Cjlewis
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© C J Lewis. Art work created from a black and white negative of the cross beams of the ceiling in an old church in Surry Hills, NSW. This art is also included in the PhotoArt 2009 Calendar which you can see Here Below is the negative used to create Living In The Light Or Dark? I scanned the negative NOT a photograph into the computer and work on the negative to create the final art work. The bright lighting effects were created by a) aperture used to shoot the scene and b) altering the timing during processing the film.
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© C J Lewis. Art work in oils 41” x 48”. BEST VIEWED LARGE FEATURED IN SEPTEMBER 2009 IN Retired And Happy group This work was done as a tribute to a dear friend Peter Cohen who was a platonic flatmate and fellow artist. Peter passed away at age 39yrs of a heart attack brought on by combining Lithium and beer. He was on Lithium as a result from the drugs he had been taking since 6 years of age for asthma which, over time, produced psychological problems including depression. Peter also won many awards, mainly in South Australia, for his art, some of which you can view by clicking on his linked name above. For a more in-depth view of what some psychiatrist’s say about legal drugs click here ORIGINAL ART WORK (Framed) IS FOR SALE. If interested please Contact Me Highly Commended Award 1995 from BMCAC / Also available as a Card / MCN:C1567-8CF8F-B28D4
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© C J Lewis Digital art created using MGI PhotoSuite (v8.0) and PhotoPlus 6 / MCN:CE328-C5FB5-4E7E8
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© C J Lewis Digital art work using MGI PhotoSuite (v8.0) and PhotoPlus6. Also available as a Card / MCN:C3BF7-2D242-AD860
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© C J Lewis. Art work is in oils 16”x 20”. ORIGINAL ART WORK IS FOR SALE. If interested please Contact Me You can see the video Great Southern Land here – A Journey With Art In Oils with music in a storyline. Or you can preview 2009 calendars of my Australian Scenes in Oils Here Australia* as named by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1565-1615) – Portugese born explorer in the service of Spain who made important discoveries in the Pacific. Quiros gave the name ‘Australia Del Espiritu Santo (Australia of the Spiritual Saint) to the Great Southern Continent…the nation of Australia today. This painting is the same area at Trunkey Creek, NSW, Australia as my painting Spring Gully / MCN:C0A6D-C0A41-593DA
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© C J Lewis Some digital artworks from my folio.
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© C J Lewis. Digital art using Apophysis & Tierazon worked and layered in PhotoPlus6. This art is also included in the Digital Collection #2 2009 Calendar which you can see Here Lucy – Beatlles / MCN:CFF42-2EFBE-C14D4
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© C J Lewis. Taken using a Hasselblad film camera…using long exposure. An area of Mosman, NSW. Also available as Card
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C J Lewis. Digital art created in ArtrageSE2 for painting and PhotoPlus6 for air-brushing, blending, smudging and sizing. Digitally painted from a photograph used as a reference. DECEMBER 2008 FEATURED IN Airbrush Art Group 100% of the proceeds of this art is donated to The Philadelphia Mission that helps the starving children of Africa. Also available as Card Jesus – the Man. / Christ – a vehicle for pure consciousness. Everything’s Alright / MCN:CF580-4719C-34C00
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BEST VIEWED LARGE © C J Lewis. Mixed media of photography and digitally created art work using PhotoPlus6 for painting, blending, air-brushing, layering, colouring and sizing. 29.10.08 FEATURED IN MUSIC INSPIRED ART GROUP / DECEMBER 2008 FEATURED IN Core / group 100% of the proceeds of this art is donated to The Philadelphia Mission that helps the starving children of Africa. Reverence – Faithless / OR / Reverence – Faithless with lyrics Vertical Card OR Horizontal Card / MCN:C7EC9-83BBE-E3D37 Excerpt from The Seat Of The Soul by Gary Zukav (Reverence – Chapter 3 Page52/53) Reverence is a perception, but it is a holy perception. The perception of holiness is not one we use continually. It is one that we apply to religion, but not to the process of evolution or the learning process of the human Life, and so we do not approach the need to learn and all of the learning experiences of our lives with regard for their purpose against the background of spiritual development. Perceiving in this way is true reverence, because it allows you to look at what you are going through and to see it within the framework of the evolution and the maturation of your own spirit. It is true reverence, because it enables you to look at all the evolutions that are taking place simultaneously with your own, in all the kingdoms of Life, and fully appreciate, or at least see very differently, how they unfold. Only when we see through eyes that lack reverence, for example, does the feeding of one animal upon another appear to be a cruel system instead of one where species learn to give to each other, where there is a natural give and take and sharing of the energies between kingdoms. This is ecology: the natural redistribution of energy between kingdoms. It is only our kingdom, the human kingdom, that wants to warehouse energy, to use much more than it needs and to store what it does not, so that the balance of the cycle is disturbed so dramatically. If each of us took only what he or she needed for that day, it would be perfect. Animals