The Art of Marabelle

Are you a creative right brain person, or an analytical left brain person? Right brains are full of art, passion, and creativity. They are free spirits who yearn for color, movement, and sensation. Their imaginations are boundless, their appetites endless. They write poetry, and laugh, and cry, and feel deeply. They eat dessert first. Their brains ooze with rainbows and unicorns and they cannot remember that thing they forgot that time...

Perhaps I will make a Left Brain art print for someone later. I'm not sure how it will look because my side of the brain is full of unicorns and rainbows today, and I'm not sure what Left Brains are full of. The left side of this brain is dark, and filled with stars, because it is sleeping. Zzzz... 

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A silly narwhale playing with a colorful rainbow, and dreaming of unicorns under the sea. This is a watercolor style fine art print suitable for anyone of any age, but is particularly delightful to children. I did this one after a conversation I overheard about unicorns and one kid sensibly pointed out that we still have unicorns, because they became narwhales. 

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In progress. I don't know if I like it yet. I had her hair streaming up, and I liked that, but I wanted something traveling out of her, like the butterflies, "free you mind". But Now her hair is gone and I'm not sure I like the butterflies as much. Maybe I need to work on it a bit more. In any event, I LOVE the colors of the amethyst cluster and the starry night behind.

Dreamer, floating in the twilight, and exploding with stars. This is a cropped "detail" of the larger piece. I haven't titled this formally yet, but I am hoping to have a whole series of them shortly. I actually created this the day David Bowie died. I think there must have been a great disturbance in the universe that day, some enormous outpouring of energy. I got a wild hair to want to create this (and the next one), and then I discovered that he was gone and I got very bummed out. That man was... absolutely amazing. He changed worlds, created universes, he moved the stars for us all. I'm still going to finish the series I started outlining, but it may some time. I need to dream on it.

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This is the full view of the finished piece. You can order a museum quality giclee print from me on Etsy, or as canvas art and other fine products on Society6.

This city, glowing green, as the dreamers rise above it merging with the starry night sky, releasing their rainbow minds into the stars, it makes me feel peaceful somehow, and excited at the possibility. This is a cropped "detail" of the larger piece.

Prints of this series are now available on my Etsy shop and also on Society6 as canvas art, home decor, and tees.

This is the full view of the finished piece. You can order a museum quality giclee print from me on Etsy, or as canvas art and other fine products on Society6.

I don't know where I was going with this, but I laughed and laughed. A neighbor's kid was just in Florida and was in a boat on a river floating along with the manatees, and she thought that one experience was "better than Disneyworld". I am quoting her. HA!

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I shall have to work a little more on these birds, for I'd wanted them to be far more colorful. If you look, this is meant to resemble the shape of a woman's southern triangle area, with a "bush", two birds peeking out (which could be ovaries), and the line of the tropical tree in the middle. The crescent moon is the bellybutton. It was suggested that I add a snake dangling down or winding up. It was extremely vexing that the majority of people who came to the show drank a lot of wine and ignored the amusing verses entirely. Many of the images in this series have hidden innuendos, double meanings, and are sometimes a rebus. It seemed that no one was able to answer a single riddle I posed, but they all enjoyed the carefully curated atmosphere of music, candles, bowls of fruit to eat, and plenty of books to browse.

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If there is baobab tree spirit, she would be a giant, voluptuous, magical woman. The baobab tree is a survivor. It grows extremely large, provides shade in the African heat, stores thousands of gallons of water, survives drought, produces pods that can be eaten as nutritious food, and hollows out over time, creating a structure for animals or people to live in. I have given her a fern leaf tattoo, which is a symbol for one who has endured great hardship and re-emerged.

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In Entymology, there's a thing called "gynandromorphism", where an insect has characteristics of both male and female. It's most easily seen in butterflies, though a gynandromorph may be more ambiguous in appearance. In Biology, this is referred to as a "hermaphrodite". This extremely special piece combines a statement about the beauty in androgyny with butterflies, my favorite constellation (the Pleiades, or "seven sisters"), readings about the temples of Aphrodite from ancient times, and the most beautiful banana flower. This variety actually IS a purple color with rust red petals. I tried to make them more like tongues, but it was apparently not as obvious to everyone.

