Art Breath - In The Body - Drawing In Love 2
 by Darinka Blagaj

Our ecstatic nature is always within us. Sometimes deeply covered by the noise of day to day - though usually a smile away - a sensation of grace, a feeling of gratitude - these expand me, like colours.

When I first really began to paint of my own initiative - I just wanted to mix colours - to feel all the vibrant light - my eyes would literally "eat it up"! The cravings for more and more richer colour grew. It was like my eyes were missing these hues and I needed them for balancing my inspiration inside my  heart.

The next experience I craved was wandering lines... sensual, peaceful, thin, thick, random, surprising - turning, spinning, journeying. wrapping and holding space to create a form. Lines easily moved into creating characters, eyes, totem animals, trees with feet, hands as wings - the stretch of possibilities captivate me as the "allowing' of being is given a place to express and a time to flow.

And then there is mixing the two - the pure bliss of drawing - no judgement, just experience in combining as a feeling which comes in and permeates the moment - so does a mixture of colour, line, form... the white of the paper is the majesty upon which this love is being made.

Every urge to create needs a space of love to express upon - it is a gift I give myself when I indulge in drawing in love... a state of grace I enter and i invite you to indulge in this yourself.

begin where you are: if fascinated by colour start there, maybe some oil pastel or chalk pastel - if fascinated by flow wet a brush with watercolour, if you want staccato - graphite pencil and rythmn.

Allow... put on some music and dance on the paper...

Aloha,
Darinka