Vesica Piscis/The Sacrament. Watercolor, ink, gouache, and gold leaf on Arches paper. 18" x 24". 2018. 

"Religious deities are often shown inside the vesica piscis, or mandorla, in artwork, as if they are looking into this world from another...

The vesica is a symbol of the spiritual portal, which emerges from the harmonious balance of the Great Polarities: intuition and intellect, knowledge and practice, yin and yang, heart and mind, heaven and earth, spirit and science, male and female, etc. The vesica piscis is literally a spiritual portal. It is through this portal that we enter into this dimension. This spiritual portal is the yoni (the female delta, the vulva, the vagina). Without this portal, we have no life. There is no other entrance into this world but through this portal."

-Excerpt from Astrotheology and Shamanism, Christianity's Pagan Roots, by Jan Irwin and Andrew Rutajit

 

Work in progress.

 

Ascent Into Chaos

A sculpture... balsa wood sticks and wax. I made this at a KCAI Continuing Education weekend workshop for art educators.

 Productive weekend of learning at KCAI.

 

Blind contour drawings of my child in constant motion as a metaphor for parenthood

 

Adventures in spore printing.

Interconnected. Watercolor on Arches paper. © Liz Darling 2018.

A color wheel

 

 
The Wilderness. Mixed Media (blueprint, image transfers, fabric, beads, straws, and collage) on Canvas, 20” x 24”.

My final piece from the KCAI Continuing Ed Experimental Mixed Media Class.

“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.” - Gloria Steinem

 

Micron pen and India Ink on Bristol paper.

Micron pen on Vellum with Alcohol Ink

Mushrooms, a few different ways.

 

I’ve been experimenting with various mediums (Copic markers, water-soluble graphite sticks, micron pens, and watercolor) on translucent vellum paper. It’s pretty different from what I’m used to working on and I haven’t cracked the code yet. It doesn’t seem to like water.