Yes, it's one of my favorite place in the whole world :)  I have a framed print of the Unicorn in Captivity tapestry in my home!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed my work.

I hope you share yours when you're finished! I like some Asian art styles very much.  Are you using brushes and ink or something like that?

Edited:  sorry, for some reason it posted twice after telling me I couldn't post.

Listen to the difference between a modern and a baroque flute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YvI0VFRnQQ&feature=youtu.be

Some of you know I have a greeting card store on the Internet, actually anyone of you can have one from Greeting Card Universe.com  

Someone, I don't know who, requested from Greeting Card Universe, for a card about Our Lady of Mount Carmel.   I was so happy to see this request.

This is the one I uploaded:

http://tinyurl.com/7mru4qm

Lately I've been listening to some classical Indian music, which inspired me to experiment with modal music. This is a pretty 'free form' tune I recorded this evening - akin to the Indian form alap - in the mixolydian mode (raga khamaj), using D as the tonic.

This is the one of Chesterton

It is promising to see that even the smallest efforts within the artistic fields can help restore a greatly diminished living tradition of Catholic culture. We have been assailed by horrendous Catholic art and architechture, accompanied by such banal music from the infernal pit itself, all accompanying the dilution and perversion of the Catholic fatih.So in the effort to rebuild this culture, it is good to read that folk here begin with the classics, or at least works that have not been tainted by the forces of darkness.

From high Gothic cathedrals and good theology to churchs in the round and heresy and blasphemy.

From Gregorian Chant and sacred polyphony to ....and it makes the body and soul recoil at their sound.....try this for some audio torture

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/07/06/are-these-the-ten-worst-hymns-of-all-time/


Although time has not afforded it, I have tried writing short stories, poems, and maybe eventually a novel. Some await publication. Others, too many of them, are sill in the gestation stage.

Work and life ill afford the time and inspiration to complete, but may that time come soon.

I admire those who can draw and paint. I could never do well at these from practically the word get go.

But give me Beowulf, Chaucer and co, Shakespaw and co, a few good modern writers and I might produce a very egg of a piece but still Catholic. :-)

I enjoy satire and parody. and these saturate my works.

I've been an artist and professional musician most of my life.  A convert, my poor atheist parents disowned me for trying a religious vocation at 19 (they wanted me to go to school "back east."  Well, since the convent in NewMexico turned out to be right next to the place "troubled priests" were placed from all over the country, I now thank God that it was not for me... (none of the nuns were told about that)

So, I continued visual art and went to The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

After that, I returned to New Mexico to sing leads in various operas--both "weird" and accepted.  I gave up a career as a professional because I found the temptations to be just like any other music field, and married my husband who recently died of cancer in a most inspiring way....He lived on "another level" towards the end.

If anyone is interested in my Christ-centered Celtic music, I'll check if the domain name is still paid for and my site updated?  I have a video of a piece I composed and performed for "Christmas in Celtic Style."  Since the concert was at a Methodist church, I was sure to include the "Blessed Mary" in the composition of "Now Angels Sing!"  The u-tube performance could have been better: praisgodinsong u-tube acct

My music web-site will be quickly updated if anyone wants to hear--includes original works, tribute to "sainted husband," and other info., so if anyone is interested, I'll get it put up.  Visual arts are mostly portraits of great people, not included on my site.

 

I've been an artist and professional musician most of my life.  A convert, my poor atheist parents disowned me for trying a religious vocation at 19 (they wanted me to go to school "back east."  Well, since the convent in NewMexico turned out to be right next to the place "troubled priests" were placed from all over the country, I now thank God that it was not for me... (none of the nuns were told about that)

So, I continued visual art and went to The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

After that, I returned to New Mexico to sing leads in various operas--both "weird" and accepted.  I gave up a career as a professional because I found the temptations to be just like any other music field, and married my husband who recently died of cancer in a most inspiring way....He lived on "another level" towards the end.

If anyone is interested in my Christ-centered Celtic music, I'll check if the domain name is still paid for and my site updated?  I have a video of a piece I composed and performed for "Christmas in Celtic Style."  Since the concert was at a Methodist church, I was sure to include the "Blessed Mary" in the composition of "Now Angels Sing!"  The u-tube performance could have been better: praisgodinsong u-tube acct

My music web-site will be quickly updated if anyone wants to hear--includes original works, tribute to "sainted husband," and other info., so if anyone is interested, I'll get it put up.  Visual arts are mostly portraits of great people, not included on my site.

I adore celtic music. I'd love to hear/see anything you'd be willing to show!

An interesting story you have. May God reward you for your courage to discern a vocation despite the disapproval of parents.