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"She wandered away from the ball... into the shadows with the key, secretly wishing she could really take flight, just like the pretty creatures she was about to set free"
A new painting to share today and a peek into my studio where another winged creature is currently in creation ...I just can't wait to see how she looks when she's finished and then I will tell you the magical story of how she originally came into being!
Its Friday and its time for this week's new Free Printable Jounal Page! Number four in my series. To read more about this project please CLICK HERE!
Have the happiest weekend, let your cage door open, print this pretty out and write down all your thoughts about setting your heart free!
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Moon Veil. Copyright Shae reid 2012
Moon Veil is a painting I finished this last week. I wanted to express the beautiful and sometimes torturous cycle of what I and so many women pass through on a monthly basis. Layers, feelings, emotions , joy, ups and downs. Things that need to be expressed, shared, written down, thought about, meditated upon, birthed a new, celebrated and worked through.
Sometimes feelings, pain and emotions that seem to have a hold over you, that you can't shake away or control. Sometimes we need to be very still, listen and think about these and why they are present.
I especially wanted to share this after being given the gift of watching an amazing film called The Moon Inside You ... a film that questions, raises myths about, challenges taboo's, asks the world about and celebrates the female cycle and the gift of life it can utimately bring.
A must share with your daughter ... and even your partner ... to understand you a little better! You can watch a preview HERE!!!!
I have spent my week painting angels and birds and girls with pink bubbles so I decided it would be only fitting to make this week's free printable journal page a winged theme!
My writing on this page will be about soaring with my creative wings ...what will you choose to write about?... Growing Wings, Lifting off, Soaring High into new adventures? Listening to your Angels or asking for their guidance? Print it out and tell them everything your heart wants to say...
Flying this one over to the right side of my blog to join the others under the heading "Free Printables" and do subscribe to the Butterfly Collector if you would like to receive one in your inbox each week! A happy weekend to all!
confetti blossom. copyright Shae Reid 2011
Last November I embarked on a new creative journey when I signed up to start Rachael Taylor and Beth Nicholl's new DO WHAT YOU LOVE online course in Surface Pattern Design.
In a couple of weeks I start Module 2 of this amazing course with these amazing women and I am completely blown away by what I have learned in such a short time. A whole new world of colour and creativity has opened up to me using my computer and photoshop as tools to turn my drawings and paintings into repeatable patterns and new designs. I just can't wait to learn more!
And to further inspire me and fuel the fire to create even more I had the wonderful surprise of waking up this morning to find a couple of my designs featured (with my amazing fellow very talented students from all over the world)on the most wonderful PRINT AND PATTERN BLOG! Thankyou to Marie and Beth and Rachael for your wonderful support and encouragement!
Blooming in Lilac. Copyright Shae Reid 2011
And life is busy...I have coupled this course with another of Beth's DO WHAT YOU LOVE courses to turn all this creativity into a thriving creative business! This week I have thrown my heart and soul into class with mixed media artist Kelly Rae Roberts and have started HELLO SOUL HELLO BUSINESS! I just can't wait to see what creations, people and life changing AHA moments turn up next!
Musical Birds In Raspberry. Copyright Shae Reid 2012
A whole week has gone by and its time to write another journal entry. Here is my second Free Printable Journal Page for you to download to your computer. I hope you enjoyed using the last week's one and that it prompted you to write insightful and imaginative thoughts. This week's page in pink and blues and greys is all about wondering!
Wondering what to do tomorrow, next week, next year? Where you will travel, who you would like to meet, what you would like to create next! Or maybe you are wondering and wandering in daydreams of being brave ...in costume, in love, in adventure ...write it all down ... a single word, a sentance, a quote that inspires you or a whole page of prose! I would love to know your thoughts, if you would like to share?
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Dreaming Of Pancakes. Copyright Shae Reid 2012
"Deep in the forest of her imagination, she slumbered and dreamt vividly that her bird friends would present her with a breakfast of pancakes with icecream and mayple syrup on her awakening"
This new painting will be available soon in my etsy shop as a print and card. Later today I will post my second Free Journal Page Printable!
the wise expedtion. angela petsis
Some Art finds and their creators I am smitten by and smiling with today...
Above ... Angela Petsis makes me want to jump into all of her colours and hues and dream...you can find her wonderfulness HERE!
Under the influence of butterflies. Vivienne Strauss
The Miss Vivienne Strauss has me smiling at all of her fabulous oils ... you can find her and all her quirky paintings and their titles HERE!
Transmission.Valerie Roybal
And Valerie Roybal is my latest inspiring find on my darling FLICKR ...you can see her wonderous collage HERE!
So much inspiration and now back to that crazy painting I am making with the birds cooking me pancakes for breakfast in my forest four poster bed! ...will show you soon!
Postcard. Shae Reid 2012
Hello 2012!!! Happy New Year!!!
I have been inspired to create a new project for myself this year and thought it would be a wonderful idea to include you in it too. I have missed making collages and art journal pages in the last twelve months, as I have been concentrating on painting illustrations for this amazing book that will be published this year. I am also currently enrolled in a magical course in which I am learning how to make collages, patterns and design in photoshop too.
And so I am setting myself a project for the year to play, to experiment, to learn and to create...
This is "POSTCARD"... my first Free and Printable Journal Page for the year. Please print it out along with me onto some lovely smooth paper or card and we are going to write a time travelling Postcard to ourselves sent through space and dated at December 2012. We can tell ourselves all about the amazing year we have had, the things we have acheived and goals and wishes we have completed! You can place it somewhere you can see it or stick it into your own journal. Look at it often to inspire you to take action to make these dreams happen, ask the universe to guide you and imagine your possibilities for 2012!
To print it out ...click on the image and right click to save it or download it on to your chosen computer file and then print from there...
My hope is to present one of these weekly here on my blog, with a quote, idea or thought to prompt us to think and write and dream, let our inner child out to play and take action to make our most wildest dreams come true too!
I will also post each one on the right hand side of my blog page under the heading "Free Printables" ...just in case you miss one or would like another! And of course feel free to write whatever you desire on them too, there's no strict rules to follow my suggestions! I do hope you will join me?
Please Note ... for personal use only. Copyright Shae Reid 2012
