Wearing moon glasses

In my last post I wrote of my connection to the moon marking out my soul-time. As we head towards a full moon I want to talk about a sense of perspective. As an earth-bound moon-gazer, I watch her beauty. I watch the wax and wane of the cycle of the moon. I feel pleasure in the tinges of pink or orange of a moon rise, the beauty of a moon rise.

stock image courtesy of Ganapathy Kumar

What does the moon see looking back at me? What does earth look like from up there? Not the bleached out moon craters that I see but the blues and greens of our planet earth wrapped in a candy floss of white clouds.

As an artist there is much to be said for a change of perspective. When talking of composition when I teach my courses, I ask that students fill the page, taking the line to the very edge, not plonking the subject floating in the middle of a white page.

Today I invite you to wear your moon-glasses and look at the world differently. Can you zoom in and get close up with whatever you are drawing? Can you observe the world from a different view point, perhaps looking up at a tree and drawing it from beneath? Can you be a fairy amongst the flowers and notice the macro detail? Can you look for the colour, for the wonder?

Moon phases from my Winter Sketchbook Retreat online course

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Let me know what you are seeing through your moon-glasses!

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