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Peace
Ball
Mary
Gravelle
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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: 12/23/2007
© 2004 Mary Gravelle
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