Wisdom Painting

From the Stars , Digital Media Copyright Rush Gravelle. I have a video for my poured paint project all ready to go. iMovie is not cooperating with me to get it published. So, onto Plan B! Top Two Popular Prints The top two most visited prints to my online print store are: 1. From the Stars, digital media, copyright Mary Rush Gravelle. This piece combines two photographs in varying amounts of transparencies to merge the two. 2. Order in the Chaos, digital media, copyright Mary Rush Gravelle. This image began as a photograph. I added transparent shapes and drew a border. The final touch was adding the rose. Order in the Chaos , Digital Media Copyright Mary Rush Gravelle. Until Next Week  • Create art • Appreciate art • Buy art I would love to hear your comments on this article, please leave one if you feel inspired. My goofy self with my painting in process. Mary Rush Gravelle About the author: Mary Rush Gravelle is an artist who resides in...

I have had a burning passion for creativity since 1992, when I discovered my own creativity deep inside me. It saddens me when I think of how creativity is devalued in our education system. It is creativity that is capable of rendering us human. The current education system values the mechanistic over the humanistic. I share with you today a video that I just watched. It will help confirm this theory and help us rethink our education system to include creativity in our core curriculum. Enjoy! Please your comments and opinions on this blog so we can start a conversation on this issue. Ken Robinson on how schools kill creativity:

I found this article to be very informative. It feels right. Birth is the theme for this month. At left: Birthing Woman, approx. 8 ft wide x 10 ft tall, tempera on paper. ©2011 Mary A. Gravelle. A personal Wisdom Painting.

Link to Igniting Your Intentions blog. Day 10. http://ignitingyourintentions.com/2011/05/18/day-10- girl-of-light-and-inner-power /

Link to Igniting Your Intentions blog, May 18 article: http://ignitingyourintentions.com/2011/05/18/day-09-beaming-growth/

Igniting Your Intentions. Day 8. Glowing Light of Love. Click the link below to go the Igniting Your Intentions™ blog. Link to blog article: http://ignitingyourintentio ns.com/2011/05/18/day-09-glowing-light-of-love/

I am in the process of re-establishing the Igniting Your Intentions™ process in hopes of helping others manifest the life they desire. This is a process that I developed and cherish. It has helped me. I hope that it will help you, too. I have set up a website to act as the sacred container for the process. To ignite the process, I am doing my own session. You can follow it at ignitingyourintentions.com . This drawing is from today's session.

Hi all, Do you remember Igniting Your Intentions™? Well … hopefully, the book is coming soon!  I began writing a book of my six-week workshop, Igniting Your Intentions™in 2005. My my, how time flies. Now that I am in graphic design class, one of our assignments is to design a book cover. This gives me the perfect opportunity to begin again. The image on the left is my first go at designing the book jacket cover. The book itself will be another design project. I'll keep you posted as the design evolves. I welcome your comments and feedback. Have a creative day, Mary

The image at left, from yesterday's post, was completed during one of my personal Igniting Your Intentions™ sessions. The image is a powerful one for me so I went back to my writings to find out why. Perhaps the drawing is powerful for you as well. And perhaps the writing will speak to you, too. Here is what I wrote: Drawing Gives me Goosebumps – white bird with huge wingspan. Is it a dove, a blue bird of happiness – is the blue its color or definition? This bird is Beauty in Flight. I’m in total awe and choked up over this image. Drawing's Message : Take flight, my dear, worry not about all your worldly affairs. They will be taken care of. You are glory bound forevermore. Share your beauty with the children. They will listen. They will get it. The ribbons of peace weave around you. Carry them with you whenever you go – wherever. Your angels are all around you, dear, helping, guiding, assisting. You need only ask for help and it is granted – pronto! You are aligned wi...

Connect to your Soul Team . Listen Up. Check out this article for how to proceed with the mission of your life. NOW. Great stuff. First paragraph of the article says: "The Fifth Step - Discover Your Soul Team By now you have raised your frequency, re-aligned to your higher self, opened and begun to trust your communication with The Divine/The All. The fifth step naturally follows these first four steps as you are now prepared to discover and connect to your Soul Team." Image at left is from my 2004 Igniting Your Intentions™ personal session. My intention statement: I align myself with my true calling. Crayon on paper. Anyone interested in signing up for the process, contact me. It's quite lovely.

Day 4: Glossing Over & Strengthening Money flows to me easily affording me freedom. Money worries rising to the surface big time today. I recently took a huge leap of faith into a mentorship program. Now, I'm wondering where the money will come from to pay for it. Yikes! Does anyone out there need or want a timeshare in Cancun? Selling it would certainly lighten my load and help me pay for this program. Painting I did not do anymore work on the painting today, except for brushing gel gloss medium over the front and back sides of it. Three coats of tempera paint had been built up and the edges of the paper were curling. That bothered me so I went for a strengthening cure. Now I'm wondering if I want to do this painting with acrylic on canvas instead. Do I want to upgrade my materials? This Igniting session seems to be taking me into a different place than sessions before it. Normally, I would use inexpensive materials so I would not be inhibited. And everyday I wou...

