Bits and Pieces

The Bits and Pieces Group encompasses those bits that do not really fit in to the other groups….

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Featured Work

how's this smile ;) by tinhearts

am i crazy or is this guy smiling at me ;) / he was posing all over and then a big bug came along and posed but my camera wouldn’t click…sometimes it does that and i don’t know settings and lighting things. i told this dragonfly to wait while i went in the house to get my camera…awesome of him to share his time with me! / he made my day better already! love, carol / xxx
Writing

Creation…I was waiting all my life / for you / Painter of Love / like a trembling canvas waiting / for it’s Master / unknowing his touch; / hoping to be…
Writing

The Dance...…He said was smooth on the floor, She admitted to him she had never danced before. He told her close her inviting eyes and push your body …

Writen for the Boy who paints these pictures in this womans mind…..
Bottlebrush HDR by Jayson Gaskell

This is another experiment into the world of HDR photography. This time it is of an australian native, Bottlebrush, that is in my front garden. Tell me what you think. /
WINGS OVER THE CITY by Dayonda

Featured in BITS and PIECES Group. 20 July 2008 This work is EXPERIMENTAL because I’m still trying to learn Apophysis. It also had to go into 3 other programs to get it ‘just right’, which is purely a matter of ‘experimentation’ till I’m satisfied.
The Tractor Factor by kimbaross

This one is an old oil pastel on paper. It is based on my dad on the Fordson Tractor driving around the farm a grew up on in North Eastern Victoria.
Love Story by Maria Dryfhout

Wedding bands and a bridal garter on tulle in sepia.
Face to Face by jensw61

ready for a sloppy kiss.
Forest of the Night by Janis Zroback

/ “Forest of the Night” is part of the Landscape series… Watercolour on Hot Press Arches… This frigid green forest is a fantasy of winter to come….I used a number of layers of paint in greens over ochres to get the effect I wanted…the last light coming through the trees is sundown…one of my old sketches turned into something quite different... / The forest of the night can be a site of relief / Or a place to run and hide from disgrace / In its darkness can reside the truth, honesty and belief / Or just another den for withdrawal, a hiding place. The forest of the night is crowded with many things / Thoughts, feelings, voices, and memories we see / All eddy around and settle, to us they may bring / A moment of truth, horror, fear, or clarity. The forest of the night is a phenomenon of the mind / Where the shadows linger in the dusk as a part / It is our choice to embrace the truths we find / Or bury ourselves, and hide to protect the heart. The forest of the night speaks to our fears / It reveals them as lucid, obvious, clear as day / Darkness inhabits and grows there, for months and years / Where thoughts are sowed, grounded, or kept at bay. The forest of the night is calling, it knows all by name / In it resides our choices to make, face, and construe / Do we face all that exists or hide from the agony and pain? / The forest summons, in this forest, what will you do? / At the end of the day there’s the forest of the night / Where we go to visit our inner identity / There it lies ahead of us, waiting, it is our plight / The dwelling where we must look at truths that be....Anya
The Pear Tree by Janis Zroback

/ This is the tree I thought I’d prune / into manageability and ripe fruit, / the way my mother pruned me, hands / folded in my lap, my wiry hair cut short. But I like it the way it is, a constellation / outside my window, its dreamy limbs in a tangle / from the second-story roof to the clothesline, / a dusting of lichen, like talc, on its skin. Paula Jones Gardiner.. Watercolour on Arches

Recent Work

as i reflect.... by greeneyedlady

okay, i’ll fess up, my son took this one!
Fuzzy Water Lily by Rosalie Scanlon IPA

Fuzzy looking Water Lily, I found the name of this flower searching the computer. The actual name is Giant Snow Flake.
WHY ME!!!! by KEITH R. WILLIAMS

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Writing

TIDES IN THE SEA…She rolled along / Like the TIDES IN THE SEA / Never knowing / What love could be Her dreams kept tearing / And falling apart / Love never …
Irises... by Janis Zroback

/ “Irises”are part of the Series “The Flowers” Semi-Abstract Watercolour on Arches Paper…dripped, monoprinted, and poured on wet paper, before the shapes were painted…. / / Iris, most beautiful flower, / Symbol of life, love, and light ...excerpt E. Edwards /
Irises 2 by Janis Zroback

