Path
Atchison County, KS, 2011.
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” -Henry David Thoreau
This Boot Wasn’t Made For Walkin
Atchison County, KS, 2011
Abstract Roosters, maybe
This was a small folded paper cutting I did awhile back that I just started cutting at without drawing anything out — I was going for abstract and I wanted to see what would come out of it.
Geodes
I cooked dinner this evening for some of my favorite women folk, and Jeanette, a long-time family friend, brought over some geodes (along with a chisel and a mallet) that she found on an excursion through some fields and creek beds in Iowa for a little pre-dinner excitement. I’ll surely be breaking out my camera magnifying lens attachment in some better light over the weekend for some close-up crystallization. Read more about geodes on Wikipedia.
Music: The Byrds..
Winter Song
8 x 10 inch paper cutting.
Warnock Lake, Atchison, KS, 2010. I used to drive out to almost this same spot back in high school just to watch the silhouettes of the trees in front of the setting sun. There were more trees on the horizon at that time if I remember correctly.. I think that’s one of my ultimate influences for making silhouette art.
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape;
Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
Music: Tom T. Hall – Country Cabinitis
Flower Power
Happy first day of March.
Tiny Bird + Retailer Stuff
This tiny bird original paper cutting is now available in my Etsy shop. I also sent a few of these down to Bella Luz Gifts in Wichita, KS, so you can find them there if you’re close by.
Manhattan, KS, folks: I’m restocking Strecker-Nelson Gallery with greeting cards tomorrow — they should have them available for sale by the weekend.
I’ll be sending a bunch of prints and greeting cards as well as 5 original works to The View Arts Center in Old Forge, NY, tomorrow, so their gift shop will be stocked, plus the originals are part of an exhibit opening there on Mar. 10.