Keros and the trove of art

Perhaps you've read the story already--archaeologists have uncovered a trove of art statues and more but in shards upon the goat-herd's Isle of Keros in the Aegean.

Keros is near the sacred islet of Delos where the god Apollo is said to have been born. The islands are in the Cyclades chain and although Keros has been looted there were some 1,400 shards left alone for just such an archaeological team 2006.

No one is sure yet what the cult on Keros involved but they can tell that the figurines were broken on purpose--and a very long time ago.

So you know you didn't do it, and neither did I. Whew!

Statues Provide Clues on Greek Island has more info on this exciting find in the art world as the earth gives up her treasures!


tags: Keros Art Archaeology

Gladiolus in Moonlight

Gladiolus papilio: perennial, full sun, drained soil...and a little moonlight...


tags: Art Flowers Flower Art Moon Art

White Tree in Rain

Here's a brand-spankin'-new drawing to welcome you to Secret Moon Art in honor of the New Year! Well, the western New Year anyway...



tags: Art Secret Moon

Fairy at Work

Yep, it sure is a fairy at work, isn't it?



tags: Art Fairy Art

Diaphany and Orion

To bring in the Winter Solstice, Diaphany points you to the constellation, Orion.

Welcome to Secret Moon Art!

tags: Art Moon Art Winter Solstice

Her Yellow Dress v1

Welcome to Secret Moon Art where some drawings are posted before completion as you see here with Her Yellow Dress.

Will post the final version eventually...hope you'll return for a visit because I as yet have No Idea how this drawing should be finished.

UPDATE 5.14.07: completed Her Yelllow Dress and publ'd it May 14, 2007...see Archives List, if you please...


tags: Art Moon Art Drawing Series Art

3 Dancers

Look who's stopped by to see what's going on at Secret Moon Art--it's the 3 Dancers who originally opened the Cosmic Persona Designs Art Gallery and there's not a moon in sight for these ladies!

But you may scroll down for plenty of moon art...


tags: Moon Art Art Cosmic Persona Designs

Sugar Plum Dreams

With Sugar Plum Dreams...

Secret Moon Art wishes you all sugar plum dreams for the Holidays!

And be sure to visit The Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page which is sponsored by the School of Art and Designs at the University of Michigan...this link-rich site rocks!


tags: Art Moon Art Art History

Emerging Visions issue 5 online!

Emerging Visions has published its December 2006 issue...contempory art, artists, and flash poetry galore.

And be sure to look for my drawing, Journey to Neptune!


tags: Art Moon Art Emerging Visions

Penelope Ponders

Welcome to Secret Moon Art where you see that Penelope Ponders in the moonlight...

...perhaps she's thinking about taking a tour of Secret Moon Art...why not join her?


tags: Art Moon Art

Secret Moon Art reads!

Yes, it's true...Secret Moon Art has some online art-related favorite sites and blogs which you may want to check out for yourself:

Art News Blog will keep you up-to-date on art stuff'n'news of all sorts;

Mid Atlantic Art News out of Washington DC has opportunities, employment listings, calls for proposals, and more for artists in the Mid Atlantic region;

Art Daily, established in 1996, is an early website for artists and very informative as you might imagine;

The Art Newspaper is simply awash with international art news about artists, auctions, exhibitions, and then some--and you may wish to sign up for their free newsletter as well;

and...is this the youngest art blogger around?

Violet Makes Things by 18-month-old Violet Craighead Way, who states onblog: I am a tot who loves to draw.

Oh dear, Violet...I was one of those, too! :)


tags: Art Art Blogs

Faye's Magic Lamp

Here at Secret Moon Art you'll find some arhetypal images, a few botanicals, as well as some moonlight-on-the-path.

This drawing was created in honor of my sister, Faye, whose name has its own connections to fairies...oh--and you'll find a few of those around here, too!

tags: Art Moon Art fairies

Moon Muse at last

Artist, Jude Cowell, here...posting the final version of Moon Muse...what do you think of these ladies?

Twyla's Toilette

Here's a new drawing for Secret Moon Art with not one but two crescent moons.


Moon Art

snowy path

Winter time has fallen lightly and settled upon Secret Moon Art so here's a snowy path you may walk along, steamy cocoa optional but recommended...


tags: Moon Art snowy path

Pansies by the Old Garden Stairs

Purple pansies say, Welcome to Secret Moon Art...have yourself a mosey around!


tags: Art Moon Art Fairy Art

Moon Muse

Here's a detail from a Secret Moon Art drawing which I will post in full view as soon as it's completed.

11.11.06

tags: Art Moon Art Moon Muse

Two Fairies on a Moonlit Night

Here are a couple of fairies to welcome you to Secret Moon Art!


11.9.06

tags: Art Moon Art Fairies

Golden Chanterelles

These rather magical golden chanterelle mushrooms under a Crescent Moon are happily welcoming you to Secret Moon Art, and hoping you'll visit awhile!



your pencil artist, Jude Cowell


11.5.06 11:01 pm est

tags: Art Secret Moon Jude Cowell

Odyle Aura

Odyle Aura shows her Odyle Force of life energy!

