I am using my weekly post of a “BOTANICA”
for this weeks topic of Illustration Friday which is “SEED“
I had been working on a new image “for seed”,
but it got so complex and convoluted that it started to choke!
Creativity can not be rushed nor forced, it needs to evolve…
it is sacred and…
I need a breath of fresh air…
“SACRED“
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″
Lisa Rivas © 2007
In the creative process the jot of a dot is usually the first and primal action.
Bubbles, pollen, seeds, are variations on the jotting of dots compulsion…
And the sun is one JOT of a DOT.
"Dot Jots"
• archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • size variable
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein
Upon pausing and observing the resilience and beauty
of a simple branch or of a delicate flower
nature shows us how compliant, obsequious and lithe it is.
Most branches bend readily without breaking,
nor do they become deformed or ugly.
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Jane Wells
"Flowering"
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10" x 10"
Lisa Rivas © 2007
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
The appearance of a robin is considered a harbinger of spring.
It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that sound like “Cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up”!
Another wonderful song bird is the Yellow Warbler and it’s song is a rapid musical
“Sweet-sweet-sweet-I’m-so-sweet.”
(web-eStamp) “Robin Redbreast” and “Yellow Warblers”
• archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Lisa Rivas © 2008
The common alarm call for song birds is a musical “chip.”
