The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Living the Creative Life

Friday, May 3, 2019

Living the Creative Life

Our Living the Creative Life group met Wednesday night at my house. We had pizza and salad and then shared our theme of "Under Water". It was a fun evening with myself, Wally Neilsen, Therry Neilsen-Steinhardt, Margo Manuel, and Amanda Cockrell.

I have put details under the photos. The last five photos show what we worked on Wednesday night ~ we each started a Prayer Flag, will finish on our own, and bring to our June meeting to share the finished product.

Therry's dining room with many "under water" additions! The detail and imagination is wonderful. One of my very favorites created by Therry.

Wally's steam shovel deep "under water" where it has been for a long time. His technique really gives the feel of being under water.

This one Wally painted many years ago. Can you imagine stepping into the clear water not knowing what lies beneath not that far from shore?

Love this! Amanda did this one some time back, but it fit in very well with our "under water" theme. She attached many goldfish to the canvas with a pillow and sheet. Result ~ "Sleeping with the Fishes".

Amanda's vintage toaster assemblage with "under water" scene.

Margo's handmade Mer-people in an "under water" grotto made from a coconut fiber planter. Fantastic!

I painted this mural on one entire wall in a condo a few years back for a gentleman who wanted anything painted as long as GOOFY was in it. So, I painted this "under water" scene. He loved it!

A little scratch art "under water" scene by Audrey.

The beginning of Wally's Prayer Flag.

The beginning of Therry's Prayer Flag.

The beginning of Amanda's Prayer Flag.

The beginning of Margo's Prayer Flags.

The beginning of Audrey's Prayer Flag.

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For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.