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Black Swan

Mixed Media

This mixed media collage is a tribute to the folklore of black crows who offered their feathers to a swan who lost his feathers after trying to steal boomerang magic from women in New Zealand. Once he realized the error of his greed, the crows covered him with feathers.
This image is the cover of Nightingale & Sparrow's Summer 2022 issue: poetry

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

Classification: Adult Amateur

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Sunrise

Cover, Chestnut Review Winter Issue, 2024

After the feast: What remains #3

DragonWood

Half shell walnut, painted with prismacolor pencils, oil pastels

Golden Crested Kinglet Nest

Golden Crested Kinglet Nest

Kali, The Great Mother Who Protects Humanity

First appeared in FERAL magazine, Issue 11.Now at home in the Sitting Room Library's art archives

4 in. tall pine cone fragment, painted with prismacolor and inktense pencils

Green-0range Pine Cone 2

Heart Strings

Kim Rising

Enchanted Forest

Enchanted Forest

First published in Winged Moon Literary Journal

This mixed-media art piece is the cover of Nightingale and Sparrow's 'Crystalline' issue, winter 2023

Blue Crystal Bark

Rice Paper Bark

Rice Paper Bark

Rooted

Luggage Tag

Half shell walnut, painted with prismacolor pencils, acrylics and intense pencils

Pine Cone remanant, painted with inktense pencils and acrylic

First published in Reverie Magazine

A tree bark fragment, acrylic & jewelry. Published in Nightingale and Sparrow's 'Crystalline' issue, winter 2023

HILDEGAARD 10th century tapestry fragment

HILDEGAARD 10th century tapestry fragment

Spring Weave