Before we begin a little housekeeping:
My Borealis Set Of 4 has been included in a Treasury on Etsy. It's a beautiful one and I'm so pleased to be a part of it. Go and check it out and make sure to click on any of the items that really catch your eye. there are some really striking images included there.
PeanutButterPie now has two new cards with more to come over the next few weeks Go check them out.
Now for what you came for:
One card a week for 52 weeks. Each card depicting a single word or phrase to be used in an affirmation deck at the end of the year.
This is the first posting in this series. I'll be posting the cards here each week with a list of the materials and the process I have used for each one and a short statement about the card. Please feel free to offer word and phrase suggestions if you have any. I'm a little worried that my well might run dry...
Here's the process:
Materials:
• ATC card (in this case Strathmore Acrylic)
• Nicholson's Peerless Transparent Watercolour
• Watercolour Tubes
• Pearl Ex interference pigment
• Brush pens
• Paint Brushes
The Process:
The process was a simple one, a wash of light green Peerless watercolour with further layers of Daniel Smith Under Sea Green and M Graham & Co. Quinacridone Rust with a tiny hit of pearlescent Pearl Ex pigment. Once the base was finished I went in with a Staedtler Mars Graphic 3000 duo marker and sketched in the tree and limbs, using a darker accent colour to add detail and texture.
An atmospheric landscape was brushed in, with the more distant hills painted in fainter than the foreground.
Finally, using the brush pens I added the word Ground.
I chose Ground as my first card to remind me that creativity has a firm foundation in nature. Becoming grounded allows me to refresh my mind in order to approach creative problems and refill my creative energy. Walking in the woods or along the beach is a good way to do this. Gardening is also a good exercise in grounding. Being in contact with nature is a grounding experience.
Grounding is also a technique that is used for ritual ceremonies to draw strength and support before a spiritual working. Often the image of a tree is used to reach this state, with your spiritual roots spreading out and down into the "earth" and trunk and branches growing tall and strong up into the sky.
When I am firmly grounded I feel more confident and creative. Hence the earthy tones and the growing tree.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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1 comment:
Absolutely wonderful post. Thank you so much for sharing your process. Really beautiful work!
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