Hello Autumn!

Hello My Lovelies!

It's been a while since I took part in Art Journal Journey. It is a pleasure to come back and make some art greeting Autumn. Here we are heading into Spring. It is a lovely season too.

Linking up with Art Journal Journey

Hugs, 

Karla

Annabel Lee

 

And this was the reason that, long ago,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

   My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

   And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

   In this kingdom by the sea.

       Edgar Allan Poe  

Linking up with Our Midweek Muse 

Hugs,

Karla 

Digital Art

We are still here: creating, reinventing life, 
and we are as bold as ever.
Hail Digital Artists!  
We may be a few but we are alive and kicking.

Hugs, 

Karla

Happiness

           "There is no path to happiness: 

happiness is the path." 

Buddha

         Linkin up with Sunday Postcard Art

Hugs, 

Karla

You are the main character

The same way that you are the main character of your story, 

you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story." 

Don Miguel Ruiz

Hello My Lovelies!

It's been awhile since a took part in a challenge. My work keeps swallowing me

and I find no time to spend doing what I truly love. I always come and go. It doesn't mean art has been away from my life although I haven't posted what I have created here.

I miss you all and I learnt a lot with you, girls.

Love always,

Karla

Hugs, 

Karla

I am thankful for...

Gratitude is Gratidão in my language. It is such a beautiful word! 

My mother was 20 years old when that photo was taken. It was her wedding day. 

She was just a girl full of dreams and love.

I am grateful for my mother. 

She gave meaning to my life.

She gave me wings and taught me how to fly. 

She believed in me when I myself didn"t. 

My mother will always be my everything.

I miss you mum.

Hugs, 

Karla

Time

If you're lost, you can look, and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting

Time after time

Cindy Lauper

Hugs, 

Karla

It is raining brain

Emotions are your greatest teachers; listen to their wisdow.

Master of Emotions

The theme at Our Midweek Muse is weather this week but as I was creating my piece, my imagination carried me away and a question popped up in my mind:

how to balance emotions and mind in a frustrating chaotic world deprived of love, warmth and tenderness? The dehumanizing effect of a rational life has led us towards a replacement of traditions, values and emotions. Are our hearts truly open now? I am doubtful. We live an era of competition, efficiency, control and individualization. This shift of a collective social life to one which is self-centered and almost forgetful of common good has brought a lot of consequences and one of them is the destabilisation of traditional framework of identity and community. Is it better now? Well, only the next generations will be able to answer my question. 

Hugs, 

Karla

Narinha

The girl you see in the picture is Nara Leão: The Muse of Bossa Nova as well as Helô Pinheiro was the Muse of The Girl from Ipanema. Nara died in 1989. Helô is in her 80's. These two women will always be a source of inspiration and enchantment for us. Besides I suppose we - Brazilian people love Muses. 

Linking up with Digital Whisper

Hugs, 

Karla