Dia de muertos 2017

"Altar"

Acrylics on 10" x 14" artist panel

At this time of the year, many altars are put to welcome tourists from

all over the world and is a feast for the eyes in museums, restaurants and

public places, I had a great time visiting a few!

In another tone, I though a lot about what it means to be Mexican

and how my culture influence me so deeply in how we perceive life

 and death, we consider an after life as part of a cycle.  Although there is 

no scientific proof that this is real, many people feel this to be true.

I am one of those, I like to believe, it brings hope, and encouragement, 

it makes life an adventure and less scared of what is coming after it.

Los muertos se van al olvido,

aquellos que son amados viven en el corazón.

 "Recordando a mis muertitos"

Acrílicos sobre panel artistico

27 x 35 cms

Por fin llegué al Chahuistle, lo conocí y comí en el! :D 

(personal Joke) 

I recently visited the city of Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende 

a true paradise for someone like me, beautiful houses, people, fresh 

air, delicious food and a lot of art!  A feast for the artist so my muse 

was very well fed and it promises to last for a while!

I also have been visiting museums in my city, and this post is about all of that,

I hope you enjoy my eclectic tastes and flavors, creations and thoughts! ;D

Que habita en el corazón?

Los latidos de la vida,

el potencial, 

el querer seguir adelante,

el verbo vida

y la fuente fuerza,

la sangre y la serenidad,

la suficiencia del ser,

el poder de estar,

el yo soy.

Can you say time has found you?

Reach you?

Win over you?

Do you still have time?

Is time unfair?

All things vanish in time...

Time is money...

I never have the time to...

I wish I had the time to...

Our beliefs.

The view from were we stayed was superb so I had to take a 

few moments to enjoy it and paint it, this time used watercolors

and pen, the last day was super cold!

This two color pages are for you to enjoy, simply right click

and download, print and color in your favorite mediums! 

They are my drawings and I hope you enjoy them.

My band Livelula has a song about the day of the dead,

"Calaveras"  "Skulls"

A few art journal pages 

Mexico has many beautiful places yet to be discovered, it is my hope to 

be able to travel more and visit them, embrace the knowledge hidden in

the faces of those who have lived a long life and learn more about the history 

of the places that so commonly repeats.

It is also my hope to keep sharing with you.

Thank you for visiting! ;D

The fire that flies.

What is sacred?

I think everything is sacred, we are all sacred
our nature is of the sacred, nature is the sacred
and yet we don´t know what that means.

How can we be something we don´t fully understand?

Maybe we are the seed of the sacred but in order for the seed
to blossom, we have to work for it, make it happen, activate it,
make it burst from within, unfold.

If we have a forest full of nature and it´s all wild and free but it´s just
there, being... until we consciously give it some other purpose, we make
 it useful and by working on it, we make it even grater and grander.

Maybe our purpose is to get conscious of what 
we are and make use of that.

Fire is life, that sparkle that makes us get up and go on,
live and wonder, ask, pursue, fight, defend, love and hate,
is this glow in the soul no one sees but feels, is that
song in the eyes that many can read but a few understand,
is that sound coming out of your lungs when you sing,
it´s the beat of the heart and the blood in our veins,
the warmth in a hug and the acts of the brave.

Were does fire come from?

It´s always been there or it couldn´t be, as
everything, we come from something,
the great source.

Love is the only source there is.

I am love and love is what I do
I am learning to do it
consciously unconditionally,
so I find freedom and the truth,
the wings of the soul.

I trust in what I feel,
close the door to outer forces,
either good or bad,
they should not dictate what´s to be,
not in me.

I am learning to watch and allow
as I walk the path,
knowing that it´s only one
path of many,
that hidden forces are
embracing everyone´s path,
making it only one.

The necessity of acknowledgment, if we had a good
dosis of support when we were children, we surely
would grow up with no necessity of it but if
we didn´t, we crave for it most of our lives until...
you know what you are.

But how deep do you know?
We blame our parents for many things we didn´t have
and we blame them for those we did, they do the same
to their parents and the chain is on going, until...
you know what you are.

We crave for peace, for freedom and to be able to do what we love.
Why hasn´t the world reach that supportive stage were everyone
lives this way?

The hunger for power eats more souls than hell.
Or maybe, that is hell.

But we live in the world and in it´s ways and with our soul brothers and sisters
and we want to be here too and learn and grow and be, express and share and.

