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Julie Gibbons
@juliegibbons.bsky.social
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Creative living 👩‍🎨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Circles • Cycles • Symbols 🟠 Founder of mandalamagicschool.com
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Fancy delving deep into mandala symbolism? We’re welcoming new members to the Mandala Magic School 🌀 mandalamagicschool.com/mandala-magic/ #mandalamagic #artjournal
Main image is an open sketchbook with a grid of nine personal symbols on a blue background on the left hand page. The symbols are accompanied by text. Concentric circles = “grounded”, hand = “relationship”, expansion = 8-pronged star, snake = “transition”, sun = “life”, triquetra = “continuity”, downward-pointing triangle = “descent”, shield = “justice”, spiral = “evolution”. Right hand page shows a colourful mandal design, containing the symbols detailed on the opposite page. At the top of the image is half of a circular paint palette with coloured paints. There’s a drinks coaster to the right with the text and logo for the Mandala Magic School and on the left a series of small, coloured circular disks. The table background is white.
November 23, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
jamesbarr.bsky.social James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · Sep 20
From the FT the other day. I had no idea.
Creative industries are worth more than life sciences, motor manufacturing, aeropsace and oil and gas in the UK economy, says the FT
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Fish scales on both cheeks … #symbolicart #selfportrait #artjournal #mandalamagic
Sketchbook page, vivid sky blue background. Circular, vividly coloured in reds and oranges portrait of woman with long, curly grey hair, wearing glasses, sticking out her red tongue and green scales on both cheeks.
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Something for the weekend 🟠 FREE creative prompt, The Shape of Our Beliefs: Ancient Bodies #artjournal #mandalamagic www.juliegibbons.com/2024/11/07/t...
A hand with paintbrush in progress of completing a mandala design with an 8 pointed yellow star in the centre, surrounded by 8 figures based on ancient carved figures of female bodies, all painted in natural tones indicating features. There is a golden circle border.
November 17, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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#amreading 📚💙 Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad #booksky
Book title reads, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost. Sticker for Women’s Prize Longlisted, Fiction 2024. In bottom right corner, the logo for the publisher, Penguin. The main image is a young woman with long brown curly hair in a pale, sleeveless top, looks straight ahead and sits in the middle of a row of chairs amongst many empty chairs. The chairs are theatre style, some of which are dilapidated.
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Starting with the inexplicable symptoms of #menopause you never knew number 1 million. Not being able to eat or speak due to “burning tongue” #artjournal #nondominanthand #fiveminutesketches
Colourful, messy sketch of woman with long grey hair and glasses, with an inflamed and red, tongue and cheeks. Blue background and the word WOMAN printed above. Art desk with open sketchbook showing messy sketch of woman with long grey hair and glasses, wearing headphones with an inflamed and red tongue and cheeks showing. On her forehead, the word, menopause. Blue background with the words, mysterious, moving, fire and burning, inflammation, enigmatic, elusive, communication, shame, erratic An art journal page with messy blue background, and the words, imbalanced, inflamed, silenced, ashamed, diminished, enlightened, enraged and the date, 12 Nov ‘24 scribbled in capitals, using black crayon filling the entire page. A flat-lay, overhead shot onto the wooden floor, showing a range of messy, colourful sketches and accompanying words, with sketches of a woman with messy grey hair, sticking out a big red tongue. Some portraits show woman wearing black headphones, others just with her glasses. The words include menopause, woman, shame, imbalanced, inflamed, hormonal, unwell.
November 14, 2024 at 7:44 AM