Dare 2 Feel

She uses her magical prowess, all her wiles (her intelligence and beauty) to weaken and seduce the Hero.  The Temptress Archetype is willing to manipulate anyone and anything in order to get what she wants. (Think of Fata Morgana, also known as Morgan Le Fay, and King Arthur).  She has her target, perhaps he is [...]

I love drawing around town. People are beautiful in their places, mostly without being aware of it. The light at Compo Beach in summer in particular is to me one of the most unexpected surprises (where you live usually does not carry that kind of mystique, but The Sound at Compo is especially pink on [...]

The fun thing about keeping a sketchbook, is I get to create a cast of characters as extensions of my own thoughts, wishes and worries. In fact, those people can dramatically play out the worries for me. This fine lady has a moment on the balcony. Maybe her balcony looks out over the waters of [...]

I dreamed of an old friend I have not seen in years. In this dream, many times we gestured with our hands, reaching and connecting with hands. It was subtle and caring. The slightest movement of the hand says so much. Watching hands, I’d say that human hands are probably the most beautiful of all [...]

Funny, in my dream before I woke up yesterday, there was a person talking with me, and the most menacing little bird spirit came to annoy her. This bird spirit was a female presence, with dusty coloring. She hovered near by the face of the person who was talking to me. It was funny, like [...]

I draw on my clothes. Clothes are an extended sketchbook for me. I make faces and whatever springs forth, especially if there is a stain from paint or if some other unknown splash of taint appears, unwanted on shirts and pants.  This blue person is here because I found a mar and didn’t like what [...]

The first weekend of summer has come and gone, and we’re lucky to have been invited to stay with friends at their Fire Island beach house. The house was full of life, fun, laughter, good people and sea breezes. These are a few thumbnail sketches of some of my visual memories from the weekend.
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I have it easy now, and I’m not gloating, just appreciating it. I can go to the beach with my sketchbook while my older kids (older than this kid here in the picture, way older) play and as long as they are in range and I can see them, or know that they’ll check back [...]

I happened to hear a man talking to the person next to him on the plane on a trip some time ago. I had my sketchbook and wrote down a bit of it. Sometimes you hear the most enhancing descriptions from someone, or phrases. I am usually all about the visual, but sometimes it’s what [...]

The other night I had enchanting dreams that I cannot make much sense of, because they were so layered, each scene skimmed along over the next. Rational or sequential sense-making of them is not possible to me immediately. However, the impressions were so lovely, so peaceful that the entire day yesterday I was in a [...]