Usually my 5″ x 7″ folding art cards with matching envelopes sell for $5.00 each. But this holiday season we all need a break, so I am selling the cards with envelopes for $2.50 each, if you a buy a box of ten cards and ten envelopes.
I am offering boxes of ten “The Gift of the Breath” cards with envelopes (an illustrated page from my book, How to Make Peace) for $25 each. I currently have eleven boxes of ten cards and ten envelopes in my little home warehouse.
The “You Are Loved” card is a reproduction of a painting I made as a gift to my father when he was in his nineties. It’s got those deep, vibrant, holiday colors, and the message I feel most moved to share with the people I adore. I’ve got five boxes of ten cards and ten envelopes in stock.
I also have single cards and envelopes in these designs and others.
If you are making homemade tree decorations, you might enjoy cutting apart the postcard sized, accordion file Dancing Lady Coloring book, coloring the ladies, and gluing on sequins, lace, ribbon, and tiny gew-gahs (what brilliant collage artist Ira Ono calls the category of his smallest recycled materials).
The five dancing ladies on the back cover (or front cover if you are opening it Japanese style, right to left), are the natural elements: Earth (purple), Fire (orange), Air (blue) and water (green), and the fifth sacred thing, which is Love (pink).
A set of 7 commissioned works, by request of salon-owner, essential oil maker and practitioner, spiritual workshop leader and healing masseuse, Keiko Pule Lehua, have been published as part of her new set of oracle cards titled Yin & Yang, Fifth Elements Oracle Card. The seven drawings depict the ancient Chinese energetic principles of Yin and Yang, and their child: Balance, plus the five classical elements according to Chinese medicine: Fire, Water, Earth, Wood and Metal. Many thanks to Keiko Pule Lehua for this wonderful illustration assignment!
Fire: “Aditya hridayam punyam, sarv shatru vinai shanam.” (All evil is gone from the Universe for those that keep the sun in their hearts.)
“Nothing in the world is softer & weaker than water, Yet, to attack the hard and the strong, Nothing surpasses it”
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78
Earth ~ our magnificent and generous mother ~ supports all life. We must protect Her!
As above, so below: Wood worships the sun And embraces the earth.
Metal conducts electricity, magnetism, heat and movement. With human collaboration, metal transforms into sculpture and musical instruments, and thousands of other inventions. Metal is Earth’s willingness to join in human creativity.
Host/Hostess aprons illustrated with the herb and spice chart from Living on the Earth. One size only, lettered in French or in English. Make of sturdy, washable canvas.
The Woodstove matted art print, bearing the care and use instructions for a wood-burning kitchen range from Living on the Earth, matted with corrugated brown mat board. It fits into a standard 16″ x 20″ frame.
Long-sleeved 100% cotton jersey shirts (choice of 4 colors) bearing Alicia’s drawing, Vision Quest, inspired by the book Black Elk Speaks, and first published as page 2 of her book with Ramón Sender Barayón, Being of the Sun.
Long-sleeved 100% cotton black jersey shirts bearing a drawing from a 1970 concert poster (artist unknown) of Joe Gallivan playing the MoogDrum through a MiniMoog synth.
Holiday Special: Box of 10 “You Are Loved Very Much” Greeting Cards with matching envelopes, printed with a naive surrealist painting Alicia gifted to her father, in bright and deep holiday colors (50% off)
Holiday Special: Box of 10 “The most precious gift is the breath” Greeting Cards with matching envelopes, from Alicia’s upcoming inspirational book, How to Make Peace, in serene shades of blue and white. (50% off)
Translucent square stickers that can turn a clean straight-sided empty jar into a candle lantern illuminating the Tibetan Buddhist goddess, Green Tara.
Joe Gallivan and Alicia Bay Laurel’s collaborative release with Lion Records of the LP version of Love Cry Want, a live recording of the band of the same name, performing avant-jazz and psychedelic rock at a protest against the Vietnam War in 1972. The legendary Larry Young on Hammond B3 organ, Joe Gallivan on MoogDrum played through MiniMoog Synth, plus drums, plus electrified lap steel guitar, Stephen Nicholas on proto-guitar synth, and Jimmy Molnieri on drums. Alicia designed the album cover and wrote the liner notes.
Yes, of course, we have plenty of copies of the 50th anniversary edition of Alicia’s timeless book, Living on the Earth! Also in French, Spanish and Japanese. And, yes, we carry the gorgeous 2021 edition of Being of the Sun, as well as some of the original 1973 copies – plus the Japanese edition. Also, The Dancing Lady coloring book, which you can easily turn into a set of tree decorations. https://indigowithstars.com/collections/alicia-bay-laurel-books
And all eight of Alicia’s singer/songwriter albums, both as CDs and digital downloads.
I am working on completing a large format paperback book that I started writing in the 1970s, but put aside to do other projects. I just finished the line art for the front cover, which will eventually have color on it, but the pages will be monochrome. I am looking to release it next summer (2025).
If you would like to receive notification when it is available, please add your email address to my mailing list if you have not already.
My offering for my birthday month of Taurus: three free Hawaiian birthday cards (with matching envelopes) with the purchase of any one book. Just add three birthday cards and one book to your cart, and checkout will apply your discount.
Movie poster for Alicia’s 2021 film, Living on the Earth: The Musical, which is her live performance on November 13, 2016 of her storytelling/music show by the same name. You can view the movie here.
2024 New Year Poster, which is Alicia’s vision of an oncoming year, including the astrological signs and ancient Celtic holy days, plus a prayer for peace.
