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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
©2001-2012 Indigene Theresa Gaskin– Image: “Brave Warrior”)
This year my intention is Courage. I did not come to this intent quickly or lightly, but through…the power of daily meditation, prayer, silence and deep listening.
So what does this mean?
This means I will not wait for fear to go away before I move forward with new ideas and dreams that need to be realized. The only way I can dissolve fear is to begin to move with it.
I have heard, that the thing that stands in the way of us creating the life we want, will only go away, if we start creating it. Yet, this is the most fearful aspect of beginning that life!
So like a brave warrior, I am empowered by my first step…setting my intention. Intent needs to have action to follow it…so I have posted my intent, in various place in my home, in my studio and I have found a visual for my intent. (See image). So by blogging this, my intent is in the world!
These are the steps for me to build a foundation grounding myself in this intent.
These baby steps of intent and action, will give me more courage to take many more steps, as I give myself time and space to experience the voices of my fears, moving with purpose, while staying aligned with my intention and fiercely committed as each day poses its challenges and rewards.
I take courage and content in the fact that none of us journey alone. Take heart in knowing we are all are doing it together.
Tags: Brave, Brave Warrior, Courage, fear, Fearless, http:indigeneart.com, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, ink, Intent, Intentions, mixed media, pencils, Warrior, watercolor
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
 (“Dream Sequence-13″- 3″x 7″ – Mixed Media/paper)
You ever wake-up in the morning and feel like you’ve just come back from an exciting place? Or know that your dream had some significant meaning, and you try to hold on to it, to remember it, before it fades away?
I do that often, in my dreaming and at times, in my conscious life. Dreams are especially hard to hold onto, with its colors or lack of color, feelings, sense of place, things and sometimes people. Which is why I keep a pad and pencil, on my night stand, to capture all the symbolism of my dreams.
I think, that’s why I’m mesmerized by faces, places and things.
I find faces mesmerizing, they stay with me long after the person has left my vision scope. I’ve been accused of staring, but it’s because I’m putting that face into memory and the face has fascinated me in some way. Be it, the eyes, or that little space between the nose and the mouth, or their eyebrows.
I feel that way about places, too! When I travel, I feel the pulse of a place as it attaches itself to all my senses, it can be the food, the sounds, the scene, or the meeting of new people. A place has history and stories and my senses try to get a sense of it or add my own unique slant to it.
I have a fascination with things, also, since I’m used to be that kid, who would come home with beautiful rocks, I may have found, or a brilliant color button, strings and that old fashioned key (I’m that adult that still puts found things in my pocket). These are things, I can pick up later and in that instant, I’m back to that moment that I found that thing!
I am mesmerized by people, places and things…or maybe it’s just as my grandmother used to say, “Life, baby, it’s just life.”
What has you mesmerized, today? Is it just for today or are you always mesmerized by that person, place or thing?
I’m listening…
In peace, to you and yours.
Tags: acrylic paint, child, Dreams, grandmother wisdom, http://indigeneart.com, http://indigeneart.com/blog, Illustration Friday, Indigene, indigenous child, ink, life, living, marker, Mesmerizing, people, places, Pondering, symbolism, symbols, things
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
 I am in the middle of a summer night’s dream, of the mind, body and spirit. I am trying to wrap my mind around the concept of the spirit leaving the body.
It’s not something that I can articulate well at this point, and maybe I never will.
(“Mind Body & Spirit” – Mixed Media/Paper)
My sweet little sister, Renee is in hospice, that is really all I can say now. My dreams are filled with surrender, an outpouring of love and a deep hole of sadness. So on these midsummer nights, I try to understand, believe and sustain faith. May the God you believe in, give you the peace of mind, that can surround the body, so that the soul may be released. Blessings to you and yours.
Tags: acrylic paint, belief, Blessings, body, Care, faith, Family, Friends, God, Graphite, Hope, hospice, http://indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, love, midsummer, mind, mixed media, night, Paper, Peace, Prayers, release, Renee, soul, spirit, Surrender, watercolor
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
 Another painting in my Goddess Series is Spider Woman. I’m not doing the goddess series in any order, other than they way that they come to me; nor do I have any idea how many paintings will complete the series, I’ll let them determine that. This is a great educational process and fantastic artistic journey!
Spider Woman is an important goddess among many southwestern Native American tribes. Spider Woman is responsible for bringing fire to the Pueblo, Tewa and Kiwa tribes.
For the Hopi tribes, Spider Woman is a creator of the moon, and their emergence into the world. Spider Woman has the power to give and take life, and is connected to hunting and agriculture.
Cherokee Grandmother Spider brought people the sun and fire. She taught them pottery, weaving, and how to make ceremonial blessings.
The great blessings and history of Spider Woman will not “expire“ and will continue to be a wonderful tradition in Native American culture. Remember to pass on your cultural and family traditions so that they will live on for generations to come!
Work-In-Progress: The Spider Woman painting started out as a graphite sketch, proceeding to mix media including: ink,  watercolor, acrylic and finally a light glaze of oil paint! It was a timely process, but so worth the luminosity that cannot be seen on any screen version!
