Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
Comments (8)
It's most impressive to see someone still use classic, pre-technology art tools to make art:-) Bravo!
Do they still sell colored pencils, or would I need to rob a museum of ancient art?
Lol, Max :). Thank you four your funny comment, but if you want to rob a museum, choose the toy museum.
A very nice surrealistic garden
Thank you so much!
Sweeeet
Thank you so much!
Very nice work !!!
Thank you so much, Gary!
My gosh, I think you're right!... back in ancient history colored pencils were associated with children, and children were associated with physical toys ... so a toy museum would be a good place to find these ancient colored pencils :-)
Fantastische tekening !Rupsjes,vlinders ,bloem, zaad dat zie ik er allemaal in !
Hi, dear Jacomina! I saved your gallery for when I had a lot of time. I haven't commented in your gallery for some time (I've done most of my comments in letters, of late!)...so I wanted to actually comment in your gallery. "In person". So here I am, after a long absence...
I'm amazed at how much your abstract drawings look like your fractals. But they're also very diffferent. The difference is that your drawings have all the "touches" and feelings of hand-made art. They just feel handmade. The lines are human, the colors are clearly placed on the paper with pen, pencil, etc. It feels very "touchable." And visceral.
This has a very organic feeling, it's an organism, or maybe several organisms living on top of each other. I love the organic shapes within it---like biological cells and tiny organs, and bacterium, and corpuscles---the things one sees in microscopic studies in biology. And you use a pale tan-orange very effectively---it stands out well from the blues and blue-greens here. And you use strong reds and crimsons as powerful accents. Then the bottom has a caterpilar? Yes? (The crawling thing on the bottom, who looks like he has a head, and is crawling through grass?) Terrific surprise!
This is like a little colony of living organisms, going about their day, running into each other on occasion, or being very busy. (Going to appointments, cleaning their yards, doing work at home, etc.) (maybe they have "zoom") And the top right looks like something about to bloom---like a flower!
Plus, I love the paper. If you did anything to it, it has wonderful texture and earthen brown tinged hued. Wonderful drawing, it's always great to see your hand-made work here: I adore your digital work, but when you post pieces like this, it reminds us of how good you are at traditional art as well.
Thank you for your comment on my photomontages...they are, to me, like the 2 part and 3 part inventions by Bach: Simple, playful, but not too compicated. I hope I can create 1/100th the inspriation that Bach created, but I do enjoy making them. (And they allow me---yes---to submerge a city under water, or open up a sidewalk and show another whole city underneath...a ton of fun to do.) Thank you for your response, as always. I will write back to you in the coming few weeks---loved your letter; and your variation on that cross was gorgeous---it's just beautiful. I just love it.
ANd Jacomina, I would like to post someting for you in my gallery, in the next couple of weeks. I never posted for your birthday (I did something privately but not publicly) and I'd like to celebrate you here. If you'd rather I don't, just tell me. It won't be for a couple of weeks. But I'd like to. (I will be posting someting for Jo, Rods wife, and maybe a taekoff on someone else's art---a silly tale---but probably nothing else. Just want you to know I've thought about doing something for you, here, for a while. I'm slow these days, but I should be able to post it by early June.
Now I'll leave some more comments on your gallery!
Hi dear Mark! Didn't I write anything about this intense reaction yet, huh? Apparently not, but maybe I forgot to press 'post comment', that's happened to me before, how silly. It's so nice the way you look at this drawing, as if everything 'does its own thing', I love that idea. Yes there is a kind of flower above on the right, and you may have also discovered the butterfly. Lately I have had neither peace nor inspiration to sit down and draw. I have made a number of drawings that I still have to put the 'finishing touches' on. I'm too insecure to finish things now, in that respect making fractals is easier to do.
I haven't yet looked at many photo folders on the PC. Haha, I enjoy taking photos more than editing them, that takes so much energy, and I keep taking photos, way too many, stupid me! It's such a nice distraction. I'm curious what distraction you have to distract yourself from your pain (which unfortunately you have). I suspect this will be meditation(?), deep meditation?
Thanks you so much for all your great comments, dear friend. Sending peace to our Chicago-friend ;-) .