Rudo Art

Category: iconic

  • Flora

    Flora

    I hold the name Flora very dear to my heart. It’s embodiment of Spring..of Flowers…of all that is blossoming within us and as a story of ours to follow. Follow your heart…don’t let anything that came before you define how you will bloom.

    I ask of Titan, who painted this woman in many of his work (see my “moment with titan” to find her again), can you consider the valour of woman. Can you consider the bravery of us and if not, I will paint her for you. The way you always should have. Unclaimed, independent, and utterly of herself.

    I chose to gift this as a wedding present to my partner’s niece. I enjoyed re-imagining her in new colours, a new universe, and painted by my womanly hand. Blessings to you all and good health!

  • My moment with Titan

    My moment with Titan

    I wanted a painting challenge so I turned to the old masters. Titan’s “Woman with a Mirror” felt like a perfect fit for me; the subject’s main character energy was erotic and coy, the composition was easy enough to adapt to my needs, and the topic was something I could play with. I wanted to reclaim her. Titan had her as this vulnerable intimate inanimate. She was vain, looking at a mirror, distracted and blank. I wanted to explore the power of her bodice and chest…she is a fulsome figure. What if she ran the show? She’s probably exhausted by all the ridiculous attention she got. I liked that I could remove the odd man hovering over her and just allow her peace and relaxation on my zany background.

    The canvas is hexagonal…look here at my first layer in progress:

  • Ode to Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl

    Ode to Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl

    Nothing pleased me more than remembering the passion I share with Michelangelo for bodies and muscles. As this wonderful character…The Sibyl of the Libyan dessert…daughter with Poseidon and Zeus’s blood running through her….Painting this I felt as if I were sitting alongside the old master…I shared my works of progress with a dear friend of the craft. He marvelled at how fast I was attacking the canvas. I don’t take much time in planning, plotting, paint mixing…nothing really matters once I have momentum. I flow along in whimsical ignorance of the proper ways to paint. I enjoy breaking rules and not approaching things the same way every time.

    As an oracle reader myself, I feel as if I am reclaiming her. She is MY story. Not a church story or a footnote for God (or the Gods). She is a whole lineage, a river of stories and talents that seeped into my own bones. Her gifts found roots in my heart. Oracles are greatly misunderstood, I could write a whole novel about it. But hear me now, the purpose of turning to an Oracle is not to ask how the seas will be as they carry you to your destiny…no no…they are to tell you of your own navigational brilliance and blunders. How to truly see yourself as you are and how you aim to be. The rest is up to you.