/ “Irises 2” is part of the Series “The Flowers”... Semi-Abstract Watercolour on textured Arches Paper….then masked before paint was poured on wet paper, and textured again till the effect I wanted was achieved… You come in such glorious colors, / In hues, the rainbow surpass; / The chart of color portrays you, / In petal, or veins, of your class....excerpt…E Edwards.. /
Be Not Afraid Collaboration With "Bonita" bamagirl38 by Amber Elizabeth Fromm

Be Not Afraid / Author: Amber Elizabeth Fromm / Artist Bonita Moore IPA (bamagirl38) Be Not Afraid With My Heart Stretched Out to You .. My God, / My Spirit Yours…I Can See The Heavens… / I Hear … Your Voice The Voice of The “Almighty God” He Speaks … Forever Saying, / Be Not Afraid As He Opens Up His Heavens… / Shouting From His Doors …. Come Listen Children / Hear Me Speak / Forever More… I Say… To You My Children, / Be Not Afraid… / For I am Here….. Always Here… / With You My Strength, Is Yours To / Ever Lean On … / My Love Ever True…. My Children …Oh Children / Can’t You Hear Me Speak For When You Are Humbled / When You are Weak…Evermore / Only to Come ….Come My Children / Come Knock Upon My Door…. With Belief You Receive. With All My Mighty Powers … / Of Creation …At My Command With My Arms Wide Open.. / Come Come Children… / Carry You Cross,The Sands… Knock On My Door… / Look… Come See My Love’s Is As Waters … / Reflecting shores… / Upon All Seas.. From All Earths Floors / Come Knock My Children, Please / Come Knock Upon My Door…. Come ….Come My Children / For Such Gifts …I give, / I Give Unto Thee…. AS I Gaze Out… From My Door / Gifts….Of Life Everlasting … / Come Share My Heavens … / A Glorious Gift Can Be Yours For You Only Need / To Knock Once .. / Knock Upon My Door… Yes Hear Me Speak…. / Arms Held Ever Wide / Yes Come children… / To My Heart …Come Inside Yes All… All Is At … / “MY” Very Command / For My Heart, and Arms Open… / Always Open.. / To Love and Understand Pain, Feel Pain… For I Weep For You / I’ll Wipe Your Every Tear Surrender Your Troubles Find My Healing, / Healing… It Is True… You’ll Be Lifted Ever Higher / With My Spirit, My Spirit In You… For I Hear Your Voice / Your Voice Almighty God! You Call Come , / God You Always Say … / Come Here / My Children / Be Not Afraid…. / I AM HERE!
Sound Of Silence by Maria Dryfhout

Statue of a violinist in the park. Image redone in LucisArt. /
Writing

Riddle Me, Riddle You…Little bit here, little bit there, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Thoughts That Bug Me In My Continuing Stream Of Consciousness…..
Worlds Many. . . by Dayonda

And the inhabitants thereof call each one “earth”. / —-This work is EXPERIMENTAL because it was made in one program, and worked in 3 others. I’ve never made this kind of image before, and haven’t done it again, yet… I have to remember how I made it! lol@me. Note our Creator on the left, looking over some of His creations. Featured in the LIGHT and REFLECTION Group. 24 July 2008

Featured Members

About This Group

First Meet Our Winners Featured Above

Our winners for The Three Ties Competition with the collaboration between Liesbeth and Margpie with their entry Where Pain Subsides and the third of the group, aspectsoftmk with her great and very constructive criticism.

Great job everyone!

We celebrate you all in our Hall of Hits and Humble Heavies!

NOW ABOUT THIS GROUP

The Bits and Pieces Group encompasses those bits that do not really fit in to the other groups…..

..for people new to writing… and anything else they may need a hand with….......where novices can post without feeling self conscious …..

.....a place where everyone with a love for expressions can meet and greet…...and say…”.Hey….....how can I finish this off..”

Or where ones upload has been exceeded….and a refuge is needed until they can post again….

This is just a “Pub on the Corner” type place…....

....we like to think of it as “BIPS” where our beeps of imagination become beautiful songs!

Is yours the next Masterpiece?
The voice that speaks to hearts?
An escape to moments of harmony?

you’ll never know until you’ve tried!

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