Reminds me of a Frida Kahlo painting.
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BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
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BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
5. Bogged Down in Quicksand...
In 2019, as part of a challenge beginning in January, I committed to creating an art journal page daily for the whole year. The easiest way I could make that work for me, as mom was in the hospital and my health was threatening to tank again, was to put paint on a page and then write a quote or proverb. That was so much fun, I kept it going for almost half of the year. Then my mom passed away, my health crashed from the stress and strain, and the only painting I did was in my art journal. Though, by then I had transitioned from illustrated proverbs to mandalas and scribble drawings.
In 2019, as part of a challenge beginning in January, I committed to creating an art journal page daily for the whole year. The easiest way I could make that work for me, as mom was in the hospital and my health was threatening to tank again, was to put paint on a page and then write a quote or proverb. That was so much fun, I kept it going for almost half of the year. Then my mom passed away, my health crashed from the stress and strain, and the only painting I did was in my art journal. Though, by then I had transitioned from illustrated proverbs to mandalas and scribble drawings.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
6. A Fork in the Road...
In the fall of 2019, we discovered what was causing my health issues and I started feeling better, and was ready to get back to painting. But, the best laid plans didn’t come into being. At that year’s Woman Unleashed Winter Solstice online retreat, a session led by Karen Abend introduced me to whimsical character drawing, and I quickly found a way to make the process uniquely mine as I started drawing people from an overhead viewpoint. 2020 brought a new adventure, as I started crocheting animals. Then, in response to an art journal prompt from a 6-month program I was a member of, I created some crochet archetype muse dolls – the nurturing mother (Mother Nature), the Muse (Artist Princess), feminine energy (Southern Belle)
In the fall of 2019, we discovered what was causing my health issues and I started feeling better, and was ready to get back to painting. But, the best laid plans didn’t come into being. At that year’s Woman Unleashed Winter Solstice online retreat, a session led by Karen Abend introduced me to whimsical character drawing, and I quickly found a way to make the process uniquely mine as I started drawing people from an overhead viewpoint. 2020 brought a new adventure, as I started crocheting animals. Then, in response to an art journal prompt from a 6-month program I was a member of, I created some crochet archetype muse dolls – the nurturing mother (Mother Nature), the Muse (Artist Princess), feminine energy (Southern Belle)
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
7. Forging Ahead...
In April, 2020, I had the opportunity to join Amber’s Inner Circle year-long mentorship program. I had just wrapped up the 6-month program and wasn’t sure if I really wanted to commit to another program, no matter how much I wanted to join Inner Circle
(and I really wanted to join!). After figuring out some logistics, I joined, and then my art really took off! I started recreating a number of my scribble drawings and whimsical characters on canvas. In the fall, I started drawing a very simple cartoon strip every day in folded 1-page booklets. Also that fall, I took a chapbook making class and published my first chapbook, based on column I’d written for the newspaper. My two Australian accountability sisters (from Inner Circle) challenged me to create a card deck before Christmas so I went back to my art journal pages of illustrated proverbs and published 2 Wisdom decks.
In April, 2020, I had the opportunity to join Amber’s Inner Circle year-long mentorship program. I had just wrapped up the 6-month program and wasn’t sure if I really wanted to commit to another program, no matter how much I wanted to join Inner Circle
(and I really wanted to join!). After figuring out some logistics, I joined, and then my art really took off! I started recreating a number of my scribble drawings and whimsical characters on canvas. In the fall, I started drawing a very simple cartoon strip every day in folded 1-page booklets. Also that fall, I took a chapbook making class and published my first chapbook, based on column I’d written for the newspaper. My two Australian accountability sisters (from Inner Circle) challenged me to create a card deck before Christmas so I went back to my art journal pages of illustrated proverbs and published 2 Wisdom decks.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
8. Reaching for the Sky...
I experimented with drawing on my ipad for a few months, and in April of 2021, I took the leap and created my first digital drawings of the sky. I love looking at the magical colours of the sunrise, as well as the brilliant blues during the day, and the drama of a storm-filled sky. Pretty soon, almost with a life of its own, drawing the sky on my ipad became a daily practice that resulted in 800 drawings by the time I reached the one year anniversary in April of this year. I took the same skills I used to draw the skies to create, and publish in August, 2021, two more card decks, “Beeing” and “TEA for the Heart & Soul,” for which I also created the handwritten fonts, in addition to “Deep Truths” which I had started in the fall of 2020, after a weekend workshop. I was introduced to watercolour pencils in the latter part of 2021, and again used them in my own unique way to create images of whimsical flowers and leaves.
