My secret place was in my mind. I retreated there when the absurdity of all that was going on around me became just too much for me to ignore. Once deep in my secret place, I would attempt to talk to God. Then I would do something that I called "Thinking Past God" attempting to understand what was greater than God. My body would go limp, my mind would go blank, and I'd pass out.
When I was a kid I had this place called The Somewheres. Where dreams reside. I could go there anytime I wanted. In the pool I'd swim with mermaids, in the woods I'd dance with fairies and in my room I'd sip tea with royalty. I'm actually writing about nowadays. Childhood is such a beautiful thing.
I'd always go to a place by Lake Michigan when I was younger. Saddly now A LOT of Condos are there now and my place IS GONE! Milwaukee is growing fastly by the lake and I DON'T LIKE the Lake front turning into peoples homes. I LOVED IT when you could look all around and see NOTHING! Now the big city is starting to take over, I'm SAD my place IS GONE!
I Loved this one! When I was little I had a secret place then someone discovered it and ruined it, so I searched for weeks for another secret place, and when I finally found it, I went back the next day and a Cat had made it the new home for her kittens ^~^
That painting is breath taking. When i was little, i had so many plans for my life. i had no pets, and my secret place had to be in my room, surrounded by my millions of stuffed animals(: i would talk to them, i was little, what else was i suppossed to do? It was fun(: i would let my imagination run wild. even if i was just staring at the ceiling. i felt that the stuffed animals were my friends, imagining and dreaming with me. Those were the good times.
you're inspiring, and i love that painting, it really reminds me of childhood, somewhere really colorful like willy wonka's chocolate factory. i miss when i didn't look at the world as a negative place but a positive, happy, joyful one. can i have your painting? i'd be willing to buy it, i love it so much!
There is a secret place where snakes slither beneath the surface of the water and lilies are eaten by starving smurfs hell-bent on changing the colour of their skin to that of the lilies and the snakes so they won't be hungry any more. A kind of iridescent green with spots of pretty white that everybody likes. It's secret because only those that can't escape go there, and once they do they don't look back and quickly forget, but that's ok. That's life. That's why it's still secret you see.
Secret Place? I guess I never had a secret place as a kid. Although always looking for a secret base. You know like young boys forming a club and exploring the woods. We'd go out and cut monkey vines to swing on. Sometimes you find someone else's secret place. A tree stand, a place where they shoot cars. I like getting up on a big hill. I found a dirt bike trail once on this huge hill top, (not very secret) but the view was amazing. Makes you wonder what is hidden right in front of you.
Beautiful painting. When I was a little boy I had a secret meadow; it was filled with wild flowers and butterflys and seemed to be fenced off from the woods.
We all need to retire to a quiet place once in a while and let go so things.
If you meditate, often you start off in your own secret or special place or places. I look forward to pictureing myself in your secret place next time I meditate.........it's special and secret and beautiful!
During a summer in the late 1960's in Wash D.C. my secret place was a shed in a neighbor's back yard that all the kids in the neighborhood had painted together during one long sunny, joyful day. The shed was alive with bright colors, shapes and figures. We were all artists that day. The walls became the canvas where all my friends shared their hopes, happiness and goodness. The shed came alive! I remember feeling that the walls with their vivid colors and creative shapes were indestructible!
Lurve this week's painting. My secret place was a pond fed by 7 natural springs, in springtime surrounded by long lush grass and daffodils. Bright orange fish swam close to the shores, which were covered in lillypads & cattails. Next to the pond was a 40 acre wood, overgrown and complete with an old Indian burial place. I rode my horse down there and spent many days daydreaming. I would lead my old pony behind, and we all would swim out deep into the pond.Thanks for the tender memories!
magical sums it up... I like to think that little boat is how you would get to your secret place and then just walk around under those trees and be at peace :) Great work !
you know you are so beautiful and such a unique person, i would love to meet you some day, i love people like you who know exactly who they are and what they are all about. I am a photogragher in Dublin Ireland and i would love to take your picture for free. you are a true artist.
My secret place is in books. When I was in elementary school I loved to read. I let the books consume my thoughts and I would get lost in another world. In middle school I kind of lost interest in reading, and I think that may be one of the reasons that I was so unhappy... now that I've rediscovered my love of curling up with a good book, life seems... easier. I think that's the right word. Now I have my secret places back again, and I can visit them whenever I want to.
Can't say I have a secret place really. Generally when I need to go somewhere to think or just be alone, I'll either go in my backyard and lay on my trampoline and watch the sky, or I'll go on a bike ride and end up down at the park that's on the water and sit on one of the benches and watch the sun set.
my secret place is when I take a shower, my senses only opened to feeling the water on my skin. My mind free to relax, and my imaginatin free to express. I think that's every1s true secret place is in their imaginations somewhere, it's only the matter of the elements around them. When some ppl go to a certain place to be on their own (ex. forrest), it sets an environment that makes their imagination create "you secret place".
Like for so many others, the internet has become my secret place. It's where I can take my shoes off and run around. Occasionally I step on something sharp or in something mushy but mostly it's a good experience. As a kid, I often would play in the woods near my house. There was this really big rock with a dead tree leaning on it and in the summer it was always much cooler in the woods because the trees were so dense.
That is one of the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen in my life =o I would totally have that hanging on my bedroom wall that is AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!
I have a secret place in my imagination. It's a beautiful place where I imagine myself and others and there is no negativity there. I feel refreshed when I visit it. It gives me hope.
Val, I can't put into words how amazing your art is. You inspire me. Your art is always so vivid and beautiful. I love how everything in your art often has a meaning and is more than just a pretty picture.
When I was a kid, my friends and I had a makeshift shack we set up in the forest. Then a bunch of pot heads from a high school took it over, so we destroyed it to spite them.
I think that adults need more secret places (just for soothe of heart), bc adults do prejudge way more than children. Some could say children just don't have any quality to go with pre-determined attitude, but "hey gimme a penny." Besides, i think everyone have secret place in heart, something which wants to come out, but wavers should it. And how to share secrets, i would wanna really know ideas, bc it is like EVERYONE gossips, no silence even in poker room ;(
i used to dream about being EVERYTHING when i was little.. i wanted to play piano i wanted to be a painter i wanted to be a photographer (see what i mean by every thing?) i was so inlove with art so now i want to be a painter, a photoagrapher, or a stop motion director (like tim burton hes my inspiration ~*^-^*~) i love horror and scary things so tim burton and i are alot alike :] i really like that painting though :] its PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTY.
