Hello, I'm still here!! Let's get this party started!!! Yay!!!
hello, spring! coyote cub
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<3 ¡Amo a este animal! En mi Corazón he podido sentir su miedo y su nobleza. Un ser tan hermoso no merece un final así de injusto y cruel. :'( Jamás.
Algún día la Madre Tierra nos obligará a tratar de igual a igual otra vez con nuestros Hermanos Menores, los (Otros) Animales, y entonces comprenderemos que estos otros terrícolas, otras naciones con el mismo derecho antiguo a estar aquí, guardan en sus espíritus sabiduría, instinto y habilidades que el ser humano querrá entonces compartir, y cuando comprobemos la bondad innnata de estos seres que ahora destruímos, que no llamarán por su nombre lo que hacemos con ellos, ni se lo cobrarán como tal, lloraremos de alegría por no haber sido tan fuertes en nuestra necedad como para haber robado la Belleza de la Tierra.
Eostre, Persephone or Proserpina
El 21 de marzo comienza la primavera, y este año 2008 es muy curioso que también coincide con el Viernes Santo. Se oyen comentarios sobre porqué este año ha llegado tan temprano la Semana Santa; pues bien, como ya he comentado en otros posts, la mayor parte de las fiestas católicas son intentos de cristianizar fiestas paganas, y en este caso no es menos. Según los cánones eclesiásticos, el domingo de Resurección, la Pascua, tiene que coincidir con el primer domingo tras la primera luna llena del equinoccio de primavera. Y eso este año sucede dos días después del equinoccio.
También alguna de las delicias gastronómicas propias de semana Santa tiene un orígen prístino y pagano: los famosos huevos de Pascua. Y eso en dos sentidos. Uno puramente astronómico natural: si la primavera es el renacimiento de la tierra tras el invierno, ¿qué mejor símbolo de renacimiento que el huevo? Pero además, según la teogonía ancestral, la diosa de esta época es Ostara o Eostre, la Perséfone griega o Proserpina romana, que solía hallarse vinculada en sus representaciones ¿a qué objeto natural? Efectivamente, al huevo, símbolo de su inagotable fecundidad. Con ella llegaba el color de las flores en el campo y el reverdecer de los árboles del bosque, y por eso se pintaban con vistosos colorines los huevos que se colocaban en su altar.
Re-telling the story of Persephone and pomegranates
... Finally, unable to bear her hunger, Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds, that bound her to the Underworld forever. Her fate was sealed. Later, Persephone admitted that she had eaten of a pomegranate.
Interesting Fact
Persephone, a vegetation goddess of planting seeds and making nature grow, goddess of spring, queen of the underworld, sometimes known as Kore or the Maiden ("the maiden of the beautiful ankles"). While most sources indicate that she was not happy to be married to Hades (Pluto) and that she had to stay in the Underworld, others assert that the truth is that she ate the pomegranate seeds deliberately, as a way of breaking free from her mother, and that she was actually contented with the way things went on finally. So, her husband would be the liberator and not the raptor, the hero and not the villain. And Persephone would have been set free into the life she wanted to live. When taken from her mother's domains and square chores into the underground (psyche/unconscious/spirit) realm and palace, Kore's name changed to Persephone. Persephone rebirths as Queen of the Underworld (psychopomp) upon her arrival in her inner world, where she springs and blossoms as she walks her path.
- Sources:
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology/a/mythpersephone.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/mythslegends_2.htm
Interesting Fact
Persephone, a vegetation goddess of planting seeds and making nature grow, goddess of spring, queen of the underworld, sometimes known as Kore or the Maiden ("the maiden of the beautiful ankles"). While most sources indicate that she was not happy to be married to Hades (Pluto) and that she had to stay in the Underworld, others assert that the truth is that she ate the pomegranate seeds deliberately, as a way of breaking free from her mother, and that she was actually contented with the way things went on finally. So, her husband would be the liberator and not the raptor, the hero and not the villain. And Persephone would have been set free into the life she wanted to live. When taken from her mother's domains and square chores into the underground (psyche/unconscious/spirit) realm and palace, Kore's name changed to Persephone. Persephone rebirths as Queen of the Underworld (psychopomp) upon her arrival in her inner world, where she springs and blossoms as she walks her path.
