card/collage

Quick little card I threw together for mother's day.

Resilience Goddess

This goddess has been in the works for several months now. She is structured after a Tibetan Bodhisattva but I substituted a phoenix -a classic resilience symbol- as her mount. She is definitely in the Yidem school of goddesses.

Ume, hepatica, bamboo, and willow are just a few of her plant symbols.

The stain glass pattern started out as an organic development of the watercolor but also plays quite well into some of my personal imagery/symbols for strength.

There are a lot of iridescent highlights on this one that sadly won't be visible in the digital images.

Despite the lack of posting...

I have been at work on new paintings but Blogger's inability to play nice with my Nexus has caused me to have temporary amnesia on uploading my projects. Here's what I've been up to:

Finished versions of these paintings and a few more are on my Flickr page under: 

Misfit Godesses

New Misfit Goddess Underway...

Goddess of Productive Energy 

Haven't we all wanted to have some of the energy of a frenetic puppy when we don't feel like getting work done?
Note the new take on the monkey bird for this one- a humming bird/ capuchin. The flowers are cardinal flowers, chamomile, and red clover all of which have have meanings pertaining to energy.
Inspired by the endless activity of my new puppy Dharma, I'm thinking of naming this Goddess Frenea.

Yidam

Gracie

The Goddess of Awkwardness

Low key launching

I opened my Etsy store but I'm keeping it pretty low key until I get a few more items posted.
But officially it's there:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InvertedPath

I'll be selling some of the sketches I post here on the blog as well as prints and cards.
Let me know if you have any requests!

Dabbling in watercolor

I've been noodling around a bit with paining of late. 

This one I painted at the lake,  to test out a new kit of russian pan watercolor.

This last one I believe was painted last summer based from an even older photo.

Sometimes it's nice to just loosen up and play.

Pencils

Pencils for the first six pages of my friend's comic story. I'm breaking up the script and doing the layouts/ first pencils and he will be painting the final art over top with his cintique.

I learned a lot from this project. Mainly that when I'm not so self-conscious about my work , I can really produce. I'm going to get to work on my comic and use this method of making a set of  pages and then coming back to them to tighten up the art.

A new Goddess underway

Here's the under-drawing for the next in the Misfit Goddess series:

I'm contemplating a rather obnoxious color scheme for Gracie. Flying orangutans already set the stage for a nice bright orange. I may post the color studies if they turn out anything interesting.

venus_pair

venus_pair, a photo by inverce on Flickr.

Venus Liber and Venus Codependentem- watercolor on bristol

Summer Time: New work shall commence...

Here's the sketch of the companion painting to Venus Liber. I've just begun searching for the next Venus reference to become a new misfit goddess for this series. 

Work continues...

New work in progess

Botanical details: cacti, touch-me-nots (jewel weed), and ume
butterfly- memphis verticordia venus (a clue to the origin of the composition)

The Hobbit Trailer

My Dad requested this image so I sketched it for him this afternoon at my parent's house and he scanned it.
Happy Hobbitses!

Next in the song bird/ monkey series

This image was done on watercolor paper which reminded me how badly watercolor on good paper scans. The previous studies were on drawing paper and scanned very well. So the debate is- better digital image or frame-ible art?

More Studies

Another Study

The cardinal/gibbon. First in a set of studies for my next painting.

The Project

Study for Jane and JC

A study for a new painting which will have two of my heroes- Jane Goodall and Jacques Cousteau. I pretty bad at getting likenesses just right so I knew it would be even more difficult to simplify them in to recognizable characters. So, step one.

Random fact, Did you know they were both born in a year of the dog?