Woman/cat/plant illustration, part of a series of possible drawings for the cover of the 2010 novel, Another World, by beloved Japanese novelist, Yoshimoto Banana
Raw Food Recipes from the Tropics page from Winter 1975 CoEvolution Quarterly
“Behold the world with compassion, transforming darkness into light.” Also known as Peace Girl. Possible cover for her upcoming book, How to Make Peace.
Herb and spice chart from Living on the Earth
Living on the Earth 2000 Road Tour Poster, a 8 month journey during which Alicia drove coast to coast in the USA doing 75 performances of her story/song one-woman show, Living on the Earth: The Musical
2021 Single Page Calendar, originally published by Alicia as a 1971 calendar, just before the Bookworks 1970 first edition of Living on the Earth was published.
Herb and spice chart from French edition of Living on the Earth (Vivre sur la Terre), published in 2022 by Editions Ulmer in Paris.
The in-store special for the month of Aries (March 21 to April 22) at the Indigo with Stars online store: Buy one poster, get one free (the same poster or two different posters). There are nine of them.
Lovingly packaged and shipped in a protective triangular mailing tube.
Behold: the latest offerings in our cache of gifts for the bohemians, wiccans, peaceniks, nature worshippers, ferals, wizards, neo-hippies, avant-jazz fans, and utopian preppers in your life.
First of all, we are pleased to be offering LOVE CRY WANT, the new vinyl LP version of a recording made at an anti-war rally in Washington DC in 1972, featuring the band of the same name, with liner notes and cover graphics by Alicia Bay Laurel, who enjoyed collaborating on this project with her partner, Joe Gallivan, a band member of Love Cry Want.
Inspired by the recent posting of scans all of the pages of the Whole Earth Catalog and its related publications at https://wholeearth.info, Alicia created a print-on-demand poster of her opening illustration for her article in The CoEvolution Quarterly from Winter 1975.
We’ve only got a precious few of these books containing Michael Fleck’s astonishing script blending Shakespeare’s masterpiece with the modern drama of real estate developers versus environmental activists and Hawaiian native resistence, lavishly staged as a theatrical production in 1977, and now an artifact of counterculture history in the Hawaiian Islands.
This cheerful man is James Cook Loomis, mathematician, athlete, author, activist, musician, father, friend, lover and denizen of Maui. He played Gonzalo in Michael Fleck’s version of The Tempest.
For the past dozen years, I’ve have an online store from which I offer my books, art prints, musical recordings and clothing printed with my drawings. I carry five of Joe Gallivan’s avant-jazz recordings and his swag as well.
I’ve never done a Black Friday-Cyber Monday sale, but, now that I have my merchandise in my house again (after 6 hair-raising years of keeping my illustrated books and other fragile merchandise in fulfillment warehouses while I traveled abroad), I decided to try this.
I’m calling it my Winter Solstice Season Gifting, and it will last from now until January 6th.
So, if you buy any combination of merch that totals $15 or more at https://indigowithstars.com, I’ll gift you with your choice of one of 15 gifts from my online store.
Here are your choices:
My rave-reviewed jazz and blues CD, What Living’s All About, optionally inscribed with silver ink (you can message me with names of recipients).
The generously sized (14″ x 23″) Living on the Earth 2000 Tour poster – printed on thick, earth-toned 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper with dark brown vegetable-based ink. Happy to inscribe this as well, upon request.
An mp3 digital download of all the tracks of any of my 8 albums (the whole albums are the first 8 items on this page. Everything else is single track downloads).
Applicable postage, taxes and/or import duty will be charged for the two physical items (no postage for digital downloads )
I’ve got an automation set up in my store so that, if you have at least $15 worth of merchandise in your cart, as well as one of the 15 gifts, the price of the gift will be deducted at check-out.
This slip-cast ceramic Hanukkah menorah was designed by my late mother,Verna Lebow Norman. After she passed on, I found ten bisque fired and unglazed copies of the menorah on the shelves next to her kiln, plus a big container of shiny white glaze.
Thanks to my friend since infancy, Benida Solow, who is also a ceramic artist with a kiln at home, I was able to glaze all of the menorahs white, and then illustrate them with overglaze paint – each one is unique.
The menorah depicts a Jewish family – left to right: mother holding baby, grandfather, father, grandmother, little girl and little boy. My mother designed and had the brass wine goblet-shaped candle holders made for her menorahs.
On the wall behind is a framed original page layout from Living on the Earth, surrounded by a white mat board that I illustrated with line drawings. Yuji Kamioka, a wood craftsman, made one-of-a-kind driftwood frames for the Living on the Earth page layouts.
A drawing I made for the cover of the program notes for an elaborate “new age” production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest staged on Maui, Hawaii in 1976. It was also silk screen printed onto the cast’s t-shirts.
In 1978, when Michael Fleck’s marvelous script was published as a book, I made a color overlay for the drawing to print on the book cover, and about a dozen ink line illustrations interspersed with the text of the play.
The nude woman standing in water is an ink line drawing I made in the 1970s.
Here’s the book cover.
Inside SISON GALLERy, tables full of elegant ceramic vessels made by Yoko Hijioka, all watched over by one of the nine cats I drew as possible covers for Yoshimoto Banana’s novel Another World. This cat did not make the book cover, but artist Kei Tsunoda requested a giant canvas print of it from me a few years ago, and I decided to produce more of them.
Here is the hardcover edition of Another World:
And here is the paperback edition:
Quite a few of the original (created in 1969 and 1970 at Wheeler Ranch commune in northern California) hand-lettered page layouts with drawings from Living on the Earth are also hanging in the show, in custom driftwood frames created by craftsman Yuji Kamioka. In preparation for the first of the exhibitions of these works in Japan, in 2008, I illustrated a number of white matboards to add visual richness to the frames and the original works.
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