Amor, amor

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” 
― Stephen Chbosky

Aceitamos o amor que achamos que merecemos.

Stephen Chbosky

For

Cheeky Challenge

Many thanks to Studio Manu

Hugs, Karla

A sunny day / Um dia de sol

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. 

Kate Chopin

A voz do mar fala à alma. O toque do mar é sensual, envolve o corpo em seu abraço macio e profundo.
Kate Chopin

For
Take a Word
&
Digital Whisper

Hugs, 

Karla

Orange Love

Orange is the happiest color.

Frank Sinatra

For

Sunday Postcard Art

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Karla

Doors

“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.” 
― Ann Voskamp

For

Three Muses

Hugs, Karla

T stands for Coffee and Art

Hello My Lovelies!

How are you doing? Hope life has been treating well. Today I don't have much to share apart from my digital drawings and a book. I've been sick but today I went to Mr Doc and needless to say I have a lot of  things to do which range from a blood test up to an ultrasound. My holidays will end next week and after two weeks of an strict diet I've lost some weight. Because of that I have concentrated most on digital art. I have been also preparing a a book full of messages for my niece. I will write them when I get better. I think writing is also a process of inspiration and I want to leave her words of fire as a friend uses to say. My niece is my goddaughter too so she is very important in my life. Can you see Mr Tiger?He is also part of my book. Well, honestly, I don't know how to call it because it is not a book or an album. Can you help me, please?

The cover is not ready yet. Now my digital drawings:

Treasure

Odara

Anete

What do you think of digital drawings? Do you think they are less charming? Well, I am all ears.Have a magical Tuesday!

For

T stands for Tuesday

Hugs, Karla

Frame her

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.” 
― Unknown Author 

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Take a Word

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Karla

Let's? / Vamos?

“With my big 80s hair, my cut off jean shorts, and my roller skates, I’m going to look sexy on my way to work in the snow this winter. And I just got sled dogs, though I plan on pulling them without putting them on the sled first.” 
― Jarod Kintz

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Digital Whisper

Thanks to Joy Designs

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Karla

He / Ele

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Sunday Postcard Art

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Winged Beings / Seres Alados

“The soul is healed by being with children.” 
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nesta vida,

pode-se aprender três coisas de uma criança:

estar sempre alegre,

nunca ficar inativo

e chorar com força por tudo o que se quer.

Paulo Leminski
ForLunagirl

Hugs,
Karla

As she dances / Enquanto ela dança

“I must have flowers, always, and always.” 
― Claude Monet

Eu preciso ter flores, sempre e sempre.

― Claude Monet

For

Cheeky Challange

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Karla

Now you know...

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.” 
―Noam Chomsky

For

Three Muses

Hugs, 

Karla

Be an angel

Angels have no philosophy but love. 
~Terri Guillemets


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Mix it Monthly
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Paint Party Friday

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Karla

Bunny a la Monet

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.” 

― Magenta Periwinkle

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Digital Whisper

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Karla

Art is silent poetry

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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Take a Word

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Karla

In Flames

“I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please"!"

Charlotte Eriksson

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Sunday Postcard Art

Hugs, Karla

Klara

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr 

Racism as Expression of Group Dominance

The most important and most far reaching forms of social inequality today are related to group relations based on gender, class and ethnic background. [Inequality on the basis of age, sexual orientation, and physical or mental handicap also plays a role.] Gender, class and ethnicity are influential concepts of social organization and processes of signification. Historically, specific mechanisms of group dominance have produced and reproduced these forms of social inequality. Racism is a typical expression of group dominance (Van Dijk, 1993: 18-48). Racism as a system of social inequality implies that social groups do not have equal access to and control over material and immaterial social resources. At the material level, these resources include employment, income and housing. Immaterial resources, however, are of equal concern, including education, knowledge, information and access to the social networks and means of communication instrumental in public debates (such as the media, politics, the judicial system, the educational system and the welfare sector). Discourse occupies a central position as far as these immaterial resources are concerned. Discursive representations imbue social practices with meaning and thus legitimate social inequality and the daily organization of dominance and exclusion. This also implies, among other things, that ethnic groups do not have control over their representation in public discourse. Few professionals working in the field of communication such as journalists, opinion makers, writers, politicians and teachers are from ethnic minorities. With a few exceptions, ethnic minority groups are represented in public debate, in the press, in politics, in scientific literature and in schoolbooks by opinion makers originating from the majority group (Van Dijk, 1993). Crucial for understanding the phenomenon of racism is the observation that racism not only refers to overt and violent forms of social domination and exclusion but also to more indirect and subtle forms expressed in daily practices, including through discursive practices. It should, however, be stressed that racism is not considered a mental property of individual persons, but rather a dynamically changing dimension of social practices.

