Web of Life Art Show + Lexington-Bluegrass Pagan Pride '09

not as many pictures as I'd like, again. can't understand my eternal failure in taking pictures. I wanted a few ones with Andrea, Mary and Tammy so bad!!!!

the show went pretty well. so many nice people! unfortunately the workshop didn't happen, but even so it was a great day.

a whole day painting that banner... I wanted a Klimt-like tree, but in the end I found it very Tim Burton, which is also cool.

signs at the entrance, designed by myself. the show was in a historic house called "Allen House", on the Universalist Unitarian Church of Lexington property; hence the wallpaper.

Hecate and I.

not-so-good shots of the show. some of Tammy Wampler's pastels in the last one. her works have the most incredible colors.

 cute girls playing with my group mandala.

the outside. lots of fun while I was working hard inside. :P

my baby with her new girlfriends (she is the smallest one in the center.)

after a whole week of hard work, now it's time to move on. taking care of my project, making over my website/blog, keep on looking for more adventure, and of course, p-a-i-n-t-i-n-g!!

Web of Life Art Show

this has been a busy week. last preparations for Pagan Pride Day and for the Web of Life show. I still have to paint a huge banner to hang outside, and get ready for my workshop, Creating Mandalas for Healing. I am particularly anxious about this one, since it will be my first workshop in English. hope things run smoothly, 'cause I'm very happy about the possibility of teaching something again after five years!

so, during the rest of the week I'll probably have no time to touch my brushes, and the Tree of Life unfortunately won't get ready for the show.

if you are in the Lexington area this Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, come by to say hello and check out the show. and, of course, to enjoy the Lexington-Bluegrass Pagan Pride festival and celebrate religious tolerance.  we will have vendors, diviners, healers, workshops, door prizes, great musicians and fun attractions for the kids. admittance is a can of fruit or soup to be donated to God's Pantry Food Bank.

Tree of Life: second attempt

in a couple weeks I'll be for the third time displaying my work at the Lexington Bluegrass Pagan Pride festival. this year I'll be showing five pieces along with Tammy Wampler and other artists in a show named Web of Life. creation, cycles of life and the Divine Feminine are some of the subjects of the artworks to be displayed in the show. I'm happy for once more collaborating to this beautiful event.

taken by the Pagan spirit, I decided to give another try to my Tree of Life painting. hope the process goes smoother this time and the work gets ready in time for the show.  I was painting the first version when I had my last artistic crisis and decided to stop the job.

 

board ready to receive the sketch. I kept the same colors of the first version and applied a few layers of watercolor and gouache, allowing them to intermingle. some sprinkles of salt helped to create texture.

transferring the sketch with tracing paper and doing an initial render to have a reference on how the composition is going to develop in that new "environment".

 

adding the other figures and rendering the tree branches and leaves - which will be peacock feathers.

not sure yet if I am going to maintain the strong lines around the drawing. I'm trying not to lose the "graphic" character of my work, but at the same time I love when the figures kind of merge with the background. as the work develops I hope to have a better idea about what's the best direction.

back.

home again, after one week wrapped up in the coziness of my in-law's house. enjoyed time reading Joseph Campbell, eating a lot of cheesecake, studying sacred geometry, eating more cheesecake, and doing mandala art. this one took me to an exciting experience, which I'll share later. for now I have a lot to organize around here - and of course, a diet to start off...

away for a short while

leaving tomorrow for my in-laws. one week away from domestic routine, hooray! no internet access, so all I want to do is to work in some new sketches and read. dunno if I'll be able to do all I want - one week is not much and I still have to take care of my baby.

above, the project I am leaving home to continue working on when I come back. it's called Padma (lotus, in sanscrit), and I am loving the ethereal purple and pink. can't wait to finish it.

take care, kiddos. hope to have something nice to show you when I'm back!