Here's an older, rather odd drawing for Secret Moon Art...what do you think?
Monday, February 05, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
A Large Disappointed Audience
Jan 29, 2007
A Large Disappointed Audience
(from the Sabian Symbols)
Cosmic Persona Designs (c)07
by Jude Cowell
Saturday, January 27, 2007
The Eye on the Wall
...featuring a coffin excavated from Deir el Balah...Moshe Dayan had a paw in the retrieval and collectorship of 20 of them. This design is a semi-rendition of one of the more anthropoid of the lot--anthropoid because they have human facial features.
Deir el Balah is south of Gaza on the coastal plain. The sarcophagi date to the 14-13th centuries BC, a time when when Egypt's New Kingdom empire may have extended into southern Canaan.
The identity of the residents of these effigies could be anyone's guess but a few of the usual suspects range from military officials, Egyptian civil servants and engineers, and other dignitaries.
I can assure you that the 20 coffins make a solemn assemblage of the first water each with his expressive face in a different pose or style.
Last I heard (my info is from a Biblical Archaeology Review magazine from the July/August 1986 issue...a bit outdated yet valuable as a perspective which one may hear echoing from 1986. It's a fascinating magazine/hardcopy from the past, that's what it is.)
Moshe Dayan, amateur archaeologist and Israeli general, collected many more items than you might think he should have...perhaps you do, perhaps you don't.
But the point may always be made that if Dayan had not had the means and the willpower to do this collecting, the coffins might have been decimated by bulldozers or just never discovered in that sandy old cemetery...these relics are quite older than what most people have truck with in their daily grinds unless you hang with the museum herds which are liable to be grazing about.
Back Then
Dayan's widow was paid 1 million dollars for the Collection thus keeping it intact at the time but that was 20+ years ago, people! Someone get to Googling or ixquicking, ok?
Because I wonder if the Boys are still together? ;D
Deir el Balah is south of Gaza on the coastal plain. The sarcophagi date to the 14-13th centuries BC, a time when when Egypt's New Kingdom empire may have extended into southern Canaan.
The identity of the residents of these effigies could be anyone's guess but a few of the usual suspects range from military officials, Egyptian civil servants and engineers, and other dignitaries.
I can assure you that the 20 coffins make a solemn assemblage of the first water each with his expressive face in a different pose or style.
Last I heard (my info is from a Biblical Archaeology Review magazine from the July/August 1986 issue...a bit outdated yet valuable as a perspective which one may hear echoing from 1986. It's a fascinating magazine/hardcopy from the past, that's what it is.)
Moshe Dayan, amateur archaeologist and Israeli general, collected many more items than you might think he should have...perhaps you do, perhaps you don't.
But the point may always be made that if Dayan had not had the means and the willpower to do this collecting, the coffins might have been decimated by bulldozers or just never discovered in that sandy old cemetery...these relics are quite older than what most people have truck with in their daily grinds unless you hang with the museum herds which are liable to be grazing about.
Back Then
Dayan's widow was paid 1 million dollars for the Collection thus keeping it intact at the time but that was 20+ years ago, people! Someone get to Googling or ixquicking, ok?
Because I wonder if the Boys are still together? ;D
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Chiron
In the years 2027-28 Chiron returns to discovery degree 3Tau08--three times due to retrogradation.
This drawing is a paltry representation of just such a wondrous night as may be expected from a Wounded Healer who cares.
The Sabian Symbol for '4 Taurus' is "A Rainbow's Pot of Gold" and describes the rewards which are guaranteed by an eternal covenant between the least of individuality and the universal matrix of life itself.
The keyword for this Symbol is FAITH in the Marc Edmund Jones' version of the Sabian Symbols, quoted above.
Dane Rudyar gives this Symbol as COMMUNION, involving a transubstantiation of matter.
Keynote: Riches that come from linking the celestial and the earthly nature.
'What the linking process brings to the individual consciousness is elusive, as the rainbow never ends where you are, yet it is the source of symbolic, universally valid wealth.'
Sounds great to me!
~:~The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Jones; An Astrological Mandala, Rudhyar.~
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Mossy Cave Observatory
For some Plutonian reason, I've always like to draw caves as starry observatories...it's fascinating to me to think of watching the heavens bwo a cave...from one extreme to the other, I suppose. You might say it relates to using Astrology for depth Psychology, mightn't you?
So how do you like this view?
tags: Art Moon Art Pluto Astrology
Friday, January 12, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
deFleur Collection: Peony Faeries
Botanical drawings of flowers in magical environments...the deFleur Collection.
Now appearing: Peony Faeries! As flowers go, I adore peonies, don't you?
tags: Art Peonies Fairies deFLeur Collection Drawing Prismacolor Pencils
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Mrs Cholmondeley arrives!
To open a new wing of Secret Moon Art...the deFleur Portraits Collection:
Clematis, 'Mrs. Cholmondeley' has bustled into Secret Moon Art to take Tea with all her friends!
tags: Flower Art Gather Mrs Cholmondeley deFleur Portraits
Monday, January 01, 2007
Poisoned Apples of the world
Happy New Year to All from Secret Moon Art! Here are some words for 2007 with some good and free advice about some poisoned apples I have known and chomped on...
how about you?
tags: Art 2007 Poisoned Apples
Want more art? How about Dreamyfish Art for botanical drawings of tropical fish, or Cosmic Persona Designs for an electic mix of archetypal portraits?
And I'm loathe to inform that there's been a dastardly kitnapping over at Lim's Limericks which mysteriously relates to the former spy-cats who hang about the place blogging...
Plus, you'll find a Mozart tribute with one of my pencil renderings of the Maestro at Stars Over Washington written while the Metropoltican Opera broadcast--in Real Time!--the English version of The Magic Flute all over the world Saturday...Herr Mozart the Ultimate!
Stop by for a schmooze with me at judecowell.gather.com and see what's been harvested and gathered at Gather. Hope to see you there!
tags: Art Poisoned Apples Secret Moon Art Mozart
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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
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
Friday, December 29, 2006
Gladiolus in Moonlight
Gladiolus papilio: perennial, full sun, drained soil...and a little moonlight...
tags: Art Flowers Flower Art Moon Art
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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
Saturday, December 16, 2006
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
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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
And be sure to look for my drawing, Journey to Neptune!
tags: Art Moon Art Emerging Visions
Monday, December 11, 2006
Penelope Ponders
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
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
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