http://www.willowdraws.com Just another WordPress site Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.willowdraws.com/more-of-my-story/#comment-3 A Little Bit About Me :: Willow Draws Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:15 +0000 http://www.willowdraws.com/?page_id=575#comment-3 [...] Decades later, when I began to draw as a way to occupy myself when I was too physically weak to do anything else, I felt pulled by the Mola fabric art of the Kuna People of Panama, and the stylistic elements of the Mola continue to influence everything I create. However, other traditional world cultures also inform my illustrations: India paisley and mendhi, Javanese batik, African and Native American juxtapositions of color, European, Greco-Roman and Islamic religious architecture and design, even the sailor’s scrimshaw illustrations. (more…) [...] [...] Decades later, when I began to draw as a way to occupy myself when I was too physically weak to do anything else, I felt pulled by the Mola fabric art of the Kuna People of Panama, and the stylistic elements of the Mola continue to influence everything I create. However, other traditional world cultures also inform my illustrations: India paisley and mendhi, Javanese batik, African and Native American juxtapositions of color, European, Greco-Roman and Islamic religious architecture and design, even the sailor’s scrimshaw illustrations. (more…) [...]

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