My work in We'Moon 2022 - The Magical Dark.

 

My *first* First Thursday Joplin Artwalk! My show, Natural Inclinations, will be on display at Urban Art Gallery throughout the month of September. What a great evening in a beautiful space. Huge thanks to Linda Teeter for the opportunity.

 

I got to dip my toe into the immersive experience that is live-painting at the Rejuvenation festival this last weekend. People kept calling Rejuvenation a “restival” rather than a festival, but we didn’t get much rest when a massive night thunderstorm on Friday soaked all of our camping gear. Despite that adventure, it was a lovely mental reset and I’m still trying to process it all. Also, painting with a medium that I’m not very comfortable with (acrylic… and in front of other people, no less) got me out of my comfort zone, which is probably a good thing that I need more often. I’m already daydreaming about next time.

A few pictures from the "Light In The Darkness" group show from a few weeks ago.

 

 Had a great time with friends at Eclectic Soul Studio today for the Art & Soul event. Met new poeple, had great conversations, and a lot of artwork found homes.

 

Some nonobjective work.

Inflamed. Watercolor and India ink.

Apparition. Watercolor and India ink.

Melting. Watercolor, tempera, marker, colored pencil, embroidery, gel pen, and glitter medium on paper.

 Vag-eye-nas.

“Anyone who claims to be good has yet to shake hands with her dark side. Across a hundred years I've met most of my parts, and I've lived a good deal in the shadows. I've reconciled the anger with the hope, the bitter with the bullshit, the yearning with the grief, the fake with the true. I have an unkempt soul. I am extraordinarily ordinary. But I have known love - great love. Oh, yes, I've known it. And that I will take with me into the night. I like best the parts of us that are contradictory and most human."

-Vera by Carol Edgarian

 

Two small ones.

 A “slow drawing” in honor of an endearing little snake I ran into on a hike. An eastern yellow-bellied racer, I believe.