I just finished exhibiting all 52 originals from my soon-to-be-published Lefty Oracle Deck at Riverside Art Museum. Here's a bunch of fun photos of folks trying out non-dominant hand drawing, being brave and getting up on stage to pose as a lefty...you'll find collaborating couples, moms and daughters, best friends, solo artists and more. Click here to read about my show in the Valley News.
New Moon in Leo Inspiration 2016
Dear Intuitive Soul,
August's New Moon is in Leo and your oracle card inspiration this month is Sexy Sunflower. The excerpt below is from my Lefty Oracle Guidebook and soon-to-be published deck.
Year of the Sexy Sunflower: Get ready for a year of SHINE. It’s your time. Time you stood in the spotlight and acknowledged your truth and all you’ve done so far with your life. Be subtle or showy; what’s your style? Push yourself now to really put yourself out there in a BIG way. Let us all know about the best parts of you. What are your gifts and your greatest strengths? What adversity have you overcome? How many people or plants or animals have you helped? What do you love about yourself? Start with this and expand out. Make us care. Shine, sexy sunflower, shine bright!
In my own life at present I do my best to share my work and life online and I make sure that when I do I’m in a positive state of mind and post with love in my heart. If I post when upset, negative or depressed that energy leaks out into the world and returns to me magnified which helps no one.
NEW SITE LAUNCH!
I've spent the last several months creating and honing my brand new website and it's ready to be unveiled now that Mercury is direct and Mars is direct and out of it's station...perfect timing! Enjoy!
Past Life Reading Sample : With client permission I've just posted this recent Past Life Reading along with a testimonial. The price for these readings will be going up in the fall.
52 Originals from My Lefty Deck On Exhibit at Riverside Art Museum Aug. 4-7
A 15 year project has finally come together: my Lefty Oracle Deck & Guidebook. The Lefty's are on this planet to help others as tricksters and soothsayers, guides and angels. They have aided 1000's so far get more in touch with their creativity, intuition, inner child and their heart. Please join me for the opening of this exhibit on Thursday, Aug. 4 from 6-9 pm where I'll have on hand pages from the Lefty Guidebook so that u can try out some non-dominant hand drawing, journaling, body movement challenges AND perhaps win a Deluxe Soul Reading and Lefty print valued at $150If you would like to make a donation to the museum in my name please check out The 52 Project and make your donation here.
Me and my amazIng husband Mark who helped me design and install my lefty oracle paintings at Riverside Art Museum.
New Original Painting in the Shop: I just added this dark faery goddess to the shop.
Cruces Original Painting
$200.00
WOOHOO! My Illustration "Harrow" is published in Witches & Pagans Magazine!
Leo Altar Suggestions from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook
- Leo – The Lion
- Time of Year – Summer, July 23 – August 23
- Quality – Fixed
- Element – Fire
- Planetary Ruler – The Sun
- Anatomy – Heart, spine
- Natural Sign of – 5th House
- Color – Gold, orange, scarlet
- Gemstone – Amber, diamond, ruby
- Tarot Card – Strength
- Goddesses – Amaterasu, Bast, Cybele, Hestia, Ishtar, Sekhmet, Tara, Vesta
Leo Affirmations
- I am special and loved
- My heart is open
- I am awake and in tune with my spiritual self
- My inner child is alive and well
- I am a creative being bursting with joy
- I am one with the Sun
- I am generous and loving
Feed Your Fire ~ Release Your Inner Child
- - Have the guts to be visible
- - Be proud of heart
- - Work with Leo’s energetic and extroverted energy to inspire self-confidence
- - Be dramatic
- - Feed your creative appetite.
- - Bring home treats for your inner child.
Purchase the Goddess Zodiac Playbook here.
This Month's Original Art Giveaway
Every New Moon I'll be hosting an art giveaway so that more of you can meet and fall in luv with my work. The winner will be announced at the Full Moon. This month's giveaway is a 7 x 9.5 inch watercolor inspired by the fantasy novels of Mercedes Lackey especially "A Study in Sable" which I just finished reading.
Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy Crabbe
ps. As always If you are looking for soul guidance, past life insights or a deeper connection with your ancestors or spirit guides please click here for my Readings.
About Kathy Crabbe Kathy Crabbe has been an artist and writer forever and a soul reader since awakening her intuitive gifts at age forty after five years painting with her non-dominant left hand. This awoke her intuition in a big way. In 2008 she created a Lefty Oracle deck and started giving intuitive soul readings that have touched many lives in profound and playful ways. Kathy lives in sunny Southern California with her pet muses and architect husband in an adobe home they built themselves.
A 52 Week Artistic Journey at Riverside Art Museum
Pix from The 52 Project at the Riverside Art Museum.
I'll be exhibiting all 52 originals from my Lefty Oracle Deck in August and I'll be on hand for the opening on Thursday, August 4th from 6-9 pm, Be prepared to receive handouts from my soon-to-be-published Lefty Oracle Guidebook with some intuitive journaling exercises, how to use the cards in a reading, body movement challenges and other fun stuff. Learn more + win a deck here.
