Day 45: Subtle Repose

I feel like I'm back at Day One.  So I had to go read Days One, Two, and Three to remember what I was feeling during that time and motivate myself to move forward.  It was pretty interesting to see how it all started off and what I got from that first few days was this.  "It's funny how in the beginning I started out feeling stressed and inadequate and ended up feeling encouraged and renewed."  I said that?  I guess that was me.  So I read on and looked at the final result of my first three days and something wonderful happened . . . I felt encouraged and renewed. 

So here I sit with a blank piece of wood, a pencil, 

 and an awake baby . . .

What's a tired mommy/starving artist to do? 

Hazrat Inayat Khan says, "The soul is a current that joins the physical body to the source.  The art of repose naturally makes it easier for the soul to experience freedom, inspiration, power, because it is then loosened from the grip of the physical body."

So I rocked the baby with my foot, picked up the pencil, and let my soul speak.  This is what came out.

I've been reading a lot of Frida Kahlo stuff so I was inspired to draw a self portrait.  I loved how she made herself her subject.  I have to laugh when I look at this drawing because I look a little annoyed, a little tired, a little frustrated, a little agitated, a little sad, and a little like a distant cousin instead of like myself, hah!  (I have a hard time making people look like themselves when I draw.  They usually look like family members of the actual person I'm drawing) 

I propped myself, or should I say my distant cousin, up against a wall and went to sleep at 3 am this morning.  When I woke up and looked at the drawing in a different light, it looks a little like, I might be having a moment of subtle repose.  So maybe my soul actual won this one.  Take that physical body!!!!!

 

What Day is it?

Don't even ask.  It's been way to long since I've blogged and I've beat myself up about it enough so I'm not going to linger there.  I made it back.  And although I haven't been posting, my 100 days of art journey continues.  I'll will do my best to catch you up.

Days 42-43 I worked on moving my web comic over to wordpress.  I wanted to wait to send you there until I posted up the new comics that I've created, but the computer that is hooked up to my scanner is out of commission so that didn't work out like I wanted it to.  It took me forever to get the little bit done that I did get done.  I still have some tweaking to do but there should be no issues at all with leaving comments now.  You can go see the first comic there and the new site.  Just click on the old Fly Girlz over and up yonder.  lol.  Or go to flygirlzsaga.com.  I have new comics coming as soon as I can afford to buy a new scanner.  So hold your horses.  Rome was not built in a day peeps.     

Day 44:  I played with my dolls yesterday.  It's not the actual 44th day of work but it's ready to post while the other stuff hasn't been documented yet, so I'm all out of order but who cares.  Destiny and Nadia are always fun to look at.  I love these dolls, I can't wait until Kaye makes a new tiny.  Her tiny beings are so perfect for me.  Here are Destiny and Nadia styling and profiling.  I won't commentate too much because the photos turned out so good they speak for themselves.

 She was feeling a little romantic...

 Stunning little rebel isn't she . . .

I love this composition, those trees roots are amazing and my girls are fierce!

They are quite the models aren't they?  I love them so much.  That should hold you off until I can get some more pictures taken of my other many art projects.  These girls are truly an inspiration.