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SERENE ILLUSTRATIONS

SERENE ILLUSTRATIONS

Creating art from other worlds.

The Battle Cry of the Butterflies

"...They were never alone; fighting this fight. Though sometimes it seemed it, late in the night. While he stood silent alone on her wall She shared in his fate, with his just as tall. Through time and through space their song always rings. Until, together, their butterflies sing. The storm, it breaks, the walls fall anyway. As the demons cower; all run away. The dark minions have left; quick as a herd. The screaming it stops. And the gale subsides Until the only thing left to be heard, Was The battle cry of the butterflies."

The Battle Cry of the Butterflies

Empty

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

Empty

Hideaway For The Imaginative

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground." ― Judith Thurman

Hideaway For The Imaginative

Bridge to Starifalls

"He bottled up the stars and put them on his shelf, so he could pull them down on the days he felt particularly sad, because gazing at the eternal beauty of the cosmos reminded him of just how tiny we really are."

Bridge to Starifalls

Under the Sea

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl

Under the Sea

Solace in Silence

"The deepest depths of emotions we feel are too complex for the simple words spoken in our every day conversations. It is because of this that we often seek comfort in the solitude of our own minds." - Lynette Simeone

Solace in Silence

Winged Cocoon

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere." -James Russell Lowell

Winged Cocoon

Timekeeper

"Our lives but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives" –Socrates

Timekeeper

Coming Home

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.” ― Lauren Myracle

Coming Home

Ironing Out Thoughts

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Ironing Out Thoughts

The Last Step

“The decision is mine, and I choose happiness” ― Malori Howell

The Last Step

Letters From Earth

"When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs." -Rapunzel

Letters From Earth

The High Priestess

THE HIGH PRIESTESS: Represents intuition, mystery, and the subconscious mind . SYMBOLISM: The thin veil decorated with pomegranates represents the separate conscious and subconscious realms. The pomegranates on the veil are a symbol of abundance. The two pillars, marking the entrance to this sacred place, are black and white colours to symbolize masculine and feminine, darkness and light – stating acceptance of duality are required to enter. Her horned crown is symbol of her divine knowledge and her status as a divine ruler.

The High Priestess

Chapter's Beginning

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

Chapter's Beginning

The Magician

THE MAGICIAN: Represents talent, capabilities and resources at one’s disposal to succeed. . SYMBOLISM: The one hand pointing upwards toward the universe and one hand pointed down represents connection between spiritual and material realms. Scattered around the painting are a cup, pentacle, sword and wand – each symbolizing one of the four elements – water, earth, air and fire. His watch holds an infinity symbol, signaling that he has access to unlimited potential.

The Magician

Compartmentalization

“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Compartmentalization

Lush Forest

"I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs." - Lorine Niedecker

Lush Forest

The Little Things

"The world is quiet here." -Lemony Snicket. "The Little Things", Acrylic on Canvas

The Little Things

Until The Last Petal Falls

“Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked. "A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two.” ― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Until The Last Petal Falls

Knowledge Binge

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.” -Victor Hugo

Knowledge Binge

Average World's End

“I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

Average World's End

Kiss The Girl

“SHA-LA-LA-LA-LA MY OH MY. Looks like the boy's too shy, ain't gonna kiss the girl” ― Kiss The Girl, The Little Mermaid

Kiss The Girl

The Blues

“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...” ― J.X. Burros

The Blues

The Creator

"And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind." -Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

The Creator

Head Under Water

“I took a blanket into the bath Opened my eyes and hallucinated” ― Jenny Lewis, Head Underwater

Head Under Water

Ostoyae

“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.” ― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

Ostoyae

Wallflower

"Perfect worlds do not exist. There are only the funny, strange, weeping, singing, truncated, and imperfect universes created by the gods of paintbrush and musical instruments, the gods who infuse their creations with their own blood, their own soul. When he looks at these worlds, the true Lord of Hosts, the creator of the universe, probably cannot help but smile mockingly." - Vasily Grossman

Wallflower

Princess and the Dream

"Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top of the pea, and then twenty feather beds on top of the mattresses. This was where the princess was to sleep that night." -Hans Christian Andersen, Princess and the Pea

Princess and the Dream

Chapter's End

“And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.” ― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Chapter's End

Release

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Release

Illuminate

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Illuminate

Crackin'

“What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Crackin'

The Night Shift

"Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth." -Francesca Lia Block

The Night Shift

Words Unread

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” ― Pythagoras

Words Unread

Introvert's Paradise

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

Introvert's Paradise

Fleeting Ideas

“Gotta catch 'em all!”- Ash Ketchum, Pokemon

Fleeting Ideas

Her Favorite Swing

"If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you." "I like lost." -Ally Condie

Her Favorite Swing

Lunar Waltz

“You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Lunar Waltz

Andrasial

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.” ― C.S. Lewis

Andrasial

The Emperor

THE EMPEROR: Authority, structure, hard work, discipline and self-control . SYMBOLISM: The ram head represents Aries and the planet Mars. An ankh is held in her hand, which is the Egyptian symbol of life. She wears a suit of armor, suggesting that she is protected from any threat.

The Emperor

By The Lake

"Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains... Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited." - John Graves

By The Lake

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