Here at Secret Moon Art you sometimes find process or series artwork - drawings showing their frilly underslips and underpinnings to you before they are complete with all their feathers in place.

Here's Odyle of the magnetic fingers in complete form...navigate to Odyle v1 to view the anatomy of this drawing in its incomplete form and read about that 'Od force' which some have and others don't, and which Astrology's Reinhold Ebertin describes with the midpoint 'Jupiter/North Node' in a horoscope.


10.29.06 12:43 pm
Last Update: April 1, 2009 4:50 pm edt

tags: Art Cosmic Art Art Gallery Odyle Od force Magnetism von Reichenbach

Wild Roses

Welcome to Secret Moon Art! Here's the final version of Wild Roses with the earlier version posted September 27 if you wish to compare.

Scroll down for more art and some cool links!

10.23.06 8:48 pm edt

tags: Art Moon Wild Roses

Mossy Cave under Full Moon

Welcome to Secret Moon Art!

Under the Full Moon lies a cave in which to lie...


10.17.06 5:28 pm

tags: Art Secrets Art Gallery Moon

Odyle v1

Secret Moon Art...drawings by Jude Cowell:


"That Od force...which still, from female fingertips, burnt blue."--Mrs. Browning

The Od or Odyle force...the flow of an alleged and natural power of sensitivity by moonlight, prism, metal, and magnetism was studied by Baron von Reichenbach in olden days...but does it yet emanate in darkened rooms of stone?


10.14.06 9:45 pm edt drawing to be completed..... . . .


tags: Art Od force Odyle von Reichenbach Pencil Drawing


Be sure to view and peruse the October 2006 issue of Emerging Visions: Scales, Veils, and Tales

Pale sweetlips v1

Floating into Secret Moon from the Dreamyfish Art Gallery we have Pale sweetlips himself...and if you want to pucker up and meet him formally visit Dreamyfish Art to view the completed drawing and make your formal introduction!


10.3.06 4:34 pm

tags: Art Fish Art Dreamyfish art

Wild Roses

Drawing in progress! Will complete and post final version in a few days...


9.27.06 3:15 pm

tags: Art Botanical Drawing Roses

Hidden Garden uncovered

Here at Secret Moon Art the fairies show up quite often as you see!

This Garden is another image is from my children's book, Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green.


9.25.06 5:55 pm

Here's Shout-Out for m'self: a new blog called Jude Cowell's Art and Then Some


tags: Art Secret Moon Art Fairies

Fairies Visit Goldfish Pond

At Secret Moon Art we never know when fairies may drop by!

This is an image from my children's book, Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green.

So tell me--how many *fairies do you see?


9.24.06 12:03 am

*answer is somewhere below...

tags: Art Fairies Cosmic Art Pattillo Armadillo

3 Trees in Moonlight

Welcome to the Art Gallery of the Secret Moon!

Here you see the completed version of 3 Trees in Moonlight.

9.23.06 8:38 pm

tags: Art Secret Moon Art Lunar Art
art online Art Gallery

Moonlight Path

Welcome to Secret Moon Art! This drawing is completed but I'm posting it for its obvious lunar reasons...scroll for more...

9.13.06 1:28 pm

tags: Art Secret Moon Art Moonlight Lunar

Bubble Vision

Welcome to Secret Moon Art! Here's the final version of Bubble Vision with the first version just below...


9.8.06 8:46 am

tags: Art Secret Moon Art Visionary Art Bubble Vision

Bubble Vision v1

With a Shout-Out to Hannah from Gather.com here's the first installment of Bubble Vision with the final version coming soon...


8.23.06 7:02 pm

You may also visit Jude's page at Gather.com
if you wish! Come and schmooze!

tags: Art Visionary Art Secret Moon Art Cosmic Art Gather

Rainy Tree: Two Fairies

Here's the final image of Rainy Tree with the incomplete version to be found just below...July 21. A second fairy did show up after all--and if I had it to name over again, I'd call it, Two Fairies on a Rainy Night!


Limited Edition Prints or Postcards available. For details:

email Jude

8.22.06 8:25 pm

tags: Art Secret Moon Art Trees Drawing Fairies

Moonrise at the Crossroads

Here's an early version of Moonrise at the Crossroads...not sure if I'll do much more to it. Don't know if it's calling out for colors--or perhaps not! We'll see...


8.1.06 9:30 pm

tags: Art Secret Moon Art Crossroads Silverweed Muffins

It's Magic! Be sure to check out Dorlana Vann's magical book Silverweed Muffins as soon as you may!

High Priestess v2

This will be the final version of High Priestess esp since she's just a mock up of a possibility!

You'll see v1 is just below.

