Thanks, I am glad that you enjoyed the experience. I am not familiar with the Quest tools, but I will in any case upload more images with explanations related to dream process in subsequent posts here.
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I really like the paininting you did called the Roar of Silence. The colors and details are spectacular.
Spirits Abound has got to be my second favorite. The detais in the face and especially the eyes are really impressive. She looks alive.
You have a lot of talent!
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Oculus Quest VR has several 3-D drawing tools including Tilt Brush, which allows one to create worlds, pictures and experiences and others can walk through them, or just meditate in them. Looking forward to seeing more of your work, it’s inspiring. Most of my talented artist friends are more into abstract forms, which I like, but is not my preference. Currently, I am interested in Dharma and dream—related experiences expression, both drawing and painting.
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Thanks @NightHawk999, I appreciate the positive feedback!
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Thanks @Barry, good ideas. I have access to an Oculus, although I don’t know how to use it yet. Recently I came upon Tilt Brush for the first time, in a wonderful dream video here on this site. You have got me to thinking about these possibilities. BTW, the animation sketches set to my music were recent works. Although rough, I was satisfied with them. I am wondering if you draw or image yr dreams?
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I have used inspirations from liminal and lucid dreams for a few drawings and paintings. I take forever to finish either a painting or a drawing—sometimes I plan one out for several months or even a year for a recent painting, but I’m in no hurry. I’ve been planning one for a while, based upon a lucid dream last year, and may get started after I finish a large 4’x4’ Eight Auspicious Symbols mandala I’m doing for my daughter’s wedding in a few weeks. Some of my things are here. Nothing fancy. Stopped painting about 40 years ago but took it up again with the help of a friend who runs a Veteran’s Art Room, set up to help Vets use art for whatever, therapy, joy, fun, getting dirty. Just fun for me.
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I like your paintings. They convey that they are heartfelt. Especially I was taken by the Separation Anxiety piece. Blocked in pattern after pattern, military symbols broken and repeated in an almost Escher-like optical puzzle, broken into fragments tha now exude a sizzling energy, mixed in with a blackened city line and rows of trophy heads as if in a Peruvian or Paracas ancient woven tapestry. In the center a forlorn figure, walking linearly forward surrounded by the maddened energy field.
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Thanks for the link to your incredible and fantastic artwork! I’m impressed. by the variety of your art, especially of your talented oil and pencil paintings. I’m not familiar with digital art tools like mentioned here, but like the dreamy atmosphere they can create!
By the way, if I had known about your Gallery in Quito before my trip to Ecuador last month, I’d have liked to visit it 
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Love your artwork, Carolel. I posted a couple of examples on my Twitter feed @LucidVirtuality (with links to your website).
Regarding the Quest and VR painting with Tiltbrush etc., my friend Elizabeth Honer does this, there are a couple of examples earlier in this thread, e.g. March '21 post:
Here’s another dream-recreation by my friend Elizabeth: Dream Drawing - Screaming Lady and Frankenstein Ice Cream Sandwiches (a 1-minute YouTube video tour of a virtual reality recreation of the dream scene. The YouTube description describes the dream in more detail.
Elizabeth comments: “I really enjoy dream work in VR, it is informative (although sometimes unsettling) to recreate and inhabit the dreamspace in waking life.” I think dream re-creation is one of the more exciting uses of virtual reality.
VR is a very interesting way to explore and share dreams, and to work with them.
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Hi @Marlise, too bad we couldn’t meet. I always enjoy sharing shop talk with other dreamers.
Did you check out the virtual tour of the gallery? It’s a brick and mortar gallery, or should I say rammed earth and adobe, about (150 yrs old)?
Anyway, my thing has always been drawings and oil painting but I have also been playing around digitally for some time, especially after I had a lengthy vivid lucid dream argument years ago, self vs. self, that insisted I apply my dinosaur art to digital applications. At that time I was an analogue image purist, and wanted nothing to do with technological fusion. The LD voice won, and I am glad it did.
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Hi @ArthurG, thanks for feedback! as well as the video send and link up.
I checked the dream dwg. video. What program does she use, do you know?
As you and others here suggest, I am thinking that VR is the perfect medium to visually explore and share a dream narrative, and by spending time in that virtual space, to analyze the dream in real waking time in high resolution. I further think that this focus in real time of a dream narrative can draw a larger quantity of LDs to us.
(This is a premise, tried and true, that I have tested for a longish time with often impressive results).
Until now, I have explored recreating one primary dream image from a given dream narrative. (I will post more of these soon). This image is a summary of the dream, a reduction. Maybe I can find the right tools to expand?
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She uses Tiltbrush for sure, but I think she’s started working with other programs as well. I’ll ask her.
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Thanks, let me know!
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Hi @Carolel,
I’m @ArthurG’s friend Elizabeth. I used Tiltbrush to make the video. It is now called Open Brush - I think it is available on most VR platforms. I have used other VR art tools in the past, but Open Brush is my main tool. Happy to answer any questions, if you wish.
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Thanks Elizabeth, I will look into it.and thanks for offer of assistance, too!
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@NightHawk999 You do these? . . . . . .