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Tarot Update
An odd painting for this time of year, but this pomegranate painting shows an ending and the seeds of a new beginning. I sold the last numbered Ironwing Tarot deck today. I have a handful of full 78-card decks that are signed but not numbered, which are available for the same price but not advertised…
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Crescent Moons
Last night’s crescent moon was a thin silver wire or a fishbone needle. Tonight it is a cat fang. Tomorrow it will be the curved, sturdy claw of a bird of prey, a cat, or a mud turtle. I have collected these crescent symbols for a long time, but today I expanded the list and…
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Dark Moon: So Black, It’s Green.
Tonight the scrying pool of the Dark Moon is more than a black mirror. Now the Sun is strong enough to illuminate its shadowy green depths, since this moon will reflect the Summer Solstice light. At the edge of the pool are tiny bubblelike jelly spheres of Nostoc, the same cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that…
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Hurray for Scratchboard!
Here are various leaves and scales from six desert ferns, finished yesterday, drawn on a 5″x7″ piece of scratchboard (the same size that I used for the Ironwing Tarot originals). They’ll be used separately but I cram as many as possible onto one board. Scratchboard is a wonderful alternative to pen and ink on paper,…
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Hello world!
Welcome to the Mineralarts blog, where I’ll post occasional flashes of creative inspiration, updates on various projects, and nature notes from the desert. Here’s a small painting that I finished yesterday – a bronze and glass pomegranate done in iron oxides, green clays, and malachite in egg tempera. More pomegranates to come! They are inspired by…
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