Secret Moon Art

This is not a completed drawing, 'tis true. Yet 'ShroomHome on Silvery Tree Path is happy as a puppy with two tails to see you! When the drawing is done and published, you will be notified, if you like. 'ShroomHome on Silvery Tree Path , jude cowell Unscene World 2008+ ~:~ Prismacolor oil and Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils on Black...yes, Black...paper. 12.20.08 12:45 pm est

As the Bush-Cheney administration packs up to leave the White House in January '09, they're tucking many heinous secrets into their saddlebags and hoping to hide their deepest flaws from the public and from other interested parties. Here you see a drawing from my Cosmic Persona Designs collection, Secret Gazer , which asks a certain question of you: Do you want to know a secret? Dreamyfish Art for portraits of certain tropical fish of Western Australia...some may be pretty shady characters like the False senator wrasse , a varmint if there ever was one. If you like the infrequent and possibly groanworthy rhyme (perhaps of the limerick persuasion), try Lim's Limericks as dictated by Mr.A. Cat and his cohort, Lim, my chef and roommate. I'm merely the blog's typist and would-be editor and contributor. Who knew cats could be so political? But as Lim often says, just because you have no interest in Politics, doesn't mean Politics isn't interested in you. Wise...

Comet Skies , drawing by jude cowell 2008.

Here is a full view of A Large Disappointed Audience, a drawing in honor of the Sabian Symbol for '28 Aries.' In his book, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones gives this degree as... ...the transiency of the rewards in a life taken too literally and narrowly in its more superficial terms. Implicit in the reversed symbolism is the disillusionment that comes when an individual learns that he cannot depend on the applause of his fellows, or make the momentary mood of the masses any proper guide for the values he should pursue. There is here the call to a selfhood which can rest secure in its own creative potentiality, catering to nothing exterior to itself. The keyword is: DISJUNCTION... positive manifestation: complete spiritual independence; negative/unconscious/shadow side: a destructive assimilation of the self to every defeat or frustration of human kind. To which I would add: the show must go on! A Large Disappointed Audience, by jude cowell 2008; use b...

Great Lichen Forest with Fairy wants to know why and how can I add yet another blog to my list... It's just crazy, I guess, yet Jude Cowell Art has gone live today so please drop by, sign my Guest Book and add Your Link, then check out the variety of Art~Astrology~Politics content and features available for you! ~:~ Click post's title to visit Jude Cowell Art ~:~ all my online art images/drawings are copyright 2008 by artist, jude cowell; contact for fair use: judecowell at gmail dot com

Circular Paths of an Unscene World, drawing by jude cowell 2008. 'Circular Paths' may refer to Astrology which is the observation and study of planetary orbits and cycles - as well as to labyrinths, of course. Actually, the entire sign of Capricorn is said to be a labyrinth, all 30 degrees of the mer-goat's sign. Unscene World is an imprint I began in 1996 as black paper took over my drafting table and celestial themes became prominent...and I've never, as they say, looked back! They also say that black paper gives depth and a spiritual quality you cannot achieve on white or light paper, and I must agree with them. Here's an example of my early black paper art, Timeless Path , a drawing which won a Merit Award at one of the Olympic Games art venues in Atlanta, GA, summer 1996. Timeless Path is appr 18"x24" (and was sold before the exhibition opened!) but these days my renderings are small enough to fit a scanner bed so that they may be easily publish...

Path to an Ancient Temple , drawing by jude cowell 2008. Yes, I do like paths'n'portals, ancient temples, and greenery, too!

Golden Chanterelles , drawing by Jude Cowell 2008. Announcing: Art images are now on display within the Jude Cowell Art Boutique @zazzle.com and are suitable as Wall Posters. One image, a drawing titled, The Orator , is from Cosmic Persona Designs , a collection of drawings for viewers over the 17+ age range because some of the images may involve what I call Chiffonery Art that is sometimes tagged as "sexy-fun." There are no photos at all. Only Art. Drawings on paper. Quite harmless really.

