Sailor Moon inspired painting and Art Giveaway contest

When I was a little girl I was obsessed with the cartoon Sailor Moon. In the mornings before school I would watch it on TV while eating breakfast. It began a life long appreciation for anime, comics and alien warrior princesses which ultimately contributed to the development of my artistic style.  To my extreme delight, for the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon, a new version was released in 2014 called "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal." This new release rekindled my obsession with the anime series and so I couldn't help but do a little fan art tribute.

It started with this pen and ink drawing in my sketchbook:

I was pretty excited with how the sketch came out so I decided to do a painting based on it:

"Sailor Lucid" 

10"x12"

original acrylic painting by Chelsea Rose

 

I made sure to add my signature third eye, as well as the single daggered pupil I draw all too often.
 I think it worked well, lending Sailor Moon a very eerie, whimsical, mysterious edge.

The full original painting is available in my etsy shop for $200. Interested in giving her a good home?
 Have a look here.

In other news I am having an art give away contest!

In order to enter to win this 3"x3" mini original acrylic painting of mine, plus a 10 pack of my hand made stickers you must do the following: 

-Follow me on Instagram @LucidRose

-Repost the photo above and include @lucidrose and #lucidrose in the description. 

The winner will be randomly selected and announced on my Instagram account January 31st. 

And last but not least, Check out my new favorite tea mug: 

Life is like a cup of tea, it's all in how you make it. 

(yay for creepy tea cups and random Irish proverbs!)

Sending love and light,

-Chelsea Rose 

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The Seed

Well, now that a new year has begun I really aught to get my blog caught up by sharing some of my recent work.

I am pretty excited about my newest acrylic painting on canvas:

"The Seed"
20"x 16"
original acrylic painting
by Chelsea Rose

I have been hoping to evolve my paintings by creating more detail and story by building up backgrounds, and painting situations where my creatures have the opportunity to interact with other creatures or surrounding elements.

Here is another recent piece that I feel shows more of the new direction I am taking with my paintings:

Original acrylic painting on a vinyl record
by Chelsea Rose
(SOLD)

Another exciting thing I did not too long ago was my first full body painting and photoshoot with a male model. Here are some of the results:

And most recently I began making these art pendants:

I sculpt them out of polymer clay and then paint them with acrylic and embellish them with stones, crystals and beads.

Here I am, modeling the Blue Goddess pendant.

The green goddess pendant sold, but the blue goddess pendant is still available. Check out the etsy listing for price and more photos! I am in the process of making more pendants, so keep an eye on the shop. 

Those are the headlines, folks!

Happy new year, and may it be a year full of inspiration and growth for us all.

Sending love and light,
-Chelsea Rose 

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Goddess of Eternal Change, new acrylic painting

Hi there,

I wanted to start the new year off by introducing you to my newly finished painting:

"The Goddess of Eternal Change"
20"x24"
original acrylic painting on canvas
by Chelsea Rose

This painting was inspired by the Hindu goddess of time and change, Kali Ma aka The Dark Mother.

I painted this with the intention of seeking a greater understanding and respect for the ever changing nature of my self and the world around me. Change is often the result of turbulent times and experiences. Its often a harrowing thing to go through, a mini death in some ways. But out of death comes new life, beginnings, chance. All things that should be embraced with open arms.

Check out my creative process captured in these "work in progress" snap shots:

It started out as a hastily drawn pen and ink illustration in my sketch book.

The concept sketch eventually found itself transferred onto canvas.

The first bits of color began to be laid down.

Home studio portrait with the work in progress Kali Ma and my finished Mushroom Goddess painting. :)

First blocks of color in the hair.

Playing with the background to create strange undulating hills that recede into the glow.

putting some work into the details.

...And the finishing touches!

So that was that. What do you think?

I enjoyed painting the cyclops head so much that I imediantly began working on a new painting.
 Here is a sneak peak:

This is cropped way down, so your not seeing the full image. There be booooobies of course! Almost finished with her, so keep an eye out for updates shortly. Yay for powerfully beautiful mutant city-sliker nymphs!

And may I remind you.... of my beautiful hand drawn and hand screen printed sticker packs for sale amongst other wonderful goodies in my online etsy shop:

$10 for a 10 pack. Check out the listing here for more photos or to buy.

Oh oh oh! Or how about an amazing goddess art filled independently published calendar for the new year?

12 months of Goddess inspired art by pacific northwest artists, featuring my "Goddess of the Hunt" painting for August.

Here have a look inside:


$20 for a years worth of art. Check out the listing here.

As always, thanks for your support.

