The theme for Week 11 of my Art Journaling Caravan is Flourish.

(flour-ish: grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, esp. as the result of a particularly favorable environment…)

When I sat down to start Week 11’s Art Journaling project, I just gazed upon the blank canvas as nothing was coming to mind.  And then I just started throwing elements onto the canvas, randomly placing colorful items on the page.  Hit save and then walked away and went to bed to let the design simmer overnight.

I have to be honest, there are days I feel like throwing in the towel and just going back to work for someone else.  Do you every feel like that?  But then I go to my happy place (behind my camera, somewhere in Joshua Tree National Park)  and all is right with my world once again.

And when I came back to it, I totally scraped what I had created and started fresh (with the easy button aka DELETE). I don’t recall know what inspired me but I love what I created.  A reminder that I just need to keep practicing my art of photography (developing my skillset) and never stop pursuing my dreams.

So the images to the left are mine from the past 6 years.  Wow, hard to believe I’ve been at this for 6 years (only 4 years professionally). And the images on the right are images of inspiration of where I want to go with my photography, focusing on high school senior girls. 

And I love this quote from Mae Chevrette. I just may have to get this one printed so I can display it at my workstation at all times.

I just need to live in my happy place ALL. THE. TIME!

Enough of my random thoughts today.  Have a wonderful week!  Until next time…

xoxo,

Patricia