Art Of Tracy Verdugo Blog

On Saturday mi amor walks by me as I sit at my usual spot in front of the computer,  working on a hundred things at once,  and says........ "No work tomorrow ok? Lets go for a picnic somewhere.   I cant believe you've never been to Steamers Beach...." a slight sense of anxiety passes over me....I have become accustomed to filling my days with work,  grateful that I have the luxury of doing the things I love and calling it work,  frenetic about all the possibilities and all I want to put out into the world.....  I have forgotten what it is to actually take a whole day off and then.... a sense of relief washes over me..... Yes, I say. That would be wonderful! 8 kms later.... a day of breathing in the beauty,  the simplest of picnics on the most gorgeous of beaches....  and I am feeling totally replenished. I want every Sunday to be a new adventure! Hold me to it ok? Forget not that the earth delights to ...

Ok, ok I'm not trying to trick you... so I missed a couple of days!  Life gets busy right? Especially when you have outsider artist extraordinaire coming to stay at your house and are trying to tie up a bunch of loose ends in anticipation of THREE DAYS of solid painting with him and ten other beautiful creatives!  Leaving you with a few pics of Jesse in action Day one and a few of my pieces in progress....exhausted but rearing to go again tomorrow! Hasta manana! or manana or manana ;p

a month or more of short and sweet blogging :) three very exciting things to share today! Image credit:Lisa Bowen Barker My first published article in the Spring edition of  Somerset Apprentice!!  It will take a while to get my copy all the way over here,  but I think its about 7 pages long and I walk you, step by step, through the process of this painting.  Pick up a copy and let me know how you go finding your own inspiration.  Would love to see your images on my Paint Mojo FB group page :) A very special mail delivery!! The finished pages of my book ( don't get to see the colour version until July) arrived for the final author review! Today will be spent proofreading....it all seems so surreal! Especially when I see things like THIS!! A very special visitor arrives this week!  The time has finally come for the uber talented Jesse Reno to hit Aussie shores. First stop Melbourne, then we welcome him into our...

 Hello lovely friends! To celebrate the closing of the old year and the beginning of the new I am giving away this little elephant painting to one lucky reader. Just leave me a note in the comments below and let me know one of your intentions for 2014! ♥ Clarity. My word for 2013  How did I go with it? At first I thought not so well.  I couldn't even really get clear on what the word meant for me.  What my intention around clarity even was.  Not a good start right? Seems like I'm somewhat of a back to front person. I often figure out the answer long after I've completed the action... I think its what makes intuitive painting such a perfect practice for me, not having to make a plan but seeing the perfection in the plan after all is said and done. Kind of fumbling my way along a LOT,  jumping in before I know how to swim and then figuring out later how exactly I managed to not drown! canvases are painted and then the co...