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 (9)
enchanted fantasy drawing🖌️
Danke dir, Samara!
Netter Springbrunnen. Die Musik fließt da sehr nett heraus.
Danke, Henry, und diese Springbrunnen ist meine Gitarre, :D.
That's a nice and creative idea making me smile.
Vielen Dank, Herwig, und ich freue mich über das Lächeln. ;-)
Nice work and great colour
Thank you so much, Shaun.
Beautiful work!
Thank you so much, rbowen.
This is such a beautiful and expressive piece. Fantastic job!
Thank you so much, AmandaT!
Fantastiche prent ! Mooie kleuren, knap ontwerp ,ik hoor zelfs de gitaar zachtjes op de achtergrond.
Dank je, Chris! Gefeliciteerd met jouw super goede oren, smile!
How could I not comment on this? For one thing, you portray the literal meaning of the title (from Handel---et voilà!)---because you have a stringed instrument from the guitar family coming out of a body of water! I love how the strings are like waves. And the instrument is overcome by organic growth. (It's like a cranberry farm grew on the instrument's surface!) (or a pomegranate-seed farm...)
And you have little flying creatures, many like notes (there's a note on the top-left, that has a little face!) And a music staff in a couple of places. Plus little fruits, and other oragnic things. Handel would loved this. I love that guitar coming out of the water. (I'm thinking of buying a classical and flamenco guitar...Its a dream more than anything else, but I studied flamenco, jazz and classical guitar some years ago, and was halfway decent at it, when I had to quit it. I'd love to find a guitar that looked like this!)
I love this work. I love it! It could be the illustration for a CD of the Handel. You have a very playful, humorous, and child-like side to you, and it comes out in pieces like this. ("child-like," in English, means "with the spirit of a pure child": It's not to be compared to "child-ish"---which means deeply immature...I mean "child-like"...)
Thank you so much for your kind words, Mark. It's true what you 'discovered' and interpreted as my playful and cheerful, childish side. I'm grateful that this has been preserved. Haha, humor and 'silly, unapologetic'; the playful aspect, I think you still have this in you too, perhaps more in a masculine way, but it means that no matter how heavy things sometimes weigh, you can give it a cheerful twist in a light-hearted manner and with gallows humor, even when you write prose, for example. Handel, I don't know if he had that much humor, but he was versatile, just like you are too, dear Mark, and I'm always grateful to you for writing your view in a response, I also learn from this.
I really love this style of art! Very well done! Bravo!
Thank you so much, also for the points. I'm really glad, you like this drawing.