Showing posts with label botanical art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botanical art. Show all posts

October 25, 2025

ONE WITH THE COSMOS, MY NEW SURREAL PAINTING INSPIRED IN A DREAM AND FLOWERS

 Hello Everyone!

Welcome to my blog and another art dose.

This time I want to present my newest mix media painting ONE WITH THE COSMOS, and this painting has an interesting story, so let's start with the beginning.


Suddenly, I saw the aliens coming, and there was a battle in the sky. It was divided into several portals between the clouds where the ships and different landscapes could be seen.

In another moment, I was already trying to call my daughter's dad  to tell him to get two large trucks so we could move around and have a vehicle that could withstand the elements, but he told me he wouldn't have the money to do that.

What he didn't understand was that the world was going to change at that very moment, and money wouldn't work anymore. He could get them on credit while the sellers and other people didn't realize what was about to happen, and in another hour, the war between heaven and earth would end the way of life as we know it.

I asked him to make the purchase as quickly as possible and leave with our daughter so the three of us could meet somewhere and get out of the place where we were.

Suddenly, I was in the back of a van with a couple of other people. There were no seats, but a woman was driving. We entered a tunnel amidst all the people who had gone crazy and were trying to flee in cars. There were a lot of gunshots. I saw how the bullets were knocking down the people with me until one of them killed the woman driving. I was ready for whatever happened inside the van. I just sat in the lotus position, meditating and creating my protective magnetic field. I imagined it as I remembered the movie "The Celestial Prophecy," where one of the protagonists becomes invisible to others.

Suddenly, I was walking in a kind of field. There were few people near me, and the sky kept changing colors, between flashes, fire, and air.

Suddenly, a man and I were automatically holding hands. He was taller than me, but almost transparent, like when you lower the opacity of an image and you can see the background but still the image.

Our hands were stuck together like magnets because he was protecting me as we soared through the sky. Suddenly, I was as light as air. We were together while he fought beings that threw out a kind of blue light, and my protector returned it (something like Harry Potter vs. Voldemort).

Sometimes, I hid behind his back, but I couldn't do anything as a human. My instinct was only to use my hands to damage part of the hair/head of the being we were fighting, but it was useless.

This humanoid but transparent being always protected me. It was interesting how I became an extension of him, so to speak, through "magnetism."

Before or after this, there was a time when I was still stuck to the wrist of the protector's hand while I met my daughter. She was on a second floor outdoors, like part of the countryside.

I asked her about her father, and she very calmly replied, "My father died," in a tone like when a character in a video game loses and can't continue.

We both had a very real awareness of zero pain for human loss, as if we were simply part of a game where there is no sense of triumph or loss, simply a PROCESS.

I asked my guide to protect her because she was alone. Then, on her right side, a small spark opened, expanded, and a small being emerged, like a "Tinkerbell," who would take care of her. I felt reassured knowing that, without knowing what was going to happen, my daughter wouldn't be lost physically or emotionally.

I woke up sometime between these two events; I wish I knew what else was happening.

Friends, I often have dreams like this, where I live with incredible beings; they are all wonderful.

So the being from my painting was inspired in this dream, I filled the field with cosmos, and the being has a strange composition, he can reflect the surroundings, maybe he's made of air, glass, mirror, water, plasma...who knows?






As always, Im inspired by nature, flowers, personal stories and dreams. I finished with the greens, can you spot the real grass?  I feel like my painting it's divided between earth and sky and the flowers are the connection.

Also after painting I had the chance to visit the Botanical Garden with my dear friend Fawn and we enjoyed the walk as we are nature lovers.




I have added natural pressed cosmos, I like the mix with real nature with painted flowers, especially with this kind of special being that reflects the surroundings. 🌸

Painting the sky made me think about the beautiful skies painted by Monet.



So here is my painting finally done and it's available waiting for a new home.

You can BUY this painting and read about more details HERE








BUY HERE SDVDSV


September 13, 2025

LELE DOLL AND THE TULIPS, HOUSE PORTRAITS AND ANOTHER YEAR TO CELEBRATE

 Hello! I am so excited to present my new oil painting, I have been working with a Lele doll this time and I am very happy with the result.