- Sources:
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology/a/mythpersephone.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/mythslegends_2.htm
The exact Venus Sun conjunction at the Libra Full Moon - The myth of Persephone
Last March 27, 2013, we had our Libra Full Moon this year. With this Full Moon, Venus is in exact conjunction with the Sun. There is a great struggle and tension between the [Venus-Aphrodite aspect] and the [Mars-Pluto] aspect affecting this particular astral moment. It is the Libra/Aries axis (Ying-Yang), or the need to be friend with the enemy. The polarity entailed by this Full Moon and the astrological return of spring are explained through the famous springtime myth: Persephone Return. When the ever-youthful and beautiful Goddess of Spring returns, it becomes spring each year. She is a vegetation deity, for she personifies the cycle life-death-rebirth.
Where there is tension, there is struggle and, thus, a vital need balance of nature. The Libra Full Moon is the very one for that journey work. Light and Dark. Day and Night. This Full Moon is square to Pluto, Lord of the Underworld. With the Spring Equinox, Life leaps out of the shadows of winter to say I'm still here! Yay!!! Let's get this party started!!!, so as the snow melts, things re-emerge (Greek Goddess Persephone's equivalent is Roman Goddess Proserpina; the probable origin of her name comes from the Latin "proserpere" or re-emerge) in the mud and come out of the Sea .. Hello, Persephone! Welcome back.
Mars (Aries), the Warrior, the Hero, the Champion, the Protector, this is the part of us, born under the Libra Full Moon, that feels the outrage of injustice, and does something about it. This is also the part of us that has to make a choice. A vow, even, as to where all of that energy is going to go. Venus's (Libra) strong presence tells us about the nature of this choice: Love.
Where there is tension, there is struggle and, thus, a vital need balance of nature. The Libra Full Moon is the very one for that journey work. Light and Dark. Day and Night. This Full Moon is square to Pluto, Lord of the Underworld. With the Spring Equinox, Life leaps out of the shadows of winter to say I'm still here! Yay!!! Let's get this party started!!!, so as the snow melts, things re-emerge (Greek Goddess Persephone's equivalent is Roman Goddess Proserpina; the probable origin of her name comes from the Latin "proserpere" or re-emerge) in the mud and come out of the Sea .. Hello, Persephone! Welcome back.
Mars (Aries), the Warrior, the Hero, the Champion, the Protector, this is the part of us, born under the Libra Full Moon, that feels the outrage of injustice, and does something about it. This is also the part of us that has to make a choice. A vow, even, as to where all of that energy is going to go. Venus's (Libra) strong presence tells us about the nature of this choice: Love.
Jackie Morris Artist
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
You've asked to see my basic painting process so here's one example.
I usually start off with a fairly detailed drawing, well after many thumbnail sketches and scribbles (which will never see the light of day! LOL ) Then with watercolors I create a solid foundation for the many layers of colored pencils that's applied on top. This base helps me be able to achieve the deep rich colors that I so love!
Samanta Vega x x
Samanta Vega Btw what kind of colored pencils? Love your work
Jane Starr Weils Art Prismacolor pencils. They are a lil on the waxy side but they are what I am familiar with.
Jane Starr Weils Art I don't usually use a blending solvent other than grabbing a lighter shade pencil to blend. Prisma color pencil also has a pencil that is labeled "blender" but mostly it's just to waxy so use a lighter shade as I said to blend. Plus when you work up many layers of these pencils, can almost blend them with your finger.
Samanta Vega thank you very much for sharing!! It's soo revealing, helpful and inspiring to learn from those whose work we admire so much. Behind a special art work there's always a special soul
Here's the full painting of "Flower Kisser"!
Jane Starr Weils Art on September 10, 2013.
