Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Paint Like a Child winners

Congrats to Stephanie Muth and Belen Sotelo....you have won a spot in the Paint Like a child journaling online class!! The drawing was done via a random number generator.

thank you so much for helping to spread the word about this class.

I did want to mention that I have had a couple folks say they were spammed and I think it was due to leaving your emails here....so that is why all the comments have been deleted. thanks for understanding and my apologies in case you were one of the ones that were sent a spam email.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Paint Like a Child journaling online class!!



It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael and a lifetime to paint like a child - Picasso
It is so true. Children are true artists in every sense of the word. They don't question themselves and have such a raw quality to how they create. To get back to that place of creating like a child is my ultimate goal as an artist. I believe through working in a journal, the walls are a bit broken down. I feel more at ease with playing and not worrying about the outcome. If I find myself getting to tight, I reach for my favorite tool!! (more about this in class!) 
I will be your guide through this childlike play and give you some tools....literal and figurative to achieve a looseness and rawness just as kids do. I still struggle with staying loose, but it is where I want to be. I don't think there is any right or wrong way to create art or journal. It is about bringing a child-like mind to the table and playing for the sake of playing. It's about getting quiet and listening to what we need to journal about. It is healing for us. We don't have to carry around all that makes up our past....or present for that matter. We can come to the page and release what is there....whether it be negative or positive. To release is to give life to the positive and bury the negative. That is the beauty of art. It fixes. It saves. It is my realm of sanity.
I'll give you lots of ideas and prompts to carry you through this journaling escape. Come with a child-like beginners mind and let's PLAY!!
Invite your kids to join you too!!

click here to-------->>> REGISTER
Details:
  • Class begins June 6, 2016 (self study after that date. sign up anytime)
  • Early Registration $35 now through May 16th.
  • Regular registration $49 starts May 17th.
  • 5 full projects (including 4 journal spreads and the cover)
  • new techniques and happy accidents
  • lifetime access (as long as I have this platform)
  • projects will post mondays, wednesdays, and fridays.
  • hashtag sharing on instagram (no FB group)
  • see how to enter DRAWING BELOW

Check out the teaser video!















Paint free and uninhibited!















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I need your help spreading the news about Paint Like a Child
  • I'm going to give away 2 spots. (if you've already signed up, no worries....if you win, I'll refund your money)
  • Please share this blog post link on your blog, pinterest, instagram, or Facebook
  • come back here and let me know - leave your name, email address, and how you shared
  • drawing will be done on April 27th, 2016 (also please leave your email on your comment so that I can send you an invitation to the class if you win)

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

I'm teaching in Colorado Springs in August


Check it out and register 

nner Radiant Child with Mindy Lacefield

2-day workshop
Aug 19th & 20th  10-5 each day (bring a lunch)
$250 class fee + $10 kit fee 

Join me as we revisit our 7 year old selves and the uninhibited play of creating! We will learn to let go and have fun as we get messy with color and mark making. We will paint intuitively and embrace the mistakes and happy accidents as they happen. Once those mistakes are brought forth we can celebrate and use them as a catalyst for direction. The work begins to speak to us. We react. We respond with quick movements and subtle mark making. We are here to create from a place of not worrying about the outcome. We aren’t bodies creating “something”. We are souls creating what’s inside, that which is wanting so desperately to get out. There is no better medicine and healing than finding yourself in a mark….in a combination of color….in a shape. We will explore and pull out that which you may not have known was inside!

We will play and get our hands messy in paint. My instruction is very intuitive with short break-out demos so that you can have plenty of time to play. I’ll show you specifics like how I paint faces and a couple different ways that you can pose your girl whether she be sitting on a cupcake or standing in a field of poppies.

