This is actually a strange piece because it was originally drawn in abject frustration at the state of my relationship with Erik... how trashed I felt and how separated from my true spirit. Later on, though, when I got around to finishing painting it, it became something entirely different for me, a revelation of God.

It looks like the classic 'good and evil' set of figures, only to my mind, it was the figures dressed in white who were evil, the airy-fairy New Age White Brotherhood of the Illuminati kind of evil, and my being there on the ground showed my disturbing reluctance to end my allegiance to this energy. Opposite, then, is Rossi and Misht, the old faith and the Dragon--the Surrender to God and the Cosmic Manifestation in all forms, and the Living Fire, of the Divine.
It is Satan who wears the white robes--deceiving with 'white light' approaches that ignore universal laws and do not deal with the power and energy of matter and life force, leaving evil forces free to co-opt them.

I didn't have any idea for a background, so it became again a generic Maui background, which I am, at least, gaining more skill in. Maui is a powerful place, it was always a spiritual battleground for me, so it is a good setting for this painting.
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing

Someone showed me a piece of fanart on dA for this book and for some reason I really liked it, so I decided to try my own interpretation with watercolor and ink.
While I'm not as fond of the sequels, I really love the first book, especially the wild and free Elizabeth who is hampered by no abstractions in an abstract human world. In contrast I don't like Chloe at all--Chloe and Peter just want to play a human game with books and movies. Elizabeth, on the other hand, strikes me as a creature of Being who is unabashedly what she is, and makes no pretensions or excuses for it. She does not even mind if Peter likes movies... she just ignores them. She won't share that world, but I like hers so much more...
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing
Referenced Source: The Dragon DelaSangre

Another piece for Jeremy this time for his CD of the same title. The idea was of a man who had lived in the islands but traveled to the city and found that all he really wanted was the peace and joy of his island life.

The music can be found here: http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jeremy-safron/id288585196
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing
Additional Credits: Jeremy's

Depicted in the manner of their character through which they have operated in my life... the feminine planets.

On the right is the Moon, ruling the emotional matters of instinct, survival, fundamental identity. The mother/child. Ninth house in Aries.

On the left is Venus, tightly conjunct Saturn, hence her more transpersonal aspects, and doubly so because they are in Scorpio. She thus represents the social/relational and transpersonal connections. Scorpio in Saturn, in the fourth house, ruthless crone who has long since since seen the futility of mere personality expansion and wants to break it down instead, to achieve more of the cosmic power or awareness or destiny... whatever that is... transformation, life, death. So Venus for me is a complex figure, because of all of these influences.

The Moon, though, she is very simple and wild. She seems to have more love; the love of survival and flourishing and expansion. She is thus often at odds with Venus, caught as Venus is in transpersonal destruction and rebirth. But they are both integral parts of the path of my life. So I have drawn and painted them here.
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing

I just found this on my hard drive; I began it over a year ago, and while I vaguely remember that it became more finished than it is in this scan, I no longer have that sketchbook, and so this will have to suffice for now. I had drawn it before traveling to Maui, I do not remember how long before. It's Nene Pele, a creature with deep ties to Hawaii, and my friend Kasethen. They have nothing to do with each other... or they didn't then... and now they have only in common the recognition and love of the power place that Hawaii is. This picture speaks to me more strongly than it did when I drew it, now that I myself have lived a year in Hawaii. In any case, I wanted to share it, even in its half-done form.
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing
Additional Credits: Nene Pele belongs to Aliet Faslami, Kasethen to himself

This is a MUCH older painting, probably about two years old or more. I had never scanned it but have been lugging it around in my suitcase for just that long, hanging it up when I had a wall upon which to do so.
I was living in Bellingham and was an avid biker (yes, often in a skirt) at the time that I drew and painted this. It was inspired, a little, by E.T., but was my own personal spin on that sort of magical flight carrying one beyond the possibilities of modern assumptions/perception.
Artwork © 2009 Lewinna Solwing