Tanya Torres  
Art for Love, Peace and Joy

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

When I paint Mary Magdalene, I look for softness. I want her iconic face to be timeless, ageless and peacefully detached. I want her iconography to subtly come through without great gestures. Light in the shape of a cross on her forehead. Tears of light down her cheeks. Her voice invisibly shining through her throat chackra. Red for her veil. Skin the color of the earth. I want her to be present in the image and say with paint what is difficult to say in words. Beyond the sto

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 I needed more rest than usual this week, and the whole week passed before I was able to sit down to draw. Finally today I was free and was able to work on this drawing and some projects. The new year approaches and my mind is looking toward the future. And also back to this year. Even though I’m exhausted, I did manage to have a good six months where I completed several projects and emerged out of the intertia I had been experiencing for suc

Painting is still in progress. I spent the day painting, back to the painting in progress that I have been working on this month. I changed several things in it and… there probably will be more changes. It still needs a lot of work, but it’s getting closer. It is at this point that a painting requires trust and faith. It’s the moment when it’s not working, when it’s tempting to let it go and start over with a white canvas. But after so much work, one becomes reluctant to let

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene I’m painting a new Mary Magdalene in earth colors, from one of the drawings from this blog that a...

This is the thinking and inspiration behind each of my paintings of Mary Magdalene.

Thoughts about Mary Magdalene the muse, drawing, painting and poetry.

A meditation on the lessons of Mary Magdalene for a graceful life.

A new painting, titled Mary Magdalene's Fire.