Teetering on the Scary Edge

Pip Gerard

Teetering on the Scary Edge

Another drawing from my moleskin (scanned the sketch and added colour with PS) ... while I was doodling this I was thinking about the emotion, fear.

This drawing is a scary edge. The scary edge that fear can create.

Fear has it’s place. It can be a self safety mechanism to alert us when things dont feel right. But it can also definitely be a debilitating and crippling emotion.

I know for myself fear definitely keeps me teetering on the edge of life many a time. I stay on the sidelines purely because of fear.

I fear many things. I know sometimes my fear even seems silly … but at the time the fear is very real. So real sometimes that it definitely holds me back from the real, genuine, life I should be living.

I fear lies
I fear truth
I fear I’m fearing too much and losing too much precious time because of it
I fear those I love dying
I fear dying

I fear living

I fear fear itself

Fear is the one emotion I feel that’s taken over my life too much in the past years. It’s only recently I feel myself getting some control over my fears. Slowly… moving forward… learning that I can’t get rid of the fears… but I can determine how much I allow myself to feel the fear and allow it to control me.

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Teetering on the Scary Edge by Pip Gerard
  • Karin  Taylor

    Karin Taylorcommunity helper

    Powerful, bold, courageous, beautiful…. There is this kind of rythm in your description… A longing, a yearning, signs of growth and emergence from the crippling which fear causes… The predictability of fear is clear, to walk away from it’s sticky clutches is a brave and powerful move…. It’s freedoM in the making, I can visualize your strength
    I love it pip :)

  • Pip Gerard replied

    Thank you Karin. I sat for a while and doubted whether to keep my description but then I realised it was my fears taking over again. I quickly pressed the submit button :) xxoxoxo

  • aglaia b

    aglaia b

    your narrative is so perfect and rings so true to me.
    i love the way you have expressed this both visually and written.
    interesting choice of colour too.
    yellow
    The awareness of our spirituality. Happiness and wisdom combine with clarity and acknowledgement of our intuition – inner vision- the connection to the energy of the suns rays.
    If we have clarity our intellect is given space to explore the inner invisible universe.
    When we need inspiration and inner knowing, joining and becoming one with the suns energy. Renewal.

    Becoming independent as an individual. The divine energy radiating to every being, granting clarity, wisdom, understanding and above all, happiness. The sunshine colour when everyone feels alive and ready to take on the world.

    This energy relates to our inner knowing and understanding and self knowledge.

    As this is such a major colour and has such a great part to play in our being, the slightest difficulty can throw our being off balance. Yellow relates to nervousness, fears and anxieties and all related nervous conditions.

    Dependency issues are also relevant, either as being dependant or by others being dependent on you.

    Unresolved difficulties from earlier in our life can course problems, the need to let go of negative emotions and situations and the past.
    As one feels at odds within, confusion makes us go around in circles, getting nowhere.
    The yellow energy relates to the solar plexus area of the body.

    ;-) xox

  • Pip Gerard replied

    And I have truly been feeling very sunshiney of late too. :) Reading your yellow description.. I related to much of it. Thank You. xoxxxo ♥

  • Jakki O

    Jakki O

    Oh Pip, I so relate to this. My fear has crippled me, but like you, only recently, I feel I am moving forward, a little at least.
    Thank you, for your courage, I don’t feel so alone :-)
    Jak
    x

  • Pip Gerard replied

    I’m so so happy to hear others can relate. We all have fears that’s for sure… I think some feel them more than others. It’s a part of our journey to have to come to terms with a lot of those fears and it always helps to know you’re not alone. xox Thank you for also making me feel so not alone. :)

  • aglaia b

    aglaia b

    hey i love that song, and a live version tooooo. yay!
    big smiles here, thanks pippy. ;-) xox

  • Vicki Ferrari

    Vicki Ferrari

    Hey Pip, yes, and yes you can…. and yes, you are… and next time you look in the mirror, know that the person you are looking at, the one staring back at you, is the only one who truly knows you, who truly trusts you, who truly trusts you to trust you, who knows how much you can handle at one time… and that would be you… and you have friends around… always… count me as one! I think you might know why I write that… (and now I hope I didn’t write the wrong thing! What was that you said about fear?!!) :)))

  • Pip Gerard replied

    absolutely not. Thank you for your openness. I often think about how we all stop ourselves from saying how we really think or feel just because of the fear of how it will make others feel or what they may think. Stuff it… let’s follow our hearts!! :D Thanks Vick.. so very appreciated. xx

  • LeilaniMelayna

    LeilaniMelayna

    Beautiful colors, composition and highlights, dear Pip! Cheers to you!

    Smiles Leilani

  • Pip Gerard replied

    thank you lovely Leilani :)

  • LeilaniMelayna

    LeilaniMelayna

    You are very welcome, my friend!

    Smiles Leilani

  • Sarah ORourke

    Sarah ORourke

    Synchronicity again Pip… I was listening to a song last night that I think fits right in with this…
    “Change, waltzes in with her sister, pain
    Waits for you to send her away
    Wish them well
    Break that chain”
    Ophelia- Tori Amos

    I love these journal doodles Pip & I’m so glad you decided to share your thoughts here!
    Pip:1
    Fear: 0
    Xxx

  • Sarah ORourke

    Sarah ORourke

    I know it doesn’t mention fear specifically, but it kinda goes hand in hand with pain & change, the 3rd sister perhaps.
    Xxx

  • Pip Gerard replied

    gorgeous song… reminds me of seeing her play when I was 19.. she doesn’t look like she’s aged ;)
    really gorgeous lyrics… “break the chain” love it. We all need to at least try to break the chain we find ourselves linked to. Thanks S xxoxoxo ♥

  • Sarah ORourke

    Sarah ORourke

    I would definitely buy her new album then… I love the way “break the chain” harks back to the very beginning of her 1st album in the lyrics of Crucify which is funny because some people feel her newer work hasn’t lived up to “Little Earthquakes” but personally I have loved every album & her music just reflects where she’s at personally, which is a very different place to when she wrote her debut.
    In a similar way to which your art, this piece, tells a story of where you’re now & when you’re in a different place, have “broken that chain”... You art too will be different… That’s an exciting thought to my mind!
    Xxx

  • Pip Gerard replied

    gorgeous song… loved it so much. Looks like it’s time for me to get back into Tori again :)
    I agree… very exciting.

