Posts Tagged ‘color pencil’
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Lately, I’ve been working out some dream issues, which to me represent the most intricate designs of the mind.
Most days, I’m not sure what my dreams mean…hmmm…maybe they mean, I’m just anxious for Spring, or bracing myself for more of Winter, or missing that hour I lost for daylight saving time or …there’s always the off chance it could be just indigestion! :) lol!
I’m just spending time trying to figure out the intricacies of what they mean…how about you? Dream any good intricate ones lately? I’ll meet you in the dream world. Peace
Tags: color pencil, Dreams, Equinox, Fantasy, Graphite, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, Metaphysical, mixed media, oil pastel, Spring, watercolor, Winter
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
There is nothing like sitting in a rocking chair, rocking back and forth, it’s gentle creaking, and a breezy spring air flows in your window, gently lifting the curtains in your baby’s room.
The curtains lightly swinging in the breeze, and that sweet smell of a brand new baby filling the room.
Now that’s an easy, breezy beautiful moment.
When my babies were tiny babies, I often wondered, as I stood at their cribs watching them sleep, catching glimpses of adorable smiles, “what are they dreaming…”
To the joy of sweet baby dreams…Peace.
(This was art created with many, many glazes of watercolor, the butterflies were separately drawn, painted and cutout, collage onto the artwork and then sealed with a gloss medium.)
Tags: baby, Breezy, collage, color pencil, Dreams, gloss medium, Graphite, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, paper cut-out, Sweet, watercolor
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
 Celebrate to me always involves music. I mean really for me, a celebration without a song, a lyric, music, a ditty…well it just is not a celebration! So for this week, in honor of love, take the one you love, put on a tune that you can hum together, dance together or look at one another to and celebrate, because love is always a cause for celebration.
So here I’ve provided the instruments, the singer and a microphone, now all you have to do is improvise…celebrate!
Love, Happiness and Peace to you all!
Tags: Celebrate, color pencil, Happiness, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, love, Music, oil pastel, pencil, song
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
This little rambunctious darling, decided, that her cat was in need of “bootifying” (beautifying). The precious part to me was how she went on and on about how her baby (the cat) “just gets into everything.”
All children should be “rambunctious” it’s the only time in life when we’re “allowed.” Now who do you think is the really rambunctious one?
This has been a stressful and very busy week for me, so I had to go to an image that was already completed some time ago.
Actually, right now I’m finding the adults in my life rather rambunctious and I really don’t mean that in a positive light! It’s so much more wonderful when it’s a rambunctious child!
I hope during the frenzy of what is a holiday season for some, that you take a moment and enjoy your little ones, they really know how to live their lives, if you let them. Peaceful blessing to you all!
Tags: children, color pencil, enjoyment, Graphite, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, life, mixed media, Rambunctious, watercolor
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
 There is nothing like natural “sugary” and nature does it best! I love papaya, mangos, melons, kiwi, oranges and the sweet smell of flowers. There are some flowers that smell so sweet, it’s makes you think of sugar!
There is nothing like biting into a ripe piece of fruit and the “sugary” juice runs down your face and you try to catch it with your hands, to no avail! Now that’s a “sugary” life.
I am now on the hunt for a sweet juicy mango…hmmm…
This week, let’s try to enjoy the natural “sugary” taste of nature’s best offerings and that includes the sweet kisses of those you love, too! Peace!
Tags: Caribbean, color pencil, colorful, flowers, fruit, ink, kiwi, leaves, mango, marker, melons, oranges, papaya, pastel, Sugar, sweets, watercolor
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
 Bear with me…this is a long one…
After arguing with my daughter this morning about the benefits of cleaning her room (i.e., “you can stop asking me where everything is”); she stomped to her room!
Later, I looked in her room and became misty-eyed.
Lo and behold, she cleaned her room…but inside of boxes and on the outside of boxes were all the things I love! Her “bear-bear”, her dolls and numerous other toy treasures!
Packed up memories…
For any parent, well some of us at least, seeing your little one grow up and storm into adolescence is challenging at best! I captured this moment in my journal along with this sketch; (I don’t generally go into her messy room, because I have fit every time I do)…sketching always calms me down!
