Tag Archives: Trees

You Are One with Spring, With Everything

  Once a few years ago, I was dreaming (just before waking up at dawn) and was hovering over some rocks and plants. I had the complete sensation of being not just one with everything, but of BEING everything.  The … Continue reading

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Synchronistic Sign of the Dove: A Recent Spirit Painting

Spirit Painting for J.R. 2013 copyright Elaine Clayton www.illuminara.com This is a recent Spirit Painting commission that had a powerful synchronistic happening connected with it. I noted for the client that there is a “cloud bird”—a dove flying overhead in … Continue reading

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Sorrow and Love: Living to Learn

  Budding Life/ acrylic on canvas/ copyright Elaine Clayton 2013 Each day, we are budding into awareness and knowledge. Time, space and gravity support us on our journey of learning first-hand, hands-on here on Earth.  We’re here for a purpose … Continue reading

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Recent Spirit Painting: In the Garden of Time

This is a recent Spirit Painting/2012 In this Spirit Painting meditation, I felt so moved by a sense of time–the time we experience as humans which helps us learn, initiating us for new life adventures. Sometimes we say that the … Continue reading

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Line Crews at Work

Since I’ve spent the last few weeks watching trucks with people fixing power lines, I started thinking about how I’ve sketched line crews but have no idea how they do what they do. It seems dangerous. I’ll never forget how … Continue reading

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Hurricane Sandy

My water color and pencil sketch of Canal Beach in Saugatuck Shores in peaceful weather/2010. This is an area that would have suffered some damage from Sandy. I am sorry I have not posted or sent out newsletters from Illuminara.com … Continue reading

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Enchantment with Lisa Hagan

My painting for Lisa Hagan/2012 While making art, doing intuitive work, Reiki and readings, I become filled with a feeling of enchantment.  It is a feeling that is hard to describe, but it makes me feel connected to everything and … Continue reading

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A Recent Spirit Painting Commission

This is a recent (about 2 1/2′ x 3′) Spirit Painting I am honored each time I’m asked to create a Spirit Painting for someone.

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Sketching on the Saugutuck with Children at the Westport Library

It was a glorious day to be by the river with 20 children, drawing the light and shadows, the trees and water. I was so taken by the depth of sincerity of each child, the genuine seriousness that they held … Continue reading

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Upon a Bird’s-Eye-View, and Keats

One summer on the Isle of Arran, I saw from the second story window on the stair case landing, a bird’s-eye-view of the family below in the garden, having tea. I had gone up to get my sketchbook and sketched … Continue reading

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