Lunarian Tattoos

August 14, 2008 – 1:57 pm
Lunarian Tattoos

Its been 2 months since my last post, so much has happened since then:

Firstly, I’m now living in Bang Na Bangkok, and have been here for nearly two months. Its been my first time in Thailand, and what a great place to visit! The people, and the culture here have been great. I have not done very much site seeing apart from going down the local for Jack Daniels and a dabbling of Karaoke, LOL.

Over the last few months I have been busy putting together my new tattoo website Lunarian Tattoos. The reason for this is over the many years I have been an artist, I have been asked to design tattoos, I was also getting a lot of requests to designs tattoos or use my own designs for tattoos, so I decided to do something about it. So for some of you who would like to use my faerie designs as tattoo pieces I now have flash for sale, all designs come with lining in sheets, so to make the job easier for your tattooist to get your design ready quicker. I also include with this a letter of consent form allowing the tattooist and yourself to use the design. While I understand that people will download my designs from the computer and I cannot stop this, this does mean the image quality is poor and you will end up paying a lot more for the tattooist to trace it and be assured many tattooists charge anything from above $80 per hour for there services. So be aware!!! Most of my flash art is around the $20 mark.

Another option available to you is to send in a photo of your finished tattoo so I can add it to my gallery and show off your beautiful piece. I have also included a custom tattoo page for those who want something totally unique designed by myself. For this I charge $40 an hour (or if you have a budget we can always try and work to this) — considerably lower than a tattooist.  The reason for this is I work from home and I do not need transport or a place to work, so this is great for your pocket, the enviroment and me as I get to do what I love, giving you a treasured piece of art and a smile.

A tattoo design can take anything from 2 hours up, my last tattoo design was 5 hours. When the job is completed you will have a lining sheet, the signed original, and a unique tattoo ;-)
Also I have created two new pieces a Buddha painting and Buddha Flower.

Coming soon a new art called “Star Magic”

bright blessings and have a beautiful month,
Tave
xx

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Faerie Fest 08

June 20, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Faerie Fest 08

Its been a while since I last posted anything, so it time to let you know what I have been up to the last month;-) It was certainly a hectic one! After leaving the US we returned home to the UK for the month, where we spent our time catching up with family and friends. Also during that month I launched my latest product line, my Limited Edition Belt Buckles ;) at the 3 Wishes Faerie Feast, Bodmin, Cornwall. For a chance to own your own limited Edition click here.This was my first time exhibiting at this festival and was an amazing experience, despite the terrible weather… I met lots of beautiful happy smiley people and made some lovely new friends and will be certainly returning there next year ;-) I also had the pleasure of meeting Brian and Wendy Froud which was a real honour, even though I was a little star struck to say the least:-) Both of them are amazing artists and it was really nice to here what Brian had to say, next year I will have think of some well cool questions to ask them both. I also met the beautiful Linda Ravenscroft who was next to me in the mystic tent, her work is beautiful. Back in the spring my fiance bought me a tarot pack designed by Linda Ravenscroft, which I had her sign, these travel the world with me. This was amazing experience to get a chance to talk to these artists who have been in the business so long and gave me some real valuable advice in promotion and how they did it. I also met Peter Pracomnik a fantasy artist from Tintagel, Cornwall and many other talented crafts folk.

Coming up this month, will be a cd cover which I’m currently working on for a sound practitioner. I will also be adding some new tattoo designs to my existing tattoo page.

Also available this month I have launched my first glossy print cards each selling for £2.50 each or 6 for £12.00, at present these are not sold anywhere else. Also available now are my tubes/images from Artistic Minds Inc. Just click the Tubes/images page and click O, for Octavia.
faerie blessings

**Tave**

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New fairy belt buckle.

May 26, 2008 – 10:46 pm
New fairy belt buckle.