Tags: acrylic, agriculture, Blessings, ceremonial, Cherokee, culture, emergence, fire, grandmother, Graphite, Hopi, http://indigeneart.com, hunting, Indigene, ink, Kiwa, mixed media, moon, Native American, oil paint, Paula Gunn Allen, pottery making, Pueblo, Southwestern, spider, Spider Woman, spinning, sun, Tewa, Tradition, tribes, watercolor, weaving, web, Work-In-Progress
Posted in Art, General, Handmade Gifts, Illustration Friday, Work | 20 Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
 Daily, I toil in a part of nature’s paradise. I look out of my office window and see three enormous redwood trees. They form a semi-circle around a little rickety bench.
There are days, when I sit on that bench, near these luscious beauties, which I have named “the three sisters”. Wondering often, if they could speak, what infinite wisdom would they share.
They are infinitely magical to me, changing the lines of their bark to peer at me in all kinds of shapes, color and forms. But, no matter the transformation of these “sisters”, they always appear as women, whispering to me, daring me to discover their infinite wisdom.
But, I cannot… all I can do in my mere attempts, is to sit in their beauty and try to capture a fleeting glance, a colorful whisper, a dancing tone…knowing their infinite magic will outlive mine.
This week, in stillness, I try to capture the infinity of nature and peace…let’s all meet there in that infinity. Peace
Tags: Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, Infinite, ink, magic, mixed media, Nature, pencil, Redwoods, Sisters, trees, watercolor, Wisdom, women
Posted in Art, Illustration Friday, Work | 24 Comments »
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Tango is a very specific word, so for me, that didn’t translate into a lot of different meanings…humph…that was my thinking! Tango, I thought, well, I’ll do a couple, dancing a classic tango move.
Well, I can’t begin to tell you how this simple thought turned into an illustration, that wore me out! :)
First, I drew a profile of a woman. I then cut it out using black paper. Next, I drew a rose on a piece of scrap watercolor paper, painted it with ink and water color. Then I drew and outline of a couple doing a tango move and then collaged it, using this week’s newspaper coupons. All that was so much fun!
Then, the frustration hit the fan! First, I could not scan it, since it was too big for my scanner and I don’t know how to piece two scans together (yeah, I should, but I don’t!).
Next, I tried to photograph it and the gloss from the collaging, caused too many glare spots on the digital shot. This went on for a couple of hours, me repositioning the illustration, realizing my lighting inside was awful; and then going outside to photograph my creation.
That didn’t work either!
I came back inside, determined to tear the creation up and forget about the prompt for this week!
Oh, did I mention, I went outside, without showering, a T-shirt over my nightgown and flipflops on with my hair sticking up all over my head, looking like I’d stuck my hand in an electrical socket! I stood in the middle of our parking lot complex, to take this digital photo, and folks, I don’t care who saw me! (there goes making a first good impression, I just moved here!)
I re-cut the silhouette and painted it with black gouache, (used a blow dryer to dry it quickly). Then I cut all the figures out again and put them on a white background. I started the digital photo process again! Finally, after many words, that I can’t print here!
Voila…TANGO!
I finally had a photo I could use!
So here you have it, a simple illustration with a lot of hours putting it all together! So my vibe for the week is patience!
Persevere, my friends, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Peace.
Tags: collage, Construction paper, coupons, Digital, drawing, Frustration, Goauche, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, mixed media, newspaper, painting, Photo, Tango, watercolor
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
“As life unfolds, there will be times you will get played.”
So many images unfolded in my mind, when I saw this week’s Illustration Friday prompt, but with so little time and simple materials at hand, I decided that sometimes simplicity says it best.
As always, I leave you with the seeds, you provide the interpretation.
Peace to you in this life of chaotic music!
Tags: graphic, Graphite, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, life, Music, Paper, pen, Unfold
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
“In our flawed existence, we seek perfection and it is in our midst.’
As an artist, I often try to capture what I have in my mind, but it is never as beautiful, as it is in my mind’s eye. That’s why I continue struggling as an artist, because one day, I will get it right.
Besides, I find beauty in all forms, any and everywhere!
Peace to all and warmth to all the folks in frigid cold places.
Tags: acrylic paint, beauty, cold, color, Created with b/w drawings, flawed, flowers, frigid, Gouache, graffiti, illuminate, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, pencil, photos, sidewalk
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
 When my family and I visited Albuquerque, Sante Fe & Taos, it was an incredible trip!
Out of all the beautiful people, places and things I saw, painted, sketched, and photographed, it was the vacant or abandoned things that stand out in my mind.
During our various outings on the road during this trip, I saw this vacant log cabin in the middle of the desert. My family was appalled that I wanted to stop, get out of the car and go inside of it!
After reassuring them “that crazy Mommy” would be very careful and only wanted to see the outside up close and take a few photos. My “craziness”….uh…curiosity got the best of me and I had to go inside.
It was a beautiful vacant room. Beautiful, intricate patterns and textures, the house itself was a one room house with windows and no door, as if beckoning all on that road to stop by, come in and “look” at the stillness and vacancy.
That place, that cabin, that vacant room stays in my mind inventing its own stories of why, how and who as with all vacant places, people and things.
Vacancy has business in humanity…fill the space…the thing and the people…Peace to you all.
Tags: cabin, colored pencil, Graphite, house, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, Log, marker, New Mexico, Vacant
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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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