Day Seven AEDM

Day Six AEDM

Day Five AEDM

 

Mama Log: nine in the am. I have paid bills, called my sister, dressed, fed and cleaned the children, laundered a load of kid/adult clothes, painted my AEDM painting, made a grocery list, read a few books to the children, ate breakfast, made a fire, walked the dog and am getting ready to head out for errands-library, market, coffeeshop and the post office. Naptime I'm hoping to make my 1600 word goal for NaNoWriMo. 

Yeah, so, I am calling today productive.

Day Four AEDM

Today my dear friend Danielle is remembering her son two years after his birth and death. She is also mourning so much today. And I also received a custom jizo painting order request from one grieving mother for another mother experiencing a miscarriage. I feel reflective, staid, mindful. I am surrounding myself in grief. Surrounding myself with images of the sea and calm and peace and compassion. Practicing tonglen for all grieving mothers and fathers, and practicing tonglen on myself. In all, I think the best word for today is just abiding. Abiding with you, Danielle. Abiding with your friend, the other Danielle. And abiding with all my grieving friends, fellow artists and myself.

Day three AEDM

Day two AEDM

11.01.10 (Day One AEDM)

Well, it is November. I have managed to sign up for both Art Every Day month and NaNoWriMo. After October's Thirty Posts in Thirty Days challenge for Babylost Awareness Month (my new name for it), I felt like I wanted a break from on-line writing a little without giving up the discipline of writing every day. I will be checking in here with my AED project. Hopefully, every day.

This is what I am doing for Art Every Day Month. I made a little watercolor book that is 5"x 5". And I will paint/illustrate one word, either emotion or experience that encapsulates my day. I think I have to paint in the morning, or the evening, since I am trying to write 1600/day at night after the kids fall asleep. Oy, vey. Anyway, morning seems to work well since they are little gesture paintings, and I can tie it into art/craft time with my daughter.

So today's word:

 

Anyway, I am keeping the book unbound for the time being, until I finish painting. I think it will be easier.

I also almost have my last spread of the Sketchbook Project completed. I changed the lines, and image, and I like it. It is different than the other spreads, because the gesso prevented me from doing nice washes, so it is acrylic mostly.

The red heart on the right hand side is the center of what will be a Radioactive symbol. And some lines, showing the process of nuclear fission will be added on the left side, except instead of neutrons, they are hearts.