The goddess of perseverance

In progress...

The goddess of nurture

I do struggle to choose the goddess quality once I'm done with these pictures. And I suppose that is part of the point of me doing them... The initial idea was to portray women that I know in a positive way and to acknowledge the wonderful qualities they have to thank them for what I have learned/experienced from them. And in a way this is my response to all of the nonsense that was in the papers a while back when a journalist for the Daily Mail (Samantha Brick) sparked outrage for saying that she was beautiful. I think women (including me!) can be cruel to one another sometimes (more so than men in my experience, and I have worked in all female hospital wards where the majority of staff are female too). This is my little way of trying to address this for myself. And the fact that it is sometimes difficult to find the words to describe a persons positive qualities just shows that I don't acknowledge or praise people as I should.

So this is Cindy who I did my nursing degree alongside. And she is very nurturing! All of us in our little group of pals at uni had problems during the course and Cindy if the type of person that would be there for you and always knew what to say or do. Even though she is not much older than me she has a sort of comforting, mothering nature which is unusual in a friend I think, but most definitely a positive quality!

Goddess of perpetuity

Perpetuity is a funny word but I couldn't find a better one to describe aspects of my lovely sister. And i did have to get on the thesaurus! She is a constant, doesn't appear to have any flip outs, moods or irrational behaviour (like me), she's well balanced and consistent with her kids and everyone else, and our relationship as sisters has and will always be there. So it works, but it is a weird word! And this pic will need changing to one taken in daylight as it does the colours no favours at all.

No more blanks

But still a lot of work to do! Have started the sketching of the figures for the next two too.

Hmm..

Not sure I'm liking how this is going but will reserve judgement until I've got a bit more on the page, still not sure what I'm putting on the blank bits yet...

The goddess of...

This one is to be my sister, and rather weirdly my initial thoughts when I stopped painting and looked at it was that it looked like my mum when she got married (she had crazy culottes and a halter neck top in! It was the seventies!) My sister Karen had 'starry sky' down as one of her favourite things so I thought I would start with that, with one of Muchas Moon and stars figures. Possibly my favourite of Muchas work, and my sister obviously a favourite woman and my favourite first perfume was moon and stars (random fact!) Hoping to do it justice and think of a decent goddess title.

The goddess of generosity... Finished :-)

Particularly pleased with the way my owls turned out!

Time

Only had about an hour to day but happier with the owl colours and started the outlining, with any luck it will be done tomorrow.

Goddess of generosity

Will be attempting to post progress every day this year on my blog. A wee way to go with this one but happy so far.

Untitled goddess in progress

This one is based the likes of a woman I used to work with, Val. She was and prob still is a care assistant with a really warm and kind nature although people were not always warm or kind to her in her life she always managed to give it out regardless. And really hardworking too. A proper good egg! Got to think of a goddess name for her yet though....