I love it!!! I am a mix of loving Halloween and loving Christmas. I swear! If I had more room....LOOK OUT! LOLOL I usually take photos like you to share. This year, something has just drained me, so I love looking at your photos. Thanks for sharing them. Here are some photos from years ago though. The last few are not at my studio, etc. but at my parents house. Sadly, they don't decorate, etc. like that anymore. The last three are just memories. Still, I thought that I'd share. Happy Holidays.

@Kristel Mallet You should do whatever makes you happy!!! I'm sure Katie feels the same. I'm a huge Christmas nut, so I usually decorate WAY more!!! I just haven't this year for some reason. Can we see when you do decorate? I love decorations.

That seems like an easy thing to answer but to me it's not. When I first began to paint, I felt more like you. That's actually why I decided to stick to Abstract art. It's freeing to me. Over time, I began to see meanings in my works though and that was really interesting to me. Even if some meanings were small, they were still meanings. I only created to create as a form of therapy after surgery. I'd continue to do so after a seizure, etc. as a way to cope. Some may think that's rather odd but we all have things to deal with in life and we all have dreams. Everyone doesn't have to have a life saving surgery or Epilepsy to have things that they have to deal with in life. I like looking at and figuring out the meaning behind other artists works as well. Creating is a way that we express our dreams. Like many artists though, I usually didn't have a deeper meaning in mind when I created, so where did a deeper meaning come from? Where do our dreams come from?! Today, I actually have more ideas in mind when I create some of my works but the parts that I find most comforting, etc. when it comes to my work today; is when I have figured out a meaning. When I finally get to let that painting, etc. go and move on. I find it beautiful that creating art of all kinds is often a way the unknown helps us to deal with life or to move on. Some may not see it that way but I do...Example: Multiple movies, musicals, songs, etc. are all made for different reasons. The directors, etc. have to have the ability to think clearly enough to put them all together but what power lay beyond that? What power helps guide directors, musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, etc. that we do not see? That even they do not know is there? Many movies, etc. were not created for some deeper meaning, yet many ended up touching others due to a deeper meaning. What if not the unknown is behind that? We never create just to create, we just think we do. I love figuring out those deeper meanings. I've written a book. I hope that's ok? Your post just made me think. 😍

They look great Katie!!!

Oh, those are lovely Katie!! I'd use oils if they didn't bother my allergies so much. The colours are soo vibrant! I love them. Stunning!!! I've been working on a old sketch that I turned into a digital work. I'll share it here but I've also gotten back on smoothies, so have been making those...etc. I made a digital work celebrating this being trans awareness week and I've also started a mixed media work. I have no idea where it will go but the fun is to find out. What can I say? I like staying busy.

@Katie Jarman I'm glad that I can look at them. They're beautiful. I'm having an allergic reaction to the resin I used on my tub. My head really hurts. It's awful! I'm hoping that I can still use my tub and it only gave me an allergic reaction because the resin was wet. I'm NEVER using that again to create with though...I can tell you that. These photos are beautiful. They make me smile.

@Katie Jarman We live and learn I suppose. I'm just going to toss it. It's not good for my allergies. It's ALOT of work down the drain but if I've learned anything in the years I've worked in the visual arts it's that we learn from our mistakes. I should have used the same things used in showers.