source

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Kim Dellow - show your face

&

Paint Party Friday
&

Sunday Sketches

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sKarla

Snowflakes and roses

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Art Journal Journey

&

Paint Party Friday

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Karla

The worst form of violence / A pior forma de violência

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” 

― Mahatma Gandhi

“A pobreza é a pior forma de violência.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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Cheeky Challenge

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Which one? / Qual?

Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But the law allows only one wife.

Todo homem quer uma mulher que é bonita, compreensiva , econômica, e uma boa cozinheira . Mas a lei permite apenas uma esposa. 

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Three Muses

Hugs, 

Karla

Gypsy Soul / Alma Cigana

She had the soul of a gypsy, heart of a hippie, spirit of a fairy...

Ela tinha a alma de uma cigana, o coração de uma hippie, o espírito de uma fada...

For

Digital Whisper

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Karla

Beauty is.../ A beleza é...

Take a Word invited us to define beauty and it is so complex to depict such a subjective concept. Beauty is freedom in my opinion. I also find beauty in vibrant colors, in music, in flowers, in butterflies (and in animals in general), in everything vintage, in Tarot cards ( and in everything related to occultism), in Gypsy dance/ life, in living in freedom, in handmade art and craft, in the Roaring Twenties.

Take a Word convidou-nos a definir a beleza e é tão complexo descrever um conceito tão subjetivo. Beleza é a liberdade em minha opinião. Eu também encontro beleza nas cores vibrantes , na música, nas flores , em borboletas ( e em animais em geral) , em tudo vintage, em Cartas de tarô (e em tudo relacionado com o ocultismo ) , na dança  / vida cigana, em viver em liberdade, na arte feita a mão , no loucos anos vinte .

Before I leave, I'd like to share a song I love with you.

Hugs,
 Karla

For
Take a Word

Thanks to Valentina's Creations

Poor girl!

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Sunday Postcard Art

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Karla

Yes!

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Show your Face

Balzer Designs

Sunday Sketches

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Blue /Azul.

It is weird to think of snow when it is so hot here. It is summer and it's been sunny during the morning and windy in the evening. I used oil pastels with turpentine to colour the girl and the bear but the snow was added digitally. 

A neve foi adicionada digitalmente. Usei óleo pastel e terebentina para pintar a menina e o ursinho.

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Paint Party Friday

&

Art Journal Journey

Hugs, 

Karla

A temple of fire / Templo de Fogo

Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? 

~Rumi

Não é hora de transformar o seu coração em um templo de fogo?

~ Rumi

For

Three Muses

Happy 2016 girls!

Hugs, 

Karla

T stands for Hope

Hello My Good Friends!

Another year begins and we have 361 days to make things happen again. I hope our muses keep on inspiring us so that we can have another creative year.

Before I go I'd like share the first  page I've created in 2026:

And I'd also like to share a poem:

The Year

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1910)

What can be said in New Year rhymes,

That’s not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,

We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light,

We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings,

We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,

We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,

And that’s the burden of the year.

And a video about The Olympic Games :

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Have a magical day!

Hugs, 

Karla

For

T stands for Tuesday

Music / Música

Happy 2016, my friends!

Hugs, 

Karla

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Take a Word

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Digital Music