A Splendid Adventure Studio: another

A Splendid Adventure

This writing comes from "A Sacred Journey" by Frederick Buechner. As I was reading it I realized it stated better than I could the reason I began my blog. "What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole, or at least to certain key moments of the first half of my life thus far, for whatever of meaning, of holiness, of God, there may be to hear. My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all. For the reader, I suppose, it is like looking through someone else's photograph album. What holds you, if nothing else, is the possibility that somewhere among all those shots of people you never knew and places you never saw, you may come across something or someone you recognize. In fact - far more curious things have happened - even in a stranger's album, there is always the possibility that as the pages flip by, on one of them you may even catch a glimpse of yourself. Even if both of those fail, there is still a third possibility which is perhaps the happiest of them all, and that is that once I have put away my album for good, you may in the privacy of the heart take out the album of your own life and search it for the people and places you have loved and learned from yourself, and for those moments in the past - many of them half forgotten - through which you glimpsed, however dimly and fleetingly, the sacredness of your own journey."

3.08.2013

another

I have been on a painting roll this week. Have had some successes and some failures.

I pulled out Sarah Ahearn Bellemere's book Painted Pages and played. I have found that while I love her work, I personally like a bolder, more graphic painting style! But I find every time I try something new I learn, and I am changed.

10 comments:

thekathrynwheel said...: Oh, I do love your colour wheels mary :-); March 8, 2013 at 9:18 AM
Mechelle said...: I love the colors Mary.; March 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Bren said...: very different from your usual colours but it still is in your style, pretty.; March 8, 2013 at 12:31 PM
S. Etole said...: I like these springlike colors.; March 8, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Kim Mailhot said...: I too love trying out techniques that other artists use and see what they can bring to my own style. Inspiration is everywhere.
And yes, we need to let ourselves make art we don't love and just remember that we took that time to be creative !
Have a great creative and happy weekend, Mary !; March 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Kim Dellow said...: Love the wheels, lovely work. Kim; March 8, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Sue Marrazzo said...: The colors really pop....Very Cool!!!!
Please check out my blog at
www.suemarrazzo.blogspot.com; March 8, 2013 at 10:49 PM
Jennifer Richardson said...: i love this!!!
really feeling what you did
with the space....it speaks
to my heart as much as the color
and your wonderful style.
-Jennifer; March 9, 2013 at 7:10 AM
Nancy said...: Being open to new adventures always lead to successes and failures but learning something new is the important thing which obviously you did....You always amaze me with your spirit of adventure in your art...

I too love these colors; I think we are all yearning for spring....; March 10, 2013 at 6:35 PM
thekathrynwheel said...: After seeing these pages on your blog I just had to go to Amazon and buy Sarah Ahearn Bellemare's book! It's all your fault Mary!!; March 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM