Creative Life A thru Z I is for Imagination

The Creative Life A thru Z 

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~I is for Imagination 

 Week Ten

I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who have joined me in this healing journey of creating a more creative life. 

It's been fun for me to come up with activities for each letter of the alphabet. I have so many ideas that they don't all make it on this blog but are written in my printed pages.  I'm sure by the end of this project it will all be filled with fun activities and helpful projects so everyone can live a greater expression of their own creativity. 

       I is for Imagination

" The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere." 

Terence McKenna

I love the idea of a golden pathway. 

Just like the Wizard of OZ walking on the yellow brick road. 

For me, it has been about curiosity, that is the seed of imagination. 

Asking questions begins a whole snow ball of ideas. 

Golden path to a new vision, journal page Jean Hart

Change.

 I've felt the strong sense of change since the Eclipses!! 

What has been happening for me is a lot of questions about my beliefs, my work, my life. 

It of course starts with what do you want your life to look like. 

How will you get there, and When. The When is important to me especially because I like deadlines. But, then again, maybe that's something I might think about changing. ....

Art Journal Assignment: 

What's on your Golden Path

1. In your art journal, arrange your page to make a golden path. 

It can be straight, crooked, up, down, across.  Anyway YOU want it. 

2. Next, create all the things you want to experience along your path.

3. Create landscapes, texture, people, places, things.

4. Let go and IMAGINE!!

Writing Journal Assignment:

"It's Here...!"

1. Complete this sentence. 

2. Write a page of what your imagination has brought to you on your Golden Path. 

3. The imagination works on all your senses, try to use words that help express the whole experience. The more verbs the better for this assignment. 

I is for Informed

 Change the channel, and watch something you have never seen before. 

This week, change how you get your information. 

Pick up a new magazine, new genre in books and movies. 

See if you can do this once a day for 7 days. 

I is for Ice Cream

Summers not over where I live. 

According to Baskin Robbins there is 31 flavors of ice cream.  I have yet to try them all. 

So, before the summer is over I plan on trying a few new flavors. 

How about you? 

Meditation is one of the purest ways for me to get in touch with my true self. 

Just before creating I sit in nature and be still. 

This helps me open my mind to all new ideas. 

Last week I went up to Lamoille Canyon for a last summer picnic. I made a video of sitting by the stream listening to the water. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmtu1hINgUY&t=23s

Please enjoy, relax, and 

As always, have fun with this. 

Be inspired, 

~jean 

The Big Question

The Creative Life A thru Z

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Falling In Love , Jean Hart 

Big Question ???

What's the best part of your life right now? 

Sometimes taking time to reflect on your life is the best way to judge how you are doing. 

I know when I put deadlines on my calendar like appointments it keeps me on track. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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The Creative Life A thru Z ~D is for Drama

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The Big Questions?

Something to think about.......

Artwork by Jean Hart 

D is for Drama

Did you kiss someone today? 

Think about this and then in your journal 

Write the first sentence in your autobiography.

Be Inspired,
~jean 

Essential Imagination

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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. "

 Edward Hopper 

So true, when you need a little imagination, What do you do? 

I doddle!

Yes, just holding the pencil in my hand sometimes helps me to come up with something imaginative. 

I'm back to line drawing. 

What a fun way to doddle when you just need some inspiration.

Be inspired,
Currently in progress is the curriculum for
The Creative Life A thru Z

~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z week four

The Creative Life A thru Z

 week Four

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What's cooking 

C is for Cooking

Recently, I had a visit with my brother and his daughter.

She had just graduated from high school and

 was on a summer vacation with her dad to visit us,

 and see our grandson.

 We were planning our meals for the week,

 when the conversation lead to our favorite childhood foods. 

We settled on Mom's potatoes salad. 

A truly wonderful dish that says summer. 

We made our grocery list

 and came home

to prepare the potato salad for the next days barbecue.

Mom never wrote down her recipes, to our frustration,  

she just added a little of this and a little of that. 

Isn't is funny how we all remember things differently? 

Between the both of us we managed to make this family favorite 

and come up with a close enough recipe of Mom's potato salad that it inspired family stories.  

Memories in the kitchen are a great way to share your life stories with others. 

This weeks assignment :

C is for Cooking 

1. Sit quietly and remember a time when you were enjoying your favorite childhood food. 

2. Look at your weeks menu and see if you can make it this week. 

3. Share in the actual cooking with family and friends. 

4. Enjoy the meal, and share the history of this favorite childhood food with family and friends. 

Journal Work

CIRCLES

Better Together, by artist  Jean Hart 

1. In your journal start to draw circles. Circles of all sizes,  fill up the page with circles.

The circles can be touching, inside each other, or separate.  

2.Now, with your art supplies, pens, marker, paints. 

Fill in the circles with color.

3. Note which colors you used most, or which color is the most pleasing to you. 

How are you responding to particularity colors? 