Samanta Vega What numbers are the pencils you use for basic drawing? (I'm in Spain)
Jane Starr Weils Art Samanta, sometimes a 7B for the initial scribbling then an HB or something similar to hone the details.
Samanta Vega Ok! Thank you very much. I'll buy the 7B, and what number for the HB? Soo happy to discover such a generous soul behind your fey artwork
Samanta Vega Jane Starr Weils Art, please please, one more question: what bruhes should I buy to start painting with watercolors? Thank youu! I'll let you know
Jane Starr Weils Art As for brushes, I really don't have a particular brand...I tend to just go "pet" all the brushes (LOL) till one feels just right to me. I do prefer something with a long angled point I would say is a fave brush shape.
Here she is, Spring Solstice Witch! The final in this series of four!
Spring Solstice Witch breathes in the fresh fragrant spring air, a time when the earth blooms in it's renewal. She is surrounded by delicate apple blossoms, rabbits, tulips and daffodils as well as delicate lil robin eggs tucked in carefully crafted nests. On the standing stones is a symbol for life emerging from the earth and she has tucked under her hat a red Anemone in honor of Persephone.
Prints now available for her along with the other 3 solstice witches in my Etsy shop - janestarrweils -
Solstice Witches - set of all four prints by artist Jane Starr Weils.
Prismacolor Colored Pencils & Techniques
Proserpina, or Persephone
Olive Allen Biller and Proserpina Goddess of Spring 1927 Lithograph [detail]
Spring Spreads One Green Lap of Flowers, by John William Waterhouse 1910.
Narcissus, by John William Waterhouse 1912.
The Flower Picker (Spring). Maiden picking narcissus flowers (similar to daffodils) by a Stream.
Proserpina, or Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rosetti 1874.
Proserpina, Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld (the unconscious or archetypical reality of the psyche. She represents the feminine archetype of the mediumistic mystic, connected with the Spirit World; Persephone woman functions as sheer, medicine woman who has access to the Otherworld. Persephone is a Psychopomp, or Spirit Guide. She is mystical, visionary and often possesses spirit guides herself)
Persephone, the Fox Rider (Hedgewitch). Sakura Kitsune. Kitsune Tsuki. Alder Fox. The Celts had a great respect for the fox as a wise guide to the spirit world and the afterlife. Sacred Alliance.
The Quick Red Fox, by Jackie Morris Artist.
Sacred Familiar. Watercolor painting by Jackie Morris Artist. There is so much rich and beautiful imagery associated with this illustrious Maiden-made-Majesty.
http://www.goddessalchemystudio.com/goddess-archetype-persephone-maiden-and-queen-of-the-underworld/
Easter, Eostara and Persephone, Goddess of Spring
Easter
The other Christian holiday that is usually mixed up with this witches’ sabbat is Easter. Easter, too, celebrates the victory of a god of light (Jesus) over darkness (death), so it made perfect sense to the Christians to date the resurrection of Jesus during this season. Ironically, the name Easter derives from the name of the Teutonic lunar Goddess, Eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen), whose primary symbols were the hare (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation). Christians have been hard-pressed to explain how these images relate to their religion. The Eostara, Eostre’s holiday, was held on the vernal equinox full moon. Of course, Christians don’t celebrate full moons, so they designated the following Sunday as Easter. If you’ve ever wondered why Easter seemed to move all around the calendar, this is why: Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. In face, if Easter Sunday were to fall on the Full Moon itself, Easter would be postponed to the following Sunday!
Eostara
In recent years, some pagan traditions began referring to the spring equinox as Eostara. Historically, this is incorrect. Eostara is a lunar holiday, honoring a lunar Goddess, at the vernal equinox full moon. Therefore, the name Eostara is best reserved to the nearest esbat rather than the sabbat itself. Some of the same groups also misappropriated the term Lady Day for Beltane, which left no good folk name for the spring equinox. When Eostara was misappropriated for the spring equinox, a chain-reaction of displacement was completed. Needless to say, the old and accepted folk name for the vernal/spring equinox is Lady Day. Christians sometimes insist that the title is in honor of Mary and her Annunciation, but pagans and witches will smile knowingly.
