Glorious snow and very cold temperatures have defined February’s days and nights. There’s been quite a bit “inside, admiring the outside” times to read, FaceTime with family and friends as well as time to create digital art. This is a short, catch up post to document some of the art I’ve created in the past couple of weeks. I’ve been inspired by my love for trains and travel…
by my lifelong desire for a sister…
The artist in the bubble is an artist in Montmartre, PARIS, who sketched my image..
…an example of MAIL ART…
a poke at the use of silhouettes…
…and finally, some pieces aboutthe Roma or Gypsy culture that has always held great fascination for me…
Thanks so much for stopping by. Please visit me again…
MY LIFE IN 6 WORDS: New administration…a GREATER AMERICA ahead?
Well, the Inauguration of our new President Biden and Vice President, Kamala Harris was accomplished smoothly. We’re ready to turn the page and find better, kinder times in future days.
Our lives continue on…the clock keeps ticking…and I continue to enjoy creating bits and pieces of theme-based art for my online art challenge groups. This week, DIGITALMANIA (https://www.flicker.com/groups/digitalmania) simply asked artists to create a triptych. I used a photo I took in China some years ago for one of my triptychs…
and a nod to who I’m becoming for the other…
SUNDAY POSTCARD ART (sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com) wanted artists to concentrate on the theme of MUSIC…
and finally, DIGITAL WHISPER (digitalwhisper.blogspot.com) must have taken a look at our grey skies and asked to see an artpiece about RAIN…
That’s it for this week. Stay well and careful…hoping you’re getting your covid vaccine shot soon (if you wish to do so.) Sending prayers and big hugs…and thanks for stopping by.
MY LIFE IN 6 WORDS:Digital art…my most fun pastime
A real quickie posting…to keep up with some of my art challenge groups. Here we go… For DIGITAL WHISPER, (digitalwhisper.blogspot.com) I created a JOURNEY on the subway…
MY LIFE IN 6 WORDS:Footprints encased in the fallen snow…
We’re well into the holiday season…Christmas has gone and New Years is on its way. I, for one, am looking forward to a bright, shiny 2021, with the promise of good health, through a vaccine, to chase away Covid-19! Wishing everyone the best in the year ahead.
I’ve had some fun with my digital art groups…particularly Flicker’s DIGITALMANIA and THE THREE MUSES. In DIGITALMANIA, (https://www.flicker.com/groups/digitalmania) we enjoyed learning (virtually) about a French artist, Stephanie LeDoux. She’s a traveler, journaler and designer whose artwork reflects the people she’s met and the world she chronicles. She has a particular style that really speaks to me. Here are some of my creations in her style, reflecting my travels and people I’ve met…
The challenge to illustrate a favorite quote was put before participating artists at THE THREE MUSES (https://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com). I couldn’t decide on just one…
MY LIFE IN 6 WORDS: It’s beginning to look like Christmas…
the true magic lies
making holiday moments
that last a life time
As we head to the zenith of the holiday season, Covid rages on… worse than ever. Are you keeping safe…masked, washing hands and avoiding crowds? We’re taking it more seriously now as the numbers hit unimaginable heights…and are predicted to climb even further. In our house, we’ve put our hopes in the soon-to-be-administered vaccine. Perhaps that, with the prescribed safety precautions, we can see an improvement. We can only hope…
I continue my experimentation with Photoshop and some new-found techniques and skills…thanks to the expert instruction and patience of my friend, Todd. Art challenges put forth by TAKE A WORD (takeaword.blogspot.com) caught my interest with their declared theme, “Tis the Season.”
From panic to peaceful…terror to tranquil- those are the feelings I experienced over the 400 pages of AMERICAN DIRT, but it started with the first paragraph! Forced to flee from Acapulco, Mexico after the massacre of their entire family, Lydia and her eight-year-old Luca become migrants.
Fearing that she and Luca will be hunted down by the head of the cartel that slaughtered their family, they begin a harrowing journey to illegally enter the United States.
This is a timely, powerful and fictional portrayal of the plight of the migrant, but Cummins did her research. No one is to be trusted.Although, amid much cold-blooded barbarity and those out to make a quick buck at the expense of the frightened and needy migrants, there are good people who provide food, water and shelter… expecting nothing in return. Although Lydia and Luca struggled for their entire journey, they maintained a hopeful attitude about reaching a place of freedom and safety. They weren’t running for their lives or to find a better life…they were running to SAVE their lives.
