Mighty Harmonist
Sometimes I have to satisfy my inner photoshop nerd.. I got this image by tweaking a photo from the beach in Long Island layered with a photo of a bubble from last weekend.
In Progress
I’ve been cutting away at this for the better part of the day (equals cramped hands). I’ve changed it around a lot as I’ve gone (it’s all a balancing act) and I’m still not sure how it’s going to end up, but I know there will be either a sun or moon involved. I just took a break and made a very necessary chocolate run.
Stormy Tuesday
Lightning, thunder, rain and a hawk taking refuge in the upper branches of a neighboring tree.. I had just been contemplating my own unease about violent midwestern storms when I looked out and saw the hawk shaking the water off of its feathers. I guess that’s all you can really do when all is said and done.
Regardless of how simple that sounds, I’m hoping for good luck in the weather department during this art fair season.. Last year was amazing except for a few extremely hot days, but I was never once rained out. A couple storms the previous summer left me thinking I’d have to abandon ship, including one straight line wind that just about took me with it but instead left me with broken glass and bloody hands. Who’da thunk an art fair could get so messy. Storms can be a little unnerving to say the least…
Undeterred
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” -Hermann Hesse, Wandering
Music Box & More Colorado
I picked up this little gem at a thrift store last week — it’s a music box from Luzern, Switzerland. My mom had a very similar one that my great-grandmother had brought back for her from Switzerland, and I can remember it being one of my favorite things of hers (I wanted to live in it.. I still sorta do) and it’s since disappeared into the nethersphere. Now I have my own.
In other random information, I’ve been accepted into Art on the Rockies, an art fair put on by the Vail Valley Arts League in Edwards, CO. This will take place on July 14 and 15, and I’ll be in Denver the weekend before that and Boulder the weekend after. Looking forward to some mountain time… Til next time.
Music: Red Rhodes – Jay’s Tune
Night Class
11 x 14 inch paper cutting.
Kreativ Blogger Award Nomination
Thanks to Katie Shafer from Scissors, Glue & Paper Happiness for nominating my blog for a Kreativ Blogger Award! This is the second time I’ve been nominated (check out the first time here), and again, I’m not really blog savvy enough to follow all the rules of the game, but I’ll do like I did last time and put some random information about myself and then link to some artist folks that I’ve met somehow or another along the way.
Seven random, possibly useless bits of information about myself:
1. I drink black coffee.
2. I often (mis)quote the movie Spaceballs.
3. I share a birthday with June Carter Cash.
4. I have no tattoos.
5. “I’m a mog. Half-man, half-dog. I’m my own best friend.” (-Spaceballs)
6. My favorite hour of the day is 4 – 5am.
7. My favorite coffee cup in my small collection says “October” on one side and “The Cosmos” on the other..
And here’s seven artsy folks that you should check out:
Barb Fisher Paintings
Folk Art Papercuts by Suzy Taylor
Jessica Simorte Robinette
Remnants by Rebecca Jackson
Laura Engelhardt Fused Glass
Melinda Hutton Jewelry
Jim Sherraden Printmaking
Thanks again Katie!
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