Divaforever's Salon

Black Rain

Here are two new ATC's I will be posting on Etsy today...."Black Rain" & "Sullen Echoes"

New Art Coming Soon!

Geez!  I am finally moved in...Then right after my first full week at my new place -BAM! I get the news at work that they have me on 30 day notice and I hear rumblings of a company buyout...just my luck. Just when I thought my life was kind of getting settled..

I did have SOME time to work on new art this past weekend and hopefully will have some up soon. 

"Don't drink by the water's edge.
Throw yourself in! Become the water.
Only then will your thirst end."
- Jeanette Berson

I bought an AWESOME new picture from an artist on Etsy --art store is "Madamepickay"

I can't wait to get this in the mail! 

Silence and Exile

"There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Silence separates us from ourselves, makes us sail the firmament of spirit, and brings us closer to Heaven; it makes us feel that bodies are no more than prisons and that this world is only a place of exile. "

-Gibran

 

Dark Romanticism

Sorry for the slowdown in my art production lately -- I have been moving to a new house.  Even though it is right around the corner -- I feel like I have been moving FOREVER!. So now I have been set about with the task of making my new little place look and feel like across between a cozy opium den and a Scottish castle.. 

Speaking of Scottish castles, a  co-worker and friend of mine is from Scotland.  He is really a brilliant man (Plus he looks like Liam Neeson!) His last name is Drummond and he used to live near Drummond castle in Scotland.  He showed me pictures one time and it was incredible....He proposed to his wife on the bridge to the castle and one year he rented out a Manor in Scotland for his family!  I will never live like he lives as "the lady of the manor", but it is so wonderful to think that there are incredibly romantic souls out there - real life "Mr Darcy's"  if you will(giggle giggle). 

I have some great new ideas for my art lately -- can't wait to get started again! I think a good description of my art would be "dark romanticism" and although this term was applied primarily to Poe's literature - why not apply it to art as well?

"The rain weeping and the Sun  burning twine together to make us grow.  Keep your intelligence white hot and your greif glistening , so your life will stay fresh."

~Rumi