“Fog Moving Forward” : A-painting-a-day in oil or pastel series by Charlotte Artist/ Eco Art Girl

Just another post. You can find my thematic art on my website www.rlistudios.com (landscape art of marsh and coastal waters). 

I really wanted to take care of a few family matters but with just a few free moments (and support from artists here) I will resume for the mean time…..with a painting a day posts of the landscape I did from my imagination, and the idea of early morning “fog lifting.”  This one is a pastel on Art Spectrum Colorfix board and measures 9″ x 12″ (image size). 

Fog Moving Forward- is more about “mood” and “possibility” or ways to affect change.

overall size 16″ x 18″

I am re-reading a little book that inspired me initially when I began these posts entitled “A Little Book on The Human Shadow” by Robert Bly, which really sent “out a crow” for me to create change (literally in my routine and paint the landscape). This really little book mingles poetry and verse and defines the “shadow” in one’s life as the whole unconscious- rather than the negative and repressed part of the human psyche we equate “shadow” to mean. 

For painters or for those of you that read these blogs this book may prove useful to you. Shadow could become a thematic image for you to “look within.”  Bly wrote if any help was going to arrive for him during his bleak period it came from the dark side of his personality. I might give this a shot, or perhaps I already have with this post because I tend to paint happier colors than the moody ones above; you decide? According to this book, the dark force is a positive one; in fact, the Yin-Yang symbol shows the white part of the personality versus the black part of the personality inside a circle united- the yang being our shadow. OK. 

Our culture teaches us to split and polarize the light and dark, and do as he says, ” fear swarthy Indians, dark-feathered turkeys and pitchy -pine woods,” etc.  for this is the enemy and hides us from the sun. I get all hooked with the verse and tend not to look too deep into the meaning but I believe the author would want us to do otherwise. So be it- I will TRY and create some drama on the canvas; I see art all the time that does JUST this. Everything being relative, perhaps I already have a start with drama and revealing the shadow side of me here with my “painting-a -day-post above;” again, interpretation of all art is personal and only matters to the viewer. 

I am not sure I want to give away my “feeling side”  or the energy that is rightfully mine- so chapter 3 discusses ways to get ”given-away” powers BACK if you are the type that projects your energy out and routinely gives your power away- so stay tuned. Speaking of, we all project- blogging is an modern example. If anyone has read this book and can make sense of the transferred projections we absorb (aka) the “witch,” “tyrant” and the “giant” light my way.  

I generally paint the land, the marsh, the sea and the things that lean toward the light- not the shadow.

You can find my thematic paintings on my website www.rlistudios.com.