Tropical Dreaming (On Such a Winter’s Day)
NOTE: The next Color Your World two week class begins Jan 4, 2016. What makes this class different is the one-on-one daily interaction with an empathetic instructor and with a supportive community of fellow artists. Only $50.00. Click this button to learn more and to register: If you would like to experience a free class, click here: Tropical Dreaming (On Such A Winter’s Day) By Cheryl Renee Long…
NOTE: The next Color Your World two week class begins Jan 4, 2016. What makes this class different is the one-on-one daily interaction with an empathetic instructor and with a supportive community of fellow artists. Only $50.00. Click this button to learn more and to register: If you would like to experience a free class, click here: Tropical Dreaming (On Such A Winter’s Day) By Cheryl Renee Long…
NOTE: The next Color Your World two week class begins Jan 4, 2016. What makes this class different is the one-on-one daily interaction with an empathetic instructor and with a supportive community of fellow artists. Only $50.00. Click this button to learn more and to register: If you would like to experience a free class, click here: Dreaming in the New Year Cheryl Renee Long MNVJ entry…
Dreaming in the New Year Cheryl Renee Long MNVJ entry December 27, 2015 Woman In Bubble Bath Dreaming of the New Year She is deeply relaxed, immersed in the turquoise and white bubbles. Her pink curly hair drifts and morphs into a white bird and her dreams slip into an astral journey. She sees and knows her 70th year. It will bring life, color, and abundance. During the holidays, it’s…
I videoed these talented young people at Eugene’s Holiday Market and posted the footage on Facebook. The kids found it and contacted me, so I made them an iMovie using all the material on them I had or could find. What I love about this group is the otherworldly sound of the saw violin soaring over all.
Real hippies making real tye dyed clothing at Eugene’s Holiday Market. Hooray for the old skool!
Remembering a Christmas Long Ago
I remember hanging stockings on the mantelpiece over the fireplace every Christmas Eve when I was a kid–six of my dad’s big wool hiking socks in a row. We all put something small in each other’s stockings, but Santa always surprised us with the orange in the toe, the Brazil nuts, the filled chocolates, and a special just-for-me gift.
Stockings first before breakfast followed by the Unwrappathon. Sometimes Santa hid gifts like bikes and instead set us a series of clues that kept us treasure hunting from one end of the house to the other.
I did this collage as a reflection from my increasingly more golden years back to a time both long long ago and as near in memory as yesterday.
I’m just a Lollipop of the Gods
Daily Create was to express the concept of being an “outsider” as in “outsider art” as in “art not officially recognized.” I looked this up. “Outsider art” is so cool that it is “a thing” and “officially” recognized, which means anybody can see it’s cool and “officially” put it in a gallery or show. Therefore, it’s really no longer “outside,” is it?
Romeo “denies his stars,” but they get him in the end anyway. Odysseus is a plaything of the gods. The cleverest man in the world can’t get home without their help.
In this image, I am taking a selfie, totally self absorbed as a god annihilates me with no more consequence than if I were a child’s sweet.
This is not about belief or atheism. Neither matters. We are caught in the vast machinery of the earth and stars, and we are of consequence only to ourselves.
Ah, the nihilists! Ah, the existentialists! What have they done for us lately?
azure
ocean waves
they are crashing
I hear the mermaid
siren
Loving this! You’re the first one I’ve seen who actually read the pronoun guidelines!
Christmas 2015. There’s Peter putting the angel on the tree. Then a Fauvist vision of the tree, and then a mysteriousnightvision.com drawing I did of it for today’s Daily Create, which asked us to draw and name a tree in our neighborhood. This Tree is definitely in my neighborhood!
Lights Through the Steam
The Daily Create was great challenge involving a glass plate, a bowl of candy and a golf tee, none of which I had on hand. So I invented my own version of photographing through water droplets.
It involved taking a hot tub first in order to steam up the windows in the hot tub room (for art, of course!). Then some fun shooting through glass ceilings and windows💧💧💧
12-12-15 Live at the Hult Center in Eugene, OR The Mythbusters, “Jamie and Adam Unleashed!” This video is two of their routines. One is Adam on a bed of nails demonstrating weight distribution while Jamie…well, you’ll see. The second is their big paintball finale. Too much fun! I’m sorry there’s only one season left after a 14 year run.
Pieta of the Stars
Today’s Daily Create was to remove something from a photograph that would result in something startling. I removed Christ’s body and replaced the void with galactic stars to show He had “ascended unto the heavens.”
Daily Create was to put something on your head that clearly doesn’t belong there, but scary how natural the Cheshire Cat looks as headpiece. Didn’t see that comin’!
Remembering Childhood Art By Cheryl Renee Long Somewhere far back in my childhood, a visionary teacher asked me to draw around my own hand and color it. I remember feeling delight when I drew my hand and frustration with the blunt and wimpy crayons. Even then I longed for intense color and precise drawing tools. This morning at 3:20 am, my art naturally gravitated to black paper and gel pen.…
“Heron Keeps the Secrets of Magical Writing” is a new article from mysteriousnightvision.com
Heron Keeps the Secrets of Magical Writing Yesterday was a day of dark storm clouds broken by sudden sun openings. Although I felt weak from a lingering flu, I picked up my camera for a short walk to see for myself what all the drama was about. From the bridge over the Willamette River, still golden cottonwoods lit up with sunlight while thick, black clouds roiled behind. The light quickly…
“The Tower shows a tall tower pitched atop a craggy mountain. Lightning strikes and flames burst from the building’s windows.
People are seen to be leaping from the tower in desperation, wanting to flee such destruction and turmoil.
The Tower signifies darkness and destruction on a physical scale, as opposed to a spiritual scale. The Tower itself represents ambitions built on false premises.
The lightning bolt breaks down existing forms in order to make room for new ones. It represents a sudden, momentary glimpse of truth, a flash of inspiration that breaks down structures of ignorance and false reasoning.
Notice the lightning bolt is oriented left to right (from the perspective of the card), from heaven to earth, and from Spirit to material.
The falling figures correspond to the chained prisoners in the Devil card. They fall headfirst, because the sudden influx of spiritual consciousness represented by the lightning flash completely upsets all our old notions about the relations between subconsciousness and self-consciousness.”
http://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/tower/
Finding the Doorway to Mythtime
“The Doorway Between This World and the Other World” Prismacolor on black art paper by Sandy Brown Jensen Finding the Way In Your Mysterious Night Vision Field Journal is not like any other art you’ve done or seen before. Because the soul is always dreaming, awake or asleep, the stream of images is always available to you. Just as the stars are still out in the daytime, Dreamtime is always with…
https://vimeo.com/147394087 Getting started with your Mysterious Night Vision Journal couldn’t be easier. This short video will get you up and running in no time. Here is the drawing I did for the video in sequence: First: SCRIBBLE! Second: Let spontaneous play ensue! Use whichever colors appeal to you. Bring out faces or landscapes or whatever you “see” as you scribble. Keep on going! Give it a…