Fork'd Way drawing by jude cowell (c) 2008. You may wish to scroll down to view my latest creation, an Image Loop Slideshow using a blend of drawn images from Dreamyfish Art , Cosmic Persona Designs , and from Secret Moon Art. It's a virtual smorgasbord of Artiness created just for you, Lone Viewer! And you're cordially invited to sign my Guestbook if you may...you'll see it just above the Art Slideshow. jude

Ant Hill in Evening Light drawing by jude cowell 2008

Winter is on the way and here's A Snowy Path for you to wander! drawing by jude cowell 2008 Jude Cowell Art

Wandering Educators has given me the honor of being their September Artist of the Month with interview and featured images of my drawings, so do check it out! And if you're an artist, educator, photographer, or an associate or a fan of such, you may wish to join this new site ~ Wandering Educators ~ and show your creative content while viewing that of others. Hope to 'see' you there.

It's a magical night and there's a Fairy at Work ...shhh! ~~~ And here's a heads-up for you for you may wish to check out my 24/7 browse-able Art Portfolio at Fine Art America!

Minerva's Glen being one of my all time favorite drawings, I'm adding it here for your viewing or reviewing purposes. Blending 'real with visionary' somehow seems most interesting to me. What do you think? Minerva's Glen by jude cowell 2008

Photographing Ballerinas is not the usual fare for the Secret Moon Art collection, but things are changing around here and the ladies wanted to see what's going on! ~:~ Photographing Ballerinas by jude cowell 2008

Welcome back to the Isle of Ruins, an image of a drawing from 1996 with the usual Prismacolor and Rexel Derwent pencils as the culprits! jude cowell (c) 1996 - 2008 and beyond...

> Candle Bower 2003 Look! here's a photo of one of the Candle Bowers created by yours truly as Uranus (lightening; new ideas) traversed my 5th house of Creativity. This was during my electric art phase, 1995 - 2004...see Cosmic Light Panel below - the photo is a bit fuzzy (from 2000) but it will give you the idea. Wish I could still shape wire, beads, stones, and prisms into a spun stageset of silver, gold, copper, and brass - a decoration meant for candle enjoyment as well as for lighting purposes - but it's not to be. (Beware the nickel content in silver wire!) Mirrors reflected candle flames the better to see you with, and here you observe candle's image at the top of the *bower - wish you could see it in evening light where it really glows. But after 6 years of creating this line of designs, nickel had overly sensitized me and so I gave up creating my line of Wire Art , as I called it then, along with other styles of candle art, plus: mobiles, bead-studded boxes, l...

Night in Celadon Forest , a newly completed drawing by jude cowell 2008.

Venus Rising by jude cowell (c) 2008 Update June 10, 2015: Venus, Politics, Presidents, Astrology, Zodiacs, and Washington DC by Jude Cowell How curious that I posted Venus Rising in 2008 since I discovered only recently that April 6, 2008 is what some call the first day of the current Venus Cycle. So considering the 8-year cycle of planet #Venus there is hidden significance in America's 2016 Election/s because 2008 + 8 = 2016 . And let us not leave out our Founding Fathers' preference for a goddess-worshiping mystery religion. If a woman is elected president in 2016, we will have uplifted once again matriarchal rule after centuries of paternalism. Although political conservatives and Evangelicals in the US prefer to call them 'Christians', Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and our other Utopian founders are usually listed as 'Deists' and most people are aware of their secret society connections such as Freemasonry, Illuminism, and Rosicrucianism. Ye...

View of a 1999 Cosmic Light Panel, one of several I created back in the electrified art days leading up to the New Millennium: Formed upon a wooden frame with fabric, wire, beads, colored electric lights, and mirrors, this Panel sits unobtrusively near me as I type and must be plugged into a wall outlet to see what you're seeing in the photo. The brightest object--representing Chiron, the Wounded Healer--is actually a small prism hung behind the fabric with a bulb set to spotlight it. Ahh, the glowiness of 1999!

Something a bit different for Secret Moon Art... Neptune's Daughter and friend, by jude cowell (c) 2008 Actually this pencilic rendering is an expression of Mercury's links to the astrological 12th house of the Unconscious and its typical feeling of thoughts floating up from the Unconscious realm which is symbolized in our dreams by Neptune's province, the ocean. And that includes the Collective Unconscious--as Cetus the Whale and this mer -maid could agree!

Hi! it's Christmas 1972, Athens, Georgia, USA. Here's a smeer of red lipstick to welcome you back to Secret Moon Art !