I’m pleased to announce that my sample belt buckles are on the way;) There are five new designs, blue bell, mermaid, moon goddess, star and dragon skull. Over the last few months I have been looking into getting my designs put on to belt buckles, and they will be launched later this month. There is a limited print run of 100 of each design world wide, and for the next two weeks theres a $5.00 discount and free delivery, and the response has been great, so don’t delay reserve yours today.

I also wanted to thank you to everyone who have left me so many beautiful comments, this is what makes everything so worth while, and keeps me inspired to paint more;)
The last few months have been brilliant since joining the fairy society I have met so many beautiful people and friends. For anyone reading this and who creates fairy artwork you should take a look, its a great place to help promote your work and meet new people;) Since joining I have licensed my work to Stab and Stash, AMI and Fairy Blocks.

Also coming up this month is 3 wishes Faerie fest, I will be there for the first time and I’m really looking forward to many talented artists like Linda Ravenscroft, Priscilla Hernandez, Chris Down, Myrea Pettit and many more, so I look forward to seeing you there in the festivities of fun;)

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Cross stitch pattens, at Stab and Stash.

May 17, 2008 – 4:15 pm
Cross stitch pattens, at Stab and Stash.

I am pleased to announce that my designs are now available in cross stitch pattens, Amongst some of the designs you know are Blue bell faerie, mother earth, and more. Tammy at Stab and Stash have been putting beautiful pattens together for 20 years. You will find many other talented artists her to with a wide variety of themes.
I want to say a big thank to Tammy and family for adding me to there family. So any of you interested or knows someone who is take a peak and open you mind to the fantasy realms of Stab and Stash enjoy.

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Earth Day

April 8, 2008 – 9:17 pm
Earth Day

I wanted to create a new piece for Earth Day. I knew I was going to base it around a friend of mine Siani. When I first decided to create this piece, my intuition was telling me that she would be ideal for the painting. Whenever I think of what crystals to use, certain crystals talk to me along with the colors in which I’m going to use for the piece. Always when I decide upon my model for a particular piece that the connection between subject and matter always complement each other perfectly. I did have a vague idea that Siani was into amber, as I recall her boyfriend Joe buying some jewelry for her, plus I had some insight from a good friend, So green Amber was a must. Siani is also from the Orkney Islands and loves the Brodgar Stones. So I wanted to add them as sunrise setting placing Siani between the stones, watching a new day come to life.
I wanted to use the earth symbol so I created my own green amber shading the area lighter for the cross, I felt that it fitted in nicely over the earth as Green amber is associated with protection, it turns negative energy into positive, cleans the chakras, and aids purification. It clears the heart chakra and fills it with love. As an Earth stone this was fitting to use it to help cleanse our earth. Another stone I also decided to use my good old friend of mine is amyethst, this crystal is one of the most powerful crystals of healing, its good for cleansing and healing an excellent stone for meditation and visualization in to sowing the seed on manifestation with the all seeing power of wisdom. For some reason I was also guided to peridot and black onyx but peridot was the final choice as for sometime now this stone has been in my thoughts and it turned out to be more than perfect for this piece. Peridot is an excellent protective stone for the aura, its also a powerful cleanser, this stone is also excellent in releasing negative patterns and old vibrations, its my hope this will help bring about the necessary change needed in the consciousness shift.
Holding the earth I used our own nature spirit the fae, she is in the goddess position holding the earth. To me this looks like the looking glass into our soul the earth, she is home of everything.

This design is now availble through my store.

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New Look Lunarian Art

April 6, 2008 – 8:49 pm
New Look Lunarian Art

For some time now I have been working on Radpidweaver and in my spare time I have helped my friends by designing their websites. I have designed a few sites now, and every time they have been getting a little better.

