by Ona Christie | Feb 25, 2015 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Spiritual, Totems
This is another art reading I did for a fellow writer. Interpretation below (edited to protect her privacy)! This little fellow took a LONG time to decide to show himself. Foxes are considered tricksters in many traditions, but I think that comes from their...
by Ona Christie | Jan 19, 2015 | Animal art, Art studio, Horse art, Spiritual
Dug this out of the attic the other day. It wasn’t finished. I’d shoved it into a portfolio one day several years back after filling in just the background, the horses’ eyes and nostrils, and the mane and tail on one of the animals (can you guess...
by Ona Christie | Nov 17, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits
You know how some days are masterpieces? Days you remember for the rest of your life? And other days fall short of masterpiece status, but they’re still “keepers.” The kind of day you wouldn’t mind every day being like. But most days...
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 | Jun 11, 2010 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Watercolor
Last weekend we spent some time on a rural property we own in southwest Wisconsin. One morning I bushwhacked to the far corner of the property to pick nettles and came upon two deer in the woods. The doe looked at me curiously for the longest time, even after the...
