The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.
proverb – ancient Egypt
• 10″ x 10″ • © Lisa Rivas • “Inner Gem”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
Nuts are a big part of many holiday celebrations, whether it’s pecan pie, chestnut stuffing
or just a handful of mixed nuts grabbed at the office party.
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb … That’s where the fruit is.
Author unknown
Some people hear their own "inner voices" with great clearness.
And they live by what they hear.
Such people become crazy… or they become legend.
Jim Harrison (American author)
original painting – private collection – Chicago, IL – "Moonstruck"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, star sequins, quilted • 36"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
Her voice was like "the voice" the stars had when they sang together. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only on mature trees do you appear,
those large and sturdy with years of age.
You will nurture many of those around you,
creatures with wings, tails, claws and paws.
They say you stand for patience and fruition,
a symbol of long / hard labor, one of strength.
Call you the fruit of the enclosed land,
that is only assigned to major trees.
Top Nut, “Little Acorn” of the Mighty Old Oak!
• 10″ x 10″ • © Lisa Rivas • “Top Nut”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball
which babes might play with;
and the thievish jay,
seeking her food, with ease might have purloined
the auburn nut…
The Yardley Oak, William Cowper (1791)
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read more the poem: Little By Little…
Cacti
are succulents, a group of plants with peculiar shape and size and
mostly adopted for desert life. They have a highly specialized anatomy
to enable them to survive prolonged drought. Their bizarre appearance reflects a unique evolution, in which plant form, function and survival are inextricably linked. Here's a globular stem cacti!
"Globe" (original)
• watercolor, black walnut ink on ricepaper
I made the BLACK WALNUT INK used in this piece.
Click for the recipe!
• 10" x 10" • © Lisa Rivas • "Globoid"
• digital print on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
A
sphere (a globe) is the optimum shape for a stem succulent as it has the smallest
possible surface area in proportion to volume, keeping water loss to a
minimum.
Baseball is similar to an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
Author Unknown
original painting – available – contact Lisa Rivas – "Jupiter's Inning"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, blue foil, glazed • 24"H x 24"W • © Lisa Rivas
According to the World Resources Institute,
more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests already have been destroyed.
DID YOU KNOW? An area of forest equal to 50 baseball fields is lost every minute!
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences,
not simply in the enjoyment of similarities. James Fredericks