Painting out a Few Skin Tones with DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone Watercolors

DANIEL SMITH Tinted Watercolor Ground

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolour E-F (Enviro- Friendly) Brown Iron Ox...

Watercolor Painting "Passion of the Christ"-Stradanje Isusovo by Jovan L...

It is kind of interesting to put two pictures you've drawn beside each other... it makes it a lot easier to recognize your own style of painting.

The left pic is a concept of an outfit for one of my characters, so I felt like just doing a simple manga-face for it. (Although manga is not simple but mine is). The right pic is a kind of... quest-road concept. Kind of... something like that hehe.

Seeing those pics beside each other makes me want to paint my characters in their environment.

The midst of Night...

I was just thinking about how I (and a ton of other people) often starts to worry a lot at night, but also, finds their strongest motivation to create. The imagination becomes so vivid and inspiring at night, but, then again, the same goes for your worries. It's really simple if you think about it. It's all about imagination. At night, you dream. At night, the darkness forces you to believe. At night, the silence makes it a lot easier to hear your own thoughts, and the knowledge of that everybody else is asleep makes it so much easier to focus on yourself. That kind of solitude can be cleansing but also scary. It depends on you mental state, hehe. Obviously...

I wrote this on my facebook a short while ago...

"The night is so bittersweet. It awakens the true power of one's creativity but also the power of one's deepest worries. I guess I need to choose if the power of my imagination will be a gift - or - if it will be a disorder. My bright side is saying: Of course it's a gift! You can not live without imagination! But then my dark side says: Of course it's a disorder. With the way you think, it can't be anything else. But then, I say: I'm neither only bright or dark. I am both... for I am human. I always come to the same conclusion - my key is balance."

Yeah... my key is balance. 

... But sometimes you need a little chaos to be able to find it.

Illuminated Art

Some random and awesome architecture!

Neuschwanstein Castle... One of My Favorite Castles...

“When energy studies become more advanced in the coming years, we will eventually see this translated to human beings as well,” stated Bader-Lee. “The human organism is very much like a plant, it draws needed energy to feed emotional states and this can essentially energize cells or cause increases in cortisol and catabolize cells depending on the emotional trigger.”

People Can Draw Energy From Other People The Same Way Plants Do

Bader-Lee suggests that the field of bio-energy is now ever evolving and that studies on the plant and animal world will soon translate and demonstrate what energy metaphysicians have known all along — that humans can heal each other simply through energy transfer just as plants do. “Human can absorb and heal through other humans, animals, and any part of nature. That’s why being around nature is often uplifting and energizing for so many people,” she concluded.
Here are five energy tools to use to clear your space and prevent energy drains while releasing people’s energy:

Stay centered and grounded. If you are centered within your spiritual self (instead of your analyzer or ego) you will sense right away when something has moved into your space. If you are fully grounded, you can easily release other people’s energy and emotions down your grounding cord with your intention.

Be in a state of non-resistance. What we resists sticks. If you feel uncomfortable around a certain person or in a group, don’t go into resistance as a way to protect yourself as this will only keep foreign energy stuck in your space. Move into a state of non-resistance by imagining that your body is clear and translucent like clear glass or water. This way, if someone throws some invalidation at you, it will pass right through you.

Own your personal aura space. We each have an energetic aura surrounding our body. If we don’t own this personal space we are vulnerable to foreign energy entering it. Become aware of your aura boundaries (about an arms length away from your body all the way around, above and below) as a way to own your personal space.

Give yourself an energy cleanse. The color gold has a high vibration which is useful for clearing away foreign energy. Imagine a gold shower nozzle at the top of your aura (a few feet above your head) and turn it on, allowing clear gold energy to flow through your aura and body space and release down your grounding. You will immediately feel cleansed and refreshed.

Call back your energy. When we have our energy in our own space there is less room for other’s energy to enter. But as we focus on other people and projects we sometimes spread our energy around. Create an image of a clear gold sun several feet above your head and let it be a magnet, attracting all of your energy back into it (and purifying it in the gold energy). Then bring it down through the top of your aura and into your body space, releasing your energy back into your personal space.

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