I think I'll paint a triangle! It'll be easy!
Think Again
For several months a plain canvas greeted me on the wall, a new adventure, painting the triangle! How easy can it get? I daydreamed, I sketched, I saw "mountain." So easy! So simple~ so pure without conscious thought.
The sketches didn't work~ the daydreams kept changing colors, when I placed a sketch over the triangle shape, no dice, nothing "fit" into a wholeness.
And so I waited and waited....
One evening, I just picked up the canvas and several assorted colors....took a plain tissue (yes a tissue) and gently brushed in a sky. Nice and restful....
Now What?
I'll have fun so I picked up a handful of clean Q tips. These are handy for blocking in basic shapes and lines with paint to set the stage for the brush work to come. Easy, and no extra brush clean up.
Spirit Bear Appears
In full speed now, I got out my small chisel brush! Thick and thin lines fueled with power and grace, mountain and trees painted themselves. Fun! Smile!
I stepped back and noticed a shape of a White Bear, head and shoulders, had painted herself in the upper left corner....How did this happen? I took a brush and went ahead and brushed in te eyes and shaped the ears. Sometimes, the bear looks like she is wearing a dark blue hat, depending on how the light shifts across the painting.
Surprise!
Daybreaker
Ancient scrips fascinate me. Recently I noticed a symbol that looks like a butterfly and added it into right side of painting up about 1/4" and straight to your left. Of course I painted it blue, an X with sides connected. This symbol can be found in various countries and cultures, sometimes carved into rocks or painted or written.
The "butterfly" can connote "the light of day," "dawn," "going within," or "reaching beyond" and "breakthrough." In ancient times it also meant accepting into what the day had in store, not so much past or future as may be true in today's world.
"Right Here Right Now"
Also, just for fun check out the mysterious animals and birds in the above close up, cat, horse, monkey, goat, rabbit, green butterfly and more~ open your imagination!
Blog Search Key Words: Mountain, Creativity
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Peaceful Mountain
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Resources:
Spirit Bear, (2016) Wild Kratts, PBS cartoons for kids of all ages. A White Bear Appears.
Music:
Here Comes the Sun King, the Beatles, Abbey Road, classic....gently edgy.
Neil Diamond: Song Sung Blue, Holly Holy, and Stones from Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits
Ben Cooper, Radical Face, Roots, Leaves, Branches
Languages and Art:
Heiroglyphs from Egypt, Petroglyphs, scripts and symbols Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, South Africa, and Etruscan paintings and carvings, cave paintings, Chauvet in S. France:
"The Earliest Communication was Art"
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor
Oil Painting by Dahlis: Spirit Bear with Mountain
Completed Painting
The White Triangle ("plain" geometry)
At an Angle, light emerging, shifting colors
Daybreaker Symbol Butterly in Flight (detail of painting)
