Digital artist diary, documenting a lifetime of creative work
This 3D model was created as a modern day interpretation of the classic RWS Emperor Tarot card. I’ve been working with symbolic imagery in my creative practice. Recreating the card imagery by collaging assets in a virtual space is my method. I’m starting with the Emperor as my first card. In honor of April and…
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Past Display Photos Initial Digital Drawing
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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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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 most recent body of work, a mermaid series investigation lasting approximately 5 years.
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Today I added 10 NFT art objects on OpenSea in a bowl collection. I imagine these art bowls adorning beautiful home in the virtual world. These are the first art objects I’ve created but I’m already loving it and for sure more are to come! I’ve added the gif files below as a preview. to…
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The winner picks a favorite – one-of-a-kind handmade mushroom pendant is made out of polymer clay with metallic acrylic paint, glitter, and a resin finish. It’s about 2.5” tall and 1.5” wide. The string is a 20” soft leather 1/8” loose cord. One of 15 mushrooms in the 2021 spring series by artist Mitra Cline.
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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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