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Oh, green goddess, how juicy are your lovely curves, how Rubenesque are your fertile fields. An Earth Goddess would be ample and round, plump with green chlorophyll, covered with bioluminescent tattoos, and dancing with wreaths of flowers like a Maenad in a dream. This fairy has a lovely garland of flowers and a Dutch bouquet head. Future versions of this will likely have a textured background or landscape of some kind. I love to reinvent and improve my art.

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One of my favorite poems is Christina Rossetti's "The Goblin Market" (1859). In it, it describes a mouthwatering assortment of exotic fruits, including obscure fruits that are no longer widely available. I discovered that the names of many fruits have changed since the 1800s, and as a trawled for images to see what some of these fruits looked like, I thought I would represent the oddest and most bizarre fruit varieties. I desired to show the kinds of things a person, once seduced, might find at a Goblin Market. The poem itself is overtly something. It's been speculated that Rossetti was making a statement about the seduction of drugs at that time and "fallen women", though it could easily have been about temptation and desire. The desire for magical places and things of fairyland could represent forbidden freedoms denied women. Or it could simply be the desire for exotic fresh produce (which was not available in great abundance at that time).

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Goblin Market
by Christina Rossetti

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
“Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpeck’d cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;—
All ripe together
In summer weather,—
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine,
Dates and sharp bullaces,
Rare pears and greengages,
Damsons and bilberries,
Taste them and try:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy.”

I replicated a color chart from an 18th century one, and I already see that I'll need to fix the linework. I tried to offer up fancy fruits that fit the colors, and made the subtle point that you should try to have a little variety in your diet. You can use that as a metaphor for whatever you like.

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This combines my love of the art piece "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose", with my love of the tasteful female nude, the tale of The Three Graces (Charm, Beauty, and Creativity), and the Japanese flower language of Hanakotoba, which is even more complex than Victorian floriography. I have added one more "grace" to these lovely green flower spirits, which is Love. In Japan, the Shinto religion says that everything has a spirit, and these spirits are called Kami. Of course, when I was naming this piece, I couldn't help myself by making an amusing take on "Sisterhood of the Traveling PANTS".

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There is a story by the late Ray Bradbury, by the same name, written in 1951.  As I remember it, surveyors travel by rocket ship to an alien planet, and find a veritable paradise. The planet appears to be able to manifest whatever they desire, but in the distance, they can hear tigers roaring. When they decide to leave, the planet turns hostile, but one man decides to stay behind. As the others flee to the ship, they hear the exotic sounds of women laughing in the jungle where they had heard tigers before, and as the rocket takes off, they see the planet in flames, but know that it is just an illusion. I made my tiger women seductive and a little trashy with their tiger print teddies. I have a circus tiger poster in my house, a replica of a real antique one that I had when I was a child. I suppose in some way, there's a jungle in me somewhere.

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A great many people had their photos taken next to this print at the show, and as simplistic as it is, it was a popular piece! There's just something about grapes that just look hilarious, and when I was browsing fruit to see what caught my fancy, all I wanted to do was make them into bunches of boobies. An interesting things I found out is that only a hundred years ago, there were so many more cultivars of fruit available, and now there are so few varietals in supermarkets. There were once so many beautiful kinds of grapes, its no wonder artists, poets, and writers have been inspired.

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This is the flagship piece in my most recent art illustration series, and a spin-off of my most popular illustration "Lady Garden". I feel this is a more highly evolved anatomical botanical, more detailed, even more breathtakingly beautiful. People have commented how empowering and healing these images are, my lush, bountiful gardens, these Edens blooming from the very heart of creation. It's interesting to note that all the floral elements in this illustration are truly tropical, and I was excited when my sister (who has been down in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica since last summer), actually saw and photographed an Aristolochia. That's the curly purple-pink flower there in the middle, the "opening". They're extremely large blooms you could wear as a hat, and from the side, they look like a curly cornucopia. There are many types of Aristolochia, and they all look like lady parts, but I like this pink one best. The most perfect thing about doing this series was all the interesting information I learned about botany and the history of this kind of art.

