Dragonfly DP #21

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Daily Painting #21

November 27, 2007

“Dragonfly on Grass” is an acrylic painting on an 8”x8” canvas. I’ve been thinking about the orange dragonfly I encountered on a mural job Dena and I painted this past August and wanted to take another try at the little guy. If you may remember, my first Daily Painting was of this exact orange dragonfly. He is painted all by brush and with acrylic paints. I took photographs of the entire process and made a small slide show of it to music. If you’d like to watch the process (takes about a minute) you can view it in my youtube account at:

http://www.youtube.com/GBHartists

Some exciting things have happened in just the past couple of days that I wanted to share with you. First of all, for some crazy reason I decided to call into the Wayne Dyer live radio show and talk to him about my new web site. Wouldn’t you know it I was the first caller in the show! He was just great and even remembered me from Maui. He gave my site GodBlessHumanity.com a HUGE plug! It was just awesome! Anyway, you can listen to the podcast if you are interested. It’s free to listen to at the following link:

http://www.hayhouseradio.com/episode_details.php?show_id=16&episode_id=2869&episode_type=0

Also, I was featured in another podcast in one of my favorite online networking groups at Jason’s Network! If you are tired of the crazies at myspace I highly recommend you go over to Jason’s Network and join. It is fantastic and there are many wonderful members there. Tell Jason I sent you if you do join. Anyway, on the main page of his site there is a little box with the advertisement for ‘Happy Feet’ (cartoon with penguins on it). Push the play button and you’ll hear the whole thing! It’s about 5 minutes long in total. http://www.JasonsNetwork.com

Dena and I have been preparing for a big residential job and it will take up a lot of my time during December and I am not sure how many daily paintings I’ll be able to accomplish. I will do my best to paint them as the time allows.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Blaine and I drove to Phoenix and took Lucy with us. She played with her cousins, Tucker, Tommy & Ellie (Border Terriers). It was so cute!

Peace & blessings,
Gayle Etcheverry

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Orange Dragonfly Daily Painting #1

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Daily Painting #1

September 1, 2007

I started my first daily painting off with a morning meditation. I listened to Wayne Dyer’s ‘Meditations for Manifesting’. Wow, it is fantastic. Jen & Jon, THANK YOU for the disc. I can’t believe today was the first time I listened to it. Anyway, it really put me in a peaceful, joyful state. When I finished I decided the best piece to start my daily paintings with would be the Orange Dragonfly, AKA Mr. Dragonfly. My business partner, Dena and I (from http://www.prettyinpaint.net) just recently painted a Japanese mural in a Japanese Garden and everyday around noon this beautiful orange dragonfly would come hang out on one of the tall grasses of the lily pads in the koi pond. It was awesome to watch him just sit there for hours, catch a bug, fly around the yard and go right back to the same spot. He did this over and over and over. I found myself mesmerized by him. I took a ton of photographs of him. It seemed like he knew I was taking the pictures and he’d pose for me. It was such a tranquil experience to watch him do his thing all day long. Now I keep noticing dragonfly’s everywhere.

I have a book for my Medicine Cards (Native American Totem cards) and I looked up DRAGONFLY. This is what it said:

Dragonfly medicine is of the dreamtime and the illusionary façade we accept as physical reality. The iridescence of Dragonfly’s wings reminds us of colors not found in our everyday experience. Dragonfly’s shifting color, energy, form, and movement explodes into the mind of the observer, bringing vague memories of a time or place where magic reigned.

Dragonfly…
Breaks illusions,
Brings visions of power,
No need to prove it,
Now is the hour!

Know it, believe it,
Great Spirit intercedes,

Feeding you, blessing you,
Filling all your needs.

(*From Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson)

Naturally this seemed like the perfect subject to paint for my very first Daily Painting!

It is an acrylic painting on an unframed, 18 x 24 canvas. Techniques used are airbrushing, palette knife, and brushes. It took me about 5 hours to complete. It was a challenging task because I was staying focused to finish in a timely manor.

I really think I am going to enjoy this new journey. This is the perfect way to push & center myself to do just what I love…. PAINT.

The direct link to this paintings auction on eBay is
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180155466821

I can always be found on eBay if you search my name or my eBay; hoshigayle

Thank you so much for all of your feedback and support.

Forever grateful,

Gayle Etcheverry
http://www.gaylespaintings.com