Tag: animals

abstract imagination, cats and quilts, mexico

Magical Alebrijes Cat Artichoke Garden

Michele B. Naquaiya

This is a Mexican Alebrijes Cat thinking about which artichoke he will have for his dinner. I think he is very beautiful. In Mexico, sculptors and craftsmen make paper sculptures they assemble with paper and wheat paste. The form is shaped and modified. When it is completely dried it becomes pretty sturdy. Then the sculpture is intricately painted with exotic and intense colors. This is my image of what I would love to see as a complete Alebrijes sculpture.

Here he is on one of my products

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You are beautiful Celtic deer inspires me

Michele B. Naquaiya

When I was a ceramic artist a long time ago, my top selling work was always about animals in one way or another. I did a series for quite a few years on mimbres found in the southwest deserts. They were fantastic animals that fluxed between reality, imagination and a connection of the heart that inspired cultural ties. I sold most of them to the Palm Springs Desert Museum in Palm Springs, CA which had just opened at the time.
So here I am much later in life going back thousands of years to seek animal inspirations again. This time, the Celts peaked my interest as I have been studying their art for a while now. They mastered the field of design in jewelry, stitching, carving, metal work of any kind. so playing in PS I am trying my hand at exploring new colors for me and the influence of living in Mexico has given me hootspa (sp?) to go vivid. I think this is a step up from the little pen and ink sketch done with magic marker on watercolor paper, from where it started out.
Here she is on Fine Art America.