18 Monday May 2009
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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, musings, oracle cards, project, Stories
Today I jumped the gun and rewrote my story.
The ideas themselves are not new, but the telling, I hope, is fresh 🙂
My plan is to use the story for the first suit of the deck of Faery oracle cards I’m making (see here for information, and here for the bigger project).
And then the deck will expand…
Enjoy…
17 Sunday May 2009
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beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, goal, inspirations, life, multimedia, musings, Stories, Tarot
Inspired by this post on Collage Diva I am setting myself a goal.
Tomorrow is my final exam, and this week is full of very important things* so I plan to start next week.
In this case… next week, I will be finally getting round to making that deck of cards based on the Fey that has been playing in my mind for the past few years. It will be created using a story as guidance. This is part of my FeyHearted project, and the cards are intended to be beautiful, an act of devotion and oracular. I also intend to write around each topic the cards are about, leading to much musing!
Step 1. Re-write story.
Step 2. Sketch designs.
Step 3. Start drawing/painting/collaging and writing.
Step 4. Scan and Print each card onto ATC size.
Step 5. Put cards into sleeves and play!
Step 6. Celebrate!!!
And, to keep me on track, I plan to share the process, stage by stage, here.
This is a Challenge for me… will you join me in choosing a creative challenge for yourself? Let me know in a comment so we can do this together!
*Like a job interview, birthday parties, end of degree tea parties, actually spending some time with my neglected sweetheart, organising graduation and living over the summer… and so on.
16 Saturday May 2009
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A post of beautiful things I have seen recently…
A Field of Gold
With Friends
A Path through a Bluebell Forest
The Bluebell Carpet Lit by Sunlight
A Tall Tree Against the Horizon
A Lantern Lighting Leaves From Within
In Delight,
Halo
03 Friday Apr 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery
On the Spring Equinox I walked up to the edge of the woods near my home town and sat on the moss there.
In this liminal space I sang to the Fey, left offerings and asked the Faery Queen to open my senses to the Faery World.
“How,” I asked her, “how can I open to the Faery World, open to beauty and joy and the heart of things, myself?”
And I had the image of the little bottle from Alice in Wonderland with a label saying ‘Drink Me.’
Words followed the image;
“Open, drink the world in, breathe deep and let yourself see.”
And so I did.
23 Monday Mar 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Magic
Hella’s Flowers
Water mixable oils and oil pastels mixed to make this slightly stylised, devotional painting of Hella, the Goddess of the Dead in Norse Mythology.
“There are flowers in the land of the dead.”
17 Tuesday Mar 2009
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Kitten
(A Portrait of Sticky One)
Warm red curtains softly drape themselves around you, wrapping you in darkness. Through the thick coziness you hear, muffled but becoming clearer, the sound of a kitten playing. As Kitten comes closer the darkness lifts and She bats a glowing ball of blue light into your lap.
Play!
You’d recognise that feeling anywhere.
You rise from your sleepy seat and roll the ball to Kitten, and you swear you thought you saw her smile.
She runs through the curtains and darts back, batting the ball before her. She looks up at you, expectantly.
You don’t know where She’s going, but you just know you want to go too!
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An Oil painting, glowing from the flash of my camera, shining with the light of spirit!
I painted this as an expression of my ‘Inner Child’, who is full of play and shiney, and very intense. This is where much of my art comes from, this place of play, and the ball of light, thats the energy that lights me up when I create.
17 Tuesday Mar 2009
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She stands before you, old and young at once. She blows a kiss through her hands, cupped to hold your heart. She is the Faery Queen, and she calls to you.
12 Thursday Mar 2009
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I returned on Monday from a beautiful trip to Faery, via Spain, and trying to work on my essay today I was thwarted by continual urges to draw this:
The Faery Queen
Which I will be colouring soon, but had to share as she is. I really like her just in black and white.
Done in the style of my Angels…
26 Thursday Feb 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty
Valentines Sharpies
The first grew out of playing with lines and dots around the traditional shape of valentines day… Taking up my brand new mini sharpies of many colours I began with pink and swiftly drew a heart in the middle. Confronted now with a page that was no longer blank I could begin to play.
The pink lines of love flowed naturally round, followed by the clear blue. But something was missing. My hand hovered over the pens, trying to decide which colour would best complement the pink and blue. Finally it settled on the colour of joy, orange. Dots and triangles balanced the solid lines and I found myself filling the empty heart with spirals of colour formed of dots, reminding me that the edges of things are mutable and that love and joy and clarity can all flow within each other.
Finished with dots and lines I pulled a clean postcard and contemplated those things which I love as I, again, placed a heart on the centre of the page. This time it was red. Red like the setting sun… I smiled as I recalled the sun setting over the sea nearby and filled the white with the glow at the end of a beautiful day.
And so I created my first Sharpie artworks.
Happy Love-Days to you all
(Created for a Swap on Swapbot.)
24 Tuesday Feb 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty
Angel Heart
Sometimes I like to just take a colour and begin to make marks. My water-soluble crayons work perfectly for this as they lend themselves to swift, expressive gestures on the page.
I often find myself beginning with a spiraling line, and I tend towards some form of symettry, so when one orange line had formed, the other swiftly followed.
More orange flowed from my crayon and surrounded the shape, laid thicker in some places, and then overlais with yellow in others. The yellow spilled into the white space and filled the gaps, pouring like sunshine across the page.
I discovered a smile on my face as I watched this angelic heart take shape.
Halo Quin 