[Art] Two White Ravens, as totems.

[moonvoice]

Two White Ravens

My 'take a break' artwork! I heart this piece, it was spontaneous, though it was a theme I'd been wanting to express for some time. And I've been obsessed with white ravens for a long long time. Both for shamanic reasons, and because well - white can be shiny and iridescent too!









Photo for the shinyness. Yay iridescence. It makes me squee, if I could make just about every surface on this planet iridescent or refractive or metallic or opalescent or pearlescent or whatever... I probably would.




18.5 x 20.5cm (or 7.4 x 8 in)
illo's board, fineliner, aquarelle, pencil, metallic and iridescent paint

Comments

[silere.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I am a total sucker for iridescence. And, i'm so glad that you did this one at a more relaxed pace, and enjoyed it. <3

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm a total sucker for iridescence now. I feel bad for people who come here expecting non-shinyness. Cuz they're gonna get it!

[lightgoddess-69.livejournal.com]

I don't know exactly why, but your white ravens just touched something deep inside me. It's another piece that just about brought me to tears.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[makhsihed.livejournal.com]

Warm fuzzies! Shiny, sparkly, iridescent warm fuzzies. <3

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yes! :D

[ariestess]

So, so pretty!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

Artwork

[swallow-9.livejournal.com]

I love your work, I bought three of your prints last month alone.
I have a question, do you have any pictures with tentacles? My son is bonded with all sorts of tentacly things, his first guardian was a jellyfish.
Thanks

Re: Artwork

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Um, I think I have a few:

(Nautilus) http://www.deviantart.com/print/7499003/?itemtypeids=
(Giant Squid) http://www.deviantart.com/print/7498459/?itemtypeids=
(Blue Ringed Octopus) http://www.deviantart.com/print/7498185/?itemtypeids=
(Blue Ringed Octopus x 2) http://www.deviantart.com/print/7497817/?itemids=&itemtypeids=

[eaight.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Never seen an actual white raven though.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Outside of the otherworlds, neither have I! :)

[eaight.livejournal.com]

Speaking of otherwolds... You might be able to help me out here... I've sense realized that I need some order, balance and focus, otherwise, I'll keep getting a see of random crap from random sources at random intervals. Perhaps you can link me to some basic exercises for focusing my mind and filtering input?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'll keep getting a see of random crap from random sources at random intervals.

This doesn't sound like you're actually journeying, or in any specific realm. It may be that rather than journeying, you're being fed a lot of different images by the spirits. Or alternatively it could be inner universe stuff (where scenes can change and flicker very quickly).

These might also help:

http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/otherworlds/howtojourney.html
http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/otherworlds/thingstodo.html

[eaight.livejournal.com]

That's it. That's the point. I'm not journeying. I just get a stream of random crap all day every day... accept for if I'm really drunk or on heavy ass medication, and that is extremely rare.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Ah. Okay. Do you work with any spirit guides or helpers at all? Have you asked them to mediate the images that you receive?
And have you eliminated possible medical causes, like epilepsy and mental disorders?

[eaight.livejournal.com]

The only thing that hangs around me now that might be a guide is something I associate with the color blue. I do not trust it, however. Then again, I haven't deemed it as malignant either. I don't trust it to mediate anything.

Medical causes.... Well, I've considered going to counciling, but it's going to come off like:, "Well, seems I have two spiders in my head, and the female decided to teach me stuff like that I should be balanced and have patience... And I have these ffeelings I've pegged to certain mythical beings, most of which coming from the Germanic mythos, and most, if not all, if they choose to "talk back" seem to give me fine advice like not to go and buy another pack of cigerettes or not to get bent out of shape over stupid little shit or that family and community is generally a good thing, what with being a social animal and all. Oh, and there's the times when I feel stuff in my house... like the time when I closed by eyes and saw a floating wolf made out of wind (something in Russian mythology, from what I gather)..."


What are they going ot do? This all sounds religious. The random crap, I've learned to ignore. Either that, or I tell it to go away. It ususally does. Heck, I've told "head voices" (that are very often feelings more than voices), "I'm about to go to class. Please stop. It's distracting." So far, they have.

I mean, I ight as well walk in saying, "Catholicism speaks to my heart." What are they going to do with it? How do they test something like this? They'd say, "Talk to a priest." Unless they can determine that being able to close my eyes and seeing a bear sitting accross from me at the table where my dad used to be then opening them and seeing my dad is some type of mental illness, I'm not sure how the spychiatric industry would help me.

There is also the fear of me saying, "Well, I'd like some help processing this, though it is not disturbing so much as it is confusing..."

And the reply being, "You are blah blah blah, and if you don't take these drugs, you will be committed to a mental health facility."

Really, I think I'd do well to be presented with different ways of understanding this stuff as well as just having some ways to deal with the occasional bits of chaos like the recent night I posted about in my journal. I counted in binary digits to calm down. It worked, but I'd really like to not have to think on my feel like that every time the strangeness monster decides to visit. Or remember when I told you about that weirdness with that place I saw where souls were grown down to nothing or near nothing? I'd like to have ways to deal with things like that that present themselves, and the mental health industry doesn't seem to have any ways of coping with that sort of thing. Again, it sounds religous anyway, like visions of Hell, only through my own mind's eye.

In that sense, what I'd like is sone one to not diagnose strange things as wrong things, roll up his or her sleaves and perhaps walk me through something that would me understand the things I see and feel.

Now the random feelings and occasionally the random pictures and voices in my head, I've learned to disregard them and just go on with life. The way to not hear them is to get enough sleep or to ask them to stop or tell them, if they aren't sutting up.

[eaight.livejournal.com]

Also, bookmarked these pages. Thank you.