Heaven's garden (photography & colouring thread)

[sandalwood]

I've been grounding myself through art today and thought I'd share.

Blue

Heaven's Garden

Death

all of these were done today.

[sandalwood]

Colouring books helped me a month ago. I only have one, it was bought for my mother but I ended up using it. This is from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Garden. They took a while to do but I'm happy with how they all turned out..

Squirrel

Spirit Tree

[one_step_closer]

Oh wow, such talent.

I'm glad you have a good coping mechanism.

[nonperson]

Oooh, great photography and colouring! The tree is amazing. =)

[nonperson]

I forgot to ask, what do you use to take your photos?

[sandalwood]

Thank you for your kind words one_step_closer and nonperson! It's appreciated.

nonperson- I use a little compact digital camera with a zoom. It's a Canon SX720 HS. I remember buying it in a sale. I'm used to using Digital SLRs and an old film SLR but I gave mine away years ago. I have many pictures from the past on the computer. It's really the editing that's bringing the pictures 'out' with the composition. The original pictures are quite dull to me.

[nonperson]

I have a digital SLR that I've not used for years and used to do quite a lot of photo editing. I agree that it definitely brings the pictures out!

[sandalwood]

Digital SLRs are a lot of fun . I need a manual function on my camera otherwise I'm not happy.

This is what I consider grounded psychedelia (without drugs). I like breath and creative flow so I thought I'd share some of my work that's expressed death or recovering my mind from the abuse I've gone through. I won't share what each one means but I am expressing something about my environment which was outdoors a lot. I had trouble staying inside. This is only part of what I want to share but I don't want to clutter the thread too much at the moment.

Raining blood, 2009


natural tears, 2018


cat in the sea, 2012


a hospital room, 2018


magazine ideas, 2018


an inner world, 2018


temple music, 2018


prayer time, 2011


built to last, 2018


life force, 2018

[one_step_closer]

They are really great.

[nonperson]

Love them all for different reasons.

[sandalwood]

Thanks for the comments. Here are some designs from last year. They all come under the 'temple music' category. I don't know how these happened but they just did.

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[sandalwood]

Thanks!

[one_step_closer]

Ooh, they are very cool.