I have a place in my backyard that my dog is burid beside a tree she loved. Now I take care of the tree and sit in the little crook of it and just think. It feels nice to think of her still there but I know shes not v.v
Hey, i'm an adult and i still have a secret place...just changed the name cause the same concept applies. I call it my Oasis, like you it's surrounded by trees and nature. When ever you have problems, going back to nature always seems to make things better :)
when i was young,i would always go to these woods down the street from my old house. there were tree stumps all lined up in a circle that were about two feet tall. i would walk along them for as long as i could stay outside just thinking and being a child. it sounds weird,but it's something i did when i needed to get away from my house. i loved it :D
oh yer ure art inspires me so ive started up spray painting and i enjoy it alot i only 1 and i spray paint :D because my dad had an old work bench so i use that and an easle to point with acrylic
man i got all excited when the winner of the horror poster is... hehe
My brother recently ripped my poster up so now im not happy hehe but i forgave him oh yer by the way about clowns when i was trick or teating with my friend this person in a clon mask walked down the street i was scared my legs froze :p Love Amber
My old hangout was the top of an old bread factory. That side of town feels like its abandoned but somehow its also the safer side. At night me and my friends would climb up there&just hang out until the early morning. We spent so many summer nights there, just talking about our futures. Nothing crazy bc there's security guards around lol.
I moved to an apt across town last year&now it's a lot harder to get back. You know? I guess it's always hard to "get back" in every sense of the phrase.
there is a wall of my room are white and i keep it that way because it is my secret place. When i want to go somewhere i can look at it an imagine all sorts of things kind of like a blank canvas. I paint a new picture in my head whatever i want/need that day. i loveeeee your paintings and love your style of art. keep them coming val :]
I have a few places where I like to get away from it all. Sometimes it's online, other times it's hiding out in the library reading about the universe and philosophizing about the mysteries of life.
When I wanted to get away from everything, I would go to a field a few blocks away from my house. In the springtime the grass was beautiful, and there were scattered flowers here and there, then during the fall and winter the grass would turn orange and I could hide in it.
When I first read the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, I would always imagine going to Narnia and all the adventures I would have. My grandparents had a huge antique wardrobe that they had saved from the war in Chile against Pinochet and I used to hide in there and dream against the bright colors and soft fabrics that hung inside.
Sometimes when we grow up, we forget how we used to think as kids. No matter how old, we all have that little kid in us and we should let him/her come out once in a while. Val, thanks for reminding me about that.. (Now, I'm off to find a secret place :) )
I used to visit my grandparents all the time, when I was younger. I had this place inside my grandmothers big, white closet, that I used to drink tea with my dolls and teddies inside of. It was my secret. The only other person who knew about it was my granddad, who used to bring me fresh raspberries. But, when he died, when I was 8, I never saw that place ever again. And every time I see a raspberry, I think of him :)
My secret place is not a physical place. I guess it is more in my head and heart and that makes it even more special because I can change it anytime I want!!!
i may still be a kid, just not little, but really just looking at this painting i just feel like a little kid, i feel like i could just get lost in it as it is a real world, i feel like if im crying and sad i could just walk into my secret place and i would be the happiest person in the world. This secret place is the most beautiful place ever as a child i never had one because i never had chance to make my place beautiful but looking at this painting i feel that this painting is my secret place
Adult secret place = local bar. A place to go after a bad day and forget.
as a kid there used to be a huge tree in my backyard right behind the garage so I used to hide behind my garage no one ever thought to go look there. It was just a place were I could go and be alone and think. I do miss having a place like that these days.
My secret place wasn't very much of a secret. My older sister and I shared everything when we were little. Together we were able to make a beautiful "secret place."
My secret place was inside my head. I couldn't wait to go to bed at night, so I could lie awake and just get lost in my imagination. I'd live in my mind when real life got hard. :] Sounds a bit psycho now that I think about it...lol
Well, i didn't have at "secret place", but in the moment i just love to sit in my window, with my legs outside. I specially loves it when the starts shows, and the moon lights it all up. I relly like the cold brease of freash air. I can sit there and listen to music all day long.
Well my secret place when I was a kid was the roof of our garage. It's not allowed to sit there because its dangerous... But nevertheless I've done so... I just sat there and had a wonderfull view to the street, the forrest (in fact it wasn't a forrest, just a couple of trees, but I thought it was a forrest ^^) and the other gardens. In the evening this was the most beautiful place to be. Just sit there and watch the sun say goodbye.
I loved my secret place when I was a kid. It was a fountain a couple hundred meters behind my kindergarten building. I hated taking baths in kindergarten so I would always run away to the fountain. It was such a beautiful place. It was near a forest so it was very green and colorful and the air was nice and I loved it. (This was in Russia by the way).
my secret place...memories, memories!!! i have had alot but i think my favorite would have to be behind the "cuboard under the stairs" (like harry potter!!!) it was a little cuboard shaped like a right angle triangle. sometimes me and my little brother would lay down with pillows under our heads and pretend we were looking at the stars and camping!! though the coolest thing about it was that i would tape paper on the walls and draw on it so it was like the walls were drawn on but they werent!
Your paintings are excellent. I respect your talent. My secret place is where ever my mind takes me. Everyday can have a new secret place, whether it be 34 stories up watching the city or laying on your back under blue skys and white clouds :)
so freakin' beautiful. It reminds me of my cottage, my secret place there was on a rock cliff that i'd sit on with my dog and just stare at the sunset day after day. You always see people in their boats passing by and they would ALWAYS wave at you. I miss that cottage. :(
My secret place was under my dad's pool table. I don't have one now, but I'm getting one soon (I'm buying alot of land next year, so I'm sure I'll have one). Your secret place looks so magical! I want to have a place outdoors like that where I can read, paint, pray, or just BE.
My secret "place" would be.. dancing.. I would dance and dance to get my anger out and feel better or i would listen to loud music to beable to put my self in a different world from where i was at....or i would do both and dance and listen to loud music...thanks for this video.
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I'm sorry Val, I cancelled my subcription.....too many uploads from you, and frankly, they just aren't interesting at all. It's me, not you. Good luck with everything though.
my secret place is the wonderland between the lines of my drawings =p
when I was a kid, I had a number of secret places. There was the forest in my backyard when my family still lived in the country. There was the very corner of the basement behind the old sofa in my second home, and there was this little grove of tree's that was about three hours away from my home that was eventually demolished to make way for a new suberb =/ but eh, these days I've left alone enough anyways.
It reminds me of my secret place which really wasn't secret because it was right beside a busy road, but it was a bunch of bushes with a hollow bit inside beside a hill and a mini forest :)
It was awesome and in the fall it had the most wonderful colours and I got it a Christmas tree in the winter once :P
Fun times :)
I think this is one of my favourites of your paintings so far :D
I'd love if I could get the poster, but I'll just hope for now :)
Ever since I can remember I've used water to calm me... Whether it is the beach when I'm on holiday or just the closest pool, either swimming lap after lap or floating and gazing... Being in the water makes me content and relaxes me. =]
I love that painting! It is amazing! When I was a kid my secret place was at my best friends house. He lived right next door to me and he had this amazing tree house his dad built for him. We would play up there everyday and had so much fun. I miss those days.
my secret place was the laundry room. we didn't live in a big house with a big yard, so the best place to play was in my mom's laundry room. i played house, i played picnic all in that one room. good times :)
btw my birfdays on november 3rd can u paint a llama eating a chocolate chip cookie lol, please! <33
i didnt quite have a secret place but i kinda remember where i use to imagine my imaginary frnd jen to live, it was a frienly town, the door to her town was right next to the door to my hallway.
my secret place was an old house in the middle of an enchanted forest. the walls of the house were completely made out of rose bushes and vines. the floor of the house was ice, but it wasn't slippery. i guess you could say it was glass... or quartz. quartz would be a good description too. it was small and had a large garden in the backyard full of all sorts of plants (some non-existent on earth) and a beautiful lake which contained all sorts of wildlife.