Day Three Money flows easily to me affording me freedom. Painting: Deep Truth Added green and blue, defined the mountains. This painting is looking dark: although, I like the blue and green colors. They feel rich and true, like crisp growth and depth. The roots are pushed behind, no longer needing to be exposed. Painting's Message: Delving, digging, seeking answers to your innermost problems and issues allows them to rise to the surface, exposing them to the healing light. This is an act of courage and faith. For to rise above your problems and issues with an all abiding faithful conviction separates you from them like chaffing the wheat. You get clarity in return from the muddy existence you have been living. This has caused misery, struggle, not to mention unhappiness and discontent. Rising to the occasion of personal growth affords you a better chance at freedom on all levels. Stand strong and true for what you believe to be true in each and every moment. Be open and...

Day One It has been way too long since I embarked upon my own process of Igniting Your Intentions™. And it feels sooooo good to be back at it.  Igniting Your Intentions™is a very focused 28-process of self-discovery using writing and drawing. It is a process that came to me during a time of deep inner work. I have done workshops. I had planned to write a book. The book proposal is finished but I never sent it out. Maybe it's time?  It is time to do this process for myself again. I thought my intention statement would read as follows: I allow myself success beyond my wildest dreams. However, I found an old sample of the Igniting Journal on my studio shelf. "Perfect, I'll use that", I thought. Inside I had tucked an igniting statement into each journal that I had made up. This one read: Money flows to me easily affording me freedom. "More perfect", I thought. I embarked upon my solo journey of alignment to my true self almost five years ago, leaving beh...

Have any of you read Julia Cameron's new book, The Creative Life: True Tales on Inspiration? How does it compare to The Artist's Way? The link below will take you to where Julia shares about her own creative process in video format. Pictured here: Drawing by Mary Gravelle, crayon on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, from my personal Igniting Your Intentions™ session in July 2009. You can see all of my drawings in this session on my Facebook Page. This is the drawing's message: Donegal's Garden -- I had never heard of Donegal's Garden before I did this drawing this morning. As soon as I got out the hot pink paper and picked a green crayon, those words came to me. Now, I'm researching. It is a real place in Ireland! This makes me really miss my garden in Connecticut. I must get a garden planted here at this small rental house. I miss gardening so much. Link: About Julia Cameron's new book Link: Mary's Fine Art Fan Page Link: Mary's Igniting session of J...

On Excuses and Resistance from Seth's Blog... Get on with your life now, already, no more waiting, no more whining! Here's what he says: "I don't have any good ideas" Now I  know  you're bluffing. First, everyone has good ideas. Maybe not as fast or as often as others, but are you telling me that in your entire life, you've never had one good idea? Ever? Second, and way more telling, what happens if I give you a good idea. Here. Take it. Now what? You have it, right? Now you need to find a second reason for not making things happen. "I don't have enough time." "I can't get the resources." "I'm not sure, really sure, guaranteed, that this is a good idea." "My boss won't let me." And so the lizard brain speaks up, and so the cycle continues, and so the Resistance wins. There are more good ideas, right here, right now, for free, than ever before. More opportunities to connect and lead and make ...

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein What are you imagining today? © Mary A. Gravelle, Number 8: Gateway to Wealth, acrylic on birch panel, 24 x 24 inches, framed. Inquiries email info@marysfineart.com.

Wisdom Painting: Sunday, Sep. 19, 1-5 pm, Silver City, NM, $40 includes materials. No art experience needed. Contact us to register. For more information, please go to the Wisdom Painting Website.

Level One: What we have been doing so far, just painting and small discussion afterward. Level Two: Paint and interact with your painting along with discussion afterward. Level Three: Paint, interact with your painting, and move to your painting's expression with discussion afterward. Intermediate and Advanced levels two and three are about showing up to your personal expression, standing tall in it and moving past shame toward true self. I invite you to deepen your process. Coming up: Wisdom Painting, Group Sessions for four or more: Sunday, August 29, price includes all materials and are per person. 1-3 pm Level One, $25 1-4 pm Level Two, $35 1-5 pm Level Three, $45 Sunday, Sept 19, price includes all materials and are per person. 1-3 pm Level One, $25 1-4 pm Level Two, $35 1-5 pm Level Three, $45 To register, call me at (575) 956-7315 or email me at mary@wisdompainting.com Inquiries about private sessions are welcome. Wisdom Painting Website -- a little out of date, ...

Karen Siegel of Westport, Connecticut is a former student of Wisdom Painting and Art. She now teaches art to children ages 3-10 at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut. She also teaches private lessons. After last month’s newsletter ( July ) went out, Karen emailed to tell me of her current work. Because I found her work to be inspiring, I decided to interview her for this issue of Wisdom and Art Inspirations. She says: “I am very interested in the energetics of things: from the energy created by certain sound vibrations to the energy of drawing "live" meaning the energy of drawing a living hot pepper versus drawing from a photograph because of the actual interaction and energy exchange!” Interview questions by Mary A. Gravelle. 1. When did you begin teaching at Silvermine? I started working at Silvermine School of Art 1 year ago. 2. How does the environment at Silvermine help you as a teacher? Silvermine is located in a very relaxed and beautiful sett...