Welcome
& Hello
and may I take your Neuro-Divergent and raise you by 112 broadly-defined personality types
x as many combinations (112)
in circuits of anywhere between 56 and 224 pairs
or just about any polygon, depending on when you were born -
(I have 14 of them, in the shape of an 8-pointed star;
and I had zero idea until reaching it, that the end of my 42-year rogue journey down the Drawing path would bring me to the discovery of these circuits, patterns, in us -
yes, I’ll explain & prove it, but I just wanted to start by saying:)
Whoever You Are, I’ve geometrically & astronomically located the way to meet you Wherever You Are & can navigate the way to Wherever It Is You Want To Go -
either on your own, or as a parent/teacher;
I built The Beginning of Drawing in both those ways, for both those reasons -
and the history of my program & me is detailed further down this page.
A Single Journey in 4 Directions
Drawing as your primary focus
Cross-Studies / Homeschooling as your primary focus
Quest for Truth & Answers As Your Primary Focus
Separating Trauma Blocks from Concept / Friction-Thinking As Your Primary Focus
The discipline of drawing also led me straight into project-based learning, so this site and my workbooks are geared towards making short(-er) work of complicated processes;
towards lifestyle patterns of taking learning breaks after major revelations for absorbing & integrating information;
& towards bridging the gaps between dimensions in this multiverse, and finding out how many there possibly really are, and whether any of them are better places to be than where we are -
fingers crossed, at least one of them is or will be.
Online Concept & Research Hub / Free Workbooks
The site organisation is different from the workbook sequencing - and I’m even releasing the workbooks out of numeric order;
whether on your own or in mentorship with me, if you see/feel the need for a particular or random sequence, follow your instincts - if you know your core motivations; if you don’t, get in touch with me & we’ll find them.
Core Priorities Leading to Skills & Techniques
Drawing teaches you how to draw & how not to draw - and the materials you use will train your hands how to tell your eyes & mind the ways they interpret your ideas;
practice & experience -
but what do you need to know about yourself, your ideas & the discipline that are the foundation of every possible picture?
Two-Year Method for Starting & Finishing - Student, Amateur & Professional / Solo & Team
Networking, inside-out: how to reverse-engineer your success, your children’s success, by mixing the rules of product design with the flow of creative friction-thinking, under the guidance of your Muses -
I wanted it to be possible for you to reach success on no budget, if a budget can’t or doesn’t exist - as a single mum, the chance I stood of getting where I needed to go was given to me by the public library system;
and while I’m taking great pains to make sure everything written in my own words in my six workbooks and on this site are original to me, all my ideas are built from the years of hours of reading borrowed books -
the design & function of the libraries kept me progressing, and so I hope will the design & function of these books and this site - this is my main motivation, actually: drawing spaces that create/guarantee success.
Examples of How I analyse Drawings For what They’re Really Saying Vs. What They & You Want to Say
I read drawings & hear writings - and I always say writing is drawing, which makes writing a double-code of information and therefore difficult for enough human beings - especially without strong drawing knowledge;
but yes, this is where I’ve always been pure Scorpio - starting with the pink spider I painted at age 2 (Mars cycle - every 2 years, and I’m double-Mars - triple, actually - as Scorpio Rising, Aries birthday with Mars in my caregiving-business circuit;)
and being Scorpio means everything subliminal and subconscious is always evident, present and obvious; for 40 years I only knew I could decipher pictures and drawings, and wondered why I’d painted a spider - my only painting for 14 years -
it wasn’t my subconscious - it was the first of my channeled drawings, and now I can distinguish Oracle drawings from everything subconscious.
The Geography & ARchaeology of Drawing as Religion - A Holy Trinity with Math & Science
There’s what you believe based on language-knowledge, and there’s what you believe based on experience…
Tamil Magic Squares - I Ching - Taijitu (Yin-Yang) Multiverse - Indus Valley Seals
Tassili Cave Paintings
& Lesotho Cave / Rock Paintings
Kemetian - not Egyptian - Art & History
Guringai Emu Carving - Guringai, Wardaman Astronomies / Astrologies - Complete Perspective In Balanced Navigation By Dark & Light Spaces Equally
Raj Vedam & IHAR / Indian History Awareness and Research - 24,000 Years of Astronomical Records
Child Jesus/Drawing Expert
Re-Translation of Unspoken Biblical Hebrew Script
Pamela Colman Smith, Modern Sibyl / Pythoness
Pamela Colman Smith to Mary Everest Boole & Dorothy Sayers - Homeschooling Roots
My Family History with Sudan Interior Mission - How I Met The Orisha
Gospel of John, Jerusalem Bible - Chapter 7, Verse 24: ‘Do not keep judging according to appearances; let your judgement be according to what is right.’ These are the stand-alone words that started me fresh on my Shamanic journey when my son was 5 and I was entering my 3rd Black Moon / ‘Lilith’ cycle.
