{"id":37627,"date":"2014-08-05T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37627"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T23:48:07","slug":"painting-as-a-method-of-altering-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-as-a-method-of-altering-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting as a method of altering consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday I wrote that I’d begun<\/span> the red background owl chick painting<\/a> in the midst of the<\/span> out of body experience painting<\/a>.\u00a0 While waiting on my owl to dry, I began another, shown here to the right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\"\"<\/a>A friend said my new painting looks just like her sister and wanted me to do one that looked like her (and her cat.) I told her that if it ends up looking like someone, that’s one thing but realistic faces are too hard for me to do —\u00a0 the least bit of anything out of place makes it look all wonky. And I do wonky just fine as it is.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n

I’m flattered friends are asking to buy prints from me and I’m happy to provide them, but I don’t want to turn the art into another form of work.\u00a0 I work enough as it is. My only consideration before starting a painting is: just in case it turns out to be something I want to use for the cover of Horizons Magazine, use a 9×12 or 11×14 vertical canvas, leaving room at the top for the masthead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other than that, I’m simply using the art as a fun meditation practice. The finished image isn’t as important as the thought journey I get taken on. It lifts me out of my everyday world and into another place.\u00a0 Like a book for some, a movie or a trip for others. And I’m all about altering my consciousness (through meditation, visualization, creative expression) to see beyond the mundane, turning it into a world full of symbolism and metaphor from which I learn, every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0\u00a0 Update from the art studio<\/a>
\nThere\u2019s the acrylic painting on canvas version and the Photoshopped digital version<\/a>
\nI begin painting from out of body, astral flight sketches<\/a>
\nPainting is a daily meditation for me<\/a>
\nIntroducing Junelle, with open hands to take your pain away<\/a>
\nIntroducing Moon Gal with Raven<\/a>
\nIntroducing Rosa of the Aqua Eye<\/a>
\nEvolution of Ganesh with Bass<\/a>
\nI\u2019m doing a series of paintings as a form of shamanic soul retrieval<\/a>
\nPainting as a method of altering consciousness<\/a><\/p>\n

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