Rudo Art

Tag: bodies

  • 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.

  • Animals Within- Humming Bird Woman

    I have a real strong love of birds. Especially hummingbirds, I mean those feathers are just the most flashy fantastical feature of the natural world. Prismatics are nature’s fireworks. And my love of connecting symbolic attributes to human forms…here’s where it get interesting. I know that we soar. We fly over situations, we rise above our fears and hubris, we sing and flock together. And those wings are there just as real as the love I have for our unbreakable spirits. What attributes do you love to dream up metaphors to?

  • Slow Burn Panther Woman

    Slow Burn Panther Woman

    A stalking shadow of ourselves is watching us. Always. This inner panther and prey dance. It reins terror for the faint of heart…making them jump and shrivel at their own form. Yet we the initiated, we the brave warriors of truth-telling and self-awareness, and how well we know ourselves! We know the depths and tunnels and slippery slopes of our hearts…A labyrinth that never stops unfolding. Of nature, unified earth consciousness, a slow rock groan and creak which has cave and eyeless water-monsters swimming in the pitch dark around amethyst points and glimmering fungal formations. As our minds undulate through caverns of darkness we emerge from time to time, muddy and full of jungle instincts. She is my inner panther woman and she goes SLOWLY through the night.

  • Goddess of the Corn

    Goddess of the Corn

    One of the greatest gifts Mexico has given the world is corn. The other is chocolate. Anyways, of the first…corn…the most amazing amount of feminine deities and origin stories vortex around this amazing plant. The indigenous people who those stories belong to have full protective rights to those names, identities, and stories so I won’t do that here…do you own research loves. The point of my post to show much gratitude to how corn has touched me deeply, and you know I had the BEST time drawing her…this Goddess of the Corn. I drew her in a cafe of riots of colours, peoples, and energies. The Third Street Stuff & Coffee, owned and operated by Pat Gerhard of Lexington Kentuckyn is an oasis for anyone wandering through downtown Third Stree. What. A Babe….what a place. I feel like the fact I did it around Pat and her cafe (safe havens to all creatives and a haven to the people), adds a generous blessing and specialness to this gentle pen&ink drawing. I drew a version of her on Joydah’s popcorn stall once, as well as a wolf painting. It was a very lively and magical place too.

  • rectangle in a square world

    rectangle in a square world

    My title is just a woe-is-me moment over the fact that the post preview image is in a square format! How I wish I were a digital wizard.

    This bodies drawing was one of the first pieces of art I made when I decided to settle in New Zealand. I had spent the last 4 months traveling through Australia and had landed in Aotearoa with a feeling of pulsating sureness…I was home. But I had a lot of shedding of old selves to do. This was a premonition of all the transformation to come.