do not warehouse like us, except in the case of animals that need to for winter. The perception of reverence allows us to see the interdependency of different species from a more comprehensive and compassionate perspective. It allows us to see the significance of each living creature, and its experiences, to the compassionate unfolding of the Universe. This perspective is much less likely to create violent or destructive responses within us as we grow through our lives because it reveals in each moment the value of all Life. Approaching and regarding Life with an attitude of reverence permits the experience of being unempowered but not cruel. As you work toward becoming reverent, your tendencies toward harming others and other forms of Life diminish. As you acquire a sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you commit your energy to action. When you are fully reverent, you cannot harm Life, even though you are unempowered. Without reverence the experience of being unempowered can become a very cruel one because a disempowered person is a frightened person, and if a frightened person has no sense of reverence, he or she will harm or kill indiscriminately. Reverence is a level of protection and honor about the process of life so that while a person is maturing toward the journey of authentic empowerment, he or she harms nothing. Because we have no reverence, our journey to empowerment often includes the experiences of victimizing life. Therefore, there are victims and victimizers. The process of destroying Life while we are learning about Life that has characterized our evolution would cease, or at least would be very different, if we approached life with a quality of reverence. It is because we have no sense of reverence, no true belief in the holiness of all Life, that Life is destroyed and tortured, brutalized, starved and maimed while we journey from unempowerment to empowerment. If a sense of reverence were brought into the process of evolution, then as each of us, and our species, move through the cycle of being unempowered to becoming empowered, the many leanings that are contained within that growing process of evolution would not likely produce violence and fear to the extent that it is now experienced. The destructions of human Life, plant Life, animal Life, and the planet would be considerably diminished, or would cease, if there were an active principle of reverence within our species, if there were the perception within our species, and within each of us, that although we are engaged in evolutionary processes that require personal learning, that does not authorize us to destroy Life while we are learning, or because we are. We would not have the karmic energy of destruction, only of learning. Even though learning is contained in destruction, the karmic consequences of participating in violence and destruction are a high price to pay for it. It is not necessary, in other words, to learn what we need to learn and have it cost somebody his or her life. It is not necessary for progress and the experience of progress to cost the destruction of nature. It is not necessary, but without a sense of reverence for Life, who cares that it destroys Life? Without reverence, Life becomes a very cheap commodity, as it is upon our planet now where the entire process and the sacredness of evolution is not regarded, accepted, or honored. If we perceived Life with reverence, and understood our evolutionary process, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. As it is, there are billions of human beings who are filled with regret that they are on the Earth, with overwhelming experiences of pain, despair, discouragement, depression, starvation and disease. These are the things of our planet. They result largely from the fact that so much of the human condition is without reverence.
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Tribute to Paul Stephen Dixon a fellow RedBubble Artist who is about to have an operations on his Heart. Wishing you well my friend :) NOVEMBER 2008 FEATURED IN MUSIC INSPIRED ART GROUP © C J Lewis. Digital art created using Apophysis software and PhotoPlus6 for air-brushing, stretching, painting and sizing. Golden Heart / AND / Your Mission Is Healing / AND / Imagine – Like Mind – Like Hearts / MCN:C09C0-F49D6-5E2B3 Watching Yourself Watching You Operations / I’ve had many / In the decades of this life / So here’s a little tip / That will keep you / Out of strife / You can sit above yourself and see / When you set your spirit free / And watch yourself / Watching you / Learning things / You never knew / As further enlightenment / Comes through / So don’t be afraid / If this happens to you / For there’s nothing to fear / Except fear you bring / Upon yourself anew / Everything will be all right / When you’re sitting in the Light / So face each experience / As it comes to you / Knowing that you / Brought it through / And don’t fear yourself / As you watch you / For it’s just another part of you / That’s true. © C J Lewis, 2008 /
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© C J Lewis. Digital art created using ArtRage for painting and PhotoPlus6 for air-brushing, smudging, blending, stretching, colouring & sizing. Also available as Horizontal AND Vertical Cards / MCN:CC91E-E284F-4C263 Dance Into The Light This is part 2 of the series Dancing preceded and followed by: 1. Dancing In The Dark / 2. Dancing In The Light (this one) and, / 3. Dancing In The Light Of Love Dancing In The Light gives light for direction of the mind. Those that dance in the light have direction. They consider what it is they think but do not react to those thoughts if they are not within their guidelines of living their life in a pleasant manner. They have knowledge of conscience – what is the right and wrong thing to do with their thoughts to put such into action. They have eaten from both the Tree Of Life for the physical experience and the Tree of Knowledge with limited views for learning the process of life. They are, to a degree, consciously aware in their being and so, to a degree, filter their thoughts to receive the reactions to their action of thinking. In new incarnations they may also choose to eat from the Tree of Wisdom so as to make their experiences even more pleasant for themselves and others. © C J Lewis, 2008