Hand / Eye / Mind Coordination WArm-ups
Hand-Lettering, Font-Work & Writing STudies
Technical and creative writing exercises will soon be added.
Math Drawings & STudies
Jakob Steiner - Geometric Inversion / Archimedes’ Lab / EYE TRICKS by Gianni A. Sarcone & Marie-Jo Waeber
Math worksheets, templates and geometric drawings I created and organised for my son’s homeschool curriculum
science Drawings & studies
Photo References for Texture Studies & Developing Your Techniques
Technical, Vector & Digital Drawings
My first student: my son Alex will be providing tutorials on the beginnings of digital drawing,
while I show you how to push Word Document tools and precision attention spans to the max -
3-D Studies: Drawing with Scissors, Coils, Wedges & Strings, ETC.
Drawing with Brushes
Psychic/Auto Drawing & Writing
Music Notation Studies
Research And Resource Links
A Year from Here
Click to view pdf of Original Year from Here Journal / 2020 publication
Click to view pdf of Pink Spider 2021/22 publication
Solo and Group Guidance
with Me, Kristen Elizabeth
Mystory of The Beginning of Drawing
The 2020 Re-launch That Didn’t Happen
2008 - 2010
(All these children, as all the children pictured on this website, are now adults.)
2009
An additional workshop I created at the request of Colours Art Supplies & Classroom Management; what I thought would be an impossible, ironic goal turned into a deeply profound success with four women/artist participants.
Solving Picture Problems
Suzy’s Messages
She was very deliberate about the concept and composition of this final project before starting it - it was complete in her mind;
what caught her up to the point of us crying together, was the despair of the messages leaving her - as soon as she articulated that, my part was to invert her perception,
and the concept was complete, the circuit connected - what if the messages are coming? I asked (maybe they weren’t; the question was key, because the answer was hers, not mine -)
the despair had impacted as a block to finishing what had started with total clarity, and the block led to the silence & the conversation, and the conversation fulfilled the energy of drawing a picture about messages; the specific problem being: messages to or from Who/who, and why, and how many messages have been held inside, doubted -
the conversation brought action & interaction, certainty - brought the subliminal to the surface (as a Scorpio, the subliminal is always at surface-level for me, which is why I’m here with B of D;)
Ursula’s Magic
Sasha’s Power
Jade’s Medicine
Michael’s Graphics
Angela’s Dot-Connecting
Imelda’s Edge
Connor’s Crosses
Nameless-One’s Graffiti
Chad’s Countdown
Alex’s Supports
Christine’s Signs
The Students of St. Avila & R.H.G. Bonnycastle
My Teachers
not including my Spirit Guides and everyone who’s taught me unknowingly
(like Molly Parkin,)
all of whom I’ll be blogging about here.
