“Like the hummingbird sipping nectar from every flower, I fly joyfully through my days, seeing beauty in everything.” – Amethyst Wyldfyre
Flying Joyfully
Rufous
Rufous Hummingbird
One of the feistiest hummingbird in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders, going after (if not always defeating) even the large hummingbirds of the Southwest, which can be double their weight.
Note: I bought a special handmade watercolor pan made with mica. I LOVE mica! Bring on all things glitter! Last year I learned from Carol Ho about cooking beans in micaceous pots, and the amazing potter ,Barbara Campbell, set me up! My beans have never been more delicious, and now mica is in my watercolor pallette too! Isn’t the world prettier with a little sparkle?
Scarlet Tide
“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.” -Bayard Taylor
Rooted in Life
“I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.” – Marilyn Buck
Another mini. I let the Kraft paper do most of the work in this one, all that negative space creates a peaceful, neutral background.
Dancing Poppies
“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.” -John Keats
Flight
I am loving painting little paintings, they are quick, and easy, so it gives me a sense of play and accomplishment. I love how working small allows a braver approach to making art. Making tiny art is helping me grow as an artist, and it is fun:)
Camino Collage: days 1-10
I am walking the Camino de Santiago with my family. It is a 500 mile pilgrimage. We started in France, and will walk to Santiago de Compostela and hopefully onto Finesterre – the end of the earth. We are currently in the Rioja region of Spain, we walk through vineyards on the same route pilgrims have walked for over 1,000 years.
Instead of making many small paintings along the way, I wanted to capture THE WAY itself. I am making a collage of all the bits and pieces I collect as I go. The lines represent the many paths of many pilgrims. We walk with friends and the we loose track of them, sometimes we meet up again a few towns later. The lines of collage weave in and out to represent the many people from all over the world making their way to Santiago. The lines of collage also (loosely) represent the topography and many hills. When you start walking you are issued a passport, and you collect stamps from places where you stop to rest or eat along the way. Those stamps are also added into my collage.
On the back side of my concertina book (not yet pictured) are notes of the many people and stories we are gathering as we walk.
Day 4 – Camino Collage
Day 4 on Camino de Santiago. We walked to Pamplona, Spain today. I am so grateful. And tired. we are walking the 500 mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain with our kids to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.
Fantasy of Nature
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
You Are Blooming
“Take care, dear heart, you are blooming and spring is coming.” ― Luna Lovette
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