My secret place was similiar to yours so I can absolutely relate, mine was an orchard. Trees and bushes of different types of fruit, that you just get lost in for hours and when I got hungry, just grabbed something off the tree. lol Love the painting Val!
i Remember my secret place well. . in front of my house ther is a large field and on the other side of it there is a big row of large trees. i often would go to the biggest tree where i climbed to the very top. I would always take a book and would make sure i had a paticular type of sweet . "Extreme Sours" i loved them. from the top i could see the town where i lived and countryside . i often went in the evenings so i could see the sun set,
As a child, any moment I was alone, doing a chore, doing homework etc..I created a plot in my mind, a new world with different personalities of friends, environments, complex relationships and strifes. Here I escape, everyday advancing the plot, creating new events and feelings. I think it's amazing to involve oneself in such a complicated notion. When sad or need a sense of peaceful I revert to this world and live it, making new events, relationships,friends and I'm at peace with total control.
I don't exactly have a secret place. I always simply be in my room, on my bed and enjoy the time I have to myself. I always reflect, dream, wish, and well pretty much let my head run free.
At school, my art teacher constantly makes me change my work because she doesnt like it. she wants me to turn my idea into the one she had. the other students and i cant really have a "secret place" while in the classroom. we only do what she enforces us to do. that is why I save my thoughts til I get home.
that painting is beautiful! My secret place was always in my room, sitting on my bed, lost within the pages of a book. with books i could go anywhere. :)
NIce painting ;-) I'm always impressed by what you do.
My secret place was an island, where nobody could come and disturb me. It wasn't very big, it had nice white sand all around, a big mountain on one side with exotic trees and a lagoon of fresh water in the middle where I could fish. I had my little wooden house with a hammock next to it between two palm trees.
my secret place is my home break(beach) but at 1am-4am. i don't know what it is but the play on complete darkness allows my mind to escape. if the moon is out, it allows me to wonder and focus clearly. but lately i have lost it due to homeless and dangerous activity. i really miss it wholeheartedly.
My secret place is going to sound so cliche and typical, haha. It wasn't too deep into the woods, but it was by a pond and had a very small stone ledge. however, the mystical illusion of it all was ruined by the giant factory right across the pond. however it was mine and there was always the occasional old man in a fishing boat going by :]
made it so the leaves look liked they sparkled, so i used to call it the edward cullen, or vampire tree. so it was very peaceful, but during sometimes, i was at my dad's house because my parents are divorced, so... at my dads house it was a cemetary. or a playground nearby. either way, they were all places that were usually inhabitanted, so i liked to go there. so i guess thats it, beautiful art, i hope to become an aspiring artist someday. : )
my secret place was also a forest, more of a tree. there is some forestry behind my house, with a big tree in the middle of it. it has a huge slanted branch so I could easily climb the tree. many branches to sit on, i could be there all day just thinking. during the summer it got alot of leaves ,now some are coming off so it kinda sucks. And the weather is too cold to go there. the trees here also were colorful, one i used to make fun of because it kinda ,..... (continues in other comment)
my secret place was always with my grandfather when he died i lost that and have yet to find another one perhaps i never will but i will continue to search, like the painting keep up the good work
It seems a night of witches, that most sinister forest, the witch cross the river and left behind the boat ... I like how you paint the trees with these scrolls, a greeting
My secret place is also a forest, all the trees have really green leaves and when the sun shines through the leaves and branches it looks absolutely magical. The ground is soft and a dusty brown color, with grasses and flowers peeking out in a lot of places. There are leaves on the ground that crunch when I walk, and a large stream with beautiful rocks and a small waterfall.
I love my secret place <3 I always go there in my imagination when I'm sad or just wanting to walk around.
My secret place was definitely my art class in highschool. Putting in my headphones and being able to paint was a freeing and relaxing activity. Gives your mind a chance to wander and think.
Val, i'm gunna have to argue, i'm sorry. but it doesn't matter how old you are you can still have a secret place to go to where (for me) my imagination just explodes there's no other distractions or noises my mind just floats off to where ever. I live by a river in a small town and there's is this little 3 or 4 feet drop off down to this shelf by the river. i love going there. Great painting Val!
Val, it would be awesome if there were large static images of your art online so that we could quickly look through them all or set them as a desktop background!
This is a gorgeous picture! I want to shrink down and get lost in it. I feel like you're pictures exist in their own universe of colour and style & emotion.This photo reminds me of the best novels of my youth, & the most wonderful moments from them. It's like entering into a closet and have it open up to a warm and soothing Narnia or getting carried away to a brightly coloured NeverNever Land, or finding a tidy and flourishing Secret Garden. It's a fantastic sort of escapism. Touches the soul.
My secret place is everywhere I go. I think the imagination is a beautiful thing that is often overlooked. Wherever I go I know I can look at something, and then look at the same thing and see something else, and that's where I go when I need to escape. My imagination.
Beautiful painting Val! My secret place is my desk- I love to draw my stories, my art, my characters from my crazy imagination. When I am at my desk drawing, i feel so good, so secure, so right. People say, 'where do you want to be in 10 years from now?' I say: "My desk, drawing out stories in pictures." It's when I feel my best :)
Theres something about the forest, its strange because when I was littlewhile It was at times a scary place, at the same time it could be the safest place ever as well. That painting is amazing : )
This is probably my favorite painting by you so far. I wish I could afford your art...or any art in general. lol.
My secret place: is my dreams. I love to dream. Anything can happen in my dreams! But when I'm not sleeping, my secret place is probably when I go hiking with my dog. Anyway, just hiking through the mountains is super relaxing amongst nature.
I shared my secret place with my best friend. She had a huge backgarden which ended in a stream of water. There was this beautiful apple tree we always used to sit in. We'd talk and go to magical places, while eating apples. The best part about it was that we were the only ones who liked eating those apples. Her parents hated them. The only reason that tree was there was because we liked to play in it. The tree's gone now, it makes me sad. Your painting reminds me of that beautiful place I lost.
This is the most beautiful painting I have EVER seen in my whole life.
When I was little, I would run off into the forest and pick flowers, I loved it there. I also used to catch frogs and run out into the middle of the field. This really reminds me of that. It's so beautiful.