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© C J Lewis. Digital art created using ArtRage for painting and PhotoPlus6 for air-brushing, smudging, blending, stretching, colouring & sizing. DECEMBER 2008 FEATURED IN Unconventional Artistry group / JANUARY 2009 FEATURED IN Light In The Darkness group Also available as Horizontal AND Vertical Cards In The Light Of Love / MCN:C5BB2-58A78-5FDF5 This is part 3 of the series Dancing preceded by: 1. Dancing In The Dark AND 2. Dancing In The Light Dancing In The Light Of Love is all direction from the Heart in conjunction with the mind. When this is also joined with reverence then the mind has little or no input. All direction comes directly from the heart as instantaneous knowing. Those that dance in the light of love have direction with connection to the body and mind. Those that dance in the light of love with reverence have complete direction from the heart and therefore have body, mind and spirit all moving as one: a wholeness for this present life as is with direction of knowledge, vision and wisdom with truth. They have eaten from the Tree Of Life, sometimes with no desire to do so but as a duty to the higher order to benefit the All: humans, animals, flora & fauna, planets: the Universe in its entirety, from the Tree of Knowledge: comprehension of the teachings of the process of life, the Tree of Wisdom: knowing the outcomes of the ways of choices of their being, and the Tree of Truth: the understanding of the process of life through the experiences encountered through their eternal life: past and present. They are consciously aware of their being with a high degree of understanding of the process of life. They also help others to come into the light with reverence if others so desire. This is the pathway to the conscious state of Heaven for eternal life. They understand the outcomes if they do not live with reverence as well as light. Mother Teresa (1910-1997) had the knowledge of dancing in the light of love with reverence when making the statement: ‘Ask me to an anti-war rally and I won’t come. Ask me to a peace rally and I will be there’. Mother Teresa understood the process of life as being the energies of which we govern by what we allow to be emitted to the ethers of life and therefore focused her desire in the correct manner, focusing on peace knowing the meaning of Peace Begets Peace and War begets War. / / © C J Lewis, 2008
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© C J Lewis. Taken in 1980 using an Olympus Trip 35mm film camera. This is a scanned transparency with no effects added. This beautiful canyon is on the Island of Kaui in the Hawaiian Islands. It is known, or was known in the 1980’s, as Little Grand Canyon. PLEASE VIEW LARGE AND REALLY LOOK INTO THAT AMAZING LAND…SO VERY MUCH TO SEE IN THERE. No wonder they call the Hawaiian Islands the land of the Gods…stunning scenery on every Island…that is alive with life in all realms.
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© C J Lewis. Mixed media art created from a photograph and altered on computer to finished art work using PhotoPlus6 for painting, air-brushing, toning, sizing and filters. Having cured myself of a few diseases over the decades..one of which I was told I would need an operation for or would be dead within 17 days (that was back in 1984) and which shocked the medical profession by my doing so… as well as still working on a terminal one of the kidneys and liver…I have come to realize that disease comes from being dis-at-ease within the body…and the mind-set of believing that the diseases exists. NB: I am of a VERY strong faith & belief in the greater power that is…God…source energy or whatever tag you apply to your belief…so do not stop taking your medication or going to your doctor…unless you are also highly consciously aware thereby having the power to heal yourself. Disease / MCN:CD34B-59A87-9EA34 ONE EYED VIEW When the wolf’s at the door / With its tongue hanging out / Waiting to rip at the throat / Of self made doubt / You may learn we are the makers / Of our own disease / When we don’t come to see / That from our own greed / We set the seeds / Of our indecision / Through the wants / Not the needs / Striving for perfection / In an imperfect world / Instead of learning lessons / Some just dive in / Looking for the pearls / While the devil sits / Above the brow / Creating storm clouds in the brain / Controller of the ego / You’re the one who gave / That devil the rein / While the good Lord / Waits in quiet contemplation / Among the crowning glory / Of your being / Dressed in the robes / Of every hair upon your head / Waiting for you to see / The light of the now / That the only abode that old devil has / Is the one within your head / From where it casts all indecisions / Of which you let yourself be led / For disease from a one eyed view / Is the wolf at your throat / If you decide it’s true / For you are at dis of ease / Within you. © C J Lewis, Sydney 2008
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© C J Lewis. Digital art created using Sterling2. BEST VIEWED LARGE / MCN:C26FB-D3CE7-85BC2
