Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Rose
The Phoenix is a mythical bird which upon it’s death, burst into flames and rises again from it’s own ashes, so it’s a perfect metaphor for how I have been feeling over the past few days.
I started another canvas today … splashing, scraping, pouring and ripping paper to collage onto the painting as I thought [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Rose
This afternoon I created an abstract painting of the goddess Brigit. I began by squeezing several colors onto the canvas and then used various tools to spread the paint over layers of acrylic medium and scraps of torn magazines. As I Moved the paint around with the palette knives, this face started to emerge and [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Rose
Today I received a new Fabriano Art Journal from my husband. I had filled up my other sketch books and needed a new one. What a wonderful gift!
Here is a sketch of a Fairy l did this morning and I should be able to finish it over the next couple of days. Maybe I can [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Rose
I did this Mermaid sketch this morning as I was catching up on the latest news on the election. This is as far as I got and will continue some other time.There is much to do today and I need to get started.
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Rose
There are a number of amazing Halloween events happening tonight and I hope everyone has a great time.
Celebrate … laugh … Dance … Sing … Make Merry … and stay safe.
Halloween - Digital Collage - 3 x 4 inches
The mask I am wearing is made of paper mache, acrylics, metallic ink, and lined with soft [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Rose
I am sitting here at my computer looking out the window watching the wind scatter dead leaves across our yard as I wrap my cold hands around my tea cup. Brr!
The dark gloominess of the day has really affected my work output. I started the morning out with sketching a few designs for a new [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Rose
For the past few days I have been working on my new blog site at Gaia’s Garden and I’m having a lot of fun updating and writing new content for the blog and the original website.
Today I am working on ideas for new images for the website and came up with the image below for [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Rose
I spent this evening working on this digital collage. For the background I used an image that I created a while back and added some detail with ink and pastels.
Next I digitally enhanced the image of an angel statue and layered pastel and ink details over three separate images and then merged them together. This [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Rose
This afternoon I worked on a mixed media piece which has been hanging around for awhile waiting for me to finish it. The inspiration for this work came to me while listening to a CD by Sophia. I was listening to her sing ‘Gaia Shekhinah Nama Om’ at the time.
I kept playing the CD over [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Rose
I found this old digital collage I did in the fall of 2005 when I was in the process of learning how to make my own digital backgrounds etc…
I had forgotten how much fun these were to make. I created the background by layering rice paper, golden acrylics with mica chips and then scanned the [...]
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