I have created two of these in the inverse. Beautiful striking black and white flower art by floral artist Sharon Cummings. A unique design with classical elements and botanical beauty.
I've been creating with pen and ink again! I prefer pens to pencils as I love the fluidity and smoother movements. I have collaged painted fabric to create a colorful garden!
like ailing children
convalescing in mom's arms
oak trees heal orchids
***Someone gave me a throw away plant with only one leaf left. So I blessed it and put it up in an oak. This is the result! I had to make some art out of it too. :)
3 years ago we found this Alstromeria on a discount rack. It thrived in our garden, but didn't bloom the first year because we got a hard freeze. The next year, one of our cats decided laying on it was the perfect spot. This year it is flowering like crazy! The message: You are beautiful and capable of blooming! It may not be in this season, but be patient and continue to grow!
I sketch when I am learning by listening. Otherwise I zone out and do not retain anything. By engaging other parts of my brain (and hands), the bored part wakes up. LOL
Volume 4 is LIVE! Visions And Voice Of The Garden is a beautiful collection of flowers, plants and tree artwork with poetry and haiku. HIGH END heavy #80 paper. Each page is suitable for framing!
Perfect gift idea! Mother's Day is coming!!! Or gift yourself. :)
"Bouquet of Flowers," Maria van Oosterwijck, second half of the 17th century.
Van Oosterwijck (1630-1693) was a Dutch painter of still lifes, mostly florals. She was quite a success, and a canny businesswoman, marketing her works to various crowned heads of Europe. She was a professional painter at a time when few women were, but she was still denied membership in the Painter's Guild because of her sex.
By all accounts, she was a deeply religious woman, and many of her paintings include symbols, either through color or other means, of her religious views. Butterflies were to mean the Resurrection, for instance.
She never married, but dedicated herself to her painting. She raised her nephew, and taught one of her servants to paint and be an artist herself, so she could be self-supporting. I like that aspect of her; not only being independent and self-determined, but helping others to be so as well, even if she was denied some opportunities because of the prejudices of the time.