by Dawn Patel | Dec 31, 2014 | animals, art, art process, artist, artists process, being present, belief, Chance, creative process, gratitude, healing through art, intuition, language, poetry, sentient beings, seredipity
Today it occurs to me that the language of the Sentient Beings has to be poetryWork in Progress: “Chances of Drowning”But I argue, “I’m not a poet.” Well, I’m not a good one.I don’t know what to do.”A Pigeon...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 12, 2014 | animal husbandry, animals, be wild, contemporary storytelling, dancing jackal, domestication, ecology, fox, intuition, jackal, nature and man, sentient beings, stories, symbolism, the wild, totem animals, wild
The Sentient Beings: Jackal and the Story of IntuitionJackal lives her life with few enemies and becomes a trusting soul.Jackal meets man, and wants to play.When close, she senses something dangerous, and backs off. In another lifetime Jackal was a human....
by Dawn Patel | Dec 11, 2014 | animals, creative process, creativity, dawn patel art, fables, fox, jackal, lessons, life is stranger than fiction, moon, mystery, myth, nature, never-ending story, sentient beings, stories, storytelling, wolf
More Jackal… she is Dancing Jackal, after a long journey via magic arrow. During the long and reckless journey she is pierced by the arrow and has to land in a canyon where there is no escape. Dancing Jackal does not have the patience...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 29, 2014 | animals, art business, art for sale, creativity, dawn patel art, dreams, etsy, fairy tales, fantasy, fox, healing through art, jackal, laughter, painting, paintings, stories, wolf
Before there was Dancing Jackal there was Dreaming Jackal. He is a playful soul who has lived many lives and taken many forms. He most remembers his human self, and uses those lessons he learned in his new life as Jackal. Unlike his human self he...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 19, 2014 | anhinga, animals, art, art process, bear, fairy tales, friends, hummingbird, introvert, luna moth, painted stones, painting, sentient beings, snake, stories, watercolor
You have already been introduced to The Introvert… here in his traveling form.The Sentient Beings are a cast of characters I have been developing for years, I guess I can say my entire life. They are all coming to life, together! I am introducing you...
by Dawn Patel | Sep 18, 2014 | age, animals, art, art on instagram, belonging, dreams, fantasy, fun, grandchildren, instagram, laughter, life, love, monkeys, nature, old ladies, wisdom, wishes
When I was younger I wished to be appreciated, for belonging and acceptance, and to be a famous artist.I also wanted an ark of my very own, including a tiger, a soft-shelled turtle, every breed of dog in my very dog-eared copy of “Man’s Best Friend”...
