Sparkling dashes of color surface and dance around here everyday.

One that I am enamored with, is ” Hya Cinth” with her delicate row of petals, fluting out like small tooting horns. She is my newest star in my bunch of sparkles, definitely a subject to paint.

This “Botánica” reminds me of the dainty hyacinth from a bird’s eye view…
…wonderfully fresh, light and airy with seeds of sun and fun!

“Tender”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″
Lisa Rivas © 2007

A glowing flamed oval sits among the sharp and pointed.
It will remind us to heed to the fact that “pain” is part of life.

Go with humility, patience and care on these roads of anguish and grief.
Upon traveling them “feel, learn, accept and grow.”

For then eventually life will “grant us relief” from the bearing of those thorns.

“Thorn”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″
Lisa Rivas © 2007

Daylight lengthens,
Sunshine stretches and spreads,
Buds raise their faces towards radiant rays.
Dormant seeds begin to open and emerge forth.
Newborns appear, arise, bud, come out, dawn and emerge.
For now the days have widen and swelled letting spring happen again…

“Beginning”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″ – Lisa Rivas ©