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.