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From one of my favorite, upbeat songs, this lovely octopuses garden. (I could also chuckle about the James Bond movie Octopussy.) This contains a yellow octopus, and I was going to add blue-ringed octopus spots on the legs to either side, but ran out of time. I discovered some interesting things about octopuses while I was researching: they have a brain in each leg, and they cultivate little gardens and arrange them with interesting objects. I will likely add to this in the future, and offer a version with a textured background, and one on white without the surrounding elements.

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The birds and the bees. My friend Tolani saw this and immediately wanted it. Then I saw it actually printed, and all I wanted to do was to fix things no one else was bothered by. But that's how artists are. I really love that author Michael Pollan and his books about plants, food, and the environment. I was thinking about his book, "The Botany of Desire" when I did this a lot of these illustrations, and the connection between bees and other pollinators, flowers, and human beings need for this triangular dance and biological feast that perpetuates our food sources. Also, I just really love the skull and crossbones motif, red flowers, bees, hummingbirds, and death's head moths. I especially love them. They actually have a connection with bees, don't you know. Very tricksy.

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Beautiful lovers, entwined like jungle vines, fully tattooed, with a huge full moon coming up behind them. I think I will improve this one in future versions with a floral or greenery motif behind them, and a textured background.

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Theophanies are "appearance of a deity" or, as I like to think of it, "manifestations of the sacred". I explored the history of temples at Delphi, and their festival of the Theophania and the Mystery Religions. I started considering sacred things, and things we perceive as sacred, and it led me to Sacred Geometry, golden fruits of the gods, and Georgia O'Keefe's beautiful masterpieces. This is a quince fruit. There is a bush of it in my neighborhood, and every autumn I have some, since the owner of it neither eats nor cares for them. They have a lovely acid green color that turns a vivid yellow, and the scent of them is intoxicating, sweet and sour as lemon candies. Quinces also make a delicious jam.

I intend to make more of this particular one, with different objects, different Theophanies.

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Her honeycomb garden is bountiful and dripping with love honey... In ancient times, in the temples at Delphi, priestesses were referred to as "bees" (melissas). In mythology, honeybees have been revered as sacred since time immemorial and bridge the world of the living with that of the underworld. Their golden bodies allow us the bounty of flora we enjoy today, through pollination, and without them, we would soon be poor indeed. Every flower in this piece is one that bees greatly enjoy, and would be good additions to any bee garden. You should know that bees do like many flowers, but that some are toxic to them. We must do what we can to save our bees and give them a friendly environment to do their magical work.

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I was in love with these antique flowers, and I just wanted to lounge upon them luxuriously like floral poufs. This green fairy with tribal tattoos is enticing you with her black dahlia hair. These tropical butterflies add to the scene. Once I did her, I just wanted to add tribal tattoos to everyone. Like Mother Nature and my Green Goddess, a green fairy would have bioluminescent tattoos. Maybe that will be a thing in the future. Someone, get on that immediately.

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I feel this black jaguar woman has the right amount of class with the botanical insides, and just the right amount of trash with the trucker mud flap pose. I worked all day on that head trying to get it right. Inside every woman is a jungle, and a jungle cat, there under the surface, waiting to entice you or tear you to pieces. I believe Duran Duran had a song about that. Maybe several.

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I worked on this piece first, but numbered it last. I think it has exactly the right jungle vibe for a Rubyfruit Jungle. If you don't know what that is exactly, it's a slang term for a woman's nether region. It is also a book by author Rita Mae Brown from 1973, and a groundbreaking literary work about coming out as a lesbian. I added elements to this illustration that I love best: the passionflower, stripes, pomegranate, cut papaya, grapefruit, prickly green Durian fruit, dragon fruit, mangosteen, persimmon, Aristolochia, leopard print, and a Madagascar butterfly. All juicy fruits befitting a glorious Lady Garden.

