Folks, I’m making space to make more weird and wonderful art!
Help me to clear a bit of studio space by offering a home to one of the pieces in my Etsy store. Go on, you know you want to!Everything is 15% off this week, and I can send it to you wherever you are in the world.
Life often moves in a spiral motion: I’ve been here before, haven’t you?
The view is a little bit different through today’s lens but what I see looks distinctly familiar.
It feels like no time passed, in so many senses, but the numbers tell me it’s approaching 10 years since I drew this.
I remember so vividly, when this drawing came through me. (Not to me, most definitely through me)
Have you had this happen too?
I had the strongest sense of just being a vehicle through which this drawing wanted to be made real. It could have been anyone.
Of everything I’ve ever drawn, I’ve felt the least able to claim this as ‘mine’. If anything, I am its.
I remember the day it happened, I remember the big pad of watercolor paper, the watercolor pencils and paints, the frenzy of leaves and curves and wispy bits.
I remember watching it happen in front of me: Connected, and separate. Both at once.
The drawing had its own spirit, and was not willing to stay on paper.
It wanted to grow, to have more color, more depth, more vibrancy. What It had me draw was only a skeleton.
it demanded scanning and tinkering, new layers of color, new detail.
Even all these years later, through it’s many incarnations and variations, it’s the most loved of all my drawings.
It’s me, and it isn’t me.
It’s an enigma.
It is, Tree of Life.
To celebrate 10 years of Tree of Life I’ve adapted it for printables, so it can manifest itself around the world.
Would you like to give this drawing a space in your world? It’s available from Society6 in many shapes and forms.
Art prints in many sizes, framed or unframed
Notebooks for musings & doodles, lists & lyrics, poems & plans. Cases, covers & skins for phones/ ipods. Totes & zippy pouches for carrying important things around in! And more!
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(and I’ll send you my ebook A Year full of Color as a thank you for joining)
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It seems like moments ago I was telling you about the launch of TWELVTY. It feels like just a day or so since the ideas began to come together and I started putting this program together, but in fact that’s just another instance of time being tricksy with us.
So I’m just putting this out there – if you have haven’t yet signed up and are planning to, there’s just about 11 hours to catch the Special Deal whereby you get 2 months FREE.
No heavy sales pitch: I genuinely don’t want you to miss out. For real.
It’s only £12 a month. [at the time of posting that’s close to $15 USD] That’s a bit less than £3 a week, which in the big scheme of modern expenses doesn’t buy a lot of ‘stuff’. Maybe a fancy coffee, but probably not the slice of cake to go with it 😦
As a special gift to you, I’m giving two of these months to you for no charge when you sign up this week. £24 off the whole year. Now that would buy a substantial amount of cake. (Don’t eat it all at once though)
With TWELVTY you get to join a tribe of like minded creatives and explore the way color appears in our lives. We’re going to look at ways to play with color and integrate it in our art. We’re going to have a lot of fun. Find out more HERE
ephemeral gecko by mixy gregory 