Embrace

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female, figure, figures, full moon, goddess, meditation, painting, Paintings, symbolic imagery, watercolor, watercolour

  A painting of an image that I saw while I was meditating-maybe dreaming.  I started my meditation as normal. I do a countdown exercise where I visualize walking down a flight of steps. Most of the time the visualization is just me in a bright empty room, or space. But this time as I finished the countdown I found myself on a grassy field at night.  I walked up to the top of a grassy hill and stood with arms outstretched, bathed in the light of a full moon.  It was a wonderful experience and very vivid and real.

This piece is for me and will go in my studio hung over my meditation altar.

Winter drawings

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depression, female, figure, figures, painting, Paintings, seasons, symbolic imagery, visual diary, watercolor, watercolour, winter

    

Some drawings of the start of a new project. I am attempting to document some of my emotions and feelings throughout a whole year. Using the changing seasons as a vehicle and as a unifying theme, I am going to do several pieces during each season, recording my feelings and state of mind as a visual diary of sorts.

Some are going to be a very literal interpretation of  my feelings and thoughts, and others will be my own symbolic imagery of what each season means to me.

I started with winter, which is a bit ironic in that I tend to want to hibernate and not do anything productive at all in winter.  To some people winter means snow sports and fun and exhilaration, to me it means dark and cold with lots of blankets and very little activity.  So, that is exactly what I drew.