She who knows herself. The Toji - gateway between two worlds - the waking world - the dream world, the spirit realm. The moon. The waking world - Eve - an island in the eternal coiling sea of the dreamworld - Tiamat -While Eve obeys to mans demand - the spirit of Lilith does not. She does not fear her own desires - she knows herself. Bound in the state between the worlds - the hypnagogic state. Unable to move - sleepparalysis. She enter the abbyss... for sho does not fear her

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with the possibilities of color.Then I focus on values only an try grayscale. Painted this one on Bamboo-Paper with japanese Sumi ink, and pencils.

The last two years have been one of the worst in regards of my personal art-journey.Not that I already had to struggle with an "artist-block", and mountains of inner doubts,but also the rise of arteficial generated images pushed me near the boarder of an "art-depression"... It just feels... not an encouraging time to start a little "art-career" - whatever that means - and connect topeople on a genuine basis. And thats not to say, that I myself am not impressed by some of the

Wandering on the edge of the hypnagogic state, she trusts the fall into the realm of the dream, to perceive the inner world... Connected to " She who lets go " in the Oracleia... Pencil, Japanese Sumi ink & genuine tibetan gold-leaf on Bamboo-Paper

Pencil on Paper, Watercolor & Gouache. A version of " The Muse of Magic " in the Oracleia.

This is a piece that is still waiting for completion...

Moon-Moth - Graphite on Paper

Thanks to  STelari  for her suggestion! I really was surprised how much feedback I got after the suggestion of my painting "Muse of the solitude" as Daily Deviation. It really works as kind of a catalyst for my trie to stepping onto the way of an artist.  Thank you so much, and thanks to the community of  deviant-art.

The goddess of decisions - sumi ink painting The Muse of decisions  indicates that there is no "right" or "wrong" decision here. It is rather the act itself of making a decision that is right in that moment. She holds two keys, one of each that opens a possible alternative reality that opens behind her gateway, unified only in the center of her holy place.

No Scetches were done for this one. Sometimes I am not in the mood for "planning" my works... It´s more the way of "natural growing", with all the mistakes that may happen that I like. So I started with a "wild" layer of traditional japanese Sumi Ink, and then try to "see" the picture. You don´t know were you are about to going with this method, but sometimes it works... just go with the flow... Here are some work in progress images.I choose this as a cover for my very first

Finally I did it. This picture was a lot of work, even if it may not look so. There are lots and lots of layers of soft grey washes done here. It may not reach the hundred-mark, but I am sure there are about 60-80 layers. For those who are interested in, I managed to remind my self of taking some work in progress pictures... so here they are: Here you can see... almost nothing. But a thing you can notice is how fine chinese rice paper is. It really is nearly about transparent

After a while, not being able to paint, I decided to finish this pice : Like most pictures I do this time, there was no sketch for this one... Unfortunately, I did no earlier picture of this painting. I just forget about that, while I am painting :(   Have to think about next time… I did a rough and wet in wet wash, for getting some texture and than try to see the ready painting in this… After being so far, I found the yellow a little bit too light, and the moon to less in co

I started now, making such small “Notans”, finding them to be a good help in planning a picture. Even if the later painting is with colors, the tone-values have a very important rule, in how the picture impact on the viewers eyes. You can have the most beautifully colors, but the will not work, if you use no different values, and on the other hand, with a good composition of dark and lighter values, it must not be necessary to use too much colors, for the image to bound the v