Posts Tagged ‘ink’
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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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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Friday, July 11th, 2008
 Fog always inspire mystery to me, so this image was the first one I thought of to illustrate foggy.
I created this piece two months ago. It was inspired by a foggy mist that covered the moon one night from my deck and the howling dog two houses away from me! It reminded me of a wolf howling at a foggy moon. I portrayed the moon as an old woman, since she’s been around for centuries!
May your all your fog be lifted and beautiful light guides your way! Peace.
Tags: acrylic, Fog, Foggy, guide, howl, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, ink, light, moon, watercolor
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
 There are so many things to worry about nowadays.
I miss the days of just worrying about getting my allowance because I didn’t clean my room, worrying about whether Kevin Thomas liked me as much as I liked him or worrying whether my extremely curly hair would frizz up in the humidity! The days of being a teenager.
My worries are much greater today and they seemed to be centered around others. My children, my parents, my extended family, my friends, my environment…who’s going to be the next President of the USA! Yeah, in our days in time we do need to worry about who’s going to be President. The worries of someone opening the door to being fifty years old.
But this morning I looked out on my deck and looked at the beautiful tree that’s been haunting my thoughts over the last week and my worrying over completing her portrait, which I just finished.
I know and adore that tree, it’s a female entity, since she nourishes and shelters most of the wild life in my back yard. She has a giant hole in the middle of her trunk where I imagine her heart is and it’s open, bearing her soul to all.
Today, I worry about the environment and hope that the generations to come take care of her.
Please do something for her today…don’t litter, bask in her glory, recycle, be green always…
Have a happy, glorious and safe green weekend and week!
Tags: children, collage, environment, green, heart, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, litter, parents, pen/ink, president, trees, watercolor, worry
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
 Nothing is wider than a child’s eyes at the sight of magic, and for magic nothing is wider than this human world. I saw this little fairy resting on a mushroom stool in the back yard. It widen my eyes!
The world is very wide from this view point!
Have a wonderful week and keep your eyes wide open to the wide world of magic.
Peace.
Tags: color pencil, eyes, fairy, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, magic, mushroom, pencil, watercolor, Wide, world
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
 This face is surrounded by a garden of flowers. I completed this image over (8) years ago, and I still love it!
I’m so happy spring is coming! :)
Tags: face, flowers, Garden, Graphite, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, watercolor
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
 This post brought about so many thoughts, such as theory of evolution, theory of the big bang, theory of art, or are all theories about math…not…if it’s all about the math, then I’m screwed! lol!
Process: Brainstorming, Research, Application: Paper, pastel, oil pastel, ink, color pencil, collage = THEORY
So I decided to do a combination of big bang, evolution, birth and stages of man. So the end result is my renditon of theory for this Illustration Friday.
Tags: Art, Big Bang, Birth, collage, Evolution, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, math, Process, Theory, watercolor
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Aren’t we given a choice always, even if we decide on nothing, we’ve made a choice. Your choice, heads or tails?
Tags: choose, Coin, heads, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, tails, watercolor
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Bear with me…this is a long one…
