Eat Love Pray

I decided to go back to Bali yesterday for a day of healing and art. I had a head cold and ached all over, but you know me: any excuse for a celebration.




So I called the school sub-hotline, told them where my emergency lesson plans were, and lit some candles. Soon the aroma of mango and jasmine filled 2 Muse Studio, and I was settled in my comfy chair with George Harrison on the cd player. Ava, the best, best, best sister in the world brought me my favorite sick food: hot and sour soup, and six hours, one nap, and two chai tea lattes later, I had completed one journal page and one and a half small journal canvases... Nirvana

for Inspire Me Thursday and Illustration Friday

Back to Bali

for Mixed Media Monday and Creative Therapy

MMM: Altered People

I know that I've mentioned how much I longed to go to Bali in April for Anahata Katkin's week long mixed media workshop, Since I couldn't go to the retreat in person, I studied the photographs she posted on Flickr, and today I had my own private Balinese art retreat in my studio. Because one of my favorite subjects is altered people, the wallpaper panels she demonstrated were of great interest to me. You can see samples from her students here. Although mine is very miniature, I tried to apply the techniques Anahata taught, and here's my version of a wallpaper icon.

Infinite Mind

"Perfect peace to the soul as we rest in the realization of our unity with all there is, was or ever will be." Ernest Holmes (for Saturday Workout and Lots To Do)