Friday, January 8, 2016

Oil pastel drawing: “Everlasting love”

Yesterday I’ve made a drawing of a Mother with Child with beeswax crayons and oil pastels. I was thinking about what I could draw when the image of a lemniscate came to mind: the symbol of infinity.  Immediately I connected it with a mother figure ; a head and a womb. Then I started to draw…..

12 comments:

  1. Aww nice idea! Happy to see another drawing!

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  2. Lovely. :) And instead of an umbilical cord from mother to child, there is a "heart cord!"

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  3. It is gorgeous and perfect in its symbolism <3

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  4. As I said on IG, this is such a lovely evocation of the spiraling inwards that Mary evokes. Beautiful!

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  5. Ellen, that is beautiful and so symbolic. I love it.

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  6. As I said on IG, she's absolutely beautiful! Fun to hear how you found your inspiration, too :)

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