SKULL COLLECTION

 

TUBE HEAD

digital print

THINK TANK

digital prints

I STILL HAVE ALL MY MARBLES

digital

SURPRISE!

SKULL WITH ROSES

Sculpture 

Alpha-bet

Alpha-Bet 

digital, 241219

Let Love Rule

digital, 241219

I got a notion, out of the blue, to create an alphabet.  This was fun.  The letters are unusual and may require some effort to decode the words.  It might be a bit of a puzzle.  I made up some guidelines, but I was not strict in following the guides.   As I was working on this, it began to remind me of Warhol.  I searched and found his letter prints online.  I scanned through his prints quickly; I did not want to be too influenced by his work.  Some influence, but not too much.  So, I scanned them quickly.  Then made up letters with fun shapes and rich color.   

 

I Wish That I Could Fly

I Wish that I Could Fly, One

digital painting

 

I Wish That I Could Fly, 2

digital creation

      "Find your unique, signature style, and stick to it."  I guess, maybe, that is good advice, but, I cant do that.  I am boxaphobic.  I want to roam free.  

Triple Skull

Skull with Morning Glory

Skull and Clown

Van Gogh, Double Heart

 Van Gogh, Starry Night

These images are digital works.  

ACROBAT

 Acrobat in a Tree

digital art

Acrobat Plaid

digital art

HORSES, FOLSOM, LOUISIANA, USA

Horse on Trail

Horse on Trail, close up

Horse and Live Oak

Mare and Foal

Mare and Foal, close up

 These recently created pictures honor the horse country beauty of  Folsom, Louisiana, USA.  These pictures are digitally created.  They make vivid giclee pictures.  And, I plan to use them as studies for oil and acrylic paintings on canvas.  

Contact me at:  lunazure101@gmail.com

 

Feminine Jewels

Jewel with Hummingbirds

digital

Jewel Electrified

digital

 Jewel with Tree Hair

digital

Recent works that continue a series that explores a variety of feminine attributes as shown by imaginative portraits. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about this art.

Skelly Kats, Artistic Katrina Response

Saxie Skelly

Archival print, 2006

Shut up and Dance

Archival print, 2006

 Wicked Good Boogie Band

Archival print, digital, 2006

Bringing back New Orleans, One Song at a Time.  Shut Up and Dance.  Music in Your Hair.  Wicked Good Boogie Band.

Here at the Studio in the Swamp, (Washington Parish, Louisiana), Katrina was much worse than Ida.  We enjoy being surrounded by forest. This is where I want to live, I love being surrounded by trees. Katrina tornados took all the leaves off of the trees.  The canopy was bare from the end of August, until the next spring, when Mother Nature revived herself.  I am grateful that our house and studio were not damaged.  We were without power for six weeks.  To cool off and bathe, we swam in the spring fed creek.  We did OK, because we like camping.  We did OK, but when the power came back on we were ready to really appreciate electricity. 

New Orleans was settled in 1718, she has survived many storms and the civil war.  Soon, New Orleans will be better than ever.

I Still Have All My Marbles,2

 Yes, I still have most of my marbles, contrary to what some people think.  Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I dont.

I Still Have My Marbles

 

I Still have My Marbles

Digital painting, 6/12/21

Archival ink jet print

Well, most of them, anyway.  This is kind off like a selfie, haha.  I envisioned my skull as an ancient crystal skull filled with marbles, and made a picture of my imaginary self.

Marbles Tumble

Archival inkjet print, digital painting

I had fun painting these tumbling marbles.  I hope that they make you smile.

Flower Breeze

 Flower Breeze

archival digital print,5/18/21

close up

Luminous Woman, 5/6/21

 Luminous Woman, 5/6/21

Spring with Cheshire Cat

 Spring with Cheshire Cat

close up

archival inkjet print, 5/6/21

This lovely woman named Spring, is bedecked with beautiful flowers.  She is swaying gracefully in a vintage forest.  Her hand gestures towards the cat.  Everything is beautiful, except for the Cheshire Cat.  That Cat!  The image of the trickster signifies all the dirty tricks that life bestows.  Is he evil?  Maybe, maybe not.  He is the one throwing glitches at earthlings everyday.  I, you, can blame the trickster.  When your bad thumb pushes the wrong button on the clicker, blame the Cheshire Cat.  When I get confused and cook the recipe wrong,  the Cheshire Cat made me do it.  When one is called into the managers office for an anal evaluation, and things do not go well, that is definitely the Cheshire Cat playing annoying tricks. 

