Painting Peonies

This morning I felt like 

painting peonies

So I did… using peonies I picked from my garden earlier this week as a model.

They are starting to fade but still beautiful today.

“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Then I combined the painting with a photograph I made two days ago of the peonies.

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

And I tried combining them in Photoshop a different way…

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

What will you create today?

May you walk in beauty.