And now, I'm trying to find my new secret place, since I can no longer go to the other one.
wow that is beautiful ♥
I dont really have a secret place, but the prettiest place I've ever been was at a creek. Everything was so green and lush, I loved it
lolmlia 1 year ago
My secret place was in my mind. I retreated there when the absurdity of all that was going on around me became just too much for me to ignore. Once deep in my secret place, I would attempt to talk to God. Then I would do something that I called "Thinking Past God" attempting to understand what was greater than God. My body would go limp, my mind would go blank, and I'd pass out.
theloniousMac 2 years ago
When I was a kid I had this place called The Somewheres. Where dreams reside. I could go there anytime I wanted. In the pool I'd swim with mermaids, in the woods I'd dance with fairies and in my room I'd sip tea with royalty. I'm actually writing about nowadays. Childhood is such a beautiful thing.
bevbalistic 2 years ago
I'd always go to a place by Lake Michigan when I was younger. Saddly now A LOT of Condos are there now and my place IS GONE! Milwaukee is growing fastly by the lake and I DON'T LIKE the Lake front turning into peoples homes. I LOVED IT when you could look all around and see NOTHING! Now the big city is starting to take over, I'm SAD my place IS GONE!
247365mom 2 years ago
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bevbalistic 2 years ago
I Loved this one! When I was little I had a secret place then someone discovered it and ruined it, so I searched for weeks for another secret place, and when I finally found it, I went back the next day and a Cat had made it the new home for her kittens ^~^
midnightmoon710 2 years ago
what would I have given to have had a secret place when i was little.
falafelbunny 2 years ago
BEST painting so far!
annabananalady 2 years ago
have you chosen a winner
bianca65 2 years ago
ASHLEY YANINY VENTUAR
bryanventura 2 years ago
wow you got talent
JC1994BEL 2 years ago
me and you should have a secret place together val :)
cream183st 2 years ago
your theme tune is LA CATEDRAL!!!! THe greatest guitar composition ever written. I officially love you!
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
who ever won the poster for this?
sushi00time 2 years ago
That painting is breath taking. When i was little, i had so many plans for my life. i had no pets, and my secret place had to be in my room, surrounded by my millions of stuffed animals(: i would talk to them, i was little, what else was i suppossed to do? It was fun(: i would let my imagination run wild. even if i was just staring at the ceiling. i felt that the stuffed animals were my friends, imagining and dreaming with me. Those were the good times.
bumblebee5255 2 years ago 4
i would...
MrBen500 2 years ago
the furthest secret place is out of body, out of solar system and galaxy, chasing through a dozen black holes, an infinity away from earth
a way aways' away
the secrecy of infinity, a place of secret time and space
but coming back on a ultra-speed stream of electrons and ending up on a digital dot on a post on youtube
look very close it's hiding there in the secret place at the end of the sentence.
waiting to be set free again by the VAD woman
U so vry VAD
U irresistably VAD
VAD VAD VAD
gt40f 2 years ago
you're inspiring, and i love that painting, it really reminds me of childhood, somewhere really colorful like willy wonka's chocolate factory. i miss when i didn't look at the world as a negative place but a positive, happy, joyful one. can i have your painting? i'd be willing to buy it, i love it so much!
krystinax0x0x 2 years ago
There is a secret place where snakes slither beneath the surface of the water and lilies are eaten by starving smurfs hell-bent on changing the colour of their skin to that of the lilies and the snakes so they won't be hungry any more. A kind of iridescent green with spots of pretty white that everybody likes. It's secret because only those that can't escape go there, and once they do they don't look back and quickly forget, but that's ok. That's life. That's why it's still secret you see.
MrFlippymouse 2 years ago
I don´t have a secret plase but I like to go hiking in the forest. It makes me feel so free and fresh :)
I really like this painting.
Summer86 2 years ago
Secret Place? I guess I never had a secret place as a kid. Although always looking for a secret base. You know like young boys forming a club and exploring the woods. We'd go out and cut monkey vines to swing on. Sometimes you find someone else's secret place. A tree stand, a place where they shoot cars. I like getting up on a big hill. I found a dirt bike trail once on this huge hill top, (not very secret) but the view was amazing. Makes you wonder what is hidden right in front of you.
ConstructorsCorner 2 years ago
"Smurfs and cupcakes" - two of my favorite things!
Junglepete 2 years ago
Beautiful work.
DNAngela 2 years ago
Beautiful painting. When I was a little boy I had a secret meadow; it was filled with wild flowers and butterflys and seemed to be fenced off from the woods.
We all need to retire to a quiet place once in a while and let go so things.
Tomsde 2 years ago
My Secret Place
There's a place I go when the world is ruff
when the cold winds blow and the going gets tuff. It's my Secret Place
There's a place I go it's a place of peace
where my mind's at rest and my heart's at ease. It's my Secret Place
There's a place I go where I find new strength, where my wings will grow
to their full length. It's my Secret Place
There's a place I go, it's a place of LOVE
it's the mighty arms of God above.
That's my Secret Place
ElliePapadopoulos 2 years ago
Very nice. I like it sooo much. Thank you for uploading this episode. Take care. ssmmiillee ;)
ssmmiillee100 2 years ago
If you meditate, often you start off in your own secret or special place or places. I look forward to pictureing myself in your secret place next time I meditate.........it's special and secret and beautiful!
Phlorafan 2 years ago
Your Secret Place:
A rainbow of leaves Through and through
From elegant trees
Lined two-by-two
Hold sunlight inside So I see you
Asleep peacefully In your canoe
stefroggie 2 years ago
During a summer in the late 1960's in Wash D.C. my secret place was a shed in a neighbor's back yard that all the kids in the neighborhood had painted together during one long sunny, joyful day. The shed was alive with bright colors, shapes and figures. We were all artists that day. The walls became the canvas where all my friends shared their hopes, happiness and goodness. The shed came alive! I remember feeling that the walls with their vivid colors and creative shapes were indestructible!
gbrady3434 2 years ago 2
I think I'd like to go there....right about now.
Great painting, and video! Making me think back to my childhood now. :)
sarasoda23 2 years ago
Lurve this week's painting. My secret place was a pond fed by 7 natural springs, in springtime surrounded by long lush grass and daffodils. Bright orange fish swam close to the shores, which were covered in lillypads & cattails. Next to the pond was a 40 acre wood, overgrown and complete with an old Indian burial place. I rode my horse down there and spent many days daydreaming. I would lead my old pony behind, and we all would swim out deep into the pond.Thanks for the tender memories!
lulabelle33 2 years ago
magical sums it up... I like to think that little boat is how you would get to your secret place and then just walk around under those trees and be at peace :) Great work !
karnage27 2 years ago
you know you are so beautiful and such a unique person, i would love to meet you some day, i love people like you who know exactly who they are and what they are all about. I am a photogragher in Dublin Ireland and i would love to take your picture for free. you are a true artist.
joexhoward 2 years ago
what can i say only this: Your Painting is beutiful i love it
uliseshernandezl 2 years ago
My secret place is in books. When I was in elementary school I loved to read. I let the books consume my thoughts and I would get lost in another world. In middle school I kind of lost interest in reading, and I think that may be one of the reasons that I was so unhappy... now that I've rediscovered my love of curling up with a good book, life seems... easier. I think that's the right word. Now I have my secret places back again, and I can visit them whenever I want to.
