Walking a tightrope

This is for

Try it on Tuesday - tic-tac-toe

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Inspiration Avenue - Words

Thanks to Last Door Down The Hall and Land of Nod

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Contemplating passion

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.” 
― Aldous Huxley

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Lunagirl - Vintage red

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Inspiration Avenue - show and tell

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Undisturbed

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

Indra Devi

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Inspiration Avenue - purple

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Love Today

An incredible artist whose work is amazing is Stephanie Rubiano. 

"She is a mixed media artist who creates dimensional works within shadow boxes using a variety of uncommon objects. Her love of nature and fascination with Victorian photography is apparent through her combination of antique photographs and real butterfly or moth wings."
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So, inspired  by Rubiano's work, I created the piece above.

Visit her website!

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Art Journal Journey - Inspired by the Masters

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Three Muses

Inspirration Avenue -Using words to inspire your art

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Snow Goddess

"Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.” 
― Mary Oliver

For Inspiration Avenue - Winter

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Colors of Christmas

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. 
~Roy L. Smith

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Inspiration Avenue - colors of Christmas

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The way

“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Art Journal Journey - Collage

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Inspiration Avenue

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Inspired by Patrícia Ariel

Another artist I love is Patrícia Ariel. She is Brazilian like me. Patrícia Ariel on her art:

“Whenever I wanted answers or inspiration for life and art, it was not in the mundane or in the ordinary life that I looked for them, but in the unlimited world of my inner reality. This world, inhabited by mysterious places and people, has its own stories, its own rules, its own wisdom. I am only the storyteller.

I think of my art as a celebration of the human experience in what they have of sacred and profane. To me, there is nothing more fascinating than the mystery; this is the basic source of all my reflections and explorations. In my work I constantly investigate the point of contact between the physical and the reality of dreams, spirituality, and abstract concepts. Themes like transformation and transitions, the human duality, spiritual and emotional experiences, and the ties of man with nature and the raw forces of life are often explored. Since I focus primarily on the female figure, I can say that my work is also about the female experience according to my own vision of the feminine: power, creation, energy, witchcraft, life. The characters I create embody forces of nature. They are sorceresses, ethereal beings, bearers of darkness and light.”

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Below you can see some of her paintings:

Here you find more about Patrícia Ariel.

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Art Journal Journey

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Inspiration Avenue

Here is the photo I used to create my work.

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The roads that took me to Mr Frost

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Moomania - trees

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Inspiration Avenue - seasons

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A Woman

A woman should be an illusion. 

Ian Fleming

For Take a Word - White Space

Inspiration Avenue - Purple,orange, green and black

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Art Every Day Month

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B stands for Beauty

“Names have power.” 
― Rick Riordan

For Inspiration Avenue - Monograms

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Art Every Day Month

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Love & Compassion

I have been quite inspired lately and journaling is a passion. I caught myself thinking about love and compassion: two rare feelings in a world where so many forgot where their hearts are.We can't live without both feelings: the first makes us walk without our feet and the second makes us touch the other with our hearts. My mother and father taught me both and I am grateful to them because they have made my life more meaningful.

For Inspiration Avenue - Show & Tell

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A La Svenja Jodicke

Inspiration Avenue challenged us to create something in the style of our favourite artist but I love many artists so I chose Svenja Jodicke. She was born in Germany and uses watercolor techniques in her paintings.

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Happy Fall

Here is my card for the Cheerful Stamp Pad this week.We would love you to join in the challenge which is Fall Leaves so click on the link to play along with us and see what the rest of the team did. My card is also for:

Ooh la la creations challenges - Inspired by nature

Crafty Boots - Falling leaves/ Halloween

Ruby's rainbow - autumn leaves

Crafty Catz - autumn.

Jelly Park Friends - Autumn/ Fall

Inspiration Avenue - Fall

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An unexpected meeting

Blind folk see the fairies.
Oh, better far than we,
Who miss the shining of their wings
Because our eyes are filled with things
We do not wish to see.

Rose Fyleman

For Inspiration Avenue - red, brown & yellow

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Some women aren't meant to be tamed

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them” 
 Candace Bushnell

For Inspiration Avenue - Words


Wordart- Last Door Down The Hall

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Seasons of Hope

It is weird to think about autumn when spring has just started here. I think fall stands for hope and preparation: Mother Earth is almost ready for her annual slumber ( winter) and hope because it is a time for counting our blessings before hibernation. Maybe this tag doesn't do justice to the beauty of autumn but when I created it I could only think of the warmth of spring and how much I love fairies. 

For Moomania

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Haunted Humpday

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Inspiration Avenue


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Tag Along

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I love Chelin Sanjuan!

"...the art of Chelin Sanjuan stands out for its polished technique. Her drawing is clean, with steady and secure lines, while dynamic, showing a balanced and serene usage of color, mainly warm tones. She copes with easiness in the most realistic pictorial lines, but also in more imaginative and surrealist fields. Each painting is an unique world, magical, intimate, with hidden elements and transparent shapes that mix with softness.

The characters -women, children and animals, particularly cats- that appear in her paintings have an interesting close relationship between them, always showing a small point of humor. Figurative art, of sharp and polished shapes, but delicate in the topics and always lively in the contents, without doubt a very personal style, not influenced by gestural and pseudodecorative artistic trends. "A flower in the deserts", I thought the first time I saw her works."

J. L Bonet

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Chelin Sanjuan was born on May 1st, 1967 in Zaragoza, Spain. 

About her painting style, her surrealist and hyperrealism trends, moved on to some kind of magic realism, mixing reality with fantasy, old elements and new ones, with an optimistic and fresh narrative, full of messages, that give to her paintings a characteristic touch.

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Chelin Sanjuan is one of my favourite artists. I love her delicate surreal paintings

For Inspiration Avenue - Favourite Artist



Original painting

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Happy!!!!!!!!!!

It was my friend's wedding last Saturday and we took this photo to celebrate our happiness. So here is my positive affirmation: I am happy for her. It was an unforgettable moment for all of us. She is the one with red hair. I am on the right, wearing blue. My daughter is right beside me on the background too. We were making faces in a photo booth. We laughed a lot! Everybody took photos in the booth with the bride and the groom and the photo was a gift from them to the guests.

 We five have been friends for such a long time and I am grateful for having them in my life. My affirmation is from a song called "Happy". Below is the video.

For Inspiration Avenue - Positive Affirmations

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Don't tell me the moon is shining

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” 
― Anton Chekhov

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Inspiration Avenue - Moonlight

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