HAPPY New Year!

Here's a sweet card from The Graphics Fairy:

And here are a couple book pages of poems from old books:

All images are in the Public Domain which means you are free to use as you wish for personal or commercial use.

The Science of GRATITUDE

Free graphics to make your own Gratitude Journal or for friends and fam. (Please don't sell in digital form or mass produce in print).

This goes with the Gratitude Journal!  THANK YOU, Bruce!!!

*Free* Gratitude Journal Cover!

T'is the season for all things grateful! It is harvest time of delicious apples and other yummy things. The 90+ degree weather has finally subsided into pleasant Autumnal days. The leaves are BEAUTIFUL and play in the breeze. Ah!  My favourite time of year! 

With that in mind, here is a graphic I did for a journal cover last year. You are free to use it for personal or commercial use, as long as you don't mass-produce (over 20). EnJOY!  :-)

Pumpkin & Thanksgiving card images courtesy of The Graphics Fairy.

What Is Art?

This started off with me slapping up a quick photo of a purple sunrise for artist Gisele Grenier. She is a WONDERFUL art teacher who recently posed the question "Is paint pouring really art?" on one of her videos. It reminded me of when I was living on the Chesapeake Bay & I went to an art show of landscapes from local artists. I was with my neighbor, who was a mortgage banker, who told me with great authority that one particular sunrise painting had "too much purple" in it and it would be better with less purple. She was not an artist and had never studied art. Her whole opinion was based on her idea that it wasn't realistic and therefore wasn't good. Also, it wasn't "realistic" because she had never seen a purple sunrise like that before. I had!  

Here's an orangey one for the Autumn season!

I think when hearing criticism or getting personal feedback for your art, it's good to consider the source: 

Is this person an artist?

Does s/he have experience of art history?

Is there an understanding of the basic elements of what constitutes art?

Even professional critics disagree!  I certainly would never aspire to buy Piero Manzoni's "art" which consists of allegedly tinning up his own literal crap!  ($300,000?!)

[And then I squirreled & thought about what Mum would say if she heard about this guy]

But someone values that as art. See? It's like that old saying: 

"One person's junk is another person's JUNK JOURNAL."  (Haha)

Art is a subjective experience. It can't be measured like math; there is no ONE answer. To me, art is beauty. It's what feeds my soul. What is beauty?  That's subjective, too!

And I'll leave you with some more beauty; one of the first sunrises from my current backyard:

More purple!

Tomes!

Look at those books!  And also, it's Bruce Lipton. What's not to love? 

Quotable: 

"When we struggle to obtain our wishes and desires, it's not an issue from outside control, it's an issue of inside programming. And once you know this, we are free to change that programming. And when we change that programming, we become empowered because with new programs we can program success, happiness, health, and love."

Mini-Zine Autumn Quotes

WELCOME Autumn!

Ahhh . . . the cool breezes, the geese honking, the Fall FOILAGE!  My favourite season of the year.

Public Domain / Copyright free image for you to right-click & save.

Here's my latest Autumn-themed digi-kit: