by Ona Christie | Mar 16, 2016 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Art studio, Digital image, Spiritual
Just have to share some artwork I did for my friend Rocky King (Creator’s Helper). Rocky is an Oneida healer of the Bear clan (in case you haven’t guessed). Rocky is a sweet soul and what I really appreciate about him is his integrity. If you ever get the...
by Ona Christie | Nov 3, 2015 | Animal spirits, Inspirational, Spiritual, Totems, Works in Progress
The weekend before last I was in Milwaukee for a holistic fair. While there I had the pleasure to meet Dennis (Rocky) King, a medicine healer from the Bear Clan of the Oneida nation. I’ve had a lot of bears come into my life lately – in dreams, in my art,...
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...
by Ona Christie | Oct 11, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Spiritual
So I have been doing these drawings lately. I hold a person in my mind, and close my eyes, and before long images will appear to me, and I get them down on paper. I think I’ve been doing this kind of thing for most of my life. It’s called art. 🙂 Seriously,...
