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A secret holding…

September 25, 2008 · 2 Comments



This beautiful package
is wrapped in green!
It emerges, it grows…
Then it slightly opens
and presents something!
That feeds, that nurtures…
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
And sometimes these
little nurturing gems spark!
Into gifts of verdant life…

 • 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • “Pod”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

To see things in the seed, that is genius. Lao Tzuhen

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better.
Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell

Filed In: Fine Art, Las Botánicas, Pattern

Cause and effect…

September 22, 2008 · 2 Comments

Composition_bookw_2
As I placed all the little folded papers,
with your names into a bowl to…
I happen to breath on them,
one of them "flew out" of the bowl!

Like a little grasshopper jumping to be,
and this would be the one and
it is Diane! I just smiled…
because this was her "first time ever"
to leave a comment
(she emailed me asking me how to make a comment)
and she is now a winner!

Way to go Diane!
Now you need to go and visit
all "the wonderful people" who
left a comment and learn about them.
That is all I ask of you in return…

Email me your mailing address,
so I can send you this notebook that now has your
"precious name" on it!

And to everyone who participated thank you for your comments,
they were wonderful, inspiring and downright fabulous, such poets…

You all made me feel so appreciated and happy!
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi

PS1: I just found out Diane has a site! Here it is: https://diane-hamilton.blogspot.com/

PS2: Also the notebook is shown on the Quilting Arts / Cloth Paper Scissors® website!
 https://quiltingarts.com/cpsmag/extras/compositionbookchallenge.html

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Filed In: Fine Art, Friends, To Share

IF • Cliqué

September 19, 2008 · 12 Comments

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist • 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature • 1856-1950

Topsy Turvy by Lisa Rivas

original painting – private collection – Boca Raton, FL •“Topsy, Turvy”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 72″W • © Lisa Rivas

Clique • A narrow circle of persons associated by common
interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose.

Filed In: Fine Art, Illustration, Pattern

Legumes…

September 18, 2008 · 2 Comments

…have the ability to use atmospheric nitrogen to produce their own protein compounds.
Legumes are a good source of fiber, protein, iron, folic acid, and B vitamins.

 • 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • “Seeds”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

15 bean soup is comprised of fifteen kinds of beans,
and has a history that goes back to over a century in the United States.

These are the beans:
NORTHERN PINTO, LARGE LIMA, BLACKEYE, GARBANZO, BABY LIMA, GREEN SPLIT PEA, KIDNEY, SMALL WHITE BEAN, CRANBERRY BEAN, PINK BEAN, SMALL RED BEAN, YELLOW SPLIT PEA, LENTIL, NAVY BEAN, WHITE KIDNEY BEAN, BLACK BEAN, PEARL BARLEY
 

Filed In: Fine Art, Las Botánicas, Pattern

White on orange!

September 16, 2008 · 3 Comments

Oh! Butterfly Sprite, you are one lucky flying flower!
Kiss sweet Fanta Daisy, for she might just flit away with you…

Sprite_and_fanta_2

Sprite & Fanta
• digital effects • Lisa Rivas © 2008
The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.
Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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Filed In: Fine Art, Ideas, Illustration

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