Music, Sound & Performance
Dvora Marcuse
Barbara Conrad
UPEI Theatre Society
Richard T. Haines, Heather Ludlow, Andrew Lea & Co. and Me
Erica Schultz
Sandra Reynolds
Joanne Parker Gibson
Mary Jo Carrabré
Mme Ellis-Bertram
Mrs. Grice
Linda Shwartz-Trivett
Drawing, Reading & Formatting
The Cadre - UPEI Student Newspaper
Karen Rawlines, Sarah Murphy, Rob MacIsaac, Todd MacLean, Luke Leunes,
Bill Matthews, Jill McRae, Peter Gillis, Brody Morrison, Suzanne Williams & Me -
I was photographer, sometimes-writer & sometimes-typesetter,
living with the copy editor, Karen, for two years
UPEI Fine Arts Studio
Paige Murphy, Kim Brown & Co. plus a couple of awesome models & Me
Reg Porter
Fine Arts History lectures with all his own slides - 50+ students wandering lost, especially me, when UPEI cut his courses (large classes for that campus)
Irv Marshall
Fine Arts Studio, Year One - taught us from his studio when our prof abandoned the course
Mrs. Emslie
My Earth Angel & Art teacher, Institut Collegial Vincent Massey -
she made sure I finished painting the I Will Come message
Mrs. Decker
My 3-D Drawing/Sewing teacher & eventual-customer, Arthur A Leach Junior High
Mr. Williams
My Art teacher & Shamanic mentor, Arthur A Leach Junior High
Mr. Adams
My Graphic Arts (Happy Place) teacher, Arthur A Leach Junior High
Mr. Pereles
My 3-D Drawing/Woodworking & Metals teacher, Arthur A Leach Junior High
Mrs. MacDonald
School Librarian & my first connection to Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, The Orisha & Kali - she enrolled me in public library writing & book-making workshops
Writing, Listening & Publishing
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Milton Acorn & Mickey Acorn
Shaun Levin
The Famous Seamus Publishing Company
Simon Maree, Sam Vitale, Bob McKenzie, Valerie Hartland, Michael John Byrne, Beth Grayland-Leech, Russell Scott, Jim Ferguson, Louise Malone, Mick O’Shea & Me
Kathryn Jenson / Mary Hart Perry
Marcia Hoehne
The Cadre - UPEI Student Newspaper
Karen Rawlines, Sarah Murphy, Rob MacIsaac, Todd MacLean, Luke Leunes,
Bill Matthews, Jill McRae, Peter Gillis, Brody Morrison, Suzanne Williams & Me
Brent MacLaine
Prof. Blouin
Mrs. O’Neill
Math, Science & Astrology
Krishna Iyer / Subhash Kak / Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Raj Vedam & The Indian History Awareness Research
/ IHAR Team
Sloan Bella
Sabine Kurjo McNeill
Margaret Livingstone
Jerry Hildebrand
Rodelyn Stoeber
Richard Plexman
Mrs. Richter
Filmmaking & Teamwork
IATSE Local 856 / Manitoba Film Training
Kate Johnston, Patti Henderson
Zarah Lazslo
Guy Maddin
Winnipeg Women Filmmakers Group
Danishka Esterhazy, Rebecca Sandulak, Nancy Kendle, Sheena Crookes & Me
Winnipeg Film Group
Jeff Erbach, Dave Zellis, Ryan Herdman, Paul Suderman,
Sean Garrity, Arlea Ashcroft, Adrienne Wyse, Matthew Etches,
Sheena Crookes, Shelley Kern, Geoff Trubiak, Jeff Aitkenhead,
Henri Marcoux, Philip Paskewitz & Brent Deere
Island Media Arts Co-Op
Wendy Sherren, Barry Stone & Co.
Paige Murphy, Rob MacIsaac & Sandy Stewart
Dance, Athletics & Self-Control
Winnipeg’s School of Contemporary Dancers
2005 - 2014 (Dance Mum)
Treasure Waddell
Kyla Wallace
Robyn Thomson Kacki
Farrah Fernando
Ming Hon
Kristie Laferriere
Kendra Penner
5 years with Jon Surla
Kim Gusdal
Dominique Allard
Joanne Goodwin
Mrs. Cable
Business & Friendship
My Clients and Customers
Kristen’s Home Cleaning, The Beginning of Drawing, Pink Spider Tarot & Astrology, Kristen Elizabeth/ PrivateMarketer .com, Le Petit Bijou Jewellery & Gifts/Crafters’ Marketplace & Charlottetown Farmer’s Market, Kristen’s Babysitting
Debbie, Head of Security / Scott & Melissa, Human Bean
Millennium Library
The Famous Seamus Publishing Company
Simon Maree, Sam Vitale, Valerie Hartland, Bob Mckenzie, Michael John Byrne,
Beth Grayland-Leech, Russell Scott, Jim Ferguson, Louise Malone, Mick O’Shea
My Colleagues & Bosses
Fabricland, Cre8ive Supplies, Colours Art & Framing,
Soul Expressions & Beadery, Ten Thousand Villages, St. Aidan’s Nursery
Seth Godin
Todd Herman
AWOL Academy
Marie Forleo
B-School: Since 2017
Natalie MacNeil
The University of Manitoba Bookstore
Manitoba Opera Association
Irving Guttman
Research & Advocacy
Tracey Morris
Kerry Mussington
David Shurter
Fiona Barnett
Charlotte Alton Ward
Toni/Ruth and Gina Lovell, Yolanda and Michelle
Jessica Leigh Collins
Sabine Kurjo McNeill
Inness York
Fran Telford
Kay Diviney
Trisha Daley
Fred Erb