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess_names_list.htm
http://www.magickalwinds.com/info/2011/03/19/all-about-eostreostara-and-the-origins-of-easter/
Eostre (Old English. Old Germanic: Ostara. Proto-Germanic: Austro) is identical to Greek Goddess Eos and Roman Goddess Aurora (Encyclopedia Mythica, article: Ostara). Her other counterparts are the Dawn Goddesses Zorya (Slavic), Ushas (Indian Vedic).
http://www.magickalwinds.com/info/2011/03/19/all-about-eostreostara-and-the-origins-of-easter/
Eostre (Old English. Old Germanic: Ostara. Proto-Germanic: Austro) is identical to Greek Goddess Eos and Roman Goddess Aurora (Encyclopedia Mythica, article: Ostara). Her other counterparts are the Dawn Goddesses Zorya (Slavic), Ushas (Indian Vedic).
In primitive agricultural societies natural phenomena, such as rainfall, the fecundity of the earth, and the regeneration of nature were frequently personified. One of the most important pagan myths was the search of the earth goddess for her lost (or dead) child or lover (e.g., Isis and Osiris, Ishtar and Tammuz, Demeter and Persephone). This myth, symbolizing the birth, death, and reappearance of vegetation, when acted out in a sacred drama, was the fertility rite par excellence.(The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001)
http://www.truthontheweb.org/easter.htm
Spring Equinox Witch
Spring Solstice Witch breathes in the fresh fragrant spring air, a time when the earth blooms in its renewal. She is surrounded by delicate apple blossoms, rabbits, tulips and daffodils as well as delicate lil robin eggs tucked in carefully crafted nests. On the standing stones is a symbol for life emerging from the earth and she has tucked under her hat a red Anemone in honor of Persephone.
Solstice Witches - set of all four prints by artist Jane Starr Weils in her Etsy Shop:
A special set offered of all four solstices and all the elements that are a part of each. Spring is rebirth and renewal. Summer of faeries and magick. Autumn of fall harvests, pumpkins and black cats. Winter of rest, renewal. All show a general sun and moon placement for that season.
Persephone, Goddess of Spring
Tip Toe Through the Tulips
Daddofils, tulips and delicate apple blossoms are the floral elements that are a part of the Spring Solstice (Equinox) Witch, along with the animal company of hares and lil robins. She breathes in the fresh fragant spring air, a time when the earth blooms in its rebirth and renewal. She's the archetype of Goddess Persephone, who returns to the earth from the underworld (otherworld), and thus, is associated with spring and the seeds of the fruits of the fields, then being a vegetation goddess. A vegetation goddess is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants ("el círculo verde de la savia sabia"). A vegetation deity is often a fertility deity. Greek Goddess Persephone (also called Kore) is called Proserpina (from Latin "proserpere", which means "to emerge") in Roman mythology, whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime.
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Persephone or Proserpina, Goddess of Spring
The Resurrection of Persephone
Persephone by John William Waterhouse
Queen of the Otherworld
Spring Solstice Witch
Spring Solstice Witch breathes in the fresh fragrant spring air, a time when the earth blooms in its renewal. She is surrounded by delicate apple blossoms, rabbits, tulips and daffodils as well as delicate lil robin eggs tucked in carefully crafted nests. On the standing stones is a symbol for life emerging from the earth and she has tucked under her hat a red Anemone in honor of Persephone.
Solstice Witches - set of all four prints by artist Jane Starr Weils in her Etsy Shop:
A special set offered of all four solstices and all the elements that are a part of each. Spring is rebirth and renewal. Summer of faeries and magick. Autumn of fall harvests, pumpkins and black cats. Winter of rest, renewal. All show a general sun and moon placement for that season.
Shamanic Dream Arts
"My inspiration comes from the land, wild and free places, stories and folklore, poetry, myth and legend. I strive to capture the hidden memory held within the landscape and spark rememberings that will connect us back to our deepest roots." - Hannah Willow. Bristish Handmade Jewelry.
