This month I have really tried to connect with nature and the planet and visualize it w-hole and healthy filled with peace and love. Project- "Chickadee" The bird feeder my cause for paused I watch Chickadees with their black caps, flit … [Read more...] about Spring Forth – March
Drawing
SCREAM
A Tool for healing & transformation- This project started with my feeling overwhelmed by politics, and media. I began to notice, no one’s listening- not to themselves- not to friends -not to partners- not to family........ … [Read more...] about SCREAM
Translating Meaning
Greetings and thank you for joining me in this crazy thing we call an artist’s life. Ill start by saying I’m sorry- I didn’t have the balls to write before this, keeping this art journal or blog post commitment on the fifteenth as I have for … [Read more...] about Translating Meaning
Post Card Project
Vara alters vacation postcards with visuals from an experience that relates to the area a postcard was obtained. … [Read more...] about Post Card Project
“Eve”
Aquarium
Aquarium, 8" x 10"Oil on paper. Available as prints. The back story to this piece- I sat and interacted with this little fish at the NY Aquarium for over two hours, s/he entertained, delighted and played with me in a fantastic exchange for the … [Read more...] about Aquarium
Latex Kills
LATEX KILLS!!!!!!Anaphylactic shock is NO FUN! … [Read more...] about Latex Kills
Nature Focused
Series Times Union newspaper wrote: The artist Michelle Vara displays a ten-year survey of nature examining and recording a wide array of features through various media arts that sings to her dimension as an artist. This project is ongoing … [Read more...] about Nature Focused