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

Play Fair

The theme at Sunday Postcard Art is Sports. 

We don't to tell our dreams. We want to show them.

Cristiano Ronaldo 

The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.

Pelé

( We miss you!)

Hugs, 

Karla

My Girls

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

Kofi Annan

Hugs,

 Karla

What is your favourite color?

Blue is the closet color to truth.
Steven Tyler

I am a bit late but better late than never to take part in Our Midweek Muse  challenge this week.

Hugs,

 Karla

Bird Girl

In order to see a bird, 

it is necessary to become 

part of the silence.

Robert Lynd

The theme at Sunday Postcard Art is Bird People.  Here is my contribution. 

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Hugs, 

Karla

Bathing Beauty

This week theme at Digital Whisper is Bathing Beauty. It is odd to think about Summer when it is Winter in my country.  Although snow is a rare phenomen here,  it ooccurs yearly in the high plains of the south region in Brazil. It rains a lot during Winter

and Summer too.

It's been pretty rainy lately. I like Winter. It is good to sleep with the sound of the rain against my window pane.

Hugs, 

Karla

Stars

The theme for this week out  at Our Midweek Muse is Stars. So I decided to make a digital  paper collage. Stars have always been a source of inspiration for centuries. They simbolize hope and faith and nothing can soothe our souls more than a beautiful starry night.

Hugs,

 Karla

I believe I can fly and you?

Hello My Lovelies!

How are you today? I hope you are well. Here is Winter and I love cloudy days. Hot weather is unbearable! Last Summer I thought we would evaporate here in Rio de Janeiro. Apart from that everything is under control. My girls are older. One of them is about to graduate at university and get married. I have four dogs and two cats. I am still working but I can retire now. I have been teaching for 34 years. Time flies so do I.

It 's been a while since I created something for Altered Book Lover. But I am back. 

I believe I can fly whenever my creative juices flow. They make me feel alive. 

And you? And Yes, T stands forwhat Art gives me: wings.

Visit Altered Book Lover

Also linking up with Try it on Tuesday

 Hugs, 

Karla

Sewing again

The theme hosted by Art Journal Journey has inspired me again. So here is another contribution.

Sewing is an act of love. 

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Hugs,

Karla 

I believe in Tarot Cards

The true Tarot is symbolism: it speaks no other linguagem and offers no other signs.

Arthur Edward Waite

What a lovely theme at Sunday Postcard Art this week!

Hugs, 

Karla

Sun in my eyes

Sewing My Heart

My grandmother was a seamstress. She could also knit and crochet very well. My mother could sew and knit very well too. Unfortunately, she's got Alzheimer now. I miss the things my mother used to do so beautifully. I miss my grandmother. What a tapestry of emotions the theme hosted this month by Art Journal Journey have brought to me!

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Hugs, 

Karla

Bits and Pieces

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Kurt Cobain

Linking up with Our Midweek Muses

 

Hugs, 

Karla

Can you see me?

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

David Myers

Limking up.with Sunday Postcard Art

Hugs, 

Karla