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Dear lord, no one could answer a single question about this one piece, but everyone had a nice chuckle about how overtly sumpin’ it was. Pareidolia is a situation where you see something that looks like something else, or you perceive something that is not there, like seeing shapes in clouds, shadows as monsters, and patterns in trees. For the record, this is a fancy fungus-like jungle flower, a very real, fancy frilled fungus with an unfortunate resemblance, a rare butterfly, and an owl.

One of these objects is not like the others,
and two of these things are a similar duo,
a trio of three are from the same place,
and one of these here is counted as two.

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I could not get that song out of my head when I was working on this one. I wanted to make these lovely coconuts tanned and tropical and almost good enough to eat. And I've always felt that hibiscus flowers are an imperative to indicate a tropical scene. In the song, I think it says something like "a penny a pitch", but I always thought it's saying " a penny a PINCH", which made sense, because I always thought the song was about women's bosoms, and not about anything else. If it is, it's thinly veiled.

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A peace sign is a classic hand gesture, and my curiously popular peace sign art print (available on both an antiqued background, and on a white background) is a humorous departure on modern anatomical art. This illustration is the first in a creative series of Anatomical Hand Gestures that I have been working towards, created using artfully manipulated antique anatomy drawings. It's harder to reroute capillaries, veins, ligaments, and tendons than you think! It would definitely be an interesting "conversation piece", modern statement on peace, or even an eclectic holiday art accent. This print has an antiqued background and a roman numeral in the upper right corner.

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Here's looking at you... If you aren’t familiar with Greek Mythology, there was always mention of the Oracles at Delphi. They were blind Seers who breathed the vapors coming from a crevice inside the mountain temple and gave those who sought it premonitions and predictions of the future. I imagined that flowers there might look this way. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and this alarming bouquet is captioned "Anemones of Delphi".

Seriously. Who wants to put up prints of boring botanicals when you can have surreal ones? Imagine a guest in your home, they notice the art print and think, Oh... flowers!... then they look closer and think, Oh... eyeballs! That's all worth a little chuckle.

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Look closer... this is not "normal" phrenology. A normal phrenology brain map would be divided into neat regional sections by category. The thing you have to know about my friend Ashley is that her brain doesn’t follow the usual rules, and her biochemical filing system is literally all over the map. She also couldn’t manage to get me a list of her brain parts any of the twenty times I asked, so I had to wing it. I had always wanted to do a map of her brain... because it’s fascinating! She's the sweetest, kindest, craziest airy fairy person I know. I've recently thought I should have given her a skull earring instead, because she's such a punk.

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I used to love oranges. I mean, REALLY love. Anything with an orange flavor. Orange slice candies. I ate Tang powder right out of the container. As it turns out, I became allergic to oranges as an adult (but not other citrus) and I sure do wish they had steaks inside instead. (I’m also allergic to walnuts, hence the piece called "Hellish Walnuts"). It wasn’t complete without the blood dripping. I wish I had my sister here to help with that, she’s got the knack of painting blood dripping and spatter down to a fine art form, and she does it all by hand with a small brush and acrylic paint. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and the caption "Blood Orange".

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Imagine that you’re beachcombing and you turn over a dangerous seashell, a cowrie shell like this, on a lonely beach... and it snaps at you with those choppers... I was always nervous of cowrie shells when I was a small child, because they really do look like they might bite you. Maybe such a shell eats hermit crabs stupid enough to think they’d make a great house. In any event, in some universe somewhere, there are plenty of them snapping. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and the caption reads "Carnivorous Cowrie".

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Baby bean. I did this one for my daughter because I love love love my little jumping bean. It’s all very scientific, if you know beans. One bean is the mother bean, and one is the father bean (or two parents, whichever). When you cross them together, you get a new sprouting baby bean. It should be just that simple, but somehow it never is. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, the caption reads "Germination of Human Beans".

