Oil – Page 5 – Pam Jackson

Capstone

In July 2023 I completed a capstone project for the Alla Prima Bootcamp course that I am taking with Chelsea Lang. It has really moved my painting practice forward as you will see as I post more paintings. The painting in my previous post was a part of this project. The paintings were presented at the Centennial Museum during the Manitoulin Art Tour of 2023. I enjoyed a diversity of conversations about life and death over that weekend. This collection is five friends and I painted a two more but they were shipped and not available. I have three others on my list to paint and will get to them. While I was painting I prayed for all these souls, and I still do. I ask for assistance from them with this inspiration: “Such a soul provideth, …the pure leaven that leaveneth the world of being, and furnisheth the power through which the arts and wonders of the world are made manifest.” It seems that we still have more work to do and continue to have a connection with this world after we have left our physical existence behind.

Corona Skakoon

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Corona Skakoon – Nov 12, 1930 to May 7, 2020 (89) A woman with a world embracing outlook. She was a steadfast member of the Baha’i community when I lived in Sudbury. She was an articulate story teller and loved to read. Corona was always cheerful when I would see her at Nineteen Day Feasts. I painted her using a photo from her youth. It describes a confident women steering her way through this world of being.
O Thou Kind Lord! This dearly cherished maidservant was attracted to Thee, and through reflection and discernment longed to attain Thy presence and enter Thy realms.

Joan Jackson was here

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This painting was accepted at the Northern Ontario Art Association Juried Exhibition and won an award. The Exhibition will be travelling around Northern Ontario over the next year. This is a picture of my mom who sadly has dementia. She use to doodle “Joan Jackson was here” where ever she went. She is still here at 89 but not here.

Mom’s Personal Support Worker is Hindu and is particularly loving and kind. She braided mom’s hair and placed a bindi on her “brow chakra”. Hindu tradition holds that all people have a third inner eye. The two physical eyes are used for seeing the external world, while the third focuses inward toward God.

Self portrait Nov 2022

Alla Prima, NEMI Painterspace, Oil, Portrait

The last self portrait was about 6 months ago. I can see that this one was easier to do and seems more free and light in brushstrokes. This one was done using a photo. The next one in about six months will be using a mirror so it will give the feel of painting from life.

Jackie

NEMI Painterspace, Oil, Portrait

Jackie visited Manitoulin Island this summer. She is a special friend of Karen (see Friendship). We hiked and went swimming at Misery Bay Provincial Park. Along the way we stopped at the sweetest self serve take out where there was homemade baking, natural ointments, fresh vegetables and the like. Places like this supply local food and you put the money in a can. This requires trustworthiness and we have a chance to burnish this gem of the spirit.