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Wolf Moon Crescent

Wolf Moon Crescent ~ by Taexalia

The New Moon today begins the cycle of the Wolf Moon. It is said that this moon gets its name from the hungry wolves who would howl near tribal settlements in North America.

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I see a wolf standing alone at the edge of the ancient Caledonian Forest. She is a deep memory of a landscape faded. She is looking at the black of ... read more

I scanned my drawing and made copies so that I can try out different ways to colour the image. This is the first attempt, which I worked with a little in my picture editing software. Totally great fun ... read more

Drawing and Acknowledging My Creative Self

The writing bug has taken off - so much so that I am a little in awe of myself :) but there isn't much to show here other than a word count...

Tonight though I started trying to capture the image I have been percolating of my creative self. It's interesting to be so limited with art materials - most of them are in storage - but I think it is a little liberating too because I don't have to faff ... read more

Doodle Play

Perfect timing - the latest issue of Mslexia plopped through my letterbox today. I'm always intending to submit work every time the new issue appears, but I always manage to put it off... I was struck by something Maggie O'Farrell said in her interview - "I have to be disciplined to do the washing or do the tax return or the hoovering... but I don't need discipline to write, not at all." Clearly I've got things quite the wrong way around because I'm having to discipline myself to write ... read more

The Tiniest Things

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Red Moon Labyrinth"][/caption] A quiet day today - I gave myself a Reiki treatment and read some stories. The new issue of Mslexia arrived in the post so I savoured that and will take it to bed with me. The only creative thing I did today was figure out how to make a favicon image appear beside my website URL in a browser - which sends me down the path of thinking about designing a new logo... but not today. But that tiny little image ... read more

Exploring Red

I have been exploring red in doodle drawings, SoulCollage, meditation and this is also the phase leading up to my Red Moon... The first part of this journey began when I made this SoulCollage card: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="306" caption="Muladhara SoulCollage Card"][/caption] This card was one of those cards I began with intent and then took a long time to finally glue down the images. I had collected a large pile of red images, snakes and dragons - and eventually whittled ... read more