Moon goddesses and spirit animals are two new directions in my art that really surprise and delight me.
We’re back from our winter home in Mexico (after 3 full days of driving!) and I wanted to give you a preview of the new art coming soon here to my online shop.
I started our 3 months in Mexico with the idea of making clay sculptures and doing a pit-fire. Everything broke, but I learned a lot and look forward to trying a pit-fire again next year. Failure is a myth.
But, here’s what I really love (artistically) about being down in Mexico:
Nothing ever goes the way I plan it and there’s lots of nature inspiration and sacred energy where we live. It’s crazy rural and there are Aztec artifacts and potsherds everywhere. There are interesting birds around every corner, volcanic rocks painting the landscape in orange lichens and endless, open sky. My imagination always goes wild in Mexico. Here are some of the strongest images that found me this year:
I started painting spirit animals and moon goddesses.
These visions often felt like they came out of nowhere, or I would see things I couldn’t help but paint (the kissing bears were in the zoo in Leon, it was bizarre.) I’m going to make them available as prints and cards in my online shop soon, $25 for an 8″x10″. Coming in the future, when I’ve painted enough of them, I’m going to publish a print book. Yesss!
Here’s another art path that surprised me.
I returned to the white ink on stone of my Mandala Stones with this series of Visions of Power on Stone. All painted in one go with India Ink on stone (there’s no do-overs in stone painting!) these one of a kind pieces of art will be offered first to my Patreon Patrons (sign up here to get the first chance at these stone paintings and to help support my art-making). My Patreon patrons will also be offered a discounted price on the stone paintings, retail price will range from $100 to $200.
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