I get hemiplegic migraines ( which I am sure I must have mentioned in an earlier post) they are exacerbated by flashing lights and hormones. Most of the time they are under control with a very small dose of antidepressants. However, menopause and my irritable bowel has been fun!!! Sometimes, the migraines are brought on by flashing lights – sometimes food (if I am being sensitive). This latest episode was self inflicted really – reading a book and drawing mandalas in 4 hrs of flickering light on a car journey -was asking for trouble.
I decided to have a go at working through my frustration and anger at my self , after several reared their ugly heads , consecutive evenings.
I am staying at my Dad’s house in the south of France with only my travel kit. I painted loose ovals on lots of sheets of heavy duty cartridge paper with very diluted acrylic. Then added swirls of neocolours, oil pastels and more paint- it’s warm and arrid here so everything dries very quickly.
I wanted to continue working with my paper dolls. I tried a design where a female shape is curled up in painholding her head but it ended up looking like white splodges in some sort of fiery constellation. 
A head screaming (below) just looked weird( lol) and didn’t convey what I wanted to express- I like the colours , textures and patterns , so they became backgrounds.
I needed some figures that worked in circles so I searched on line and came up with an ancient artifact from Mexico
Practicing blind contour faces in pain ( really getting into the details 😂😂😂😂)
The above design uses an African figurine as motif but even though it made a lovely mandala in the centre with its arms and legs I didn’t like the proportions of the head and neck.
Nice uncomfortable screaming baby type figures are amusing me now my head is better and I like the nightmarish qualities – there is an other worldly feeling and out of body experience that I seem to have captured too , which sums up my aura stage quite nicely. Though if I think about it -I don’t experience all that colour
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Another very interesting blog post.
The figure with the circles and red eyes really seems to demonstrate the discomfort you are feeling.
You lead a very interesting life Tess, compared with mine 🙂
I am very lucky – it’s a juggle between this and working or doing stuff for me – tricky at times 😘😘😘