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Awaken The Artist Art & Coloring Challenge – Day 2/21
Today I drew a Whimsical Tree on my Facebook personal profile page. The first video stopped in the middle (silly Facebook!) so I picked it up again on a 2nd video there. After that I did a bit more detail work on Periscope.
I am using this 21 day art challenge to experiment with more than one social media platform and get a better idea where and how to spend my time.
Sometimes I draw and talk and other times I speak only as I also have various processes and knowledge from my journey to share with people who are ready to get unstuck creatively speaking and make art for personal and professional reasons.
Drawing video 1 of the Whimsical Tree
Drawing video 2 of the Whimsical Tree
1 Minute Instagram video sharing the finished product 🙂
CLICK HERE for the last bit of the drawing on Periscope
Let me know in the comments if you would like to access a digital version of this drawing and we can color together 🙂
Love,
Wendy
Awaken The Artist Art & Coloring Challenge – Day 1/21
Welcome to the Awaken The Artist 21 Day Art and Coloring Challenge.
Today is Day 1 and so far I’m having fun livestreaming from various social media platforms including my Facebook personal profile, Awaken The Artist business page, Awaken The Artist Art & Coloring Group (request to join), Periscope (wendygyoung) and Instagram (wendygyoung).
I am posting my daily livestreaming links on this blog so you will be able to see all the art I create for the challenge. To view the videos on these platforms it might be necessary to like or follow my pages and profiles. The links will remain visible until the end of September for sure to provide inspiration for your creative journey.
So if you feel the urge to create art and feel stuck in some way this is a great opportunity to jump in and get your creativity flowing again. I expect to be personally transformed in this process and if you jump in and really participate I expect the same for you as well.
So without further adieu here are all the links to Day 1 …
This is my first video on my artist page where I am announcing the challenge
I also created an Instagram Intro about who I am and what I’m doing here.
Okay this has nothing at all to do with the challenge however I was feeling silly and courageous after making it through the first day and wanted to test out the Instagram Boomerang ap with my sweet dog Simba 🙂
DRAWING VIDEO 1 (Facebook)
I created this drawing using a pencil and a small canvas so I could complete it in one session. I am planning to paint it in another video session. Here is a photo of the completed drawing 1: 
DRAWING VIDEO 2 (Periscope)
Click to see a –> completely different drawing on another small piece of watercolor paper on Periscope. I will be painting this later as well. Here is the completed drawing 2: 
I hope you enjoy the videos and if you feel inspired to create art please share it with me.
Wendy
PS. Please tell your friends about this challenge!
Awaken The Artist 21 Day Art & Coloring Challenge
I know. It has been a long time since you heard from me.
All that family stuff made it so challenging for me to stay focused on my lifetime dream of ART creation. Plus my three decades of entrepreneurship was on hold so that I could tend to the needs of my mom.
Well, four months ago I moved my mom into memory care and she is doing well. I liquidated the contents of her house, helped get it sold and then took some time for rest while visiting my mom and squeaking in some time to make art.
Now I have time and energy to pick up where I left off and move forward with my personal and business life.
Tomorrow, September 1, 2016 I am launching my Awaken The Artist 21 Day Art & Coloring Challenge. I’m keeping it real simple.
If you want to keep up with everything in one place you can “like” my Awaken The Artist Facebook Page.
You can also sign up for the challenge and receive tips and stories to help you create. I will also share some of my coloring book pages so you can color along with me.
Awaken The Artist 31 Day Coloring Festival
After many months of tiny baby steps in between taking care of my mother I am excited to serve. Tomorrow, April 10, 2015 is the first day of my Awaken The Artist 31 Day Coloring Festival.
I have found that our creativity needs a little help from our inner child. One of the first creative tools a child picks up is a crayon and blank paper or a coloring book. And when we are all grown up and find ourselves stuck from life’s numerous escapades the creative inner child is ready to step in.
Moving Through the Tough Stuff
Ever feel like it is one thing after another?! Life just keeps happening and sometimes there is no time for a breather?
