A Rainbow Landed on My Doorstep

"flutterby love with a pink haired girl" oil on canvas 24x36 by bonnie rose

ok, so maybe it only seemed as though that is where on end of this full rainbow was planted as i noticed it when i left the gym this afternoon after an amazing long overdue workout.

back to the gym this week i was sore from yesterdays workout but it was only a reminder of how important physical activity is to me. the last two weeks i had only been a few times plus a hike because i have been so under the weather.

on the cross trainer, my heart rate increased and temperature rose, this is the point were my mind really starts to open along with my muscles. in ipod land my time at the gym or on a hike or walk (especially out doors) is were i feel most able to really open my mind, reevaluate what i'm doing, what i want and need from/for my body, also think about new projects, old unfinished projects - new people/relationships, past people/relationships...

then my mind drifted to sex. my last sexual encounter, the excitement of the next.....and then back to my art and how this energy is all revolving around my passion....and how best must i go about using and spreading this energy?!?

before i know it my 30min is done - i look down to see the work out summery flashing...i stop in a balance on the machine.... i drink water. i drink more. i feel it move out all the stuck energy that has now been relieved from my muscles. a weight is lifted...

and then i go lift weights. -- now strengthening my ideas and my body i am able to concentrate on specific areas of my body's strength and my minds thoughts.

before my workout is complete i must stretch and help all to come back to a center. a few yoga and dance moves along with breathing and focus on only my body and movement, i find my center once again. ready for what ever the world has to offer me as i leave the gym.

and what dose it have for me besides total beauty, well at least that is all i see. the sun kisses my skin with it warmth and a cool breeze blows over my body caring away any unwanted energy, a few rain drops wash away the sweat that has carried out the unwanted from with in threw my pours....

i make my drive home and notice an amazing rainbow that looks to land in the front yard of my new home; a giant smile comes across my face. i look around to see if anyone else notices its beauty, i look for someone to share my smile and joy with as we sit facing it at the red light; sadly i find no one who seemed to even notice any thing but what is in their head and the color of the traffic light....

to me this is just another gift, maybe this rainbow was just for me. a reminder of the beauty that is out there - even if no one else sees it - i must continue to drive toward it - fly with it - and inspire from it.

hope you all have found some magic in your own day....

Human Beauty

Beliefs control behavior. If we can modify our beliefs than we can alter our experience of life. If you look at a part of the human brain under a microscope that is responsible for belief- what you are met with are some of the most beautiful blue, purple and brown colors. It makes me think that human beings really can create beauty on earth.

Looking at the cytoplasm of cells beneath a microscope is an illumination of various colors and movements. It is like looking into another world where beauty and participation are uniform. This world is the natural state of our bodies when existing in peaceful and healthy conditions.

Inside and Out the human body I find inspires the deepest exploration we have ever known. If only you could see the depth of your beauty, create and inspire from it, expand and project movement with it, then truly our manifestation will arise.

White Space

White space refers to the blank (white) area between written characters or graphic regions. It may also refer to, in visual arts, as negative space, the portions of a page left unmarked. In my art I haven't used much white paint or left a canvas blank in areas. It always seem to me to feel unfinished or like it was a mistake made. And the use of white as a highlight seems like such a cop out to the spectrum of colors created naturaly by highlights. The word 'negative' space it self isn't very appealing. Working mainly in acrylic and watercolor there are few times when the use of white seemed to work for me. In oils, white is used to add light. Oil painting is a process of adding light to dark layer after layer. Where in acrylic and, even more so, watercolor you are taking away light by adding paint layer by layer to cover up the light source, the paper or canvas.

So in fear of success I tend to cover up all the white. I've recently been giving up my control issue of domonation of white space and liking the results of the pure light with-in the painting. Keeping a cannel open to my soul, no vail of color. Allowing the lines to tell the story directed from my hand.

Birds

Rising above the earth and soaring through the skies. Birds are symbols of power and freedom. They link the human world to the Divine or supernatural realms that lie beyond ordinary experience. I seek out birds now in my art to link my human self deeper to my soul. Birds are said to be the carrier of the human soul after death, so as my work deepens and becomes more mystical I take flight on the wings of inspiration. Owls teach us with their wisdom and patience, I ask everyday for the strength and patience to help me grow. When frustration happens and I become distracted from my true purpose and get impatient with my art. Their light weight bodies carry my heavy load and free me of my worries. It is said that birds enter the bodies of Shamans to inspire them. So I ask the birds now to be guide and carry me to my tree.

