My award-winning artist husband suggested I use one of our dual-tip brush markers to do my sketch and then color in with the oil pastels, so this is the sketch project I worked on the other day for Easter. I am still learning so, be kind in your comments. My sketch is the second image that follows, Linda’s is the first (because it was the image I used as my model).

My friend, Linda Lewis from Arkansas, who now lives in Thailand got me started drawing/sketching) as a new hobby, and I’m really enjoying it! See Linda’s painted sketches on her blog at: https://creativeartworksblog.com – This is the blog article that held the specific model I used for my sketch: https://creativeartworksblog.com/2026/03/15/monday-3-16-2026/

All credit goes to my dear friend and artist, Linda Lewis at: https://creativeartworksblog.com/2026/03/15/monday-3-16-2026/
My felt tip pen sketch colored in with oil pastels for Easter. –Sheila Murrey

Happy Easter everyone!

Health update

My chiropractor said the numbness of the inner parts of two of my toes was due to the Extensor Hallucis Longus tendon. I have been able to get a bit of flex upward out of the toes since daily fascia blasting, massaging them and the foot with essential oil (Balance from DoTerra), as well as performing acupressure and red light therapy on it, AND using the tuning forks on it nightly before bed. I continue doing heel raises (sometimes called, toe raises or ankle raises), which I believe are helping too!

If you’re very curious, I found this link from the Mayo Clinic about the condition, but since I have no pain, only numbness and inability to lift those two toes, I’d say, thankfully, I must have a very mild case of it: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23126-extensor-tendinitis

The pain in my shoulder and down my arm has subsided again, thankfully! And yes, I had to take the herbal tincture again. But also, I found that my Therasage red light heating pad also has a TENS option and I had not ever tried that before. So, this last week, I’ve been using that! Wow! It really feels good and eliminates the sciatica pain for at least an hour or two afterwards. I can’t believe I didn’t try it for my shoulder! Just goes to show we can have solutions right at our fingertips and overlook them for one reason or another!

All of this DIY health stuff is only one example of the philosophy I teach and share in Integrating the Spirals. My motto is “Use what you have and what you know, and integrate into your daily routine in any way, preferably the easiest way possible.” Ironically, had I been talking about that Therasage pad more often, even in a Zoom session, I might have thought about trying the TENS option on it months ago! Alas, I am a student of my own philosophy for sure!

I offer Zoom sessions to talk through situations like this and give you ideas on when/how to integrate the physical tools and techniques, even software tools, for whatever challenges you’re facing–if you’re interested and open to it. Let me know in the comments.

Integrating the Spirals – JIGGLE WIGGLE

In my YouTube channel, I encourage those “over 50” to:

  • Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
  • Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease
  • Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
  • And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body.
  • And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 1,000 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s an older video on Vimeo of us performing back when we lived in an RV on an off grid plot of land in northeastern Florida: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

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18 thoughts on “Integrating the Spirals: Easter sketch using brush tip marker and oil pastels”

  3. Very cool sketch. When thinking along the lines of drawing/colouring with use of specific positive energy colour choices, re: using art for therapy, this must have given you some great vibes. Cheers for sharing Sheila.

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      3. Thank you Sheila. I took a read and saw the dream/subconscious comment. Dreams are evolved in short term memory, so are often forgotten upon waking up. If you wake up immediately after a dream, they are remembered. Unfortunately, the imagery seen in the dream has gone for myself when awake. There is no way you can image/picture story recall. And the storyline goes extremely quickly. Forgotten other than a meagre fragmented story generalisation of what it was all about. I can never put it into words. Nothing remains really.

        Dreams, are also, uncontrollable. Whatever analysis of dreams are written in books and determining meanings, I have never read in earnest. My dreams are weird and obscure nowadays. They have no connection with daily life. I realise this whenever in the dream state. It sounds strange to say this because I say I cannot remember. But subconscious state has the ability of recognising the familiar or unfamiliar whilst it is actually happening. It is really interesting this subject. So thank you for sharing. It’s given me more to think about.

        Cheers and all the best.

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      4. Oh, right on, Gray. I remember some dreams and others are vapor as soon as awakening. I hear you. And the very personal ones, like the visitation one with my mom after she passed, now that, I remember segments of it now, the same as when it happened (years ago now). Not so much what was said, but the look of it and the FEEL of it. It seemed sooo real. But other dreams now? Mostly I lose the visual quickly upon waking up in the morning. Like you said, unless I wake up during the dream but still it fades quick. Then something will bring up part of it during the day and I’ll be talking with Richard and just start telling him about the dream. I’ll catch myself and think, what the heck made me recall that? Ha! The brain and mind is such a fascinating thing. Glad you liked that little bit of writing/story. Cheers back to ya, Gray.

