12 Years of Blogging!

By: Mitra December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Creative Life, Mitra's Artanniversary, Artist, autobiography, Blogging, faith, featured, self care, self help, self improvement, selfie5 Comments

Wow! I’m celebrating 12 years of blogging on WordPress. In 2009 I started a blog out of frustration with life circumstances. Can you resonate with looking for someone (including yourself) who can genuinely appreciate creative efforts? My desire to reach out to the internet was in the hopes of finding help and helping myself too! By…

Happily Ever After - Mini Mermaid Type Relationship Card

🌟 Holiday Gift of Cards Giveaway 🌟

By: Mitra December 2, 2020December 19, 2020 Goals, Mitra's Art, Random free stuff, Rewardsdiy, featured, holiday gift, mermaids, oracle cards, relationshipsLeave a Comment

Wishing YOU unexpected good fortune this holiday season. My wish is to help grow beautiful, loving, and playful relationships🌟. In honor of this goal, my DIY mini mermaid relationships cards are discounted 100% for YOU. You can help me by sharing this gift offer with close friends who would enjoy this mermaid DIY project of…

December 2020 Monthly Tarot Reading Video Cover

🧜‍♀️What is lost, is found!🧜 (Element Tarot 4 December)

🧜‍♀️ What is lost can be found in December! 🧜 Don’t give up hope; reach out, and expect magic in December. This Mermaid Type reading included a bonus lesson about staying calm and trusting that all that is lost can be found and returned to you! We are starting the month with the full moon…

Maximize your advantage this week, tarot reading

By: Mitra November 22, 2020December 19, 2020 Archatypes, Mitra's Art, Ritualsaffirmation, featured, guided meditation, Meditation, mindfulness, Oracle, tarotLeave a Comment

This week’s Mermaid Type Tarot is about how to maximize your advantage this week. Wisdom can emerge from the depths of you with this short practice. The practice is in three parts. We start by looking at the images, then read the affirmations, and finally close our eyes for a moment and imagine your week…

Fallout Poem

By: Mitra November 16, 2020December 19, 2020 Mitra's Artfeatured, Intimacy, Love, People, Poem, relationshipsLeave a Comment

What if we all knew yet the same shame remains like super glue No love grew but in spite of that imagine we could take back that brat chat We could open what is shut to be understood no matter what

Making polyhedral dice in resin, UV and heat reactive

By: Mitra September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Firsts, Mitra's Art, Mixed Mediaday and night, dice, featured, pairings, polyhedral dice, resin, Sophie and ToffeeLeave a Comment

Day and night dice. Both UV reactive-glow in the dark! Color changing dice are plant, moon like and both sets are imperfectly perfect. The black changes to a light gray in your warm hands. Silver glitter and shine add texture to deciphering the numbers in a roll. This post has a video and photos from…

Video unboxing, Mermaid Type Tarot

By: Mitra September 1, 2020September 8, 2020 Mitra's Artfeatured, intuitive, mermaids, tarot, tarot cards, unboxingLeave a Comment

The Mermaid Type Tarot is a collection of 78 artworks that include photos, sculptures, paintings, digital art, and drawings. The complete mermaid type includes the numbers 0-9, uppercase and lowercase a-z, and basic punctuation. The PARTY Edition features full artwork and the type design hides parts the art in the letter and number silhouettes. Visit…

Fairy landscapes

By: Mitra August 20, 2020September 8, 2020 Mitra's Artangel, fairies, featured, Inspiration, Nature, PhotographyLeave a Comment

This photo series is an extension of the last post, Send me an Angel. I think these backgrounds invite fairy or angel drawings 🧚‍♀️. A couple of the photos feature backgrounds from my flying mermaid artwork. The colors in these are so bright and light. I put my favorite ones at the top. Do you…

Artist Statement

I share my artist diary on this blog to inspire others to do creative work and unleash their hidden talents.

Artists Resume

Mitra Cline is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by journalism, fine art, performance, and design.

Mitra’s Art

This page features a selection of my work showing it’s multimedia aspects with my most recent theme of mermaids as symbolic of unconscious energies.

