The goddess of fog and rain
Acrylic on birch panel
5 x 7 inches
Barbara Muir © 2014
I teach journal writing, and gave a talk recently to anart group on written journaling to help create art --
called Writing To Vision. Today I was looking through
my email and found an article on art journaling --
50 Art Journal Prompts. One of writer,
April Bowles-Olin's suggestions was to draw
yourself as a goddess.
I am not religious, but I was wondering what to
paint and this idea struck me. What would I want
to be goddess of? Then of course thoughts
started barreling in like my dog hurtling across the
damp park. Goddess of happiness -- maybe that would
be good, but what about a combo goddess -- happiness,
kindness, the environment, love, education, art,
oh my. I knew I was going to paint goddess me on
a very small surface, so I would have to limit my
focus somehow.
Here's the result. What would you be Goddess, or
God of, if you could just decide it was so?
The icy off leash area in the park where
the goddess walks her dog. Very
foggy and rainy and pretty today,
-- slowing my racing dog down not a whit
Have a-being-powerful-in-your-own-world day.
