Sunday was one of those days. It was my only day off and my oldest was home for the weekend from college, my bestie had the day off too and we sat down to do a little "art".
As you know, I am in Tam's "Art, Heart and Healing Class" and the project that I am on is week 2-part 1. We had to get a picture of ourselves when we were about 3 years old and photocopy it on transparency paper and transfer it into a page in a board book. We had to imagine ourselves at that age and what we would wish for that child to have in their life. It seemed hard to do...until...I started and I couldn't stop. Tam said that even if what we wished for didn't happen that its ok. This project was so healing and fun to do.
It is tricky doing a transfer...but it is like magic. We used "Golden's Gel Medium (Gloss)" and put a thick layer on the gessoed page and put the transparency (rough side down) and rubbed it with our hands and a credit card and peeled it off gently, the scratch marks are from me pushing to hard on the credit card and probably not being patient enough and peeling it off prematurely, but I lucked out. It worked. It doesn't always work out that well. I ran out of ink on my printer when I printed Jackie's picture and she wasn't happy with her transfer, I think it turned out good, here is her first attempt....
This is my daughters art. She didn't do the board book thing, but after watching us she now wants to do it but that will be another day. Here is what she was working on....
This is my second or adjacent page. I used my Neocolors; salmon, pink, light ochre and light teal. Then I brayered on white acrylic paint to tone it down. I printed out my "wishes" and cut them out and glued them on to the page and outlined them with my graphite pencil and did some swirlies to match up with the other page.
Now for the second part of the class we are drawing whimsical people. We have to think back to a childhood trauma and draw what we would have liked to happen. Jackie and I have ours figured out but I am happy to say that my daughter said to me "Mom what should I draw...I don't have any childhood trauma?" That made my day... wow. Of course I told her she has childhood trauma...we all do. Tune in next week for the rest of the story.
"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." Arthur Koestler
1 comment:
This is utterly beautiful, not just the art but the innocence of capturing oneself at the age of innocence and openness, the age of hope, promise, and simplicity, the age of the moment and the world a magical treasure,
I for one would love to capture a time at this young age! great work great colors, and the message to heal what lacked in the heart is truly a new step into understanding and accepting where you are now.
Somehow I think this journey of ours is like that in a sense accept in Heaven we are brand new fresh simple childlike and pure, able to come into the presence of Our Father who is love and be able to accept that love in such a deep and true sense of the word with nothing to stand in our way, because we are all a part of each other and the branches are plentiful and the fruit is ripe and all is well and as it should be.
Britney's art colors and design is delightful almost picking all of the glorious colors of the rainbow as always,
I am so impressed with the works you all have done! and it is great to hear the steps this is taking you into new realms of healing within.
Love it! I am looking forward to your next pieces!
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