New work: The plague doctor

"Plague Doctor"

18" x 24

oils

finished sides/ Ready to hang

Hi ya'll!

I finished a new painting...a plague doctor mask from the 1400's.

Hit the link to find out more about the history of Plague Doctors.

Here's the quote that inspired me to find a subject to paint: (I am still trying to figure out why it was this subject myself...don't worry...it'll come to me *grins* I just go with it when it comes...no apparent rhyme or reason these days, I am going where it takes me.)

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Prayer for You

I'm happy to announce that this is a perfect moment.

It's a perfect moment for many reasons, but especially because I have been inspired to say a gigantic prayer for all of you. I've been roused to unleash a divinely greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of you -- even those of you who don't believe in the power of prayer.
And so I am starting to pray right now to the God of Gods ... the God beyond all Gods ... the Girlfriend of God ... the Teacher of God ... the Goddess who invented God.
Dear Goddess, You who never kill but only change:

I pray that my exuberant, suave and accidental words will move you to shower ferocious blessings down on everyone who reads this benediction.
I pray that you will give them what they don't even know they want -- not just the boons they think they need but everything they've always been afraid to even imagine or ask for.

Dear Goddess, You wealthy anarchist burning heaven to the ground:
Many of the divine chameleons out there don't even know that their souls will live forever. So please use your blinding magic to help them see that they are all wildly creative geniuses too big for their own personalities.
Guide them to realize that they are all completely different from what they think they are and more exciting than they can possibly imagine.
Make it illegal, immoral, irrelevant, unpatriotic and totally tasteless for them to be in love with anyone or anything that's no good for them.

O Goddess, You who give us so much love and pain mixed together that our morality is always on the verge of collapsing:
I beg you to cast a boisterous love spell that will nullify all the dumb ideas, bad decisions and nasty conditioning that have ever cursed the wise and sexy virtuosos out there.
Remove, banish, annihilate and laugh into oblivion any jinx that has clung to them, no matter how long they've suffered from it, and even if they've become accustomed or addicted to its ugly companionship.
And please conjure an aura of protection around them so that they will receive an early warning if they are ever about to act in such a way as to bring another hex or plague or voodoo into their lives in the future.

Dear Goddess, sweet Goddess, You sly universal virus with no fucking opinion:

I pray that you will help all the personal growth addicts out there become disciplined enough to go crazy in the name of creation, not destruction.
I pray that you will teach them the difference between oppressive self-control and liberating self-control, awaken in them the power to do the half-right thing when it is impossible to do the totally right thing.
Arouse the Wild Woman within them -- even if they're men.
And please give them bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems.

Dear Goddess, You pregnant slut who scorns all mediocre longing:
I pray that you will inspire all the compassionate rascals communing with this prayer to love their enemies just in case their friends turn out to be jerks.
Provoke them to throw away or give away all the things they own that encourage them to believe that they are better than anyone else.
Show them how much fun it is to brag about what they cannot do and do not have.
Most of all, Goddess, brainwash them with your freedom so that they never love their own pain more than anyone else's pain.

Dear Goddess, You psychedelic mushroom cloud at the center of all our brains:
The curiously divine human beings reading this prayer deserve everything they are yearning for and much, much more.
So please bless them with lucid dreams while they are wide awake and solar-energy-operated sex toys that work even in the dark and vacuum cleaners for their magic carpets and a knack for avoiding other people's hells and their very own 900 number so that everyone has to pay to talk to them and a secret admirer who is not a psychotic stalker.

Dear Goddess, You fiercely tender, hauntingly reassuring, orgiastically sacred feeling that is even now running through all of our soft, warm animal bodies:
I pray that you provide everyone out there with a license to bend and even break all rules, laws and traditions that keep them apart from the things they love.
Show them how to purge the wishy-washy wishes that distract them from their daring, dramatic, divine desires.
And teach them that they can have anything they want if they'll only ask for it in an unselfish way.

