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Thank You Etsians!

July 31, 2008 · 3 Comments

The seller Leaves of Clay created a wonderful “Etsy treasury” showcasing artwork only of TREES!
One of those trees was my small painting titled “HAVEN” that is for sale in my Lisa Rivas Etsy store. This treasury was then featured on Etsy’s “front page”!

I happen to be away and on vacation when this occurred with no way to capture this moment!
So this screen-shot was kindly emailed to me by the following sellers:

leavesofclay, flytie, ElizabethGraf, paperartstudio.
To all of you, thank you, thank you and thank you!
ETSY is an amazing community of artists and artisans
that support, appreciate and cheer each other!

“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
~ Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

Patterns and tiles,

July 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

In every civilization and culture,
colored tilings and patterns appear
among the earliest decorations…

Art is the imposing
of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment
is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

The word "tessella" means "small square".
A tessellation or tiling is the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern. The act of adorning with mosaic as by using small squares of stone, ceramic, glass or just a drawing.

Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Glass e-Stamp…

July 28, 2008 · 3 Comments

This summer I took the “Fused Glass” workshop at the Sarratt Studio Arts / Vanderbilt University. Our instructor was Nancie Roark, an artist that combines fused glass with silver jewelry techniques to create wonderful wearable art.
It was a fabulous class and I made all kinds of things from pendants, earrings, glass frames, a slumped bowl to a whole new little art-series of “BUGS”!

Here is one of the “bugs” I made, used as an illustration for a web-e’Stamp!
More of these will be coming up…

“The Glasshopper”
• fused glass illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Grasshoppers have two pairs of wings, five eyes and no ears.
They hear with an auditory structure called “tympanum”,
that is located on their two front legs near the “knee” joint!

IF • Canned

July 25, 2008 · 17 Comments

Empty coffee cans can be very functional after the fact. Use them to mix paint, store items. I keep my varnishing brushes suspended in solvent with the lid holding the brush. Here you can see some of my supplies and tools.
Many of my paintings were painted on the floor since they were of a very large format and I could move and visualize better.

original painting – private collection – Caracas, Venezuela • (Paint, paint!) “Pinta, pinta!”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Lechosa?

July 24, 2008 · 3 Comments

What is Lechosa? It’s the Venezuelan name for “Papaya”, the fruit of the plant “Carica papaya” a native plant to the tropics of the Americas.
It has also been nicknamed “tree melon”, since these melons grow on a tree!

The most popular way to eat papayas is to cut them in half, scoop out the seeds and eat the flesh with a spoon. The unripe green fruit of papaya can be eaten cooked, in curries, salads, stews and as sweet preserves. The black seeds are edible and have a sharp, spicy taste. They are
sometimes ground up and used as a substitute for black pepper.

A wonderful dish is grilled “green papaya cubes” on skewers with fish or seafood with a squirt of lemon juice!

Trivia: The “Papaya” was the first fruit tree to have its genome deciphered.

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