These three paintings are examples what I have been keeping busy with. I was working on a few landscapes, daily paintings and watercolor seafood paintings. If you have any questions please email me from my website. www.anyalincoln.com


Tomorrow I am supposed to make participate in an Arts and Crafts show in Bastrop, LA but instead of frantically trying to paint as many paintings as possible, I decided to dedicate this morning to doing things slow, blogging and enjoying my three baby-free hours. Katya is with Ms. Deanna just in the next room and I hear them signing along with Elmo videos.

The school year, which usually brings me a bit of personal freedom, didn't quite do it this year. September started with birthday parties for kids, and art workshops for adults. I had a wonderful time while discovering teaching talents I didn't know I had and met some great people. With Katya teething September was a blur and so was the next month. Then, of course, at the end of 9 weeks of school and a couple of parent teacher conferences I realized I wasn't spending enough time checking my older girls' homework.. Two more hours at night now taken up by reading math books and reviewing science study guides. In other words, things haven't been so easy lately. In general, between being a mom to three girls of different ages (all 4.5 years apart), not sleeping well and having a passion for painting that keeps me working overtime, life has been DIFFICULT. Now tired of this endless stream of events that seem to all blend together, I decided to take a more conscious approach to my life. After all its MINE and I can make it what I want. Yes, there might be plenty on my plate but I am a creative person and no reason that same approach can't apply to everything else I do. Now that I have been trying on this new mode of thinking for a week, things seem to have improved. Mainly because I started to give myself permission to do things the easy way, when I can. Also permission to not feel guilty about things, any things AT ALL, and allowing myself to feel entitled to peace and love. Another shift in thinking that happend recently is I decided not to make things that don't work in my life into stories about me. Its a lot less depressing to have a painting that didn't come out just because a painting didn't come out, then because I am incompetent, or stupid, or lazy, or disorganized, or what else I used to tell myself on regular basis.