MiniatureVegetarian 2 years ago
Really love the painting.
Can't say I have a secret place really. Generally when I need to go somewhere to think or just be alone, I'll either go in my backyard and lay on my trampoline and watch the sky, or I'll go on a bike ride and end up down at the park that's on the water and sit on one of the benches and watch the sun set.
mydnyt 2 years ago
my secret place is when I take a shower, my senses only opened to feeling the water on my skin. My mind free to relax, and my imaginatin free to express. I think that's every1s true secret place is in their imaginations somewhere, it's only the matter of the elements around them. When some ppl go to a certain place to be on their own (ex. forrest), it sets an environment that makes their imagination create "you secret place".
JayEhEnEaTee 2 years ago
Like for so many others, the internet has become my secret place. It's where I can take my shoes off and run around. Occasionally I step on something sharp or in something mushy but mostly it's a good experience. As a kid, I often would play in the woods near my house. There was this really big rock with a dead tree leaning on it and in the summer it was always much cooler in the woods because the trees were so dense.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
That is one of the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen in my life =o I would totally have that hanging on my bedroom wall that is AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!
jcschick121 2 years ago
I have a secret place in my imagination. It's a beautiful place where I imagine myself and others and there is no negativity there. I feel refreshed when I visit it. It gives me hope.
Val, I can't put into words how amazing your art is. You inspire me. Your art is always so vivid and beautiful. I love how everything in your art often has a meaning and is more than just a pretty picture.
mystermy 2 years ago
the final effect is wonderful : D great job! 5*****
lincredibilegnappa 2 years ago
Oh, what's so funny? You didn't deliver, so you will deliver next week! Just kidding.
Shotosboring1stpick 2 years ago
When I was a kid, my friends and I had a makeshift shack we set up in the forest. Then a bunch of pot heads from a high school took it over, so we destroyed it to spite them.
Osias1983 2 years ago
wow the finished product is gorgeous
jules7890 2 years ago
I go to the movies by myself sometimes. does that count? ^^
jules7890 2 years ago
I think that adults need more secret places (just for soothe of heart), bc adults do prejudge way more than children. Some could say children just don't have any quality to go with pre-determined attitude, but "hey gimme a penny." Besides, i think everyone have secret place in heart, something which wants to come out, but wavers should it. And how to share secrets, i would wanna really know ideas, bc it is like EVERYONE gossips, no silence even in poker room ;(
finlanzer8sa 2 years ago
love the painting! My brother and I spent hours creating our own islands when we were kids. My island was basically my secret place :)
all the games we would play, or people I would imagine being, were all from DJ Island!
xxyarboaxx 2 years ago
that's very nice! good inspiration thank you.
TBombshell 2 years ago
Wow awesome video and I really love the painting
bille2588 2 years ago
i used to dream about being EVERYTHING when i was little.. i wanted to play piano i wanted to be a painter i wanted to be a photographer (see what i mean by every thing?) i was so inlove with art so now i want to be a painter, a photoagrapher, or a stop motion director (like tim burton hes my inspiration ~*^-^*~) i love horror and scary things so tim burton and i are alot alike :] i really like that painting though :] its PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTY.
omgurasexywhore 2 years ago
i want the poster.lol
niranne 2 years ago
I have a place in my backyard that my dog is burid beside a tree she loved. Now I take care of the tree and sit in the little crook of it and just think. It feels nice to think of her still there but I know shes not v.v
silverponylover999 2 years ago
Hey, i'm an adult and i still have a secret place...just changed the name cause the same concept applies. I call it my Oasis, like you it's surrounded by trees and nature. When ever you have problems, going back to nature always seems to make things better :)
Tatsuma25 2 years ago
It's beautiful, enough said.
parnacher 2 years ago
when i was young,i would always go to these woods down the street from my old house. there were tree stumps all lined up in a circle that were about two feet tall. i would walk along them for as long as i could stay outside just thinking and being a child. it sounds weird,but it's something i did when i needed to get away from my house. i loved it :D
and btw,i love this painting so much!
sydneyxsmh 2 years ago
Thats soo sick! i love your colors and textures, thanks for making me aspire for somthing greater as an artist.
responsibleError 2 years ago
why is everything you do so beautiful?
iamsarahreid 2 years ago
Cause shes awsome like that!
silverponylover999 2 years ago
oh yer ure art inspires me so ive started up spray painting and i enjoy it alot i only 1 and i spray paint :D because my dad had an old work bench so i use that and an easle to point with acrylic
Love Amber
killerberry405 2 years ago
man i got all excited when the winner of the horror poster is... hehe
My brother recently ripped my poster up so now im not happy hehe but i forgave him oh yer by the way about clowns when i was trick or teating with my friend this person in a clon mask walked down the street i was scared my legs froze :p Love Amber
killerberry405 2 years ago
My old hangout was the top of an old bread factory. That side of town feels like its abandoned but somehow its also the safer side. At night me and my friends would climb up there&just hang out until the early morning. We spent so many summer nights there, just talking about our futures. Nothing crazy bc there's security guards around lol.
I moved to an apt across town last year&now it's a lot harder to get back. You know? I guess it's always hard to "get back" in every sense of the phrase.
sushi00time 2 years ago
amazing yet again !
: )
**Kisses**
ASECONDCHANCEAROUND 2 years ago
Val, I need this poster. I'm in college and my walls are bare and your artwork is beautiful!
Rainman4051 2 years ago
there is a wall of my room are white and i keep it that way because it is my secret place. When i want to go somewhere i can look at it an imagine all sorts of things kind of like a blank canvas. I paint a new picture in my head whatever i want/need that day. i loveeeee your paintings and love your style of art. keep them coming val :]
n0us3rnameleft 2 years ago
You are such an incredible artist and person.
jellotime91 2 years ago
GIMME A POSTER
culwin 2 years ago
love the painting
I have a few places where I like to get away from it all. Sometimes it's online, other times it's hiding out in the library reading about the universe and philosophizing about the mysteries of life.
HaleyMary 2 years ago
When I wanted to get away from everything, I would go to a field a few blocks away from my house. In the springtime the grass was beautiful, and there were scattered flowers here and there, then during the fall and winter the grass would turn orange and I could hide in it.
Shaylob 2 years ago
I just love this painting. You can really tell that that place is very dare to you.
ahooola 2 years ago
When I first read the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, I would always imagine going to Narnia and all the adventures I would have. My grandparents had a huge antique wardrobe that they had saved from the war in Chile against Pinochet and I used to hide in there and dream against the bright colors and soft fabrics that hung inside.
