Monday, April 25, 2011

Clouds

with love to Phoenix for encouraging my cloud photography by getting me this cheerful mobile for me to hang my favorite photos from

This post is dedicated to clouds. To me, clouds are the flowers that we take time to smell.  Looking up rather than ahead or behind.  They are our connection to nature, in a way that reminds us that the world is much bigger than us and works on its own time table.  It is a reminder of seasons coming, yet they ground me in the present moment, appreciating my life where it stands, a person without an agenda. One nation, under clouds, with liberty and justice for all. (Hehe, my dad taught me to say that when we said the pledge in school;)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Doodle- It's good for you!

troubedors

LooLoo and Looming Clouds

Prickly pear pads with a wee bit o' dimension


My favorite style doodling is the kind where you don't let yourself lift up your pen.  I end up outlining shadows and  capturing shapes that I didn't notice in people's features before. More than that, drawing a sketch or playing with paint colors is like meditation. I love a day that is slow enough to immerse in portraying something beautiful we are thinking about.  It's a chance to delve into the spatial and visual parts of our mind.

What is more inspiring than ma' dog !?

Lucia de Guadelupe
wondrous and crowned with glowing sun ray warmth
regal, wise and discerning
my desert babe swaddled by nopales e estrellas
love endorsed by roses sweet
with la luna as her partner deity
and Tutuli cheerful cherub

Loosey is my muse, as she is in so many of my photos as well! Because she is a goddess, you know. Tutuli is the little cherub. heehee 

I have been drawing and painting again lately.  Hurray!  I am so happy to be giving myself time, space and energy for art and relaxing in my life.  It is so wonderful to crack out the craft supplies after lugging them around and collecting more, move after move for so long- always dreaming about my craft space.  It is starting to be realized!!  It may have been a year and half since I have drawn - amazingly enough, but I am not too surprised because time flies as usual and I continue to dabble here and there with other musings happily.  But it feels great to break out the water color!  I think I have forgotten what techniques I used to love to use in order to get gradients and layers, but it is coming back to me. I think it is all about the timing and drying.  Well this pic didn't quite do all that, but it does celebrate Lu through color.  I started it with a line drawing of the sort that you don't pick up your pen much.  I enjoy that style, where I draw outlines of shadows instead of shading. I do love to paint dogs.  Along with yards and nature, it the thing I think I have painted or drawn the most so far.  If anyone wants a pup painted let me know!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Musings



My first post on my creative musings... This craft was inspired by hanging out with ma' sweets Alexandra.  We crafted positive affirmations into little reminder notes.  I do love affirmations. She came up with the idea after reading the book "You Can Heal Your Life", by Louise Hay. We took many of the negative criticisms and the judgments we tell ourselves that the world sends us (boy that was uncomfortable) and turned them around, to help change the story of our lives, as we know it.  I have them in a little plate because it feels good to move them around in it as I read them here and there at meals this week.