Here she is,
a partner for
"The Royal"
Leek Bird
web-eStamp,
"La Princesa Real"
Garlic Bird!
buy here • archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Garlic Bird
IF • poof!
They huffed and puffed! Then Poof! This is what occurred…
original painting – private collection – Silicon Valley, CA – USA • “Worldwinds”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 60″W • © Lisa Rivas
Don’t let your dreams go up in smoke – practice fire safety. Author Unknown
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. Proverb
Patterns and tiles,
In every civilization and culture,
colored tilings and patterns appear
among the earliest decorations…
Art is the imposing
of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment
is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
The word "tessella" means "small square".
A tessellation or tiling is the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern. The act of adorning with mosaic as by using small squares of stone, ceramic, glass or just a drawing.
Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Glass e-Stamp…
This summer I took the “Fused Glass” workshop at the Sarratt Studio Arts / Vanderbilt University. Our instructor was Nancie Roark, an artist that combines fused glass with silver jewelry techniques to create wonderful wearable art.
It was a fabulous class and I made all kinds of things from pendants, earrings, glass frames, a slumped bowl to a whole new little art-series of “BUGS”!
Here is one of the “bugs” I made, used as an illustration for a web-e’Stamp!
More of these will be coming up…
“The Glasshopper”
• fused glass illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Grasshoppers have two pairs of wings, five eyes and no ears.
They hear with an auditory structure called “tympanum”,
that is located on their two front legs near the “knee” joint!
IF • Canned
Empty coffee cans can be very functional after the fact. Use them to mix paint, store items. I keep my varnishing brushes suspended in solvent with the lid holding the brush. Here you can see some of my supplies and tools.
Many of my paintings were painted on the floor since they were of a very large format and I could move and visualize better.
original painting – private collection – Caracas, Venezuela • (Paint, paint!) “Pinta, pinta!”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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