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This was/is week 3 of Pure Experimentation, and O I am pleased with my splashings this weekend.
I made two 12x12 Things.
I just Like how these details all look. Little worlds within the bigger Thing.
Collage from magazines, hand-cut stencilry (the starburst-flower and petals), Proper stencils, and inks, paint, pens, stamps ~ whatever was handy....
Good to be making pics I'm proper proud of!
xxx
"A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost an innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels."
~ Frederick Turner, quoted by John O'Donohue, in 'Divine Beauty'.
SpringProfusion, 2009.
These are mostly in my Beauty-Full Garden,
and the Nettle Tribe and Big Grasses are in the Enchanted Woodland,
on the 5 minute path between My House and The Nurses, and The Shops.
It's a simple Life overhere at the moment,
with So Much Things To See. And levels Galore.
Taurus 2009, trumpeting forth, in grand style.
xxx
(Wrestling a little with Typepad today, but apart from strange unbudgeable underlines, I think I've cracked it now...)
Here are some of my this-week's-productions, inspired by the continuingly fine Pure Experimentation class.
Week 2, and feeling free-er overhere.
Having procured Exacto blades, and stencil film, and then glass via my local charity shop, off I went on another adventure. Cutting my very own stencils for The First Time Ever.
Wee small hours last night, and glorious sunshine Sunday afternoon hours today.
As I sat and painted in my garden, I thought; "this is it, this is what I was dreaming of last year".
So grateful for such fine moments. And grateful to have been reminded that stapling is allowed, too.
I've realised that watching vids of M.A. doing what she loves to do has given me more permission to play than any number of written encouragements might have.
Seeing someone relish making her Beautiful Mess has been such a sweet catalyst for me.
All pics here click much clearer, as ever.
And in other news - my leg continues to heal, tho you'd still swoon if you saw it for the first time...thanks for continuing prayers/well-wishing support with that.
And in yet other news, I took a bunch of lovely pics of the garden booming forth this week, and will post those as and when. And my seedlings are peeping through too!
Here's a final pic from today. My Tree reflected in my new stencil.
No, wait. That one's a Mask.
xxx
This week's Pure Experimentation class direction was to create a portfolio to contain the products of the stencilry fun which we'll be having in the forthcoming weeks.
Seeing the richly inspiring vids had me rummaging yesterday in stash bought long, long ago.
And today I set to.
Enjoying the shadowplays that come with synthesising multiple patterns.
And being quite Happy with what I've put together. Inner and outer, both with their own flavours.
It's about 13 inches square: I intend to work on some of the 12x12 card stash I amassed years ago...
Good to work loosely, tho I didn't get quite as splashy with it as I think I will.
MA's freedom with paint and stencil and overpaint and wipe andandand, made me realise I'd like to play more easily with it all, too.
Still, it's a fine start, eh. Good to be in Beginner mode again.
Here are some detail pics. All pics click much clearer.
xxx
Some Garden Joys from this week.
Tho HedgeWildness was trimmed (not by me),
Many Other Little Leaves Mysteriously Appeared.
The CityKid potTrees clearly enjoy Birdsong and Fresh Air.
Rowan, SilverBirch, Lilac, Lovely.
And I planted Seeds. 14 little pots of potential.
"Act As If
Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality.
Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting.
If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously,
it will germinate into reality in the physical world."
~ Words from Wayne Dyer, which I used overandoverandover, last year,
to help to bring my current habitat on in.
And Here I Am, Now. Planting Seeds, for Real.
ThankUThankUThankU.
Happy EasterNess to You,
xxx
A little inter-continental e-chat today motivated me to create a new gallery album.
New link in sidebar to that gallery of albums too.
There are all sorts of viewing options once you get there... slideshows, carousels and all...
I lost the original pics of the first three albums in the laptop crashes last year...happy that the online copies survive.
And yes, I do back up quite regularly these days.
xxx
Warm Hallo to my new cyberclassmates, coming in from Pure Experimentation!
(via Dispatch from LA, for noncyberclassmates, who will remain passwordless.)
Looking forward to sperimenting with y'all.
Here is my very first spraypaint speriment, done last week, sitting in the sunshine in My New Garden.
I was dismayed at the toxicity of the sprays. I felt rather a clumsy human as the birds looked down from the trees at the clouds I created, and the new buds sneezed.
I do like the product tho.
Second pic is a detail from a recent birthday collage for my dear pal Kathryn.
Maybe more pics of that, asandwhen. Both these pics click to juicier.
Going out into the sunnyness again now. Sigh. Feeling blessed, this first Spring, in my sweet new Home.
xxx
"Through complete acceptance of the form of the Now, you become internally aligned with space, which is the essence of Now. Through acceptance, you become spacious inside. Aligned with space instead of form: That brings true perspective and balance into your life."
words from Eckhart Tolle, in A New Earth.
Pic is a detail from a birthday card which I made for my Aries niece.
I've made a few Things 'Now' recently, and I will get to posting pics, asandwhen.....
Healing continuing well overhere, thank you.
Happy creative weekend wishes to us all...
xxx
