I had the thought that I’ve been struggling with old archetypes because I am not putting myself in the right state before working with them. I am deliberately rendering them instead of letting them flow out. Horsewoman is a potent archtype for me. I decided to experiment with being present with her energy before painting her. I had a couple […]
Inviting Horsewoman Back
Staying engaged in expression
My last post about working with Crone energy I created a painting during a satisfying expressive painting session. I posted a painting in a Facebook group and it got a lot of attention and positive comments. Which is great! But I am not used to that. I am used pulled-aside whispered praise. That first painting was an assignment for a […]
Exploring The Crone Archetype, Loneliness, Ageing as Isolation and How That Has Been Affecting My Self Expression
I recently ran into an old friend, one of my first friends when I moved here, pregnant. It was a very hard time in my life, but this woman was part of a group of women who welcomed me into their meetings. All of them, if I remember correctly, were identifying with Crone energy. I am now entering that stage […]
An Emotional Reunion With My Archetypes
I’m really struggling with the transition to menopause. Obviously it is hard for most women. I can deal with the physical symptoms for the most part, though yesterday it was hot all day and when it finally cooled down I started having rather intense hot flashes so that sucked. But the thing I hate the most is the affect it […]
Monotype!!
I’m taking a printmaking class! We are starting with jelli plates, and I made today, it will be set tomorrow. I didn’t buy enough glycerin so I made a smaller plate. And since I already have a purchased jelli plate, I decided to make the homemade one round, for fun. I also gathered lots of round things for making impressions […]
Experiments with limited palette and not-the-usual mark making
I did this series of experiments as part of a class I’m taking. I don’t want to explain the actual assignment in detail since it’s someone’s course. I didn’t really limit palette that much, just tried to use up colors of ink and acrylic that I don’t like it used that much of. I worked from a reference photo of […]
Developing and enlarging sketchbook ideas
This is an exercise from the sketchbook class I’m finishing up. You focus on a page that you like and identify 5 marks and colors. Then you scale those up and repeat them on separate papers. I chose turquoise wash, sepia smudges, turquoise scratches, white lines and light brown transparent tissue paper collage. It didn’t occur to me that serious […]
Self esteem and @tiktoktraumadoc “Iffirmations”
The past few years I’ve been at the tail end of perimenopause. Hopefully will go into full menopause ANY DAY NOW PLEASE. It really is like going through puberty, so many changes, in every aspect of my life. I saw the video below on TikTok and really loved it. IFfirmations! In the Find Your Joy class I am taking, the […]
The art I’d like to make and what is in the way
If I imagine the art I would like to make in the future, I see large, haunting paintings, with rich colors, representational, but also odd, distorted and strange. But not creepy, just psychological. Symbolic. People see different things in them. They are layers, with some texture, but refined. They look like they took skill and people who look at them […]
Thoughts about Seth Godin on CreateLive
I’m taking an art course called Find Your Joy taught by artist Louise Fletcher. I’m just in the first week. She posted an interview with Seth Godin and much of it is about fear (embedded below). He also recommends that people blog every day. So I’m doing that, badly, but I just want to get into the habit of it. […]