Three eye pendants 👁👁👁

By: Mitra February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

Firsts, Archatypes, Sculptingjewelry, Polymer Clay, evil eye, lovers eye, dragon eye, eye, pendants, fra turedLeave a Comment

The first three pendants are the dragon eye, evil eye, and lovers eye. Can you guess who is who? In addition to the themes, I also used three different size base circles to create pendants of different sizes. The pupils are different too. I am sure to enjoy creating more unique eyes after these first…

Making eyes 👀

By: Mitra February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

Archatypes, Firsts, Santa Barbara, Sculptingdragon eye, evil eye, glass, lovers eye, Polymer Clay, work in progress2 Comments

New work in progress photos. I’m inspired by a friends recent art and the history of eye jewelry. This post has a couple photos of my work in progress, a tutorial video, and a link to learn more about the lovers eye jewelry pendants. My exploration includes the lovers eye, dragon eye, and evil eye…

Rainbow Mushroom Pendant Photoshoot

By: Mitra February 19, 2021

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The pendants are up for sale on my shop now. They were so much fun to make! The 15 one of a kind handmade mushroom pendants are made out of polymer clay with metallic acrylic paint and some have a glitter resin top. The are about 3” tall and 1.” wide. The string is a…

nightmare symbols, worm, black, dust under my skin dreams

By: Mitra February 17, 2021

Creative Inspiration, Dreams, References, Writinganxiety, dream journal, dream poem, dream tending, fear, nightmare2 Comments

I’ve noticed a series of nightmares about having black stuff under my skin. Below are images and text that go from the fear to the antidote. I think these dreams represent real concerns and anxiety about pain. My dreams provided support images to calm the fears and they might help you if your experiencing these…

Making mushroom pendants 🍄 LIVE with music

By: Mitra February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

art practice research, Firsts, Mitra's Art, Performance, Santa Barbara, Sculptingfilm, mushrooms, Performance, playback theatre, Polymer ClayLeave a Comment

Mushrooms grow everywhere and they come in so many interesting shapes and colors. A friends been posting photos of them on her hikes in the redwoods of coastal Northern California and it’s inspired me! The pendents were made over the weekend. It kept my hands and mind busy while I was anticipating the release of…

Save the date! A virtual concert series in production with Marjorie Luke Theatre

By: Mitra February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

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Film series, Santa Barbara Home Project, is Streaming from Sunday, February 14 on luketheatre.org!!!!! 🎭 My story, Transformation by fire, is one of several performances in the project. We have been working on it for several months over zoom prior to the final rehearsals and filming. This experience was wonderful as a collaboration and I’m…

Zodiac And Tarot Collage Sets

By: Mitra February 5, 2021February 3, 2021

Archatypes, Digital ArtLeave a Comment

I’ve finished a zodiac collage set created for a monthly tarot reading viseo project. The part of my creative mind that loves to plan creative systems is loving this tarot project puzzle. It’s a visual and time based project presented in social media. These collages will be for the third attempt at producing a set…

Loving my little photobooth

By: Mitra February 4, 2021February 3, 2021

Art Studio, Mitra's Art, Photographyphotobooth, photoshop1 Comment

Recently I’ve been enjoying the white background look from photographing things in the little photobooth. The light is so bright and it very easy to take out the background. Most of the pictures and projects that are keeping me creatively inspired are from the Tarot theme. I’ve been doing reviews of all the decks I’m…

February Giveaway: Tarot Cards!

By: Mitra February 3, 2021

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Mermaid Type Tarot PARTY Edition The tarot deck comes with a miniature guide book, cloth bag, cards, and tuck box. See below for a tour of the decks or visit on Instagram to see more of the cards. Made in the USA. Open Edition Print Series by Mitra Cline. he Mermaid Type Tarot project is about seeking…

The High Priestess Detail Digital Drawing by Mitra

High Priestess – Drawing

By: Mitra January 23, 2021

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This is the High Priestess drawing for Phonetic version of Mermaid Type Tarot. These cards are based on the RWS designs and the spelling include the phonetic alphabet. They also have short affirmations to clue the reader into the meaning of the card. I started this drawing with watercolor and then photographed it and worked…