dc NUMEN + monday quote

Für die erste drawing challenge dieses Jahr wählte 

Tammie den Begriff "NUMEN" aus.

Das tolle an der dc ist,  daß es immer neue Herausforderungen gibt 

und ich bin jedesmal begeistert und verblüfft wieviele Unterschiedliche 

Sichtweisen und künstlerische Ausdrücke dabei zu Tage kommen 

und oftmals lerne ich auch neue Wörter und Begriffe, 

die ich nie zuvor gehört habe. Danke dafür, Tammie!

Also musste ich NUMEN erstmal nachschlagen und vielleicht 

war ich nicht die einzige. Für mich gibt es so etwas wie eine 

allumfassende Kraft/Energie die im gesamten Universum

herrscht, man kann sie nicht sehen und 

vielleicht auch nicht beweisen, aber manchmal spüren, 

am ehesten in der Natur und da ich aus einer 

alten Seefahrerfamilie komme mütterlicherseits, 

bilde ich mir ein, daß ich Meerwasser im Blut habe und 

deshalb zeigt sich Numen für mich am meisten am Meer.

Das Meer ist für mich ein magische Ort und strömt 

unendlich viel Kraft aus. Egal, ob and diesigen Tagen 

wo Himmel und Meer ineinander verschwimmen oder 

bei Wind und Wellen, ich könnte einfach nur 

dasitzen und schauen und ganz viel Numen 

in mich aufsaugen, Glücksgefühle einfach.

For the first drawing challenge this year Tammie chose the term " NUMEN " .The great thing about the dc, there are always new challenges 

and I am always thrilled and amazed how many different perspectives 

and artistic expressions come to light and often I learn 

new words and terms that I have never heard before.  

Thanks for  that Tammie !

 So I had to look up NUMEN first and maybe I was not the only one.
For me there is such a thing as an all-encompassing power / energy 

that the entire universe inhere you can not see it, 

maybe not proof it, but sometimes feel, most likely 

in nature and me coming of an old seafaring family 

from my mothers side, I imagine thatI have salt water in the blood and therefore 

Numen shows for me most in the sea.The sea is a magical place for me and flows infinitely force.  

Whether on hazy days where the sky and sea blend together

 or in wind and waves, I could just sit and watch 

and absorb a lot of Numen, feelings of happiness.

Ich freue mich darauf, alle Eure 

Interpretationen zu sehen und die findet ihr 

diesmal auf Tammies blog. 

I'm looking forward to see all your

interpretation which you can find 

this time on Tammies blog.

monday quote:

Drawing Challenge NATURE

 This weeks theme for our dc NATURE choosen by our wonderful tinyWoolf is a real challenge because of its endless possibilities. As always having too many ideas swirly around in my head, seeking nature and bringing bits and pieces of it back home...

I started with a simple collage (above) with scraps of nature drawings out of my collection of old books  to assemble different aspects of nature and highlight just one.

 On my daily dog walks in the forrest my eyes were caught of all this little ? no idea how they're called "leaves of pine cones" left behind from very productiv squirrels and I started to collect and glued them into a material collage

here some details...

Yesterday evening collecting the 2nd round of "leaves" 3 dogs were heavenly barking at me as they passed by, I guess they were concerned about this weird woman crowling over the forrest floar and I believe her owner did the same... and I thought 

"so what, I'm an artist I can do that, normally can everyone, normal is boring".

So if seeking and playing with nature ends up in finding the true nature/center 

of yourself this is a good thing I assume...

 ... and talking about collecting on my yesterdays trip to a fleamarket which takes 

places a couple of times at a recycling yard I found this old landscape painting which 

seemed to me a gift of heaven for this drawing challenge and I altered it my way 

playing with the romantic idea of nature, reality and humans habit to 

map everything out maybe to feel safer if you always know were you are...

... and hung them into my bedroom and this way combined

this weeks challenge with last weeks. HA!

not to mentioned how much fun I had with this theme - thank you dear Nadine - 

and please don't forget to visit Nadines always amazing and inspiring blog 

to see all the results of all other participants!

Have a nice weekend,

Barbara