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© C J Lewis. Digital art created with Sterling2. BEST VIEWED LARGE DECEMBER 2008 FEATURED IN* MUSIC INSPIRED ART GROUP Wired For Sound / MCN:CF0B5-EC7A3-6D161
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© C J Lewis. Oils 18”x 24” – Moe, Victoria, Australia 1979 / MCN:C0030-CFD03-8CAA1 THIS PAINTING IS BEST VIEWED LARGE True strength to endure all that comes on your path in life comes from within with community towards others with love and charity (not necessarily charity in the sense of money but charity in the sense of having understanding towards others) however in the case of these bushfires money certainly helps those that have lost everything, including loved ones, in these devastating fires. THIS ART WORK HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE PHOENIX-APPEAL SITE TO HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR THE VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE RELIEF FUND SO PLEASE GO TO THE PHOENIX-APPEAL TO PURCHASE CARDS, MATTE PRINTS, LAMINATED PRINTS, CANVAS REPLICAS, MOUNTED PRINTS AND POSTERS OF THIS ART. THANK YOU
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© C J Lewis Taken using a Nikon SLR 35mm film camera. Shot taken in 1977 during an outback trip when we dropped in on Selby & his wife. This sweet artist was 85 years young when I photographed him and his lovely wife…she just doted over him…a very loving couple. Selby’s work was vibrantly alive with brilliant colours and at that age…he was still painting :) / MCN:CF264-6705D-FA486
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C J Lewis. Digital painting using a photograph of tree trunk (Bark 25) as the inspiration and using PhotoPlus6 for air-brushing, colouring, smudging, painting, brightness/contrast & sizing. BEST VIEWED LARGE APRIL 2009 FEATURED IN Cards: Best Of Your Best group Also available as Prints & Posters Beatles Below is the photograph I used for the inspiration for this painting. / MCN:C4E87-91B12-E38EF
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© C J Lewis 2009 Miniature oil on stretched canvas 5”x 5” ORIGINAL FOR SALE. If interested please Contact Me MAY 2009 FEATURED IN Art In Math group For A Laugh The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. The koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from near Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula. Populations also extend for considerable distances inland in regions with enough moisture to support suitable woodlands. The koalas of South Australia were largely exterminated during the early part of the 20th century, but the state has since been repopulated with Victorian stock. The koala is not found in Tasmania or Western Australia. / (Reference) / MCN:C0640-B709A-01613
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© C J Lewis. Miniature oil on stretched canvas 8”x 8” ORIGINAL FOR SALE. If interested please Contact Me MAY 2009 FEATURED IN **♂♥♥QUORN♥♥♀ group Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site. (Reference Wikipedia ) / MCN:C2CF9-13BC1-C8204
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© C J Lewis. Oils on stretched canvas 24”x 24”. This was done as a take on the Beatles song “When I’m 64” as I was inspired by what looked like two elderly people in the photograph (below) that gave me the inspiration to paint this work. The other faces depicting masks they may have worn as younger people. You can view progression shots of this and other paintings I have been doing for my solo exhibiton here / MCN:C582F-23F89-11FB6 Below is the photograph I used for the inspiration for this painting.
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© C J Lewis. Oils on stretched canvas 20”x 30”. This painting depicts the love of a mother reaching out from across the Great Divide – the other side of life – as denoted by the cross running down the centre of the painting and the ethereal quality of the mother. The girl has her eyes open due to her awareness of being whereas the boy still is to awake to life’s energy functions. The poem below was written in honour of my mother on her passing. I was sitting at my computer working when at 10pm on the Wednesday before her death she went into a coma in Gosford Hospital – she called my name and I knew then she was leaving this dimension soon. I immediately got up and said out loud: ‘It’s ok mum … dad will open the door for you’. I then sat down and composed this poem. Our mother died at 5pm the following Friday. JULY 2009 FEATURED IN Peace Love & Tranquility group / MCN:CCD72-6FFDB-969C9 MOTHER (MY LADY OF THE ROSES) Our mother was naturally beautiful / A woman in every way / Our mother was loving / And so caring / And always had her say / Every brand new day / As a child / I saw her gently tending her roses / With emotion so very deep / For the beauty that she saw in the flowers / Was from her heart / And her beauty made me weep / And the light of love surrounding her / Translucent skin with no flaw, I saw / Maybe, to others, as mother and daughter / We were constantly at war / Like two fires brought together / The flames of love did roar / ‘Tis a love that will be in our hearts for evermore / And Mother, I heard you call to me / In spirit last night / Mother you need not be in fright / For God, our Father will take you through the door / Back to his heavenly home once more / Where relatives and friends are waiting / And you will be the belle of the ball / Though your body may seem missing / You’ll see it as before you took your flight / In Holy Spirit to soar / As you pass through / Deaths door / And we will always be together / As we have before. © – C J Lewis, 2000
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