Tanya Torres  
Art for Love, Peace and Joy

For Mary Magdalene’s Day, Moonlight Prayer is an offering, a meditation and a prayer.

This painting still needs a few touches. The photo is not great, but I wanted to share it because I had shared the drawing and beginning to the painting a while ago and it stayed waiting on my easel for a long time until this past Saturday…

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

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

Sister Sophia Rose creates digital paintings inspired by her faith. Mary Magdalene is one of her inspirations…

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene I am really looking forward to painting new paintings of Mary Magadalene. In this idea, the birds are...

How do we use ritual for spiritual artistic practice?

A new painting of Mary Magdalene and other creations during a day full of grace and light.

A beautiful image of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

How can you recognize Mary Magdalene in art?