Heart Strings OR Craving for Illustration Friday

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Cut Paper, New Work!

Heart Strings

Hi Illustration Friday-ers. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, hope to be around a lot more.

I didn’t actually do this one for IF, but when I sat down to think of ‘craving’ – my mind always took me back to this concept. Craving: an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing…

A Geek’s Dream

by | Jun 3, 2009 | Inspiration

geekdream

My first visit to the Atchison Public Library was fruitful. I got a little carried away. But this is too exciting. My finds, in no particular order:
“Songs of Hiawatha” by Henry W. Longfellow – copyright 1902!! The pages are all vignetted from age.
“Many Many Moons” by Lew Sarett – description: Poems of the Indians and of the Northwoods in Which They Live.. I picked this randomly (I liked the title) and lo and behold, the introduction was written by Carl Sandburg. The part that got me before I read any more: “To my wife MARGARET this book is dedicated”…
“Cornhuskers” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – Copyright 1918!)
“The Wayward Bus” by John Steinbeck
“There’s Always Another Windmill” by Ogden Nash
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot and illustrated by Edward Gorey (!)
“Smoke and Steel” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – copyright 1920!)
“Southern Folk Ballads” compiled and edited by W.K. McNeil
“On The Blue Shore of Silence” by Pablo Neruda
“The Letters of Carl Sandburg” edited by Herbert Mitgang

I am in Geek Heaven.

Things to Come

by | May 22, 2009 | New Work!

Things to Come at Rural Pearl's Etsy Shop

I’ve been working on these things for about.. a month.. and I’ve finally got the right combination of materials down. I think. So far so good anyway. I was working with a 2 part resin and it was burning through the bottom of the cup before I could even get it on the pendant. These are some throw-backs. The good ones are drying.

Expecting To Fly

by | May 17, 2009 | Inspiration

Baby Robins

I had previously written about my neighbor, the robin.. my little feathered friend. Long story short (not really all that long..) – she hatched 4 eggs during her stay out my window, and these are the little folks that I would have liked to invite in for tea or chocolate milk or something. This photo is about 2 weeks after they hatched.. One day after I shot this, they all flew away. I hope. Seemed to leave in groups of two – I did not actually see them depart, just noticed their absence. And mama bird doesn’t have any more reason to revisit. Guess my nose pressed against the window 18 hours a day probably wasn’t all that enjoyable for her to watch. Sure did enjoy their company.