Digital artist diary, documenting a lifetime of creative work
Past Photos Formally back to back and spade couple. First mermaids transformed into feathers.
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Sometimes there are happy accidents and this glass eye photography is one of those times! In arranging the set, and display, a second level of illusion was captured. It’s subtle that the landscape photo orientation looks like the edge of a face, a somewhat skeleton or skull like anatomical portrait. I love it! The photos…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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I share my artist diary on this blog to inspire others to do creative work and unleash their hidden talents.
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Mitra Cline is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by journalism, fine art, performance, and design.
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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.
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When the weather gets warm and the daylight lasts longer, it’s the right time to start working outdoors. This space gets morning sun so my favorite hours to work here are 9 to 1 pm. The bike trailer is a tiny tarot studio. Next month the collective readings will be recorded from the beach. It’s…
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Creating the glass eyes and pendants was really energizing. These are the final photos. I posted them for sale on my store with lots more pictures-in case you want to see more of one eye in particular. 🙂
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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