Day 22 of Art Every Day Month, and I am playing today.  I stitched and then colored it in like a coloring book.  The paint did not spread well on dry canvas so after spraying water all over it the paint was more like a dye.  I really like how the colors ran together.  I probably, no should, be getting things ready for Thanksgiving.  I am blessed to be hosting several relatives that haven’t been to visit in years.  I’m so excited to see them, not so excited to clean…

Machine stitched a piece of a photo from our trip to Venice several years ago.

No idea what I’m going to to with this canvas but it’s waiting for when my muse drops in for a visit.

As I have enjoyed reading all the amazing blog posts during Art Every Day Month I realized something about me.  I have been hesitant to call myself an artist.  I wasn’t sure why, but I have felt in my heart I wasn’t an artist yet.  Now I know why I felt that way.  I “can’t draw”.  Somewhere in my mind I have a definition of what it means to be an artist (really realistic sketch artist).  Now, here is the crazy part -that definition only applies to me.  When I see other artists I don’t put that limiting definition on them – heavens no!  Any way they create is art – I have seen stunning photography, body art, paintings, quilting, poetry, writing, and of course, drawings.  Thanks to AEDM I know one of my  limiting beliefs  and can now begin to rewrite it and see myself as an artist.  Thanks Leah and all the artists I have met this month!Here is today’s art – arranging the mirrors – many thanks to my hubby for patiently working with me as I decided on the placement of these mirrors.  Still have some mirrors to purchase to fit a few last spaces but at least they are up on the wall now!  I smile each time I walk past them. My kids say that it’s taking them a bit to get used to seeing themselves in one mirror as they walk up the stairs.  Sort of freaks them out that someone is there until they remember that it is them….