7.27.06 11:45 am

tags: Tarot Art

Sit a spell! Visit Lim's Limericks for groanworthily offensive Political Limericks plus some dinner ideas--such as what NOT to do with that left over Sardine Sauce!

High Priestess v1

A certain person put a bug in my ear concerning Tarot Art and here's the first installment of a possible Tarot Deck...just a quick rendition actually, and about 2/3 completed. Comments encouraged!


7.24.06 5:28 pm Secret Moon Art Creative Commons Lic 2.5 Attribution-NoDeriv

tags: Tarot Art

Mosey over to Cosmic Persona Designs to see a newly-posted art representation of "12 Cancer" from the Sabian Symbols pantheon. It's not really a pantheon...I just wanted to end the sentence with the word, pantheon.

"12Can": "A Woman Nursing a Baby with a Message" and archetypally it puts one in mind of the Dalai Lama. But also of Baby Jesus on whom all other archetypes were based whether they knew/know it or not.

7.24.06 11:40 pm

tags: Art Sabian Symbols 12 Cancer

Rainy Tree v1

Here's a new drawing begun earlier this week. You can see there's still a good bit of black background showing so I've got a lot to do to complete this one! You may ID three planetary symbols hidden about somewhere.

And a forest fairy has alighted in a nook...we'll see if any other fairies show up as things progress... . .

7.21.06 11:17 pm edt

tags: Art Secret Moon

Secret Moon v5 (final)

At last--the final version with all colors added! You don't have to scroll far to see earlier versions...


jc 7.21.06 11:04 pm

tags: Art Secret Moon

Night Scene of the Secret Moon v4

Near Final version here...scroll down a bit to see earlier versions.


7.19.06 8:16 pm edt

tags: Art Owls Minerva

Minerva's Glen

Here's Minerva's Glen (aka, Owl of Minerva) with Owl coming in for a landing. This drawing was originally perpetrated for my dummybook of Pattillo Armadillo who went to NYC but didn't satisfy the Little, Brown editors or their list. One may always blame "the list" for the particular season! And yet a ms must also have some coherence--yet still be unique--to be on a list with other works. It must fit in but stand out. Sabian Symbol "5Sag"> "A Wise Old Owl Up in a Tree." We each have "5 Sagittarius" somewhere in our charts. Where is yours? Disclosure: Mine is in natal 3rd house and is the round-up position of Chiron. 7.19.06 7:48 pm edt

Night Scene of the Secret Moon v3 of 5

There's a v4 on the way, but for now, there's this... . . .

And please visit Jfay's site Studio 3B for Candles with Attitude...designed and created fresh for You!

Night Scene of the Secret Moon

Number 1v1...fairies showed up uninvited, but I suppose they generally would.

And what is a 'secret moon'? There are Black Moons, three Liliths (which at least one may be referred to as Black Moon Lilith) plus you'll see mentions of Dark Moons such as 'dark moon w'mat2' and such in Astrology. Yet Astrology is a language which DESCRIBES these things--it doesn't perpetrate them. Opposite our physical Moon is a dark point in space--a non-Moon...exactly where the Moon is not...and most definitely an unconscious, hidden point.

Then there's the dark phase of the moon--the New Moon when the Sun and Moon catch up with each other and no light reflects from our satellite Moon. This is the beginning of the most basic cycle we know--the Sun's consciousness + Moon's unconsciousness-->Sun = adult personality, and Moon = childhood, or even "the divine child" within.

The Moon's position in your natal chart describes genetic inheritance in a fundamental way and tells about your reigning needs. Then one may translate these factors into archetypal images and myths under which we all must labor. The Moon is tribal...the astrological Moon is the Mother archetype and the nurturing principle. And so she has connections to Ecology and to Environmentalism...to our Mother, Earth.

The Collective Unconscious is very active in the world today and we especially see CETUS the Whale lifted up in many ways--a constellation's myth which is connected to Jonah and the Whale--recalcitrant Jonah who refused to Say What Should Be Said.

...and someone speaking the truth would be refreshing for a change, wouldn't it?

Speak it if you know it!

7.15.06 4:43 pm edt


tags: Art Astrology Cetus the Whale

Liminal Limericks from the Collective Unconscious may be investigated at Lim's Limericks by A.Cat featuring a pinch of hopeful humor tossed in as a garnish!

Jimson Weed and Moss

Posting the final version of this drawing with moonlight affecting the scene but no apparent fairies visible. And moss is a favorite 'round here!


7.15.06 1:28 pm edt

tag: Art

Jimson Weed in Moonlight

Here's a detail from the drawing...will post the entire image as soon as it's done.

SECRET MOON ART

Secret Moon Art goes LIVE at last!

This gallery will contain drawings of forests, flowers, fairies and stuff, and any other image I care to post for your consideration!

Note of Assurance: No Prismacolor Oil or Rexel Derwent Watercolour pencils were harmed in the drawing of these designs...other than sharpening, if you want to count that.

jude cowell (c)2006 7.14.06 6:30 pm edt