Been like forever since I have been on here. I have some projects in the works and a few pics to share. The first illustration is a new concept of a Fairytale Journal. I plan to sketch a daily exploration of what I would consider my “kidlike” memories of Disney Characters and my own new ideas. Today I am going to start Cinderella so wish me luck! My Surface internet connections really help because I usually need to see the right proportions and the such. The second pic is my first attempt to draw from a profile image in Facebook. This is my bf Anica…she is very pretty so it wasn’t hard a bit. The last is my typical routine for looking like a princess *wink takes hard work I now have two new volunteer jobs and do choir, bible study, women’s bible study and two art classes. Let’s just say I am getting back to normal again. I LOVE cramming my schedule with things to do. Well chow for now and remember “IIWI”– “It is what it is”.
Word Up Watch Abstract Illustrations
Another Facial Nerve Illustration
This art project is amazing!!! She looks calm and beautiful like a person really is…not just some lame profile work! your shading on the hair and ear kick ass!! Keep drawing you inspirational child!
Air high five…
Thank you McDonald’s…is that even true?
So many would say the big lame monopoly games give no winning offers…well shut the front door! This book of my art work was a prize that I won…hard cover book like a real published book! It is 20 pages long and 8″ by 8″…alright maybe I do eat McNuggets from time to time. Fryer and frozen food, mmmmm…I used to be skinny ya all! It is coming in the mail next week so yippee and let me smile for a minute. OK. Done. Air group hug for everyone.
Wedding Pretty Girls…Maybe just a tad jealous!!!
The glow, the sparkle in the eye and the fancy occasion…just in love with being in love. Whether you are super young or super old, we all want to find the right partner. It’s hard work to have any relationship…but the wedding day, makes the best way to start a new claim that you are together forever. Hmmmm…that is all I have to say about that.
Found Art: New topic and totally rad!!
Year after year of doing art, I wanted to kick down a new habit and a new passion. Let’s just say I went a bit nutty by hammering into a television and yanking the head off this poor doll. I never did the 3D thing or the “mixed media” until this year and I have zero clue as to why I let this happen! This is Bombshell Covergirl. I plan on doing about three pieces in the next few months. Please kick down some of your found art pretty please, I have more fun if other artists join together and share ideas. Tah tah for now. Breathe and break something now…makes your day much more exciting.
Abstract Party for September 2014!
What’s Up World
There are alignments and there is a bigger whelming (the calm version of overwhelming) flood. It is like I tripped on my own feet and landed face first into a new body. At first my face hurts and then I laugh & get up hoping that no one saw me fall. The blessings are the following: 2 new part-time jobs at Do-Art Incorporated and Creative 360, my first art piece sold in a “real” museum (“Good Knight”) at Studio 23 in Bay City, a brand identity graphic design project for Main Street Media Group and getting baptized a few Sundays ago. Dang!!
So here I am smelling roses. Like deep breathes of pink and peach colored roses. The scent will always remind me how far I have come in my most beautiful recovery. I have this strange new habit of taking off rose flowers and sticking them behind my ear. Like mother nature told me to mesh fashion statement and rose obsession at the same time.
This is my chance to give a shout out to my new friends that I met last night at the opening reception for Folk Art at Creative 360!! I was working the bar (an oxymoron) and met some fab fab cool new contacts/pals. This drink is for Sam, the kind smooth talker. This other drink goes to an AMAZING new friend…ummm…she is beautiful, taught me how to socialize, gave very comforting eye contact and loves loves loves medicine and fine art like me! I gave her my business card and I hope to hear from her very soon.
While volunteering, I wear a name tag when I attend events for Creative 360 with my full name and the title of Artist. It is quite entertaining when people try to sound out my last name and guess what it means. By the third try, I get to explain what it means and they are like “Ooooo, that is so beautiful”. I guess it a pseudo chance to interact with other new artistic souls. Check this out! My last name Deogracia is actually a real first name for the female gender. The Latin origin means “born by the grace of God”. I do hold to my heart and would place my right hand on the bible-declaring that I am here on earth for a reason. My purpose is to be a total package human. I can write. I can talk. I can complete artistic creations. I can go to the bathroom all by myself.