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The Hare has lavender jade and amethyst with and amber button to secure. On the side of the Hare it says: "Hare Moon"
Hare rider pendant with set opal and iolite beads. Inscribed on the back "I will run and run forever where the wild fields are mine" - British made jewelry by Hannah Willow. Wow!
Amanda Clark lives in a country village in England UK. She is mainly a self-taught artist and comes from an artist family. She was encouraged to paint from an early age by other artists.
Amanda gained a National Diploma in ceramics and surface pattern in the early 1990's, which helped her develop her use of .colour and pattern in her paintings. She also creates textiles, ceramics and art dolls.
Amanda has been able to resume a full-time professional career in painting and illustrating, and has collectors in the UK, Spain and Australia to date.
As an artist, Amanda is inspired by folklore and myths and the peacefulness of beautiful landscapes with a twist of fairytale and magic. She paints in acrylic and watercolour creating depth and pattern to the beautiful colours in her creations. She has also illustrated four books and is currently painting and line drawing for her 5th book about magical herbs. See her Earth Angels Art blogpage for details. http://earthangelsart.blogspot.com/
Amanda's paintings are a rich tapestry of colour inspired by the english countryside, myth and folklore. Her paintings have an other worldly presence within a comtemporary style that are almost reminiscent of fairytales.
Amanda has collecters from the UK, America, France,Spain, Northern Europe and Australia.
You can see more about Amanda and her work on her blog page
Prayer
The Fox and Moon
Homeward
Habondia
I have always considered artist Amanda Clark's works to be Shamanic Dream Painting, and I do have a crush on her collection since I met her.
Another crush. Karen Davis. Moonlight and Hares.
"I studied at Maidstone College of Art and graduated in 1990 with a BA Hons Degree in Illustration.
I work mainly in acrylic paints and am inspired by music and stories, myth and magic, hares, bears and moonlight, plants, birds and the sea."
http://www.karendavis.me.uk/About.htm
I paint pictures and make creatures with wood. Earth and animal lover, magic seeker. Welcome to my place where I share things I am working on, things that inspire and other odds and ends. Art, illustration, crafts, gardening, reading, nature. – Karen Davis Illustrator. Moonlight and Hares.
http://moonlightandhares.blogspot.com.es/
Moonrakers
My last treasured discovery, Jane Starr Weils Art. She answered to me on facebook about her painting process: first, basic and fairly detailed pencil-drawing; then, with watercolors she creates a solid foundation for the many layers of prismacolor colored pencils that she applies on top, and that she likes so much for they help to achieve the deep rich colors she so loves! She doesn't usually use a blending solvent other than grabbing a lighter shade pencil to blend. Prisma color pencil also has a pencil that is labeled "blender" but mostly it's just to waxy so use a lighter shade as she said to blend. Plus when you work up many layers of these pencils, can almost blend them with your finger. For the basic pencil-drawing, she sometimes uses a 7B for the initial scribbling, and then, an HB or something similar to hone the details. Thank you x
And, of course, Jackie Morris Artist and her collectable watercolour paintings.
The Quick Red Fox
La expresividad de la acuarela me parece muy divertida. Esa falta de control me gusta.
Finalmente decidí que tal vez debería empezar por lo que me cautivó desde el principio .. Ilustración con acuarelas y lápiz. Busqué algunas de las ilustradoras de LIJ (Literatura Infantil y Juvenil) que más me han gustado, Claudia Deglioumini y Patricia Metola. A continuación, un extracto de una entrevista a Patricia Metola:
“Con témperas y acuarela. Al principio trabajaba también con lápiz, y a veces cojo un poco el lápiz, pero normalmente, desde hace bastante tiempo, trabajo sobre todo con pinturas al agua. Me gusta mucho jugar con los trazos. Jugar con un trazo seco, con una aguada, ese trazo imprevisible, no saber muy bien qué va a pasar,… La expresividad de la acuarela me parece muy divertida. Esa falta de control me gusta”.