I experimented with drawing on my ipad for a few months, and in April of 2021, I took the leap and created my first digital drawings of the sky. I love looking at the magical colours of the sunrise, as well as the brilliant blues during the day, and the drama of a storm-filled sky. Pretty soon, almost with a life of its own, drawing the sky on my ipad became a daily practice that resulted in 800 drawings by the time I reached the one year anniversary in April of this year. I took the same skills I used to draw the skies to create, and publish in August, 2021, two more card decks, “Beeing” and “TEA for the Heart & Soul,” for which I also created the handwritten fonts, in addition to “Deep Truths” which I had started in the fall of 2020, after a weekend workshop. I was introduced to watercolour pencils in the latter part of 2021, and again used them in my own unique way to create images of whimsical flowers and leaves.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
9. Circling Back...
While I create something every day (ipad sky drawing, cartoon drawing, and more), I wasn’t painting every day. In fact, painting was pretty much a hit or miss practice that was (honestly) mostly a miss. I’d complete a lot of paintings in a short time period, and then I wouldn’t paint at all for months and months. In an effort to be more consistent,
the beginning of January, 2022, I pulled out a simple watercolour set that I had been going to get rid of (watercolour has never been my medium of choice) and resolved to put colour down on a 9x12 piece of mixed media paper every day. I called it “watercolour play” so I didn’t have to create it into anything, or make it even look nice. Before long, I started putting dots on my watercolour play pages in meditative circles to create mandalas. After a few weeks, in addition to adding paint to my watercolour play pages, I started working on an acrylic painting daily as well, continuing with my process of recreating a few of my earlier scribble drawings and my whimsical characters on canvas. I also revisited a technique I first tried in an ipad drawing of painting lacy looking images.
While I have many ideas and themes I want to explore, or continue exploring, I have no idea where the artistic road will take me next, but I do know if I just show up, and keep taking baby steps, I’ll get somewhere amazing. I hope you have enjoyed following my journey of exploring my artistic voice. Thank you!
While I create something every day (ipad sky drawing, cartoon drawing, and more), I wasn’t painting every day. In fact, painting was pretty much a hit or miss practice that was (honestly) mostly a miss. I’d complete a lot of paintings in a short time period, and then I wouldn’t paint at all for months and months. In an effort to be more consistent,
the beginning of January, 2022, I pulled out a simple watercolour set that I had been going to get rid of (watercolour has never been my medium of choice) and resolved to put colour down on a 9x12 piece of mixed media paper every day. I called it “watercolour play” so I didn’t have to create it into anything, or make it even look nice. Before long, I started putting dots on my watercolour play pages in meditative circles to create mandalas. After a few weeks, in addition to adding paint to my watercolour play pages, I started working on an acrylic painting daily as well, continuing with my process of recreating a few of my earlier scribble drawings and my whimsical characters on canvas. I also revisited a technique I first tried in an ipad drawing of painting lacy looking images.
While I have many ideas and themes I want to explore, or continue exploring, I have no idea where the artistic road will take me next, but I do know if I just show up, and keep taking baby steps, I’ll get somewhere amazing. I hope you have enjoyed following my journey of exploring my artistic voice. Thank you!
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
And a view of my art exhibition in its entirety 
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
Grrrrrr! I've been sick in bed for 5 days due to the heat/humidity...finally able to get out of bed yesterday as it rained - so I was able to get my artwork from the gallery...this morning I discover that Gmail has changed its look - which is harder on the eyes...and for some reason Siri's voice has been changed on my ipad - not as pleasant sounding...why all the needless changes??????
So as to appear industrious while suffering naivete about proper and adequate alterations? Folk of avarice are like that, initiates of change at a pace to sustain chaos ... and lack of sentient/sapiens ... downright insensitive! The understanding Gods should know about this downfall ... yet is a funny state of psyche we support the cursed thing ... instead of the one demanding vows of ... well you know (additional tribute and commissions)! Tis a growing pain of exponential proportion given our lack of media and medium of improved Will (humble)! It is excessive ...
Then the powerful demand owning the media and onanism ... the Rune ation is hidden as agnostic genetic item of contortion ... part of the opiate receptors ... to receive or not ... depending on mRNA ... djinns missal! It is a tiny thing and you know how the big guns and wheels are about detailing and codes!
Could it be we don;t know any Beta ... that second breather? Stop up and give it another go ... maybe on another stage of the latter ... perhaps id ell sink in ... the complexity of what we believed to be simple in how it is layered? Thus the flaw ...
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