BE HAPPY DAMN IT!

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD 

~Claudia Black Ph.D, M.S.W

Sometimes our Mixed Media Art is "pretty,"  Sometimes it is "ugly,"  Sometimes it is "curious."  But the reality is it is always OURS.

And the JOY of Mixed Media is that it is DEEP and it is about LEARNING and it is about FREEDOM of EXPRESSION, whether that be with the pen, the marker, the gels, the knives, the paints and on and on and on.

The best part of Mixed Media is that it gets to be REAL.  Yes, really REAL - real in its HURT, real in its LOVE, real in its QUESTIONS and real in its STATEMENTS.

On that note...

To free yourself from the past, you must break the rules of silence and compliance. C.B

One needs to walk through the pain,
not over it,
not around it.
You never again have to walk through it alone. C.B.

Feelings are from your heart and what your heart wants to tell you. C.B.

Feelings are to be listened to = they are cues and signals that indicate where you are and what you need. C.B.

Yesterday, this picture came out of me.  Bizarre as it was...it was in front of me...it's a big picture - I advise you to take it in slowly lest it trigger you.  It is truly a "yester-year" picture for me - but up the spiral of life we always go if we are being authentic and sharing the truth!  Art can be that way when we least expect it!  Mixed Media is a place where I've learned this is what authenticity is all about in the artist's way...

Lovies, Samara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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