Do you have a favorite color?

COLOR Therapy 

Color therapy is an interesting subject. 

I have read many books on this and studied the color wheel for painting. 

I came across this website about the Psychology of Color.

Since, I'm doing a sampling of my curriculum here with you  online,

 I thought I would share this website with you here. 

https://www.colorpsychology.org/

Cook Books
Do you have a favorite cookbook?
Reading recipes makes me feel like a chemist. 
I'm a very good cook! Why? 
Because I follow the recipes. 
Break out your favorite cookbook, 
or good to a second hand store and find an old time cookbook that's
been very well used. 
Here is a cookbook from a restaurant I'm hoping to visit in my travels. 
jeanhartartists.blogspot.com/2016/08/eating-at-the.html

Two Minutes in Nature, bubbling stream 
Take two minutes to simply breathe deeply and imagine putting your feet in a cool stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-bU5fP96nA&t=45s

As always, be inspired, and  have fun with the assignments. 

~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z -Summertime

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Summertime

Summer Time, Spring Creek Marina by Jean Hart 

It's Official, 

It's Summer

 where I live. 
Summer time fun!!

While I look at my Calendar

 I can see that June is just about over! 

I don't want to miss one day of summer. 

So, I'm putting together a summertime fun list. 

I'm wishing you a very happy, healthy, fun summer. 

Share some of your most fun summer activities here. 

I think making a sand castle at the beach sounds fun. 

Here is a really High Energy Meditation for today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeDd1xtrHg

Be Inspired, Be Creative, Be YOU

~jean 

Journal Work

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How long has it been since you did 

journal work?

Over the years my journals have taken on many different forms.

Scetch books, lined books, and blank pages. 

What I find is that if I'm away from my journal too long, my mind gets easily cluttered. 

As an artist I am always looking for new ideas. I want my artwork to be new and fresh. I was reading about Whistler, he was concentrating on composition and balance in grey and black. This made me think that it's been a long time since I have done black ink work. This little piece is what I call doodling. But I can see how this might be a real piece on canvas with black paint and maybe red hearts. 

One of my new things is to sit outside now that I have the time to really enjoy nature. 

I have started to meditate ourtside in nature for only two minutes and would like to share this with you. 

Just to relax and breath deeply while looking at nature is so calming and centering. It is a wonderful to begin the day or end a day. 

Please enjoy my video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2XkA23_IJU

Be Inspired,

~jean 

Take Me To The Wonderlands

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Today's Assignment is to write a poem and paint a picture. 

Rainbow Forest, by artist Jean Hart 

Take Me To The Wonderlands 

Be Jean Hart 

Take me to the River,

to the wild side of life,

where I can see how 

dreams come true,

If only I believed. 

Take me to the wild wind,

and let it pull me up.

Where I can see the landscapes of

all diversity. 

Take me to the mountain face,

it's rocks are fragile but solid, 

 Where I can feel faith, 

while swing from the mountain tops,
on thin breaded threads. 

Take me to the wonderlands,

the place where silence lives,

where I can learn to speak 
the language of Gods love. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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The time of day

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When you start wandering where did my day go?

 It's time to sit down and make your organized "to do list". 

What are the things you put on your list? 

For me it starts with appointments and phone calls.

1. Work, getting in the studio is hard some days, but each day I must find time to do so.

Even if that mean only 30 min. of cleaning up the art table.

2. Errands.  I live out of town so I try to only go once or twice a week. These are things like Banking, Post Office, stores, even going out to lunch and spa appointments fall into this category. 

3. Shopping for food. I keep an on going list so when I'm out I can pick something up.

4. Shopping for the house or clothes. Yes, this gets it's own to do time.

5. Home. House work is always scheduled in each day just to keep up on it.

Each day of the week has it's own room.

6. Education. I take many on line classes so I have to schedule time for being on the computer.

7. Personal. This is anything from meditation, exercise, to reading, home spa, and relaxing

I'm sure there are lots more items you can add to this list. 

But I don't like to get too tied to the time schedule because for me everything seems to take much longer then planned and before I know it the day is gone. 

Be Inspired,

~ jean 

How do you like your regular coffee?

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Doodle Cup by Jean Hart 

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New York City,

smart games

Question

When New Yorkers order a regular coffee, they want it:

A. Black 

B. Black with sugar

C. with milk and sugar 

D. With milk, no sugar

Answer C.

With milk and sugar 

Regular coffee ordered not from a barista but "to go" from a harried waiter in a New York coffee shop, means with milk and sugar. This can be quite confusing to tourists from Chicago, where regular means black and Boston, where regular connotes, "milk, no sugar." But toss in a "poppy with shmear", (a poppy seed bagel with cream cheeses) and you've got a nice little New Your breakfast .

Wow, I never knew there was so many ways to order a regular coffee. Which is what I say when I want a black cup of coffee. 

However, a little "shmear" of cream cheese is always a good idea on any type of bagel. 

