You may recall I mentioned I was participating in Vivienne McMaster’s Be Your Own Beloved online self portrait photography class throughout February.
A combination of a recently thoroughly broken heart, a growing realization of the real need to start caring for and getting to know myself better, and a desire to have something positive and creative to focus on led me to sign up.
These are my photos from the first week. Viv sends us an email every day with a theme to explore through our lens, whether that’s a phone or a hardcore DSLR or anything in between.
All the themes are centred around, of course, the concept of self care and self love. I know from taking Wading In a couple of years back how healing and also how fun self portraiture can be.
It also helps to have programmes like PicMonkey and PixlrExpress available to make your photos all super enhanced. 🙂
So far it’s been fun and also challenging. Sometimes it can be quite vulnerable-making, but the support and encouragement within the Flickr group is so heart warming.
Not to mention inspiring; there are so many wonderful and imaginative interpretations of the prompts, it’s a real joy to visit when I upload my own photos.
I know it’s not painting ~ that is happening too but is all in progress at the moment ~ but I like to keep a record of all my creative doings. 🙂 I’m also working on getting my book published by my birthday {21st}, so most of my energy is going in that direction at the moment. Exciting and frustrating in equal measure. And wait til you see the cover! {more on that to come}
i just love seeing your gorgeous self on my screen!
thank you for sharing ALL of your creative goings-on…
xo
Aww. 🙂 xx
I LOVE this class Tara and so enjoyed your pictures! I also cannot express how much resistance came up at the idea of a class like this–so telling don’t cha think?! Thank you for sharing ALL of your creative works. They’re each important in growing and expressing our beautiful selves. Can’t wait to see and hear more about your book! You really are a brave one! xx
(and thanks for your comment on my running post. I know the knives you spoke of very well. For me, they were solved by better hydration–wish I had learned that one much sooner! Hope you give it a try some day. If I can do it…anyone can.)
Yes it’s quite challenging in some ways, and some of the areas we cover bring up all kinds of ‘interesting’ stuff for me! and thank you for calling me brave. I am hearing that a lot lately, and it’s nice that people think that, even if I don’t really know who they’re talking about! I’ll keep you posted about the running… 🙂