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Gussy Sews Inspiration Workshop – Week 1

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It seems that June is the true month of inspiration!  In addition to offering my own 30 day challenge on inspiration, I saw that Gussy Sews was also offering a chance to be inspired and we can all use as much inspiration as possible, right?  So, I signed up for hers as well!  This workshop offers a once-a-week prompt and then we blog about the prompt and share our blog post with everyone on her blog at the end of the week (I can’t wait until June 2nd to see what every shares!).

My first oil painting

This week’s prompt, in true Gussy fashion, is everything HANDMADE.

While I spent some time looking around, I stuck with the image that first came into my mind – my first oil painting – to write about.  I did this several months ago in a class with Joanie Ford, a phenomenal artist and teacher.  I loved the whole process, which took hours to complete.  I loved the texture of the oils.  I loved playing and blending them to get the color I wanted…scraping the oils off the palette and then mixing them into another color.  I loved watching as the image unfolded from a white canvas to a blob of nothingness to “what the heck – I can’t get this right” to the finished product.

I have this never-ending feeling, it seems, of not being enough, not doing enough.  This painting is different.  When I think of this painting, it all goes away.  I didn’t even realize this until I started sharing here.  My greatest weakness…the area of my life that I beat myself up the most about…completely disappears in this painting.  I have spent a lot of time staring into this painting and never have I felt like it wasn’t exactly as it was supposed to be.  It feels complete and, most importantly, good enough.  I absolutely love this painting and the feeling I have when I look at it.  I love the colors.  I love the sense of accomplishment I felt when it was done.  I love knowing that I did it – me.  I love feeling proud and fulfilled and enough.  


It seems that June is the true month of inspiration!  In addition to offering my own 30 day challenge on inspiration,

May 28, 2011 Filed Under: Life 3 Comments

About Michele

Michele Bergh is a teacher, a student and a lover of life. She is a healing artist who enjoys a variety of mediums and also has a few mad techie skills up her sleeves. By day she primarily does WordPress design and development and works with others to create a blissful life. By night, you'll find her behind a camera lens, on her bike, in a big comfy chair, cooking up a storm in her kitchen or sewing while listening to great music (probably from the 70s) on her ipod. Her greatest joy comes from living a orgasmic life by design.

What Others are Saying

  1. Jenn says

    June 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Wow! Great painting, especially that it was your first! I thought it was a photograph when I first glanced at it and not a painting!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      June 3, 2011 at 9:31 pm

      Thanks:) It was so fun and I just love the feeling I got from doing it and every time I look at it, I feel that way again!

      Reply
  2. Liv says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:04 am

    i cannot believe that was your first oil painting. good grief – that is fantastic!!

    Reply

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