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Bewitching Calavera
Watercolor
11 x 7.5
Teresa Beyer
$75. Unframed
The word calavera is Spanish
for “skull,” and can refer to the cultural Mexican celebration Day of the Dead
and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls Day. And in a just a little over a
week we will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Just a little reminder that
on May 4th ~ First Friday you will find me at La Villita with DebraBenditz. I will be there from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. It would really be great to see
you out there.
Some Calaveras are made of
sugar and used to adorn altars and my be eaten. And then there are the liter
arias Calaveras that write poems for the Day of the Dead that humorously
criticize the living. And then of curse any artistic representation of the
skull is referred to as a calavera.
I on the other hand while
painting this piece kept thinking and singing the song “Witchy Woman” written
by Don Henley and recorded with the Eagles. Let me refresh your memory of a few
of the lyrics.
“Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her
fingertips
Echoed voices in the night
She’s a restless spirit on
an endless flight.
Woo hoo Witchy Woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo Witchy Woman
She got the moon in her eyes
She held me spellbound in
the night
Dancing shadow and firelight
Crazy laughter in another
room
And she drove herself to
madness with a silver spoon”
By Don Henley and the Eagles
Keeping the brushes wet,
Teresa
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