Celebration of Imbolc at GSOVIBES Art Club

Our celebration of Imbolc was a throbbing bubble of creative energies at the first GSOVIBES Art Club! We honored fertility, healing, femininity, one another, and ourselves via collage, coloring, painting, drawing, and more. Can’t wait for the next one!

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The next GSOVIBES Art Club will be towards the end of February, and the upcoming Trash Pick-Up Event is on February 4th!

Artists who Attended

Tenecia

Beginning with paint drops all over the canvas, feeling her way through various strokes and textures, Tenecia’s piece was perhaps the most reflective of my comprehension of healing via art.

Maybe I’m biased because she used some of my snake skin, which made me absolutely ecstatic! Nonetheless, Imbolc was certainly honored in her artful practice that evening.

Tenecia & her piece from Art Club nite!

Calvin

Calvin blew me away with how she immersed herself in this collage. Eyes glued to the images, hands glued to the scissors, glues glued to the glue – I was inspired to be as intent on my collage, in turn.

I can’t wait to see more of Cal’s work and be in the presence of her creative energies once again! Her intuition for creation will go far and wide, I’m sure of it.

Mackenzie

A hard-working designer, Mackenzie utilized her time at the Art Club to flip flop between a pristine It drawing and some logo designs for her freelance work. She also researched some Imbolc-related runes to later wood-burn into a beaded bracelet. In other words, there’s no denying she was the most productive one of us all!

All the while, however, we chatted away about healing and fertility symbolisms in our witchcrafts, and how art takes a place in each of our lives. Thank you for your company, Mackenzie!

To the right is an embedded Instagram post of an insane design she did on the hood of her car that she shared with us on the night of the event.

Charlie

The boys joined us later in the evening and somehow still completed fantastic pieces. Check out Charlie’s lava-lamp-esque fish!

Using all pen and sharpie, the design turned out vibrant, dramatic, and powerful. Whether he realizes it or not, the compositionally divided color scheme appears calculated (af). Glad to have some of the musicians join us to express themselves visually, as well.

Bob

It’s everyone’s favorite drummer, and you’ll be (not-so-)surprised to know that he can draw, too. This image perfectly reflects the paradox that is Bob’s consistent focus on his own whimsical nature.

I see this man go about his daily routines like the hamster wheel ain’t nothin’, and yet throw down on some musical and magical spontaneity any day. Can you see it in the art, too?

Catch Bob drumming for Royal Jelly, and other bands, and at Wahoo’s on Tuesdays, and at Walker’s, and Little Brother, and… the list keeps going. He loves to hit the kit!

Pete

At this Art Club event, he was the pyromancer of our indoor wood burning stove, herb master of our shared hot tea, fruit bearer of the full pan of sliced oranges, and in the image shown, wood burner of a leopard – ’twas his first time wood burning, too.

A special thank you to my partner and lover who has made this entire experience – the art studio, the GSOVIBES events, and in general my business and artistic endeavors – come to fruition.

Myself

As for me, well, you can imagine: I had a blast. It is quite rare that I do art purely for my enjoyment, and collaging is both meditative and playful.

The elements I selected to exemplify Imbolc were:

  • White, red, black, green, gold
  • Serpent
  • Flowers
  • A feeding bird
  • Seeds

Although I haven’t gotten into it quite yet, Winged Warlock is one of my three categories of visual art. This pieces is of the WW, who is a snake. When I finally start adding info about who the Winged Warlock is, and why I have separate categories of my art, I’ll add a link here ๐Ÿ™‚

A fun, riddle, I-spy game for you…

Three words making up the first American expression I ever learned, each are reflected by a symbolic image or item.

I spy with my little eye…

  1. In a land before our own time, there were many savage beasts; but these herbivores, triad unicorns, would have but plants to eat.
  2. A swelling, blushing, boy! He holds within him all my dreams in the form of many coins.
  3. The gift my boss for Christmas gave; it holds the tools for this very art club session, and is how the road to my dreams has been paved.
The messy outcome of our first GSOVIBES Art Club Celebration of Imbolc ("When Pigs Fly" is the answer to the riddle; when = the triceratops to the left; pigs = my piggy bank; and fly = the yellow cup with a school bus on it at the corner of the black table)
Answer at the bottom of the page ๐Ÿ˜‰

Next GSOVIBES Events

Art Club #2

The next art club is planned for EITHER February 18th, or February 25th. The theme will be my bday ๐Ÿ™‚

Come back for an updated flyer!

Trash Pick-Up

Saturday, Feb 4th from noon to sundown @ The Swamp House

  • Food will be made & distributed at noon. First come first serve. BYOB.
  • We will provide trash bags and gloves.

The spring peeper pictured below will be the main design sold at the Oden Brewing Spring Equinox Festival 2023 (stay updated on their website), and I intend on gifting free merch of this lil’ guy to all attendees of the Trash Pick-Ups!


Answer to the riddle: “When Pigs Fly”

  1. When: the triceratops to the left of the Sam Adams beer bottle
  2. Pigs: my piggy bank on the glass dresser under the cardboard horns
  3. Fly: the yellow cup with a school bus on it at the corner of the black table

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    1. I love you back and am so thankful for your writing influence in my life โ™ฅ๏ธ cheers to those of us who (attempt to) articulate our thoughts (and whose efforts likely fall short of their own expectations)!

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