by Dawn Patel | Dec 31, 2014 | animals, art, art process, artist, artists process, being present, belief, Chance, creative process, gratitude, healing through art, intuition, language, poetry, sentient beings, seredipity
Today it occurs to me that the language of the Sentient Beings has to be poetryWork in Progress: “Chances of Drowning”But I argue, “I’m not a poet.” Well, I’m not a good one.I don’t know what to do.”A Pigeon...
by Dawn Patel | Oct 26, 2014 | Aristotle, art, art business, artists, artists process, artists studio, blogging, career, content, creative process, culture, focus, hamsa, hands, milagro, painting, style, symbols
Lately I’ve been pushing myself to focus. I love to paint, of that I am sure. But in the process of establishing a career for myself as an artist I have to also think practically, and focusing both the style and the content of my work is...
by Dawn Patel | Oct 22, 2014 | art, artists process, blogging, Brilliant Stranger, creative process, dawn patel art, etsy, judgement, laughter, letting go, life, miniature painting, practice, yoga, yoga practice
The longer version of this title is “What I have learned from my year of not doing yoga.” I’m not encouraging anyone to give up their yoga practice. Read on…Stretch your body and you stretch your mind. As Without, so...
by Dawn Patel | Sep 22, 2014 | artists process, bakery, being present, blue sky bakery, chicago, creative process, dawn patel art, free art friday, friends, my dog sighs, painted rocks, scones, seredipity, trompe l'oeil, vertical gallery
Ceci n’est pas une Scone I have to start with this… if you want to make a stone scone, the first thing that has to happen is that the universe has to align to bring you a perfectly formed rock in the shape of a scone. I guess you can go looking, but in my...
by Dawn Patel | Jul 28, 2014 | art, artists process, artists studio, being present, Brilliant Stranger, change, commissioned art, creative process, dawn patel, dawn patel art, Door County, goals, mystery stones, planning
Like so many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot these days about Presence. That in itself seems to be a contradiction. We cannot be present in the moment and lost in thought. But here I am, day after day, contemplating the nature of my mind, it’s...
by Dawn Patel | Jun 10, 2014 | art, artists process, Brilliant Stranger, change, conceptual art, creative process, impermanence, mystery, mystery stones, technology, time, travel
The Mystery Stone project will launch at the end of June. (please note, this was June 2014) Hundreds of little painted stones will be released into the world. It’s time to write about the mystery stones. It all began when I woke up one day and decided I...
