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La Bruma…

March 23, 2009 · 11 Comments

Do you wish the world were happy?

Then remember day by day
just to scatter seeds of kindness
as you pass along the way ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American poet and writer 1850-1919)

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• 10" x 10" • © Lisa Rivas • "La Bruma"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G. K. Chesterton

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It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.
J.R.R. Tolkien

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The sequence…

March 16, 2009 · 13 Comments

… of "La Bruma"

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Opening stages…

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… the adding of drama with India ink!

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… then the rendered wax line is ironed out and outlined with pencil.

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All the rendering is done
in hot wax using the
"tjanting", a tool for drawing fine wax lines.

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The "Grand Finale" will take place next week on another Cactus Monday post!

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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,
but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order,
it is the continuous thread of revelation. Eudora Welty

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A glimpse…

March 9, 2009 · 16 Comments

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… of my painting area

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… of an initial start

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… of further progress

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I'm trying to connect the sky and the earth through the winding maze of "La Bruma"

Bruma ➙ brume ➙ fog ➙ mist ➙ murk ➙ smaze ➙ a mixture of haze and smoke!

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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Buddha, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.


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Beavertail Cactus…

March 2, 2009 · 12 Comments

… is another Opuntia type cactus. It is a low-spreading spineless
perennial with flat, oval to roundish pads. The areoles contain
numerous short brown glochids (barbed bristles)
which can be painful if one brushes against them. It blooms from March
to June with bright rose to magenta flowers which appear on the upper
margins of the joints.

Beavertail Cactus © Lisa Rivas

Beavertail Cactus •  sketch – drawing • Lisa Rivas © 2009

The fruit is pear shaped commonly called prickly pear or cactus fig and measures more than an inch long, juicy and edible
when ripe. Also called “Tunas” in Mexico.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

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Bunny ears…

February 16, 2009 · 10 Comments

…is the common name for this variety of the Opuntia species. It is spineless and despite the tame appearance it has a dense turf of thousands of barbed glochids – tiny barbed hair-like spines. These can be very irritating and have the annoying habit to fly away when the plant is moved. It is a good idea to mist it before moving it.

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Polka Dot Cactus – ink drawing and then digitized • 2009 © Lisa Rivas

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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. Winnie the Pooh

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