LELE AND THE TULIPS


muñeca lele, arte mexicano, arte otomi, pintura mexicana, mexican art, folk art, art collectors

For a long time, Mexican art has been strongly associated with the image of death: catrinas, altars, skeletons... beautiful and profound symbols, but also very recurrent.I have decided to focus my art on another equally powerful, but less explored symbol: the Mexican Lele dolls.

For me, they represent what is alive: childhood, joy, the indigenous roots that continue to breathe, create, and resist. Each Lele is a song of colors, a flower that never withers, an expression of tenderness and strength that lives on in the hands of our artisans.

Painting them is a way of saying: "Here we are, we are still alive, we continue to create beauty from the everyday."





I choose to portray these dolls not only as cultural symbols, but as a reminder that our Mexican identity is also woven with love, play, hope, and community.

Lele: A Living Symbol of Light and Roots
In this work, I decided to depict the Lele doll, a figure deeply rooted in Otomi culture and recognized as an emblem of Mexican folk art. Originally from Amealco, Querétaro, the Lele doll—whose name means "baby" in Otomi—is much more than a toy: it is a living heritage, handmade by Indigenous women who transmit with each stitch the memory of their ancestors, their worldview, and their connection to the land.













While many artists are inspired by catrinas—which are also part of our cultural richness—I felt the call to go in another direction: to portray what lives on.
For me, Lele represents sweetness, feminine strength, innocence, indigenous identity, and the pure joy that reminds us who we are.

She is a symbol of life, color, and hope. Instead of focusing on the symbols of death, I decided to celebrate what flourishes, what grows, what heals.
Painting her is a way to elevate energy, to connect with the sacred in everyday life, and to honor our roots from a softer, brighter, and more spiritual place. I want this painting to be a reminder that the beauty of Mexico lies not only in its legends of the afterlife, but also in its hands that create, in its colors that heal, and in its dolls that tell stories of love, resilience, and joy.

Between life and death: I choose to paint what flourishes
In Mexican art, death has always been a powerful and beautiful presence. Catrinas, calaveras, altars... they teach us to honor what was, to remember with love, and to laugh at death.
But on my artistic journey, I felt the call to go in another direction: the life that still breathes.
I choose to paint Lele, the Otomi doll, not only as a cultural figure, but as a symbol of what lives on in our roots. Lele represents childhood, community, feminine wisdom, and the vibrant soul of our Indigenous peoples.
While the catrina honors those who are no longer with us, Lele reminds us of those who still struggle, create, laugh, and embroider their history with vivid colors.

While the art of death has an undeniable symbolic and poetic depth, Otomi art offers a more luminous vibration, focused on what flourishes, what endures, what continues to beat.
By choosing to paint Lele dolls and other manifestations of this culture, I honor life here and now, the living heritage of our people, and the spiritual strength manifested in simplicity, color, and love.

While the catrina honors those who are no longer with us, Lele reminds us of those who still fight, create, laugh, and embroider their history with vivid colors.
Both are part of Mexico. But today, I choose to focus my brush on tenderness, hope, and colors that heal and uplift.
To paint a Lele is to pay homage not to death, but to the life that persists. To the hands that create it. To the culture that endures.
It is an act of love, a prayer of light, a vibration that invites us to see the everyday as something sacred.
I chose to paint tulips even though they're not typical Mexican flowers because they're a part of my life in Missouri. Every spring I see them bloom in my garden, right in front of the window, and for me they've become a symbol of rebirth and connection to my present. By placing them next to the Lele doll, I wanted to unite my Mexican roots with the beauty of what surrounds me.

You can buy this piece  HERE

CHANGING OF SUBJECT....

I have started to make house portraits as I find this very creative. How many of us can remind the house of our childhood or our fist home? Well, now I am happy to recreate in paper that special place and you can request yours. HERE









This month so far has been amazing, I have celebrated myself for another year and I made the most delicious lemon cake ever! I promise I will share the recipe next time with proper photos, so far here some favorite pictures.










TO SEE: You can't miss the video about LELE and the tulips, where you can see all about it. It's in spanish but you can turn the subtitles on.