ShadowScape Art

Oh well....

2009-07-18T00:45:00.000-07:00

I was going to write something about art and TLE and depression but I'm too depressed. Oh well........

Seraphim 4: Triplicity

2009-04-13T23:44:00.000-07:00

Another youtube video.
Seraphim 4: Triplicity
Oils on canvas.

CatArt

2009-03-29T22:43:00.000-07:00

CatArt video montage.

Somework has been done ...

2009-03-28T20:01:00.000-07:00

... but not much.

I finished "Temporal Zone 1" and two other watercolour pencil works, "Manannan Mac Lir" and "Oberon, Illuminated by Moonlight".

All three of these works being exhibited online in an exhibition called Creative Sparks - An Art Exhibition from People with Epilepsy which will go live on May 7th 2009.

More about Creative Sparks

There will be lots of really great art to look at and you can learn about people with epilepsy at the same time.

I have a WIP on youtube for Manannan

and for Temporal Zone

I didn't do one for Oberon so here is a pic

I have been working on some one-of-a-kind art jewellery pieces too but none are finished yet.

More than a Year ....

2009-03-28T17:49:00.000-07:00

... has past since I have been in here, a really horrible year.

My mother had more strokes which meant she needed more everyday assistance. She passed away in September here at home. We were very glad that we could keep her home with us to the end.

A Friend

2007-12-28T00:02:00.001-08:00

Today I got a surprise gift from a friend. It couldn't have come at a better time.

My friend lives on the other side of the country. We used to be in regular contact via email and chat. I have found it very difficult for the last year or so to keep up contact with people - illness, responsibilities, mood swings etc. I am very, very pleased that she made contact again.

My friend TeAnne is a talented artist. I have a great collection of her Killer Teddy ACEO and ArtX2 paintings. I wish I could afford one of her larger works.

Have a look at her blog here:

TeAnne's Blog

and her online shop here:

ArtWorks by TeAnne

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

2007-12-27T23:57:00.000-08:00

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse

Spirit Cat 4

2007-12-20T00:28:00.000-08:00

Tired, tired tired. I said pet, I said love, I said pet..........

Spirit Cat 4 is finished.

WIP, Sebastian: Hunter in the Shadow

2007-12-09T16:11:00.001-08:00

I just discovered I could do this :-)

About Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

2007-12-08T22:12:00.000-08:00

From the Wikipedia

As Eve LaPlante discusses in her book, "Seized," the intense emotions, sensory experience including vibrancy of colors, and particular mental state provoked by temporal lobe abnormalities may have contributed to the creation of significant works of art. A number of well-known writers and artists are known, or in many cases suspected to have had temporal lobe epilepsy....

Fearghus After Dark

I thought a little serious content was in order so here is a link to a wikipedia article on TLE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy

Have a look it makes it easier to cope with people who have this problem (?) if you know something about it.

Progressing slowly

2007-12-08T18:52:00.000-08:00

Haven't been in here to write for a while. Been feeling depressed and overwhelmed. So many things to do and so little energy to do them with.

Temporal Zone 1

This has been progressing though - slowly, very slowly.

I am enjoying painting/drawing it but it is difficult to concentrate so it is taking quite a while.
I am also working on another Spirit Cat ACEO - also very slowly, lol.
Tomorrow I have to try to get a least one of the hand made books and albums I am working on finish. I have very little work in the shop at Leura - not very smart at this time of year.

Spirit Cats
I have 3 Spirit Cat ACEOs for sale in my etsy shop (see link in side bar) at
the moment. I also have a 10% off sale on everything in the shop as part of the Pagans of Easty geting to know you sale. I'm offering a discount also to anyone who buys all three Spirit cats listed to keep them together.

Spirit Cat 1: ACEO 2.5" x 3.5" watercolour watercolour pencil and rapidigraph penon heavy weight smooth watercolour paper.

Spirit Cat 2: ACEO 2.5" x 3.5" watercolour,watercolour pencil and rapidigraph pen on heavy weight smooth watercolour paper.