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A small, measured crow child’s skeleton diagram... It just occurred to me as soon as I’d hung it that it could be the bones of my long ago Grackle Girl character (check the Doll Series)... or some Crow Baby? Some subliminal message making a thread through the tapestry of my artwork. Creating this set of bones wasn’t easy. Crow skulls are like hens teeth, almost impossible to find to look at, especially vintage or antique illustrations of them. It’s important to note that small child sized skeletons are proportioned differently than adult skeletons, and a tiny crow person would have a child's bones.

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I imagine the Underworld as a warm, hellish kind of place in a perpetual Autumn. I put together this botanical and made the leaves a little red, the walnuts on the branch as grinning skulls, the nuts inside as brains (walnuts have always been thought to be good for the brain as they resemble it), and I even added a Deathwatch Beetle and a Death’s Head Hawk Moth to complete the botanical scene. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and each of the parts is numbered.

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If you opened a peach and found a tiny castle atop the peach stone... A nod to one of my favorite surrealists, imagine if you opened a peach and inside the flesh was a yellow cloudy sky, and the stone was a tiny castle with miniscule lights on in its towers. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and the caption "Peach of the Pyrenees".

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See? Not all the pieces in this series are dark. I still have my sense of humor in there somewhere... In the primitive parts of my brain, there’s a hamster on a wheel, toys in the attic, and a caveman doing graffiti in the nasal cavity and jawbone and a fine art painting of a mysterious Cro-Magnon beauty inside the skull cave. Everyone likes cave art, right? Right. Who knows what masterpieces have never been discovered. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background. There is no caption, but the parts are numbered.

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It's an unexpected treat. Imagine you went to dissect a frog, and found candy in there instead of frog organs. How delightful! Science class just became a party. Frog anatomy has never been more fun, and what a way to surprise your houseguests with humor... This piece is a favorite of my daughter, and pretty much anyone who has seen a print of it hanging in my house since the show last Fall.

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An anatomical heart on a plate is a gruesome treat. This piece was rather a horrific kind of afterthought, as I had wanted to have a liver on the plate with fava beans and a fine chianti. But it was quite a bit more difficult than I thought to procure an antique anatomical liver that was exactly right. The plate is Limoges, but I’m not sure of the pattern. This has spawned a spinoff series I’m working on by the same name, which is anatomical "meats" and typical side dishes. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and an antiqued background. The new series will be on white backgrounds. I think they'd make lovely kitchen art or dining room art.

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Hellmouth happens! This personal purgatory is what happens when you don't go to the dentist. HELL. At the top, a normal mouth. At the bottom, Hellmouth. A kid who came to my art show commented very casually, "That's what happens when you don't brush your teeth." And I said, "Yes! That's exactly what happens." A church lady commented something to the effect that that's what happens when you swear all the time. Hellmouth can happen. Take care of your teeth! There is a roman numeral in the corner, and an antiqued background.

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Powerful visual commentary on infertility. Or, you can make this about anything you want. Everyone who has looked at it has seen something different. Lucky 33 was the final piece in the Strange Anatomy series, set up pretty as you please in the best egg cup, and assassinated before breakfast. Why #33 is lucky is anyones guess, because my eggs are all doomed: collected and coddled and set perfectly in egg cups, oblivious to the fact that their days are shortly numbered and it's going to end in a murder mystery before breakfast. Maybe it's just lucky that particular one didn't work out.

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This is what I tell my vegan friends about surreal potatoes: If you can’t handle removing the eyes yourself, then you have no business eating potatoes. I really should do more surreal botanicals and dabble more in anatomical botany. Adding anatomy to florals, fruits, and vegetables makes them enormously more entertaining than the kinds of fruits and vegetable prints people usually hang in their kitchens. I was really inspired by old varieties of potatoes and their funny names, but I creatively invented these hilarious tubers for the occasion. A friend of mine commented that these reminded her of the illustrations from the bizarre book "Codex Seraphinianus" by Luigi Serafini, which I then looked up and LOVED.

