A Mask Beyond

This image is usually the sort I upload to Cosmic Persona Designs and I know you can see why.

Enjoy!

pink fairy in rain

Path Home in Blue

Can a path be cozy-looking?

Misty Night v2

The background is coming into focus now...is this what you envisioned? (see previous image) It may not be the great green gobs of granulated gopher guts that you imagined, dunno...but it'll have to do.

Now! should a fairy pop out of the bushes...or not? Either way is fine with me but you know that sometimes fairies insinuate themselves unbidden into my drawings and I know of no remedy for it.

Let me know what you think by emailing to judecowell@gmail dot com for I would like to finish this drawing before the cows come home. They'll be tired and grumpy.

Misty Night...in part

Having no idea where this drawing is "heading" I produce it for you here in an incomplete stage barely half-done.

Hopefully the next image I publish in the Secret Moon Art collection will be the finished version of Misty Night but if not, I will link to it.

Any ideas what's back there in the shadows? I suppose the Moon must be hiding for the time being but what else?

when the White Bird Returns to the White Tree

Ahhh! Then all will be well.






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Hidden Garden re-revealed!

With Mercury now retrograde (Rx) in Cancer (sign of the primordial sludge) I'm re-publishing Hidden Garden to create good reason for stopping by and pointing you toward the rockin' photography of planetary, natural, and landscape images by Alan Friedman at Averted Imagination and see Alan's excellent photo of Comet McNaught streaking across the heavens here.

Alan's site is from Secret Moon Art's Don't Miss file!

Orion Rising

Kassandra Blessings

Now you may not appreciate Kassandra's Blessings--her prophecies were true but no one believed them--but here she is to see you all the same!

Snug at Home

Knock knock!

Moon Roots

Tree grove on a lonely moonlit night!

Full Moon at Green Arch Observatory

Tonight's Full Moon appearing with the jolly planet Jupiter has inspired one of my 'observatory' drawings (Prismacolor oil pencils and Rexel Derwent watercolours.)

To read why this Full Moon actually isn't a Blue Moon as some have called it read NPR's Blue Moon? article or listen to the broadcast from this morning.

Night of the Painted bunting

Painted buntings lay low in shrubs and bushes unless and until they're lookin' for luv...guess this fellow must be on his way to a secret rendezvous!

Primula vialii in Moonlight

This Primrose, Primula viallii is a hardy and deciduous perennial which forms rosettes of somewhat hairy, toothed leaves over which bloom poker-like spikes of tubular flowers that are crimson when in bud but later open to violet-purple in summer (it's double L in 'viallii'...sorry, but if I change the post title it'll mess with the link.)

Neutral to acid soil in partial shade for these little ladies, please!

The fairy just showed up unannounced and unbidden...you may have to click to enlarge to see her there.

You'll find new art uploaded at Cosmic Persona Designs for your personal viewing pleasure...

Jude Cowell

Her Yellow Dress now completed!

Her Yellow Dress in its original version was first published here in December 2006.

Drawing by jude cowell 2007 - 2012.

Cinnamon teal: just ducky!

Here's a Cinnamon teal on the lake in the moonlight...

Buddha-esque Baby!

In these chaotic times a calm and still mind is above price and Buddha-esque Baby wishes one for you!


(c)2007 secret moon art

Evening Path (new drawing)

Walk with me? We'll pick camellias...

Green Art for Earth Day 2007

Here's a new drawing, Unscene World, in honor of Earth Day. You see the phases of the Moon as the moonbushes grow in response to moonbeams--from the dark of the Moon, to New Moon, Crescent Moon, Gibbous Moon, and Full.

If you'd like to see more cooling green art mosey over to Cosmic Persona Designs if you wish...I'd love to see you there, and let's

Save the Planet, Yall!

At Turquoise Look-Out

Here's Pattillo Armadillo at Turquoise Look-Out! See his little noggin peeking up as he enjoys the celestial show?


(c)2004 Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green.

a simple green valley

Nothing to say about this drawing that I can think of. You?

Is That YOU Behind the Fronds?

Lurking about behind the fronds won't sneak you a very good peek at this little Sailfin cardinalfish, Pterapogon mirifica (Mees) so you may as well swim out from behind the foliage for a full view of the Dreamyfish Art Gallery where you may catch a closer look at this fellow and at a few of his cousins and neighbors in the process.

