Author: Cheryl

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Perfect is Not Going to Happen

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I had it wrong. For so many years, I thought that I had to work hard to be perfect and then everything would fall into place. Ha! So many things are great about getting older. Perfectionism gets replaced with other more joyful things such as: honesty, passion, laughter. Giving up on being perfect is freeing! I suppose it is like an art journey. You start out wanting to paint the perfect realistic painting. Then as you gain strength with your art, it becomes less ‘perfect’ and much more fun and expressive. Yes! So I hope for you too, in life and and art, that the journey becomes more and more fun and expressive. Perfect is not going to happen, and that is more than okay! 
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So Much Creative Fun!

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Just loving the group of students this week in the Wet & Wild class! Paint pourings galore – so much colour – so much fun. I’ll try to have some photos for you next week. And, yes, we really did need the gold foil that happens to be around certain types of chocolates. 🙂 
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Square Foot Show – Westland Gallery

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I’m looking forward to the Square Foot Show Opening – this Friday July 17 at 7:30 pm. I will have 3 paintings in the show, including the one featured here. I’m also happy that so many of my students and previous students are participating in this show. Hope that you can drop in to see the art and say hi. If you can’t make the opening, the show continues until August 15 at Westland Gallery in Wortley Village. 
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Talking To Yourself – It’s Good!

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I don’t do it all the time, but I have actually come to understand that talking through something out loud – yes – to myself, can help to clarify things. Here’s an interesting article. It mentions this, and other times that talking to yourself can be useful. It can even indicate an intelligent person who is more independent! Sounds good to me – literally. Here’s the article: “People Who Talk to Themselves Aren’t Crazy, They Are Actually Geniuses” from Elite Daily. 
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David & Goliath

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This is a first for me on the blog – and I know it is way outside the box – but I want to recommend a book to you. It’s called “David and Goliath – Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” by Malcolm Gladwell. I have read one of his earlier works, “Blink”. It was okay, but it did not have anywhere near the impact that this new book has. The insights that Gladwell gives about people, movements, and revolutions will definitely make you think. Touching on many renegades, from the Impressionists (yes, there is an art connection), to Martin Luther King, to what happened in Northern Ireland, I have rarely read a book that was so captivating. Warning: some of the stories are completely gut wrenching, and I did cry at more than one of the accounts, but think that I came away with a better understanding of this crazy world we live in.