Love Lives here!

Ah, hearts have always been my love and I see them everywhere. When I paint them it is even better. You see, when love lives here, deep inside my own heart, it is easy to see love everywhere. Do hearts magically appear in front of me? No. 

Because I am aware and alert to where hearts are: in nature, in art, and life in general, then I see them. Because I am a collector of hearts, in people and in life, they show up! People send me hearts, buy hearts for me, and otherwise share their hearts with me.

This is why I paint them too! It adds to the love in the world as well as in my own heart. I love my "heartpourings" whether in word or artwork.

I hope you do too!

Much Love,

Artist, Bette

YES I AM STILL PAINTING!!!

                                                   

             TIME FOR SOME SALSA DANCING!

HI THERE!!! I am dropping in to share a fun project I did! I loved doing this so much!

I have been, for quite some time, been playing with watercolors! OOO la what fun!

It all started when I was asked by Ronnie to make some paintings to illustrate his living food philosophy book. 

Commissioned are for a book? How cool! Okay, wait.  He paid me big bucks and I created the paintings. THEN HE FOUND OUT IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE to put photos in a book. OY!

Although accustomed to acrylics, we both wanted a medium more suited to his book, as it was to "grow organically"!

So I played with the softer and more delicate tones of watercolor!! What fun, fun, fun!!

I was grateful for this experience!

The Love People Painting! Although this was completed years ago I wanted to share it with you!

What do you see?

Look Up!

This is a mural on the ceiling I created in my sister's massage/healing room! This picture you see is exactly as you would see if you were lying there for a massage!

Details of Pooh Mural

OH POOH BEAR!

I was so excited to be commissioned to paint this mural in a naturopaths office in Danbury, Ct. Oh yes, it made me feel like a kid again!

When I was a kid we did not do much in the way of outings except go swimming in the creek (eek what just touched my leg!).

I do recall a couple movies and Pooh was a part of that at some point. Such fun! It never left me to this day!

Here is a few detailed pictures of The "Pooh's Balloon Bliss" Mural. 

                                                   Gopher eating his grapes!

Eeyore just doing what Eeyore's do! 

Pooh is heading up to his honey! 

 Owl fetching balloon 

Tigger and Roo wheeeee

Bette Shaw of
Artgirl's Daydream Brushworks

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH COLORADO

This was created with chalk on the sidewalk in Nederland, Colorado (where I fell in love with Colorado) for a contest. I was pretty surprised when it got mentioned on the nightly Fox news! 

Art night at Joey's...He says it looks like North Dakota so I named it that. ..and another North 

Dakota scene!

A paper towel I dabbed my paintbrushes on became a work of art!

The Ink Blot Test "The Beat of My Heart" created at my dear friend's Art Party. Jan 2010