Deep diving into my psyche

Deep diving into my psyche through art therapy.

It's called "shadow work," and involves "diving into the unconscious material that shapes our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors,"

One painting turned into two paintings real quick. The first is like 90 percent complete.

So the other painting. I'm a highly emotional person. I cry a lot, these tears flow freely. So it felt fitting, to create a portrait of myself with waterfall like tears.

I feel some release as I work on these personal paintings. I'm including symbols, like the Rowan tree for my daughter, and a book of knowledge tree for my son. I'm including an apple tree to match the pear tree, those were in the orchard I spent so much of my early life with.

The unicorn, holds so much meaning. I will go into detail one day, for now just accept that medieval tapestries with unicorns play a vital role.

A lot of this image has been redrawn over with digital markers to highlight my next moves with the painting. This is like in the 40 percent beginning of a painting, lots is bound to be improved apon before I call it finished.

I guess in a way both paintings are me, different points of me that need a little light shines on them. A screaming skull in decay, vs the contemplative melancholic waterfall tears.