. We can be too hard on ourselves, and walk with the perception of what we think others are seeing and then depending on your frame of mind see yourself how you think others are seeing you or how you think they think you should be seeing yourself! ((Really).... – did that make sense to you?).
I only want to see myself the way God sees me...
I want to see the gifts and talents I have been blessed with used to bless others. My word for the year which I’ll remind myself of again is ‘attention to detail’ – what exactly can you hear, see, smell, feel, taste – and being present, all of me in every situation. I want to see the seeds that I planted and tended last year bear fruit this year. I am looking for growth, change, sometimes it will be uncomfortable and awkward, sometimes I’ll share, sometimes not, but we are going to see new opportunities, doors opening, new techniques learnt and we will be speaking of miracles. I don’t want to be the same or do the same things that I did last year and I plant to work hard to see those things come to pass.
Let me encourage you as you face your own journey, to really see yourself, who you really are, the whole you, not a fragmented image. It is not an overnight transformation but a slow and steady pace, a get you up early and stay focused pace that calls on you to be here in the moment right now!
If you are talking either Soul Food or Life Book or any other course that is great, it would be lovely to hear how you have found the course so far, share your insights. If you hadn’t taken the step yet, it is still early days and you don’t need to worry about catching up. Whatever you do today do it with meaning, passion and intent. I am looking forward to sharing other insights with you along the way. Blessings!
I intend to do more pen based images. What also resonated with some of the things she said was about layers and self portraits. Over the course of around 20 years I have only done 2. I guess with all the faces I have done over the years there is a little bit of me or my personality in each.
I only want to see myself the way God sees me...
My Heart Overflows |
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings an crowned him with glory and honour...Psalm 8:3-5
I want to see the gifts and talents I have been blessed with used to bless others. My word for the year which I’ll remind myself of again is ‘attention to detail’ – what exactly can you hear, see, smell, feel, taste – and being present, all of me in every situation. I want to see the seeds that I planted and tended last year bear fruit this year. I am looking for growth, change, sometimes it will be uncomfortable and awkward, sometimes I’ll share, sometimes not, but we are going to see new opportunities, doors opening, new techniques learnt and we will be speaking of miracles. I don’t want to be the same or do the same things that I did last year and I plant to work hard to see those things come to pass.
Planted by the River |
Let me encourage you as you face your own journey, to really see yourself, who you really are, the whole you, not a fragmented image. It is not an overnight transformation but a slow and steady pace, a get you up early and stay focused pace that calls on you to be here in the moment right now!
If you are talking either Soul Food or Life Book or any other course that is great, it would be lovely to hear how you have found the course so far, share your insights. If you hadn’t taken the step yet, it is still early days and you don’t need to worry about catching up. Whatever you do today do it with meaning, passion and intent. I am looking forward to sharing other insights with you along the way. Blessings!
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