Sending Love and Light,
-Chelsea Rose

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Earth Goddess photos, new art pendants and current work in progress photo

I had a wonderful weekend. Now that winter is making its self known with this cold I am spending more time inside my lil home art studio. I love the coziness!

I had time to look through more of my most recent Earth Goddess photoshoots, so here are a couple more:

(body art and photography by Chelsea Rose)


(body art and photography by Chelsea Rose)

And the new art pendants I listed:


These are my bigger sized art pendants(domino sized.) They are handmade by me using prints of my original paintings. I have about 10 up for grabes in my etsy shop. Only $15 each! Check them out here.

And yes, I swear I still find the time to paint:

Here is a quick snapshot of me working on my mermaid. She is almost finished! ....Although a voice in the back of my head keeps trying to convince me to add in a bunch of magenta bubbles into the background but I am not entirely convinced yet. We shall see.

Anyhoo...thats about it.

Before you go, check out our shops Holiday specials:

FREE SHIPPING on your purchase of "The Goddess In All Of Us" book + more

****Holiday Sale - free shipping + a bonus of two surprise 4"x6" Goddess In All Of Us first edition prints. Curious? Well take a look a closer look at this special here.

Also, we are offering %25 off on our Mandala and Yantra Calendars:

*****Holiday Sale - 25% OFF

Mandalas & Yantras, Sacred Geometry Art 2012 Calendar

combining the work of several independent artist with the wisdom of traditional symbolism and sacred geometry we mindfully created a calendar to enhance the quality of the lives it touches through its presence.

The 12 month calendar features art from five different artist, Joanne Licardo, Roger Long, Mark Marasco, Danny Rodriguez, and Nobuaki Suzuki.

In this calendar we have marked holidays and observances for the U.S., Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Rastafarian, and Celtic traditions.

Wall Calendar is 8"x8" with a saddle-stitch binding.

check it out here!

Much Love and Light,
-Chelsea Rose

P.S.
I am now on tumblr and deviantart Come find me, add me and say hi!
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Work In Progress painting, Banyan Tree design, Ebru Power

Been keepin busy, take a look :

This is a work in progress shot of my acrylic painting in process called "Mistress of the Orb." I have been videotaping myself painting this piece so when I am all done I will have a neat time lapse video of the process to show you!


This is a pen and ink Banyan tree illustration that I custom designed for an etsy customer of mine. It was a very fun illustration to work on and I rather like the way it turned out! Maybe this Banyan tree will be make an apearence in a painting of mine someday soon.


And check out my new headband! It was Gifted to me as a 2year dread head anniversary present by my dear misty mountain bard friend from afar. ... makes me feel like a forest nymph when I wear it :) Thank you Sara!

And Danny has been busy brewin some Ebru. Check out some of his new pieces:

"Fire Mandala"
( original handmade double layer acrylic ebru(Turkish paper marbling) monoprint on kozo paper.)

"Peace"
(original handmade double layer acrylic ebru(Turkish paper marbling) monoprint on kozo paper.)


....for more of his most recent work visit the Lucid Optic Lab flickr account.


Love and Light,
-Chelsea Rose
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Mega Update: New Watercolor paintings, Artwalk photos, henna dread details

So i have some catching up to do seeing that i have not posted anything since the 20th!
First off i wanted to share some watercolor painting i did over the weekend which are all now available for sale in our etsy shop :


Faery ah Glow
4" x 6"
original watercolor painting by Chelsea Rose
On sale for $60. Check out the sale listing HERE.


Harpy in Moonlight
4" x 6"
original watercolor painting by Chelsea Rose
On sale for $60. Check out the sale listing HERE.


Fish of Perception
4" x 6"
original watercolor painting by Chelsea Rose
On sale for $60. Check out the sale listing HERE.


Conversation with a Pixie
4"x6"
Original watercolor painting by Chelsea Rose
On extra sale for $50. See the sale listing HERE.

And some snapshots danny took of me working on these:

as you can see i took over the dining room table with my watercolor supplies!


Honestly i had been itching to play with watercolor ever since i sold one of my originals- talk about inspiration and encouragement!

In other news- we must now backtrack to Thursday the 26th which was the Last Thursday Artwalk on Alberta st for August:

This was our booth set up. As always we were selling original art, silkscreen prints, tie dye and more.

I painted my face up in hopes to entice some souls to have their own faces/bodies painted by me for a few bucks:

(photo by Bert Steele )
...and so it did attract quite a few moms and their kids to have their faces painted:

and all was well and super fun until the unthinkable happened....Wells Fargo set up a table to "sign up accounts" right next to us!!! I was truly outraged by this and confronted them about it. I pretty much said that i was very uncomfortable with their presence at what is supposed to be a community based independent artwork festival. I hope i made my disgust known enough for them to think twice about setting up again. This may be a sign that its the beginning of the end for the Alberta arts festivals but i am determined to not be too disheartened. We will see how it goes for September's last Thursday art walk.

