Chris Fornataro (Paint Coach) on Instagram: "Portrait painting gets a lot easier when you change the way you see. Some of my biggest breakthroughs came from doing specific exercises that train my eye to see shapes and color instead of details. In this exercise, I lit one side of my face with a blue light and the other with a warm light to clearly show the planes of the face and the color shifts across them. I also blurred the photo on purpose so I could only focus on simple shapes and form, not

Elevateshift™ on Instagram: "The happiest people aren’t living easier lives. They’ve simply stopped letting life break them. Most people wait for things to calm down before they allow themselves joy. But life doesn’t work that way. The chaos doesn’t ask for permission. It shows up unannounced, again and again. The real shift happens when you stop resisting the storm and learn how to stay grounded inside it. Not by denying the pain, but by refusing to let it steal your spirit. Happiness isn’t the