Whimsy

This week has been quite productive after some weeks of enforced rest.  I decided to take part in the Icad (Index card a day) challenge and will part in the Summer of Color.  I hoped that it would help me refocus my art.  It certainly has.  I get up already planning my index card for the day and I have decided on my theme of SOC.

I am illustrating a poem for Icad (See my post on that tomorrow.)  I am using some of the prompts, but only so far as it suites my goals.

Yesterday, I finally settled on a theme, it ties in with, my work for icad, whimsy ladies and text from the poem I am illustrating.   I had brought some 8in x 10in canvas panels ready for SOC challenge.  Today I got started and started to paint in acrylic, using my first index card for inspiration.  It was fun.

close up

 

The words are from a poem I discovered earlier this week and it really spoke to me.

Inside each of us

there awaits a wonder

full

spirit of freedom

she waits

to dance

in the rooms

of our heart

that are closed

dark and cluttered

she waits

to dance

in the spaces

where negative feelings

have build barricades

and stock-piled weapons

she waits

to dance

in the corners

where we still

do not believe in our goodness

inside each of us

there awaits

a wonder

full

spirit of freedom

she will lift light feet

and make glad songs

within us

on the day we open our door of ego

and let the enemies stomp out

by Joyce Rupp, from The Stair in my heart

One drawback of painting so small was that I had heaps of paint left over, as usual I had squeezed out too much, so I decided to finger paint over an old drawing in my journal.  That was fun and very messy. 

Have a great week everybody.

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