The worst sin is ingratitude, which is a forgetting of the greatness, beauty, truth and goodness of the Source that is constantly creating us – in other terms, a forsaking of Being, and the Good. My favorite Leloup quote today, from The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Today I had my day all planned out, my …
Research for Mary Magdalene
This August, I have read through piles of books, weird and not so weird, factual and conjectural, both fantastically and poorly researched. Here\’s my research for this picture so far: Jean-Yves Leloup\’s Gospell of Mary Magdalene. (I was so wrong when I felt I hadn\’t encountered Mary Magdalene before. She is all over my bookshelves …
Sacred Marriage
Winter Solstice Meanderings. Exploring the feminine proclivity towards a holistic, simultaneous, synthetic and concrete view of the world. Essentially balancing the linear, sequential, reductionist and abstract way of the masculine worldview. Neither is better. Like the ancient Taoist circle, symbol of symmetry and integration, both are equally present in creative tension. We honor one over the other to …
Art Show in Crystal Lake
I have a new show called \”Keep Making Love\” going on for the month of August at Le Petit Marche in downtown Crystal Lake. If you\’re around, stop in and say hello!
Work for this month
Dawning of Aquarius. Marker and colored pencil on marker paper. 11 x 14 So much color. Love it. Getting ready for a show in July.
Verithin pencils
I\’ve added more colored pencil- prismacolor verithins. This helps me block out the darks and make sure the all over color is going to be balanced. I used copic marker (E00 + E21) for her neck- checking how the color of the pencil shading will show through. What\’s great about this technique is that the pencil can …
Yin Yang, Beauty and Hedgehogs
Further along. Finished a fabulous book yesterday – The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. \’Wow\’ is all I can really say about that. And, I will be sending Muriel a copy of this print as soon as I finish it and can find an address for her. Why? I sense the same quest for beauty – the …
drawing the neolithic way
These things always start off poorly. At this point I\’m a bit panicky, because it looks more like a dessert rather than rock. I stay with it, knowing that if I throw enough color at it, it will be fine. If in doubt, add more. (color, coffee, nutella…) Getting the lines of ochre and sepia …
The Castle
Ever forward, but slowly…
Creative people…are also Innovative?!!
Are creativity and innovation really the same thing? Do creative people have inherent innovation ability? Well? Do we? Best answers: CREATIVITY: Creative people are like a dog with a bone. They refuse to let go of an idea. They mull over the problem at their workbench as well as in the most mundane places. They …