wishing you good madness.....

"may your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. i hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful....and don't forget to make some art...write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. and i hope...somewhere in the next year...you surprise yourself."

~neil gaiman

wishing you a year of 

magic

dreams

and

good madness....

happy

new year!

the ancient law of life...

"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."

~ herman hesse

angels among us.....

i just wanted to share a picture of the angel i made for my brother and his wife for Christmas. i'm always using found objects and pieces of nature in my art.... and after digging thru my stash i laid out these pieces and began assembling my angel. the rock i chose for the head was the last thing i added. as i was positioning it in different places to see where it best fit i flipped it over and noticed the 'face'......do you see the face in the rock? how cool is that?

Christmas 2011

I hope everyone has a very

Merry Christmas!

another kindred soul

 i'm reading richard merymans book on andrew wyeth.

i've always loved wyeths work.

after reading this i'm seeing his paintings thru new eyes.

and recognizing another kindred soul.....

this is his painting called winter corn 

an excerpt from this book reveals wyeths thoughts:

"i can think of nothing more exciting than just sitting in a

cornfield on a windy fall day and listening to the dry rustle.

when i walk through the rows of blowing corn, i am reminded

always of the way a king must have felt walking down a long

line of knights on horseback with banners blowing. i love to

study the many things that grow below the cornstalks, and bring

them back to the studio to study the color. if one could only catch

the true color of nature. the very thought drives me mad."

do you hear the rustling leaves?

i do....

ho ho ho......

i spent my afternoon making gift tags for my 'gran chillrens' christmas presents

 landon.....my little elf

 hailey....well...'nuff said'!

 cambria...one of my little artists

 nicholas....plays a mean saxaphone

 shelby.....my other artist

and another little elf.....preston

(i used kits from crowabout studiob-b and marta van eck designs) 

voice without a sound....

                                                   "voice without a sound"......
                                                  .....how i'm feeling lately
                                                              

owls.........

i've always had a special affinity for birds....

but owls.....

i want to live in their midst.......