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When You Hit The Finish Line

Today is day 90 of my Non-Negotiable health and fitness journey. I completed the 90 days of the first level and I am excited about staying the course for the second level. I made the commitment and followed till the finish line.

I invested in me and got awesome returns on my investment. Life will always give us the opportunity to reset our life and the directions we are going. It is up to us to accept the challenges that are presented in order to move forward and upward to new levels of insight.

As artist this applies to our art as well. We are always exploring new directions, new heights to make our work better than the last time, more interesting than the last time, better lighting than the last time. Whether it is painting, drawings, or photography as artist we always look for ways to make it better than the last time. New concepts, new directions while staying on course in our endeavor to create our art.

Life is about change, and change is about growth which in the end is the investment we make in ourselves that brings us great returns.

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This is a sketchbook drawing and watercolor painting we did while traveling.

6 X 8 Watercolor and Pen Blue,Green, Yellow, White, Brown, Blue-Green — 6 X 8
Watercolor and Pen
Blue,Green, Yellow, White, Brown, Blue-Green

What Is Your Non-Negotiable

Finally we are about to say hello Spring and good-bye Winter. It was 81 degrees today and the sun was a welcome relief from all the cold weather. For the past 90 days I have been on a journey of being non-negotiable about my health.

What that meant to me was no excesses for not eating healthy or working out every day regardless of how tired I was, how many meetings I had, how many new clients, how many paintings..etc.

You might say “well that seems to be easy enough” until you’re doing your workouts at 11:00 pm because you were in meetings all day or painting all day. Until you are tested on this goal of “by any means necessary” of doing what you know you should be doing anyway then and only then do you realize what being non-negotiable really means.

This can apply to many aspects of life. I made it my goal to paint everyday, regardless of how I feel about it at the time, or take photography everyday which means taking my camera everywhere I go because you never know when that perfect shot will happen.

What is has shown me is that life is non-negotiable with all its ups and downs, we must show up everyday and see how it will unfold…..no excuses accepted…show up

This print is part of the Landscape Gallery at http://chinue.imagekind.com/Landscapes

2015 The Year Of Open Doors and New Normals

It’s a brand new year 2015. This is the first blog of the year with many more adventures to follow. This is the year of open door and new normals for your life……what does that mean you say???? What you want in your life on a continued base as normal, not just the first few weeks in a new year.

A new normal is living your life to the fullest with love, joy, peace, wellness, health, prosperous and happiness. 2015 the year of greater opportunities so when the door opens walk through it without fear and without worry that things will not work out.

For us the new normal is the first art exhibit of the year at the end of this month (Jan) the first painting of the year working on the concept which is a Music Theme The first visit to the Doctor which showed we had lost 12 lbs since the last time they saw us which is always good, so we continued with our walking today 3.8 miles….as the body screamed it’s cold even though we were bundled up with layers of clothing…..oh well we got it done.

So what will 2015 bring you that you will declare is going to be the new normal in life not just for the new year……..we have 52 weeks, 365 days of brand new chapters of a new normal so make it happen…….

Well thanks for starting off the year with me, be sure to like our page, share our page, leave a comment we read them all and follow us on this new normal journey.

Our art work can be seen at http://chinue.imagekind.com/ and we will be posting this first art works right before the exhibit so you can be the first to see it……..

The photo is called Stray Cat , Digital as you can see they were not moved by me or my camera…..

HOW IS YOUR 2014 ENDING

Once again we are at the point coming to the end of another year. This year our focus was more studio working hours, more paintings, more exhibits and completing my first Art book. Well we did what we set out to do. All in all it turned out to be a good year for us and it looks like 2015 is going to be an even better year.

We have one exhibit so far in January 2015 and so many ideas as far as more paintings and designs. My sketch book is over flowing with so much for the up coming year.

As we come to the middle of December, and everyone is running around trying to finish up Christmas shopping….lets stay focused on the real meaning of holidays……family, friends and reconnecting to ones inner voice.

We all have the ability to create a better place, as artist we show ours in the form of paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture, singing, movies. Art is our avenue of opening doors to creating more beauty, more inspiring works, more togetherness.

I so enjoy reading and looking at so many of your works of art and you have no idea how you have encouraged me with my own journey of art and for that I say “thank you”.

You can see more of our works at http://chinue.imagekind.com/
Art is a wonderful gift this time of year and a lasting gift which does not lose value as time goes on.

Artist you are the shinning light in the world…….create and let your lights shine bright. Have a wonderful holiday season and look forward to our January 2015 writings. Thank you for liking our page, follow us and please feel free to leave comments we really do read them……

Lighting The Way

When we went to the punkin patch there were some that were not ready to be picked yet. The sign said they would be ready in about a week. This was one of the fields that you could go and pick your own.

The people who run the patch seem to know when to plant seeds so these punkin know exactly when to come up right in time for Halloween and seasonal holidays. Nature at it’s best knows when it’s time……”To everything there is a season”.

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PUMKIN PATCH

Finding Beauty In Not So Obvious Places

Unexpected Beauty In Running Water Unexpected Beauty In Texture Unexpected Beauty Inside A Plant Unexpected Beauty Inside A Sleeping Plant Unexpected Beauty Trees Reaching Towards Heaven The focus this month is finding beauty in not so obvious places like Textures, Trees reaching towards the ski, Running water, Inside sleeping plants, Inside thorny plants…..our purpose is to show there is unfounded beauty in everything around us…..we just have to look for it………. we will be doing mostly Photography…….

I hope you enjoy it. Please leave a comment (we really do read them), and follow me on my journey of art………..

FLOUR OR FLOWER (CONT)

We are continuing the Art Relation study of Flour and Flower……….follow us, leave a comment because we do read them and like out page……….This is taken with a digital 35mm with a long lens, no flash. The original flower photo was taken last year on our visit to the Flower Fields in California…..The cake is white cake with lemon icing……