AllyWhore 2 years ago
i wish i had money so i could buy that beautiful painting! alas i am only a student... and therefore broke lol
music0creates0life 2 years ago
Sometimes when we grow up, we forget how we used to think as kids. No matter how old, we all have that little kid in us and we should let him/her come out once in a while. Val, thanks for reminding me about that.. (Now, I'm off to find a secret place :) )
starfish8910 2 years ago
...loved the painting! :)
Banyuaigo 2 years ago
what was the song in the background at the end of the video? thanks :-)
trumpmech 2 years ago
This reminds me of my secret fishing spot! Thanks Val! AWESOME! 5*
jjmazee 2 years ago
My secret place is by the water, where I feel comfortable and safe enough to close my eyes and leave this hectic world for a few minutes.
birdlygal 2 years ago
I didn't have a secret place. Darkness would always find me. :(
aryonas 2 years ago
I used to visit my grandparents all the time, when I was younger. I had this place inside my grandmothers big, white closet, that I used to drink tea with my dolls and teddies inside of. It was my secret. The only other person who knew about it was my granddad, who used to bring me fresh raspberries. But, when he died, when I was 8, I never saw that place ever again. And every time I see a raspberry, I think of him :)
caughtmewing 2 years ago
My secret place is not a physical place. I guess it is more in my head and heart and that makes it even more special because I can change it anytime I want!!!
sublimebeing 2 years ago
i may still be a kid, just not little, but really just looking at this painting i just feel like a little kid, i feel like i could just get lost in it as it is a real world, i feel like if im crying and sad i could just walk into my secret place and i would be the happiest person in the world. This secret place is the most beautiful place ever as a child i never had one because i never had chance to make my place beautiful but looking at this painting i feel that this painting is my secret place
4EverCiarra 2 years ago
Adult secret place = local bar. A place to go after a bad day and forget.
as a kid there used to be a huge tree in my backyard right behind the garage so I used to hide behind my garage no one ever thought to go look there. It was just a place were I could go and be alone and think. I do miss having a place like that these days.
Love the painting!
jax12007 2 years ago
wow this is just amazing. i love it!<3
echelonchick69 2 years ago
fun and coloerful!!
vjfronk 2 years ago
My secret place wasn't very much of a secret. My older sister and I shared everything when we were little. Together we were able to make a beautiful "secret place."
HyperKid66 2 years ago
My secret place was inside my head. I couldn't wait to go to bed at night, so I could lie awake and just get lost in my imagination. I'd live in my mind when real life got hard. :] Sounds a bit psycho now that I think about it...lol
SomeoneNamedChandra 2 years ago
psycho! not at all i did the same thing it helps fuel the imagination hehe
Bluemula 2 years ago
Thanks. lol I was feeling a little crazy. ^.^
SomeoneNamedChandra 2 years ago
Well, i didn't have at "secret place", but in the moment i just love to sit in my window, with my legs outside. I specially loves it when the starts shows, and the moon lights it all up. I relly like the cold brease of freash air. I can sit there and listen to music all day long.
Loudizess 2 years ago
very cool
Uciferlay 2 years ago
That's wonderful!
treesaver321 2 years ago
my secret place was anywhere my kitten was.
14doss14 2 years ago
Well my secret place when I was a kid was the roof of our garage. It's not allowed to sit there because its dangerous... But nevertheless I've done so... I just sat there and had a wonderfull view to the street, the forrest (in fact it wasn't a forrest, just a couple of trees, but I thought it was a forrest ^^) and the other gardens. In the evening this was the most beautiful place to be. Just sit there and watch the sun say goodbye.
Bye, Kerstin.
DunkinDonuts92 2 years ago
How much?
TheMeanArena 2 years ago
Cool painting. 8)
topcat4eva 2 years ago
This is amazing. :)
rebchuix 2 years ago
I loved my secret place when I was a kid. It was a fountain a couple hundred meters behind my kindergarten building. I hated taking baths in kindergarten so I would always run away to the fountain. It was such a beautiful place. It was near a forest so it was very green and colorful and the air was nice and I loved it. (This was in Russia by the way).
LapisGarter 2 years ago
Val you have a beautiful secret place :)
I wish I had one too!
elliottonyt 2 years ago
That was very inspiring .. Thanks you very much .
gaveyota 2 years ago
Hi val,
how do you get such great photos of your paintings? How do you take them and with what? And do you use photoshop?
Thanks,
dunielle
Vuji222 2 years ago
my secret place...memories, memories!!! i have had alot but i think my favorite would have to be behind the "cuboard under the stairs" (like harry potter!!!) it was a little cuboard shaped like a right angle triangle. sometimes me and my little brother would lay down with pillows under our heads and pretend we were looking at the stars and camping!! though the coolest thing about it was that i would tape paper on the walls and draw on it so it was like the walls were drawn on but they werent!
Xtremegirl314 2 years ago
Your paintings are excellent. I respect your talent. My secret place is where ever my mind takes me. Everyday can have a new secret place, whether it be 34 stories up watching the city or laying on your back under blue skys and white clouds :)
RyanAHaynes 2 years ago
so freakin' beautiful. It reminds me of my cottage, my secret place there was on a rock cliff that i'd sit on with my dog and just stare at the sunset day after day. You always see people in their boats passing by and they would ALWAYS wave at you. I miss that cottage. :(
Darrenshanfreak1 2 years ago
My secret place, was in the closet of my play room. My sister and I would always play and hide things from my mom and dad in there! :D
Love this painting! SOO pretty!
NissaRaeT 2 years ago
My secret place was under my dad's pool table. I don't have one now, but I'm getting one soon (I'm buying alot of land next year, so I'm sure I'll have one). Your secret place looks so magical! I want to have a place outdoors like that where I can read, paint, pray, or just BE.
noisetteflare 2 years ago
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noisetteflare 2 years ago
Oh, geesh and the painiting, I like the boat in the water with the reflection.
tecfriend 2 years ago
Amazing!
jpinkard 2 years ago
I love the rainbow!
Chironelle 2 years ago
0.03 nose squiggle
tecfriend 2 years ago
My secret "place" would be.. dancing.. I would dance and dance to get my anger out and feel better or i would listen to loud music to beable to put my self in a different world from where i was at....or i would do both and dance and listen to loud music...thanks for this video.
