Random pouring oil on canvas

                                                                  Fun and joy!

If I had not been into my paints for a period of time, I enjoy this method as one  tends to loosen up and expectations are suspended thus allowing for freer, more spontaneous results.

The secret is in the fluidity of the mixture and not having something specific in mind.
I mix my oil paint with of oil medium ,little linseed oil and turpentine to get a smooth  pasty but runny mixture.
I then start pouring the paint onto the canvas  using a dropper.
Depending on how adventurous  I feel I might even pick the stretched canvas up and twist it around so that the oil can run more freely.
Letting it dry somewhere were I can not see it, I will later  look at it (at all angles) to see if there is something vaguely forming that I can relate to. Adding some lines here and there ,I then add some colour just to give more "body" to  the figure

Because I live so close to the Kruger National Park and get the opportunity to visit the Park  ever so often, so   one can understand why my efforts usually end up as some form of animal or bird.
Try it and have some fun with your art!



 

 

 Vervet monkey,

its always fun to watch them in their natural habitat!

Boy do they have attitude when playing! Just love them!

New friend

 

My new friend   The Fork-tailed Drongo

I often feed our  Mocking chat male and female residents some mealworms.

this young Drongo saw this one day and happily joined in

 

 

He has  become so blaze,  picking the worms directly from my hand.

I started to whistle a tune when I  feeding him, he now mimics it and comes flying when he hears it. What an absolute little gold nugget!

 

 

Description

It is large-headed and has the forked tail which gives the species its name. . The bill is black and heavy, and the eye is red

They are often seen taking prey disturbed by large animals or bush fires

 

 

Their prey is taken aerially and on the ground, and includes flying insects, moths and bees

 

 

Bones being used in analogies to convey the essence of a man (his soul)

 

Many cultures only associate   bones with death,  others  used it  to ward off bad spirits or bad luck and to attract good spirits or to have good luck

 

The word ‘bone’ is often mentioned in various contexts in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word for ‘bone’ is “ètsem.” Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible #6106 states that bones mean “essence, substance.”

The bones of a man or skeletal system symbolically represent the invisible soul because bones remain long after the flesh rots away. The long lasting nature of bones proves that the soul is the immortal part of humans that will continue to exist after physical death

 Manly Hall in his book The Secret Teaching of All Ages states

“Since the bones are the frame work that sustains the corporeal structure [physical body], they may be regarded as a fitting emblem of the spirit—that divine foundation

 

There are other instances in the scriptures where ‘bones’ are mentioned.

Prophesy of life in the bones found in Ezekiel

Eze 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

Joseph asked his brothers not to leave his bones in Egypt when they returned to the promised land (Gn. 50:25). Also Ezekiel had a vision of dry bones in a valley (Ezk. 37:1-11). the valley of dry bones symbolically represented Israel. Ezekiel spoke to these bones, they rose on their feet, Spirit entered into them, and they became alive. These bones represented the resurrected souls (Ezk. 37:11-4), which the Messiah fulfilled at His death, burial, and resurrection (Mt. 27:51-52).  In both of these circumstances bones have a deeper meaning than just physical bones. In this context ‘bones’ spiritually mean the soul.

So, when Moses and Israel took Joseph’s bones out of Egypt (Ex. 13:19), this typified the resurrection of a man’s soul.

 

Judges 15 (King James Version)

¹⁶ And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men

¹⁹ But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

 

          As the  skeletal system in the natural body is a reflection or shadow of both the mental and          spiritual support systems. On a psychological level, our world view or belief system, although,very limited and biased, is our initial framework to our environment and people. Eventually, we have to transcend our beliefs wh ich limit and constrain us