The times they are a changing… (I hear my Mom’s voice in my head saying this…)

I guess this will be the introduction to a new series of blog updates.  This is all about the changes that are and will continue to be happening to me professionally, personally, and in all other possible means.  I hope you will enjoy getting to know the intimate ways that color is affecting my life and how I plan to use it to affect the lives of others.

First of all professionally…

I took some time over vacation to evaluate all that I am investing in my business and all the returns that I am receiving.  As you know, I merged my Buckets of Color business with The Painting Company last year August.  It has been a great learning experience combining businesses, but there are things that we could not accomplish together this past year so we have come to a mutually beneficial decision to part our merger and stand next to one another with respect and joy.  I will still be sending my color consulting clients to The Painting Company and I look forward to continuing to serve their clients with my color services.

This separation also provides me with the opportunity to reconnect and make new connections with other painters in our local area and beyond.

I recently had a client who had me back to her home to finish rooms we hadn’t addressed the first time around.  She used to be “embarrassed to have company over” and she actually said that she “hated her home.”  That is no way to wake up every day.  When I first came to her, she was planning on replacing her countertops and repainting her cabinets in her kitchen.  I suggested she make other changes and put the money for the countertops into taking down wallpaper and opening up her space instead.  Now, she “wants every party to be here,” at her home!  She loves her home and can’t believe she’s living there.  That’s the way to start your day!

I want to connect to more people who need change and feel transformed by the change we create together.  I look forward to building new relationships that help me to get to this place.

In addition I plan on pursuing my art career again.  I’ve been really thrilled with all the body painting experiences I’ve had lately and I really look forward to more.

Here is Klimt’s The Kiss painted on a model for publicity for a gallery in Easton MD (www.thelittleyellowpaintbrush.com – those are my teeter totter paintings hanging on the wall in the background.  They are also for sale there!).  Creating temporary art that people experience with a resonating feeling afterward is another focus to my color work.  There are so many people who are looking to grab attention, and this type of art is the way to do it.  I’m looking for relationships with people who need to capture their audience’s attention and have a buzz of excitement that is left over after an event.

Henna art is an ancient way women adorn their bodies with beauty.  This is a perfect way to enhance any women’s gathering.  We gather and talk and create beauty that can cover a scar, enhance a feature, and lasts for a few weeks.  It’s a way of tattooing without the commitment or the needles.

Henna is a plant that is combined with sugar and essential oils to form a gel-like dark brown product that you squeeze onto the skin to create designs.  The Henna mixture then dries on the skin creating a crusty mud substance on the skin.  After the dried design is removed, there is an orangey stain that remains and continues to get darker within the next 36 hours.  Here we see a leg tattoo in its crusty state and then the stain that is left after 36 hours.

So in this blog you will hear me discussing my artwork and all that I am doing relating to that as well as the color consulting.

Finally personally you will also begin to witness the adventures my husband, my son (Everett is 5), and I are about to embark upon.  We have decided the typical suburban life is just not for us.  We are in the midst of downsizing and getting rid of as much as we can.  We are in the process of booking gigs for my husband’s music (www.whoisalexgordon.com) across the country.  And we are looking for a vehicle that we can travel and sleep in.  We don’t know exactly how all this is going to come about, but we are currently booking and looking!

This also means that we could be coming to your area!  I hope you will sign up and continue to keep tabs on us and where we are traveling.  We will frequent the Maryland area through the fall and will most likely be hanging out in Atlanta for the winter.  But who knows for sure…  It’s all a mystery and an adventure.

“Buckets of Color Blog” is now officially; because it’s all about art and color!