I wanted to write a post that was insightful. One where I talked about my situation and my feelings. I cannot do that because it would take me all day to do so and I have children to teach this morning a trail hike with friends this afternoon! Too long at the computer puts everything else on hold and it doesn’t really matter what all of the details are, really, I just need to get on with my day. 🙂

So here it is: yesterday, I quit my job.

From now on I will be making art at home and home educating my children while my husband works from home (going on his third year). It’s a big step and just a wee bit scary. That little bit of extra money was nice to have. A little something guaranteed to come in every two weeks. Stephen is totally behind me and the boys are excited. I have a good friend here and a good friend here and others online and off who have been supportive of my art throughout the past year as I’ve delved back into things.They have been my backbone and I am so thankful.

I’ve written posts here and here and here about following my path, the one I set out for myself this time around, this lifetime.

So here goes, no more leaving the house to work for someone else (I will miss talking shop though and I do have four more shifts). I will be following my passion on my terms and on my schedule and that is so, so very exciting – and scary too, but it’s traversing those scary parts successfully that help us to grow exponentially.

And to start things off, I made myself create something for a group show opening tomorrow night. I had five days to paint and I made myself take the challenge. It’s definitely a good  super-amazing way to start this new life of mine.

The name of the show is Permafrost. Permafrost_SHOWThe theme is winter and how we perceive it. I seem to be on to creating a series of paintings entitled Moonsong, for the four seasons. It just happened that way because I LOVE the moon and looking out at the stars at night and seeing the moon hanging out there with them all, well, that’s just totally cool and magically inspirational!

I’ve been showing this process in previous posts (I know, this post has a lot of links!) and here is the last bit of it. I am finding that drawing on tracing paper is very handy for temporarily placing drawings on a painting. The white pastel pencil is great on dark surfaces.

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I smile inside and out as the boys call me over as I write this part and I say to them, ‘not now’, and they say, ‘the moon, the moon, you can see it outside right now!’. And I’m out of my chair to see a beautiful waning gibbous moon, glowing through the blue morning sky with my boys beside me. Perfect. Thank you, boys, you are so wonderful!

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So much for my short post. 🙂

Happy creating (your own life)! xx

 

 

18 Comments

  3. Autumn M

    wowowow and yaaay!
    to follow your true calling, to give that gift to your boys! just glorious. i wish upon you a ton of moon blessings to light your way.
    lovely work, that girl opening her heart and voice to the moon.

    1. moongirl

      Dawn, thank you! You have always been a big supporter and when you said you wanted to see all of my art that I’d done from the year you were away, that meant so much to me! Love love!

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