Follow your bliss...: New Monotypes

Saturday, June 06, 2009

New Monotypes

Ancient Mechanism, May 31, 2009, acrylic monotype on Stonehenge paper, 6 x 6 inches

Mind's Eye, May 31, 2009, acrylic monotype on Stonehenge paper, 6 x 6 inches

Moonlight, June 3, 2009, acrylic monotype on Stonehenge paper, 6 x 6 inches

I've been having lots of fun with colors and have fallen in love with Paynes Gray again...

4 comments:

ELAINE ERIG said...: That´s cool !; 10:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Love the textures you create. It looks just like stone. Thanks for the comments on my watercolor too.
Jean; 8:22 PM
Anonymous said...: the second one reminds me of a close up of a rose.
by the way i just now noticed your blog address for this blog is "ohdrat" - ha!; 3:46 PM
Laura J. Wellner (author pseudonym Laura J. W. Ryan) said...: It's funny how I came up with that...I went through SEVERAL much more meaningful blog titles before I gave up and just typed OH DRAT for the heck of it and it happened to be open...so I stuck with it...funny thing, I can't recall a single one of the much more meaningful titles that I wanted (Follow Your Bliss came along after the oh drat...I figured that one had to be taken...); 6:40 PM

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.