Human Design

I am a constellation of energy centers, often soaring high, with several centers designed to generate consistency from within, and others designed to be sensitive to outer energetics and influences.

Each day I wake and fly and navigate the fullness of life.

The navigation plays out up-close-and-personal when I paint. Here, the journey from a few lines to a resolved composition was one of constant interplay between inner constancies and outer impacts, a call-and-response (and-response-and-response-and-call-and-response-and-call) of some duration, much questioning, and considerable perceived ugliness en route, all brought in time to balance.

Deep in Inner Space, Extraordinary Knowing
3.5 x 8"; acrylic and oil pastel on drawing paper, 
mounted on card stock
abstract
2022

Faces 19

For the past few days, woven into the spaces between daily activities—making the bed, taking walks in the great outdoors, chopping vegetables, tutoring, reading, paying bills, shopping for groceries, resolving a glitch with an online order—I've had chances to hang out with this guy, often chatting companionably, sometimes lost in our separate thoughts, periodically venturing into artistic tomfoolery, and more than once exploring differences of opinion. 

He has strong integrity, a clear way of being in the world, a reliable compass guiding him. 

The Friend Who Isn't Afraid to Hold a Fierce Optnion
and Later Change His Mind
9 x 12"; acrylic and pastels on drawing paper
abstract face
2021
$70

Faces 18

Today, I just want to create in my visual diary an in-process record of the mark-and-response going on with a new abstract face. 

My attention to illumination and shadow as part of the Rembrandt lighting exploration has led somehow with this particular face to a more highly representational mode than with other faces recently. My inner guide is telling me to get my need for a somewhat photographically-faithful rendering out of my system first. 

Then, let's see what else I might want to do. Or not. 

I'm thinking more playful and pranky and improbable is a distinct possibility.

Losing All Track of Time

So, yeah, had a long list of tasks I wanted to accomplish today but, right after I meditated, I went to my studio as is my practice early every afternoon. Next thing I knew it was no longer 1230p.

My painting-in-process changed.

My list did not.

started defining blossoms,
created a bit of shadow

used negative space—love what that does!

reflected a little light off the foliage,
added some playfulness to the blossoms
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work in progress