Happy New Year and Thanks!

Happy New Year to all my followers and visitors!

As the temperatures drop again and we fill our hot water bottles preparing to be taken into an icy 2010 I am thinking of all of you who have dropped in over the last eighteen months since this blog began. I started blogging when I saw a friend's blog, and thought it what a great idea to start a blog of my own. I haven't looked back since. It's been great fun to show you what I am up to, but without visitors to this blog it would have been an empty experience, like shouting to the walls of an empty room. I have enjoyed networking and 'meeting' so many people from all over the world and been bowled over by the many wonderful paintings and ideas out there. It's really broadened my perspective of the world to see it reperesented in different ways through all your paintings, so here is a big THANK YOU!  Keep painting because I am looking forward to seeing more in 2010. I hope that you have all had a great Christmas and that this coming year will see you all happy, healthy and at peace with yourselves and enjoying more creating, painting and drawing, illustrating.

God Bless

April

xxx

photo above by http://www.pdphoto.org

Universal Traveller by Air

You might by now have realised that in the last few months I've had little art to post up on this blog. Life's been a little chaotic that my time has been spent putting my energy into other things. I do have plans to paint in 2010 but what I don't know.

I am using music at the moment (along with mugfuls of herbal tea) to.... 

 

and put me in a place where I can find my creativity again. I do believe that music and art are as interconnected as our senses of sight and hearing are, that one influences the other in ways that can only be explained by psychologists or those with a profound interest in the power of music on the psyche. I've no doubt that there are dozens of articles on the topic so I'll leave you to do your own search. All I know and care about is that some music makes me feel good and puts me in a happy place, so here is my happy place and here I am to stay for the time being .....thinking up new pictures in my mind to put on canvas or paper.  After all the snow and frost we've had this piece takes me out of the moment and into memories of summertime and sunshine...bring it on is what I say.

May you all have the Happiest and most Peaceful of times in 2010!
Warmest Regards
April ;)

Utopia

I just discovered this amazing group so I thought you might enjoy Utopia...it makes me feel good, so I hope it makes you feel good too! Seasons Greeting and many thanks to all who have followed me this year, or just popped in. Look forward to 2010 with you!

God Bless you all
April