Rochambeau

Grace

Hydrangea leaves, age gracefully.

 

xox

Constance

 

 

Springtime

A time of

~  RE~Newal  ~  RE~BiRth ~

 

and a cowgirl boot 

RE~ViVal!

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Happy Week!

xox

Constance

 

 

 

The Infinite Mind

My poor neglected guitar gained some attention last week after one of it's strings broke, out of the blue.

And you know what it means when a string breaks on your guitar, don't you? It was time to restring my baby so off I went, to buy the most expensive set of strings possible. It makes a difference (my dads voice insists, who still lives in my head).

That night, my husband was listening to a program on PBS. and Peter, Paul and Mary were singing the song called A' Soalin and something about that song clicked and started stirring in my brain. I picked up my guitar and realized that I knew the song as a girl and was able to remembered a complex composition. At first the song was a bit off, but the more I practiced, all of a sudden the song came flooding back to me thought finger memory and the next thing you know, more songs that I had learned from that period of time, even one my father taught me came pouring out.

 

Isn't it wondrous all of this information we have stored up in our amazing brains and interesting how just one thing can kick off a whole series of other information. Wondrous. What do you think? Have you had anything like this happen to you recently? Isn't it fascinating?

 

Happy Week to you!

xox

Constance

 

p.s. My computer will be getting serviced for the next few days, so I'll be back hopefully very soon!

 

 

 

The Imaginistas

Life is all about the layers of decisions we make, the things we choose to see and those we choose to ignore. The more experience we have in life, the easier it is to see through the layers.

 

Noelle LeDoux Wheeler

Above: A collage of inspiration Noelle used to create her painting above.

Here is my dear friend with her children at school during Carnival.  She and her family are currently living in Mumbai, India.  

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After celebrating the holidays together in the States last December, she and I wanted to do something that would keep us connected and also on our tippy toes artistically, so we devised a plan to challenge our skills by exercising our creative mussel.  Next, we invited my mom to join us and she was game.  We wanted a name for our group and started brain storming.   My mother had the idea: The Three I's  (standing for Imagination, Inspiration and International, also a take on Third Eye).  Noelle riffed on her idea and incorporated The Three I's into The Imaginitas.  Love it!

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Here's how The Imaginista Format works:  

Each month one of us invents a challenge for everyone to take.  As we create our peice,  photographs are taken during the process to documented the journey.   Finally, we share our inspirations, process and our finished piece of art with one another (via a online Yahoo Group).  

Noelle came up with the first challenge:

Collect three or more things, images, etc., that inspire you and combine them into one piece of art.  Use any medium you want.

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Here is my mom's piece, Joy, a cornucopia of fluttering butterflies, created in Photoshop Elements.

This is her inspiration board:  A Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue, her silk scarf and a paper cocktail napkin someone had at a party she went to.

 

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Finally, my contribution is called Pierrette, created with acrylic paint and colored pencils on canvas.

This is my inspiration collage.

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Isn't it interesting how we each took one challenge and ran in our own different directions?  I adore that so much!

 

 Maybe this will inspire you in your work too??!!

 

xox

Constance