“Yo soy una persona muy desordenada, entonces en el trabajo también lo soy. Primero me leo el texto, y una vez que lo he leído, lo guardo y me dedico un poco a dibujar, sin estar pensando en cuáles son las escenas que suceden, qué ocurre,… Simplemente pienso en lo que me ha transmitido y dibujo todo el rato. Por ese camino lo que intento es acercarme a los personajes que hay, y al entorno que les rodea, a la atmósfera que tienen a su alrededor; y con todo eso, cuando voy acercándome un poco a ellos, que entiendo qué es lo que sienten, qué es lo que son, entonces vuelvo a retomar el texto y empiezo a pensar en todas las situaciones que suceden, y qué es lo que quiero contar. Después de eso, vuelvo a dibujar sobre eso, vuelvo a retomar algunos de los bocetos anteriores, hago un story, lo tiro a la basura (risas), vuelvo otra vez a dibujar,… El proceso que yo hago es muy largo, y de hecho hay veces que hay cosas muy del principio, que recupero, y otras que no se parece en nada lo del principio a lo del final”.
Sobre el proceso .. the works, making process, the artist and the artist's family life style .. me recordó el modo de hablar, hacer y vivir tan poético, rústico y apegado a la Tierra de Euan The Potter: "If there is one lesson I learned from my apprenticeship with the National Living Treasure, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, it is this; the beauty of an object springs from the beauty of the process by which it was created."
Acrylic Paint
Antes de dormirme esta noche, miré los trabajos de la artista Amanda Clark que tanto me gustan...
Amanda Clark lives in a country village in England UK. She is mainly a self-taught artist and comes from an artist family. She was encouraged to paint from an early age by other artists.
Amanda gained a National Diploma in ceramics and surface pattern in the early 1990's, which helped her develop her use of colour and pattern in her paintings. She also creates textiles, ceramics and art dolls.
Amanda has been able to resume a full-time professional career in painting and illustrating, and has collectors in the UK, Spain and Australia to date.
As an artist, Amanda is inspired by folklore and myths and the peacefulness of beautiful landscapes with a twist of fairytale and magic. She paints in acrylic and watercolour creating depth and pattern to the beautiful colours in her creations. She has also illustrated four books and is currently painting and line drawing for her 5th book about magical herbs. See her Earth Angels Art blogpage for details. http://earthangelsart.blogspot.com/
Title: Prayer
Artist: Amanda Clark
Medium: Acrylic on Board
¡Pintura acrílica! ¡Acrílica otra vez! Todos sus cuadros son pinturas acrílicas. Pintados con acrílicos, igual que la arcilla de polímero, la arcilla, el barro, la porcelana fría y la pasta de sal. De hecho, Amanda Clark obtuvo un Diploma en Cerámica y Diseño de Superficies. Cerámica (del griego "keramikos": superficie quemada). La *arcilla* endurecida por el *fuego* fue la primera *cerámica* del ser humano. Clay. Ceramica. Euan The Potter. Modelling. Painting. They surely help one another. Euan Craig gained a BA in Ceramics Design at Latrobe University.
¡Oops .. polimérica!
Justamente acabo de terminar de ver unos cuantos tutoriales sobre porcelana fría/pasta francesa/arcilla polimérica casera y sobre pasta de sal/migajón. La primera sigue sin gustarme (aunque me encantan los resultados, PERO yo soy coherente, con lo que para mí el fin no justifica los medios), pues es policloruro de vinilo, igual que la arcilla polimérica convencional, o sea un polímero o plástico derivado del petróleo, y de ninguna manera quiero eso en el horno de mi Cocina, ni por mi Casa :/ Y la segunda, aunque sólo requiere 3 ingredientes: harina, sal y agua, y las rustic basic tools que toda kitchen witch tiene por su cocina, pues no me acaba de convencer el acabado tan mate que queda .. No sé .. Ya veremos. De momento, hoy me apunté para tomar clases de modelado con barro y arcilla a cargo de un escultor aquí en el pueblo. Estoy pendiente de que se forme el grupo, y me interesaría que entrase el material en el precio de las clases, ya que de momento es sólo para probar si me gusta...
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