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07-09-2008, 11:54 PM
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Pamela
I love the way you do droplets! You must work with a magnifying glass to be able to really see them and what is in them! Again another great painting! Abstract is always good cause it makes one think... Ask questions... I do like it!
Blessings Sallyjane     
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07-09-2008, 11:57 PM
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A little Faery Dancer
Here is the painting you inspired Pamela... She is all dressed up in her favorite dancing dress... Up on tip tip toes...
faery dancer 009.jpg Enjoy this little one as she may look very tall, but her stage is the center of a flower! Blessings  Sallyjane
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07-10-2008, 04:49 PM
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Beautiful!
Sweet Sallyjane!!!
I Love your new painting! You have indicated that she is little... What is the size of this one? One thing I delight in is how you have elongated her body which gives her a wonderful gracefulness!  And you KNOW how I resonate to looking to the depths within the flowers, so making the inside of the blossom her "stage" moves me also! The colors create a feeling of springtime freshness and the composition and theme, once again, inspire feelings of sweetness and light!  It seems to me that you are painting Who You Really Are, my Dear Friend!!!  And  for your comments about "Petalights"!!! I do have one of those magnifying art lights, but I rarely look through the magnifying part to do the details! I just look to my reference pic and paint what I see. Because I am so detail-oriented and have this obsessive need to CONTROL the watercolor  , I think that if I use that magnifyer, I will get TOO caught up in details and the whole painting will end up looking too much like a photo and less like a painting!!!  Honey...Thanks again for sharing your wonderful new Faerie... Keep them coming, Girlfriend!!!  With Much Love and Gratitude,  Pamela
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07-10-2008, 10:38 PM
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For the Fabulous Pamela!
ONCE AGAIN BREATH TAKING! As I have said before, I love to look at your paintings grouped together, as you know, I created this video for you yesterday, thank you for blessing us with your world!
Love, which created me, is what I am.  
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07-11-2008, 01:33 AM
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My Grace...
Oh, My Grace...
I cannot tell you how Loved you make me feel... When you skyped me yesterday to surprise me with this video that you made featuring my paintings, I was completely blown away...  You are an angel for taking the time to make this beautiful video and I cannot find the appropriate words to tell you how Deeply Grateful I am for the unconditional Love and Friendship that we share... What a Beautiful Blessing!!! My Grace...For the Light and Love that is YOU! With MUCH Love and Gratitude, Pamela
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07-11-2008, 04:16 AM
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Pamela
Pamela,The painting is 18x24". When I referred to her as being small, I was referring to her size as in fitting in the center of a flower!  She is acrylic on watercolor paper. I actually studied Fashion Illustration in college, and that is why she is elongated so. I have this thing where I tend to draw everyone very tall and skinny, but with her I wanted her to be very skinny, cause she is not human, but spirit! Yes, I do believe you are right when you say I am painting my true self these days! It is very fun! I have been dealing with some very deep inner change going on within me and bringing forth FEAR!  So I was in the Shower this morning and decided I needed to face FEAR in the Face! I needed to paint Fear as of course a Faery! I am already loving this one, and I think you will too! You know when you draw it out into a visual, it really puts it into perspective! WOW! Fear is not as intimidating as one would think! Blessings Sallyjane
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08-09-2008, 08:50 PM
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I Know...It's been awhile...
Hi My Sweeties!
I know, I know...It's been awhile since I have posted a new painting, but I went on vacation and this one took awhile because of getting ready for that trip and a few other reasons. One was because this one started out as BLUE, and once the flower part was completed, I looked to it and said to myself..."Naw...I don't resonate with this blue rosebud" , so I added a few more layers using a wee bit of a very strong pink shade coupled with this lovely color called "Brilliant Blueviolet" and now I am deliciously delighted with the outcome!!! I guess you can see that I am somewhat addicted to creating these water droplets lately... I just love how they sparkle in the light!!! So here she is and I will do my very best to make sure that you Lovies won't have to wait so long for the next one!!! "Contemplation" Watercolor on 300 Lb. Arches, 13 x 10  I hope you enjoy "contemplating" this one!!!  With Much Love and Gratitude, Pamela
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08-11-2008, 05:12 PM
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Oops...I forgot!
Hi Lovies!