i recently reconeced with someone i spent very inspirational and joyfull time with about two years ago. this is the time where i started my tree paintings, where for the first time i really saw my art as 'bonnie rose art' - it began to show a level of maturity and a life of its own. i felt like i finally knew how to tell the truth with my art. maybe because it was the point of my spiritual awakening when all the work i had been doing to center and find myself finally cracked something open in me to 'see the light'. it also was the time where i was finally telling myself the truth about my behavior. struggling still with the misbehaving - acting against the person i really wanted to be, such as bartending and party party at the row that is full of pretentiousness and false affection.

as thing do, 'happen for a reason', we couldn't continue to be together. complete wrong place wrong time kinda thing. amazingly enough, or perhaps a manifestation created from honesty, respect, self-reflection, growth, "love", we reconnected in a new place and a new time as, maybe not new people, but more realized souls. brilliant thing about it is we had both realized and accepted (before we even reconnected) what went wrong both in the other and in our self during our relationship. he even wrote and recorded a song about it. a line in the song says, 'your making bubbles and i paint them back'. referring to a collaboration art project we were working on when we first dated, where i was painting (in like bubble gum pink color) circles/bubbles all over, really randomly, on this large canvas where there was a handfull of other artist painting as well. he was going to each of them in a row and filling them in black.

the other night on my way over to his place i made a pitstop. in the parking lot, just after the sun set and the sky was a deep ocean blue, there were these really gnarly trees reaching up to the crescent moon that crisply lit the night, i took a quick phone photo of them. i shared them with a friend who's got me recently examining the darker side of beauty. something i havent really done much of lately since Spikes Vampire Bar (burning man camp i was with 4 years) is no more. this inspired me.

last night i was working on four trees, watercoloring away in my bright vibrant colors, thinking about later in the night getting to hang out with the musician *smiles*... reflecting on the research i did yesterday on dreams, dream yoga, and lucid dreaming. where there is much discussion about the importance of awakening and being presents in every way. reminding me that

"…the waking state is not permanent. It comes and goes every twenty four hours. And yet, according to the great sages, there is something in us that is “always conscious,” that is literally conscious or aware at all times through all states, waking, dreaming, sleeping. And that “ever present awareness is Spirit in us”. That underlying current of constant consciousness (or non-dual awareness) is a direct and unbroken ray of pure Spirit itself."

therefore, my negligence of a darker side of my art has stiffened me in awakening and understanding my whole self. even blocking my full potential on the brighter side of my work.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates believed that the only thing that made life useful: Examining the world around him and discussing how to make the world a better place. Without his “examined life” there was no point in living.

so maybe its time to paint some black bubbles. or at least these trees.

Summer Events

This summer i will be doing a lot of fun community events around the bay. i will be working with pacific art collective at the ongoing third friday of the month event Down Town Campbell Art walk where we have a community canvas where everyone is welcome to join in and paint - also we have a artist gallery and inside a DJ and live bands; we are located at the Sanoma Chicken Coop, starts at 6pm and goes tell 12am.

Also with the PAC crew, i'll be out every thursday night in Plaza de Cesar Chavez (Market Street between San Fernando and San Carlos streets) down town San Jose 5:30pm-9:15pm (below is the awesome line up we will see) this event is also free and great for all ages! we will also be having a community canvas where everyone is welcome to join in and paint and an artist gallery.

Check out Los Gatos on wednesday nights 6-9pm for jazz on the plazz, Free, i'll be shucking oysters and showing my art work - this is a great event with world class music; but get there eirly for a good seat.

Keep an eye out on my website for upcoming events! http://bonnieroseart.com/events

more info on these events below;
http://pacificartcollective.com/
http://www.downtowncampbell.com/eventinfo.php?eventid=3814
http://www.sjdowntown.com/eve_eve_mus.html
http://www.jazzontheplazz.com/

as always thank you all for your amazing support
love and rockets
bonnie rose

San Jose Music in the Park line up
THIS THURSDAY: Evolution (Journey tribute) and Long Gon Bonl (bon-era AC / DC tribute)
June 11: Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars (world / reggae)
June 18: Third Eye Blind (alternative rock); supported by Pilot Speed playing a full set
June 25: Pete Escovedo (latin jazz)
July 2: The Tubes (classic rock)
July 9: Eek-A-Mouse (reggae)
July 16 Pato Banton (reggae)
July 23: Matt Nathanson (pop / rock); supported by MiGGs
July 30: Colin Hay of Men at Work (pop)
August 6: Anthony David (R&B)
August 13: Better Than Ezra (pop / rock)
August 20: Sonny Landreth (blues / rock)
August 27: White Album Ensemble (Beatles tribute)

First Time in The Big Apple

howdy friends and art lovers! i'll be heading out to New York for my first time to this mystic and inspiring city. what amazing adventure and bliss i will find i know i'm ready for it. here are a few stops i'll be making along the trip.




i'll post pic as i go (you know me, i'll take a ton of them)

as aways thanks for the support and for beliving in me.... heres to seeing what inspiration and creation i'll get from this next big thing