Spirit Cat 3: ACEO 2.5" x 3.5" watercolour,watercolour pencil
on heavy weight smooth
watercolour paper.

Spirit Cat 4 is still on the drawing board. I hope to have it listed by mid week this week.

I have tried every way I can think of to improve this layout but unfortunately the preview doesn't really look exactly like the finished page so I have to leave it as it is.

Casualty

2007-11-24T02:59:00.000-08:00

The emergency waiting room at Nepean Hospital is a surreal place. Low blood sugar makes it even more so.

Work In Progress

2007-11-22T16:04:00.000-08:00

I am still working on The Temporal Zone 1.

Here is a piece of it. It is in watercolour pencil and Rotring Rapidigraph pen.

Eyes and hand are recurring elements in many of my works. They are amongst the strongest and oldest symbols used by the human race. They are also amongst the things I see most frequently when I close my eyes. They swirl and morph.

There is a swirling, glittering "star" in the upper left hand side of my field of vision which throws out arms of flashing light and colour that rotate in a clockwise direction. Eyes open, eyes closed it is always there.

Work is slow. My new medication isn't working. It is however making me very depressed, tired and hostile. Life has been bleak. I am moving off it and today I will take it for the last time.

The "angels" are singing and the veil is thinning.

There are nights when....

2007-11-20T18:02:00.000-08:00

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls: George Carlin
That is my favourite quote of all time.

Demons

2007-11-19T05:42:00.000-08:00

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us,
conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how,
and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener
but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Youtube videos

2007-11-17T02:59:00.001-08:00

Well, it turns out I did get some work done today - no art or craft, but I did learn how to make WIP (work in progress) videos.

You can have a look by clicking on the links in the WIP Videos list in the side bar.

I tried to put the links in here but it wouldn't let me - still very new at this.

Maggie

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work: Emile Zola

2007-11-16T23:29:00.000-08:00

No work done today.

Lack of REM sleep is really catching up with me. I am feeling really detached from everything today. Nothing is quite real.

Haven't picked up a pencil or pen. Did go and get my Rapidograph ink cartridges though, so that is something.

I am going to spend some time now learning how to use MS Movie Maker (didn't even know it existed until the other day) using an old set of WIP pics and then go and sign up for youtube.

Maggie

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are: Anais Nin

2007-11-16T01:59:00.000-08:00

What do you see when you close your eyes?

This is The Aten.

Aten was a flame tabby - still is in The Other World

This is Aten After Dark

During the time I was painting The Aten , and for some time afterwards, when I closed my eyes or turned off a light I could see Aten After Dark. So I drew Aten After Dark.

This is not the first time my artwork has been influenced by things that have come out of what I am going to call The Temporal Zone. All of the Seraphim series of large oil paintings were influenced by what I see and hear that other people don't see.

I live in the twilight zone a lot of the time lately. I have had a recent escalation in symptoms so I have started to medicate again. There are a lot more drugs around now then there used to be but so far we haven't found the right one for me. So, I have decided to use the problems I have with my brain to a greater extent in my art.

Today I started the first in a series of drawings which I am calling The Temporal Zone. What I see when I close my eyes and when I have my eyes open in the dark.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this.

2007-11-15T23:36:00.000-08:00

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this.
Well, including this, I suppose. : Douglas Adams

My first blog.

My cat Sebastian has a blog which is understandable because Sebastian IS the centre of the universe (if you doubt that then you have never met him) and everyone must be interested in reading about him. This is Sebbie as my Ice Cat (4" x" watercolour pencil and ink). Sebbie has the most beautiful eyes in the world.

I have always resisted the idea of blogging. I am a private person - to the point if being secretive.
I find the apparently ubiquitous passion for publishing the details of one's life for strangers to read a little unsettling and somewhat confusing.

Having talked to other self-representing artists about promoting one's work I have come to the conclusion that blogging is inevitable. I have decided to write about temporal lobe epilepsy and my art. I will also be featuring the work of other self-representing artists whose work I admire and the work of artists who are involved with various animal rescue charities.

Maggie K