Practice today: To draw an imaginary scene as quickly as possible - WITHOUT thinking! and color it just as fast!
The goal: To see what just comes out when I don't think!

And: Start writing! (Again: Don't think, just write!) :D

Finding color universe. Playing with fonts & technique

This week I was given a wonderful challenge! To create one of 13 covers for my dear friend Frederik's debut album 'Please Smile'.
Frederik wanted to create a 'sea of emotions' and that all 13 covers should revolve around the ocean.


The process
My cover is based on one of the songs from Frederik's album. The song is about a relationship, about longings and missing someone in your life. It is a quiet song, with just guitar and a small choir.

I wanted the cover to be about this longing. A longing for another person, a relation, whether romantic or not. I incorporated the sea into the artwork by firstly working with blue, the color of the ocean, and also creating lines in the paint by using a peace of a sea-shell I have found on the beach near Argeles Sur Mer, a Mediterranean village in southern France.

The 'real' person I cut out in paper. This is Frederik, he who wrote the song, the familiar. The other 'person' is created in the computer. She or he, is the 'outline' (den optegnede skygge), a shadow, a luminous or fading figure, which is real, but not of the same substance as the paper cut figure.
You will notice that 'Frederik' has some part of his body cut out. This is his stomach and heart and a line/thread that goes to his throat. When we express ourselves we are vulnerable, and we give something of ourselves. This something often comes from our inner most precious self; our gut, our heart, our song.

May you find peace
in the words he speak

Speak of the Peace you find

And know that
Silence
and
Grace
Are always at your doorstep



25. nov 2012

I have just read a very interesting post by the American spiritual teacher Ram Dass, about timing. I have enjoyed listening to Ram Dass's recordings of inspirational talks & teachings for several years (he really is quite funny, and great listening to whilst doing house work!). In this post he is touching on something that has come to my awareness recently. It's about guilt & mediation.