RavenFeatherAngel

Hi friends!

and I finally did it: We created an DA-account for ok4me ocarinas!
So if you like our ocarinas and tabsheets, wanna follow our progress and read our tutorials make sure to watch !

I'm still a bit undecided on whether I should double-post my ocarina-related art here in my maingallery in the future or not...
If not this place might become rather quiet again
So, how do you feel about this question? Do you feel spammed by my ocarina-art? Do you want to see it here?
Let me know

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love
as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied
to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play
in the shape of a man's desire

This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes
This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her love

Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower
This rare perfume
is the sweet intoxication of the fall

(Lyrics from Desert Rose  www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYn9qC…)






Hey folks!

It's been a while that I wrote a longer journal about.... well, just thoughts, really, ideas, dreams... the things that move and push and inspire us as artists.
So, if you're in the mood and have a little time - let's have a talk

It's been a long hiatus I've been on before flooding you with ocarinas, but now that I'm back I.... feel very deeply satisfied again, because the soul loves to soar on the winds of inspiration and my soul always enjoyed doing so in a merry flock
Now that I'm back I enjoyed both meeting new, amazing people - I really had some great conversations - and also sharing the artistic aspects of my life with my old friends here again.

But, say, what's your artistic motor these days?

For me it obviously is that old musical instrument, the ocarina.
But I would like to correct myself here: In my last journal I talked about a "project", but I think that's not the right term. A project is set in a finite timeframe, right? I guess our... whatever we shall call it is very unlimited, so it feels more like an ongoing adventure, a journey with an open end, full of wonders to be found and with something new waiting around each turn of the road
So far it was fun to work together with friends, to try out a whole lotta new materials (like clay and different coloring-techniques, felt, ... and there is so much more to come) and techniques, to learn new things (I finally try to grasp musical theorie ) and meet new people. So this trip is made of pure awesome!
It's also nice to bring a whole new element into my artistic endeavours: Sound! I've always been in love with music, it touches the very soul in such a mysterious, wonderful way, evoking deep emotions.... and it's fun to TALK about this passion! Fun to share beloved pieces and stories.... And we're not only talking about music, that's for sure! I really loved learning more about balljointed dolls, for example! So amazing!
Yes, I fully enjoy the community-life again and also playing an active part in it now. Thanks to for making me co-founder of the Feel free to visit us there if you're curious!

I also like the idea of that little minicontest-thingy I held here: ravenfeatherangel.deviantart.c…
Not only do I feel that it's a nice way to interact with you but I also found it very inspiring and..... pushing. To fullfill 's wish I first hat to look up the song she wished for (which I love) and in order to tab it I had to transpose it first. Problem: I had absolutely NO idea how to do that! Thanks to my dear friend Frauke, who patiently taught me and helped me. See: Finally got the motivation to take a deeper look into music theory and learn something new, all thanks to that little game Soooooo...... why not do this more often???

As for future plans: I wanna make a tutorial about creating your first ocarina together with , experiment more with materials (e.g. a deeper look into needle-felting), build more ocarinas, create and illustrate more tabsheets (maybe even compose something myself) and if there's still TIME left I may also return to creating art of my OCs and their worlds again (I started re-working the world-map of Trenora and man, that's one big-ass project!).

And what are YOU up to???

I know I am teasing you with this new project of ours, but I just don't want to talk about it too much about it before we even got started for real.
But I think it is safe to say this:

We, that is a bunch of enthusiastic and awesome friends and me, plan making LOTS of Ooak-ocarinas (and selling them as soon as we are completely satisfied with their quality) aaaaaand building a web-presence where we can meet with fellow ocarinists, have a nice chat, exchange ideas, help each other and just... have fun together.
We have some great and really innovative ideas in mind, like ocarinas for people with special needs and in colors you've probably never seen before on a ocarina. Obviously this means A LOT of work and testing and developing, but I think we're on a really good way so far. Soooo..... please wish us good luck with this project, for I hope to welcome you on our homepage soon!

You will hear more about this in the future!

Hey ho, folks!

Just wanted to leave a little message to prove that I am, in fact, still alive.
But horribly inactive here, I knowz...
Why? Coz I'm too busy with other things like music, friends, being my piratey self , hanging around on FaceBook, basking in my fandoms and stuff like that....

I WILL draw again eventually. Because I do miss it....

And I'm still here LURKING on a daily basis ^^
So, to mention a nice thing:
DA really is working on the DA-search problem. This is good to hear.


Well then, so long~

Take care, ya all!