A photograph of the Hawthorn Bush next door…
… transformed with illustrator enhanced flowers.
It is one of my most favorite “shows”… and a sign of spring!
“Hawthorn Snow” • digital illustration – Lisa Rivas © 2008
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is.
And when you’ve got it, you want – oh,
you don’t quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
… of "La Bruma"
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!
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
Mythological places are "legendary places" from a relatively cohesive set of myths.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. Len Wein (American comic book writer)
"Flight of Fancy"
• watercolor, wax, iridescent crayons, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 34"W • © Lisa Rivas
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If King
Arthur is all myth and no historical fact, then its academic as to
where the places actually were. However if there is some historical fact behind it, then where did the legendary adventures of himself and his Knights of the Round Table actually take place?
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The tile to the right was created by drawing onto a glass surface that had been coated with very thin layer of colored glass powder. I drew the image by scratching into the surface with a sharp tool, I also used 2 different colors of powder glass and drew again. Once the drawing was finished it was annealed / fused in a kiln. This glass piece measures 6″ x 6″.
I then scanned the
tile and changed the colors and texture digitally.
Next will be to print this
and then do a photo transfer onto another surface.
More to come…
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou
… 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!
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.