{"id":46331,"date":"2017-08-10T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=46331"},"modified":"2018-09-14T06:34:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:34:39","slug":"ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been painting angel heart rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/angel-heart-rocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47261\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/angel-heart-rocks-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/angel-heart-rocks-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/angel-heart-rocks.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On July 24, 2017, I began painting rocks. It began as an easy creative outlet and it&#8217;s turning into a mission. \u00a0On Facebook I saw the colorful rocks with messages people were creating, finding and leaving and I thought, &#8220;<em>How cool, create something uplifting for a stranger to find and be inspired by<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0I liked the idea of painting hopeful messages on rocks and I began to think about what kind of message would really be meaningful to me if I were to happen upon it written upon a rock.\u00a0 Then I started thinking about what images comforted me when I looked at them and the image of the cartoon angel holding the heart out came to mind. That&#8217;s always been a favorite image. I tried sketching the few prototypes and settled on a few I kind of liked.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">But it was when I began painting them that change began taking place.\u00a0<\/span>At first I was painting each one, one at a time, trying to get the mechanics of it into my muscle memory. Creativity doesn&#8217;t always flow spontaneously for me. I&#8217;ve learned sometimes I have to prime the pump. \u00a0When I began the painting and the different color combinations, my mind relaxed its hold and the brush took on a life of its own. There is more to this story that i&#8217;ll write about as soon as I get a chance. Painting is an excellent focused, moving meditation. It puts me into an excellent headspace to listen to my intuition and receive inner guidance.\u00a0In 2014 I did a series of paintings as a form of<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doing-a-series-of-paintings-as-a-form-of-shamanic-soul-retrieval\/\">shamanic soul retrieval and wrote about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/angelheartrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/angel-heart-rocks-pile-of-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I&#8217;ve been painting angel heart rocks&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=I&#8217;ve%20been%20painting%20angel%20heart%20rocks&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-painting-angel-heart-rocks\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, 2017, I began painting rocks. It began as an easy creative outlet and it&#8217;s turning into a mission. \u00a0On Facebook I saw the colorful rocks with messages people were creating, finding and leaving and I thought, &#8220;How cool, create something uplifting for a stranger to find and be inspired by.&#8221; \u00a0I liked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47262,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331\/revisions\/47262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}