by Ona Christie | Apr 8, 2015 | Animal spirits, Spiritual, Totems
There are 37 species of falcon throughout the world. They all share the same basic meaning, but each one will differ a little bit. If Falcon has flown into your life, you’ll want to find out what species it is and research that species’ unique features....
by Ona Christie | Jan 31, 2015 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Spiritual, Totems
New painting… Because our new hound dog, Melvin, has not come howling up with a stinger in his nose, I am guessing that my recent bee visitor is gone for good. However, she did bring an invigorating infusion of Bee energy into the studio. It’s quite the...
by Ona Christie | Jan 20, 2015 | Animal spirits, Spiritual
A magical thing happened in the studio yesterday. And it had nothing to do with paint. I was just wetting the crease of a folded piece of watercolor paper in preparation for tearing it in half, when I glanced down and saw something crawling across the studio floor. At...
by Ona Christie | Nov 10, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Paintings, Spiritual, Totems
Last summer on a car trip through northern Wisconsin I happened to look out the window in time to see a mother black bear with her three cubs. What a thrill! The ones I saw were actually black, or nearly so, but black bears come in many different colors, from black to...
by Ona Christie | Nov 5, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Paintings
My dad seems to have bear energy. I’m staying at his house for a few days and keep wanting to paint bears. Here is the first one. Here is the second. (I like the first one better.) I used a very limited primary color palette for these, and did most of my color...