I found AMERICAN DIRT riveting, informative, suspenseful and heartbreaking… and I highly recommend itin the hopes that productive conversations and awareness will be generated about the issue of immigration. After all, we are a nation of immigrants!
Thanks for checking in. Hope to see you for my next posting.
MY LIFE IN 6 WORDS:We gather together to give thanks…
‘Tis the beginning of the holiday season. It started (for me) with our first real snowfall…
With Thanksgiving on its way, I’m starting to count my blessings yet again…or should I say “still?” In these very difficult and challenging times, it’s important to remember all the good in our lives. In addition to dear family and friends, both near and far, I’m grateful for my online art challenge groups.
This week, I’m particularly thankful for the always inspiring group, DIGITALMANIA (https://www.flickr.com/groups/1683736@N21/?added=3) who introduces participating artists to the styles of other artists and challenges us to create in that artist’s style. Oftentimes, it’s difficult and out of my comfort zone, but always a learning experience. This week, LOUI JOVER is our inspiration. An Australian painter and artist, he’s known for his artwork in ink wash paintings, often on vintage book or newspaper pages. Here’s what he inspired for me: the first is a wish for peace in the world, in our own United States and in our hearts.
Wishing you a holiday filled with fun, love and delicious food. Know that I’m grateful for each of you.
Creeping closer to All Hallow’s Eve…and SNOW at the end of the week as well! Hope to enjoy both…and you? Hope this posting finds you and yours COVID-free and doing your best to enjoy this journey through a very unusual time in our lives. I’m back to passing some of my time creating art. Here are my latest: For DIGITALMANIA, (https://www.flicker.com/groups/digitalmania) Stephanie Rubiano was our artist-inspiration…
Here’s HERS…
Here’s MINE…
Nextis for SUNDAY POSTCARD ART (sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com) whose theme was SKYLINE…
TAKE A WORD(takeaword.blogspot.com) chose BRIDGES for their art topic…
Finally, THE THREE MUSES challenge blog (thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com) requested to see SOMETHING SEPIA…
Wishing you all a Happy Halloween and time ahead, as we ease our way into winter. Hoping you’ll keep healthy…wear masks and continue washing those hands! 🙂
DIGITAL WHISPER’s art challenge group(digitalwhisper.blogspot.com) is hooked on a DANCE theme for this week’s task. Here is my work for art-in-motion…DANCE.
Nick Bantock, this week’s inspirational artist at Flicker’s DIGITALMANIA art challenge group (https://www.flicker.com/groups/digitalmania) began his career as a 23 year old freelance artist, producing 300 book covers in 16 years. Schooled in England, he has made British Columbia his home since 1988. He paints, draws, sculpts, collages and has written some of the most wonderful interactive books…best known, the GRIFFIN and SABINE trilogy. A huge fan of his for years, I was anxious to participate in this challenge. Here are a couple of samples of his art…
and here’s what he inspired me to create…
Have a wonderful, art filled, blessed weekend and week ahead.
Somany of us have been missing our dear ones because of COVID-19. We can’t travel to where they are, nor can they come to us. In my case, we have our most dear ones in Canada and the Canadian border is closed. But, since our daughter has dual citizenship, she finally felt safe enough to visit us, using her American passport. (Unfortunately, she has to quarantine for two weeks on her return to Canada.) We can visit her (permitted for FAMILY,) but we’d have to quarantine for two weeks also…before we were able to do anything…too hard after being cooped up at home for so long! Well…we had a most wonderful visit after not seeing one another in person for 7+ months. I’m ever grateful for FaceTime, but there’s nothing like hugging your daughter IN PERSON!!! We didn’t do much during our visit…mostly just basked in the presence of one another, shopped a bit and ATE!! Looking forward to the next visit…this time, with our grandkids (whom we miss soooo much!)
On to art challenges for the week, starting with SUNDAY POSTCARD ART’s request to see SHIPS in our work…(sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com)…
Immigration IS the American way!
…andDIGITAL WHISPER (digitalwhisper.blogspot.com) challenged artists to create a piece with candles included. So…
