A new piece of art: Gameplan II. When I first created Gameplan I for our book Digital Art Wonderland (which, btw. features a full tutorial on how to create it) it called for a follow-up piece. Now there it is:

If you are interested in obtaining a print, we are offering a wide array of options, from greeting cards to posters and canvas prints via RedBubble.

After many requests for custom web design we are happy to announce an affordable way to dress up you web site or blog in one of my original creations. Currently designed for Joomla. Wordpress versions will follow very soon! I'll keep you posted here...

They can be ordered and downloaded from our shop here.

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The new Guardian Calendar 2012 is out! Another year illustrated with magical graveyard photography. I think I have mentioned before that this has been one of my favorite projects. If you would like to see larger versiions of all of the images just head over to the button in the main navigation on the left that says "Gallery". In there you can find not only all of the new images, but all of the images from the previous two years as well.
You can order this calendar right here. If you order from us, you get your signed by Angi and me.
 

This year we had a choice between 4 different contenders for the cover. Which one would you have chosen?

Fitting right into the time around April 1st, here I am sharing a few tidbits of one of my current projects. Illustrations for an Oracle Deck that will be published by Hay House centered around the archetypical symbol of the fool. There will be 52 of them so that already has been and still will keep me a bit busy for a while. A nice thing is that I got to pull out my pencil and paper for that which has been neglected for quite some time as the computer has completely overtaken the creative process.

Images © Silas Toball - No reproduction without written permission.

Waterdome Monsalvat
Isle of the DeadCharon's Lullaby

Clicking of any of the images will get you to the gallery.

In the previous post I already mentioned that we were going to switch out the gallery component of this site. This is now done and to celebrate it I uploaded 4 new pieces of art to it. Especially the Isle of the Dead and Charon's Lullaby mean are special as I feel a deep connection to them. Charon, by the way, is the ferryman in Greek mythology who brings the souls over the river styx into the underworld. The Isle of the Dead is inspired by the famous painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin who actually painted five versions of the same subject. Very captivating and moving is also Rachmaninov's symphonic tone poem of the same name. There is also another tone poem by Max Reger.

The mysteriousness of transitioning from one world into another is something that has been fascinating me since I can think back. I believe it will always play an important role in my work. The mystery, the unknown, but also assistance for those who embark on this journey. I also think that there are worlds within worlds - not just in terms of life on earth versus life beyond this one. I want to include the worlds of possibility and of the dream state. There are more, but those might be the ones whose concept we can grasp most easily. As many philosophers and spiritual teachers have noted before - there are more worlds than we can imagine and there are more dimensions in existence than those we know of because of having them witnessed with our physical senses. Where does a thought go when it was released as a possibility that we ended up not choosing? Very good material on this can be found in the original Seth books - e.g. Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts.

If you are interesting in getting any of the new images as a print, we do not offer prints ourselves at this time, but you can head over to our redbubble place and get one there.

Recently we employed a few changes and improvements to our web site. Some things needed fixing, streamlining and updating:

• A new way of blogging and a new comment system: We are happy to report that we got rid of MyBlog which was vulnerable to a hacking attack and while switching to a new system we also introduced a new comment feature which finally allows us to respond to comments which was not possible previously.
• We consolidated the two blogs Angi in Wonderland and Message from the Muse into one. This should make it easier for all of you to keep up with The Muse and more frequent updadates on Message from the Muse will be expected.
• Some of you have reported the occasional error message "Invalid Token" when trying to sign in. This seems to be fixed now as well.
• The shop temporarily experienced a problem not showing the shipping method. This was an issue that was tracked down to a change introduced by the USPS. This is fixed now.

As always, it is a project in progress and our site will continue to grow and morph. One of the next things on my agenda is to re-vamp the Gallery and add some new art! So stay tuned!