Tanya Torres  
Art for Love, Peace and Joy

Drawing from yesterday, continued today, more work tomorrow. I have a list of symbols, simple things I want to give the Magdalene. It’s a long list, that means a lot of paintings. Some I have painted before, but there’s always room for new interpretations. Some are hard to paint and make universal, like my little house in Puerto Rico. Universal is important to me. There are things that we all like and revere just because we are humans on Earth. Like a bird, a heart, roses. Li

Painting in progress I wish I had one more weekend day! But it’s back to work tomorrow. I do in a weekend as much as possible, which is never enough, but is more than I was doing before. One brushstroke at a time, I have 3 watercolors and one painting in progress. And 2 drawings. My list was much longer, but I do what I can. The most important action of the day(s) was starting the right way, with meditation and joy to live one more day. When you have been close to death, appr

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene My studio smells of the past, of early days in my college’s painting studio, and of old days before fully launching myself as an artist. I closed the door of my studio so the smells will remain a little longer. I don’t think of the past too much, this is just a coincidence, part of 2 works in progress that contain the same materials as those past times. But it’s comforting to find that the memories remind me of the essence of who I am. That

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene If this were a drawing for a painting, I would work it and rework it until the eyes lined up, and the outline was clear, and the proportions were better. But it’s just a drawing I made to keep my promise as much as possible of drawing Mary Magdalene every day. It’s also a moment to be in my studio, connect the mind, and remember myself after a long day of work. For that, it’s perfect, even if it is imperfect. There are moments for perfectioni

Today’s drawing of Mary Magadalene Lately, I find myself without words, or at least, only with words that don’t quite fit here. My studio is filled with images of Mary Magdalene, items that remind me of this journey, and examples of routes to explore as I go. I struggle to stay on task because there is so much I want to do and write about, and think about. And then the day is over, I do the best I can, and get ready for another round. It’s not a bad life, but it’s not exactly

Many years ago, I wrote about the tears of Mary Magdalene . It was the last post about the last painting of Mary Magdalene in the first series I painted. The series culminated in her tears, tears of much more than pain. Tears are the main attribute of the Magdalene in art. Her tears tell us about the pain and about the liberation to be experienced when we face love and death. Her tears are transformative. Mary Magdalene’s Tears , oil painting in progress. And it is transform

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene [Letting loose.] All day, I have been feeling like something beyond reality has been calling to me, calling me to paint ethereal and surreal images. It’s been a long day, and I have little (time, energy, hunger, desire) left for art. All I have, I gave to Mary Magdalene in this drawing, which is more of a sketch, an incomplete piece that craves color and promises magic. It is in the imagination where Mary Magdalene lives, and from there she c