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Vibrant Art & Travel Adventure

Plein Air~ Illustration~Vision Paintings~Watercolor Passion
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Grab my list of books that changed and shaped all aspects of my life. I've included YouTube channels that have inspired me and favorite Facebook groups and influencers that I follow. If you are searching for your way I made this list in the hopes that someone else might find guidance.

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  • 1 travel print download
  • 2 mini coloring images for download

 
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Money Manifestation Art and Meditation is an art tutorial, guided meditation, and a 5 day mindfulness practice. This will help you see, feel, and believe in abundance. Attract all your desires while you make a vision board like none you've ever made. See for yourself how creating art can help your mind shift into creating abundance.

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Meet the Travel Artist

Hi there! I’m Rachael Shores.  I am living in Erlangen, Germany as a transplant from the US, originally born in Minnesota. One December day in 2016 my husband and I asked each other what was next in our life. All our friends were buying houses and having kids.  Within days we decided to quit our jobs/sell my massage business, sell our two Subarus, sell all our things and move to Europe and try to live in a foreign land.  We chose Germany because my hubby’s engineering degree seemed like the most logical fit.  This was a dream I had never even considered a possibility.  A year later, I get to live out all my wildest dreams, I’m traveling with this great guy I’m married to, and I’m an artist! 

I began training myself to be an artist when I was 4 years old. When I was 16 I was accepted into and attended an arts high school in Golden Valley, MN.  Art has been a way to express myself when I couldn’t find the words. I want to capture the emotion of a place and remind people of the joy and beauty that is within them and this world. I paint in reverence of this beautiful creation. My palette is bright and vibrant and almost impossible for me to tone down.  I “speak” in a variety of styles: surreal vision paintings, storybook style illustrations, realistic pet and people portraits, plein air of my travels, and almost exclusively in watercolor, my passion.

I had 3 dreams in high school:

  1.  travel the world
  2. Get married and live in a log cabin.
  3. Be an artist.

I have traveled the world as well as road tripped around the United States. I worked odd jobs like being a snowboard instructor, a cake decorator, and a salmon seiner in Alaska.  I got to cocktail waitress on Bourbon St. in New Orleans and did a fair amount of manual labor like housekeeping, factory work, and CNA jobs.  Every job I did was to pay for adventure and travels. In the end I visited 34 countries and all 7 continents within 6 years and an extra bonus, I hiked half the Appalachian Trail.  I finished the Appalachian Trail in 2008.

I met my husband in 2006, in Antarctica, where we spent the winter – 6 months – working together.  In 2009 we married and moved to Asheville, North Carolina where he went to college as a Mechatronic Engineer and I became a licensed massage therapist. After college we lived in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Roanoke.  It seems like we were settling into the American life until we realized we both share the same adventurous dream.   One day I’ll have that log cabin, maybe as my little art studio. 

 

Vision Paintings

This is the style that emerged as I learned about the mind-body connection in massage school. I finally embraced the fact that my art was my voice for all the encouragement and inspiration I wanted to express.  The ways that images connect to create feelings, to illustrate dreams or mantras, I found I could better paint the feelings of love, joy, and harmony better than I could ever use language.

How would you like to see the vision for your life every day?

What color is your business plan?  What path is the story of your life? What images and colors were in that vivid dream that you woke up from feeling like you could rule the world?  What does your muse look like? What is the journey your ideas take? What kind of landscape do they dwell in?  Let’s paint it so you can hang it in your favorite place so others can have a glimpse into your soul but not even realize what they are seeing.  It will be our little secret.   Magic happens when I put on paper what has floated around in someone else’s head.  Having the honor of painting these paintings shows me that we are all connected.  I would love to discuss your vision idea.

Where words are inadequate, lets bring into reality an image of what can’t be photographed.  Here is your opportunity to use my skills in art to create your personal masterpiece.  I have used this style to create a wordless purpose statement and business plan,  captured experiences in Reiki sessions, guided meditations, dreams, songs, poems, and personal mantras. It has celebrated love, desire, walking with the divine, self-acceptance, and life goals.  By whatever tool you come across your vision we can work together to recreate it in a  painting that can help you maintain that message and feeling that you glimpsed.  Paint what your heart feels, what your inner self dreams of, what is that message?

Come to me with your story for a free consultation to see how we might interpret your imagery.  Have you been doing work with a coach or guide or program? Finish it with a vision painting to reinterpret daily.  The wonderful thing is that your painting will speak to others and it’s message will be put into different words by those that see it.  It’s a beautiful thing.  Your message, your practice, your imagery could inspire someone else.

The process and what’s included:

Free: Let’s sit down in person  to discuss what you would like to capture.  My ability is to be able to take what you have seen, imagined, felt, and convert it to a 2D composition.  This is the time you get to see my creative process and how a painting forms.  With your guidance we figure out the imagery, focal point and all the technical composition issues that make an interesting image.

Non refundable $150: Now is your chance to hone, tweak, clarify.  In addition to the first sketch I may draw more detailed studies, I will use value studies, examples of other work, sketches, other color palettes, to communicate with you just how I see your painting looking and you can do the same until we both understand the vision and plan.   I gather ideas and examples via Pinterest so this process if more fun with those that have a pinterest account.  Our board will stay secret if you prefer.

Phase 2 non-refunandle $100: Now comes the color studies and  palette mock-up, the prepping before the actually painting.  You will have crude sketches and mini paintings for souvenirs.  I’ll let you see these BUT understand the process.  This is my note-taking for little details, or basic design elements.  With your permission I will blog and give sneak peaks of the process while keeping you and your story anonymous.

Reveal:  Invite your friends to your painting unveiling if that is appropriate.  The process is an adventurous fluid experience t piece changes as it grows and develops beyond what we had comprehended.   I will share the stages that the painting went through once the painting is presented.  The creative path can look scary to outsiders but a beautiful painting always emerges.  Full and final payment is due upon receipt.

Full Price: $650