Day of the dead/Día de muertos

Today is the day of the dead here in

Mexico and I want to share my latest song

and video I created, I wanted to make one

inspired in this day, it is named "Calaveras"

Skulls, it is in Spanish and I hope you enjoy!

I also want to share here my spooky and super cute characters 

I created for this season, they are living in my art journal and 

also sharing some photoshop works! :)

I hope you had a fantastic halloween! 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. 

A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

One day at a time...

I`ve been practicing a lot, I want to be able to grow my art skills even more,

the only way is to go a head and do it, practice and learn, sometimes I surprise 

my self with magical touches, some others I wish I had undo like in photoshop!

Having a goal keeps me going, other wise it would be tiring and frustrating, my wish

has always been to be able to paint what I can see on my mind, sometimes just ideas

but usually better in my mind that when put in the action but more and more, with

each day of practice, I come a little closer so that is my motivation!  In the mean time

I use what I have, what I know and I am happy with it!

This is the first page of the bamboo watercolor papers, I showed you in the

last post and let me tell you the pages are simply fabulous!

"Mirror" 

Mixed Media on a 11 x 14 acid free mixed media paper

I`ve also been using the XL Canson mixed media pages like this to paint 

over the desk easel and they are fabulous, they hold a lot of abuse, 

I love them!

Each day is a step into a better self, 

each day a new realization of how I´m blessed,

each day is reaching higher, 

each day is finding happiness,

going forward, 

going to self, 

going farther 

out of the shelve,

growing stronger,

growing together,

growing pure,

growing forever...

"Shine"

Mixed Media 13 x 10. 5 inches watercolor paper

this was an experiment, one that I want to repeat!

"Fruiting"

Mixed Media on a 11 x 14 acid free mixed media paper,

I have been thinking about circles and more circles and so I gave this a try to

let it out, I like how my abstracts are taking shape, little by little coming out of the 

corners of my soul, this is called fruiting because I used a fruit photo as reference!

I have been painting over cardboard, thanks to Misty 

in my current class, I love it and it`s

super easy to find around the house, I love to recycle all

 kinds of them and now I always have 

a few ready to go for when inspiration strikes, 

I really recommend you try it!!

love the path 

for the path 

is who you are...

A bussy week

When you are focused on what you want

the hours go by and the days are short,

life blooms possibilities everywere

and words are usless...

You have thousands of new possibilities,

life is generous with each one of us.

Opened doors

Have you ever been disappointed with what you created?

This time I want to share what happened to me, I think it`s important

that I share this, first so I don`t forget, then because it may help someone out there!

It really amazes me how easy it is to transform things if you stay positive

and keep on developing your idea!  This has never disappointed me!

I`ve started by taking a new course about abstractions with Alisa Burke,

she`s amazing and I loved the course so I`ve started to practice and see what 

I could come out with and I started to work on this last week and kept on it

for a while...

Then I thought it needed more...

and now I don`t like it!  hahaha!  But the good news is that I love photoshop

and just started to play with the images and...

I am happy and inspired to make a mix of my paintings to make digital art!

The point here is to always try to find new ways to expand, to 

try new things and  to never give up, when we do so, 

we close our possibilities but they are always there, opened doors waiting

 to be crossed, waiting for you and your curiosity, so as I always

 tell my students, there are no mistakes just keep on going!

This also is a way of letting go, letting it happen...

Were can you open a new door for you now?

Mind garden

I`ve been wanting to add color to my drawings

and kept on holding because of fear to mess up

the work, today I though that fear is the worst

barrier of an artist! It is an artist antagonist!

So I went and tried adding watercolors and I was 

happily surprised with the result! Then I added a 

little work on photoshop and again I was pleased!

Always follow your instincts!

The worst that could happen is that you`ll have to

start over and that is practice so where does that leave fear?

Embrace your posibilities and DARE!