Week 3 daily drawings and stories from the past
Stories from the battlefield
Day 1 week 3 Saturday morning started with … a drawing! Who is she? While drawing aimlessly I thought .. hmmm this must be me! It must be the inner child … the one who had no dreams. I don t know how it was in other families but in mine, dreams were not part of the mix. The only thing close to a dream, was a daily wish. A wish which was never granted! The wish for a peaceful, loving household! The wish was never granted! A cup of tea finished, drawing finished, time to grab my trainers, Leyla’s keys - yes my car has a name, my sabre and off to my tai tai chi class which is by far the highlight of my week!
Day 2 - it s a beautiful winter day in my part of the world. Sunday … like many people around the world I was thinking this morning .. oh I wish I could sleep more! My inner clock is so well programmed that at 6.00 I was up, the head as clear as a bell! Tea first, a PG tips strong tea, writing in my 6 minutes diary, my 5 minutes meditation and last but not least a few more Spanish lessons on Duolingo!
What can I say .. I am hooked! One of my colleagues introduced me to Duolingo last week during my trip to Birmingham and I’ve been practicing every day. A few minutes it what I can dedicate to this activity and I cannot tell you how good it makes one feel!
This takes me back in time, many years ago when I used to go to Cervantes institute in Bucharest after work! I loved the style of teaching .. Spanish .. through Spanish! The teachers spoke no Romanian or English! This was a challenging but exciting way of learning a foreign language!
No wonder my intuitive drawing has so much yellow in it! It is the colour I associate Spain with ..yellow and orange!
Day 3 drawing a line followed by another line! Rounding a corner, adding a colour! My hand went for blue and then colours in the same colour scheme! Blue… I cannot say I was feeling blue when drawing earlier today supported by Bhakti. I was listening to one of my favourite YouTubers Emil Cosman. I was thinking that men like Emil are rara avis nowadays! So so few educated man ready to express their point of view with conviction, ready to go against the usual rhetoric! So few men ready to expose the hypocrisy of the modern world, politicians, corporations!
Watch his videos! Open your mind!
Day 4 one of those days when time flies! For whatever reason I woke up very early in the morning . There is something deeply satisfying in knowing one has a couple of hours in the morning until one needs to go to work. Two hours in front of me - such bliss! Tea, a few Spanish lessons, diary, meditation!
Day 5 Winter in England is miserable. No question about it! One needs to live here to understand my words. I usually love winter and don t mind the short day, the occasional rain but I need the snow to make the whole experience bearable! Well this is it! The missing link is the snow! It is nowhere to be seen! I am well aware that even in countries were snow is a normal feature snow is not present anymore or in the way one sees in old Russian paintings.
Nowadays, when I miss the snow I go on line and look for Russian painters. There is nothing - for me - like looking at a painting by Ivan Shishkin, closing my eyes and trying to imagine I am in the forest, surrounded by tall trees, smelling the raw earth, feeling the icy cold air on my face, filling my lungs with pure fresh, nurturing Siberian air! Fresh air … another rara Avis.
I told you before! Drawing takes one on many journeys!
Day 6 Sometimes circles follow lines and lines follow circles! What I was thinking about while drawing? About the French farmers! About the crazy world we are living in, a wold full of rules, most of the times rules going against the traditions, against ways of life humanity knew for thousands of years. I was also thinking about Vandana Shiva one of the the very few voices of reason who keeps trying to wake up a wild full of lemmings. I highly recommend listening to her words and thinking how can you raise awareness to the abuse farmers all over the world are being subjected to.
Day 7 The sun is shining again. I had to smile this morning as Facebook brought to my attention the video below. It make me cry with one eye and laugh with the other just like the emperor in one of the popular folk stories.
It reminded me that all of those colours, all of those shapes are still inside me. They might be in hiding at the moment, because one needs to survive but they are there. It make me want to find new ways to share that body of work with the ones who might benefit from it. It makes me want to put a message to the universe and ask for … a miracle.
Another week in the company of my pens, journals, books, memories.
Drawing is a wonderful way of detoxing after a long day in the office, during lunchtime or early in the morning before one goes to work!
Have a go!
I love seeing all your drawings. Big props for keeping it up! They are so prettttyyy!