www.andre-martin.com

www.piersdowell.com

Some of you who a regular blog followers will have seen my website change numerous times. I have never really achieved close to what I’ve wanted until now, and I love this new theme, this canvas really reflects my work and the colors are perfect and show who I am as a person. As some of you know I’m a real purple lover. Amyethst is my favorite crystal along with aqua aura quartz, moonstone and Moldivite. Amyethst is a beautiful healing stone and opens up spiritual awareness, this stone also helps open up your intuition and is also associated with the third eye chakra. It really symbolizes me as a visual artist and my healing ways. For sometime now I have always wanted to help people to believe in themselves, I believe its because for so long I have denied my own beliefs in following my dreams. Dreams are so important they are part of who you really are and what you inspire to be. Always reach for them shine like the star you should be. Aqua auras I also love for is close connection to the thymus chakra, the thymus bridges you from your heart (your physical body) to the throat the first chakra (your connection to the spirt body) and enables you to communicate well with the power of the word and expression of life. This stone helps one to shine, when you shine all kinds of abundance will come into your life, peace and well being. Its also stone of spiritual awareness, and brings forth esoteric wisdom especially good with faerie work.

Moonstone and moldivite are two other beautiful stones I love, Moonstone for her connection to appreciating the goddess and moldivite as this is the true stone of the healers and help the healers to believe in themselves and the kindness and goodness they have to offer. Overs the coming years i will also add a new page to my website on crystals and their meanings and why I have used them within my artwork. For me my artwork will convey the magical meanings of our earth and how we connect to her. My latest painting will also be unveiled to you within this week just in time to celebrate our Earth Day.

Don’t forget Earth Day is 22nd April

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My day with Chrissy

March 13, 2008 – 5:52 am
My day with Chrissy

For my last day in Gatlinburg I had arranged to meet with Chrissy whom I met through the Fairy Society forum.
http://thefairysociety.ning.com
Since joining the fairy society I have met so many lovely talented people, and  if your interested in meeting like minded people this is a great place to meet.  Since my travelling begin I have travelled all over the states and last year we decided to book a two week holiday to Gatlinburg Tennessee, to my surprise Chrissy just lived 22 miles away, so this was an ideal opportunity to meet a like minded fairy artist friend. I have to say it was a highlight of my stay here in TN. As soon as I arrived at the Local coffee shop called The Spot I was welcome by everyone and had a total blast;) Chrissy is a extremely talented artist, and  an adorable person, she specialises Anime artwork, and her characters are adorable. Check out her lovely work at www.chrissyclark.com  their are all sorts of goodies on offer. I have also included the link for fairy society for all kinds of artists its a great place to meet fellow artists,(whether its doll making, art, poems, stories, wings etc) make friends, promote your work and also find that special gift for someone special;) I look forward to going to Tennessee again, as I had a magical time there.

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Cherohala Skyway Southward bound for Orlando;)

March 11, 2008 – 6:50 pm
Cherohala Skyway Southward bound for Orlando;)

On our way back to Orlando from Brent Creek we decided to travel across the Smoky Mountains to connect to the I75. After getting the chance to do deals gap, we were told by many fellow bikers to go and do the Cherohala Skyway as the views were so awesome. So not to miss out on this golden opportunity we set off bright and early and made our way to Cherokee, Bryson City,Robinnsville towards the cherohala skyway. The bike ride was awesome in every way…;) the views were spectualar and ride was smooth and I pretty much sang my way the whole time.
In the photos is the view of the smoky mountains form the cherohala skyway, with a little picky of us at the bottom;) and the above clip is the view from out log cabin condo.  If you love green mountains and lots of waterfalls this is a must place to visit… Were be back again:)

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Deals Gap - Dragons Tail TN.

March 2, 2008 – 6:33 pm
Deals Gap - Dragons Tail TN.

