You Tube Channel

 Get out your art goodies and let go on an adventure.  Play like you're a kid again, laugh, be free, and best of all there are no rules!  Be prepared to have fun and get messy...

Welcome to the Art Adventure!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/lesleycreations

update.... new members to our family

  Elizabeth, Henry, and Micah

Lots of work, but so fun to watch, and growing up so fast!!!!!

Very Exciting News:  Adventures in Collage has begun!  The classroom is buzzing and there are messy painted fingers everywhere you look. 

 Come join us if you would like, we are over at Wild Precious Studios.

just click here:   http://wildprecious-studio.ning.com/

Sharing my art process with other and helping them create has been a lifelong dream of mine, thank you awesome girls for being part of it and for being beautiful, creative and kind to other artists!

This is also why the blog hasn't been so busy,lol.

Barefoot

As we travel life's path we never know what we might come across. 

 I like to walk as much of the way as I can barefoot. 

 I love to feel the morning dew or the coolness of the river. 

Our feet are our connecting point to mother earth, to the energy that we are all part of, a large collection of unique people all connected by our feet. 

Take your shoes and socks off and go outside, feel the warm the the sun soaked into the grass, feel the energy pulsing from the earth

Art is like breathing

I believe that art is part of every human being.  Some of us tap into that source more often and more easily than others, but I think everyone has something to gain by creating from deep within themselves.  When I paint I often find that much of myself is expressed in my creation, but that there seems to be more than even I realize, when others see my art and react, their reactions are as unique as they are, even to the same piece of art.

A child placed at a table with a blank sheet of paper and a box of crayons can't help themself...that child is still within you, excited and ready to play, you have only to let the adult in you take a tiny break, no judging, no correcting, no over trying, just play.  Make a colorful spaghetti looking mess, or a page full of multi color circles, and while you're doing it, just for fun, pay attention, not to the composition or plan or outcome, but to the process, to each moment as it happens.  Let you hand choose a color, feel if it feels smooth or rough as you draw it across the paper, is it dark or light, do the colors blend together when they touch... 

If you get really ambicious and what to try something more, try breathing into the art, not blowing on it but breathing in deeply, then let the crayon be in motion on the outbreath, do this for awhile, then in a few days or so do it some more.

Really, try it, i dare you, lol, now you have to, laugh, giggle,

oooooo, now try laughing while you draw,

it's catching...

Enjoy!

The Beginning

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

My name is Lesley, and I am excited to share my life journey.

I have a daughter and a dog and they are my best friends.

I am an artist, photographer and nature lover.

First task: create a blog spot... Well, here we are.... Let's take a moment to cherish this beginning... Hello and welcome to my blog, more soon, including art and photos!