A continuation of previous artistic musings...

Hello hello
I have uncovered the secret of clear, BIG images on here! Yay! So here is a second installation of artworks, some more recent than others. The first installation was posted on March 1st and those images have been enlarged as well, so if you have a sweet moment, jump back and look at them again, the size really makes a huge difference.
Today has been rain rain rain...yet, it is soothing and I know that those little drips will soon coax bright green buds into showing their faces, so all is well.
The season of hula hooping is coming back soon. I had some dear friends over the other night for laughs, tea, and dancing in my room. We went outside to play around with the hula hoops in the alley, and had alot of fun. It is such a meditative activity, and when you get better at doing some tricks, it feels incredibly smooth and powerful. I've heard of a boy who suffered from depression claiming that it helped to calm him down when he felt paniked. It does have a rocking-chair kind of effect to it. It is just summertime all the way, and so rythmic. Perfect for that big Detroit Techno Fest we all know and love which is really just around the corner! Yipee!

...On to the art...

A painting I did on a wooden pannel containing Mexican Loteria and a little hand-made Dia de los Muertos skeleton purchased in Mexican Town, Detroit.

Wood, paint, string, cardboard, glue

This is the inside cover of the afore-posted "Book of Leaves" (see March 1st post) which was done for an Imaginative Writing class.

magazine clippings, ink, paint, wood, metal, string

Done on a magical night with a friend who was trying his hand at painting for the first time. We got really lost in our own paintings and ended up working for a few solid hours. The large figure on the right is a spectre who has haunted my nightmares for a long time...yet, admittedly, looks much more sheepish and cute in this than in my dreams. I do think this was sort of cathartic though because he hasn't been around too much lately.

cardboard, paint

This one was done in highschool (maybe Junior year?). I was entering a self-propelled re-emergence into Mexican culture and folk-art. My family is Mexican, yet in highschool I really began to carve my own meaning from the culture and thus, develope my own identity as a Mexican American woman.
wood, art board, glue, paint, ink

I did this a few months ago as a Christmas gift for my mother in a feverish inspiration...I was so happy with it, that it was a little difficult to give away! But, it was meant to be hers, and she adores it. It hangs in her bedroom.

wood, gold ink, paint, vintage confetti, pencil, glass

The Sphinx. Note mideival symbol for oneness/infinity: the snake eating its own tail...encompassing a cracked egg, the symbol of rebirth, of breaking out of one's confines. The globe orbitting around the spinx's wound contains ancient runes: symbols used to divination, a connection with the divine in order to strenghten intuition and mirror seemingly outside events onto a self-conscious plane.
paper, acryllic paint, watercolor, prismacolor marker, ink



Angel with Egyptian wings and red poppies over her eye. Done in a time of rebirth, and awakening of the heart center which is, here covered in messy string, yet glowing in the middle.

tree cross-section, cardboard, string, paint, gold ink

(all photos taken by my very talented father: http://doucetphoto.com/index.htm )

I hope everyone is very well

madeleineeeeee

Artistic Musings

Hello All,
Its a gloriously sunny today in Detroit. Everything is still icy so the branches and roofs are glistening to an almost blinding effect-wonderful! I need to take a walk today and try to take it all in. The kitties are enjoying it too. There are 4 out of the 5 of them sitting in the shafts of light in front of my window right now. Licking themselves and wrestling.

Yesterday I went over to my dad's house for a visit and haulled a significant amount of the art I have done in the past year for him to photograph and archive for me (he is a professional photographer). This posting will be devoted to the things he photographed yesterday. As always, I ask that if any viewers want to use any of these images, please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail asking for permission first.

This is the cover to a big wooden book my dad helped me make. The book houses a manuscript I had to make for an Imaginative Writing course I took last winter. It contains short stories, poetry, and short dramas and was alot of work but also alot of fun to make. I tried uploading some pictures of the inside of the book, but the images inexplicably rotated themselves? Still getting the hang of this blog thing...

wood/ metal/ dried leaves/ india ink/ acryllic paint/ gold ink/paper/string

I did this sketch a couple of weeks ago. Inspired by photograph of ancient Egyptian scarab amulet.

pencil

I don't really remember exactly when I did this one, but I used to have a fascination with drawing pregnant women. Fertility is an ongoing theme in alot of my work.

India ink/ acrylic paint/ wood/ dried foliage/ mirror pieces.

Kitsch art! YES! I enjoy breaking mirrors.

For my brother for Christmas this year. He is fascinated/terrified of aliens. Note alien penis.

Acrylic paint/ Vintage star confetti/ wood/ cutout from old children's book (cow. moo)/ mirror pieces/ vintage sparkles/ gold ink

This is my most recent piece...I just finished it a couple of nights ago.

wood/acrylic/pismacolor watercolor pencils/ prismacolor markers/ vinatge glitter/ pencil/ india ink/ magazine cutout/ gold calligraphy ink

Did this in an angsty teenage stage. wood/acrylic/glass beads/ prismacolor markers

My final project for Drawing I last winter semester. Inspired by old nautical art/ tatoos/ those mermaid chicks on the front of old boats.

Acrylic paint/ wood/ gold calligraphy ink/ prismacolor markers/ india ink

This is a shrine for my late Grandma. Wish I knew the year this photograph was taken... The wood panel used to be part of a big doll house which I took apart. Cutting out the intricate tree was extremly meditative.

Acryllic paint/ paper/ wood/ plastic dollar store bugs/ tin bumblebee pin (can't really see it that well here)/ photgraph/ prismacolor markers.

madeleine