Joyful
There is nothing more joyful than framing a pastel and sending it out to a friend to bless their lives with a special memory of a beloved companion,
Difficulties in drawing
There are quite a few hurdles I need to overcome in order to draw a pastel. Hand to eye coordination is mostly tricky, difgicult or not posdible. My hands and fingers are always numb to varying degrees. They slso burn with pain and throb frequently. My eyes are blurry and it is hard to focus. Several times a day or all day I can be paralysed partially or totally, near paralysed, or too weak to move. My mind is blanked by each paralysis and I cannot necessarily see or understand or receive and edpress information. And then there is the head pain, switching sides, left, right, top, back of head, neck, limbs all throbbing in unison. It is quite miraculous that I can ever draw at all. Then there are literally brief moments in a month when I can see a bit more clearly, I might hold a pastel and look at a picture and try to draw it. I have to be very quick. Any sound or movement or surprise can knock me back into blankness and paralysis once more and the rest of the day is stolen...
Linda has done two pastels our beloved dogs, Jade and William, and we are so delighted with them. She has been able to capture their essence from just a few photos and really bring them to life.
ReplyDeleteThe drawings are very special reminders of all the happy times we had with them.
Thank you Linda for using your precious energies to create such beautiful memories for us.