Busy Busy or is just a state of mind.
January 24, 2012
Am I busy? is it a frame of mind? yes I have a lot on that has to be said, but I am noticing that when I keep thinking and saying I am so busy how am I going to fit everything in, then the feeling of never having enough time seems to permeate my day. Neve feel I am making headway. So now I am beginning to realise i need to replace this view, its not serving me at all!! ”There is enough time”, just holding this thought I notice a different vibrational quality, this is going to become my new mantra.
So today I am up at 4.30, have done my meditation, written my morning pages, which is a must and so helpful to me to empty my thoughts and write it out so to speak. Its now 7, still pitch black outside, going to make breakfast, grated apple, desert spoon each of jumbo oats, sunflower, flax and pump seeds and then when all stirred into the wet shards of apple I put a dollop of Rachel’s greek style natural yog on top. Sometimes in my homemade yoghurt, but not this morning.
then it will be off to the office, have to finish of an apartment design, continue with a presentation for Feb 1, continue ongoing work on 7 other projects, keep calm and meet a supplier and keep telling myself “there is enough time” Its full on no doubt but if I take my day in my stride, hold a knowingness that each day unfolds in precisely the correct fashion, what gets done today is what is meant, and for each day as it unfolds…………..
Today’s image is a mandala I sketched out in a state of ecstasy and purest joy, after dancing five rhythms for 90 mins I was on such a high, I am going to link this image with my Mantra, so everytime I say “there is enough time” I can call up this feeling too………
what to do next
January 1, 2012
Another day of sitting, 5 more weeks I have been told, I am so missing just stepping out and walking in nature. It is so tantalizingly close, I can see the green of the common the skeletal trees, some with a few leaves still clinging, people walking their dogs and I am sitting down with my leg up
What to do next? yesterday played with photoshop, today I thought I would have a go at embroidering myself something, a small purse for my special things, tomorrow, well that’s another day !!
Oh dear I have lost my tail
December 30, 2011
Up early this morning, resting on my seat with a view. Spent the whole day working with my shoe images. Guess unconciously I am drawn to the feet, seeing as I cannot walk far with this cumbersome ” walking plaster” boot thing. It is very restricting, but then I guess its meant to be. I am off to hospital after breakfast to have another xray and see if it needs putting in plaster, hoping not. I managed to persuade them before christmas to give me the boot, they wanted to plaster, so watch this space.
Here is an image I like and this time there is no feet only mermaid tails, original drawing executed in oil pastels, paint and pencil. It was inspired by a dream about a mermaid and her tail fell off and could be seen floating down deep into the depths of the sea
the shoe journey
December 29, 2011
Another day of enforced resting ! a long while back I began a journey with my ancestors, I made shoes out of white paper and tissue paper that I printed with images of my grandmothers. Its been a long time since I looked at them and have today spent sometime working with a pair I made with hydrangea petals, I wanted to bring them together in an image, and here it is.
Click on the shoe to see more paper made images
a walk in the woods
December 12, 2011
Amazing what a walk in the woods can reveal, a triumphal arch, a gothic window, wildwood tracery in a stain glass window……………….
Paths through the forest
November 5, 2011
working with colour, different mediums, different methods, felt very fragile when completing this. Been a difficult week, last night just wanted to get out some paint and let it happen. Feels in some way like a journey the forest, flickering shades of autumn, the sun dancing on fiery leaves.
Seems I was inspired by my early morning nature walks………now these are the real thing ! Autumn leaves are so beautiful now, deep cherry reds, corals and oranges to deep purples and pinks and yellows
More heart stuff
October 13, 2011
pencil sketch with watercolour
New pastels
October 13, 2011
trying out new pastels, didnt like this medium before but in this new style pallete of colours instead of “sticks” is a very different feel. so been playing
The Heart Tree
October 12, 2011
continuing with my heart series , dont know quite where this is all going but the heart seems to me like a tree, a tree of life. Where would life be without a man and a woman? The life force, the blood pumping through heart, our viens, the veins and arteries forming tree like structures within ,just as outside, like mighty oaks, roots deep in the soil and branches reaching up into the cosmos. The macrocosm and the microcosm
Created in pencil, digitally coloured
eyes on the world and some heart stuff
September 25, 2011
sketch book doodlings…………. and more creative stuff
Imaginery creatures
August 28, 2011
Played around in my sketchbook coming up with all manner of creatures today. I was so amazed at the characters that appeared, they just evolved from blobs of watercolour and a graphite pencil……… Its the emotions that surprised me, each one definitely showing a unique characteristic
I am going to be using my sketchb00k to illustrate emotions, an “emotional” journey. Today was a start, a good start thanks to Carla Sonheim and her Snowball diaries http://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/
Peaceful or asleep?
June 11, 2011
Are they at peace? asleep, or blissfully unaware…………. I am exhausted, physically exhausted and drained of every ounce of my energy. Been packing and unpacking, putting together bookcases, tables, and trying to bring harmony to my new offices, its a slow process, but an enjoyable one.
I want to be asleep like these precious beings, they look so peaceful but my mind is working overtime, thinking, thinking and I actually want to be asleep, blissful, restful sleep so I can awake afresh and make the most of tomorrow.
Pencils, graphite and colour and a little imagination
Incubation
May 29, 2011
That creative flow is flowing !!
I have been sketching in my little book, a lttle black book which I like the texture of the pages, but the colour of the pages I dislike intensely, there a buttery yellow and they just dont appeal to me at all. Yesterday I doodled away and today came to an end……. Its a kind of incubation process………… the seeds are sown, you can see the bean like pods swelling on the vines, above each is a kind of canopy that imparts the life fore, the breath of life into each one……..
A pencil sketch
today, some more creative flow
May 26, 2011
Pencil sketches on my travels, on the train, hotel room, or actually just waiting somewhere……………. could be at home. Just a normal graphite propelling pencil, smudged with my finger.
today’s creativity
May 26, 2011
I see this as a wondrous tree spirit, both masculine and feminine, wise, loving and full of playfulness. How did I do this? it started of as two image, one, a picture of a very ancient tree and two, a pencil sketch that I drew yesterday of the sacred serpent entwining itself around a spirit body. Today I played around with them digitally and had some fun, and this is the result. My day started very early, up and awake at 5am. Creative juices were flowing and I just had to act on them……….. you know how it is !!
