Courage to Create

Is this my 'poor neglected blog' .. or just been waiting til I had something artful to say.  I have another blog space I use for my 'anything-i-want-to-say-at-all' wonderings… (A Sip of My Tea . com)  but I think I've designated this one to be … just art… as it's on my 'Artist website' … allowing for a variety of personality options is also fun for me :)

So today… I am sharing something that began yesterday… and I desire to bring in through all of June… and I'm not promising anything further than that, it only creates too much angst for me. I am joining in a little collective project, thanks to one of the lovely artists I met in Christchurch New Zealand earlier this month.  Ruth Reid is instumental in the creative project called JOIN US IN JUNE FOR 30:30 that's a link to the facebook page.  The idea is to create something each day for the 30 days of June. Anything… a painting, a page, a cake, a quilt square… anything creative … I'm going to focus on painting, whether that is large or small, or in my art journal, anything so long as I paint every day in June, and try my best to complete something every day in June too.

"Create something each day for the 30 days of June"

So… why do I think it takes courage to create?
Well it's one of my primary ways of expressing myself - and thereby there has been many 'strings' I have attached to it for some years… but THIS WEEK… thanks to a dear friend I had some help, clearing some of those attachments that no longer serve me, and this allowed me a way in that was seemingly difficult / nigh impossible for me to bridge before. I can tell the truth loudly in the pages of my art journal, but to be loud and open on my canvas (when the need arises, inside of myself that is) maybe for the world to see.. feel.. judge… can take courage.  
The thing (think / thought) I have to remember :
It doesn't matter what other people think of me …
It matters what I think of me.

It matters what you think of you.

So… here's what happened yesterday… when I asked for couage to create inside just this one day 
(taking it one day at a time was also very sage wisdom from my healing session the other day) 
thanks whole heartedly to you Raelene Byrne. (Medicine for your Spirit) 

I love the difference it made when I opened her eyes… that took courage from her too. 
We're a team.. 'my wise inner self, my artist self, inner child, muse… ' it's take a bunch.

This painting will be going to an exhibition in Brisbane in June 'Celebration of the Female Form' you can find out about tickets to that here. 

That's it for today… I better be off, to gather the 'Courage to create inside this one day'. 


love Denise xo