Tuesday, March 17, 2009

This Blog Has Moved - New Location!

Dear friends,

From this date on, all new posts for "The Secret WildGoddess" will be re-located here.
This will be my last post here at this particular location.

I'd also like to take a moment and thank everyone who took the time to comment on this blog and my artwork. Words can't express how empowering that was for me, and even though I may not have blogged as often as I wanted to, I am now newly recharged, and ready to blog my little face off!

It's a new day, and I have a lot of goodies to show off and a lot of wisdom to share, so this party will continue at the new location, and I hope you'll join me there!

I also invite you to be my friend on Facebook: just search for "WildGoddess Arts."

Blessings, WildGoddess

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Sacred Painting: my Ti-Leaf Goddess


My main focus as an artist is creating Goddess art and commissioned Sacred Portraiture. After all, I believe that the Divine lives within each of us, and how wonderful it must be to be able to see an expression of that in an artwork!

My (unfinished) Ti-Leaf Goddess painting (to the left) is the second in a series of sacred portraiture, and She is about one-third completed. I used primarily acrylic on posterboard and She is quite large. There's still quite a ways to go, because I like to use a lot of texture, pattern and glitz in my paintings, which have yet to be added to Her.

It's hard to tell from this photo, but the birds have been stenciled on with texture paste, and they have a lot of relief pattern on their bodies. As a final touch, I plan to rub some metallic paint onto them, which will bring out the patterns beautifully (I hope!)

For the last few years, I've been primarily a digital artist, so it's been a natural progression into wanting more of "the personal hand" in my artwork. The fun part is that I can now incorporate my digital art into my paintings and vice-versa. However, the Ti-Leaf Goddess is all painting (so far!)

Once She is finished, I will have Her photographed professionally, and sell giclee prints of Her at my Etsy Store. I may or may not add some digital elements to the prints first; we'll see. Most of the time, when I do this, it's to age and distress the work even further - I like that!

My reminder to myself while creating my art is to always deliberately focus my consciousness upon the task at hand, without judgment. I simply let go, and trust in the moment, allowing what needs to come out onto the canvas to do so. This allows for inspired effortlessness.

As far as I'm concerned, the day of the "tortured artist" is ov-ah! What do you think?
To learn more about my process, visit my art blog, "L'Artisana WildGoddess."

Blessings!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Paraphernalia!

Photography by WildGoddess - 2008

The other day, I was waiting up on Hill Street, and a man, obviously a little down on his luck, sat down next to me. He then proceeded to loudly proclaim the following words:

"Where is this Paraphernalia coming from? Paraphernalia!
The California Supreme Court is nothing but Paraphernalia!"


" ' Hide, hide, hide on the Paraphernalia side.' "
(he sang)

"Little girls are caught up on the Paraphernalia side. Security is about Paraphernalia and so is the Supreme Court. They are all Paraphernalia-dependent. Your brain can be clogged with Paraphernalia, like little boys.

That's what the Supreme Court is all about.
We are all clogged with Paraphernalia."

Now I don't know about you, but I pay attention to what folks say, whether they're talking to me or not. I'm just sort of a "curious" soul. And I found this man's prose quite intriguing, to say in the least.

I think I actually learned something that day!

Monday, March 09, 2009

The Dawning

"Angie" by WildGoddess 2008

Crawling out, out, out of a cave, dripping-darkly with old dreams and faint memories that haunt me draping themselves around my thin neck like an old, musty velvet stole.
there is something addictive about this place; intriguing, and I am so tempted to stay, but in this moment there is something new, something warm and comforting and golden and loving surrounding me and i know it's time to wake up -WildGoddess

Now playing: Padma Soundsystem - ATOM