Stereo Art

My mother is a chalk art minister - she draws pictures in chalk live in front of an audience, often with a hidden blacklight effect, and added spiritual message. (Here is one recent drawing, together with it's hidden blacklight effect - Jesus the Shepherd. The Jesus image is hidden in the waterfall in daylight, and lights up in the dark with blacklight)



Her ministry has taken her all over the world, to such exciting places as Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, the Solomon Islands, her resident country Australia and her home country South Africa. I'm busy educating her in getting a blog going to show her art and give her experiences - watch this space!

Lately she says she's been having these flashes of inspiration, images of drawings in full colour with detail, things that have never been done before. But with her chemo and problems with her right arm where the cancer spot it, she feels she's maybe running out of time to produce them.

And now I'm having flashes too! (The older one gets, apparently, the more one becomes like one's parent....scary, but true)

I had this sudden image of her doing her chalk-on-black drawings, while at the same time I worked in charcoal (or black chalk) on white next to her - either with an interpretation of the same image, or a detail of it, or a contrasting one.

For instance, she does a scene of Jesus on the cross, I focus on a nail-pierced hand. She does wholeness, I do brokenness. Something like that. It was just a quick flash, burned into my memory, then gone - back to wherever it came from.

Now if only I had any idea of how to work decently in charcoal, it might just happen!

But I'm still experimenting and it shows. I used to be considered artistic in school, 15 years ago... but it's been a very long time since I did anything like that. I'd like to get some technique training, but am having trouble finding a teacher, at least one that won't cost me the earth. I also need a lot of practice.

But if we could get the stereo art thing going, I think it would make quite an impact! If nothing else, it would be loads of fun.