I found the inspiration for this image on FaceBook. Someone, I wish that I could remember who, posted a series of vintage photos from about a hundred years ago.  I worked the image up in photoshop.  Lots of fun adding color and making flowers.  The original image had a rabbit, which I replaced with the Trickster Cat, adding a dash of irony, to spice things up.  

Rose Dancer

 

Rose Dance

Rose Dance

digital work, archival inkjet print, 5/21

There is something spiritual about this picture.  A beautiful, feminine dancer is ecstatically merging with the graceful lines and vibrant color of an exquisite rose.  I think that it portrays the height of joy.  An epiphany of light.  

Created in photoshop for archival ink jet prints. This is similar to an image that I created a few years ago.  I used the same female silhouette from an earlier picture.  

The openness of her posture shows an abandonment of worry, escape from the nagging of daily reality.  A portal has opened for her to a higher level of spirit.  

When you look at this, I hope that you are aware of the human potential for joy. I hope that your heart strings vibrate with vibrant color. 

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Luminous Woman, three images

 

Amazon Grace

Archival inkjet print, recent work

Jitterbug

Archival inkjet print, recent work

I was surprised when this figure showed up.  I think of my style, I do try to stay on a stylistic consistency path, but my Muse insists that I do not follow any rules strictly.  I think that my work lately and over the long hall aspires for luxe, calme and volumpte.  This picture is not calm, it is vibrant with ecstatic energy.  I enjoyed making this, I hope that you like looking at it.

Grace Grape

Archival inkjet print, recent work

The really satisfying aspect of using Photoshop is that I can reuse, rework image items.  I dont know how long I have been using this body of a figure, a year?  maybe two?  It is like using a stencil.  The wings, color and background are changed, a new mood is created.  I have a collage using the red and black, Coco figure.  I need to get it photographed so that I can post it.  

 

Tree, Yellow on Orange

Ink jet, limited edition of 50, print on archival paper, 2/16/2021

The brilliant colors in this art work depict a contrast between the natural pattern of the tree and the geometrix pattern of the diagonal lines.  This recent work continues a long stream of creations, spanning  many decades.  I follow my muse, she dances around, leading me on paths that diverge and reemerge between my favorite subjects.  

A joyful, life affirming creation that expands my happiness and the joy of those who follow my work.  

 

Memento Mori

Skull Morning Glory

Limited edition of 50, Inkjet print, 2/2021

Skull, Triple Dizzy

Limited Edition, inkjet print, 2/2021

Skull, Geometrix

Limited edition, 50, archival inkjet print, 2/2021

There aint but one way out of this beautiful, ugly, wonderful, horrible, complicated earthling life.  Make the most of everyday.  

To purchase a limited edition, archival inkjet print, see info in the left column.

 

Tree Woman, Pomona

Archival inkjet print, signed and numbered, edition of 50

11/17/2020

 

Pomona

Limited edition of 50, archival ink jet print, 11/2/2020

Sometimes, I wish that I was a tree.  No, I dont, for I am contented with my life as a human.  But, trees are some of my best friends.  The big trunked oaks around my home, pine trees, fruit trees, I could go on and on about my love for trees.  

There is a large oak here, must be six feet in diameter and i dont know how tall, 60 feet, 80 feet tall?  This is Grandmother tree.  Sometimes, I leave her offerings in a knot of the trunk.  

Another tree is Great Grandmother tree.  In the eighteen years that I have been here she has suffered from decrepitude of old age.  Large branches have fallen off during storms. She is covered with trumpet vines, embellished with orange flowers. The trunk is hollow, some critter lives in there.  An armadillo?  She perseveres, hanging onto life, in the middle of a mown field, between two creeks.  She has immense character, unusual beauty. 

Another tree is Dragon Tree.  A swamp Tupelo that has a 20 foot long, undulating, dragon like root at the edge of the creek.  

Tree women,  women integrated with trees, have tended to reappear in my art practice for decades.  

Pomona is a sacred wood nymph in ancient Roman mythology.  There were sacred groves of fruit trees dedicated to her in ancient Rome.

Floating Couple with Baby

Floating Couple with Baby

acrylic on canvas, 16x24", 2019

Floating Couple with Baby 

limited edition of 50, archival inkjet print, 2019

close up

 Shuffle into the Sunset

acrylic on paper, 16x24", 2019

There is a narrative to these pictures.  The deer is a guardian angel to the baby.  The pictures glimpse phases of life from loving couple, to baby, to death.  I made a folding brochure with images similar to these.