Drawing-a-Day: Writing in Water

Drawing-a-Day Project | Day 2: 

Writing in Water

Pencil and watercolor on illustration board 

 5" x 7" 

 2012

$50

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Drawing-a-Day: Departure

Drawing-a-Day Project | Day 1:

Departure
Pencil and watercolor on illustration board
5" x 7" 

2012

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Drawing-a-Day

so, it's time to go ahead with my nomadic life, which means i am moving again! and to help cover my moving expenses, i am launching a Drawing-a-Day project in which i will be creating a new drawing every day all through April. drawings will measure 7" x 5" each, made on illustration board or Canson Miteintes, and will ship matted. and they will cost only $50 dollars + shipping ($10 to US, $15 everywhere else.) at the end of the project, I will draw a name from everybody who bought a drawing and give them a choice to earn an original artwork (up to $300) or a 9" x 12" custom portrait. drawings will be published here everyday with a link to my store.

She, who walks among the dead

Mixed media on panel

16" x 20"

2012

"Inner Self-Portrait" group show, 2012 

Price TBA

sailing through the depths of a blue hope

she moves across vague oceans

in nudity, darkness, divinity,

communing with demons and serpents,

sleeping with angels and devas,

grabbing words brought from the invisible.

heart is the same that sees through the mists,

guiding bare steps through the inner abyss.

she is Persephone in the Underworld, dying and being reborn a thousand times,

bringing the hope of a million Springs and the interlude of Winters.

fingers that touched the dead, may they now awake the living.

from loneliness, may them bring out the light of a gentle alchemy

may flowers arise from broken dreams

may birds sing above the solitude of sins

may she, once more, reinvent herself from her own mortality.

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Navegando através das profundezas de uma esperanca azul

ela se move través de vagos oceanos

em nudez, escuridão, divindade,

em comunhão com demônios e serpentes,

dormingdo com anjos e devas,

agarrando palavras trazidas do invisível.

o coração é o mesmo que enxerga através das brumas

guiando passos nus através do abismo interior.

ela é Persephone no mundo subterrâneo,

morrendo e renascendo mil vezes,

trazendo a esperança das Primaveras e o interlúdio dos Invernos.

dedos que tocam os mortos, possam agora acordar os vivos.

da solidão, possam eles trazer a luz de uma alquimia branda

possam flores surgir de sonhos despedaçados

possam pássaros cantar acima da solidão dos pecados

possa ela, uma vez mais, se reinventar de sua própria mortalidade.

caminho em solidao atraves de oceanos vagos

em nudez, olhos vendadados, tocando o vento,

agarrando palavras trazidas de lugar nenhum.

apenas o coração, enxergando atraves da bruma, guia-me os passos nus.

sou Persephone no Hades, morrendo e renascendo mil vezes,

trazendo em si a esperança de milhoes de primaveras e o descansar de invernos.

dedos que tocaram os mortos, que agora acordem os vivos

que façam renascer das cinzas da incerteza a luz de uma alquimia branda

que flores brotem dos sonhos despedacados

que passaros cantem sobre a solidao da neblina

que eu possa, mais uma vez, metamorfosear-me sobre as cinzas de mim.

Inner Self Portrait Show

i am honored by being invited as part of one more exhibition of The Forgotten Goddess project. the show, called Inner Self Portrait, will display artworks from victims of domestic violence alongside other women artists from all over the world. the proceeds will benefit Haven Hills, California company that provides shelter and support for victims of domestic violence.

i consider myself a person of so many facets that is quite difficult to paint a self portrait that would involve everything i would like to express. to paint my "inner self portrait" at this moment, i focused in how the recent events of my life have been stripped me of so many things, both positive and negative. although i feel unprotected and vulnerable, i also feel i have been more human than ever, without masks or stratagems. i am naked and blindfolded, being guided uniquely by my heart's vision and light, embracing my "deaths" as opportunities to fly and transmuting all with my right hand, in visions of beauty through this blessing called ART.

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