Drawing and Painting with the Calendar of the Soul
with Laura Summer
A Recording from August 2020
As modern people we live with very little relationship to the cycle of the year. Central heat and cooling, electric lights, and modern transportation allow us to be fairly comfortable in any season and therefore unconscious of the great breathing cycle of the earth. The verses of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul provide a meditative path for experiencing this cycle. The artistic exercises we will work with were developed to accompany the Calendar. When drawn or painted these exercises are designed to provide the student with an experience of inner movement during the year; the breathing in of the earth in winter, the out breathing into summer, and the subtle variations, spirals, reversals, and lemniscates of the process. Please bring paper and color pencils, crayons, pastels, watercolor paint or colour ink.
Participants of the year long-course Visual Art: Exercises in Painting and Color automatically receive access as part of the course material.
