Conversation with myself while painting a drum

 

 Here is a link to some thoughts, and images, 

about going on a journey with a little bit of risk.

https://journeyoracle.com/2023/01/07/conversation-with-myself-while-painting-a-drum/ 

Basic rules for thinking like an artist

Here are 3 tools that create a necessary state during which a creative leap can happen.
Click on this link to my journey oracle blog to read more.   

Painting the Shaman Bird

 Here is a new drum with an interesting tale.
Click on this link for the story.

Inspired by the breath of whales

 A new drum that was inspired by listening to a humpback whale

 breathe next to our sailboat in the quiet dusk of evening.

Night Music drum: a story of echo

 

Who is the creature of this new drum?

It depends on the story I tell myself.

It is a story of echoes.

Two good questions

 

Have you graduated?

Why not be both?

Meet the Mystery in a drum

 

Usually when I am finishing a new drum, it is the full image that directs the meaning of the creatures, as they show themselves in relationship to the human drummer, or to other creatures on the painted surface.  But not this time.

Click on the new drum link to read the story. 

Why do I make drums?

 

Why do I make drums?

This post was inspired by the book, Start With Why, by Simon Sinek.
All the descriptions presented here are about
HOW I hold myself accountable
to WHY I make drums.
WHAT you see is my answer.

Are you happy here? A question for our times.

The 22nd dream painting based on guidance from the Journey Oracle. 
 A new painting but a very old question.

Click here to read some thoughts about an answer. 

Have we had enough? Are we making a choice?

 

Click here for images of dream painting #21,

and questions prompted by a dragonfly.

Gathering strength from animal spirits

The story of  a new frame drum with many animal spirits,

and some wisdom for these times. 

Art lessons from a spider

 

All of nature is so much more complex, upon second look.
Consider the spider.
Click on this link to read some art lessons
from a spider's web. 

Looking for change: making a new year's resolution come true

Click on this link to my new year's way of working that has an echo 

of a past change in art, and in life.

The difference between looking and seeing in art, life and the ocean

 

When I begin a drum painting, I just look.  I am not trying to find anything, just gazing, more like I am waiting for something to find me.  Sometimes this takes days and days.  Weeks.  Just looking.

Read more by clicking on this link to my Journey Oracle blog.

Mother Earth Sister Earth

 

Did you know Mother Earth has a younger sister?
I did not until I began to paint this new drum.

Her face was always there, but for me, a drum painting tells a story. 

Not just a single being–human or creature–but someone in relationship.   

This is one of the ways I know I am really seeing what has come.

Sometimes art changes everything

 

A new painted drum that holds a shift of perspective,
 that shifted all my thinking. 

Can you practice Art?

Click on this link for reflections on 4 aspects of art to practice,
that are not techniques with materials.

What do I value?

 

Click on this link for an interesting way
I discovered to assess my values.

The best advice for becoming an artist

 

You can read some of the best advice I ever received
about becoming an artist by clicking 
on this link to my new blog

Hanging an art exhibit is like preparing a dinner party

 

Enjoy this story of how an art show became a visual feast.