Posts Tagged ‘goddess’
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
I’ve been in hibernation, as far as my blog is concerned. I will remedy that immediately!
I try to blog weekly, but I’ve been working very hard on some left brain activities, like updating my office systems, reorganizing my files (yes, again) and adding more art to my inventory!
I’m also preparing for a Holiday Studio Tour, releasing a new product line, working on my newsletter to my collectors, creating a new painting series and attending some workshops!
So that’s what I’ve been up to, instead of blogging, I’ve hardly had time to think!
I need to get a lot done before the winter blahs and then my bear-like tendencies will be in full effect, especially when it snows, and I’ll be hibernating for sure! Are you hibernating or burning energy? Let me know. Peace to you and yours.
(Detail from “Sky Life” – 30″x22″ – Mixed Media)
Tags: activities, Art, Bear, blog, celestial, goddess, Hibernation, http://indigeneart.com, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, inventory, left-brain, planning, Sky, studio tour, Work
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
For those of you who are blessed to have your mother, May 8th, is a day that is recognized to honor her. if you are like most, you honor this woman every day of her life, by living your life in a way, that she would want you to.
For those of us, whose mothers have transitioned out of this life, this can be a bittersweet day. We remember her with love, and then remember, that she is no longer with us. We continue her legacy by living our lives with integrity and the lessons she taught us.
Some of us may not have any of those memories above. You may be one of those courageous women, who did it alone, then you are to be celebrated too!
Maybe your memories are not tempered with love, maybe that mother figure was not what you would have liked; hopefully, there is a woman, that gave you some semblance of a Mom.
Hopefully, in most of our lives, we have met a woman, who has embodied that “mother” figure. She has nurtured us, cheered us on, when we needed it most, told us about ourselves when we were acting less than we were, she may be your best friend, a girl friend at work who taught you something that one else could or would take the time to!
I don’t think of Mother’s Day as the only day to honor my mother or the other women in my life, but it is a day, that can be used to remember all the other women in my life who have given me their “mothering ways”; the ones, that I might forget in the hectic thing, I call my life, it is these women, I honor on Mother’s Day, because, my Mom tells me I honor her everyday, so she would prefer that I honor all the women in my life who have been there for me as well!
So I encourage you to do that on this upcoming Mother’s Day. Honor the Women in Your Life. A special call, a card, take her out to breakfast, a gift, an “I love you for who you are”. Give her a token of your love. As women, we treasure those things, because the words and the action are important.
May you continue to honor the women in your life, wherever they are.
 My art work is created and based on honoring all women, from various cultures, traditions, myths and spirituality. For prints or cards, order by April 30th the latest for Mother’s Day at:
indigene-theresa-gaskin.fineartamerica.com
In peace from me to you.
Tags: acrylic, action, African Diaspora, Art, bittersweet, card, Care, Celebrate, Courage, Creation, culture, Family, Feminine, Friends, Friendship, GIFT, goddess, Graphite, handmade, history, Honor, http://indigeneart.com, Importance, Indigene, integrity, legacy, lesson(s), map, Meaning, Memories, mixed media, Mom, Mother's Day, Nurture, print, Spider Woman, Spirit of the Mountain, spiritual, token, Tradition, Travel, Treasure, watercolor, women, words
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
 Winter is a time of quiet, hibernation, renewal, cold, waiting, rebirth and the mini death of nature’s plant life. Is is also some of the darkest days. Living on the northern east coast, means a ritual of heavy sweaters, overcoats, hats, scarves and gloves. But, it can be a time of great reflection, curling up in a natty sweater, lighting some candles, listening to music, pondering something as small as “getting a snack” or more significant like “what can you do to make your life more meaningful?”
With ice or snow covering everything, I tend to look up and notice the sky and stars. It’s wonderful to see the night light of the stars, so sometimes, I run out in the cold, with a thick sweater on and look up and I see the beautiful night sky, like a beautiful woman with the jewels of star light around her, blessing us with bits of colored light.
When it’s cold and depressing, look to the night and stars and realize that you are a part of something wonderful and unique in this time and space. No matter what, there is no one like you in the world, no one.
I’m sitting around with loved ones, wishing you peace.
(“Sky Dreads” – Mixed Media – Part of Goddess Series)
Tags: Dreads, goddess, Hibernation, http://indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Indigene, lights, night, Peace, Pondering, Quiet, rebirth, Reflection, Renewal, Ritual, Series, Sky, Winter, Winter Clothing
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
 ALA - Ibo Goddess
Last week, she was just a pretty face, with a splash of blue in the background sitting on my easel. Voila, this week, she is making her debut.