Christinamleal 2 years ago
thanks for painting this val, it's similar to what I am working on right now. I guess we never escape our secret places... even though we get older.
apetrova37 2 years ago
hey val,.=) you look like that hot girl in "the stations' ZOMBIE movie.lol you look really similar
ejayarts 2 years ago
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I'm sorry Val, I cancelled my subcription.....too many uploads from you, and frankly, they just aren't interesting at all. It's me, not you. Good luck with everything though.
egopower 2 years ago
lol she uploads like once a week. cheers mate!
screwoffreg 2 years ago
My secret place is a cave I found, I bought the property its on, its great
orbitofdoom16 2 years ago
my secret place is the wonderland between the lines of my drawings =p
when I was a kid, I had a number of secret places. There was the forest in my backyard when my family still lived in the country. There was the very corner of the basement behind the old sofa in my second home, and there was this little grove of tree's that was about three hours away from my home that was eventually demolished to make way for a new suberb =/ but eh, these days I've left alone enough anyways.
CheshireShade 2 years ago
wow, I love the colors in this painting, they work so well together. And I love your trees too... it evokes so much emotion..... very cool
ibm6789 2 years ago
It's beautiful :D
It reminds me of my secret place which really wasn't secret because it was right beside a busy road, but it was a bunch of bushes with a hollow bit inside beside a hill and a mini forest :)
It was awesome and in the fall it had the most wonderful colours and I got it a Christmas tree in the winter once :P
Fun times :)
I think this is one of my favourites of your paintings so far :D
I'd love if I could get the poster, but I'll just hope for now :)
ZenityChenity 2 years ago
I love the colors you used in this painting =]
Ever since I can remember I've used water to calm me... Whether it is the beach when I'm on holiday or just the closest pool, either swimming lap after lap or floating and gazing... Being in the water makes me content and relaxes me. =]
KatOfDiamonds 2 years ago
I love that painting! It is amazing! When I was a kid my secret place was at my best friends house. He lived right next door to me and he had this amazing tree house his dad built for him. We would play up there everyday and had so much fun. I miss those days.
geekgurl01 2 years ago
my secret place was the laundry room. we didn't live in a big house with a big yard, so the best place to play was in my mom's laundry room. i played house, i played picnic all in that one room. good times :)
punk0906 2 years ago
beautiful painting and wait who won the last one?
btw my birfdays on november 3rd can u paint a llama eating a chocolate chip cookie lol, please! <33
i didnt quite have a secret place but i kinda remember where i use to imagine my imaginary frnd jen to live, it was a frienly town, the door to her town was right next to the door to my hallway.
missy11309 2 years ago
my secret place was an old house in the middle of an enchanted forest. the walls of the house were completely made out of rose bushes and vines. the floor of the house was ice, but it wasn't slippery. i guess you could say it was glass... or quartz. quartz would be a good description too. it was small and had a large garden in the backyard full of all sorts of plants (some non-existent on earth) and a beautiful lake which contained all sorts of wildlife.
freakchickindahows 2 years ago
My secret place was similiar to yours so I can absolutely relate, mine was an orchard. Trees and bushes of different types of fruit, that you just get lost in for hours and when I got hungry, just grabbed something off the tree. lol Love the painting Val!
wgreen44 2 years ago
i Remember my secret place well. . in front of my house ther is a large field and on the other side of it there is a big row of large trees. i often would go to the biggest tree where i climbed to the very top. I would always take a book and would make sure i had a paticular type of sweet . "Extreme Sours" i loved them. from the top i could see the town where i lived and countryside . i often went in the evenings so i could see the sun set,
j8key08 2 years ago
As a child, any moment I was alone, doing a chore, doing homework etc..I created a plot in my mind, a new world with different personalities of friends, environments, complex relationships and strifes. Here I escape, everyday advancing the plot, creating new events and feelings. I think it's amazing to involve oneself in such a complicated notion. When sad or need a sense of peaceful I revert to this world and live it, making new events, relationships,friends and I'm at peace with total control.
AurorasDawn 2 years ago
nerd
o0oIZZo0o 2 years ago
trees of Life Val :] no secret though, Faith is this abiding peace called JOY . your colors show it.
jeffreysart 2 years ago
My secret place is where the eidos play,
where the sun is eternal, and the moon doth stay.
Gardens stretch forever,and streams run wild,
old things are new again and time is but a child.
There are a dozen paths to enjoy some wanders
and dreams edges line up with the corners
my secret place is the place of my daydreams
imaginary but no less real
^_^
PhilosophiX 2 years ago
that's really beautiful :]
freakchickindahows 2 years ago
thx :)
PhilosophiX 2 years ago
I don't exactly have a secret place. I always simply be in my room, on my bed and enjoy the time I have to myself. I always reflect, dream, wish, and well pretty much let my head run free.
At school, my art teacher constantly makes me change my work because she doesnt like it. she wants me to turn my idea into the one she had. the other students and i cant really have a "secret place" while in the classroom. we only do what she enforces us to do. that is why I save my thoughts til I get home.
Cesarkamm 2 years ago
that painting is beautiful! My secret place was always in my room, sitting on my bed, lost within the pages of a book. with books i could go anywhere. :)
xmyotheraccountx 2 years ago
NIce painting ;-) I'm always impressed by what you do.
My secret place was an island, where nobody could come and disturb me. It wasn't very big, it had nice white sand all around, a big mountain on one side with exotic trees and a lagoon of fresh water in the middle where I could fish. I had my little wooden house with a hammock next to it between two palm trees.
Thanks a lot, I had almost forgotten about it.
Jo
Switzerland
jeswissman 2 years ago
WOW, val! this came out extremely well! i love it; the colors, the reflection of the little boat :)
MegaMuffin4568 2 years ago
my secret place is my home break(beach) but at 1am-4am. i don't know what it is but the play on complete darkness allows my mind to escape. if the moon is out, it allows me to wonder and focus clearly. but lately i have lost it due to homeless and dangerous activity. i really miss it wholeheartedly.
hxctalent 2 years ago
My secret place is going to sound so cliche and typical, haha. It wasn't too deep into the woods, but it was by a pond and had a very small stone ledge. however, the mystical illusion of it all was ruined by the giant factory right across the pond. however it was mine and there was always the occasional old man in a fishing boat going by :]
AisforAni 2 years ago
my secret place was this fort my sister and i made out in the back woods. i miss my sister a lot.
mooncowslow 2 years ago
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did she died
AnglosEvanDaratar 2 years ago
no she went off to college, and now i dont see her and she was my best friend
mooncowslow 2 years ago
that's so beautiful..<33
vampireluver88 2 years ago
You will have to read upwards with mine, but yeah, hope you have alot of fun choosing, val. :)
Whinklluv 2 years ago
made it so the leaves look liked they sparkled, so i used to call it the edward cullen, or vampire tree. so it was very peaceful, but during sometimes, i was at my dad's house because my parents are divorced, so... at my dads house it was a cemetary. or a playground nearby. either way, they were all places that were usually inhabitanted, so i liked to go there. so i guess thats it, beautiful art, i hope to become an aspiring artist someday. : )
~Shauna
Whinklluv 2 years ago
my secret place was also a forest, more of a tree. there is some forestry behind my house, with a big tree in the middle of it. it has a huge slanted branch so I could easily climb the tree. many branches to sit on, i could be there all day just thinking. during the summer it got alot of leaves ,now some are coming off so it kinda sucks. And the weather is too cold to go there. the trees here also were colorful, one i used to make fun of because it kinda ,..... (continues in other comment)
Whinklluv 2 years ago
My secret place is my window, I get to look out over the city and get lost in my thoughts.
