There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
the other is as though everything is a miracle.
~Albert Einstein
Moon Goddess
12x16
Original Watercolor
SOLD
Moon Goddess is now available as a
COFFEE/TEA MUG!
Limited quantities
$15
My original idea was to do a painting incorporating Lunar Goddesses from a variety of cultures; the "problem" is that not every culture has a Moon Goddess. In fact, many cultures have a Moon God (yes, that painting is coming, eventually :)
However... since I wanted this painting to be feminine, I fudged it a little. Not every Goddess pictured above is a Moon Goddess, per se; some simply embody qualities we usually associate with the Moon.
From the top down:
- Coyolxauhqui -- Mesoamerican (Aztec); Her name literally means "Golden Bells"; in addition to being a Goddess of the Moon, She is associated with the stars and Milky Way.
- Chang-O -- Chinese; She is still celebrated today as a Moon Goddess. She stole the elixer of immortality from her wicked husband and drank it; fleeing his wrath, She escaped to the Moon and was taken in by the White Moon Hare, the maker of the potion she stole and drank.
- Cerridwyn -- Wales; Not specifically a Moon Goddess, yet often assocciated with the Moon. Cerridwyn is the Keeper of the Cauldron of transformation and a powerful goddess of magic and change
- Maya -- India (Hindu); Her name means "Illusion". Her mythology is complex (at least to my mind); on one hand She creates illusion and on the other, She shatters it. She is also depicted as a deomness and creator of all magical arts.
- Diana -- Rome; the Silver Maiden Huntress of the Moon and Sister of the Sun God, Apollo. She is probably the most widely recognized and iconic Goddess in modern Paganism.
- Ix Chel -- South American (Mayan) -- Ix Chel is a goddess of rivers, rain, rainbows, snakes, fertility, weaving and midwifry. She was at one time the consort of the Sun God, but He had (and likely still has!) a jealous nature and accused Her (falsely) of infidelity. Ix Chel left Him, becoming an independant woman, free to wander the world as She pleased (no wonder I like Her so much!)
- Mawu -- African (Fon/Benin); Mawu is the Luna-aspect of the Creartor Deity (Mawu-Lisa) of the Fon people of Abomey (the Republic of Benin) on Africa's West Coast. (Lisa/Liza is the Solar/Masculine half of the Creator). Together Mawu and Lisa/Liza brought the world--and everything in it--into being.
Ix Chel
9x6 Original watercolor
$20
(matted)
Of all of my Moon Goddesses from the larger painting above, Ix Chel may be my favorite.
I love her spirit of independance.
Trouble
11x14 -- Original Watercolor w/ acrylic accents
$45
(unmatted)
Everybody knows redheads are trouble, right?
Good Night Moon
6x9 original Watercolor
$20
matted (mat is 8.5x11)
After a long day of doing...whatever it is Satyrs do (I wonder if redheads were involved...) it's nice to cozy down for a nice long nap...you'll have to decide for yourself what he's smirking about in his sleep, however...
Wanna play?
5x7 original watercolor
SOLD
thanks, Julie!
Now, the question is, who is asking whom to play?
Is it an invitation to come out into the garden... or IN to the house?
Patches & George
Patches and his best pal George are constantly getting into...well, everything, as anyone who has ever owned either a cat or a dragon knows! Silly human should have known better than to leave her knitting near these two (but that's the problem with dragons, isn't it? Even if you put something on a shelf, they can still get at, so why even bother...?)
Patches & George is a watercolour painting (done on cold-pressed paper), with a little ink and salt thrown in for texture. The original was a gift for a very good friend (who knows all about cats, dragons and tangled yarn!)
8x10 unmatted, signed, numbered prints:
$35
The Temple Garden
Size is 12x16
$125 (matted)
Originally this was going to be a koi pond, but, well... anybody can keep koi in their ponds, it takes a bit more patience to raise water dragons.
Both the original and limited edition prints are available. (This image is brighter than the original, please email me for additional pictures if you're interested. Eventually I'll get my camera out and take a couple of pictures for my site.)
8x10 unmatted, signed numbered prints:
$35
The Temple Garden is a watercolour painting (done on cold-pressed paper). I achieved the texture on the woman's kimono by first applying light cadmium yellow, then after it was dry, I did a wash with raw sienna and sprinkled large chunks of salt over it to absorb the wash.
Pan Gaia
The Triple Goddess is perhaps the most important figure in modern Wiccan/Pagan iconography. Here She is shown to not only embody the three primary stages of womanhood, but women from across the globe as well. If you look closely at the tree behind Them, you\'ll notice that it is in bud behind the Maiden, in full fruit behind the Mother and that the leaves are turning brown behind the Crone (who holds both the cycle of death and the seed of new life.)
The original belongs to a very good friend of mine.
Limited Edition prints are available 8x10 unmatted, signed numbered prints:
$35
$35
The piece at the top of the page is called In the Shepherd's Embrace. The original is 24x18 and it is in watercolour. The original is not for sale... it's going to be hanging in my studio very soon.
I am doing a limited edition canvas print run of In the Shepherd's Embrace on canvas (very limited; there will be only 10 produced.) $100 (plus shipping). The canvas prints look absolutely amazing but are *really* expensive to have made. It was an indulgence... and the original is a little big for most shows, especially after I decided to keep it for myself. This was the first "serious" piece I did when I started painting again.
8x10 unmatted, signed numbered prints are also available for $35
(None of these prints has the titles on the piece itself. That was something I added later in Office.)
None of the prices listed here includes shipping; shipping is determined by the size of the painting/print, and starts at $7. All items are shipped with insurance.
I absolutely do NOT ship frames... it's expensive to mail and I worry too much about glass breaking en route. It would be less expensive for you to go to a craft or art supply store and get a frame locally (most of the frames I use to display pieces at local shows were purchased during 40% off sales!)
I ask more for my work when I show at conventions and festivals; those higher prices reflect a) my time and energy to set up and tear down (or pack my art and mail it) and b) the cost of mailing, hanging fees and/or comissions on sales. However, obviously, if you buy it at a show or festival, there are no shipping charges (and anything hung with a frame has the frame included in the sale) so it evens out.
No, if you live locally, you may not come to my house and pick up artwork the cost of shipping. I'm not necessarily paranoid, but housekeeping isn't really on the top of my list of favorite thigns to do and I don't need to worry about what strangers are going to think of the state of my living room!
All of my prints are professionally produced on high quality art paper (the prints are actually thicker than the paper I paint on!) using archival quality ink. I've very lucky to have a wonderful photo processing lab so close to home. Prints sold online are *not* matted. If you would like a different size print, contact me for pricing (or more to the point, contact me so I can contact my printer because I don't know off the top of my head what prints will cost *me*, I only know the prices on what I have in hand. Special order printing will take at LEAST a week for me to have done--that's their turn around time, not mine.)
If you are interested in buying art,
please email me at thylacine.yawn@gmail.com
(that's the email I check daily.)
Thank you for taking the time to look!
