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Mix medium photograph of a nest with 3 eggs and the Chinese characters LOVE, TRUST DREAM FORTUNE.
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This is obviously not an original idea, and I want to thank both ECGardner and Angelique Brunas for their works along these lines that motivated me to explore my own creativity. I hope they do not mind my using their work as a basis for my inspiration, and I am still working to achieve the balance, beauty, and artistry they have exhibited through their respective nature based collages! I will give folks a while to guess what the various panes are comprised of, they should be pretty easy to figure out, later I will insert the proper descriptions of their contents. As always I can not say often enough how wonderful the Redbubble community is and how happy I am to have found it during it’s infancy so that I may grow along with it into a more complete and accomplished artist! / / / / Portfolio Areas / / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic
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This Jesus poster has been one of my best sellers for the past 5 years and I thought that I might share it here with you all on Red Bubble. It’s an oldie but still a goodie and for all you believers out there….something we need as a constant reminder. It’s so easy to get caught up in the trials and tribulations of daily life. God Bless You All!
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Created as a reminder that change is always within reach. However, the title reflects the true symbolism in the art work. To the following groups Bryce and Beyond, The Art of 3D, Dimensions and First Things; and all the people that have visited and commented on “Rebirth,” thank you for the features (including the home page of RB), and many kind words. It is very touching and motivating! Peace. Quick view as a Framed Print: / Available as beautiful inspirational notecards too. /
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The Butterfly Quote. One of my favourite quotes. Also available with a black background, and as a t-shirt. / / See The Butterfly Quote on my Squidoo! / / / / / Do you Squidoo? / / Visit With Love – Cards for all Occasions to see my greeting card, notecard & invitation designs. / / Infant & kid’s t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, hats, aprons, bags, magnets, stickers, buttons, keychains, postage & postcards are available on my zazzle. / / / / / / / / Also available with a black background / / / / / / / / / / The Butterfly Quote Custom US Postage Stamps [Purple] / / / / © LOUISE PARTON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Imagine….Peace / Lennon said it best ” You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one” / Hear it and see this dream for the world here Available as a card, fine art print, matted print and inspirational poster Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited Copyright: C3F9B-86403-B6366
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.589 views …the old horse transitioning from horseflesh to spirit, his long and arduous journey is over..he’s goin’ home… my Granny always said ‘Live old horse and you’ll get grass”... Home ...saveourwildhorses.com ..At the turn of the 19^th century there were millions of horses running free on the Western range. By the time bills passed to protect them in 1959, 1968 and 1971, the vast herds had become so reduced that they actually faced extinction. / ... I sketched the horse on my tablet in Corel and layered the graphics on top in photoshop+Corel ..featured in ‘The Healing Journey’
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/ “Yesterday’s Dreams” are part of the series The Trees and is the first part of a set of two...Watercolour on Sennelier Paper..see part 2 Here Yesterday’s dreams / Like birds in the winter / Have gathered together / And flown to the sun / Yesterday’ s promises / Like shells in the ocean / All shattered and broken / Like yesterday’s dreams. N.Mouskouri.
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/ “Yesterday’s Dreams 2 is part of the series The Trees, and is the second of a set of two..Watercolour on Sennelier Paper…see part 1 Here You are my harbour / My dream of tomorrow / My promise of sunshine / My shield from the storm / My sweet companion / We’ ll journey together / And not be defeated / By yesterday’s dreams
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/ “Jacob is part of the Tropics collection...Watercolour on Cartiera Magnani Acrilico Paper.. Jacob came into the night, riotous with colour, proud and straight, wearing the emblem of leader…newly endowed ... Janis Z.. / / /
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/ “Zaboca” is part of the Tropics Collection...Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Paper…Zaboca is colloquial for avocado… Late season again.. / Frost tipped, green.. / But still ripe for the picking.. Janis Z.. / / / / /
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/ “The Two” is part of the Flower Collection...Watercolour on Sennelier Paper… You are the town and we are the clock. / We are the guardians of the gate in the rock / The Two / On your left and on your right / In the day and in the night, / We are watching you. We’re afraid in that case you’ll have a fall. / We’ve been watching you over the garden wall / For hours. / The sky is darkening like a stain / Something is going to fall like rain / And it won’t be flowers. This might happen any day / So be careful what you say / Or do. / Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock, / Trim the garden, wind the clock, / Remember the Two. W.H. Auden
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/ “Maria’s Cherry” is based on the photos of Maria Medieros ...as with the other collaboratioons seen below (click on each image to go to the original page), I did my own interpretation of her Red Cherry .... Watercolour on Sennelier Not Paper… 1362 Views Featured in The Fringe / Live Love Dream / Live and Let Live / Watercolour Paintings / Exceptional Ekphrasis / Inspired Art Said to be / Red / Sweet / With seed / Once in a lifetime / Treat / Firm / Ripe / So certain / Like love / Then lost / Forever* J. Spahr Summers / / / / /
