Sunday Afternoon Feature "Art By Sarada"

Dark art, fantasy, owls and cats, I love it all! If you like it too you should check out today's feature...


 "Art by Sarada"

I'm Sarada, a 35-year-old artist living with my husband, 2 cats and 2 turtles in New Jersey. I've been painting since I was about 13 years old when I started to do fantasy paintings and enter our local town arts and crafts fair in my teens. I made my first sale that very year! I started out painting dragons, fairies, and other magical subjects, and by college I was mainly painting surreal, psychedelic and dark sci fi scenes that I called "nightmare landscapes." Although I majored in English, and went on to a day job in journalism, I continued to paint and found a new outlet for art when I start to sell online (eBay) around the year 2000.

Since then I've mostly concentrated on Halloween and witch art, though I continue to enjoy other gothic/horror themes, like vampires, mummies, and ghosts, as well as other fantasy subjects like fairies, dragons, mermaids, and storybook characters including Alice in Wonderland. I've also recently done a lot of nature-inspired art, featuring some of my favorite birds, animals, insects, mushrooms and wildflowers that I see on my near-daily walks through the parks and woods of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And finally, I've been indulging a love of cheesy sci fi, and throwing in some aliens, rayguns and UFOs whenever I can.

I am also an amateur seamstress and especially enjoy making clothing out of (surprise) Halloween fabric, gothic lolita and hippie styles. I do most of my creative work late at night these days though, and painting is a little quieter than a sewing machine. :)

Finally, I sing in a Pa.-based dark folk band called Stone Breath (http://www.darkhollerarts.com), and our related projects, most recently including Crow Tongue. I've been a member of Stone Breath for 10 years now and love to intersperse recording and singing with the band with my other, more solitary creative projects.

Blog - http://www.artbysarada.blogspot.com
Etsy - http://www.sarada.etsy.com
Web page - http://www.artbysarada.com
Artfire - http://www.sarada.artfire.com
Email - artbysarada@yahoo.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/artbysarada

Next, Monday morning mayhem!T♥