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Title: Peace
Ball
Artist: Mary
Gravelle
Media: Tempera on paper, approx.
20" x 26"
Created on March 16, 2003
Sunday Wisdom Painting Session
About this painting:
I did no writing on this painting that I can find. I remember
doing it during a Sunday Wisdom Painting session where only one
person showed up and she wanted me to paint with her.
I created a "Peace" creative
visualization fashioned after the one that Maureen Ericson had
done the day before. I had attended her workshop, "Living
in Harmony with the New Earth", in Newington, CT.
The gift and vision I received during
the Peace visualization was this painting. My guide handed me
the Peace Ball, a ball that was radiating yellow light, to hold
anytime I needed to invoke a sense of peace within myself. I was
standing with my guide in a desert and my guide showed me the
blue rays of the sky and told me that blue was my peace color.
About the painting process:
The aqua blue stripes are masking tape that I had
intended to take off after painting the darker blue. It seemed
important to make really straight lines. But when I went to take
the tape off, it was taking the paper with it. So, I left the
tape and simply painted over it.
The other really important part of this painting was its
opacity. I painted two and three layers to achieve the rich
colors. Each color was custom mixed and so challenged me during
each layer to get the color right again.
I lavished in the colors and the image of this painting and
took my time over a month or so to complete it.
Memory invoked:
It reminded me of one of my first paintings I did for my first
apartment in 1970 (ooh, now you know how old I am!). You know,
back then it was all about the sun and smiley faces, and
grooviness. The original painting was painted in orange, yellow,
and green -- my absolute favorite colors of that era. It matched
my orange shag rug which I had purchased at my local Sears and
Roebuck store. Ah, memories ....
Perhaps this painting and my guide were helping me to
remember happier and more peaceful times. Actually, in
retrospect, that was a really triumphant time. I was beginning a
whole new life. And so the chapter in my life now beckons me to
begin anew. The Peace Ball is my message that I can restart my
life and begin fresh just like I did when I was 18. Okay
.....
But, but, yes, now I am 52! The skyline is shorter and the
foreground is longer and broader. Somehow life loses its
freshness over time. And yet, a richness of experience develops
in its place. Ripeness is the word I would use now in place of
freshness. I am ripe and ready to roll along to my next
destination ....
THE END.

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Posted: 05/19/2007
© 2004 Mary Gravelle

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