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/ Strawberry tart is the second in the series “Delicious”... Watercolour on Sennelier Not Paper… In the description that accompanied “Blueberry Tart” I referred to the work of a famous American artist called “Wayne Thiebaud”, who stated that his subject matter came out of a genuine experience from his life, from the American world, in which he was privileged to be. He went on to say that it was the most genuine thing which he had done. His subject matter is a commentary on the abundance that is a part of American society and the longings and desires ( e.g. all those cakes in a row) that go along with it. Like Thiebaud, this new series is definitely a reflection of my particular experience… it is at once a commentary on the richness of our culture and at the same time a reflection of my daily life… in addition to being a painter, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen… my belief is that since I have to cook to feed my family I had better do it well, (I have an abhorrence of wasted time), so to that end I have almost as many cookbooks as art books, in fact I have a collection of several hundred cook books… I have mentioned before, that there is a peacefulness, a feeling of rightness when I sit down to paint food… although all painting brings me pleasure, there is a special joy when I paint food… it is as though it is what I was meant to do ... The strawberry is rough like a slave’s arduous life / Vermillion, green, and fuzzy like an inscripted pathway / It tastes like the first candy bar in a child’s life / It looks like a cold soda on a hot summer day / Sounds like the Sirens decepting voice J. Macgregor / (Click image to link)
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/ “Lemon Curd and Blueberry Tart” is part of the “Delicious” collection..Watercolour on Arches Not Paper… Featured in Light in the Darkness…. This new series is definitely a reflection of my particular experience… it is at once a commentary on the richness of our culture and at the same time a reflection of my daily life…food is essential to life…suffice it to say we can’t exist with out it ... Painting food has a long history and according to Kenneth Bendiner in the comprehensive “Food in Painting”, is a separate classification of Art…He “underlines the central importance of 16th century innovations in food subjects and the great influence of 17th century Dutch art in the development of food imagery”. / He explains, with examples of paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Chardin, Manet, Warhol and many others, how “food images can be purely symbolic, surrealist, and an element in allegories…he also shows the optimistic, human centered Renaissance spirit of food painting, and the way abundance, success and fulfillment pervade this art”. “But the illusion fails, and time returns us / to noisy cities where the blue / is seen in patches, up between the roofs. / The rain exhausts the earth then; / winter’s tedium weighs the houses down, / the light turns miserly—the soul bitter. / Till one day through a half-shut gate / in a courtyard, there among the trees, / we can see the yellow of the lemons; / and the chill in the heart / melts, and deep in us / the golden horns of sunlight / pelt their songs”. excerpt…Eugenio Montale / / (Click image to link)
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In his sumptuous exploration of food images (Food in Painting), Kenneth Bendiner states, that ” food for the art historian can be the one area where conscious rules and dignified ideas need not hold sway - the real urges and concerns of a painter or his society can rise to the surface. There’s a certain freedom in the margins of art - where experiments and indulgence can operate—in other words more can be learned about someone from his backyard, than from the street façade of his house.” The latest painting from the series” Delicious” is “Scone with Berries and Cream. The Berries are a type of black berry, available all year round here… Watercolour on Arches Paper…Featured in Happy Haven… I grew up in a society where tea time was sacrosanct… dashing into the house after school, at four o’clock in the afternoon straight to the table which tea was laid, was an everyday thing… the weather was hot and the tea was refreshing… after several cups, one felt at peace with the world. Clotted Cream came from England in jars or tins but my mother also whipped up a wonderful cream from the top of the milk that came straight to our home from a neighboring farm every day…dinner was much later on in the evening ... You and I are great souls. / And we come together for a time. / We meet over a cup of tea here on earth. Shall we leave our shell and join with each other? / Shall we put down our shield and armor? / What will become of us if we do? / What horrible fate awaits us if we are defenseless? Tea is a time for love and tenderness without fear. / It is a time for sharing and learning and growing. / Come now, leave the battle gear behind. / Brave with me and let’s have tea. E.Grey Watercolour on Arches Paper.. One day through a half-shut gate / in a courtyard, there among the trees, / we can see the yellow of the lemons; / and the chill in the heart / melts, and deep in us / the golden horns of sunlight / pelt their songs* The strawberry is rough like a slave’s arduous life / Vermillion, green, and fuzzy like an inscripted pathway / It tastes like the first candy bar in a child’s life / It looks like a cold soda on a hot summer day / Sounds like the Sirens decepting voice. (Click images to link) Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, / Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum / In the cavernous pail of the first one to come! / And all ripe together, not some of them green / And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen ...