ALA, also spelled ALE, ALLA also known as ANE - Earth Mother Goddess of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria. Creator of the living and Queen of the dead. Provider of communal loyalty and Lawgiver of society. Her symbol is the crescent moon. She is still worshiped by the Ibo today, who pay tribute to her each year during the Yam festival.
Ala is a part of my Goddess Series. I think this series may be ongoing for some time, since there are thousands of goddesses from all over the world clamoring for me to paint them! Feminine Energy is rocking the world now and forever!
Ala’s Vital Statistic: 30″ x 22″, mixed media (Graphite, layered with many layers of watercolor paint and finished with acrylic paint).
(Inside info: Ala’s face is based on a beautiful young woman who now lives in South Carolina, and her baby bump was fashioned by a lovely mommy who gave birth to a lovely little girl, in January last year! Thank you ladies!)
Original Price: $800 – Unframed, plus S/H - Limited Edition Prints of (150) Signed and numbered – $75 Unframed plus S/H. All framing would be an additional cost.
I’m in the “nookery” (another word for my art studio). I’m just humming with creativity and joy! I have so much that I’m working on now. I am working on images from my Southwest Landscape Series. I took an extensive trip to New Mexico and took over 700 reference pictures and also did numerous sketches. There is something about Taos, New Mexico, that just does it for me, I was so feeling the vibe of artist, Georgia O’Keefe.
I’m in the “Nookery” (another name for my art studio), humming with creativity and joy! I am also working on some commissioned work, which I’ll post about another time in the future.
Well, it’s Friday, I stop work at 7:00PM, when I will kick back with the family, have a nice glass of Champagne, listen to world music, chat about our day, eat some comfort food and then watch “Legends of the Guardians”. Hmmm…I can’t wait!
May you enjoy what makes you happy and healthy. Peace to you all.
Tags: Africa, Ala, Ale, alla, ane, Art, Artist Nook, Commission work, communal loyalty, creativity, Creator of the Living, crescent moon, Debut, earth mother, feminine energy, goddess, goddess series, http://indigeneart.com, Ibo, Indigene, indigenous tribe, Lawgiver, Limited Edition, nigeria, Nook, Nookery, Notes From the Nookery, Original Art, Queen of the dead, scales of justice, Studio, Studio Nookery, tribe, Unframed, West Africa, Yam, Yam Festival
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
In rearranging my studio nook and painting, life was chaotic! When you’re working on a new painting, that you have to stop and start, there is that feeling of deja-vu! Yet, you know it’s all real…lol!
This is the beginning of the painting. I put several different symbols around the main part of the painting…and then…I changed my mind…and erased the symbols.
I’m feeling the main character, but the symbols are eluding me.
I was rearranging the studio as I painted, you know trying to multi-task and get as much done in the window of time I had.
But, back to the painting…
I erased all the surrounding symbols and redid some others things and finally, it felt like it was flowing.
I’m still in the preliminary stages, but I think she and I are feeling the flow on this.
There was a mad dash by me to get everything in order before the new year. I’m superstitious like that, whatever state your home and business is in, is how it’s going to be for the new year. So for me, the control freak that I sometimes am, everything was straightened up, dusted, cleaned, reordered and finished!
No…everything was not completed, but there a sweetness in what was completed, and you know life goes on.
Deja-vu is now reality and chaos to order! Now that’s a great beginning!
 Peace to you from the nook.
Tags: Ala, chaos, color pencil, deja-vu, Goauche, goddess, Graphite, Ibo, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, mixed media, old wives tales, order, studio nook, superstition, symbols, watercolor
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
When I think of bravery, women always come to mind.
Women are brave in caring for their loved ones; brave in how they carry out their work; brave in love and war; brave in transitioning the end of life. Women are the greatest creation in humanity.
Celebrate all women in your life! Learn about how Women’s History Month came into existence (click on link) and Happy Women’s History Month!
Work in Progress is shown below: part of the small and large scale goddesses I’m working on.
Tags: acrylic/gouache, Arches watercolor paper, Athena, Bear, Brave, creative energy, Diana, divine, Endurance, Feminine, goddess, Graphite, http://indigeneart.com, Ilustration Friday, Indigene, Lamb, March, Metaphysical, Minerva, mixed media, oil paint, Passion, Strength, Warrior, watercolor, women, Women's History Month, Work-In-Progress
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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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