  • Fiona Christensen

    Fiona Christensen

    this is brilliant! i love the textures and colours, fear is so big and like you said fearful! i love your doodling, brilliant!

  • Pip Gerard replied

    thanks so much :)

  • bellmusker

    bellmusker

    Fear is the one emotion I feel that’s taken over my life too much in the past years. It’s only recently I feel myself getting some control over my fears. Slowly… moving forward… learning that I can’t get rid of the fears… but I can determine how much I allow myself to feel the fear and allow it to control me.

    Pip, this is exactly what I needed to read right now; thank you for pointing me in this direction. I’m struggling, but I’m also determined NOT to let this fear rule the next week while I wait for the hospital results. I’ve lived under that cloud for enough of my life….I will not do it again. All the best to you x

  • Tony Ryan

    Tony Ryan

    Agree Pip that fear can be very disepmowering. I think that most of us fear loss as we don’t have much faith in abundance. The world we are born into conditions us to feel restriction of supply of most things. If we really felt that our needs were abundantly met we would not live with so much fear of loss. I wonder if we humans lived more from our hearts than from our conditioned society if abundance would start to appear in our material lives.

  • Pip Gerard replied

    so true Tony. Societies conditioning is a huge hindrance that we all should be recognising more and trying to overcome.

  • wayneg

    wayneg

    excellent, very interesting too

  • Pip Gerard replied

    thank you… i really appreciate you checking it out .

  • Sebastiaan Koenen

    Sebastiaan Koenen

    Nice ‘relaxing’ colors and playful style Pip! True words and especially an important last sentence.

  • Pip Gerard replied

    hey thanks Sebastiaan … I appreciate that from you.. very much : )

  • Michael Scholl

    Michael Scholl

    love this!!!

  • wutz4tea

    wutz4tea

    This is a great piece …it kind of reminds me of Dr. Suess only scarier! I mean that in a good way!

  • Pip Gerard replied

    I like that… : )

  • Susanne Correa

    Susanne Correa

    OMG Pip, this is me, I fear everything including being by myself and Thunderstorms…my fear of things grew over the past years and I have no idea why, I was never scared of anything but I was diagnosed with Astrophobia not to long ago, wow what a wonderful piece of art and I can so relate to this, love it

  • Pip Gerard replied

    Thunder is a very scary thing whether you have Astrophobia or not. it’s that sudden jolt you get cause this roaring sounds rips through the atmosphere and takes us completely by surprise. I completely understand the fear… although I only have the fear of the sound.

  • Pip Gerard replied

    I dont have a problem with being by myself at all. . . in fact I really like it : )

  • Susanne Correa

    Susanne Correa

    I have to add a little more, lol…when I am around people I feel wonderful meaning I am at work, all my life I was scared of skin cancer because of my family history and I was very close to Melanoma about 3 month ago but it is all good now after 2 minor surgeries, I should be happy to be alive but my brother died at age 38 and I am just scared, if you drew the painting because that is how you feel I am with you and so understand you. Hugs Susanne

  • Pip Gerard replied

    Skin Cancer is a huge worry in Australia (we get alot of cases just because for so long we were the kind of people that loved to bake & tan in the sun). We’re all very very conscious of it. I wouldn’t know what it would be like if I had a genetic pre-disposition to a cancer… it would be very very frightening. I’m sorry that you had all that worry of late… I hope it’s eased somewhat. sending you healing and positive wishes. ♥♥♥

  • Pip Gerard replied

    And I’m so so sorry you lost your brother so young!! that is really so very young!! I can understand why you’d be frightened. So long as you get checks regularly I’m sure you’ll be fine. ♥ I lost my brother a decade ago, he was 27 and it took me a very long time to get over it so I completely understand. ♥♥♥ xxx

  • Susanne Correa

    Susanne Correa

    I am so sorry for the loss of your brother and I can only imagine how your Mom must feel. Wow we have alot in common, I still think about him every single day after all these years, so sad when you lose someone that is so close to you.

  • Pip Gerard replied

    yeah Mum took it extremely hard. We’ve all come out the other side though. we still think about him and will forever love him but this year we all finally felt like it was no longer pulling us down or holding us back. ♥ xx

  • Nick Ford

    Nick Ford

    Missed this somehow!!!! Love it. A crop of the righthand side would make a sweet deck _(hint, hint …. AoS comp!) }:0I

  • Pip Gerard replied

    that’s actually a good idea!! great thinking Moose.

  • micklyn

    micklyn

    I love this.

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    wonderful style, so original!

  • MagpieMagic

    MagpieMagic

    Love this – unique and original.

  • leifleif

    leifleif 28 days ago

    great colours and textures. and i love tentacles. nice.

  • sandygrafik

    sandygrafik 27 days ago

    Hi Pip! Thanks for your lovely comments!! It’s so nice seeing you here too!
    Your art is amazing, specially this one, so unique and creative. Best wishes ♥

  • yellowbee

    yellowbee 20 days ago

    this is just creativvee and insaanely uniquee!
    loveitttt

  • jaedesigns

    jaedesigns 3 days ago

    I like the texture in the background.

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