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Pink Gentileschi
Have you ever thought about the magical powers that creative folk can harness? Back in the day people associated deep meaning to those that had creative genius. This piece, called “Pink Gentileschi” is an ode to an ode. The figure is the personification of creative ability, the URGE to create rather than creation itself. I…
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She became art: Surrealist Siren
A new year’s triumph emerges! On the eve of 2026, I painted electric hues on skin till woman became art. A walking canvas. Part deer, part siren, part painting. And what a delightful woman she was. She became art, amazing festival goers at AUM and filling my cup up once again. Meet Jenna. My sweet…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…