Here are all the raven ATCs
They have now been posted to the participants and should arrive within 7-10 days. Thank you to everyone who partipated - they are all wonderful
When the Raven’s began talking about doing an ATC swap, I was intrigued and headed out into the web-o-sphere to learn about this new (to me) artistic form. I was directed (by google, bien sur) to ATCards, and quickly found a swap that appealed to me. It was called Pagan Celebrations and participants were to depict, in any medium, any aspect of a pagan celebration of their choice. I ended up doing two of Ostara, one of Beltane and one of Mabon, all watercolor on card stock.
Ostara is the Vernal or Spring Equinox, and is the source of Easter’s two main symbols: dyed eggs and bunnies. Beltane or May Eve is a fertility festival celebrating the burgeoning plant world, the regeneration of new life, and abundance of all kinds. I chose to represent it with an overflowing basket. Mabon is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Harvest Home, in which we are gathering in all our harvests and thanking the Goddess for it all. I painted the Mayan maize (corn) god, as an ear of corn.
Mari Mann 2007
Oh, I’m so excited!! This blog is going to be some much fun and a good addition to all the amazing writing blogs attached to the Soul Food Cafe.
I am hoping that you’ll be dying to create visual arts in addition to your writing and using the great creative visualisation prompts from the Bumper Catalogue we’ll have a very colourful blog on our hands.
So, as this journey along the Serpentine Road slowly begins, I have been altering a book to use as my “photo album”. With each new chapter, I’ll be adding something to it and posting the images here. I’d love it if you’d do the same.
In addition to this, we plan to co-ordinate some snail mail art. Imagine, Raven art all over the place!
So, hang onto your feathers girls. Stay tuned for the next installment!
Samm
The "Magic Garden" and "Places of the Heart" are Wild Garden, WEB 2.0 projects that have been designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.
When she is not working at Soul Food, trekking Lemuria or Wild Gardening, Heather Blakey builds virtual communities. She is currently working with the Victorian Education Channel, building a virtual community for teachers using state-of-the-art, internet based publishing tools.
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