Painting in Progress: Co-Creative Bliss

I believe that when I’m painting, I’m working with God / Higher Self/ Great Spirit / The Universe (whatever term you’re comfortable with – I use them interchangeably) – creating art is for me a form of self-healing, channeling, communing.  I often include rituals in my process to help connect with that flow of universal energy, the very reason I so love to paint.  Working with Energy in this way has also opened a portal to it for those who spend time with my art.  This is why a great portion of my customers are also energy workers,  bringing my pieces into their homes/offices for their benefit and that of their clients.  It’s been such an honour to be a part of others’ personal and spiritual growth process in this way.

With all my other paintings on the go at The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art, I hadn’t had time to touch this one since before Christmas (see previous post from last trimester).  This week, however, I spent most of my time not only working with the Hand of God, but on the Hand of God 🙂  as well as on the spiraling energy between our hands.  These spirals meet in the center in a hint of a triskele (celtic triple spiral), symbol of progress, cycles, spirit-mind-body, spirituality, intuition, expansion, and so much more.  I also added the underpainting for the sigil on my right arm – one that I had developed last trimester.

first layer of colour

as is now

This painting is a visual representation of co-creative energy.  The energy flows not only from the Hand of God to the human being’s, but also between those of this spiritual being having a human experience back up to God. Indeed, it’s about God experiencing life through us and us through God (and all being One).  It’s also about being a channel for that Love here on earth – using our gifts for the good of all.  That’s what creating art means to me.

as is now

One really cool thing is that I’ve learned about a new painting tool – 3D glasses!  Probably for the same reason that this painting is hard to photograph, it is super cool to look at it through these glasses.  They work alright with other paintings in the studio, but with this one – wow!  The hands are floating a good 3 inches in front of the blue background – like if I’d painted the background, put a 3 inch deep panel of glass and painted the hands and energy spirals in front of it.  One advantage has been to make any sloppy brushstrokes highly obvious, no matter the highly textured background (allowing me to fix them up before the oil paints dry).  One disadvantage, though,  is that if I wear them too long, I start doubting everything around me (the paper cutter told me something was straight, but the lines on the cutter and the paper looked quite crooked to me).  I’ve never tried drugs (a rare thing in the visionary art world), but I wonder if this is part of what it’s like.

This painting is still a work in progress.  I hope to have it finished before the end of the trimester next week. With a bit of co-creative energy, I believe it can be done 🙂