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Dedicated to all the amazing pear shaped women out there, including myself. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background, and the caption "Posterior Pear". Who wants to put up prints of boring botanicals when you can have surreal ones? Imagine a guest in your home, they notice the art print and think, Oh... a pear!... then they look closer and think, Oh... a pear with butt muscles! Ha ha, you said "butt". This fruit is a butt-tanical pear-ody. Oh dear!

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Lush green fairy with nature growing in her belly and the flowers at her bosom, leaves of delicate ferns for her wings. Her tattoo is a combination of the alchemical symbols for Earth and Iron. She has birch bark legs and a mask of pink flower petals, and looks like she might be going to a Fairy Masked Ball in the forests and woodlands. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and the words "Earth Elemental" under the figure. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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Beautiful airy blue fairy with the sky in her belly and the starry heavens in her bosom, adorned with the feathers of creatures of the earth and sky. Her tattoo is a combination of the alchemical symbols for Vital Air and Ether. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and the words "Air Elemental" under the figure. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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Mysterious fire fairy with flames in her belly and lava crackling in her bosom, adorned with thorny wings that are the burnt branches of scorched earth. Her tattoo is a combination of the alchemical symbols for fire, sulphur, and gold. Perfect for anyone with a Fire Sign in astrology, or a penchant for fire in general. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and the words "Fire Elemental" under the figure. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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Strange Anatomy illustration series 2014

Lovely water fairy with the ocean in her belly and a blue-green shagreen skinned bosom, adorned with a red coral mask and flying fish wings. Her tattoo is a combination of the alchemical symbols for water, silver, and aqua vitae. It would be a lovely gift for a person with a Water Sign, or an affinity for water. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and the words "Water Elemental" under the figure. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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For shy, gentle people everywhere: a curiously shy turtle baby, refusing to peek out of its shell. I grew up in a family of biologists, so I have soooo many turtle stories. This piece is separate, but from the same art series, as the three other turtle prints ("Traveling Turtle Bones Theater", "Traveling Turtle Bones Forest", and "Traveling Turtle Bones Book Nook") that are part of a triptych of three. There will be more anatomical turtle art in the future. I'm working on more now.

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This piece features an anatomical turtle shell in which I have created a cozy library reading room, with two children selecting books and sitting on the floor. There is a roman numeral in the corner. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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This spooky, yet solemn, journey of a dark forest path inside a turtle shell diorama. This piece features an anatomical turtle shell in which I have created a dark forest path with a little girl in a black dress walking towards some stone steps. There is peeling antique wallpaper all around the edges. There is a roman numeral in the corner. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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This lovely lady is one of three in a series, this is an anatomical turtle shell in which I have constructed a diorama, a sort of ballet scene from Swan Lake. Inside there is a night scene with a dark lake and silhouetted trees, and a winged ballet dancer in a white dress. The sides of the turtle stage have drawn theater curtains. There is a roman numeral in the corner. All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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Vampire skulls are hard to find, and when you do... they bite, they bite. It's advisable to separate them from their bodies and commence with ancient funerary rituals. The Egyptians sometimes filled the cavities of bodies with chrysanthemums after the organs were removed, and this flower is associated with the dead and the underworld. Vampires are typically beheaded, and I thought it was a nice ritual touch to fill the skull with chrysanthemum flowers. There is a roman numeral in the corner, an antiqued background. There is no caption, but the parts are numbered.

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It's a spiritual conundrum that begins like a bad joke: These three skeletons, a Man, an Angel, and a Devil, have all been waiting so long for absolution that they have all turned into bones. Because no absolution will come. The end. Perfect art to represent a futile quest of any kind. There is a roman numeral in the corner, and it is captioned "Waiting For Absolution". All of the pieces in this series were numbered.

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Strange Anatomy illustration series 2014

Werewolf are born with some teeth, just like other canines. This chart shows the progression of werewolves teeth from pup to teen wolf to fully maturity adult werewolf, with captions under each. These are wild werewolves, mind you, which remain in their wolfish form, and are not domesticated modern werewolves (shapeshifters). There is a roman numeral in the corner, and an antiqued background. It would be a choice addition to your collection of fantasy anatomical art. Anatomy of cryptids, fantasy animals, and mythological creatures is always interesting.

