That\’s my working title anyway. I saw/received/ had the idea for this drawing last week and sketched it out in the margin of some notes I was taking. I originally saw a bat in the central spot where the face is now. An upside down bat, like a gargoyle – I was thinking Gothic Cathedral, …
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 …
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.
A dull person will suddenly become interesting…
‘A dull person will suddenly become interesting…’ A writing prompt from The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood. I read it as I sit down to write this. I insert it in my post as the title. Trusting that it has shown up for a reason. I’m into magic like that. Coincidence you might say. I\’ve …
Banished
Roberto (my darling husband) posted my finished picture \’Banished\’ -on FB last night. Which has prompted me to write about it a bit sooner than I had intended. I usually take time to sit with my work after it’s done. In a way, I meet my picture for the first time in this way. Before, …
Men age hot. Women do not. (seriously?)
Older men (think Sean Connery) look ‘hot’ as they age, women tend to hide (think many female movie stars in general, Ava Gardner in particular.) Never really thought about this before, just accepted it as fact- along with the biological explanation that goes something like this: women have a birth-window shelf-life, after which they become …