RAINEE DAZE ART LLC
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA

helping me to rebuild and move forward in life and into my artistic journey. I am inspired by the simple things in life. A smile given, the sparkle of light dancing upon the morning dew, a single daisy in a field, a blotch of red color in an otherwise drab setting, a child chasing butterflies, everyday beauty and simplicity. Those simple things are my anchor in life, they ground me and help me to remember that there is always hope. No matter how dark my life got, how bleak or seemingly hopeless things felt, I looked for those simplicities and always found them. If I could not find them, I created them, they were my silver threads of hope to hang onto until I was able to move on. Inspiration is always with us. It doesn’t always hit us with the big “ah hah” moments and often it comes after we actually “begin” not before. I have the most wonderful & inspiring boyfriend ever. Very shortly after we met he gave me a phrase that has helped me over and over again. It is a phrase that I have shared with many others also. What this means is simple, if we are striving for perfection constantly, we tend to get so wrapped up in being perfect that we miss the thousands of things we did good. So by pushing for perfection, and then beating ourselves up when we cannot obtain it, we have missed out on seeing and embracing all the other things we did well. We become imbalanced in our perceptions as well as making ourselves feel like failures when in fact we are really good at so many things I find this to be true in my art as well. When he and I first met I had just begun my journey back into the art world. Yet I was scared to try a lot of various techniques because I felt that the art I was already doing wasn’t perfect. I became a dabbler at my art and yes I enjoyed a lot of it but I was always just shy of actually embracing it, and I very rarely could say I liked a finished piece. There was always something I did wrong, or I was good enough at, or everyone else did so much better than I did. I had even found myself doing very little of my own artwork and instead was doing mostly coloring work for other people. I loved doing it, since I am a huge lover of color and blending, but it never truly felt like mine because the original image wasn’t my own work.