This little Brie-box is perfect for a lot of reasons!
Just soak in water for a few minutes and all the labels fall off + it disassembles! Let dry and now to paint.
Here are a few pieces I have done so far.
They will be up for sale in the “new store” …coming soon!
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Top Left: Monastery – Top Right: Midst – Bottom Left: Draft – Bottom Right: Promenade
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. ~Henry David Thoreau
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky,
unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
~ Susan Orlean
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
~Coco Chanel
“Love is a basket full of nuts and berries.
I know, because I gathered them from the forest myself. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Love Quotes for the Ages.
Forever After by © Lisa Rivas
Where there is love there is life. ~Mahatma Gandhi
“An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time,
but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
“…the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows…” ― John Geddes
“On the motionless branches of some trees,
berries hung like clusters of coral beads,
as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
~Charles Dickens
In principle, Ikebana aims not at bringing a finite piece of nature into the house, but rather at suggesting the whole of nature, by creating a link between the indoors and the outdoors.
They are floral poems.
It started with a one-line sketch…
which just bloomed
and then became.
(day 15)
At The Helm by © Lisa Rivas (day 16)
Finding Land by © Lisa Rivas (day 17)
Drizzling Flowerets by © Lisa Rivas (day 18)
Knowing about Spring by © Lisa Rivas (day 19)
Flirting Around by © Lisa Rivas (day 20)
In Japan the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.”
Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself.
They have approached the universal through the particular.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