I forgot to mention when I posted my last painting "Contemplation" that the colors depicted represent the seventh major chakra (Crown Chakra) which is found near the inside of the top of the head. This chakra is essential to claircognizance, or "clear knowing," which allows us the ability to receive information, thoughts and ideas from the collective unconscious, also known as the Divine Mind. When one is highly claircognizant there is a great increase in the ability to tap into the wealth of creativity and inventions that abound on the spiritual plane. The crown chakra is affected by our thoughts and feelings about whether we feel close to, estranged from, angry at or indifferent to our Creator. This chakra can become clogged if we have had negative experiences with formal religion and are angry and feel unforgiveness. The crown chakra also relates to feelings of trust... One can ask themselves, "Am I willing to receive information or facts from the etheric plane without knowing "how" I know? If the answer is "No", then it is time for a good, old-fashioned crown chakra cleaning! Since a clean crown chakra glows in a beautiful shade of rich purple, interspersed with sparkles of diamond-white light, I found great pleasure in watching this color emerge on the watercolor paper as I added the transparent layers of the rich pinks and bluevioets to the first layer of the blue that I did not resonate to originally. By allowing the light reflections on the water droplets, I was able to create the diamond-like white accents and fully describe the colors of this very important chakra! Thanks again to all of you who have taken a peekie at this painting! I hope it made you feel good to do so! With Much Love and Gratitude, Pamela
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08-12-2008, 12:09 AM
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Contemplating Contemplation
"Contemplation" Watercolor on 300 Lb. Arches, 13 x 10
Contemplation A gentle tear drop streaming down upon the grace of a flower unfolding Opening In the comfort of glorious colour contemplating life Reviewing the joys in the bubbles of past strife Each drop revealing healing essence as it touches my heart Opening up to Source In the splendour of nature’s kiss The dewdrops gently roll In tenderness and love Caressing my being with promises Of blessings From above Where fairies dance in a melody of bliss For someone coming to remembrance Of all that is Gratitude and joy envelops my being Knowing True knowing Ultimate Healing It is I just had to write something for this one, dear Pamela! 
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08-12-2008, 04:46 AM
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Pamela & CeCe
Pamela, it is absolutely gorgeous! Awesome Lady! I love it!!!!
CeeCee, Love the poem you put with it! I have been meaning to post since Pamela posted it, but I am soooo glad that I waited to read your poem!!!! Blessings Sallyjane
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08-12-2008, 06:10 AM
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this kinda fits in with the art thread
i just posted this in the cem thread, but i thought i would share with my fellow artist incase you miss it in the other thread....
hi grace. hi everyone. I just started my new modules today. spiritual enlightenment stand out at work successful living phase 2 stay young wow...its been a crazy evening. first of all... i wanna say that i was thinking of going to new york to see some friends, and a concert, of a band that i used to listen to quite alot in my youth. then i found out from a friend who was also planning to go, that our friend who lives there has been having a rough time. he's been getting extremely drunk and has been using an extreme amount of coccaine. when i heard this it really bummed me out. i mean.. i was going to be visiting with him on this trip, but then i thought maybe nows not the time, because its possible that his wife could leave him. she's totally not in to that scene. i just felt so bad for him and his wife, and felt like theres nothing i could do. it just made me really sad. after that... i felt tired and didn't wanna go to my oil painting class that i just recently started. a friend was on his way to pick me up, so i didn't wanna flake. when i got to class i really wasn't prepared. i was going to print out a photograph from my teachers computer, and she wasn't really cool with that, so she told me to pick a painting from the box. the boxes basically just have pictures of paintings that are mostly impressionistic or they are just out right boring to me. i guess i tend to be into realism, modern art, and surrealism. i'm really just a beginner, but i have this weird perfectionist thing going on. its like i wanna do what i wanna do. i want it to be perfect and i wanna feel completely comfortable at all times. ugh... what is that??? so i felt myself turning into a five year old , and i was battling with the teacher. i told her i didn't like what was in the box, but i did choose a few that were alright. i was just so resistant. before i new it i was crying in class, and i couldn't control it. i was so embarrased . all of these emotions were coming up, about not finishing things, being resistant to challenges, resistance to being told what to do. feelings of failure that i couldn't do what was being asked of me. feeling like i just i can't be good at anything, because i am impatient. ugh... so much stuff came up. the thing is it needed to come up!!! these are my blocks to creating success in my life. I mean after all this is why i'm using paths in the first place. i wanna work on things. anyway...i'm feeling alot better now. i just wanted to share. thanks for listening/reading. love you heather
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08-12-2008, 07:16 PM
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Shiver...