To celebrate our birthdays this year, as we are in Gatlinburg Tennessee, we found out that we were near the famous “Deal Gaps” also called the “Dragons Tail”. So who are we to miss out on this golden opportunity of taming the famous  Dragon;).
For those who have not ridden the tail this ride is consists of 318 windy bends in 11 miles set high in the spectacular mountains of Tennessee. In the summer over a 1000 bikes a day will take this trip into the mountains. We set off from Gatlinburg early in the morning on a bright and clear sunny day, and made our was to Townsend on the 321 then crossed into the Foothills Parkway, where you literally ride along the top of the mountain, with awesome views stretching out form either side of you, ideal for a photo op;) At the end the road you hit the famous Route 129 turn left then after 3 miles you begin your descent through Deals Gap :D With me on my Street bob I took a steady ride into the bends enjoying the luscious curves;) The sights are amazing, but you have to watch out for the rocket bikes coming upon fast, boys will be boys and play and they were having some serious fun;)  There are a few photographers on route who take photos of you as you ride the tail and you can pick these up online. I can honestly say this was a fabulous journey and I loved every minute. Once at the bottom you meet the Dragons Tail resort, where you pick up a few souvenirs and a excellent burger one of the best I’ve had i ages. There’s also the tree of shame for those who manage to wrap their bikes around a tree of two! and board of photos of gravel rash… On leaving the Dragons Tail we decided to head the other way towards “Hellsbender” another awesome bike ride on the way through to Cherokee, then back to Galinburg for a well earned Texas Streak;)
I have to mention all the roads round here in the Misty Mountains are full of step winding roads ideal for the explorer in you, I have never been anywhere like it the beauty is truly awesome.
We were egar to make our way home before the storm hit, reality of danger clearly hit home, when we came upon a fallen tree in the middle of the road with three people trapped inside. Thankfully while we were trapped there for two hours all three of them escaped with their lives and with their feeling all there body parts. We literally missed it by a minute, I’m so thankful that we not a minute sooner… What ever you do guys always ride safe…

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Battling through the Snow to Brent Creek Gatlinburg…

March 2, 2008 – 5:00 am
Battling through the Snow to Brent Creek Gatlinburg...

Battling through the Snow to Brent Creek Gatlinburg…

On my previous blog I was bragging about the glorious sunshine of Daytona Beach ;) well that will teach me… LOL
Day 2 of our journey was not too bad either, but day 3 we got caught in a rain storm after an hours riding through South Carolina, so we signed into a hotel for the night, to wait out the storm. Day 4 we woke bright and early as we had 250 miles to reach Brent Greek, so by 8 am we were on the road. It was exceedingly cold and I for one wanted to turn back or at least rent a car… but that was not an option as we had no where to store the bikes. So we pressed forward stopping every 50 miles to warm our frozen hands… (Oh I wish we stayed in Daytona) well soon we had to stop every 20 miles as we climbed the smokey mountains, all the while I was thinking I’m Nuts, this is totally crazy. The worst was yet to come, 50 miles to go we hit a snow storm in some fashion…not funny when your riding Harley’s into a blizzard of snow on the interstate, with the roads getting worse every minute. Well fare weather riders we are not!!! bring on the extreme….DOH! Well neither of us were at our happiest but we plodded on, after 20 miles of blizzard the skies started to clear and we left the maddening interstate behind us and took a well earned hot coffee break in a delightful cafe. The Lovely lady in the Pink hat soon had us smiling again with her welcoming smile.
Thankfully no more interstate just windy country lanes, despite the ass biting cold and a feeling of I want to go home our next part of the journey was totally 100% stunning. Like a snow scene out of the Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe… the windy roads were covered in snow and icicles on the trees and plants. and the stream running along the road not quite frozen was magical, the countryside here is a sight to behold. within 20 minutes we got to our destination, where we are to stay for the next two weeks. All I can say folks that’s a journey I never want to repeat again, but boy am I glad I did it because I can honestly say this is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. When I woke in the morning all I wanted to do is play snow angels :) and I had the biggest smile on my face.
You know our journey the day before is just like life, sometimes we just have to go through so much emotional turmoil, but if we keep fighting and striving to reach our goals when we eventually get their it makes it all worth while, and sometimes the joy inside takes you to a special place of pure happiness, truly happy to be alive;)

top photo gaz parking up for the night.

second photo view of golf course from our log cabin in morning

3rd Pond in snow.

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