tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7393091222108931452024-03-08T19:06:22.503-05:00Radiant Pagesmixed media art journal pages & moreCaroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-68891332531876197142012-02-22T11:44:00.000-05:002012-02-22T11:44:26.271-05:00Doorway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">"These killer, crazy-making moods emerge from a changing female body and the mind reacts". I don't know if you can see the big, hunched figure on the right edge of this painting...Its blob body has just a bump for a head and two arms that are holding a black object - maybe a heavy stone? Maybe it's a gift? And this figure is being projected out of a pale, white figure on the other page. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I painted this on a day when my moods were swinging and it helped so much to steady everything, to calm, to understand. I am not my moods. My moods emerge. The mind reacts. Take care of this changing female body and keep an eye on the mind!</span></div>
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It fascinates me that the background below is what I started with. The first thing I saw was this hunched figure that turns up in my work from time to time, usually representing difficult emotions. It's only a piece of waxed paper randomly glued to the page, but it suggested a shape to me that is connected (for me) to a recurrent theme, and everything else just flowed from there. Like my husband says: "Painting is magic".</div>
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<br />Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-64527861539844951792012-02-11T14:14:00.000-05:002012-02-11T14:14:50.292-05:00The Path<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the future is a mystery. put one foot in front of the other and hope for something to illuminate the path ahead.</div>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-25897119560744778122012-01-25T08:24:00.001-05:002012-01-25T08:24:06.930-05:00Breathe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a single-page painting instead of a two-page spread, the first page of a brand new journal. Looking forward from the first month in a brand new year or the first page of a new book, it's exciting to think of what will follow. The text in this painting advises: "Relax your wrist and arm. Breathe." I found the phrase in a book of drawing exercises, but it's great advice to follow at the beginning of just about anything.</div>
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To my eye, the figure in this painting is facing a doorway, perhaps about to go through. The doorway or arch is an image that paints itself into my paintings - it has been popping up from time to time since last year, usually with a figure nearby. I don't know what is on the other side of the door! But I know that if I relax and breathe and try not to control the painting too much, the images will begin to give me little hints, maybe about when it's time to move forward and walk through.</div>
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9" X 12" acrylics, collage, hand-carved stamps, pitt artist pen</div>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-41122485323570161852012-01-19T07:32:00.000-05:002012-01-25T08:14:48.950-05:00Diamond Heart<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JdTboikRG7M/Tv8dVeEtUWI/AAAAAAAAAns/pkfuEJTy-tI/s1600/2011-12-3diamond_heart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="378" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JdTboikRG7M/Tv8dVeEtUWI/AAAAAAAAAns/pkfuEJTy-tI/s640/2011-12-3diamond_heart.jpg" width="640" /></a>The book page scrap on this page says: "...my friend said our hearts are like diamonds because they have the capacity to express divine light which is love..." From Ann Lamott's book <i>Plan B</i>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-42451217556154686432012-01-11T17:23:00.000-05:002012-01-11T17:42:20.742-05:00Will is Reading<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2vhHXT5GRxg/Tv8eT3lDSlI/AAAAAAAAAoE/HIzcy78OMHY/s1600/2011-12-6will_is_reading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="386" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2vhHXT5GRxg/Tv8eT3lDSlI/AAAAAAAAAoE/HIzcy78OMHY/s640/2011-12-6will_is_reading.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Willy is reading about evolution and brain science and telling me about altruistic reciprocity and neuroplasticity and about how his spirituality is changing and moving in new directions.</span>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-53735471707463374662012-01-07T13:46:00.000-05:002012-01-13T13:30:31.729-05:00See Differently<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lOZU7QUaRR0/Tv8bldvOi0I/AAAAAAAAAnU/YGvoxBCk-6U/s1600/2011-12-1see_differently.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="378" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lOZU7QUaRR0/Tv8bldvOi0I/AAAAAAAAAnU/YGvoxBCk-6U/s640/2011-12-1see_differently.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The artist's eye...is not an elite eye that exists in only a few chosen people. Rather, it is a powerful potential that exists within the heart and mind of every person. Your artist's eye is activated when you give up your need to label and judge things harshly. Soften your eyes. Open your heart. Then you will begin to see things differently. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Heather C. Williams, <i>Drawing as a Sacred Activity</i></span></div>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-61723751590182948622012-01-06T13:35:00.000-05:002012-01-13T13:34:19.289-05:00Its Safe in Here<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lh9AyFJBdPo/Tv8d1r9v1II/AAAAAAAAAn4/f4YgQ9Gvjb8/s1600/2011-12-4its_safe_in_here.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lh9AyFJBdPo/Tv8d1r9v1II/AAAAAAAAAn4/f4YgQ9Gvjb8/s640/2011-12-4its_safe_in_here.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been wondering what this is all about, this painting in books. This use of many materials all on one page, this writing and layering. I've been looking at other artist's journals to try to figure out why we do this. All I know for sure is that I love doing it and I'm driven to do it and I want to do it more than almost anything else. I'll keep working to see where it goes. I like forgetting about canvas for a while and painting in books. It's safe in here.</span>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-18698840565968571862012-01-04T00:56:00.000-05:002012-01-13T13:32:02.273-05:00Lost<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d1_-QpRcJM4/Tv8cygObTxI/AAAAAAAAAng/3p1UifxR5ts/s1600/2011-12-2lost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="386" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d1_-QpRcJM4/Tv8cygObTxI/AAAAAAAAAng/3p1UifxR5ts/s640/2011-12-2lost.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All who wander are not lost. But wandering can feel like lost sometimes...I have to keep reminding myself that wandering leads to the most exciting discoveries. If I stay in the moment, I won't miss them.</span>Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-31123722060087714932012-01-03T12:20:00.000-05:002012-01-13T13:32:24.915-05:00Life Drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unconditional love is the key to drawing the human form. The artist's eye is capable of seeing unconditionally, which means that it is capable of extracting the abstract qualities of Spirit from the concrete form of the body. Unconditional love is natural; it is inside you right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> - Heather C. Williams,<i> Drawing as a Sacred Activity</i></span><br />
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<br />Caroline Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907097572957280969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-739309122210893145.post-1344408592178080312012-01-01T12:13:00.000-05:002012-01-13T13:36:33.468-05:00Sometimes it Takes a While to Be Born<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It feels right to begin Radiant Pages with these art journal pages that express gratitude. "Thank you for shining the light on the small artist inside of me", they say. On the day this was painted, this small artist was calling out: "hear me, help me be alive" and "sometimes it takes a while to be born".</span><br />
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Posting my art journal pages for others to see is one way of helping that artist part of me be alive. </div>
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I'll post a few of the pages I've painted since last spring, then I'll share current pages, maybe one time each week. I read recently that the artistic process is not complete until the art itself is shared - so thank you for sharing in this process of creating my art journal, page by page. Your comments are welcome and appreciated!</div>
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