Boy...do I ever suck at writing a blog post everyday. Maybe I'll have to just resign myself to the fact that I'll have to incorporate 2 days of my day by day accounts of how I'm going about the process of acutally changing my reality, every second day...or so...
In any case, today's installment will be 2 days in one.
Day 3 which was actually Sunday, March 12
Danard picked me up from my whirlwind 2 day Art and Spirit worshop which was absolutely amazing! I've learned a lot about myself, and developed a whole new level of confidence in my ability to actually BE an artist. Where do I begin with my experiences at the class. We started off the weekend (Saturday) with a little bit of "dancing while painting" which was interesting. Interesting meaning, I had a hell of a hard time not spraying paint all over the wall and floor beside and under my large canvas made of poster paper. hehe...little kid comes out to play, with my mean adult looming close by to inforce the "clean up" policy, with a nearby art teacher insisting that it really was okay to make a mess, because it was poster paint we were using that is water solluable. (see later on in this post for the results of that experiment!)
After that, we actually danced around the room, to get us more loostened up (Patrick musta thought we were pretty...well...not so loose, that we needed to do that, lo.), by using our whole bodies to "paint in the air" so to speak. It was kinda fun too. Then we would go back to our walls, and dance while painting a little more. He would encourage us to stand back at our canvases full of color that really didn't seem to make any sense whatsoever, to see if we saw any other images coming through. Mine turned into a tree that took up 2 more sheets of paper. Later, it was discovered that there was a blue fairy sitting on one of the branches, and the beginning of angel wings forming beside the tree, which later became a full fledged angel.
We also did those grade one art projects where you lay on a big sheet of paper, trace out your body and paint those. We really go in touch with our inner 5 yr olds that day. Mine, again...became a big ol' angel with these really cool irridecent wings of gold, blue, silver pink, purple, etc. It now hangs on our wall going up the stairs to the kitchen. I was going to take it down today, but Danard says he likes it up there and said we should keep it there. Not sure why I wanted to take it down, but I'm sure that has some kind of inner meaning too.
We also made a collage of whatever images or words that grabbed our attention in the myriad of magazines that he brought. Mine was interested, as there was lots of images of "taking big leaps" of various kinds...maybe that means something? hehe...I could get into the detail of all the images that came out, where they were placed in relation to other images, and the symbolic messages of those, but it would take too long in this one email, so I'll leave that for another day.
The short of it all is, I learned a lot, and I'm more confident in my abilities as an artist of the "oil on canvas" sort. Patrick commented that he actually saw me as someone who is an artist. I think meaning that maybe I have some potential to do more with it besides paint something and hide it in a closet somewhere. Who knows...I do know I really enjoy the prcess.
I started a new painting last night during Reiki circle. It's turning out really cool. Can't explain it, just lotsa color and much more confident looking in the brush strokes. It actually looks like something that a pro would create.
Oh...and about the "clean up job" of washing the paint splatters from the floors and walls...hehe...it wasn't as easy as I was told it would be. I just hope for Patrick's sake, that the manager of the community centre doesn't notice the few spots I wasn't able to get clean. That's all I have to say...hehe. It was really fun to freely be able to make a mess though...(little kid "evil" laugh!)
Danard picked me up from my whirlwind 2 day Art and Spirit worshop which was absolutely amazing! I've learned a lot about myself, and developed a whole new level of confidence in my ability to actually BE an artist. Where do I begin with my experiences at the class. We started off the weekend (Saturday) with a little bit of "dancing while painting" which was interesting. Interesting meaning, I had a hell of a hard time not spraying paint all over the wall and floor beside and under my large canvas made of poster paper. hehe...little kid comes out to play, with my mean adult looming close by to inforce the "clean up" policy, with a nearby art teacher insisting that it really was okay to make a mess, because it was poster paint we were using that is water solluable. (see later on in this post for the results of that experiment!)
After that, we actually danced around the room, to get us more loostened up (Patrick musta thought we were pretty...well...not so loose, that we needed to do that, lo.), by using our whole bodies to "paint in the air" so to speak. It was kinda fun too. Then we would go back to our walls, and dance while painting a little more. He would encourage us to stand back at our canvases full of color that really didn't seem to make any sense whatsoever, to see if we saw any other images coming through. Mine turned into a tree that took up 2 more sheets of paper. Later, it was discovered that there was a blue fairy sitting on one of the branches, and the beginning of angel wings forming beside the tree, which later became a full fledged angel.
We also did those grade one art projects where you lay on a big sheet of paper, trace out your body and paint those. We really go in touch with our inner 5 yr olds that day. Mine, again...became a big ol' angel with these really cool irridecent wings of gold, blue, silver pink, purple, etc. It now hangs on our wall going up the stairs to the kitchen. I was going to take it down today, but Danard says he likes it up there and said we should keep it there. Not sure why I wanted to take it down, but I'm sure that has some kind of inner meaning too.
We also made a collage of whatever images or words that grabbed our attention in the myriad of magazines that he brought. Mine was interested, as there was lots of images of "taking big leaps" of various kinds...maybe that means something? hehe...I could get into the detail of all the images that came out, where they were placed in relation to other images, and the symbolic messages of those, but it would take too long in this one email, so I'll leave that for another day.
The short of it all is, I learned a lot, and I'm more confident in my abilities as an artist of the "oil on canvas" sort. Patrick commented that he actually saw me as someone who is an artist. I think meaning that maybe I have some potential to do more with it besides paint something and hide it in a closet somewhere. Who knows...I do know I really enjoy the prcess.
I started a new painting last night during Reiki circle. It's turning out really cool. Can't explain it, just lotsa color and much more confident looking in the brush strokes. It actually looks like something that a pro would create.
Oh...and about the "clean up job" of washing the paint splatters from the floors and walls...hehe...it wasn't as easy as I was told it would be. I just hope for Patrick's sake, that the manager of the community centre doesn't notice the few spots I wasn't able to get clean. That's all I have to say...hehe. It was really fun to freely be able to make a mess though...(little kid "evil" laugh!)
Day 4 (Monday)
Today...work...day job, not much else to say, except the fact that I've today decided to at least start calling around to various spas, massage clinics and other healing type clinics to see if they need a Reiki pracitioner. I really need to get out of my day job. I'm really tired of listening to customers complain about stupid stuff like "why is my bill screwed up"? I've put an application into a spa, who's looking for a receptionist. Not the specific job I'm looking for, but at least in the right industry. I hope they pay decent and will have decent hours. I haven't heard anything yet. Hopefully soon. I'm not getting my hopes up though, but who knows.
Okay...that's all for now. More later...
Blessings,
Morgana
Okay...that's all for now. More later...
Blessings,
Morgana
1 comments:
I really hope the spa job comes through girl! I'm rooting for you. Okay, here's my first suggestion for marketing: Get surfing Blogexplosion, and link your Thunderbird Sky blog. There are a lot of users on that site from Calgary, and maybe offer them a discount for coming to you through BE or something! Can't wait to chat on Sunday!
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