My Lovies... You all have me sighing right now... From the bottom of my heart I send my deepest appreciation for your delightful posts! Beautiful Belle... I feel so fulfilled to know that looking to my painting uplifted you! Bless you for your comments! And Dear Sallyjane and Heather... I have some things to say to CeCee about the precious poem she has written that, as artists, you may resonate to...I am going to try to express myself with as much clarity as I can muster up... Dearest CeCee... When I looked to your poem last night I broke out in a shiver. Your poem touched me so very deeply as it reflected exactly my own thoughts about this painting and my journey. If I had your exquisite talent in writing, I could not have expressed it better myself... The fact is, creating this painting was initially disconcerting. I chose the reference pic which depicted a very pink rosebud, but I consciously wanted to deepen that color and make it more violet in order for it to represent the crown chakra, which, as I stated in an above post, is affected by our thoughts and feelings about God, Spirituality, Divine Guidance and Trust. I initailly painted the bud blue and while doing so, I was content and thought I would keep it blue, but upon completion, it did not resonate with me, so it was back to my original intent and I added more glazes to create the violet. Now...once I was in the process of doing that...I STILL did not feel exactly good about the color because I simply am not a "purple" person. I stated to Grace, Jamie and Sharyn on a few late evening skype calls that I wasn't too sure about how I felt about this one, but I continued nonetheless and completed the painting. Once finished, I took a pic of it and sent it off to a dear artist friend, telling him that I was unsure about this one... He responded by saying "You Know I Love It!!! Deep, Dark, Drama, High Contrast..." and I guess it was because of his response that for the first time since I started it, I began to look at it with new eyes... I have noticed recently that as I create a painting, I go through all the technical necessities...chosing the reference pic, making the drawing, always conscious of planning each step along the way. And during the act of painting, I am very, very Present. Some passages are relatively simple and I am able to even have a phone conversation while working, but most passages require my complete attention and this "being in the Now" while the painting is in progress is something that I embrace more consciously than ever before. But I have realized something quite new is occurring during, as well as after this act of creation and CeCee, your poem has helped me to realize this more profoundly. I am beginning to realize that with this collectiion of paintings that I am creating, (inspired by Eckhart Tolle's first chapter in "A New Earth", The Flowering of Human Consciousness), while I am in the process of painting, I am subconsciously painting things within the piece itself that are reflecting many different aspects of my own spiritual journey. And I most often do not realize what I have done until AFTER the painting is completed. I remember speaking to Keoi, Sharyn and CeCee as they were looking to my painting "Knowing", and they were pointing out things that I had not consciously painted while the work was in progress. That was way back in December when I was just beginning to embark upon several unpleasant months of my own personal journey into The Dark Night of The Soul , and it was rather astonishing for me to hear them say "Oh, do you see the face in that part of the flower?" and "Oh...Pamela, look over at that part...Do you see the eye?"I was speaking to Aaron not too long ago and we were looking to some of the newer paintings that had a rather "sensual" theme and he pointed out OTHER sensual features of parts of the paintings that I had not consciously been aware of, but I could then see that they were were VERY obvious!!! I thought to myself..."Where did THAT come from?" and "How did I MISS it?" When speaking to Grace about these features of those particular paintings that Aaron pointed out, she made it clear to me that SHE had noticed them as well!!! And Then...last night Grace told me that she has seen in this new painting the transforming serpent... (Grace...I'll let YOU elaborate on THAT, but it sure looks like my subconscious is going WILD!!! ) I think what I am trying to say here is that through all of this, I am NOW beginning to REALLY remember a great deal about Who I Really Am through the process of my painting and then looking even deeper after completion. It is most enlightening and brings me much fulfillment as well as delicious surprises!My CeCee... As I contemplated the completion of "Contemplation" and then looked to your poem that it inspired, I realized that what you have written is a perfect statement about MY journey and that this painting is a representation of EXACTLY where I Am in this journey... I went through that Dark Night of the Soul over the wintertime, and managed to emerge from it this springtime with an abundance of feelings of Joy, Gratitude, Peace, Oneness, Accceptance, Compassion and Love... Those feeling are growing as each day unfolds and those "tears" I have depicted are indeed tears of joy! How interesting and delightful that this becomes apparent to me, and YOU, my soul sister, with THIS painting! |
What a beautiful start to my day. I love seeing what is reflected in the dewdrops...
