“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe.All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodiesare about…
Woman in Art
Very beautiful! Have you seen this yet?
Touched
Reading “woman of power and grace”, nine astonishing, inspiring luminaries of our time, by Timothy Conway. All of them from…
Yoga Retreat
worship Originally uploaded by claudia dose. The retreat was great. We watched videos of the Bhagavad Gita, my favorite text…
Full-body portrait of Kashmir Shaivite master Swami Lakshmanjoo
This is a large, full-body portrait of Swami Lakshmanjoo and it’s his 100th centenary Birthday coming up on the 9th…
uploaded…
Couldn’t get to my painting so I spend the time uploading some of my art to art.com and etsy.comCheck it…
Mindfulness new defined…
I am a little nervous today as I am welcoming internationally known author, speaker and creativity coach Eric Maisel, Ph.D.…
taking on a life of its own
It’s going, I am not sure where, and its slow, painfully slow. Abhinavagupta sure doesn’t make it easy on me.…
A guest on my humble blog…
I am exited to be having a famous guest on my humble blog, next week, on Monday the 23rd of…
Portrait of Swami Lakshmanjoo Standing (Grace)
Acrylic painting on wood board box,Size: H 48 x W 24 inch (121.92 x 60.96 cm). Painting from a photo…
Quartet for the End of Time
It is quite amazing what happens when creativity does not get bogged down by circumstance. Olivier Messiaen wrote this music…
back at the “big” painting
Gurunatha Originally uploaded by claudia dose. It is scaring me to death to paint Abhinavagupta. What if he doesn’t like…
painting on the computer
a Saint is born I was having fun playing around with Photoshop paintbrushes. Greatest thing is that you can always…
“Could you walk it quicker?”
could you walk it quicker Originally uploaded by claudia dose. … it says on the bus. Well, I tried and…
Mix and Match
culture mix Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Chinese New Year meets apple at St. Martins’s place just around from Trafalgar…
cow-dung-cake-fuel
It is cold even in Delhi. On the fields just behind where we are staying the woman and girls of…
New Delhi
CIMG0829.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Staying in India is even better when you can cook your own food. Not…
India
CIMG0775.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Sketching away whatever catches my eye. This time it is one of the very…
Everything has its place
CIMG0755.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Where is my place? Where am I? Am I hiding from the chaos of…
going inside
CIMG0780.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Went to India to attend a conference on Kashmir Shaivism which I was invited…
On the way back home
I am fascinated with reflections in windows. Its a toy world isn’t it? I took some more but this was…
rain
It is raining in North Carolina, just like in Germany. And I am already missing the Californian sun. We got…
Linville, North Carolina
taken in Hopeful.GA Originally uploaded by claudia dose. So, finally we arrived in Linville, NC. After a 11 hour…
In the Spell of Magnolias – The Cycle of Life and Death
I am fascinated with magnolias. Their smell is intoxicating. Just one in the room. They change quite fast from snow…
went to see David Hockney, Portraits
streets in LA Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Finally, got to see David Hockney Portraits. And was very impressed, he…
opened my eyes again and I have started to really look and see…
Haven’t been to a painting class in a long time. But now the timing was right and the theme inspiring,…
the smell of summer in the house full of dog
We are house sitting, with dog and garden. It is quite something getting used to always having a dog on…
from my big sketchbook
sketchbook big Originally uploaded by claudia dose. I figured that I could take pictures instead of scanning them and voila!…
ready to move on…
It is a little strange to be always living in transit but then again isn’t that what life is all…
back from India
Back from India (Delhi, Jammu, Kashmir). Over with the jetlag and had a great retreat here in LA, although it…
36 Elements in the Philosophy of Kashmir Shaivisim
This collage represents the 36 elements according to the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism, which I have been studying for some…