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Artist Statement
Nanci  Jennings

I  live in the suburbs of Southern California and hold an Ascocites Degree in Art.  My artistic interests are in fantasy illustration, spiritual and esoteric art, advertising logos, web design and photography. I prefer to work in digital media and photo manipulation, but also employ colored pencil, acrylics, ink, and watercolors. My inspiration comes from nature, mythology, folklore and most often.....dreams.

Digital Painting -Graphic was created within a paint program for example JASC Paint Shop Pro 7  .
I also use a HyperPen electronic tablet by AIPTEK for drawing images and fine details. Sometimes these begin as sketches that are scanned then painted with software. 3d software used is Amorphium.

Mixed Media- Graphic was also created with a paint program but begins as a photograph and/or detail drawing or painting that is scanned and painted or enhanced.

Photo Manipulation- (usually used with the term "mixed media".)
A digital or scanned photo is enhanced or manipulated using software paint programs and imagination.
Photo manipulation is now offered as a service.   Digital images are taken with a Fuji FinePrint 2800Z.
Photos with a Canon Rebel 35mm.

Acrylic on Canvas - is exactly that. Photographed then scanned.

Watercolor- is actual watercolors,  not electronic painting.

"Spectracolors" and "Prismacolors" are soft lead colored pencils that blend beautifully and are great products.

Pen and Ink- I 'm sure everyone knows what this is. I use a rapidograph type pen, or fine point rolling pen if I am not going to use a watercolor wash.

Gallery
graphics, captions, credits, boring insights and other points of interest
( sorry info is not necessarily listed in order of appearance in gallery )

• Persephone
• mixed media (Spring 2002)
• Persephone is the Greek goddess of springtime. She was abducted by Hades and after eating 6 pomegranite seeds had to marry him and become the queen of the underworld for six months of each year. (during fall and winter)  The vining Datura symbolize death and rebirth. Kendall, the model was over-painted digitally. This was originally going to be a completely digital painting with no photo manipulation.

• Winter Dreaming
• digital painting (Dec 2000) for EsotericArt.com Winter Gallery
• and the world lay sleeping awaiting the goddess' return in spring.

• When the Veil Thins
• photo manipulation (mixed media)
•  Many traditions tell of the veil between this world and the next being the "thinnest" from Oct 31- Nov 2. and these days are celebrated as Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos.

• September Tides
• digital painting
• This was scanned from a sketch I did many years ago and never completed, as I was not sure what medium I wanted to use at the time. The dolphin rider was inspired by Patrica McKillip's "Riddle Master Trilogy" though this is not exactly "fan art" as there is no character in these books is described as doing this. This is one of my favorite authors and her attention to detail and description are wonderful.

• The Magic and the Wonder
• digital painting (Yule 1999)
•  Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess; she in the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, whose body encircles the universe. (Doreen Valiente, The Charge of the Goddess)

• The Raven Himself
• mixed media  (Fall 2000)
• The trees were photographed in Grand Canyon then repainted with Photo Shop.
• From MacBeth, "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements"

• The Last Resort
• digital painting (Summer 1999)  for the millennium exhibit http://www.esotericart.com
• A very long time ago, Easter Island was a tropical paradise. Her lush green forests were reportedly a study in bio diversity. Then her people began to build the moai, giant stone statues dedicated to their gods. As their obsession to build more and bigger statues grew, the people began to cut down the forests faster then they could grow, to build ramps on which to move the moai from the quarries. Eventually they cut down every tree on the island, which destroyed her fragile ecosystem. With the forests gone the climate began to change and the land became barren with less and less rainfall. The people grew hungry as game grew scarce and the domestic animals did not thrive on the few plants that now grew on the island. Sea birds no longer nested here, but on the rocks far offshore. With no timber to build new fishing boats or repair the old, the people soon exhausted the supply of fish in the harbors and over harvested the shellfish on the beaches until they too were scarce. In the end they had exploited all of the island's natural resources. Without boats, the people could not escape and were doomed to live and die on this wasteland that was their legacy. Could Easter Island be a ecological miniature of Earth? Where will we go when all of our resources are exhausted, for isn't our world just as much, an island? Pretty deep thought huh?

