Rudo Greissworth
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luna moths and kingsolver
One of my favourite authors of all time is Barbara Kingsolver. And of her many amazing works is a book called Prodigal Summer. One of the main characters is an entomologist who has prophetic visions involving the Luna Moth. Kingsolver’s imagery and poetic fiction style weaves through my own love of nature and all its creatures.…
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For Miranda
I have recently befriended an amazing woman named Miranda (aka Panda). She is probably at this moment HEAVILY pregnant with twins. Having only known her for a brief while but still finding such a DEEP love for her, I was inspired to share a bit of my style/ love language by making her some art.…
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My spirit animal
One creature that has an extraordinary power to move me is the humpback whale. I’m drawn to them, and as a child would listen to tapes of their songs as pastime. They’re in my dreams, they’re powerful totems and symbols of love, song, family, and mystery. Painting and drawing them always fills me with a…
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Aqua Therapy
Colour therapy can be experienced just by gazing softly at a colour for a long time, or wearing a colour because it makes you feel empowered. Reach out if you’d like to know more. This card is from a colour ray therapy card deck being offered by Yvette Sitten in conjunction with her amazing healing…
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Wait another tiny village?
Yes, this is another tiny village. If you use the search function on my site and type tiny realism you can see all of them.
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Rudo doodles
If you don’t know I doodle then you don’t know me. My dear friend Lydia got me into this free-form style back in our high school years in Lexington. I’ve been doing it for 20 years now and I always include doodle art in my correspondence and paperwork.
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For Emma
As a full time worker and mama, making time for my art usually comes in the form of making things for special people on their special days. For her 30th birthday my friend Emma got this huge original art birthday card. Lots of fun to make, trying to capture her exuberance for life and new…
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Druid Avocado
My homage to this incredible artist avocado stone faces and I have recently fallen in love with a lovely man who reminds me so much of this little guy. So I made a few versions of this but they’re not for sale because it’s really the IP of the amazing Jan.
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Tiny village in the sea
So I make these tiny villages…it started when I was quite young and became fascinated with first blueprint sketches and then drawing the outsides of houses, and the it just expanded into wholes village scapes. I like thinking about the lifestyles of the people that live in these imaginary villages and creating dwellings based off…
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Dutch windmill
Ah Dutch prints…how I love to recreate them. I drew it on really textured paper and it’s taken on a new personally. I love folk art and the flatness of printmaking. It’s kind of floaty but I think it works here.
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Circus Symphony
A dear friend and art mentor told me these sketches were like symphonies…I liked that so much the name has stuck, so now every time I make one I just call it a variety of something plus the word symphony. This is called Circus because the colour palette feels like circus colours to me, and…
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Example of channeling
Sometimes I paint to convey energy and share with the viewer. I do it in the hopes that the experience of seeing it will heal or move them. I’ve started to work deeply with multi-disciplinary healing modalities and use art to bridge the modalities. In order to get this sort of artwork I have to…
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A new style!
I’m excited! I love circles and painting in abstract, and I love sketching animals. So this synthesis makes sense…I’ve just discovered it. The word Amai is mother, in the native language of my birth country (Zimbabwe). This is a birthday card for my Mother from this past March.
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A Tiny Ship
This little schooner is about the size of my palm, so it’s all about finding the best and tiniest small tip pens. I recently discovered I love sailing, so I see more ship drawings in my future.
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the dancer
To be alive and to delight in the sensual…to be liberated and free to know what pleases you. This is the dance with pleasure.
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find the light in the darkness
I paint when I am ready to be still, because without stillness there is no clarity. What I hope people can do when they look at my art is find some release, find some inner message that was just waiting its turn to surface.
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metallic blue frida
what an impossible task it was to capture! I drew her in the hopes to show a dear family how much I love them, and for the pure enjoyment of making a portrait of the queen of portraits.