Work In Progress
Visions – Mixed Media/Collage – 10 x 12 inches
I spent most of the day working on the collage/painting above, and I will post my progress in the coming weeks.
The woman represents the visionary, the healer, the medicine woman, the shaman…
She is the one who interacts directly with helping spirits to address the spiritual aspects of illness, perform soul retrievals, help the spirits of the deceased cross over and performs a variety of ceremonies for her community.
Another Journal
I spent most of the day finishing yesterdays journal and then started a new one. I was having so much fun that before I knew it, the sun was setting.
Now, I have just enough time to take a nice warm bath, slip into my pajamas and watch a movie with my husband. Sounds like a perfect ending for a busy Friday.
Minoan Journal – Work in Progress – Collage, Acrylic, watercolor, Mixed Media
I also baked a Chocolate Truffle dessert for later. Yum!
Chocolate Truffle Brownies
“There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.” –
Anonymous
Stacks of Magazines
Today, I took one look at the stack of magazines on the floor by our sofa and said enough is enough … I started ripping out quotes, meaningful words, slogans, images and tossed these into a clear plastic container.
Afterwards, I remembered purchasing a couple of blank journals a while back, so I decided to collage the covers with the magazine scraps, tissue paper, acrylics, watercolors, ink, etc.
It’s a creative way to reuse old magazines and it’s fun! I love giving journals as Christmas gifts to friends and family.
The Mermaid Journal – Tomorrow I will be adding sea shells, ribbons, metallic watercolors, etc.
“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.”
Julia Cameron
Birds of Sorrow
A friend of ours has recently died, and we just heard about it today. We were very sad to hear of his passing. Our deepest sympathy to his family at this sad time. He will be sorely missed.
Phoenix Rising
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 about why I have been procrastinating about starting a new piece of work.
Lately, I have been spending much of my time reading, taking photographs and working in the yard, which I guess is another way of gathering ideas and stimulating creativity.
Phoenix Rising – Acrylic/Mixed Media – 8 X 10 inches on canvas
Happy Halloween
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 leather.
Demeter & Persephone
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 Gaia’s herbal section. I still have a long ways to go before it’s finished.
Demeter & Persephone – Digital Collage
“O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.”
– Robert Frost, October
Autumn Offerings
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 end product into Photoshop.
Next, I used Painter 7 to create the Goddess image and the background spirals. I finished by adding text around the border.
The text reads: “Earthly Offerings: a stone, a feather, a flower, a sea shell, a rainbow, a butterfly’s kiss. Sisters of my heart, I weave a cloak for you, for we are on a journey to remember that we are spirit in body.
Autumn Offerings – Digital Collage – 9 X 10 inches
Work In Progress – Book Cover
Today I was able to work on the altered book cover from a previous post. I started by painting and collaging some art paper, tree bark, and attached a porcelain head to the book cover.
One thing led to another and the piece started taking on a life of it’s own. Although it is not as I first envisioned it, I sort of like the direction the work is taking. The woman’s dress color will likely be altered, and some mysterious creatures added to the mix.
My overactive imagination has swept me into the magical realms of the deep forest where all sorts of mythical creatures dwell. Where will it all lead?
It’s Friday!
After a full day of painting, I decided to clean my studio, and get ready for the month of June. So here’s to a new month of new beginnings, inspiration, and creativity.
Have a Great Weekend!
Angel Of Love by Rose Arizmendi (c) 2008- Collage/Combined Media
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
–Joseph Addison
“Most of a woman’s depressions, ennuis, and wandering confusions are caused by a severely restricted soul-life in which innovation, impulse, and creation are restricted or forbidden. Women receive enormous impulse to act from the creative force.”
–Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“We don’t remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.”
–Linda Pastan