Limited Edition Color Prints, PostCards (pks of single image or mix) are available of the images from all my online galleries and collections:

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Ordering details: judecowell at gmail dot com with payment bwo PayPal available.

And when you have a chance be sure to visit my Lulu Storefront for downloadable Art just for you..if there's an image from any of my Galleries that you'd like to see at Lulu, let me know!

Veratrum with Moonbushes

A botanical rendering of Veratrum with a patch of imaginary Moonbushes...Saturn's realism with Neptune's illusion...the kind of art I prefer two to one!

See more of this combination at Dreamyfish Art...real fish inside their favorite dreams--have a sneak peek!

Veratrum nigrum

Here's a partial version of my rendering of this lovely perennial with the 'fini version' to be uploaded soon. Let's make do 'til then.

Veratrum's berries range in shades of red-brown to black with leafish foliage that's quite lush, as you can see. The usual Silvery Tree Path is in the background. Silvery Tree Path is my first-ever dummy book created for children.

My second offering, Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green was requested to attend an audience at Little, Brown in NYC and made the trip up North and back South to Georgia just fine. But no contract was clutched between his grabby claws yet he was gratified to interview about his Hero's Journey within the walls of such a prestigious and established publishing house.

Lone Critter, did you navigate here from my pages at Gather.com? If so, please leave a comment so I'll know you were about the place, okee dokee?

Else how will I ever know? All attributions are appreciated as well and Link Trades are welcome.

Contact: LimsLimericks@yahoo.com

Pink Fairy armadillo

This little Pink Fairy is being spied upon from behind the tree by Pattillo Armadillo for Pattillo has never seen such a critter before...even though they must be cousins!

Do you have any 'mystery cousins' you've never seen the likes of before?

Under the 'Shroom Home Snooze

Here's Pattillo Armadillo snoozing underneath a 'Shroom Home while on his hero's journey...as told in, Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green. This drawing was a reject from his 'dummybook' but he looks pretty snugged in, don't you think?

Only the zzz-z-z-z-zs are missing!

And be sure to check out the latest political limericks at Lim's Limericks where cats-who-blog hold sway with verve and sass.

You May Cross the Great Water

Drawing by jude cowell, as inspired by the I Ching.

(c) 2007 - 2012

Ruins at Juniper Pass

This drawing is from a rainy night's dream...

Ann, Sybil, and Maeve

This drawing probably belongs more in the Cosmic Persona Designs Gallery but here it is anyway sans Moon...

The Fork'd Way

Whether it's the road not taken, or the path you're on, Crossroads represent decision-making time...are you ready?

'Shroom Home by the Lake

This drawing of a 'shroom home is a reject from my first-ever childrens book--or the dummybook actually--called, Silvery Tree Path...just so you know.

Looks cozy if you're elfin-sized or of the fairy persuasion.

Crying to the Hills

She's crying for Peace on Earth...can you hear her?

Pattillo Reaches the Great Lichen Forest

This drawing is from Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green and shows a scene near the end of the story. You see Pattillo mustering his energy for the final leg of his journey...short little legs and all.

You see, the Great Lichen Forest was an ancient growth and contained within the smaller Blue Tree Forest.

Click on above title to stop by my pages at Gather.com, why doncha? We'll schmooze. Click on My Articles and look for one about Pattillo's dummybook and its journey to New York City...and alas, back home again a mere month or so later...but with a comlimentary Editor's Letter in tow in honor of his valiant exertions.

At www.gather.com, tea or coffee are optional...or as Abraham Lincoln is said to have said so amusingly: if this is tea, bring me coffee. If this is coffee, bring me tea.

(c)2007 Unscene World by Jude Cowell

Blue Tree Forest

Here is one of several drawings done since 2003 of various views of Blue Tree Forest. Is the moon hiding?

Blue Tree Forest: a clearing

North's Carpet under Full Moon

Here's a new drawing for Secret Moon Art...can you tell how much I love moss?

(c)2007 Paths'n'Portals series

by Jude Cowell

hyper-flora

Here's an older, rather odd drawing for Secret Moon Art...what do you think?

A Large Disappointed Audience

Jan 29, 2007

A Large Disappointed Audience

(from the Sabian Symbols)

Cosmic Persona Designs (c)07

by Jude Cowell

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

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.~

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

cat in very green chair

Comfy cozy and very very green!


tags: Art Moon Art Cats in Art

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

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

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