How do you order your coffee? 

A drawing from the Soul

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Be Kind, Be caring, Be Compassionate 

To Yourself 

One line drawing

We all have a song in us. Maybe even a poem.

But what I feel inside myself is that I will always have a drawing inside myself.

If you were to take a pencil and listen to inspirational music and just start moving the pencil along.

What do you think you would draw?

I think it is something from your soul.

I believe when you do this little exercise you will be surprised to see that you have created something from deep down in your heart. 

The point of this exercise is to not let the pencil come off the page.

You can listen to music and close your eyes and just let your hand be guided or you can purposely make a drawing. The one rule is not to leave the pencil/paper connection.

After you are done with your masterpiece, fill it in if you wish, 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Making a few friends

Be kind to yourself

Make a few friends

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There's always time to make friends. 

Have you ever heard the saying, 

"If you can count your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky person."

How do you make new friends? 

Today's challenge:

draw your friends.

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Be Kind, Be Caring, Be Compassionate to yourself

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Be Kind, Be caring, Be compassionate to yourself

Oh, to fall in love.....

It's not for just a person, but with your life.

Open your heart, love is in front of you not behind you.

It's possibilities, opportunities, and chances.

Open the door, step out into the world.

Love is out there.

"In the end all we have is love and memories."

Anonymous.

What will you do today to make memories?

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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an ounce of prevention

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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."  Proverb

So, it's never too late to get moving, and lose weight.

Getting health starts at any age. 

However, it's probably better to get started before a major life change is needed. 

What is your motivation to get moving? 

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Planning, plotting, and engaging

Soul Song, acrylic, Jean Hart

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. " 

William Morris 

 Do you ever feel like things have passed you by, that it might be too late to do something you were dreaming about? 

I think It's never too late for most things. 

Making plans, is one of my favorite things to do.

Looking forward to events, trips, visits can help you get through a hard day.

With something to look forward to, kinda gives you hope.

If planning sounds hard or not sure where to start. 

Start small, simple, just plan out one day at a time.

Later, you can plan for a whole week, or even a month.

The bigger your plans get the more time you will need for the preparing. 

So, think ahead, plan with care, and have fun.

I'm planning to enter two art judged and jury art shows this Fall.

I have to start planning now because first, they each have separate themes and second, I want to go to the receptions and they are both out of town. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Jean Hart Artwork Fall edition

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This weeks Art O Mat blocks. 

I have started my Fall editions.

If you see anything you like and would like me to paint a larger painting please contact me.

I'm happy to take commission work.

Please like and share

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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What my Soul wants me to Know

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What my Soul Wants me to Know
Soul coaching 
by Denise Linn 

Today's card is 
Embracing
"I embrace and love all of my life."

Once again the perfect card has come to me.
Card meaning: embrace all of your life, both the dark and the light. 
"The path to wholeness is through accepting and embracing all parts of yourself. 

Every experience you've had, even the ones that you thought were bad, was important for your spiritual journey. "

Of course, we are everything we have choosen up to this time.

My embracing has come at the beginning of the year when I wrote on my 2016 journal.

Title page: This will be the best year of my life.

How does that come to past? 

Planning, plotting, engaging, and embracing life. 

I have more peace this year by moving physically.

Not so much physical exercise but planning each day to accomplishing tasks. (Tasks, things that were important to me to make my life better.)

Because the last couple of years have been more about physical therapy, having only a few steps for each day meant I had to plan how I would spend them. 

I didn't want that to be the only movement I did this year.

 I have embraced chores. 

For me right now there is nothing better then first, a clean home, 

second, a organized home, and thirdly, having more time because I have taken care of my home.

I can now truly say this affirmation with complete honesty.

"I embrace and love all of my life." 

What part of your life are you embracing? 

If you were not raised by Martha Stewart I found this website helpful. 

http://www.pullingcurls.com/2015/10/things-smart-moms-do-create-a-cleaning-schedule.html 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Beach days are here

Spring Creek Marine, Jean Hart 

Summer is here!!

Just last week it was raining and cold, but now we are in the 90's.

This summer I have put on my calendar a few days at the beach.

I am so fortunate to live by a marina with a beach.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Be Kind, Be caring, Be compassionate to yourself

Fire, Jean Hart Artwork

Be kind, be caring, be compassionate  Therapy,

Sometimes you just have to feel the pain. Feel the angry and feel the hurt.

Once you have decide how you want to handle it. 

Some feelings you may want to take actions on, others you may only want to accept them for what they are. 

Whatever way is best for you,

express it, feel it, grow with it. 

Be Inspired,

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Summertime art

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Art O Mat Block

Welcome Summer.

I just love summer. It's a time to sit outside and soak up the sun.

Now that I have my studio redone, it's been a pleasure to get in there and paint.

Here are the latest blocks going out to

Art O Mat 

Be Inspired,

~jean

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