This blog has been running for a full year and I am going to renew it for next year. Wow! A year just slams by. Take good care of yourself and brush your teeth before you go to bed. Keep in touch and ultra please make comments! Air hug.
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Essence of Creativity Studio 23 the Arts Center
Went to check out the new exhibit in Bay City on Thursday and was SUPER shocked and excited that my art project had it’s own wall as you turn the corner of the front door!! I worked like four days and ultra countless hours completing this sucker. It is the small things like this that make me smile and put in my memory file. The “Essence of Creativity” celebrates three non profits: Studio 23 the Arts Center Bay City, Do-Art Inc. Bay City and Creative 360, Midland working together in one spectacular exhibition. Over 80 talented artists have produced a generous and thrilling body of work. Thank you to Creative 360 and a special girl named Rachel.
Fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity & Great Lakes Pharmacy
In Midland, MI, there is a weekend festival called “Riverdays” during the weekend of July 18-19th. I frequent the Restore shop where they sell items that people no longer need for Habitat for Humanity…I am a frame freak and can find them there for very good prices. While at the register, there was an application/paperwork for donating art work for Riverdays. I got home and ran to my art room and started a new idea for me—humming birds. I love figure drawing but I need to seek all areas to explore variety and new mediums/models. Within the same day, I also did another milder work for the Pharmacy that I go to often—they read about my newspaper article and commented about how talented I am *always nice to hear. Well here are some flowers and birds to stare at. Tah tah from this hardworking art girl.
New! Studio 23 Art Center “The Essence of Creativity”
Largest Illustration Like Ever
Yikes!! Can you say 5′ across and 3′ down?
It seemed like a monster until I did the whole research hunger munch on the internet.
I get way prepared before I tackle projects like this one.
Brainstorming, day dreaming, yahoo images, etc.
In addition to this new art project, I had two of my abstract illustrations into the show.
This is the longest exhibition I have ever been in as well so I am thrilled.
Promise to get pics at the reception.
Blah blah blah. I get it.
“The Essence of Creativity”
July 18 – August 29, 2014
Studio 23
Bay City, MI
Happy Dance All Over the Living Room
Been doing some big steps to change my life completely… I am physically “dancing” with exercise videos on Hulu plus. There must be over 30 different routines to choose from. As I am getting “smarter”, I am not blaming myself for my sick brain anymore. For years, I thought if I was just more intelligent, I could outthink myself into a very rich lifestyle. I wasn’t the rich city dream girl I used to be. Ouch that stings a lot. Admitting and worrying about the past is a super way to lose control. It must be the right time for the spirit inside my body to be free from old habits and freak out when victory has come to play.
Moving from San Francisco to Michigan was huge deal for me and that I’m forever grateful that I found Matthew. Yesterday was our nine year anniversary and we both are at the peaks of the good life. We had a very tight long hug last night. That was more special then roses, candy or even diamonds (if you could doubt that I am addicted to fine gems). I even received a hand massage for a time and we fell asleep like we always do, we hold each others hands and allow my dog Boomer under the sheets. Like a family. Thanks be to the one and only higher power that opens my eyes every morning at 4:00 a.m.
Grand Rapids Was Awesome-sauce
Excellent excellent…I made it to the newspaper here in Midland, Michigan!! The first pic is the actual museum in Grand Rapids, MI (a two hour drive from my home). The end of my post is what I created for Facebook about my big fieldtrip. I felt like I was actually in San Francisco again because the museum was so modern and the crowd was mixed with colorful artists and business looking patrons that want to purchase the art. If you told me five years a go that I would have my art in this museum or that I started drawing again a year and a half ago, I’d call you a whack-a-doo. Tah tah for now and air hugs to everyone on the Internet!
OMG! Art Girl is REALLY Invited into A Real Museum
A real art moment for me…I made it to a “statewide” art gallery competition. This project is going to be at the Grand Rapids Museum for the next few weeks. Four $500 prizes and a chance to make it for the International ArtPrize competition. I’ve already signed up for ArtPrize so I have some MAJOR stress about what I am going to show there…get ready—this contest prize is worth $200,000 for grand prize! WHO knows?
