INSPIRATION CARD FOR THE DECK, AND FEELING THE PULL OF THE VORTEX

Yeah, ok, the red rock canyons are calling ........................

Here is a little information you might be interested in: Congressional Bill S548 on Artist Deductions, would give an artist the right to deduct the fair market value of their work when donating to a charity. Right now, you can only deduct material costs. http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=952195/ Help pass this bill by filling in the on-line form.

Below is my second contribution to the Healing and Inspiration Deck that Mother Henna is facilitating. This one is the "Inspiration" card. I am inspired by my muse, so what else could I have done except include it here? My muse is the cause of my art...she makes me think something over and over, meditate about it, become absorbed in thought of the subject matter, then whamo! Suddenly the object of my art appears in my mind's eye. Granted, it doesn't always end the way it started out, but without my ever-present muse, it would never even get started. Hats off to my muse. Like the Energizer Bunny, she keeps me going, and going, and going....boing...boing....boing...

For the past year I have been creating illustration style art. It was new to me and I wanted to experiment with it, as well as collages and ATCs and the like. Truthfully, I am a little bit over it, and want to put my black line drawings back to pen and ink work, so I think I won't be doing much illustration type art any more. I'm even going to delete them all from Flickr. Although I dislike doing things twice, I needed to convince myself that I really don't want to do illos, so I did a second Healing card like the one I posted a couple of days ago. This one I did with colored pencil, no black outlines. Not sure about working with this medium..can't seem to get past the waxy shine. Interesting to see the difference...scroll down to the last post and compare.
Which do you prefer?

I am still playing with this card. It is not really final yet.