by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Featured, Soar with Joy, Winged Creatures
How to Paint a Monarch Butterfly with Acrylics I love butterflies. The monarch butterfly is the butterfly that migrates like birds do. They are large and brighten our backyards here in the Midwest in the summer. Planting milkweed attracts them to your spots. Come...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Intuition, Shamanic Crafts, Shamanic Journey
Do you see colors when you hear music- or hear music when you look at art? If you do, you are in good company: About 4% of the population is estimated to have some form of Synesthesia This is a condition that could be described as “wires crossing”- meaning...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Shamanic Crafts
What is your magical moment with Hummingbird? My one-on-one experience happened in Arizona, but before that I had been ‘dive-bombed’ a couple of times by hummingbirds; in the mountains in Colorado, later in the desert preserves of Arizona. But this was...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Intuition
I confess: I enjoy slow mornings! I always was more of a night owl than an early bird- and who wants worms anyway?- not an enticing expression! And sometimes, these slow mornings even come with insights. Like today where I after my second cup of coffee looked out and...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Shamanic Doodles
Shamanic Doodle I love how I don’t need to ‘think’ a picture into existence when I am doodling. From no plan comes a ton of comments on reality and it’s connectedness to non-ordinary reality. Looking at the doodle I see Reality as...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Featured, Shamanic Doodles
This doodle was mixing medias- I had been editing for hours that day, looking at myself painting and it felt good to draw the image- kind of owning it by using my hand and my own media rather than the screen. I decided to use color to illustrate the canvas only and...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Featured, Intuition
Intuitive Painting- Accessing the Source The most important rule about intuitive painting is that there are no rules! No rules to follow for proper painting technique, that is. No rules for proper anything, actually! It doesn’t even have to look like anything....
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Materials
Don’t waste time looking for the right pallet like I did! After trying many different types of paint pallets, including paper plates, plastic pallets, wooden ditto; even disposable “paper pallet sheets’ I finally have the very best pallet. Tips from...
by Susanne Andersen Szippl | Materials
Would you like to know the easiest way to clean your pallet? I don’t know how you clean your pallet but when I started painting I didn’t know the best way to clean my paint pallet! How NOT to clean your pallet Wiping all that unused paint up with a rag was...