Soul Beauty
Has anyone in your entire life looked at you and said these words “Your soul is beautiful”?
Hmmmm…crying spell for Heather once again. I was so quiet the whole bible study group on sunday and the leader asked me why I was being so quiet…imagine that! I had been assigned to read this book about the 26 names of God and I started to go beyond the topic about how the universe even came to be. I started to really question the true start of my soul. My father had a soul. My mother had a soul. They together made a new “soul”. Me.
All my life I was called good names and bad names. I put that smile on my face and tried to laugh off the compliment or the criticism. In truth, I would find a secret spot and cry out my feelings. My brain actually triggered something in me that my feelings would calm again if I just be silent or sob out the problems in my life. Being made fun of being a crying girl really hurt me deep inside. I had a pocket in my brain that collected the hurt and another pocket of absolute brilliant shining moments.
Then it hit me a few days ago that I was never comforted all these years of a traumatic childhood, teen, adult stages of my life. I never got the hug. I never got the kiss on the cheek. I never heard the words of unconditional love.
Finally, I brought this up at the group and everyone saw the pain and watch my eyes splash with tears. Everyone got out of their seats and put their hands on me. Real true love was in that room and now my soul can stop suffering. I surrendered my mind from every bad deed and all the time I wasted on what other people thought about me.
I now look at tissues a whole new way…let the world be mean and I will cry. Let the world be nice and I will cry. I was called a “beautiful” soul in 2014 and from this day forward, respect my outpour of tears and understand a “broken” spirit takes time to heal.
Art Clash Art Contest 2014 Blooming Beauty
ArtClash is a unique 3-hour Juried Art Competition, judged by local art professionals and faculty. The ArtClash event is open to the community, with participants creating original works of art right before your eyes. Prizes are awarded and winning artwork is sold by live auction following the competition. The remaining artwork is sold at silent auction. Artists receive 50% of the sale price and 50% goes to benefit Do-Art Studio & Gallery, a creative arts program for people with developmental and other disabilities.
April 12, 2014
Life Must Be Fantastic
fan·tas·tic
[fan-tas-tik] Show IPA
tɪkadjective
1.
conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
2.
fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions: We never know what that fantastic creature will say next.
3.
imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality; foolish or irrational: fantastic fears.
4.
extravagantly fanciful; marvelous.
5.
incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant: to spend fantastic sums of money.
As the spring is slowly emerging, my life is definitely becoming a fantastic journey.
On the 12th of this month, I entered an art contest with 75 other artists with a three hour deadline. If you told me even three years ago that I would be using my artistic ability, I would not just laugh but get the sense that years of my life were unproductive. This imagination, this fancy art research, this fancy “get your ideas on paper”…I am at the freaking point of making my life extremely marvelous.
I plan to post the image of my completed art project from my art teacher very soon.
Matthew bought me the finest tablet, pink of course, with his “student” discount. I pretty much use the tablet with my fingers—like the movie Minority Report with my boyfriend Tom Cruise. I have NEVER EVER had someone buy a present like this for me! I am very blessed and lucky to have a partner that gives me exactly dream about! I saw this tablet at Best Buy, I ran over to it and said these exact words “This will be mine!” He must have seen the twinkles in my eyes!
So out of the blue, he asks me to check something on his computer…we share things all the time on the internet. I sat down and almost fainted when he asked me if this was what I wanted. My heart started to race and drool was dripping off the sides of my mouth (not really but was feeling like a lucky dog). Even more, we went to amazon and bought this amazing bright pink case for it.
How did this happen to me? How do I recover from a “coma” lifestyle? Why did my brain shut off my greatest gift of all for 15 years?
It is a miracle. A real driven miracle. My brain functions and now I am free.
Art Clash 2014, Bay City, MI
April 12 is the big day with other sweating artists…my spirit is high and I’m riding on a test of my creative nature. Never did a contest as an adult so I am depending on anyone to comment on what art work you really like or hate. Countdown begins. Yikes!
Heather Deogracia 
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