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As you can see, I have posted a bunch of portraits of African-Americans. These will eventually be submitted to the Black Arts Deviant page, but they're also some of my favorite portraits from over the years. You'll see numbers in the titles: these are the years in which they were drawn. Do read the commentary, as it will give you a better idea of what went into the design of these drawings!
Oracle Decks!
You may not realize this, but I'm also a published author! This is the Stone Circle Oracle, my first publication, which includes 50 GORGEOUS cards (with another nod to the graphics department at Schiffer Books!) and a book with journal space so that you can write down what you see in the images. Many of the paintings in the "Major Paintings" Gallery are featured in this publication. It's a great way to own a whole lot of my art, even if you don't have room on your walls! You can order directly from my publisher, Schiffer Publishing https://www.schifferbooks.com/the-stone-circle-oracle-transformation-through-meditation-5354.html You can also find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. My second publication, the Promethean Oracle, which is co-authored with my dear friend Mark Cogan, was nominated for ORACLE DECK OF THE YEAR two years ago. The artwork for this deck was done in colored pencil on black paper, and features male entities from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Biblical
Today's Reality
On October 11, I received a Letter of Censure from the Board of Directors. All I had done was resign from the "church" and the Board: they concocted a HELL of a reason for banning me. Last week I read the letter out loud and OMG I may just post the audio.
Notes: Orren Whiddon is the guy who founded the place
Carrie is the President
Kailin is the other President
Roger is another President (don't ask)
Tubuan are body masks from New Ireland, which is part of Papua New Guinea
Hemlock Hole is the family swimming hole, washed out, needed stairs, I raised the money
Patricia is my good frien
Gone.
I wrote this in 2011, about a place I loved. Was it all a dream?
To quote Phil Collins: "I gave it all, and it's gone, and I gave it all to you, now I'm living on borrowed time, but it's mine."
The original article ran in the 2012 Wheel of the Year, the annual publication of Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary. It describes something that is...not there anymore:
Though we ourselves can never know in which direction someone’s development ought to go, that person’s dreams “know” it. Andreas Schweitzer, The Sungod’s Journey Through the Netherworld
Twenty-five years ago, across the hours of an April night, my
Snowed In
21 March 2018
Mood: Optimism with a feeling of Doom
Listening to: my dogs snoring
Better get to the Doom first...
Well, it's snowing...again. And sleeting. They're calling for 5-8". Joy.
Now on with the Optimism:
I heard from my editor a scant 24 hours after sending the proposal. She was *really* excited!! She gave me a word count (50,000 or thereabouts) and asked for some sample art, so I am working on that now!
Art in the To Be Framed category has been piling up. Yesterday I matted and framed three things--here are two of them:
This is a watercolor my Aunt Joyce did, probably in the 70s. She went through a whole rab
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