The lovely Laura Ryan and her pear painting; part of The 52 Project group exhibit
Me and Sharon Zorn-Katz in front of her quilt of Mexico as viewed from an airplane
Chris Sanders swimming in the Carioca Soul Exhibit next door to The 52 Project exhibit
About The 52 Project:
I went on a 52-week artistic journey, with 147 other people, this past year. It was a program through the Riverside Art Museum called “The 52 Project” and it was designed to help us be more creative through setting goals, discovering our story, capturing ideas in a journal and learning about the “business” of art. This summer we will be sharing the results of this amazing experience with 33 mini 4-day exhibits and a Group Show.
The Riverside Art Museum has been very generous in supporting us so we have agreed, as a group, to help raise some funds to help underwrite the installation of the summer shows and bring in some seed money to insure the continuation of The 52 Project.
To keep this worthwhile Project going please click here to donate to the Riverside Art Museum.
Flaunt it Baby, If Ya Got It - This Leftys Got Style! New Exhibit at RAM
Ckhallita show-girl with style is from my Lefty Oracle Series and is now hanging at the Riverside Art Museum in an exhibit called Carioca Soul. She will be on display from June 16-August 18, 2016 and she'd love to flaunt her stuff for you so stop on by. Learn more about my upcoming Lefty Oracle Deck here. All 52 originals from the deck will be on display from August 4-7. To make a donation to the museum please click here.
Carioca Soul expresses the feeling of Rio de Janeiro, host to this year's Summer Olympics. The exuberant nature of Cariocas is a mirror of a living scenario, framed by the vibrant nature and human warmth of a city that lives joyfully and likes to share its sky, its ocean, and its happiness.
Click here to purchase a print of Ckhallita.
How to create an art fair booth in 4 days
Hey all!
This blog is going to be taking a different direction starting this Full Moon in Libra. Like I mentioned in my last post, it's taken me 15 years to work up the courage to create an entire art booth devoted solely to my Lefty art. But now that I have, I'm not gonna stop...my goal is to get into some of the shows I call 'millenial/GenX' shows which are sooo different from the 'boomer' shows I've been doing over the last 20 some years with my very popular LuLu in Laguna artwork (which I'm retiring by the way other than still selling LuLu cards wholesale to the mermaid stores that love them).
So, to sum up the Lefty's debut show of which I had no expectations whatsoever regarding sales because heck, it's Temecula and it's a brand new town that doesn't really have any art galleries that anyone knows about, so the crowd was sparse but the folks that were there were interested in talking about art which was a very good thing. This town has potential and it's changing fast so we're all hopeful.
Anyways, I met with lots of folks who are quite involved with what little art scene we do have here and got invited to show my work at several shows and events.
I did notice that my Lefty cards and my small Lefty booth sign were not easily read (if at all) by older folks and I even had one man look quite disgusted when I trotted out my little spiel about painting my leftys using my non dominant left hand (perhaps he thought it was the work of the devil? heck I dunno), but I do KNOW that I'm NOT a salesperson. I don't have that special something required; never have, never will, but I do plan on hiring someone sparkly to sell for me at shows. I myself plan to be in the back of the booth giving Creative Soul Readings with my Lefty deck which is something else that these Millenial/Gen X shows (let's call them 'XY shows' from hereon out, okay?) DO allow readings - kewl! ...because I'm almost certain the Boomer shows would not like that at all!
Next up is a new online shop for my Leftys (Shopify platform), new banners for my blog and facebook to match my Storenvy banner - it's all got to be consistent, of course plus my first wholesale order from a shop in San Diego (just waiting for the owner to pick out her faves). Then purchase some really cute envelopes for the Lefty Cards, perhaps in a fun pastel-ey color. I also need to hire a booth helper/salesperson for shows and then apply and actually get into said shows! I may start an Instagram account and look into making Lefty resin necklaces and rings also. The Artist's Circle which I'm starting this month in cahoots with 3 other kick ass artists will hopefully prove to be a wonderful support group for helping all of us keep it together whilst living out here in cowboy land!
So, stay tuned...I plan on adding more of this kind of writing to my blog plus update the pix I posted here once new ones come in (I had a nice group of photographers snap my booth). We all gotta start somewhere, right?
Last, but not least, I created (and branded) this entire booth display and all the products in it in 4 days! I went crazy at Michaels buying vintage, shabby chic props (in a record 10 minutes - they were closing) as well as absconding my husband's childhood desk (which belonged to his grandma before him), an antique caned chair and a really cool turquoise taboret from Ikea. I touched up my Lefty artwork scans using Photoshop and then printed them on Mohawk color copy card stock using an Epson 2200 printer and archival pigment inks. My prints (I only had 4) were printed on Epson Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster which ended up suiting the Leftys better than the very expensive Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper. I only featured Leftys I'd painted in the previous 2 years to keep things consistent design-wise plus I did bring some old copies of Lefty poetry zines and postcard zines that I had made in the mid 2000's.
FIRST EVER Artist's Circle meetup April 12 ~ Temecula
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