Life Lunch and new meditation

So after reading the fantastic Creative Thursday, which is very strong with intention setting and accountability for being creative every day; I decided I would reach out to my friends for some spurring on and accountability to achieve my creative goals, which has led to me setting up Life Lunch!

Once a month, my closest buddies and I are going to meet up, treat ourselves to a lunch out and help each other progress with our goals. I'm really excited, we have our first one on Thursday and I'm looking forward to gaining encouragement, inspiring each other and generally having other minds to share ideas and even just release negative worries etc.

I'm also really excited about a new meditation from Lifebook I am going to try tonight based around positive feelings from your sacred inner eye! I was feeling a bit down earlier, frustrated and not very self-accepting, so thought that when I get home I really want to paint a loving, self-nourishing angel and remembered I had not got around to this meditation yet.

So that's my Life Lunch plan and my evening plan! Bring on 5pm!!!

Powerful Love

I have this ball of energy deep inside of me.
I feel it surging and rushing.

It gushes and flows from me, onto you, all over you; it is my love for you.

Strong, powerful love pours out from me and covers and splashes you.

I love you.

Lucian Freud

Got a book on Lucian Freud from Tate modern on Monday - slowly plodding through. I love his raw flesh tones, brutal brush strokes and energy in his portraits. Feeling inspired by his colours and mark making.

by Freud

by Me, inspire by Freud

Catching a ride

Inspired by waiting aaaages to get a bus and then seeing a giant dog and imagining what it would be like if giant bears were buses... And how hard it would be to stay on the bear, especially in the rain! Just a sketchbook painting, but love it so much I may one day re-do it on canvas or nice paper, and much much larger. Watercolour crayons (my new love) and charcoal, A3.

Skull is full

So many arty and creative ideas swimming around inside my skull. How to choose? What first? When? Maybe I'll do them all at once in a giant amalgamation of my entire being and that will be my life's work, my masterpiece and then I will implode.

Fruit Salad Reigns

Carrot spears and cabbage shields

Husks of corn line the fields.

Aubergine King sweats as he lies

Plump and purple he softly cries.

The Garlic look on in secret cloves

Quietly tending the pyres and stoves.

Mango smiles - she's safe, for now

As Pineapple Queen takes a bow.

Departure

Twitch and flex and stretch and fly

You'll depart from here for a while.

Shadow

The shadow of a wing

The glint of an eye

The hint of a smile.

The question: why?

Intention Setting: Poems with Pictures

So, I'm trying to get into the habit of creative intention setting - lots more to follow but my first last (!) attempt was with poetry, which I have surprised myself and suddenly started to write lots of little poems. I'm using this blog really as an online journal for my creative journey, so figured everything and anything goes. So here we go - my intention...

Intention:

Whenever I write a poem I will accompany it with a quick sketch and I will post it on my blog

At the end of the month I will add these poems together, illustrated in order to start work on a zine.

Aim:

3 poems with illustrations a month.

Refection:

The day I wrote this intention - a couple of weeks ago, I was suddenly inundated with "life" - so I achieved my 3 poems, but I forgot to post them on here!

I'm actually typing as fast as I can with 4 minutes remaining of my lunch break at work. So tonight - I will write up my poems.

I'm even thinking of a couple more as I type... Watch this space!

p.s also managed a quick doodle at lunch as I'm bursting to release some art work but - sigh - just haven't had the time!