Art With a Touch of Whimsy: The Start Up

Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Start Up

Here are a few pages I am working on...just in pencil...and then on with the color!

I am experimenting with old make-up to use like oil pastels and soft pastels....I hate throwing it out, so I will recycle it and see what happens...who knows!

The top book is my new journal...it has natural paper with a nice look and feel to it. The middle book is a journal where I write inspirational quotes and ideas. And of course...last evening I got my new issue of Somerset Studio...which is total inspiration and like an art class with every issue. My true vice.

1 comment:

AnonymousFebruary 26, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Suzi, these pages look feasting for colour! Your art is going to look super beautiful!
How are you?
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You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.