Raven in Flowers 20x15" ink on illustration board

Raven in Flowers 20 x 15 inches on illustration board.
Sale price: $500 (includes shipping) original, without frame.

This took me a long time to finish. I wanted to see if I could do it, so I did it, I’m happy with the work as far as I see. Eventually, it became kind of a Mandela, a maze, that I followed through, line by line, point by point. I tried to create some drama in the tonality, by developing the contrast between dark and light. I didn't want to totally add colour, but instead use it to highlight some of the objects in the work. This was hard, I really missed my paints, but it was a good exercise for me. I need to do this from time to time and this will go into my collection of works as part of my “in the woods” body of work.

Work in Progress

This painting is a work in progress, where I am exploring the mythological wood. I have been thinking a lot about animism: The idea that everything has a spirit. I definitely feel that way about woods. All through my life the woods have been my go to place, especially when things got tough at home or in school.  I felt as if I had come to a safe place, a magical place that would protect me from all the bad things in life. Still to this day I love the forest, I love trees, and I love to breathe in fresh air when I walk through the woods. I'm going to continue to do so as I move forward. This piece needs to dry a bit before I finish it off, I'm going to have to start something new this week. I have been pushing myself to do more, expect more from myself. 

SELPHIE-
Size 12x9
Materials: Oil paint on Canvas

I attempted to paint myself, only because it was something I wanted to challenge myself with and I really like to do portraits and I haven't really posted a lot of portraits up as of yet. This project has taken quite a while and sometimes it's hard to paint yourself, mostly because you want to be honest, but if your self image is skewed, like mine is, it's really hard to see myself. When you paint a self  portrait you really have to ask yourself: "Who am I?" If I can freeze a moment in time what kind of message do I want to send out to the world, that kind of thing.

Tornado by the Treeline

This is a painting I wanted to tackle and may do so again. Of a Tornado- I will try in diffrent formats and see what happens, this isn't a one deal kind of subject I will do some more later.

Mythical Woods Oil on Canvas 12x12

Mythical Wood
Oil on Canvas
12x12"
gallery edged canvas.

I am trying to break down my own feelings about painting forests and allowing a little of the abstract out in order to convey the idea of being lost in a wood. I always felt that forests are magical places, full of spirits, and fey and shadows and memories of things lost. I love the idea of people seeing faces in my art and want to encourage that experience. The question I want to ask, is what is obvious verses what is hidden?

Yemaja

I'm really very happy about this painting. Lately, I've taken some time off at work to be able to focus on my art. I love doing art so it almost feels like I'm slacking off when I'm not. This is my latest work, I feel that this summer I'll be very busy.

Yemaja is an Orisha of the ocean depths, she gives birth to all the fishes in the sea. I really feel attracted to this Orisha and I know she brings good things to my life.

The Moon Tarot Card.

Mercury is in retrograde right now in Pisces, and astrologically, this means that all sorts of things can occur. Old issues can be revealed, as in the case of one of my best friends, who's mate just told her her he fell in love with another woman.
Also technological problems can occur as in the case that my touch pad can't be disabled which means I have to shell out the money to get a keyboard. Good thing I work in a technology store. But it is annoying  right now because my cursor skips every time my wrist falls closer down to it.

Anyways, around this time there is a lot of foggy thinking, dreaming, illusions, but it's a great time to paint, so, considering my tendency to get caught up in the energy of each painting that I paint, I did realize that this period was an excellent time to paint the Moon.