“Horse Graffiti” ©Mark Schutter – Throwback art completed in 2012
4×6 inches ~ Colored Pencils on Black Paper
Border and Background added using PicMonkey
Horse Graffiti – Wordless Wednesday
Tag: passions
“Time to Roll” – Another Wordless Wednesday
Will you unlock your passions and bleed colors?
My passion runs deep and yet often lays dormant and unused for extended periods of time. I set them aside under the burdens and obligations of life, or so I tell myself. I am only doing what is needed and what is right.
Really? Is stifling my God-given talents and desires a good thing?
We were each designed with a purpose. Talents, skills, abilities whatever you want to call them and we are expected to use them. For when we do we come alive, our heart and soul sing in harmony. Like a key that fits a long ago locked door, suddenly a whole different perspective on the world opens up to us.
Desires. I yearn to create and have since I was young.
Drawing, painting, writing it all stirs the passions inside of me. I also strive to encourage others and share with others, to make us all not feel so alone. When I draw or write I sense the presence of God and my soul finds rest in the moment.
Distractions. And yet, I so often allow the things of this world weigh me down.
It is then, when my attitude and moods turn sour that those closest to me suffer the ill effects. So I encourage you to go, to chase your passions, to live! To find what makes you come alive, for the world desperately needs us to come alive. For then we can truly help and touch others at their point of need. It is your choice! Now I am off to edit that novel I have procrastinated finishing for so long! And some other endeavors that are calling to me!
What passions have you set aside that you will now allow to bleed?
Learning to Fly – Wordless Wednesday
My young daughter riding her Arabian horse.
Can you say OCD?
There are times when getting carried away can be a good thing. I am one of those people that is always busy. I like to think of it as being productive but most often it is more of an anxiety sort of thing where I just can’t sit still. Much of what I accomplish may be urgent but rarely important.
And, yet yesterday I was able to sit down at my art table and pour my energies into drawing with new pastels that I received as a gift at Christmas. Time just slipped away…
Pictured above are 9×12 inch pastel drawings based on the black and white photo in the upper left corner of the picture. These are drawings of “Thomas”, my daughter’s full breed Arabian horse. My creativity has always seemed to come in bursts of frenetic activity. I guess today has been no exception. This makes me happy. Being busy is okay, being productive is better and when that happens abandon yourself to the process and flow. What positive activity do you lose yourself in?
It is not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? ~Henry David Thoreau
Follow Your Dreams!
“One of the reasons I work so hard, is so she can find her own voice and learn to sing.”
#KidsMatterOK #LoveChangesPeople
Now go follow your dreams!
Mark Wayne - Author and Warrior 