Hello & welcome :)
Today I want to tell you about my new painting, it's my newest painting and I finally finished it, it's called Venom and Velvet.
This oil painting is a rich and evocative composition that merges classical still life with a touch of the mystical. At its center is a lush bouquet of blooming peonies and camellias in soft shades of pink, white, and crimson, their petals rendered with textured, expressive brushwork and a sense of full ripeness.
I love peonies and I had the inspiration by the peonies that I have seen in my garden and my visit to the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
What makes this piece especially striking is the shimmering black-and-silver blue snake coiled as a vase, partially hidden among the flowers. Its textured scales catch the light in a way that makes it appear alive almost—a symbol of both protection and danger, echoing themes of transformation, temptation, or hidden knowledge.
When I stared at the painting I wrote on the canvas background “A snake shed its skin to grow, so you must let go to rise.”
The dark, subdued background throws the flowers and serpent into vivid relief, creating a dramatic contrast that heightens the surreal, almost mythological quality of the image. The fallen blossoms on the table suggest a passage of time or a quiet aftermath, inviting the viewer to linger and contemplate and let go.
Overall, it's a beautifully balanced painting—sensual, symbolic, and arresting—blending nature's beauty with a whisper of threat or mystery.
This painting is 24x30”, cotton canvas signed in from, includes certificate of authenticity. and you can get it HERE
Here you can see my painting in different daylights indoors and outdoors and how the colors and background change depending on the light.
Although snakes are not my favorite animals, it was a painting that I really enjoyed doing and painting the scales was very relaxing and I liked the combination of colors and the brushstrokes. I feel very happy with this Still Life.
In other news...These last 7 days I have been sunbathing and watching the clouds and I happened to see some super pretty clouds. My attention was caught by a rather large cloud in a blue tone. It looks like a sphere. It had a spherical shape camouflaged among more clouds and other clouds that I managed to take over the sun that had the flashes of the rainbow.
Curiously, it was very synchronized since I was working with a printed canvas that someone requested of the Terranauta. So it was all very celestial and related to space. Here I leave an image of the printed canvas 16x20" that went to Texas.
You can get the original HERE, for prints you can contact me.
During the week I have been reflecting a lot about my kitty and I want to share with you what happened.
On Sunday, Pibi wandered out of the house because the door was left open. She was probably out for an hour, a time we weren't home.
Pibi isn't a street cat; we only let her out into the yard a couple of times, so it was frustrating to think she wasn't familiar with the outdoors, wandering among cars, animals, and the cat-hunting owls and falcons.
I walked and searched for her for over an hour, constantly repeating her name. I made my decrees, talked to some cats I saw to "intercept Pibi so she could return home" and I was worried that the tornado would start in the afternoon.
After being unsuccessful in my search, I returned home and put her food dish and toys in the yard, following a neighbor's recommendation.
What I want to share is how I felt and how I processed it.
The first thing I felt was angry because they didn't close the door, but I never showed my anger verbally, only by pacing quickly and desperately. But what caught my attention, and what I didn't expect to happen, was that I felt an enormous detachment.
My kitty has been the best; I love her. She's my companion almost every day, almost every hour. She's my teacher.
While all this was happening, I felt ready to let her go. I thought about her more than myself. I thought maybe our learning cycle was over, her mission with me and my family had concluded. I hoped she was okay, that someone would find her and take care of her or report her with the chip so I could return her home. I felt ready for any scenario. However, as I write this, I don't know if a part of me would have been devastated as the days passed with my kitty. Because when I took care of a bird for two days in 2019 and it died, I cried so much for a whole week.
But with Pibi? She got lost, and I felt ready. I've been working on detachment for a couple of years now, in ways that might sound surprising because they would see me as heartless. Not only in losing a pet, but also one of my women (mother, daughter, sisters), a home, an identity, and even my life. Well, everything we are given in this life, EXCEPT the essence and connection with God, with the source. For me, that is the key to BEING, where nothing matters and where everything begins again because it is a personal process.
Five minutes after I left Pibi's food and toys in the yard, SHE CAME BACK! And one of the thousands of sparks I had already given with love returned to my soul.
Practicing detachment is hard; becoming aware of it is an individual lesson.
I am very happy that my kitty returned home and grateful for EVERYTHING because it was yet another lesson. As a highly sensitive person, it's difficult because I'm super emotional, but I'm still learning that maybe detachment is the perfect balance between mind and heart.
TO WATCH: I did a video about my painting Venom and Velvet where I talk about it and you can watch me paint from beginning to end.
TO TRY: I'm back to meditation. Last year I started meditating almost every day, twice a day, when I woke up and before going to sleep, and I loved it. I connected in many ways. Incredible things happened to me. It was a great experience, but at the end of last year I stopped meditating, but now I've started again and I feel connected again, and I love it. I recommend to meditate, even if it's just 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes at night, and preferably doing grounding. I like to listen hertz frequencies and face the sky.
Love! 💗
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