Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Emerging Visions May 2011 issue: Mad Majicks!



Fantastic! Good news has arrived: the May 2011 issue of Emerging Visions has dropped!

This issue has a mystical Mad Majicks theme with fabulously creative flash poetry included so do check it out at your leisure.

Above you see a small slice of my offering for the May 2011 art-zine #20 where the complete image of 'Shroom Trio may be viewed.

Enjoy!

Friday, May 20, 2011

Be advised that Troubles Can Swim!



Troubles Can Swim, a Neptune-inspired illustration touting moderation in all things, as drawn by Jude Cowell.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Something New: Psyche Jones' Art Slideshow!

In a flurry of something different than the usual Secret Moon Art fare, here's Miss Psyche Jones presenting a newly created Psychedelic Art Slideshow just for you...and yes, you'll find a 1970s version of yours truly at Slideshow's end sporting a 60s-inspired 'shag' haircut!




All Art copyrighted by artist Jude Cowell; share but no derivatives please. Thanks!


Saturday, May 07, 2011

Our universal Diluvian Flux flows on



As our universal Diluvian Flux flows on, this cosmically inspired illustration depicting such has cycled up! Plus, you'll find that 24/7 art browsing is readily available when you visit my Jude Cowell Art portfolio.

Colored pencil on Paper rules!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Oldie-But-Moldie Art? Yes, a Moonlighter returns!



Pencil portrait of a Moonlighter of Western Australia by Jude Cowell of Athens, Georgia USA. All rights reserved (c) 2011

Not the usual fare here on Secret Moon Art yet the little fellow floated in from Dreamyfish Art just as I was sweeping up for the day...

And if you'd care to view this Moonlighter as an art print - with all the great magnifying features of Zazzle.com - try this link which may take an hour or so to update.

Good-bye for now!

jc 7:30 pm edt

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Gladiolas in Moonlight for an early Spring 2011!



Gladiolas in Moonlight seems quite an appropriate image for Secret Moon Art today considering our recent and lovely early Spring weather!

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Art Alert 3.3.11: a new art print has been added today in my Jude Cowell Art Shop @ Zazzle, if you'd like to mosey over. Title: Lilith in Fringe Bikini. See? Spring is busting out all over!

Also, my latest art blog, Cosmic Lilith Art, is now open for public viewing.

And if you're wondering where you can find a science-y/poem-y blog, you may wish to try Woolly Mammoth Chronicles just for fun, w Science News & videos complimentary.

Plus, botanical fish portraits are always viewable @ Dreamyfish Art along with Marine News, videos, & more. jc

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Petrifyin'! Spooky Fairy Night most PVs ever!

Zounds! My drawing Spooky Fairy Night takes all the cake crumbs as Secret Moon Art's top ranking most-viewed image ever.

Published here November 2009, almost 900 peeks have accrued for what really is a simple drawing of white on black. Some shading has been added but only by hand.

As for your part, m'dears, I'd say 900 peeks is Very Well Done!


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Secret Moon Art: five years & still publishing the original drawings and paper collage images of Jude Cowell!



Edge of Petrified Forest, all art copyright of artist-author

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Here's something you might enjoy. Or not. :D

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Why are Van Gogh's Sunflowers fading to Brown?

Someone seems to have discovered the reason why over the years Vincent Van Gogh's famous yellow Sunflowers have been fading into a brownish haze. Don't leave us, Van Gogh's Sunflowers! Even if you are a floral symbol of monarchy!

(Sun = Leo = natural ruler = divine right of kings, as they think.)

Well, truth is, I have no sunflowers about the place for publishing here but I can sympathize with one of my favorite master painters. If only he could be around to decry this unfortunate fading which is seemingly due to something Van Gogh added to his palette himself to make his colors...brighter! It's a sad and classic case of unintended consequences, right?

This reminds me of some artwork I perpetrated in 1996, the first I'd drawn on black paper since high school art classes; then I had photos taken of the pieces which were transferred onto slides - no desktop publishing then, at least not for moi.

But when I scanned the slides for my art files later on, I found that a certain fading, yellowing, or, browning had occurred which you may just be able to peek through in this example of an original illustration from 1996, Pattillo Armadillo Arrives Late:



There's Pattillo on the grassy bank, upper left, as he arrives too late for an important neighborhood meeting (as the story goes.) If only the community's organizers had had Twitter in 1996! That's a falling star plunking into the water and some curious fish investigating.

Actually, this is one of the first portraits I ever did of my children's book character Pattillo Armadillo and it illustrates a story which I won't regale you with now. Compare the above drawing's 3rd generation, muddied tones to the much more recent drawing, same character, Pattillo Finds Mystery Footprints (at the Pond), below:



A clear difference, yes? ;p

Well, great tasks can be accomplished these days by expert art restorers and I hope their skills and experience may successfully rescue the fading Sunflowers of Vincent Van Gogh.

To read a brief yet intimate profile concerning the hero's journey of the inestimable Pattillo Armadillo, click here for a Gather feature with pictures.

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Scroll this blog's sidebar for links to Art Slideshows of all sorts, floral and more.

And for 24/7 art browsing, mosey on by Blue Tiger Art Shop, or check out my Zazzle Store as you wish...

Monday, January 24, 2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Tea Party at 318 Silvery Tree Path!



318 Silvery Tree Path is a fairly recent drawing inspired by the first children's dummy book I ever created called Silvery Tree Path. Fairies were not supposed to show up in my drawings back then for they weren't consciously invited, yet pink fairies appeared anyway which is a typical happening when you draw on black paper!

You know, there's something about black paper that I've always liked. Perhaps it's the 3D feeling I get when shading layers of colors as images form and seem to come out of the blank page toward the viewer which encourages whatever visionary or visualizing ability a pencil artist possesses. Actually there's almost a sculptural quality which I never get when drawing on white paper.

There can be a definite spiritual, cosmic quality as well - perhaps because the black areas suggest an abundant cosmos of vast space to my astrologer's eye. I am a fan of the cosmos!

Anyway, you see here one of my 'shroomhome' illustrations wherein tea and buttery scones are served in front of the fireplace each evening and one reads fascinating books late into the night...

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If you like cosmically inclined art, you may also be interested in viewing Night Scene of a Secret Moon which retains a lot of the black paper before the drawing was completed and colored. Wish I'd left it in this unfinished version!

Oh, and I added some Cetus the Whale info, too, for good measure.
jc