i bought these beautiful pencils in Plaza Dorrego, Buenos Aires.
Each year in October, the sky is filled with the beauty of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. In this painting, I combined my love of cactus with colorful hot air balloons against a backdrop of the Sandia Mountains.
I just couldn’t pick my favorites, I love bright colors.
Digital Art Photography. / The Old Stone Fences. / Autumn Virginia Creeper.
Hot air balloon taking off /
Ballonnen Parade 2008, Tilburg, Netherlands, 12 September – 14 September 2008 / Detail of a hot air balloon. Canon EOS 300X, Sigma 28-135, negative: Fuji PRO 400H. Post-processing: retouch, blend modes, vignette, sharpening, watercolor. (and no, I didn’t go on it though it’s a sort of adventure staying high on my wishlist)
Sixth in my “Perpetual Motion” Numberism series. Somewhere she has a list of things to do filled with words like “bill”, “late” and “memo”, but for now she doesn’t care. She knows this feeling. It has something to do with freedom. The sun is warm on her face. She gets back to business, trying to make a bigger bubble. These drawings are drawn entirely with the numbers 1 -12, marking the hours of the clock. Reference Photo
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Hot air balloons against blue sky, International Balloon Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The clouds were dancing around the lighthouse, and I just kept snapping away! Imagine the foghorns sounding the buoys clanging, the fog coming in and the waves crashing against the rocks! Wonderful time, wonderful place! / Portland, Maine. 10-08 / / Featured: Happy Haven / A Place to call home / Live and let Live / Top ten: Sunbeams and storms / Thank you so much to everyone! / / /
Balloon Festival In the Adirondacks
Sun and water
Gosh these Roses are absolitily STUNNING! not sure of the name of them . . . / We’ve had a cold hard winter here and these roses are a / “Breath of Fresh Air!” Taken with my New KODAK M1033 SMART CAPTURE Right from the camera! / As is
I’m not sure what we have for fuel but it makes me happy. /
MUSIC Fractals created with Apophysis All I need is a little time, / To get behind this sun and cast my weight, / All I need is a peace of this mind, / Then I can celebrate. All in all there’s something to give, / All in all there’s something to do, / All in all there’s something to live, / With you … All I need is a little sign, / To get behind this sun and cast this weight of mine, / All I need is the place to find, / And there I’ll celebrate. All in all there’s something to give, / All in all there’s something to do, / All in all there’s something to live, / With you …
The symbolism of this piece is quite rich, and in further researches I found out that I ended up making relations between all the representations without consciously being aware of it. The Chemistry is about inner alchemy and how the power of transformation manifests itself through Will. That’s basically my version of the ancient illustrations on alchemy in which we see a dragon-serpent “wrapping” a maiden. In my version, for artistical reasons, I decided not to draw the serpent involving the maiden’s body, but putting her closer to the background, and showing her body changing according to the colors of the environment – which are the colors of the four elements. The serpent is a representation of the unconscious forces of Will. The maiden raises from a pond (the beginning of all things, regeneration, new birth) that has been formerly muddy and still (the dark green color at the edges), and now is made clear by the power of fire (strength, courage, will, passion), or the dragon. A bunch of monarch butterflies come out the pond. The butterfly is one of the symbols of the Gemini sign (Mercury) and the classical representation of regeneration and rebirth. The maiden’s hair turns first into green grass from which 3 lotus flowers (another symbol of rebirth) arise, and then into fire. The dragon’s head show itself among the profusion of hair. The four elements are clearly present, in images and colors: Fire (dragon’s head, the top of the picture, the color red), Earth (grass and leaves, the color green), Air (butterflies, the color yellow) and Water (the pond, the color blue). It’s part of our journey as human beings to face muddy waters throughout our life. But to remain stagnant in them is our choice. We all have the inner strength to being born again, to rebuild ourselves – we just need to accept the changes and look toward the future. We are the alchemists. colored pencil on bristol board / 17×8.5
Common Redpoll Nikon D200 / Nikon 70-300mm 4.5-5.6G VR / Manfrotto tripod
Albuequerque New Mexico International Balloon Festival Challenge Winner in Bits and Pieces / as well as Digital Photgraphy
Photo taken of a HAB being inflated in Boulder, Colorado… Canon Powershot A620
Colored pencils on Bristol board, / 8.5×12 / 2008 I’ve been for quite some time seeking to join two of my biggest passions: astrology and art, two languages with so much in common. Then the idea for the Astroportraits was born. They are very special portraits inspired on your astrological profile. I incorporate to the picture the imagery, symbols and colors referent to the energy patterns showed in your astro chart – Rising sign, Sun and Moon signs, predominant element, Moon Nodes and other important points. The portrait becomes a visual poem, a register of your potentials and talents, reminding you how special and unique you are. A representation not only of your exterior image, but also of your inside, of your heart and soul. This is my own self portrait. I am a Gemini with Leo rising and Moon in Scorpio, and a Water/Air type. It was not easy to create my own portrait, since I identify myself with so many symbols and elements that I thought better to let the intuition go in my favor. In the very last years I’ve been lived a phase of intense changes that made me seek for my strength within, something that I don’t remember to have done so hard before. I remember having made a very rough sketch of a Scorpio (my moon sign) and a Lion (my rising sign), my two inner powers; then I stuck it on the wall and looked at it every time I needed strength, to remind myself that I had that force, that it was in me as part as what I was. Things are surely smoother now, but I wanted my portrait as a perennial register of this power I discovered within myself. Then I drew a Lion, my rising sign, very close to me, almost like a constant companion. This lion arises from the waters, from the big ocean of emotions that characterize all the water types. Although one may think that water people are fragile due to their emotional, sensitive nature, they may be considered extremely strong exactly due to this attunement – they know like nobody how to deal with such world. My Air quality is represented by the color yellow and by the butterflies – also representatives of my sun sign, Gemini. Butterflies go vivaciously from one place to another just like Gemini does. They are also flying animals, symbols of freedom, one of my strongest characteristics. Another reason for picking the butterfly is because it’s one of my favorite animal totems, present in several of my pieces. Butterflies are the symbol of rebirth and transformation and this is why it makes them so special to my eyes. Rebirth and transformation are also keywords of my Moon sign – Scorpio. Another element I created to represent this sign in my portrait was the lotus flower, due to its relation to situations of reconstruction after long struggle or even total loss – the lotus blooms from the mud. It is also a symbol of spirituality, something that is an important part of my daily life and that helps me keep going in spite of any obstacle. A triskele, Celtic symbol of life cycles, shows on the top with the glyphs of Gemini, Leo and Scorpio. If you are interested in knowing more, please visit my Etsy store Related work: / Portrait of Isobel and Unicorn
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