Its helped me during hard, sad, and shocking times.
Great Painting!
ImAlsoAwesome 2 years ago
my secret place was always with my grandfather when he died i lost that and have yet to find another one perhaps i never will but i will continue to search, like the painting keep up the good work
chupabitch 2 years ago
It seems a night of witches, that most sinister forest, the witch cross the river and left behind the boat ... I like how you paint the trees with these scrolls, a greeting
marcialeto 2 years ago
I see The letters Y-E-S in the sunlit branches of the tall middle tree and N-O in the dark tree at right.
Your secret place reminds me of a getaway spot in the convents' woods next to my art school: Tyler, back in the 80's.
There was a little footbrdge over a stream, under the trees' canopy of leaves, overlooking the neighbors' rolling fields.
I wanted to use that spot as my presentation for my glass blowing final grade. I set up my work, and when I came back with my teacher, it was gone.
LaJaDiSc 2 years ago
It's no secret.
Now's The Time.
Good work Alice.
qso1 2 years ago
My secret place is also a forest, all the trees have really green leaves and when the sun shines through the leaves and branches it looks absolutely magical. The ground is soft and a dusty brown color, with grasses and flowers peeking out in a lot of places. There are leaves on the ground that crunch when I walk, and a large stream with beautiful rocks and a small waterfall.
I love my secret place <3 I always go there in my imagination when I'm sad or just wanting to walk around.
UniqueeSkull 2 years ago
Really great~
The process of completing the picture like a charm!
LeeHyunJo 2 years ago
dear val,
when i grow up i want to be just like you. i've always wanted to be able to paint and you do it so beautifully.
i love your use of colors. basilcally, you're amazing. love maria.
thecolormaria 2 years ago 3
oh my heavens.
i want that painting.
sooo bad.
that's adorable.
thecolormaria 2 years ago
My secret place was definitely my art class in highschool. Putting in my headphones and being able to paint was a freeing and relaxing activity. Gives your mind a chance to wander and think.
crazycarolyn 2 years ago
woo alot of layers but the result is excellent
bobboberan 2 years ago
Val, i'm gunna have to argue, i'm sorry. but it doesn't matter how old you are you can still have a secret place to go to where (for me) my imagination just explodes there's no other distractions or noises my mind just floats off to where ever. I live by a river in a small town and there's is this little 3 or 4 feet drop off down to this shelf by the river. i love going there. Great painting Val!
alwaysfresh18 2 years ago
Totoro's home.
avidlurkviewer 2 years ago
Val, it would be awesome if there were large static images of your art online so that we could quickly look through them all or set them as a desktop background!
uberplayer 2 years ago
i'm with you.
i want these pictures as backgrounds too haha
thecolormaria 2 years ago
This is fabulous, Val!! The colors of the trees and lake are so beautiful.. We all need a place like that :)
hhMaddy 2 years ago
The balloons you release during the intro remind me of Balloon Boy.
His secret place is the attic, according to his parents.
lmm85 2 years ago
Val,
Your ability and willingness to express yourself is amazing to me.
eurotrashrob 2 years ago
TREE HOUSE!
remanuelli 2 years ago
This is a gorgeous picture! I want to shrink down and get lost in it. I feel like you're pictures exist in their own universe of colour and style & emotion.This photo reminds me of the best novels of my youth, & the most wonderful moments from them. It's like entering into a closet and have it open up to a warm and soothing Narnia or getting carried away to a brightly coloured NeverNever Land, or finding a tidy and flourishing Secret Garden. It's a fantastic sort of escapism. Touches the soul.
NextToNothing123 2 years ago
My secret place is everywhere I go. I think the imagination is a beautiful thing that is often overlooked. Wherever I go I know I can look at something, and then look at the same thing and see something else, and that's where I go when I need to escape. My imagination.
tjbailey08 2 years ago
I had a secret place when I was growing up. It was
a waterfall in the park across the street from our
house. I used to go there all the time and with
a friend sometimes. I haven't thought about that
slippery rocky wonderful waterfall for thirty years.
Thanks so much for your beautiful painting and
thoughts, now I can think of that place. I've never
had another one, guess I never needed it until now. ;)
iloveparee 2 years ago
Beautiful painting Val! My secret place is my desk- I love to draw my stories, my art, my characters from my crazy imagination. When I am at my desk drawing, i feel so good, so secure, so right. People say, 'where do you want to be in 10 years from now?' I say: "My desk, drawing out stories in pictures." It's when I feel my best :)
MysticZen 2 years ago
lol! Smurfs and cupcakes? Wow. lol. ; ] That's why I love ya Val.
MedMan30 2 years ago
Theres something about the forest, its strange because when I was littlewhile It was at times a scary place, at the same time it could be the safest place ever as well. That painting is amazing : )
SpectacularDesires 2 years ago
cool val
OrphanPaper 2 years ago
I like this one, so much!
benzone50 2 years ago
This is probably my favorite painting by you so far. I wish I could afford your art...or any art in general. lol.
My secret place: is my dreams. I love to dream. Anything can happen in my dreams! But when I'm not sleeping, my secret place is probably when I go hiking with my dog. Anyway, just hiking through the mountains is super relaxing amongst nature.
whitvest 2 years ago
I shared my secret place with my best friend. She had a huge backgarden which ended in a stream of water. There was this beautiful apple tree we always used to sit in. We'd talk and go to magical places, while eating apples. The best part about it was that we were the only ones who liked eating those apples. Her parents hated them. The only reason that tree was there was because we liked to play in it. The tree's gone now, it makes me sad. Your painting reminds me of that beautiful place I lost.
soraoftheevilgrin 2 years ago
This is the most beautiful painting I have EVER seen in my whole life.
When I was little, I would run off into the forest and pick flowers, I loved it there. I also used to catch frogs and run out into the middle of the field. This really reminds me of that. It's so beautiful.
And now, I'm trying to find my new secret place, since I can no longer go to the other one.
AVEREY4U 2 years ago
This is beautiful. It seems almost Tim Burton-ish. The trees, hills, colors, water, the canoe...everything about this painting is perfect.
SheSaid333 2 years ago
mine was my closet to i maked tree and flowers in it so it was like the woods
stirfry2471 2 years ago
My secret place was bihind this
huge garbage can in my neighboorhood. There was a wooden fence that had one log missing and we would climb through it and we had our little kids
world. We would bring tables from the garbage and boxes to sit on. Sometimes we would decorate it.. it was our house.
Even though it always smelled
and was very dirty.. it was a secret place to me and my friends.
ArtisticLana 2 years ago