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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Consider the Poplar
Pen and ink with water color/2012 Poplar trees grow so tall. The Easter Poplar is often called a Cottonwood tree. I grew up with the ones in the mid-west (if they are the same species, I am not sure) known … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, consciousness, creativity, drawing, Sketchbook, Trees
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Choices and Intentions: You are Empowered
from my sketchbook/summer 2012 Even if we can’t control situations or people or nature, we can choose how we respond to what happens around us or to us. That infinite power is within us to respond with our intentions, as … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, creativity, drawing, figure drawing, Manifested wishes, painting, shadows, Sketchbook
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How to See Auras: Tune-In in a New Way
A page from my sketchbook/summer 2012 I’ve written about how meeting Hank Aaron taught me that the glow I had been seeing all my life around people and things was called an “aura” (see “About” on illuminara.com). Summer is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Auras, consciousness, creativity, drawing, Healing, intuition, light, Meditation
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A Recent Spirit Painting
This is a recent Spirit Painting/acrylic on canvas/2012 In this painting, so many surprises happened. I had thought this would be a painting about sky (the one who commissioned it is a flight attendant and world traveler by air) but … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, consciousness, creativity, Family and friends, Healing, intuition, light, love, Manifested wishes, Meditation, Native American, painting, sea, sky, Spirit messengers, water
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Reiki Chakra Drawings
Detail of one of my recent Reiki Chakra Drawings/2012 When I practice Reiki, I see colors of the aura (I see these anyway, not just during Reiki) and some other dynamics pop into my third-eye vision. Often, clients receive visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, Chakras, Healing, intuition, light, Manifested wishes, Meditation, Reiki, Sketchbook
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Ghost of the Tree at Compo Beach
Sketch of my favorite tree at Compo (that is no longer there) Rounding the corner on Compo Road South as it turns left just where the jetty is, I always hold my breath a little as I notice how my … Continue reading
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Tagged Compo Beach, consciousness, creativity, drawing, Meditation, Nature, Sketchbook, Trees, water, Westport
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Send For Your Future Self
mono print/2012 I send for my future self to advise me on situations I am experiencing now, and for healing past wounds. Try and picture your idealized future self. You are the best ever, you feel and look healthy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, children, consciousness, creativity, drawing, Healing, intuition, light, love, Manifested wishes, Meditation, Sketchbook, Spirit messengers
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Still No Electricity in West Virginia? What Does This Tell You?
Monoprint/2012 Solar flares and extreme weather signal that we are in the “earth changes” and I realize I need to stock up basics. The sudden harsh storms that knocked out power in W.Virginia could happen anywhere, anytime. Years ago now, … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, creativity, drawing, Family and friends, Healing, Sketchbook, water
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Happy Independence Day!
My little Lobster Back and Yankee Boy/2003 Our farm house was built in 1750, and my sons loved hearing about how their house was built “before America was America”. We read to them all about the Revolutionary War and watched … Continue reading
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Compo Beach Days
A quick gestural study in paint at Compo Beach (approx. 21/2′ x 3′) I haven’t taken my easel to the beach yet this summer (too hot so far) but will before summer’s end, I hope. I love to visually grab … Continue reading
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Tagged Compo Beach, creativity, drawing, Nature, painting, sea, sky, water, Westport
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