Playing with my drawings

I played with some of my drawings in photoshop. I really like how they turned out. They would work beautifully as big prints, on t-shirts or as covers for notebooks. Hope you like them too. :)

Beautiful Ink

Rob bought me some beautiful chinese ink from our local chinese shop Ming Ming's and I have made some cool drawings with it. Inspired by its pitch blackness and smooth coverage. It was really cheap considering how awesome it it.

Im really inspired by shamanic folk art, ancient depictions of human beings and anthropomorphic images of animals. I bought a pair of crazy earrings from a charity shop a couple of weeks ago which were tiny Peruvian (I'm guessing from the style) leather painted discs with highly decorated faces on them. I guess I should have taken a photo of them so I then I wouldnt need to explain...Anyway, they really inspired me to draw the faces on my last post. Here I have expanded on them a little.

Shaman Spirits: This one is bigger than what I usually do at 30x30cms. Its also painted on wood, the base is acrylic and the image itself is painted in that fab ink.

Mini Shaman Faces; painted with acrylic on a mini 10x10cm linen canvas.

Ink Goddess; She is odd. Im not sure where I am going with her, but I like her style.

Ink Shaman: Small drawing, similar to the painting but more flowing.

More shaman faces.

Mini painted shaman faces; on another 10x10cm linen canvas. Painted with acrylic and that fab ink.

Ink Spirits; while doodling with leftover ink I came up with these little guys. I like 'em. They are the spirits of left-over ink, ink blots and the bits of ink that splatter of your skin.

Another owl. I know, Im a broken record. But I like them 

Decembers Offerings so far.....

Hamsa Hand, pen and ink, based on beautiful henna designs

Aztec Queen, Pen and Ink, based on a sculpture on view at the British Museum

Bird Woman, pen and ink, based on an ancient Persian clay sculpture on view at the British Museum

Kokopelli, pen and ink, based on the Native American God figure of the same name

Lotus Sutra, pen and ink, based on Nichiren Buddhist chanting

Tiki God, pen and ink, based on Tiki God carvings

I have been making some new work for the first time since Art on the Prom. Its been hard to get my hands used to drawing again but I think its gone pretty well.

Im working on some new images to put onto cards and possibly other bits and pieces like t-shirts and tote bags. For a change I have done some God figures not just my beloved Goddess figures. I dont feel as comfortable drawing Gods, as I feel little connection to them, but a couple of people convinced me to give it a go. I think however that I prefer my Goddesses and they will always be predominant in my work. I am ok with this.

Ganesh, pen and ink, based on the elephant headed Hindu God

Im planning on setting up my etsy shop again (and hopefully a folksy shop too) this winter to sell artwork, cards, etc and hope this will bring me a bit of extra income eventually.

Rowan, the Forest Spirit, pen and ink, actually inspired by an ancient Chinese shamanic statue I saw in the British Museum. But I made my figure female. I can see her running through the forest and hiding behind trees on scorching hot days.

I really like 'Rowan', I think she is my interpretation of a set of shamanic ideas and practices rather than being a somewhat more direct homage to the Goddess/God images I usually draw from.

Finally, I give to you my Yule drawing:

Shh... She's Asleep, pen and ink, based on the Pagan festival of Yule and how I feel about the Earth at this point in the cycle.

Hope you enjoy my new work!