The Black And White

Just up close of the black and white trees....

Just Playing

I was doodling with water colour pencils...I was trying to draw an evergreen sprig...but when I was done...all I could see was the fairy there..so I kinda played it up a bit...so here you go...

Art Journal Scribble Doodle Thingy

I could explain-or I could keep drawing it til it matches what's in my head.
Think of this as a prototype.
More coming on this soon......

This Is Definitely A Prompt

Creative Therapy Catalyst 60


New Orleans.

The City of the Dead.

I am sure my pictures sucks - since I could not find a picture of what I wanted - and my memories of things are more visceral and scent-oriented.

But it makes me happy.

I stepped off the plane and knew instantly--I was Home. Capital H. There is just no other city I have been to yet that evokes that sort of feeling in me. I haven't been there since Katrina.
I will be going again soon. Soon.

I would like to forget why I was there in the first place. Maybe this time I can do more of the things I wanted to do rather than follow some lush around. There were so many spectacular things to see that I did get to see.

I had fun. I found hope. The air there makes me happy. And I love walking in the rain. What could be better?

More Name Doodles - To Go

So, I didn't like his name upside down-and this just revisits the whole vining thing again.
Then again, there is something the Guides have been trying to pick on me about since both our names have 7 letters-but wait-the nickname I prefer for myself and what he usually goes by-equals 7 letters. The Guides are having fun here--and I am not joining in to ponder why. I try to leave alot of things alone these days. :-)

And I like my name--even though for years I didn't. It's hard to be compared to the daughter of the Queen of the Witches your entire young life. (For those who don't realise, I am talking about the tv show 'Bewitched'--even though my mother is a queen and a witch :-) and a queen of a witch--and very very proud of it ...)

Playing with my name is different though. Especially since I still have issues with my middle name, even though it was my great-grandmother's.

I am, however, glad, no matter how angry I have been in places throughout my life otherwise, that I was not given the first daughter of the first daughter's name (my mom's name is her mom's name, and so on). I would not have made a very good 'Mary' (you need to have something of a working knowledge of the beginning of 'the Gilmore Girls' to really catch that one, yes).

Based On A Dream

Now, let me preface this with the fact that I will draw and doodle and scribble and do all sorts of things to keep myself off the computer (ie away from etsy and ebay) -- and I have always drawn people's names and decorated them (in school teacher's preferred to see my drawing to writing-explain THAT one to me-they were being ignored either way and they knew it-what did it matter?) -- only lately I am drawn to certain names for obvious reasons.

BTW-just so we have it in here-I have started working the kids' names-I am just not done with them. Mostly cause E is trying to do her own thing with her name, ever since she saw the McNaughton doodle I did weeks ago. So, among the other varied and non-artistic the bratling princess should be doing, her name drawing is also on the list.

Remember the McNaughton doodle though? It was around the time I got my 19th tattoo--and I had the dream of all the vining taking over and growing over my and through my body (and btw again-I did get the thistle colour right there-those flowers are supposed to be thistle-like-and they are supposed to be blue-that's been bugging me awhile too)....

This one is something a little different. I have a thing for numerology and I have a thing for names and their meanings.
I haven't done much research into the beloved's name yet (as long as we are talking his first name and not his middle name) -- BUT I know things like Nikolas and Richard are the names of warrior kings and those who bear them have certain traits and characteristics with which to deal.

I do not always dream in pictures--or in emotions (mostly it's emotional dreaming, not pictures) -- I had a dream with words--and emotions.

It's strange and I am not all together certain I captured the mood exactly, since I wasn't very aware of what I was doing til after I was done.

The imagery I get is of his name and my name on either sides of a reflecting (refracting?) pool. Opposite sides of the same veil of water. Just enough space between us to be who we are, while still having the connections we have.

Hopefully that says what I am trying to say because that is pretty much as specific as I can get as to what I am trying to say.

The emotional content is interesting--there is always that free-flow--without the control--without the need for every little space to be filled--with enough room for him to be him and for me to be me--it's the interplay between our worlds that makes things so - interesting-staggering-however you want to say it.

Looking into his eyes and seeing my reflection there is the best way I know to look into my own soul and dig out all the things I have hidden there. I cannot hide from him the things I hide from me.

Mandala Doodle

My original intention with this page was to create another mandala.

Maybe that is what I did, in a way, although the stem and leaves remind me too much of skirts and skirting, more Disney's Alice in Wonderland than I could have asked for....
but I was on the phone, and I just doodled.
Which is kinda funny, since I pencilled in the colours while I was on the phone, same person, different call.

Turns Out It Wasn't A Prompt

I wrote the word, while I was doing my thing with the name doodles (to be seen later), because I tend to just start writing and then doodle or whatever at a later time.

I even thought this was a prompt for one group or another that I almost try to keep up with--but when I went searching my prompts I didn't see anything close--unless I completely missed it--which is more than a slight possibility with me, yes.

I did it anyway.

It's a catalyst of some sort.

And obviously this sort of thing has been bugging me--else my mind would not have spewed it out quite so forcibly. But, here it is, here ya go. That's all I have there.