So, long story, short…here is my rendition of “packed“. Packed memories, packed feelings, packed toys, packed childhood, packed teenager, and packed Mom!
I’m sitting in my bedroom, on my bed, now “un-packing” the memories of her babyhood…smiling with some tears…
Today, love all the little ones in your life and pack every moment full of memories…Peace.
Tags: boxes, childhood, color pencil, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, Memories, mixed media, packed, pencil, toys
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
 A couple of things ran through my mind when I saw this week’s prompt, “Clique“.
The first thing was the handouts I used to get in 1st grade, with the title, “Which Doesn’t Belong?”
It was always so obvious back then!
The second thing I thought about was high school and all the different “cliques” that alienated all of us from each other; because of some lame excuse that no one remembers after they left of high school or if you did remember, it’s not important any longer!
But, finally, for inspiration, I decided to go with the old nest in my backyard and improvise. “Cliques” abound, even in nature…so with that I’ll let the image speak for itself. From experience, I’ve always been the blue egg! What about you?
We all belong to the human “clique”, everything else are in the details. Vive la difference! Celebrate yourself…go ahead…you deserve it! Peace.
Tags: acrylic, Clique, color pencil, difference, egg, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, marker, mixed media, nest, pen/ink
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
 Last night I ran the IF word “routine” by my son, his girlfriend and my daughter and they thought of cubicles, train commuters and dance routines.
I like them all, but I kept thinking of something more restful and peaceful, which I actually need right now to rest my mind. So then my son said, “why not a person in lotus pose with a detached head, of course, Mom, it doesn’t have to be gross”, and I thought, Bingo!
So this is me wishing I had a routine for being detached, it would make my life so simple. I’m going to work on that, since all my other routines are exhausting!
I just couldn’t stand missing last week’s IF so I had to do a word combo!
Namaste extended to everyone.
Tags: color pencil, daughter, Detached, girlfriend, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, Routine, son, Yoga
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
 I started this piece on August 1st and I just completed it today. Bear with me, I’m coming to the part where the IF prompt, “Sail” fits in.
August is always a month of reflection for me. It’s probably because one of the biggest losses of my life happened in this month many years ago. I start off the month trying not be to sad, grasping at every happy moment and holding on to it for dear life!
August for me is the beginning and ending of many things. It is the beginning of the end of summer. It is the beginning of some of the hottest, humid days in Pennsylvania. It is the ending of a precious life and memory of a sad time. It is the beginning of constant healing and the joyous memories that will never leave me. Sharon, my dearest sister, there isn’t a day that I don’t remember how your bubbly life “sailed” out of mine and I hold on to the joyous sweet time that was ours.
Life is and always will be a magical endeavor, we are created briefly like an effervescent bubble. With many stops and starts we blow into a wonderful beautiful bubble that floats in the air and flits into the distant. Sometimes we see it pop immediately and other times it is carried on the wind, much like a “Sail“.
So this is my image for this week. A sage creating bubbles of life that “Sail” on their own journey becoming the various aspects of life, people, places, things. It is a beginning and an ending.
Continue to “Sail” because all endings mark the beginning of some infinite state of being.
Peace,
Indigene
Tags: August, beginning, bubble, color pencil, ending, goddess, ink, life, light, loss, magical, sage, Sail, watercolor
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
 As soon as I read the prompt for the week, I burst into laughter! This is such a common word in my household. My daughter (Kayla) and I both have very big hair.
When she was little (of course, she’s grown now, she’s 13!) I use to tell Kayla that her hair was “poofy’ because the fairies adored her so much they would tap their magic wand, and “poof” their love made her hair jump for joy!
Even now on extremely humid days, her hair just poofs; and she looks like a sun flower. Kayla and her girlfriends have coined the phrase “poof hair“.
She begged me not to draw her poofy hair and put it on the Internet, but of course, I ignored her, but I did do a younger version of her (she was 4 in this pose), and her poof hair. This is after bath time one morning when the fairies had “poofed” her during the night!
Introducing: “POOF hair”, one of the greatest loves of my life!
Here’s to finding those moments in the past, that just breaks you out in laughter and smiles.
Happy weekend from “Poof” Head Indigene!
Tags: charcoal, color pencil, daughter, Graphite, Hair, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, Kayla, marker, mixed media, Poof, watercolor
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