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The release

| jennifer barrile

Ideas are most welcome when they appear unannounced. When that creative idea makes a visit I pay attention, because if I ignore the visitor, it will taunt and haunt me all day.

This quick little illustration came about when I participated in the Deepak/Oprah 21 day guided meditation challenge. As I meditated on releasing negativity, an image appeared and stuck with me. I did my best to portray my version of letting go. Holding on to stuff internally, whether anger, negativity, old wounds will keep us chained, hold us back from from a vibrant healthy life.

Open up, let it out and be light.

 

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Watercolor, pen on paper

 

 

Process from start to finish.

 

Good vibes extended

| jennifer barrile

I made a decision in my life to limit my time consuming news. Limiting my time reading and watching the news doesn’t mean I do not care. I declared to live lighter, not to be weighed down with negativity and anger. Aware of today’s news, I felt the need to draw out my feelings.  
Today I chose to create not destroy. I chose to share, to support, and to show love. 
  

Pencil & pen on paper

Painting process

| jennifer barrile

The stages of my painting. The inspiration for this one came from a walk in my neighborhood, I was drawn to this gritty old house and stormy clouds above. I took a photograph and later decided to paint it.

 

I used acrylic paint on a 20×20 gallery wrapped canvas. It took me about 4 days to complete, on and off painting a few hours a day.

 

 

This is the photograph that inspired me, I did tweak the image to adjust to my composition and style of painting.

Warming hearts at the glass studio

| jennifer barrile

A spur of the moment invitation on Valentine’s Day, led to a warm adventure on a cold day.  We met with our friends at Bernard Katz glass studio, they shared in the glass process, gave a little demonstration and then we tried it out for ourselves.  I will take you on a little visual journey..

 

Safety demonstration of course.

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The rods were placed in a furnace and dipped in molten glass. After the rods were removed from the heat, it went through a little water bath so we could hold the rod. Then the fun part, twirling the hot glass and stretching it out to make a form.

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Letting gravity do most of the work

 

 

After a small demonstration of the sculpting tools, we tried working the glass. Very hot stuff! The temperature ranged over 1000 degree fahrenheit but the kiddo was not afraid to sculpt the molten glass.

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Glass sculpting bench and tools

 

 

The glass had to be reheated often as it began to cool down during the process. 

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Attempting to sculpt a flower

 

 

Samples of our finished pieces after a day of cooling.

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Not bad for our first time!

 

You can watch the professionals in action. This short video will demonstrate the glass blowing process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reflection in the studio

| jennifer barrile

Feeling a little gratitude today. I realized how much I enjoy the WordPress community of bloggers. So much creativity, inspiration and support.  I want to give a shout out to say thank you to everyone that visited, read my blog, followed and commented.  I enjoy all the connections made! 

A glimpse of my art space where I am preparing a new canvas. I will be sharing my creative process, on Periscope @flufnutter  you can view recent videos. Be forewarned,  I am new at this live video thing so it may take me a few more videos to get comfortable filming. 

Life in pieces

| jennifer barrile

Slicing and dicing my way to something new. Inspired by my old seashell frame I decided to have a little fun experimenting with recycled material, and reusing my old watercolor art. 

 

Recycled material: Heavy weight cardboard, picture frame (no glass) decorative paper and my watercolor art.

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Chopping things up is very therapeutic.. My art in pieces!

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Placed decorative paper on the cardboard, after playing with the placement of the art I adhered the pieces to the board. Washes of paint were added to the background and I coated everything with clear matte mod podge to seal it.  The final result.

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Time off for good behavior

| jennifer barrile

Shaking up my day this morning getting out of my little studio to meet up with a friend. It was perfect weather to be out and about today. I headed to a local cafe for a good cup of cafe mocha and to enjoy some engaging conversation. Afterwards I was inspired to create this little doodle.

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Cookie cat was patiently waiting for my return.

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Winter white

| jennifer barrile

In the midst of a blizzard inspiration happened after I pulled a cardboard insert from my newly bought gloves. With all the time spent indoors this weekend ( and shoveling), I couldn’t resist creating a wintery mixed media piece.  Snowspiration!

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Mixed media on wood: (everything but the kitchen sink) Cardboard insert, Acrylic paint, glitter paint, tissue paper, patterned paper, paper flowers, clear beads, pearls, clear matte medium, gloss dimensional medium