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This has been a powerfully followed visual commentary on fertility and infertility. Sometimes, our bodies don’t work right, and instead of normal life nesting in, we gestate all manner of abnormal manifestations and monsters, creeping, crawling, and slithering forth... or not. Twisted wrong backwards inverted chromosomes and bad DNA. Sometimes the environment is so hostile that the normal kinds of things won’t take up residence. After a long time with failed fertility treatments and infertility testing, it's clear that only freaks may grow there there. And dreams. This is a pictorial representation of the kinds of things that may be alive and be a sign of life, but are clearly abnormal for a womb or uterus.

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For Demon-Hunters: the thing you have to understand about demons... is that you will never understand them. This particular specimen is spectacular with it’s dragon-like scales, spikes, sinewy muscles, dagger sharp teeth, noble gut ripping horns, and cold green reptile eyes. It comes from a harsh, hot, desert-like habitat and stands about eight feet tall if you count the horns. I shall make a whole series of these formidable demons sometime.

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Unusually popular, this one. I had more trouble finding a antique goat skull to look at than you’d think. You'd be surprised how many people are confused by ram skulls (not goats) and sheep horn skulls (also not goats), and other types of horned animals (definitely not goats), and have the images mislabeled and perpetuated on the internet. A lot of those super cool so-called really horny demon "goat" skulls that seem to be on every heavy metal everything, are actually... wait for it... sheep skulls. Get your taxonomy right, people! If you're gonna make art, and be throwing the horns, make sure you're doing it to the right animal. I wanted to do a few more demonic pieces, and this one worked out perfectly. The symbol on the goat’s skull is the combined alchemical symbols for a kind of trinity, or if you retrace over them all, for earth, air, fire, and water together. Is it blasphemous? Not in my universe it isn't.

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This is how you remove an evil eye if you should get up one day and suddenly find yourself cursed with one. The surgical removal of an evil eye is fairly straightforward, depending on the type of eye, but can be horrible all the same. This falls under the category of Don't Get Cursed in the first place. Just sayin'.

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Avert your eyes! Man is meat, and meat is murder. All my feminist friends really like this piece. It is a stripped down, skinless muscle & bone male torso, trimmed of arms and legs and head, arranged like a pot roast on a platter with a garnish of lettuce. I never could decide what to fill the empty cavity in the middle with. Vegetables? Stew? Casserole? I finally thought "franks and beans" and laughed about it, but then I just never put them in there. I still might do a second version and put something in there. I'm taking suggestions.

Also, there is an old Twilight Zone, or Tales From The Darkside, or maybe it was Alfred Hitchcock, story about aliens who came to Earth and had this book called How To Serve Man. Everyone was excited, because they thought the aliens were friends, but in the end, someone translated the book and discovered... it was a cookbook! Aieeee!!!

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This is currently my most popular piece of art. Botanical Surrealism at it's most beautiful. Vintage-style botanical art prints that depict female anatomy are delicious when tastefully done. This surreal antique botanical collage "lady garden" is composed of a strange rubyfruit jungle of exotic flowers in a delightful tropical botanical arrangement that mimics the delicate flower that is a ladies... tender undercarriage. I imagine this floral art print may represent the female anatomy of Mother Nature, a green alien female, a powerful Earth spirit, a fairy or elemental, or a sensual woman from Venus off some Star Trek episode. It is botanical surrealism at its finest.

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Welcome to my specimen collection... In the tradition of antique Naturalists, I've carefully documented the creatures of a far-flung and very hostile ocean planet. This interesting little green alien is a death machine, equipped with the intelligence of cephalopods, a diamond-hard shell, extra eyes, and heavily muscled tentacles. It grabs its prey and digs in with an industrial grade mouth on the underside.

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Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.

Prints of this series are available via Etsy.