Heart Art: Yoga Poem Paintings in Progress
posted on February 17, 2012 by ElizaTobin
“My heart knows the way and I’m learning each day to trust more in it’s guidance, love, and truths.”
Follow your heart (it knows the way). Now and Always.
Have a fantastic weekend!
with love,
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How will you reflect on love?
posted on February 14, 2012 by ElizaTobin
{detail from one of my “big” paintings + hand shadow}
I really like Valentine’s day because it’s a day that reminds us about love. And don’t you think we need as many reminders of it as we can get? I’m not talking just about amorous love here, but that all-pervasive love, that bigger love that moves us to be with each other in relationships of all kinds. The kind of love that we extend towards all sentient beings and also to ourselves.
Deep love. Sweet love. Divine Love.
Discover that the heart is moved by a pulse that is everywhere.
~The Radiance Sutras, trans. by Lorin Roche
For me, today has been a good day to reflect on love. To reflect on what I love, who I love and what it means to give love freely.
What I will be doing this day to reflect on love:
Today: writing, doing yoga, painting big and in layers, meditating on the heart.
Tonight: making Curried Red Lentil, Swiss chard, Chickpea Soup and Raspberry Truffle Brownies for my husband and the picnic dinner we are taking to the Elk Refuge (this was something we did on our first “dating” anniversary. We sat in the car with our dinner, a glass of wine and listened to the elk bugling, calling to their mates. It was very cool.)
How about you? What will you do today to reflect on love?
Wishing you all lots of love,
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In the studio this week…
posted on February 10, 2012 by ElizaTobinI’ve gotten to do a lot of painting and art-making!
Spending time making art has been incredibly nourishing to my creative soul.
Not only have I been working on some new yoga pose paintings (which I will probably have finished up sometime next week) but I’ve also been experimenting, painting and playing on big canvases! They are still “in progress” and I am having a lot of fun working on them. Take a look:
{makeshift cardboard easel and painting before I started working on it again}
{painting after I worked on it}
{up close detail of the painting…think I like this better than the painting as a whole}
{another start to a large painting, this one is 24×30}
{up close detail of the second painting. I kinda love the composition of this zoomed in detail.}
Have a great weekend!
ciao ciao,
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Painting Big, Playing Bigger and Tuning into my Inner knowing
posted on February 9, 2012 by ElizaTobin
{the beginnings of a new, BIG painting}
I’ve been itching for sometime to paint bigger, to fill large expanses of space with color and creation.
I’ve been longing for the freedom and spaciousness that painting bigger would allow me to feel. But for some reason, and for quite a while, I’ve ignored this longing, this calling. I had all kinds of reasons why the conditions were not right for me to begin painting big, things like not having enough space or time to complete something bigger were among the winning excuses.
But in reality, what was stopping me was fear and a lack of trust in my inner judgement.
“Do it, paint big,” it urged me. And I reasoned, “I will, but not now, it would probably come out bad. There is a lot more space to mess up in. Nah, I’ll do it another time.”
This week, I decided that the time is now. I knew I would need a little persuasion, a little outside encouragement, so I signed up for Flora Bowley’s True Bloom painting e-course where we would, to my complete delight, be painting on much larger surfaces then I usually work on.
When I think about it, it seems silly that I needed this outside inspiration to urge me into finally listening to what my inner knowing had been telling me all along:
PAINT BIG. And play even bigger.
When the huge canvases and new paints I’d ordered were delievered to my doorstep this week, I felt like someone had dropped springtime into my arms. I was giddy and want to start a painting right then with my new supplies. When I did get to painting, I made a conscious effort to let go of the need for the painting to be anything.
I allowed myself to move with and listen to the rhythm within me that had been yearning to paint and play big for a long time.
See, there is a deep inner wisdom that lives inside of me. I know there is because I hear it, I feel it. It is constantly urging me towards things. This voice speaks to me in words, images, blinks of thought and feeling and through the messages of others that resonate in my own being. It speaks to me through my longing to paint big and to play bigger. And I’m working at becoming a better listener.
xo,
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