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Textural Bodypaint

Friday, January 15, 2010

Looking through my personal library this week, I came across an old book called “Design by Accident” by James F. O’Brien.  It’s full of ways to incorporate chance and natural phenomena into visual arts and crafts.  Just the Table of Contents makes me feel inspired, so I’ll share it here: Tree Forms:  trunks and branches [...]

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Hair as Art: Edisa Weeks

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

As a child, dance artist Edisa Weeks attended Quaker meetings with her family. These meetings involved group meditation and sharing, conducted without leaders or hierarchy. As an adult artist, she found herself in a field defined by elitism and a rigid division of roles. The artists were expected to demonstrate their skill, passion, and cleverness [...]

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Pregnant Pose

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Claudia Citkovitz is a Staten Island based acupuncturist with a specialty in childbirth and delivery.  Recently she arranged for me to make some sketches that she may use in promotional or educational materials.  One of Claudia’s friends and clients posed for the drawings above and below.  These two are a kind of yin and yang [...]

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Personal Painting

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Back in July I posted some of the body painting with woad, or indigo, that I did that month at the Sirius Rising festival at Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York.  This post will feature selections of my work with regular cosmetic body paints from this year’s festival. At Sirius Rising, and sometimes at [...]

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A New Old Medium

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

I’ve just returned from Sirius Rising, a festival of pagan arts and spirituality at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York, where I was teaching workshops and painting on bodies.  My colleague and mentor, Catherine Cartwright-Jones, shown above in a picture from 2002, was teaching a daily workshop on the art of Celtic Woading. [...]

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