Dried Leaf Browns

Wednesday March 19 2008

***********

Below is a shot of leaves

near my front porch I took

for it's value as background

interest in some project----I like

the looks of them, too as they

have lots of texture and

shadowed depth.

You can see below, how the background

leaves worked for a new sketch book

cover hiding the old stamp ink blotches

it had accumulated. I should do

some fresh sketches soon as I have

been lax in that department

Wednesday March 19 200

Captured Colors

TUESDAY MARCH 18 2008

Hanging in the kitchen window

is a crystal dangle where

all the colors are crisply captured

except the green, which

seems pretty subdued. Thank

you Nancy Schwanda for this

gift that keeps on giving.

Green Growing

The emerald greens by this

fence next to a castle had

me wondering what they were

and perhaps who they were

peeking out

Above, taken up close to a Listowel, Ireland

hedgerow---all manner of things growing

and surely some very tiny people

are keeping watch about the place.

LAVENDER BLUE

Sunday March 16 2008

Jillyanna would sit staring out of the

school house window hoping to catch a

glimpse of Jeremiah's ship returning

She was one of many

village waiters. At last,

early one chilly morn, it appeared in

the fog shrouded bay, with tattered sails

and no crew aboard.

A life shared was not to be for her,

but, never the less, hope lived

on in her heart.

Sea Blue

A page in a book I am altering has vibrant

blue textured background, my ship's figurehead,

skeltered stampings, ship, maps and part of the

original page showing. I will be taking

a class where many different kinds of

techniques will be explored. Forcing me to

try these looser things is how I learn and

explore my mind-----I hope :-)

BLACK IS THE COLOR

An ArtZine photo shows Goth must

have been around way back in the Victorian

era. However, only 1 in 14 outed herself

for the class photo.

Red Heads

Discovered in Vermont, waiting to warm

up the cabin---they just looked so

jaunty to me. Delights often are

small in size but big in impact.