Year: 2015

Wild Geese in Flight is up on Patreon

November 18, 2015
Madame Ximon
Art

Divinatory Drawing: “Wild Geese in Flight” by Madame Ximon After far more hours than I intended working on this drawing, it is up on Patreon now, along with a post about why I so often end up pushing my drawing time into the wee hours.The ongoing livelihood concerns referenced in that post are often part of the territory when one is an entrepreneur and/or freelancer, and given my skill set, I’ve been either or both for the majority...

Patreon Campaign Launch!

November 11, 2015
Madame Ximon
Art, Icon Alchemy News

Original Art: “The Magnetic Quality of Stillness” by Madame Ximon It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, mostly because I’ve been busy behind the scenes trying to come up with better ways to work on art and astrology full time, while juggling real life concerns related to my work for The Temple Games and TempleCon, and the fashion show at RuffleCon that I participated in at the beginning of October.As part of my efforts to make...

Daily Divinatory Drawings – Matching Intention With Practice

July 23, 2015
Madame Ximon
Art, Astrology

Once again I am back to this blog after a long absence, ready at last to start posting my “daily” divinatory drawings. I finally got my new scanner a few weeks back (after the first one got lost in the shipping black hole of New Jersey and I had to have a new one sent out), but I have found that the process of both cultivating the daily drawing habit and getting new drawings posted has been more daunting than I originally anticipated. Perhaps...

Renewal, Return, and Rebirth

I’ve been away from this blog for a while. Which means this post is likely to be a long one. Better sit down with a cup of tea and get comfortable… 😉For those who don’t know me, since 2005 I have been the Creative Director and Logistician of the TempleCon retro-futurist gaming convention, which eats up vast quantities of my life between September and the actual weekend of the convention in early February. This year was the convention’s tenth anniversary,...