Just before the holidays, Barbara asked me for a special gift: a pair of custom painted Converse All Star shoes. I love new creative challenges so I was really looking forward to working on this project…the inspiration was beginning to flow!

After a trip to the local art store, I had all of my materials for the project: a white pair of Converse All Stars, and a set of “Stained” fabric markers, by Sharpie. Let the creativity begin!

This was going to be an unusual project. I had two requests: one shoe was going to be black & white, and the other, color. On the first shoe, Barbara asked if I would use black ink, and draw whatever I wanted. And on the other shoe, she wanted a little house painting on one side, and she left the other side up to me.

I would love to do this again but it is time-consuming, and the shoes are a lot more costly than stretched canvas. If anyone is interested in a pair of custom shoes, I’m asking $200 for the shoes of your wildest dreams!

I just finished my latest art project!

“30 Days 30 Designs $30“

What words inspire you? What motivates you? What helps you through tough times? What brings you back to your center? I want to inspire you – I want to be inspired – and I want to share the inspiration!

I asked everyone to send me their favorite INSPIRATIONAL quote(s), phrase, or mantra, and then I selected 30 quotes to create a new original art series!

Each day during the month of November 2012, I selected one inspirational quote, and used that quote as the inspiration for a new work of art!

See the completed series below: (click images for larger view)

: “If your mind is closed, you have already chosen. If your mind is open, you are open to possibilities.”

: “Be BOLD and the mighty forces will come to aid you.” …Getting “WAKE UP!” tattooed on your hands would be bold. This is the very FIRST design of the series!

: “Break the habit of listening to your mind. Instead listen to the wind in the trees.” ..the mind is the doorway to peace and inner stillness. Walk beyond the mind and enter the vast space within.

: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

: “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” This is the 4th design of the series!

: “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

: “The water flows smooth where the stream is deep. The wolf barks not when he steals the sheep.”

: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” … When I think of this quote, I get a feeling of freedom and peace, like a dove flying free…

: “If it’s wet, and not yours, don’t touch it.”

: “Never Hurry, Never Rest”

: “My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot though the grass.”

: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a Unicorn. Then always be a Unicorn.”

: “Smile Anyway.”

: “Life is not how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.”

: “To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him or her grow and actualize him/herself.”

: “You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

: “The medium is the message.”

: “A man could be a lover and defender of wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, power lines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there…We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope: without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis”.

: “This too shall pass.”

: “If the highest aim of a Captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

: “Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”

: “Goals are deceiving. The unaimed arrow never misses.”

: “Only a rat can win a rat race.”

: “Be water, If you pour water into a cup it becomes the cup. If you call water into a teapot it takes on the form of the teapot. Now Water can crash!.. or it can flow. You can’t grab water. You can’t break water. You can’t hurt water. The only time water grows stale is while standing still…So be like water my friend and keep on flowing.”

: “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

: “Music is the sound of the soul.”

: “As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.”

: “It’s like spending your whole life trying to untangle the spiderweb, only to find that the spiderweb has been perfect all along.”

: “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

: “Sacred Geometry is the Structure of Everything”

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