Been getting down to business with Alice. Really filling out the portrait and working on small details, slowly. I am not posting every day anymore but I am up to about 20 ish hours on these two souls. I AM posting updated pictures on Instagram when I am not posting here. You can find me at Heady_Dreadie on Instagram.
This is by far my husbands favorite portrait I've done. We both love how this portrait outlines the love between animals and humans. Connections are so strong. Many of us can attest to the relationships we have with our pets and this drawing strikes a chord with that special love. Alice is so playful and energetic in my meditations.
Before I start drawing I meditate each time for about 10 or 15 minutes. First I burn some white sage, then I burn sweet grass or more recently, Palo Santo. I hold my Shattuckite stone or a Lemurian Quartz in my receiving hand (non dominate hand) and begin by picturing my safe space. For me it is deep in the forest, surrounded by trees, lots of conifers and deciduous types, blankets of moss and ferns with a small clearing in the center. In the center of the clearing is a giant oak tree with a break in the tree tops to see the stars in the night sky. A narrow but joyful stream runs through the small clearing. The clearing is covered in soft, green moss. This is my safe place. I picture myself here then I picture the white light descending from the heavens, entering through my crown and passing through every chakra in my body into the earth beneath my feet grounding me. I breathe deeply pulling down this heavenly white light into my body and exhale it into the earth. Then I call in my portrait subject, asking them to come help me complete my drawing. Then they appear. All have visited my meditations differently.
Kole used to come running in through the trees,
Neil would come splashing down the stream laughing,
Violet and
Lucia are always walked in cradled in
Houds arms. Neither
Leigh nor
Houd visited me during my meditations while drawing that I can recall, I experienced more of them in my actual drawing space. Power interruptions would occur frequently while drawing
Leigh and only while I was actually working on the drawing.
Houd was simply felt all around me. I would hear footsteps and doors shutting, I knew he was actually in the room with me. Alice comes racing in, sometimes splashing in the stream, other times through the trees. She is so energetic and happy, jumping and licking me, other times simply sitting with me. When I am finished drawing for the day I use Black Tourmaline or Apache Tear in my receiving hand and again I go to my safe space. I imagine the white light coming up from the earth, through my chakras and out through my crown ascending back into the heavens. I thank the drawing subject for their help and send back all the emotions and grief with them. I say a prayer to God, to keep them and thank Him to finish off the meditation. Other meditations I do are usually at night or after a particularly hard day, I will typically place a crystal on its corresponding chakra while laying down and go back to my safe space. I will make requests or simply enjoy my safe space. Meditation is so refreshing. I hope you try it some time. You Tube has some nice mediation music and a relaxing salt bath with essential oils is the ticket for healing a long, hard day.