Student Supply List  
(always check with Blue Twig for availability of supplies)
 
3-5 12x12” or 10x10” wood panels  (or anything you like working on. journal, watercolor paper, canvas, etc)
prismacolor graphite pencil - 6b or 8b
catalyst wedge - no 6 (gray)
white gesso
black gesso
charcoal
ephemera - old book pages, song books, old receipts, tissue paper
collage pauge or mod podge - matte
1" foam brushes 
set of brushes - I like hogs hair and dina wakley brushes
scissors
gallery neon pastels 
prismacolor colored pencils - a few of your favorite colors will be fine
foam stamps
white paint pen - water based
container for water, paper towels, palette paper (paper plates are fine), apron

paint colors:
any colors you love working with
paynes gray 
matte colors (I love---> green blue light, orange light, brilliant magenta, amethyst, white, sage blue)
heavy body white paint

$10 kit fee includes
stabilo graphite pencil
how to paint a face tutorial
painting prompts tutorial
bleeding art tissue
stamps to share
neon paint to share
quin. nickel azo gold
deli paper
ephemera to share
spray inks and paints to share
washi tape to share
glitter media to share
 
 
Mindy Lacefield
mindylacefieldart.com

Register by clicking this link or calling the shop. Note that this is a traveling teacher, so be sure to register early! 

   

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Beloved 20 drawing project

I have had a few folks request that this particular project be made available separately for purchase from the 24 Faces Project. (if you are in that class, this is included so please don't register. it's coming on friday as a bonus! yay!) But if you aren't in the 24 Faces Project and would like to create this girl she is available here. This class contains a 20 minute video with me walking you through each and every movement in real time. I hope you'll join in! 
https://goo.gl/Bu8mNO



Friday, April 1, 2016

New Journal work



I am feeling a need to get back into my journal.....and just staying off of all the different types of social media. This vulnerable feeling comes up every so often and it seems that Facebook is where I feel most raw and exposed. I sometimes feel too available...too at the tips of fingers...so I am coming here to share my art with you. To share my feelings the best way I know how.



It's at these times, I realize that I am evolving. I crave solitude in its most raw form. To be away from the influences....to create...to talk with The Creator.....to listen.....to void out all else. To escape into nature where I hear His voice more clearly. 

Have you ever felt this need?


I feel I am talking to God without words. Stillness (through mind) and working with paint (through hands) is how He likes to talk to me. And He sometimes shows up in words when I am open and flowing.


You see as a child....manipulation, fear, and guilt were utilized. And they are still trying their best to use them on me to this date. I am realizing that those things do not belong here. They are like a square peg trying to go into a round hole. I don't have to carry around worry. I do not have to carry around fear. I do not have to carry around guilt. I do not have to carry it around because it does not belong to me. These things dim the light with a veil of darkness that makes me sick to my stomach.

Yes, I have allowed it in the past....like it had my name all over it to fix.  I've been put in the middle of it (yes by my own allowing...I'll own that)...pulled between......"oh Mindy will say something that will fix everything".......and "oh if Mindy were here things would be different". I can't fix what needs to be fixed. I can pray. Geesh, sometimes I don't even know what to pray but I pray that I can pray what needs to be prayed. It is complicated and messy. It is a life that I grew up in and I refuse to let it be my life now. It is not mine. I have created a creative, lit, happy life.....where the light is shining.

I am carrying around this light and that square peg....well I don't even have to acknowledge it anymore. Because now I am free. Because of forgiveness. Because of the love of Christ. With Him there are only round holes of love. And I will love anyway. And I will Trust. I will continue this journey of life with Light.....and round holes....and love....and faith....and all the colors of the rainbow. Because this is the path he laid for me. What a detriment to follow a path of worry, drama, defeat, guilt, and shame when His path is so clear.

I love this quote from A Course in Miracles: "Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God".

Here are my reals:
Love
Art
Faith
Trust
Peace
Poodles... :-D
Talks with God through stillness and paint
Stillness
Nature

I'm holding up my reals and yelling as loud as I can.....these cannot be threatened!!!!


Here are some things you can do when you feel the gremlins and fear coming after you:

  • donate to a cause
  • send a friend a letter through the mail (or a package of neat stuff that they love)
  • go for a walk 
  • cuddle your animals (if you have them. if you don't go visit friends that have them. cuddle)
  • pray
  • paint and silence that voice
  • write and silence that voice
  • give a compliment to a stranger
  • buy the car behind you coffee
meanwhile those voices, gremlins, and fear don't know where or what to do because they don't belong in the above activities. They are immediately silenced!



Please share with me your reals and what you are grateful for in your life.....

Please also share with me, what happy things you do to ward off these fears and worries and gremlin voices.....