• Elvis of Yore
• mixed media ( Fall 1999)
• I was thinking about creating a series of graphics that featured Elvis sightings at mysterious places around the world.. Maybe I should have titled this, "The King of the Dance". Get it? The runes around the frame do say something if you care to decipher them. (no, it's not "be sure to drink your ovaltine")

• Huntress (Samantha the Huntress)
• mixed media (April 2000) digital painting & photo manipulation.
• Hey little buddies: soft and silky night walkers  Dangerous species Tiptoe menace long grass stalkers on my bed:  no butter melting in your jaws. Bonding monster --Lethal weapon wearing claws. Let's go out to hunt by numbers. (Hunt By Numbers-from Dot Com by  Jethro Tull- )

• Her Waters
• mixed media- photo manipulation & digital painting (Summer 2001)
• Created for the Healing Gallery. We instinctively seek the restorative powers of water. It is the element of our birth, the essence of our bodies, and the life blood of the earth which can heal the soul.

• April Showers
• mixed media (March 2000)
• Calla Lilies were photographed near Carmel CA. The rest was electronically painted and added. "My heart leaps when I behold a rainbow in the sky" -William Wordsworth

• A Toast To Gaia
• mixed media (1998)
• A chalice is raised in toast to our mother, the earth. A few "mystery" lines from The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente are engraved in runes around the frame. The pentacle symbolizes balance, the circle is renewal .

• Moon Garden
• mixed media ( (Summer 1999)
• A faery child sits in a herb garden and holds an image of the moon in her hand. Adapted from another graphic that was created for the nice people at  "Echoes of Enchantment" Which by the way is a great online "esoteric" resource.

• After The Rain
• mixed media- photo with digital painting (1999)
• created for theSpring Gallery Exhibit at EsotericArt.com

• Pellinore
• Spectracolors, ink, watercolors, on heavy illustration board (1998)
• In Arthurian legend Pellinore was King of the Isles. In some versions he beats a young Arthur in a fight but swears allegiance when he sees that Arthur holds the sword Excalibur.

• Crying For A Vision
• digital painting  (1999)
• "Crying for a Vision" is a quest performed by many American natives as a means of establishing a contact with the spirit world. It involves solitude, meditation, fasting, ritual,  prayer and sometimes hallucinogens, as the questor hopes for a revelation from the spirits. These visions usually come in the form of an animal. I have Cherokee ancestry, but have never seen a vision. Maybe I should take stronger.....ummmmm meditation classes.

• Sunflower
• mixed media- manipulated digital photo & digital painting. (summer 2001)
• Where do fairies go to get a tan?
• Thanks to model Halie.

• Muslin Angel (Spring 2001)
• mixed media- photo manipulation & spectracolor and watercolor & digital painting
• An angel wearing a muslin cloak waits in the Garden of Gethsemane (did I spell that right?)
• I am basically of mixed religious beliefs but feel this story is very poignant as Jesus waits out the night in this garden knowing he will be arrested in the morning and will die soon. He must face the reality of his fate alone and ultimately come to terms with it's inevitability. (and hey the whole time his dang lazy friends are asleep, now there is something I can identify with!)
• the model again is the beautiful Stephenie.

• La Magie  (the magic) (Spring 2001)
• photo manipulation
• Photos were scanned and then manipulated with PSP 7. Bug and some water droplets were added with the picture tube feature which I never thought that I would find a use for.
• Thanks to Jenna (in her modeling debut.)

• The Masquarade
• digital painting
• created for autumn wallpaper
• Inspired by Ventian masks, I love them and wish I had a few.

• La Luna and La Sirena La Rosa
• mixed media
•  Loteria cards (if you don''t live in the west it is sort of a Mexican Bingo) cards have riddles that read....
• Since everyone seems to be making their own tator decks I thought perhaps I would begin a Loteria deck :-)
• La Luna-El farol de enamorados = The Moon, the lantern of lovers.
• La Sirena -Con los cantos de sirena no te vayas a marear= Don't get dizzy with the song of the mermaid
• La Rosa -Rosa, Rositea Rosaura- the Rose, Rosie, Rosaura (a rose by any other name)

• Fair Janet
• mixed media
• A Scottish fable of a young woman who saves her lover from the faeries armed with nothing but her love  for the man and her determination, the moral being love conquers all.

• Pied Piper
• A version of a Digital painting created as a gift for Ian Anderson
• I think he liked it!

The Dream Book by Margaret Wise Brown - copyright 1990 Hopscotch Books
The Charge of the Goddess- Doreen Valiente
Mac Beth by William Shakespeare

Ouija?? Well it's as good a handle as any. It actually was a nickname from collage that had nothing at the time, to do with talking boards..but it is a long story. It is not my "magickal name" However I do have one and would tell you what it is...but then ... of course I would have to turn you into a newt.

This gallery is dedicated to those who have inspired me, (you know who you are) and to all who dream. Thanks so much to all of my visitors for your input and blessings
-Ouija

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