Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Mike Greenberg

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Running through my head

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilde

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

Good advice

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Unknown

Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.

Unknown

It's that time again...

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

A. A. Milne

Summer doodles...

Words of wisdom

Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso

Forty by 40.

It is by acts, not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

Springtime doodles

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Pearce

Spring sunshine

I guess I'm not the only one that loves to soak up that sun coming through the window...

Doodles

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

To do: this week

So grab the hooked end of a question mark and hang on until you’re flying in the direction you want to go.

Grace Kerina

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.

Mother Theresa

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly...
R. Buckminster Fuller

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Bette Midler

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Audrey Hepburn

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

Patrick Overton

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Some more summer doodles

I have held many things in my hands and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther

The final choice

Find out how much god has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
St. Augustine

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb

Doodles

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Logo concepts

We shall not cease from exploring. And at the end of our exploration, we will return to where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta

You have to be willing to grow. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it.

Bruce Mau

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Z is for...

12" x 12"

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

"How does one become a butterfly?"

"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

The most frightening and most difficult thing about being what someone calls a creative person is you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from really, and especially you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

Doug Pray

Life is not a path of coincidence, happenstance and luck, but rather an unexplainable, meticulously charted course for one to touch the lives of others and make a difference in the world.

B. Dillinham

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Inge

More art journaling

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that — it lights the whole sky.

Hafiz

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forster

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

Don't be afraid to fail.

Be afraid not to try.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with the things you don't know.

– Sherman Alexie

Art journaling 2

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
- Pablo Picasso

It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth.

– Bono

Art journaling

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

– Dorothy Thompson

My latest collaboration with EMP

I feel like the luckiest girl on earth these days! Look what I get to do for my friend over at EMP! SO fun... full slideshow of the album here.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

– Theodore Dreiser

Orange is the happiest color

- Frank Sinatra

PDW poster design 09

See my design and others that have been entered into the PDW poster contest here.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. … Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

– Marianne Williamson

A couple logo concepts

I am not an abstract painter.
I am not interested in the relationship between form and color.
The only thing I care abut is the expression of man's basic emotions:
tragedy, ecstasy, destiny.
-Mark Rothko

Doodles

Nothing is yet in its true form.

– CS Lewis

The end of my creative block??

see my latest logo in action!

You can see more of Erin's work here.

New logo designs

some concepts I put together for a phx photographer... she chose the first one!

The latest project

Unfortunately I can't find the before shot...

Feeling homeless

Monsoon skies

The view from my back yard.

SAW

http://www.squamartworkshops.com/index.php

Doesn't this look amazing? Sometime I'd love to go with a bunch of girlfriends...

A couple logo designs

for a friend's not for profit

I love this handwriting

why isn't my handwriting this artistic?

Bangladesh & India

Top: Sarah on the porch of our hostel, an orchid growing wild, our Rickshaw driver, a bundle of old sarees
Second: my hands with henna, red peppers drying in the sun, window at the hostel, Sarah's feet in one of the women's homes
Third: Sureah Romin the artist, a home in the slum, Pinky, the kantha stitch in the slum
Bottom: kantha blankets in the women's homes, Moyna and her daughter, a boat on the river in Mymensingh, a baby in the slums

My latest project

a wedding invitation design for a friend

"It is my job to do the work, not judge the work."
-Unknown

a beautiful sky

The latest

Another little 6 x 6.

My small paintings for sale on Etsy

www.aletalynch.etsy.com

Reception at Cattle Track

My mom and I next to my pieces at the show

Upcoming exhibition

Four of my small 6" x 6" pieces will be hung in the upcoming Great Things Come in Small Packages exhibition at Cattle Track Arts Compound in Scottsdale. The reception will be Saturday, November 24, 4pm - 8pm. For location and more info.
www.homeandabroad.com/viewSiteDetails.ha?mainInfoId=72137

The task of an artist

"The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times."
- Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

What I'm working on now...

We moved two months ago and I'm finally back into the swing of things. I feel *mostly* settled and so glad to be painting again. This is the latest piece I'm working on.

Priority Boxes

www.fdlmstudio.com/priorityboxes.html

check out this guy's art ... he paints beautiful boxes and ships them out all over the world for free!

"Somewhere a hunter padded in his mukluks, watching the horizon through the clouds of his breath; a dancer with hair below her buttocks chassed toward the bathroom in her muumuu. These were the only two things I knew for certain..."
- taken from a short story by Paul Fattaruso