Naming the Deva
I hope you are enjoying my playing around and creating different vibrant, colorful paintings! As you may know if you have read my blog before, I ask a painting its name to listen to what it is expressing. (It is true, sometimes in a series I know what I want the name to be ahead of time – like my Conundrum series.) For individual images I ask and pay attention to what the energy of the painting is communicating to me.
Tree Goddess, Digital © Diane Clancy
After I finished this digital painting, when I first looked at it, I saw eyes peering out from the other side of space and time … I thought it was going to be about the thinning between the layers of reality. But as I quieted down, she spoke to me very clearly … those eyes belong to the tree, not to the other side. Her stature very quickly indicated that she is a goddess, a deva of nature. She was very authoritative in how she spoke her name, with her hands on her hips … so I delightedly conferred it upon her! Tree Goddess! Do you name your work? How do you name it? What do you think of artists’ names on their pieces?
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~ Diane Clancy
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Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Says Diane, "I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through painting. I love that people say my artwork enhances their lives."
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
It looks like a meeting a tree fairy’s – a kaffee klatsch, of middle aged trees.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
There were some Facebook comments:
Samir Salmi wrote: nice world………..
Sally Trace wrote: That’s a great blog post. Paintings usually tell me their name too. I often think of a name and want to make a painting to go with it. “Nickel Defense” is one. It would have to be a painting with lots of push and pull.
Thank you!! ~ Diane
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I do name my paintings. I think it cheats the viewer to just have ‘untitled’. I usually come up with a name pretty quickly after the piece is done, if not before.