Art Of Tracy Verdugo Blog

 Hello, hello!! I cant believe its the end of my thirty days of gratitude blogging. Not that the feeling ever ends.....so much to be grateful for in this world. I hope you've enjoyed reading along with me...... Things are ramping up in the countdown to my departure on Saturday and I'll be away from home for 9 weeks, teaching 10 workshops across the U.S You can imagine the frenzy I am in right now!  I've been busy painting these little 3x3" canvases inspired by the newly sprung Spring!! I'll be taking them with me along with prints, cards and CD's to sell at my workshops....but one of them will be going out to the lucky winner of my Gratitude giveaway which I will draw on Friday before I leave. That gives you a few more days to spread the word and comment on as many of my gratitude posts as you like, each comment = 1 chance to win! If you share a link to me blog and let me know that is another chance.. Good luck everyone!!  I'm also grat...

 One of the things I LOVE so much during my workshops is the element of surprise, the messages our creativity brings to us! The dialogue we can have with our work...  I notice my students getting so caught up in the "striving" and so I always take time to walk around and photograph small cropped areas of their works in progress....  there is so much beauty available to us in every single moment....  if only we can stop .....  for long enough to see it ... synchronicity is everywhere,  like in the fact that as I am writing this I randomly arrived at this beautiful crop while I was writing those words.... you see? and oh my!  I just noticed the outstretched hand in the image above this urging us to stop and notice♥  there is joy and love inherent in the process...the process of creating, the process of living....  there in every moment for us to recognise it before it gets covered up by the next...