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, …
Mary Magdalene
Unexpectedly working on a beautiful new picture. I returned from a Labyrinth Training Workshop at Veriditas, to find that my mom had cancer again. This is her 4th time; each prior time she has been successfully treated and her cancer resolved. She has a truly fantastic team of doctors and feels very safe in their …
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, …
Full Moon : the phases/faces of a woman\’s life
Maiden, Mother,Crone!! My celebration of the wise women on this planet who are entering the full flowering of their being.(In plain old english, those of us turning 50 and beyond) It\’s a full moon today too, and I have just finished. How\’s that for a little synchronicity? Have a inspiring, creative and fruitful day…
Full Moon : the phases/faces of a woman\’s life
Maiden, Mother,Crone!! My celebration of the wise women on this planet who are entering the full flowering of their being.(In plain old english, those of us turning 50 and beyond) It\’s a full moon today too, and I have just finished. How\’s that for a little synchronicity? Have a inspiring, creative and fruitful day…
celebrating woman
Here is the progress on the three aspects of woman; maiden, mother and crone. \’Wise woman\’? Yeah, it nices it up , but there are days(and moods) let\’s face it, when \’crone\’ is much more descriptive! This is one of those projects which is drawing itself- Isis showed up suddenly in the fire fifth- didn\’t …
Suicide.
What do you do when a child of 14 ends her life? What do you do as your daughter, in tears wonders and wished that she could have, might, have done something, anything, if only…if only she would have known, if they had been better friends…or what about the other kids at school, the kids …
death…and life.
I just completed this picture for Agnes, an Irish woman who recently passed. I never knew her, but the words of her son and his wife were enough to inspire this drawing. We decided loosely to include a Tree of Life and Celtic knot work. Those were my only directions. . . I thought of Agnes a …
the face of a mermaid
And it worked…. again. Thank God. So now I can heave a sigh of relief, and lay off the coffee a little, because if I mess up the fish, only their momma\’s gonna know. You mess up a human face-well, that\’s a little more problematic. I ended up using a different photo reference, rather than my daughter, because the picture I …
Paris, Pandora and paranoia
See how I jump around? Honestly. But I love this mermaid…I\’ve wanted to do a picture of my oldest daughter Zoe, forever-and this is the one. So in between the Zinnia girl and the Green man popped this. I started her somewhere last week and am ready to color her in. This pen and ink …