These days many are experiencing a quickening in challenging life events. If you are one of them I totally feel you.
This has been my life for about 30 years. My twenties were turbulent and when I started on my healing path in 1989 things began to make some sense.
10 years ago began a new series of events and six years ago another big series and then many other since. And when I take a closer look I see that they are all very connected and
I have often wanted to write about them and the reality is that when things are happening so fast and with very little recovery time it can be easy to lose track. It is my intention to share more as I walk this path because I receive insights that help me and others. I know that by sharing my journey in the form of story and insight from the experience it is serving a larger whole.
So with that in mind….
A new series of events began the end of February.
I bought a new car out of the blue (fun and surprising mystical experience I still intend to write about!).
A couple of days later I was in the process of moving and I missed a step and sprained my foot and ankle … the worst sprain ever!
After looking for help I just had to walk on my foot, carrying boxes and pushing my way through.
My dog and I stayed in a hotel for several days and walking him was painful! I held onto cars and the side of the building and sometime sat on the curb. And it was cold and rainy and I was moving SLOW.
During this time I was in the process of selling my old car which took three days of non-stop work (driving from one side of the city to the other, trading cars and getting documents together) to make it happen. I really felt as though I was being tested.
I also felt as though I was pushing myself to the next level of inner growth. While that was nice to realize I was just tired and my sweet dog was getting confused over the continuing change from one car to the other.
I kept pushing through. I had no other choice.
Then after several weeks of testing my mother was moved into a lock-down unit of an assisted living home for dementia – very emotionally challenging.
It has been a challenging couple of months working towards acceptance of my mother’s health. All kinds of anger and grief has surfaced and keep working through it using my own processes and getting help from other energy healers
There is no other choice for me. What about you? What is your choice?
I’d love to hear.
xo
Wendy
PS. One hint to move through the rough stuff: Create Art!
Day 9 – Saying YES to BEING RAW and BEING ME
Sometimes I think that I am not poised and articulate and graceful. I talk fast at times. Sometimes I sound like I have a Texas or country accent. I do not feel polished. Much of what I know and use I taught myself. I do not have formal training in many areas of business or the arts. I kind of like it that way because I prefer to do things my way. When I have taken classes in the past or been told what to do rarely do I listen and when I tried to listen I did not get results like I thought I would. So I guess I will just keep being me and listening to my own intuition and inspiration and not concern myself with what others may think of me. That is where true authentic, personal power live anyway.
Love and Light!
Wendy
What Is Your Dream?
If your personal, magic genie entered your life today and said you would be granted a life living your biggest dream from childhood what would it be? Would you be ready to live your dream?
Go back to your youth and remember what you wished for. Your dream is your gift and it lit you up.
For me it was art.
And perhaps like me you did not have the opportunity to play in your gift at that time. That is because NOW is the time. We are living in a beautiful time to reclaim our gifts and live more happily then ever before.
I worked to discover myself over the past several years having no idea where it was going to take me. I was searching for my happiness even though I was not aware of it. I just kept doing my inner work to feel good more often and it worked!
Lo and behold I discovered that Visual Art is one of my Divine Gifts and it is practically all I want to do. I found a way to own my gift and it changed my life in so many ways.
And one of my other gifts is that I connect people to their Divine Gifts that have been hidden from view for decades. Now is the time in history to uncover those gifts, play and share with the world.
What is stopping you? When will you give yourself permission to connect to your gifts and live in your passion? Your gift is your ART. Yes, you are the artist of your life and you awake each day with a blank canvas. What is the art you are creating today? Everything is art. Look around. Look inside and tap into YOUR art!
Claim an inspiration session today and get started. Together we will create magic!
Love and Magic!
Mandala Drawing Lotus Circle Flower
Mandala Drawing Possibilities Flower
Mandala Drawing Ringside Flower Take 2
Ha! Well the perfectionist that lives inside of me attempted one more Ringside Flower Mandala drawing! Still not the same but perfect anyway. We creatives can just let go and create without worrying about getting it right. It is all right and perfect in this very moment. Play!
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