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      5. You describe all this so well Sheila. Especially regards your mom. My Mum has appeared a couple of times since she passed. But I cannot remember the dreams at all. Familiar people do enter dreams from time to time too. Certainly, some dreams do come from past, long ago acquaintances. It is as if the fragile nature of impactful situations in life, hidden away, resurface. Suddenly your mind remembers them and tries to resolve them. But they re-enact out in bizarre and different ways. Nothing from the past is actually from the real situation at all. Peoples’ personalities exist in the same way, but suddenly stories exaggerate and act out differently.

        I have read, from years back now, that dreams do surface in short term memory. Hence they are difficult to keep a hold of. Also, lack of certain vitamins or minerals can bring on strong dream experiences. I may look at this more. I have just started reading House of Leaves, which is supposed to be quite a strange and disturbing book. I have just started the first chapter after a very interesting Introduction. The Introduction sets the reader up for the rest of the book. It is a very important inclusion. Basically tells you to consider whether you want to continue or not. Classic psychological challenge! Luckily, in this case of reading such material, I never get impactful ‘picture’ evolvement from words read. So my imagination does not create dreadful imagery. I can read the sort of literature that is supposed to be impactful, like Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc., with those Folklore creepy tales of supposedly damnable nature. But I find no creepiness in them visually other than the words’ intentions. I rarely read such literature though. No horror stories at all. Dean Koontz used to make me feel uneasy when reading. Now? I can’t recall one single sentence or general storyline from one single book of his. My Aphantasia allows no PTSD whatsoever. Life’s dreadful experiences do impact at the time. But never linger or revisit visually. So they fade to nothing very quickly.

        Our recent watch of the film of Stephen King’s Life of Chuck we both enjoyed, has the limits on thoughtful ‘odd nature and creepiness’ in the stories or films that I have read or watched. But no memory will exist of LoC down the line other than a fragmented idea of the storyline. I will never ‘imagine’ recall and see Tom (Chuck) dancing to the beat of that drumming. And pulling that lady into the dance too. I will not recall scenes in totality. Just that Math was involved somehow and dance being important in Chuck’s life. The dance? I just know that it was a scene that made me feel so completely happy and alive. Goosebumps time. And I will recall his Mother and her love of dancing. But nothing will be concrete other than generalisation. Edward Scissorhands is my favourite film of all time. And still makes me cry at the end. But I can never recall the imagery of why the emotions impact so forcefully until I watch it again. It is a synergy of the acting, the voices, the music and the totality of that scene. And the presence of snow. Always that snow.

        Actually. Only certain authors bring impact in their words. So descriptive that the stories leap off the page. Almost poetic in the way they ‘dance’ and leap out of the page with the telling of their stories. David Mitchell, Conan Doyle, Tolkein, Agatha Christie, and Haruki Murakami are fantastic examples in adulthood. Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton, HG Wells and Charles Dickens from childhood. But books and their stories have never, ever crossed into dreamland. Well…I can’t recall a single example. Nor have any films. Dreams come from other places. Places either of total imagination, searching for answers or past acquaintances that are odd in that they become actors in new storylines. Like you say, you never recall, but know they existed. Albeit in shadow form or inherent feelings.

        There is one dream that still exists and returns in shadowy form. And reoccurs every few years. Different in subtle ways. I drive to an abandoned building in an old tractor, car, etc.. The countryside track is muddy and bumpy. An eerie weather situation always exists. Fog, damp, mist and always empty and quiet. Suddenly I am in a house that is full of clutter and junk. I try to climb upwards on strange staircases that become a hive of difficult challenges. Ladders, broken steps, huge gaps, claustrophobic spaces to find my way through and then opening into long creepy hallways with door after door ahead to pass and one room to get to. One room being hunted for? A person is calling out in the distance. Maybe from that room. Or a distraction so I can never find the room. Suddenly a huge drop exists and someone is falling. Then wake up time calls.

        I just see this dream as searching through current difficulties. And not finding the answers. But these staircase/house dreams can come at brighter and carefree times in life too. Not only when challenges or experiences, that can be of a struggling nature, exist. Weird.

        Cheers for sharing your dream experiences Sheila. All the best.

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