Like last week, another video of making a mandala, the inspiration and the final piece....these are so fun to do, but I do have something totally different for next week.... painting something other than circles...
Here's the video i promised on monday, .... Of me painting the acrylic piece i posted on monday..., finally ready.... And for those of you from what's on your workdesk wednesday...In it you can see what's on my workdesk while i painted... My son's favorite toys ever...
I made another video for you this week. In this one i have painted 4 watercolor mandalas in my sketchbook. I read on a few people's blogs lately that they tend to skip the videos when they see them on people's blogs. I am just the opposite, i love to see videos, especially art videos of people creating. I vegetated a bit this week in the evenings watching art videos, and if i had saved all the links i would show you the best of what i saw, some amazing things.... But i didn't, ooops. Anyway, please don't skip this video, it's about slowing down to enjoy what you see..., it's about 5 minutes long... Slow down, take your time and relax! That's my deep thought and advice for you and for myself this week. Slow down and enjoy what you are seeing and doing without being in such a rush to see and do the next thing. I will try to Take my own advise, and just do one thing at a time today!
And for those of you who just truly don't have the 5 minutes today, i'll post my 4 sketches below the video...
I have another video for you that I made, there's a mandala in flowers and a little bit of me painting a self portrait, although I will say it looks more like me when I was younger and thinner than it does now. My eyes are too big here, and my hair in this is black instead of brown, but I guess that's the way I saw myself when I looked in the rear view mirror to paint it. I don't show painting the whole thing as it was too hard to hold the camera and paint in the car! But it's only a few minutes long so please watch it!
Here's the video I made for you and tried to post last week....there's a few spots I'd like to fix but it's done so I'm leaving it as is, it's a learning experience, this movie making.....
If we own a place,
Does it own us in return?
Our stardust remains.
My deep thought for the moment.....
So this week, i drove over the bridge, and looked over to "my spot" on the river, and i started wondering why i feel as if it now belongs to me, and if it does belong to me will there be anything left of me there when i am gone? Does a part of us linger in a spot we have spent time at? I love an old home that's been lived in , old books well worn, old loved dolls,and i am drawn to the cemetaries.... is it the remnant of other lives left behind?
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.
Contrast of hard rock
against white lace, old and soft...
Synchronicity.
I am linking to Haiku my heart, Artists Play room as my word was lace, and Paint party friday. Have a great week everyone!
Monday, May 14, 2012
Meet, Meera Shaw, she's is battling cancer and is one of the original 5 members of the Secret Dream Skirt Society. As soon as she started loosing her hair to chemo she started dressing however she wanted, finally feeling she'd earned the right to do as she pleased. She started writing love notes to herself all over her clothes, her shirts, her jeans, and on her skirts. In honor of her, but not always able to dress that way at their places of business her 4 best friends made their own skirts and slips and bloomers, and wore them around under their work clothes, and the Society was born. Meera is now doing well and continues to dress however she pleases. She's taken to wearing bright scarves even though her hair is coming back in.
Meera's daughter, Shayleen is 6 years old and she loves dressing like Mommy and even wanted to cut her hair off too. The pair make quite the show when they go out to dinner together and to the parks. Timothy, her husband, the quiet artistic type just sits back on the bench smiling at the two of them and their antics. He just keeps thinking to himself he is the luckiest man alive to have them both, right now, right here.Tomorow may change things butbright now he's happy.
Meera's favorite flower is the tulip and Timothy always kept her hospital room and her bedroom filled with tulips in pots. In an unrealistically, almost movie like dipslay of timing, the tulips that he planted all over their yard for her in the fall, bloomed the day she came home from her last day of chemo treatment!
The original 5 members were also part of an sketchbook group where they would head out for an hour or two and sketch together then eat of course. So here's some pics of one of their travel watercolor kits.
The paint is sakura watercolor put into an old lozenge plastic container which fits into an altoid tin. Some stickjy stuff holds down my pencil and brush which takes apart to fit. The end of the brush is sharpened to write with watercolor. There's wax paper as you can write over it to create a mask like a wax crayon or frisket, plus a tissue for clean up. This all fits in my small purse with my sketchbook and sharpie pen. And here's the skecth I'll do in the video....
And a video of sketching a tree in the backyard.
SDSS update..... i am working on my skirt and the patches to give away.... no pics yet!
I've got a video for you this week of making this latest mandala.
It's a bit shaky in certain sections as I handheld the camera while I was painting. Totally need a tripod I guess. But it's a first try so don't judge it too harshly! It's alittle over 5 minutes I think so just GO WATCH IT!!!! I really enjoyed making the videos, almost as much as painting so let me know what you think, and hopefully I'll get better as I go and I've started the next video already...
full of rich color
paint flows and blends together
dancing pen lines move
and......
One more Rainbow mandala,
and a sip of sangria to go.....