I am just a small link in the infinite chain of evolution

Thank you to Majo who invited me to this trip! ;)

"The fire that flies"

Acrylics on paper

This experience was intense, picture your self in a mountain you´ve
never been, it´s cold and getting darker, with a bunch of strangers
and not knowing what is going to happen.

It´s getting darker and darker and the sounds of the night
are new to your ears, cause you are a city person, one that
loves nature but a city person at the end,
you try harder to focus on the land in front
of your feet but after realizing you are climbing the mountain blindly,
you decide to use the inner sight of your mind and feel
the earth and the stones as your feet somehow grabs to them so you won´t fall,
the guides asked for complete silence in order to fully appreciate the
experience and not to scare the fireflies but those around you don´t care.

Immerse in your discontent for not having the required silence you
see with the corner of your eye a small sparkle floating near you, there
they are! The fires that fly!  They are an arm away, I could just stretch
and reach one!  I keep calm and respect their space, humans are their first
predators and I hate that, I am just here to observe...

The night grows darker and cooler, people seams to find inner peace out
of the hard effort on climbing the mountain, we stop for a moment and the
magic dance emerges out of nowhere, this dance were the sacred
appears to be so easily and effortlessly as if the air was breathing magic.

All I can be at that moment is gratefulness, silence and a longing
for me to be able to capture this somewhere inside my self, somewhere
 I can reach for it anytime I needed to, trying to open as much as
possible to keep this in me forever.

But the present moment is always passing and that which was felt
then, was only felt in that time, gone somewhere, to hide in the
memory, in a poor sight of my mind´s eye.

"Firefly queen"

Acrylics on paper

This is a better video! This is the same species of fireflies we saw, they synchronize
their lights, it´s like a nature´s christmas tree!

The fire at nights 

makes love to the dark,

chants stories of other dimensions 

to the air and the eyes,

it´s a silent song,

one of the soul

not many want,

not many will encounter.

In the book of mystery,

I found an image floating, 

the cracks in it´s wooden skin

painted the air with illuminated splendor,

I immediately remembered about the beauty

of innocence and the natural laws of emerging. 

You have ann appointment with your true self.

Chase the sacred.

I`m back!

Hello!  It`s been a long time since I posted my last words in this blog but it is that I just recently had fixed my sick computer, yes, they get sick too and need a little spa time and took me a while to find some parts of it for it is supposed to be old already in the technological world, I had a huge laugh when the technician told me so! :)  But anyway, I am back and hopefully I can keep on sharing new stuff with you, it also gave me the time to rest and to re-think what could be fun and useful to you to read on this blog, you can write me to give me your suggestions if you want, I will be more than happy to please you the best way I can and under my possibilities!

A lot has happened while I was gone!  I participated in a drawing marathon and it was the best experience ever!  Ten hours of drawing, lots and lots of drawings and I got the third place among 26 participants from all over the city! Not bad!! Yeeey! :)

My artsy friend Eunice, we met at the art school, we are neighbors also!!  We found out about that  later on the classes when we started to chat, funny how things work out, now we go together to school which is far from were we live, once a week she picks me up and one I her and we share a lot of things too like going to the art supply store and more, it`s fun to have artsy friends specially when they are interesting like her! She is a doll and also so sweet!

I also started this painting at school which has a lot more work and it`s very special to me because it is the starting point of a new me, hopefully one path I can keep up with, life and other things can get in the way of an artist´s work, if only life was about  only painting but I would be starving and with no supplies to paint with so this will go slow for the moment!  I dream of one day doing that only of course and I picture my self living some were out the city... one day!

To celebrate this new post I will share some of the progress of one of my latest art journal pages, I want to do more of these and hopefully they inspire you, I hope to have more time to create good tutorials and processes of my work for you but life gets in the way as I have said before and so we will see how this goes! No promises, let´s just flow.

True love

begins within

My process always changes, it`s hard for me not to try something new each time I dive into creating, I don`t know why but the urge to make it different has to be part of my creative process and I have learned a lot being like that!  That´s why taking photos of my process helps me, when I go back to them I remember what I did and so It`s like taking my own class all over again I see my photos!  I recommend you doing the same and try doing something new each time you create, you won`t improve by doing the same thing over and over and it´s really exciting to try new stuff and not knowing what or how it will come out! I am sure it will keep you fresh! 

Do you vary the way you approach your creative process or do you start the same way every time?

Please share and let us know how your special way of changing things has helped you create!