While doing some cleaning and dusting, I came across a bag of pretty autumn leaves. I love the colors of autumn. I remember taking these leaves from a beautiful tree. So of course I stopped cleaning and looked for the photos of the tree it came from. I'm one of those people that look at trees and always see people or some sort of magical creature, so I usually stop and snap a photo, since it's usually on the road and I don't get a chance to sketch and explore it until I get home. I find trees fascinating. Here's a reference photo: Well, to make a long story short, I never finished the dusting (the cleaning is ongoing)! My ... Continue Reading »
Work
Meditation Home
As an artist, you create, enjoying the process and wonder at the end result (at least, I do)! When your art work finds a home, you miss it, but you know it has gone to a place where some else wants your creation to rest. I received this picture (taken with camera phone) from a collector in Indiana, showing me where "our girl" lives. I love the unique way she has formed a mediation alter out of it. Another wonderful idea for my goddess art. A way to salute your womanhood! Thanks Lucy, you're a doll to send this! :) May you continue to get the joy and peace you deserve. Peace to all. ... Continue Reading »
Deja-Vu and Studio Nook Chaos
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 ... Continue Reading »
Greetings
Hello Everyone: After almost nine months of taking much needed time to relax, heal, reflect and grow...I'll be rejuvenated and ready to birth new creations in the New Year. Happy Holidays and Peace to you all. ... Continue Reading »
Spider Woman
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 ... Continue Reading »
Changing Woman
Much of the folklore regarding women was subterranean, to the mainstream for many generations; but they were and continue to be very much alive in the cultures from which they came. In the Native American (Navajo) culture, "Changing Woman - "Estsanatlehi" comes closest to being the personification of the Earth and of the natural order of the Universe as to any other brief way of describing her. She represents the cyclical path of the Seasons, Birth (Spring), Maturing (Summer), Growing old (Fall) and Dying (Winter), only to be reborn again in the Spring." To learn more about the Native American Changing ... Continue Reading »
Brave – Warrior
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. ... Continue Reading »
