Posts Tagged ‘100 in 100’

100 in 100, days 3-8

Posted in 100 in 100 Days, Art, Creativity, Dream Board, Hobby, Personal Practice on 09/08/2009 03:10 pm by Administrator

I’ve decided to upload these once a week because the act of a project and an upload every day seems to overwhelm me.  And so I learn about overload (this is a joke to anyone who knows me, but I am making an attempt to learn the lesson.)

The slideshow here represents days 1 through 8, please click the links to see Days 1 and 2.  The only work I haven’t published yet are days 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8.

Just for reference, I am trying not to be completely militant with myself. I allowed my “Full Moon Dream Board” to be my “day 6″ project… because it was, and then some. The Girl sitting atop the big red ball came from a vision while I was doing some Root Chakra clearing and energizing work; hence the name, “Root Chakra.” Some of the others may or may not be used in the “Eyes & Hands” project that is rolling around inside my noodle.

The one thing I can say for this project is that I am beginning to see that just as with dancing or writing, drawing requires that we ‘exercise’ (and I do mean “Get it out”) a certain amount of frustrated, or perhaps just excessive energy prior to anything really decent coming out… these are still me in the process of ‘exercising’ the penned up ten year-old with too much Pencil Color and Crayon energy :)

 

Full Moon Dream Board – Corn Moon, September 4, 2009

Posted in 100 in 100 Days, Art, Creativity, Dream Board, Manifesting, Personal Practice on 09/06/2009 07:22 pm by Administrator

My second time posting a dream board, but my first time manually cutting and pasting…  There is another blog upcoming as a direct result of this project, but that’s for later.

This was not where this board was intended to go… but finally, here she is; intuited incarnation.

September 4, 2009 Dream Board

At the bottom is the sun rising, and the poem says:

Energize

Giving Thanks

Remembrances

movestrong

energize your morning

find your center

Take the Time to Shine

CREATE HAPPINESS EVERYDAY

Study

Uncover

True Self

Seeing is

Believing SEEK

THE TRUTH Live

YouCan’t Fake

Answered Prayers

Other Full Moon Dream Boards:

Jamie Ridler asks, “So under this particular moon, at this particular time, what are you inviting into your life? How will you shine your own light in the world? What are you dreaming of?”

 

Day 2 of 100 – One Thousand Truths Revealed

Posted in 100 in 100 Days, Art, Creativity, Hobby, Personal Practice on 08/31/2009 01:30 pm by Administrator

I am getting my brain back into the 100 in 100 challenge set forth (as I found it) by Rowena Murllio.  The insanity – create 100 projects in 100 days – that’s a project a day folks and while I started out in bold ignorance, I now humbly submit in full awareness :)

 I have realised recently that while dance fulfills the deepest parts of my soul, it doesn’t complete me as a human.  I am missing out on fun in my life because I’ve made my passion my work.  Yes, I did clearly heed all of the warnings that told me this would happen, but I went recklessly forward making my passion my business anyway.  Now I need “a hobby.”   I also need a practice, something not meditation.  Something that will keep me grounded and yet allow my inner “plays with finger-paints” child to get the attention she needs.  This is what she has decided upon, and I am going to be the grown-up here and hold her to it.

 It started simply – I used pictures I’ve taken from my life, pulled them into Windows Movie Maker and added a nice little soundtrack.  It was a dedication to my Grandmothers as well as to the beauty in my life.  Then I went to our annual “Summer Monastery Movement” and I was struck (as I always am) by everyone’s eyes and hands.  I asked many and was graciously allowed to take pictures …macro pictures of people’s eyes and hands.  I wasn’t (and am still not) certain of how I would use these images; of course my inner artist envisions a dream…but I haven’t achieved the skill level *yet* to accomplish the vision. 

I recently began playing with crayons, colored pencils, brush pens and oil pastels again.  I haven’t taken any of these items out of their assigned “Art Box” in ages, but recently I felt the need. 

It started HUGE, I asked a friend of mine if I could do an “artistic reading” for her and she said, yes.  It was childlike, “remedial” some might have called it, but I did it, and it felt good to do.  I have thoroughly MISSED just doodling, coloring, adding color to a blank page and just seeing the effect of it all… for the sake of the effect and nothing more. 

Over the last couple of weeks, the photographs of the “Sufi Eyes” have kept coming back to me, but rather in the form of poetry instead of images.  So I began writing lines, lines about eyes.  What do eyes do?  What do eyes see?  How do we perceive eyes?  You get the point. 

Saturday, this came out (the smaller picture at the bottom is the original drawing.)  The final (we’ll call it the final draft for now… it’s really not finished, but I’m trying to scrape up 100 in 100 I keep reminding myself) is a mixture of the original drawing and two ‘eye’ pictures. 

I edited all of the pictures in Photoshop and created layers, which I then manipulated, moved and combined to create the collage below. 

Emotional Status: Jazzed

 My day 2 of 100 ...

 

 

 

 

 

Original drawing

 

Day 1 of 100 – Grandmothers, Beauty and Gratitude

Posted in 100 in 100 Days, Creativity, Personal Practice on 06/06/2009 06:09 pm by Administrator

Moon through 3" reflector The first thing that I learned (remembered) from committing to this project is that if I want to do something I *MUST MAKE THE TIME TO DO SO!* Sheesh, such an old lesson, but easily forgotten.  I need a scribe to follow me around and remind me of all of my forgotten lessons :)

It took me a while to even decide what my “Artistic/Creative” endeavor would be.  I realized that my photographs are such a large portion of my life and something I rarely display or “work with” in any creative fashion.  Then “BLAM” out of nowhere, I had the concept – my world in a collage/slideshow of pictures (at least this time,) that I’ve taken that represent my world combined with words to create the story of my life.  So, here is my first installment… a wee bit late, but in my failure, I have learned ;-) and now, as they say, I will “Keep Moving Forward.”

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*Music -’Helalisa’ from “Eclipse” by Hamza El Din