Pleiades Sisters, a drawing by jude cowell (c) 2008. Yes, it's true that Secret Moon Art is not usually where I publish figure studies unless they have starry connections. So here's a photo of the Pleiades , the most auspicious and identifiable Taurean star cluster of all, the mythology of which appears in many cultures as a hen with chicks, a flock of doves, and for my drawing purposes, The Seven Sisters. Which is which? You decide: it's Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno, and Alcyone, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione, as represented in whimsical human form by your artist of the evening, Jude Cowell. And tonight is Earth Hour from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, if it hasn't come to your time zone already...it will be a good chance to view the stars without the usual light polution and save some wattage simultaneously!

Trail to the Moon , drawing by jude cowell (c) secret moon art 2008 Use only by express permission of artist

Here's a drawing from my Nostalgia Files, Moon Reflection Pyramids, done on white paper--way back in 1995! (c) secret moon art 2008 by jude cowell

Pink Fairy Pink Dawn, drawing by jude cowell (c) 2008 Use by express permission only

Cloudy Moon Night --drawing on left, and the same drawing above but with sprigs of fresh-blooming rosemary from my garden scanned upon it just for fun. Cloudy Moon Night by jude cowell (c) secret moon art 2008+

Totally made this up--to my knowledge there are no such things as Blue Trumpet Flowers, but there is moonlight and my imagination. Blue Trumpet Flower by jude cowell 2008 Use only by express permission of artist. Which reminds me...I heard that the Hollywood writers' strike may be ending soon which is good because I want to see more episodes of my favorite new show: Moonlight. I'm not a fan of the vampire normally but a humanitarian vampire is a difficult paradox to ignore! ~:~ Yes, Moonlight came back from the writers' strike but was cancelled at the end of its run - which grumped me up considerably. Anti-kudos to CBS. :-(

Lady Unmasking is drawn and published in honor of the Feb 7, 2008 Solar Eclipse in the 10 North Series. Keyphrases for this Series which last manifested on Jan 26, 1990 (so similar issues may resurface from that time period) are: strong emphasis on communications; frustrating or inhibiting events occur relating to news, paperwork, or a young person; a draining of energy--take things quietly for there's an element of fatigue with this Series. (Brady's Predictive Astrology. ) Yes, Lady Unmasking is a bit of a departure for Secret Moon Art, for my figure studies and mask-related images are usually published at Cosmic Persona Designs with Children's, Botanical, and Fairy Art published here at SMA. Plus, I hope you don't mind a smidge of Astrology with your Art today! I have sashayed into Astrology here before--it is Secret Moon Art, after all. Why "Unmasking"? The reason some folk call this the Unmasking Eclipse is because it falls at "18Aquarius"...

My botanical drawing of these mystical little Indian pipes shows them rising in ghostly cluster from a shadowed forest floor. Indian pipes are sometimes mistaken for fungi but they are a true flowering plant. Yet their leaves lack chlorophyll and present as scales along the stems. Therefore they are unable to manufacture food, so their tangly masses of rootlets live quite intimately with subterranean fungi. Both then take their sustenance from decaying organic matter and from living tree roots. Blooming in summer, Indian pipes' single nodding cup-shaped flowers do resemble small clay pipes atop their waxy stems. And who can say that fairies don't play tunes upon these lovely creations of nature-- or puff a puff or two? Indian pipes by jude cowell (c) 2008 Use only by express permission of artist.

Fairy Glen is a drawing about to be donated to my local Mental Health Benefit Art Auction...like? Fairy Glen by jude cowell 2008; Use only with artist's express permission. Thanks.

Beyond synchronicity? Two years ago when I rendered this drawing to illustrate the Sabian Symbol for the 12th degree of Cancer, "A Chinese Woman Nursing a Baby with a Message" I was unaware that in August 2012, Venus will be "stationary in the hand of Orion" ( Signs in the Sky, Adrian Gilbert) in mid-degrees of Gemini. This relates to the cataclysm of 2012 predicted in the Mayan Calendar and in ancient Egyptian texts--and Venus is the prime planetary actor in the drama. (And in Astrology, Venus may be considered a significator of a woman, as well as of values, relationships, aesthetics, beauty and the Arts, and money.) Most people have heard by now that the three pyramids at Giza line up with the stars in the Belt of Orion (though some may dispute it.) My religious friends have told me for 30 years or so that Christ's Second Coming will be from the direction of the Belt of Orion. And a certain prophet has predicted a Shaking of worldwide proportions--which soun...

Here's a small illustration of the wild flower Self-Heal . Click image to enlarge if it seems too dark for your computer screen... drawing compliments of your artist this evening, jude cowell (c)2008+.