The Power of Success & Imagination

We can create whatever we imagine in our minds.  If you are experiencing lack or failure in your life it is because it was first imagined in your mind.  Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is everything.  It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”  Imaging or visualizing what you want can have almost magical powers. French Dr. Emile Coué states that when the imagination and will are in conflict, the imagination always wins out.

We are constantly creating our futures through visualization, as the mind thinks in mental images. For example,  if you are thinking about, talking about and imagining financial lack (I.e. I am unlucky, I could never have that, I’m  and so on), then that is what your mind will produce for you. When a mental picture is repeated the mind has no choice but to accept it as true and bring it into reality.

It runs in the family

Often the same type of talent(s) seem to run in a family. Which leads again asking the eternal question, Is it nature? or nuture?  I do not have an answer, but I do have art works from my family to share.

Below are works from my grandson (5), daughter and granddaughter (3). My daughter drew her picutre and the initial tree branch on each page and they took it from there.

The following is the original that my “grands” made together from melted crayons.  I took a photo and altered it into a digital print.

The one below was my granddaughter’s and it appealed to my graphic arts sense-abilities.

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COLORS for today are orange & pink

Fall flower photos from a couple of weeks ago. Thank you to my neighbors across the street.  I have not highlighted a color in a long time, so today I am highlighting two, orange and pink.

Enjoy

 

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Seeing Sepia

I have been turning some of my color photos into sepia toned photos.  Since I am a self-taught artist & photographer I enjoy experimenting.  What I have learned so far is to use photos with high contrast.  I also tried to edit the photos different than I ordinarily would.  What do you think?

2012 Calendars options

First, let me start with I am not working on any outside projects so far this week (a good & bad thing) so I have time to work different aspects of my business that I have been wanting to try.  (Ok I also have time to catch up on my admin tasks, also.)

I taking advantage of this opportunity (meaning time & money) to create  a couple of calendar styles for 2012.  I have enjoyed my first time designing & developing in this venue.  I plan to market them online (as soon as I clean up my Etsy shop) and a the couple of art fairs I plan to be in between now and the holidays.  Enjoy

The following 8″ X 10.5″ calendars are two of my three styles(the other style will have individual months).  What do you think?  Do you have a fav?

Let there be lights …. continues

The following art works would have been part of my much anticipated “Let There be Lights” art show.

I have had a couple of requests for a “random act of kindness” I think I will have to make something happen this weekend.

Enjoy