Angela Raincatcher | Nine Ravens Studio

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Working on Art Today

Spent today at home. Working on some art in progress and embellishing a Touch Drawing from last month. Experimenting really with oil pastels and beads and Modge Podge. Decided that I needed a circular saw, but would rather just get a friend to cut the pieces I need. Sharp, rotating blades in my hands are [...]

Touch Drawings Sessions in DC and Baltimore 2010

I have just updated my Upcoming Events page to announce the dates for facilitated Touch Drawing group sessions in DC and Baltimore between April and October 2010. To register, just go to the Contact Me form and send me a message. Each three hour session costs $20 includes meditation to ground and center, two hours [...]

Authority, Betrayal, and Art

I have always had a love/hate relationship with authority. Tell me that I can’t do something, and I am very likely to do just that because you have no authority over me. However, people with authority (like the police, my boss, teachers, and my mom) tend to scare me a bit. I worry about how [...]

Nexus Deis

Our connection (nexus) to the Divine (deis) lies close to our heartbeat, burns with a holy fire, and allows us to soar. I honor and cherish the Divine within you and the connection between us. Namaste.  digital collage created by Angela Raincatcher

New Jewelry

I’ve spent several days indoors with the Great Mid-Atlantic Snowpocalypse of 2010. After messing around some and doing some work from home, I got down to being creative. I pulled out all my beads, got reacquainted with them, and made three necklaces.  The one above is my Woodland Faerie Queen necklace, which I’m offering for [...]

Drawing What Makes Us Unconfortable

I’m linking this post to the one right before. I think they make sense together, but what do I know. This last weekend, I participated in a workshop, Awakening Creativity Through Spiritual Practice, taught by Sylvan at Reflections Mystery School. You know you’re in trouble when your response to a trance is, “Whoa! Deep! F**k!” The [...]

2009 Creations

Just a little mosaic of some of the artwork I did this last year. Clockwise from upper left: Happy Buddha mala, Bastet shrine, photography that I plan to use for artwork in future, Chango shrine, healing altar, Ganesha and Hanuman altar, Strength, cosmic building blocks, touch drawing, beaded necklaces, Oggun shrine. Looking at this is [...]

More Colors of Santa Fe

While in New Mexico last month, I got a bit crazy purchasing beads for making jewelry this winter.  

Colors of New Mexico

There are two very sensual things about New Mexico that will always stay in my memory. The taste of chiles at every meal and the colors I found all around me. A curtain of marigolds next to some old wooden doors arranged outside a little shop in Taos. Storm clouds over Highway 68 driving from [...]

Rejection Letter

Earlier this month, I put in a proposal to create an art shrine for Ofrenda, Art for the Dead, a show in Alexandria during Halloween weekend.  I didn’t have anything already created to enter, so I wrote up a short proposal and sent them some images of past shrines I have created. Last night, I [...]

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