painted shoes I was reading Dr. Laura Schlessingers books about “bad childhood good life” and how woman screw up their…
paper cut-outs
I am not really into all the Christmas buzz, and we are having silent days instead this year, but couldn’t…
Ananda Moya Ma
New Picture of Ananda Moya Ma and of cause I need to change it to get that sweet smile of…
Bellingen comunity market
Was looking forward to going to the famous Bellingen market and finally did, but got the date mixed up and…
Started on the details of devotees listening to Abhinavagupta in the Painting
Started on the details of devotees listening to Abhinavagupta. I wasn’t sure if women and men should be sitting separately,…
lotus ponds left and right
Here it is with the lotus ponds in place, was easy work to dig them out and plant some……
Inspired by van Gogh’s thoughts
Continued with painting the clouds, the mountains and the water and some of the grass, with blue and then again…
Thoughts
Continued with painting the clouds, the mountains and the water and some of the grass, with blue and then again…
The Masters in all their glory!
Swami Ram, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Swami Mahatabkak
Voila! new carpets.
Traditionally in Kashmir there is always a rug or a cloth with a traditional pattern for people to sit on.
glueing the pieces together
On the top is the finished transferred carpet in place already, on the bottom the print was just glued down…
inkjet print transfer
CIMG1624 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. inkjet print transfer didn’t quite work
testing 2
CIMG1620 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. After the first mishap with heat transfer I “practiced” a little on the back…
laser print transfer underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1634 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. laser printer transfer was better, this one got rubbed too much and the print…
testing 1 underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1619 Originally uploaded by claudia dose.
print transfer the underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
Working on the underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting I wanted one of those traditional carpets laid out and couldn’t imagine doing…
Testing, Testing! underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1620 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. After the first mishap with heat transfer I “practiced” a little on the back…
whitewash
What a mess. That didn’t work. Trying to iron down the heat transfer melted parts of the acrylic and stuck…
Carpets
Designing the carpets in the the painting in Photoshop was easy. My idea was to use heat transfer, that way…
I’d like to die
Etsujin. Covered with the flowers,Instantly I’d like to dieIn this dream of ours! http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#etsujin
It’s so relaxing to watch someone paint, isn’t it?
different styles… n n
their hands…
Some more details in the dutties (female consorts) hands (holding a lemon and a lotus flower). I did a…
membership screening…
I had been busy preparing for the annual membership screening at G25, Los Angeles Art Association. I was thinking about…
musicians
Really got into details now with those. I had taken some photos in Kashmir in the last years of different…
Abhinava and his dutis (spriritual consorts)
Continued on the big Abhinavagupta painting. Here I worked on his hand gesture after I found a picture of Jesus…
Woman in Art
Very beautiful! Have you seen this yet?
Touched
Reading “woman of power and grace”, nine astonishing, inspiring luminaries of our time, by Timothy Conway. All of them from…
Yoga Retreat
worship Originally uploaded by claudia dose. The retreat was great. We watched videos of the Bhagavad Gita, my favorite text…
uploaded…
Couldn’t get to my painting so I spend the time uploading some of my art to art.com and etsy.comCheck it…
Mindfulness new defined…
I am a little nervous today as I am welcoming internationally known author, speaker and creativity coach Eric Maisel, Ph.D.…
taking on a life of its own
It’s going, I am not sure where, and its slow, painfully slow. Abhinavagupta sure doesn’t make it easy on me.…
A guest on my humble blog…
I am exited to be having a famous guest on my humble blog, next week, on Monday the 23rd of…
Quartet for the End of Time
It is quite amazing what happens when creativity does not get bogged down by circumstance. Olivier Messiaen wrote this music…
back at the “big” painting
Gurunatha Originally uploaded by claudia dose. It is scaring me to death to paint Abhinavagupta. What if he doesn’t like…
“Could you walk it quicker?”
could you walk it quicker Originally uploaded by claudia dose. … it says on the bus. Well, I tried and…
Mix and Match
culture mix Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Chinese New Year meets apple at St. Martins’s place just around from Trafalgar…
cow-dung-cake-fuel
It is cold even in Delhi. On the fields just behind where we are staying the woman and girls of…
New Delhi
CIMG0829.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Staying in India is even better when you can cook your own food. Not…
On the way back home
I am fascinated with reflections in windows. Its a toy world isn’t it? I took some more but this was…
rain
It is raining in North Carolina, just like in Germany. And I am already missing the Californian sun. We got…
opened my eyes again and I have started to really look and see…
Haven’t been to a painting class in a long time. But now the timing was right and the theme inspiring,…
back from India
Back from India (Delhi, Jammu, Kashmir). Over with the jetlag and had a great retreat here in LA, although it…