We’ve all heard it before. Are you a pear shape? An apple shape? You’re neither. You’re person shaped. People come in different shapes and sizes, we aren’t apples, we aren’t pears, we’re people.
Enjoy your body, express it, and love it. Don’t put it down, find what you like about it, even if you have to use someone else’s eyes. You wouldn’t allow someone to be so negative about your friends, so why allow yourself to be so negative about you?
Here we have the third in the “Love Your Body” series, this time without the words actually on the canvas. Again I like the heart right in the form. I painted this using the ArtRage app on my iPad and changed the texture of the paper to be much rougher.I’m pleased with the effect.
I really like how this series is progressing and I think I will be paining something in the series in oils some day soon.
The other day I posted a painting I did with the theme of “Love Your Body.” What you don’t know is that isn’t the first I did of that series. Back in July I painted this with the same theme in mind, but I never uploaded it because I was sans internet for a few weeks.
I remember not being too happy with the piece back then, but now when I look at it I’m very happy with it. I really like what I did here. It just goes to show that sometimes when you’re creating you need to step away from the project and get some perspective. It works with design, writing, painting, and pretty much anything creative.
I hope to do more in this series. It seems to have struck a cord with some people, and I think that’s a good thing.
Last night when I should have been sleeping, but couldn’t if my life depended on it, I made this. I love the idea of the heart right in the middle of her body, her body was making the shape, I had to add it. Love your body is an idea I can get behind. We all are raised to hate our bodies, to worry over the imperfections and while trying to improve one’s self is always a nobel cause, hating your body or self is not. You can love your body and still want to improve. I love my big fat body and I push it to move more and push it to do things and change shape, but at the same time, loving it. You may be fat, skinny, blemished, stretch marked, oddly proportioned (according to magazines that airbrush and photoshop everything), muscled, lacking muscle definition, pigeon chested, a crooked spine, a limp, other special needs, your body is wonderful because it’s yours and you should love it.
*If anyone is interested in a print or other materials with this image please contact me (serious wants please) and I will make available anything you desire with this imprinted on it
I was browsing somewhere and came across an etsy store that does wedding dress fashion sketches and I thought “Now that’s a cool idea.”
Most women only every wear their own dress that one day. It’s a dress often that costs a fortune (sometimes not) and a lot of time is put into thinking about and planning. Even someone like me who doesn’t often value the girly things in life knew basically what my dress would be from a very young age. I always knew I would be married in blue, pale blue, just like my two grandmother’s were. Their husbands loved them to the day they died and I figured you couldn’t go wrong following something like that as a tradition. So with all of this thought, energy, time, and money going into a dress that’s worn once, it feels like a bit of a waste.
I can’t help but want to do as Kaylee did on Firefly and keep my dress hung up in my living room so I could just sit back and admire it, but that’s not practical, is it?
Instead the idea of a fashion sketch to display in my home sounded much better. I think I like the idea so much, that if someone wanted to hire me to do this for them, I’d be thrilled and have a lot of fun doing it :)
Now I know often fashion sketches are done on figures that are more stick like and insane proportions to accent the look of the clothes, but I don’t feel comfortable doing that for my dress. I’m a big woman and that just feels like lying to me, I’m sure it’s fine for some other women, that they just care about the dress not so much about making the proportions accurate, I just know for me, if I am proud of my body, I don’t want to lie about it either.