...Oh and for those who are wondering why my dreads are suddenly red- i colored it with Henna( all natural plant based hair coloring!)
The process was pretty messy and looked something like this:

but i had fun making the mess as always and the henna was so soothing and healing for my scalp.
The color change was pretty dramatic as you can see- but i love it! Change is good.

Danny has been super busy finsing these huge screens for a Buddha silkscreen/marbling project he has in the works:

As you can see- he is all done with the three screens needed to make up his 3 color Buddha print. Instead of using the photo emulsion method of creating these silkscreens he hand painted them with drawing fluid. The next step is getting all his supplies ready to begin marbling big sheets of paper that he will then print the buddha onto. i cant wait to see the outcome but we have to wait awhile and let the $$ come in so that he can purchase all the supplies.



a quick snap of Danny and I over the weekend. We spent a good amount of time hanging out on the patio, conversing and drinkin tea.
I hope every one's weekend went well.

more updates coming soon.

Best wishes,
-Chelsea Rose
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Weekend bliss: Queen Bead, KPG live music, mermaid acrylic painting, playing dress up and morning glory flower

This weekend was eventful and this coming week will be the same way or perhaps doubly so!

First off, one more photo to share from my body painting photo shoot with Queen Bead:


(body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose
Model: Queen Bead )

Why is she called Queen Bead? well thats her artist/stage name. She is the head woman for a local reggae band called KPG - Keep Portland Green and her voice coupled with the music made me tingle. I danced all night long...needless to say i was super sore the next day and have realized how out of shape i have gotten- need to dance more!! This was a wonderful way to start the weekend.

On Saturday Danny and I watched T.Ruth artspace gallery
We set up a lil sidewalk art sale and worked on various projects inside while greeting the people who came in to look at art. Queen Bead dropped by with her son, i gave her a CD full of the body painting photos of her and we chatted for a couple hours.

I also managed to get some work done on my mermaid painting:

....i am not sure what it is with painting mermaids but they always give me trouble. I am assuming its their trickster/mischievous nature. I have been drawing them since i was 5, so i better get used to painting them since i love mermaids so much!

...i think she finally did manage to cooperate and i got a fair amount of work finished on her. Shes at least got her first layer of paint on...i am going to put in some flowy side fins on her tail and a bunch of bubbles in her hair. Blue/green and yellow orange is a strange color combo for me and i dont think i can say i have it mastered yet so i will have to do a lot more tweaking with it till i am happy. So there is loads more work to do on her- i pray i can find the time to do it in the next few weeks!

In other news...i discovered that my dreads have grown long enough to do side buns...whoohooo!

Can you tell i was quite excited?

....turns out to be a great dread-do for the hot summer months- helps keep the dreads up to cool off the neck!

Also, I came to realize that the FaerieWorlds Festival is this coming weekend! I must go and so i shall. Also will be happily helping the singer Joanne Berman Juskus who heads the band Telesma by giving her and her drummer a lift to the festival- they will be playing there at 5:30pm. Whats extremely exciting, that i just now learned via facebook message a sec ago, is that they are hoping to have me do some body painting on the digeridoo man( Ian Hesford) for their preformance! I cant wait. I guess Ian usually goes onstage painted up very tribal and has even been painted by Alex Grey for a concert! If you have time...check them out, they make some wonderous psychedelic mind blowing music.

So yes... looks like i will be doing all that on Saturday. This realization had me diving into my costume bag to figure out what to wear:

I love playing dress up!

...i think this hat is going to save me from turning into one big sunburn on Saturday.
I am also super excited to hear that the two corsets i commissioned Danny's amazingly talented seamstress sister to make me are on their way in the mail! Thus...i may be strutting about with one of my new ones on for the fair. I had her make one under bust corset with this crazy 60s mushroom fabric i found and another corset- over bust(1700's styled) out of a wonderful purple brocade. I will take photos when they arrive( due Wednesday i think!)

This Thursday is the Art walk on Alberta st so we are also gearing up for that- will be there around 20th and alberta st ( Portland or) with a full booth boasting lots of paintings, art prints, screen prints and tie dye!

That's it for now....more updates and news soon.
Best wishes and much love,
-Chelsea Rose

P.S

i wanted to share my first morning glory bloom of the summer with you:

bye now :)
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