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Fast money!

October 25, 2009 · 7 Comments

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~Cesare Pavese

Fast

original painting – corporate collection – Memphis, TN  – USA – “Overcall”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 40″H x 38″W • © Lisa Rivas

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter
how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there
first, and is waiting for it.  ~Terry Pratchett

 

Filed In: Original Paintings, Works on Paper

Germs

October 2, 2009 · 6 Comments

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds
and the germs of every way of life. ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~ (Italian Renaissance philosopher)

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

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The Germ
A mighty creature is the germ, though smaller than a pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases by giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.
~ Ogden Nash, 1902 – 1971

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Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Filed In: Las Botánicas, Original Paintings, Pattern

Air into Air…breeze!

February 27, 2009 · 27 Comments

Air with air, the air moved,
now and then the breezes became.

Here with there, the swallowtail flew,
up and over – down and under.

Dawn with dusk, the maple seed spun,
Air into air the wind was born.
by Lisa Rivas

Air into air © Lisa Rivas

“Air into Air” • watercolor, wax, rice paper, glazed • 14″H x 20″W • © Lisa Rivas

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Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray;–
ODE TO THE MOON – Thomas Hood

Filed In: Original Paintings, Pattern

Go joyfully through life... listen, observe, dream, create & smile!
~Lisa Rivas

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