There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one’s marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends’ faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against— you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality

Kay Redfield Jamison (via whimsical-nostalgia)

Darth : acrylic paint 11x14 (done with everything , ready for tomorrow )

Darth : acrylic paint 11x14 (done with everything , ready for tomorrow )

Almost ready for tomorrow’s Star Wars Theme art show… Father and Son acrylic paint 16x20

Almost ready for tomorrow’s Star Wars Theme art show… Father and Son acrylic paint 16x20

Yoda, I am! acrylic paint 11x14

Yoda, I am! acrylic paint 11x14

r2d2 and c3po acrylic painting 16x20

r2d2 and c3po acrylic painting 16x20

Leia : acrylic paint 16x20

Looking at this piece, i feel very accomplished… I am not a Star Wars fan because I have not really seen the movies, BUT i feel accomplished in the sense that , I feel growth in my manner of manipulating the paint and my portraits coming out better :)

Leia : acrylic paint 16x20

Looking at this piece, i feel very accomplished… I am not a Star Wars fan because I have not really seen the movies, BUT i feel accomplished in the sense that , I feel growth in my manner of manipulating the paint and my portraits coming out better :)

Chewbacca 11x14 acrylic paint and fabric paint (star wars show tomorrow)… and it already has a home to go too! :)

Chewbacca 11x14 acrylic paint and fabric paint (star wars show tomorrow)… and it already has a home to go too! :)

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.

Gabourey Sidibe (via an-introspective-heart)

(Source: thatquote, via crystalshoener)