And now dear God of Gods, God beyond all Gods, Girlfriend of God, Teacher of God, Goddess who invented God, I bring this prayer to a close, trusting that in these mysterious moments you have begun to change everyone out there in the exact way they've needed to change in order to express their soul's code.
Amen. Awomen. And glory halle-fucking-lujah.

Rob Brezsny
Source: http://www.freewillastrology.com/beauty/prayer.html

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Have a wonderful day!

Lemme know what you think, I love hearing from you all.

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

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'Prayer for the Living'

18" X 24"

oils

For Sale Here

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I needed to read this message again.

This came to me as this painting

came to being, and today I

share it here with you.

This is a much shorter version

of the whole message,

but the part that I

needed for today's work.

I hope you enjoy.

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With but a shift in perception,

what you thought was miles or lifetimes

away may be but feet and moments

away or already right in your arms.

Words are the least part of communication;

energy and action speak far more truly.

You do not need to import greatness from another;

you just need to act on your own.

You already know.

You always have enough energy to do the things you love.

You always have enough time to do the things

that Spirit would have you do.

You are doing better than you think you are.

You are in integrity when the life you are living

on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

You are lovable not for what you do.

You are lovable for who you are.

You are not desperate, so don't act as if you are.

You believe that if you had more time,

you would have more peace.

It's the other way around:

if you had more peace, you would have more time.

Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.

You can tell what you believe by what you get.

You can afford to be generous because

you have access to an unlimited supply.

You can be helping many people,

but if you are not helping yourself,

you have missed the one person

you were born to heal.

You can never love too much.

True loving only multiplies itself

and returns to bless us many times over.

You can't get a right brain answer to a left brain question.

Ask your heart, not your mind.

You can't get to heaven by putting other people through hell.

You can't prepare to be great, because you already are.

You can't worry love.

You cannot achieve perfection.

You can only discover it.

You cannot fix yourself because you are not broken.

The more you try to fix, the more you find to fix.

Only wholeness heals.

You cannot gain worth by achievement.

You can only claim it by self-recognition.

You deserve only love because you are only love.

You do not need to gain or import powers,

for you were born with infinite power to create.

You simply need to claim

and use the power you already own.

You don't always need to know beforehand.

You don't have to make anything happen.

Just line up with what wants to happen and let it.

You don't have to make someone

else wrong for you to be right.

You don't need to beg for what you already deserve.

You don't need to get anyone else

to agree with your truth.

You just need to live it.

You don't need to make good things happen.

You just need to let good things happen.

You don't need to punish yourself for love.

Or sex.

Or money.

Or your past.

Or anything.

You have more options than you recognize.

You know where you belong.

Your good flows to you most easily when you are

relaxed, open, and trusting.

You only live once but it's forever.

You own what you own not by money or force,

but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

You were born a genius, and you still are.

Claim it and it will work wonders for you and the world.

You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.

You will be paid for your services in

proportion to the depth of your passions for them.

You will find truth more quickly

through delight than gravity.

Let out a little more string on your kite.

You will help more people through your

delight than through your suffering.

You will not get rid of your pain by glamorizing it.

You will not solve lack by getting more.

You will solve lack by recognizing abundance

where you once saw lack.

You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal.

Whatever you invest it in will yield significant returns.

Your core being is your pure being.

Your entire world could open up with one expansive thought.

Your fears of oblivion are unfounded.

Your first and greatest contribution

to world peace is your own.

Your future isn't what it used to be.

Your gift to the world is not what you do.

Your gift is your happiness.

Your history is not your destiny.

Your inability to adapt is not a sign of your weakness,

but the strength of your inner guidance

to remind you where your passion lives.

Your issues do not retard forward movement;

they propel it.

Your journey of relationship is an

adventure to reunite with yourself.

Your thoughts do not create reality,

but they do create your experience.

Your thoughts do not create reality.

They either permit it or not.

Your true power lives

in acting with a whole heart.

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Let it be.

Have a great day everyone,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

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