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/ “Ripe Cherries” is part of the Delicious Collection..... Watercolour on Arches Not Paper… Featured as #1 on page 1 of most Popular Art 11/02/09 and in the following groups.. / Creative Cards / Colour Me A Rainbow… / Scavenger Hunt / Just Watercolours / Food For Thought / Dimensions,.. / Watercolour Painting… / Berries Fruits and Seeds… / Abstract Realism / If it Doesn’t Belong / Food for Thought / TOP TEN WINNER IN BERRIES FRUITS AND SEEDS / CHALLENGE WINNER IN WORKS ON PAPER: Red is Ravishing! / THE MOST POPULAR ENTRY IN A CHALLENGE IN THE FIRST THINGS GROUP / 1ST PLACE WINNER OF THE BUBBLERS WEEKLY CHALLENGE / TOP TEN WINNER IN THE WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE IN PAINTERS IN MODERN TIMES / FIRST PLACE WINNER OF THE NATURA MORTE CHALLENGE IN PIMT...Painters in Modern Times 1529 views.. Ah the fabled cherry—the poetic color of luscious lips, and just as sweet. It started out in West Asia (perhaps the Persia-Armenia region) and in two varietals from which all cultivated cherries are descended: Prunus avium (sweet) and Prunus cerasus (sour). Sweet cherries had spread to Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean by 300 BCE, for Theophrastus mentions them. And Pliny the Elder (1st century AD) mentions that some 8 varieties of cherries were being cultivated in Italy—and that the Romans were spreading them as far north as Britain. The British, in turn, carried it to the New World in the 17th century (Beyond the huge crops in Michigan, California, Oregon, and Washington, American wild cherries include the chokecherry, the pin cherry, and the wild black cherry. Sour cherries have spread even farther north, and are a speciality of Germany and Scandanavia. Today it is estimated that some 900 sweet varieties (ranging in color from yellow to black) and some 300 sour varieties are being grown. Most sweet cherries will produce fruit only after they’ve been cross-pollinated—honey bees usually do the leg work, carrying pollen from a sweet cherry of another variety soupsong.com See some samples of the collection below, and view the entire collection to date, at the Bubblesite HERE / Plum Blossom with Apples and Cream / / Sour Cream Bumbleberry Tart with an Apricot Glaze / / Ginger Shortcake with Nectarines and Creme Fraiche / / Spicy Chewy Ginger Cookies / / Chocolate Cupcake with a Mocha Swirl / / Cinnamon Bun / / Scone with Berries and Cream / / Lemon curd and Blueberry Tart
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The title of this painting is a play on words….see the poem on the left below by May Swenson….and like Robert Frost below, I ask the same question of myself very often and the answer is always a loud and resounding…no…no matter what life throws at me, it still worth it. Watercolour on Clayboard…in the Abstract Series… / 173 Views A voice said, / Look me in the stars / And tell me truly, men of earth, / If all the soul-and-body scars / Were not too much to pay for birth. Robert Frost..A Question..
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/ “The Bequest” is the title of a painting…it is an oil painting of a simple lock…the painting has been handed down from generation to generation of the same family…no one knows its origin, for those who knew the story are long dead….now they only know that the painting must never be sold…must never go out of the family…it is handed down to each eldest son and must hang in a prominent place in the main room of the house…the family is very wealthy and own many works of art, and visitors are puzzled to see this strange painting by an unknown artist, covered with the crazing of age, hanging among the Monets and Pollocks…much too embarrased to ask, their questions go unanswered, and many stories have been concocted and whispered over the years...Janis On the back of the painting, someone had scribbled the following poem You left me, sweet, two legacies / A legacy of love / A Heavenly Father would content, / Had He the offer of You left me boundaries of pain / Capacious as the sea, / Between eternity and time, / Your consciousness and me. E Dickinson… Acrylic and watercolour on Arches Not Paper
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/ This is a new addition to the Collection…Everyday Things…the tools we use and taked for granted have an intrinsic beauty…this red handled wrench and clamps with the screwdriver are from my own tool box... For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. / Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known. Corinthians 13. Hand Drawn with watercolour markers, on hand made Ink Transfers on Saunders Waterford Hot Pressed Paper.. FEATURED IN…WORKS ON PAPER / Still Life with an Awl / The Legacy / Still Life with Old Dandelion Stencil and Terracotta Pots / Still Life with Wellingtons / The Sap Bucket
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/ I find the patina of age very intriguing and exciting to recreate in paint…I always have cuts of MDF and Masonite primed with gesso waiting in the wings, ready for when inspiration hits me…lately I’ve been preoccupied with doors and things to do with doors….I made this door old…very old…it has withstood the test of time and all kinds of weather and has been painted many times, attesting to a tale of many owners…lately someone dressed it with a shiny new red door knob…why? if it could talk it would tell many stories.... Watercolour with Acrylic on Gessoed Masonite “Too little has been said of the door / It’s one face turned to the night’s downpour / It’s other to the shift and glisten of firelight”...excerpt Charles Tomlinson / Door #6 / Door#5 / Door #4 / Door#3 / Door #2 / Door #1
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/ Doubt is the lock, / Faith is the key. / Hate is the lock, / Love is the key. / Body is the lock, / Soul is the key. / Ignorance is the lock, / Light is the key. Sri Chimnoy “The Key is dedicated to Catherine, who told me she loves them“ Acrylic on Masonite….slighty surreal and semi-abstract this time, as a Key can mean so many different things… / The Red Doorknob / Door #6 / Door#5 / Door #4 / Door#3 / Door #2 / Door #1
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I’m walking away from the shadows in my life….my new mantra for the rest of 2009….but then again I love to play in the shadows…mmm;) Available as an art print, card, canvas, mounted print and poster. / Image copyright © 2009 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
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