The Purple Cat

Bonne année à tous!

Du bonheur, des rires, de l'amour et tout et tout! OUI... TOUT!!!

XX Purple Cat

Best wishes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here the thoughts of the model:

CHANGE IS A GOOD THING

By Derwinn Green

Personally, I don’t find it difficult to say goodbye to yesterdays. But I must admit that at times, I find it challenging to look tomorrow into the face. Sometimes I feel stuck but I remind myself to keep moving and keep doing. A large part of maturing involves literally changing ones habits, taking on different forms and learning to be at peace with these new changes, whatever they may be. Being honest with oneself however, is probably the most important aspect of maturing. I’ve always felt that until one can look them self in the face (no pun intended) putting aside all “delusions of grandeur”, growth is nearly impossible.

2009 was a great year. I learned many new things about myself. I am learning to look myself in the face and honestly self analyze. As an extrovert, I have learned that expression can be accomplished not solely by way of speech, but also by actions and body mannerisms. Often, this is the first thing someone notices about us. Learning to control our expressions can aid greatly in achieving balance. This equilibrium is the key to mental health, emotional stability and inner peace.

Rejuvenate: Artistically, I have reasoned that reinvention is quite healthy. Changing forms and states, actually helps me to discover new facets of my personality. Anais Nin once said that life is a process of becoming a combination of states we have to go through. I challenge everyone to leave their “baggage” behind on December 31st at the strike of midnight. Of course, honor your responsibilities but essentially, try to start the New Year fresh with an open mind and spirit. Change something for the better and learn to live with it. Make new friends. It is with each new acquaintance that a new world within us is born.

Renew: We live in a world infused with suffering, dishonesty, mistreatment and abuse of all forms. But we are not powerless. Let’s not close our eyes to the things happening before us. Instead, realize that there is a possibility for positive change. And one of the most useful and positive ways of doing this is by educating the younger generation. Instill in them the importance of humanity; help them feel good about themselves so that they will in turn take good care of themselves, others and the planet Earth.

Rejoice: Challenge yourself to be a better self in your way of thinking and actions. Redirect your energies. Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in your course of action, speech, thought and mannerisms. Repel negative energies. Change your form. Challenge tomorrow. Make your 2010 count for something other than 365 days on the calendar.

Alas, here’s to new beginnings…Chin!

modèle: Derwinn Green

Voici un dessin d'Alair à partir d'une photo d'Halloween 2008: "Jack-ohhhhh"
Le voici repris dans une de mes composition: "Oh mon Jack":

Samhain— from Irish Samhain, cf. Scottish Gaelic Samhuinn, Manx Gaelic Sauin and Old Irish Samain — means "summer's end", from sam meaning "summer" and fuin meaning "end"). It is a festival held on October 31–November 1 in Gaelic cultures. Many scholars think that it was the beginning of the Celtic year. Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half". The Gaels believed that the border between this world and the otherworld became thin on Samhain.

Pour Samhain, on évidait autrefois des gros navets, y traçant un visage, puis on les mettait sur le rebord des fenêtres pour éloigner les mauvais esprits. Moi, ce fut une citrouille:

ainsi que des oranges pour glisser dans ses dernières une surprise: une salade de fruit d'enfer!

Happy Halloween! Tous à vos citrouilles!!!

Plus de photos sur le blog des nus de Purple Cat

    http://nus-nudes.blogspot.com/

Dernier souvenir estival

Dans l'église où Louis XIV et Marie-Thérèse, l'infante d'Espagne, se sont mariés. / In the church where Marie-Thérèse and Louis XIV married.

Cathédrale Pop!

Photos de Derwinn Green par Purple Cat et études des crayons et pinceaux aquarellés d'Alair (http://femme-muse.blogspot.com/).

Those are sketches and a drawing by Alair inspired by one of my photographs of Derwinn Green.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them or find them back in the gallery entitled "L'oeil du tigre" on the right-hand side.

Je me pavane, tu te pavanes, même avec des plumes brisées.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them. There are more photographs in the gallery "Histoire de paon", on the right.