A Celebration of Mushrooms

a 

celebration of mushrooms

even though it is like this:

I did find one mushroom growng the other day

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Little Friend

Usually I look at my art, during the sketch 

or when it is complete

and 

something comes to me,

something about what it is about.

You know, the little things I write under my paintings. 

A small blip of prose, 

just enough to ignite your imagination 

so that you can make it your own. 

 This time, all I have is:

little friend

Do you have something more?

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Fungi Clan

art meditation

just being with each piece

until

it is complete

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Two

they share one heart

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I always enjoy when I see things in pairs in nature

 

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Boletus

honoring the bolete

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Pure Earth

so fun to work with gold leaf, imitation that is

laid this in the snow

attempting to get the colors true

pretty close

these seem like planets

pure and lovely

or 

gems

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Thankful

lovely 

to appreciate

that which fills our hearts

and lives with thankfulness

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Scribble Picnic: Cookie

in honor of my dear friend Kim

I attempted to paint her in an ethereal 

starry, sparkly, other worldly, magical state

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(unfortunately the scan does not show how sparkly this is. The bronze color is gold leaf and so pretty)

before the background, which do you like best?:

a couple of years ago she crossed over

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she had a couple of nick names

while growing up together she was: Jade Lady

as she had a fondness for green

others called her: Cookie

when my son was born we called her:

Auntie Cookie

it was a bit emotional and deeply heartfelt experience to do art of her

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Wednesday is:

Scribble Picnic day

and Michael chose the theme:

cookies

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Alpine Waters

jewel painting

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with gold leaf

watercolor ground

and 

paints

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(again, wish I could share the sparkly gold and richness of colors)

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Magic Mushrooms

a new kind of magic mushrooms

decked in gold leaf and watercolors

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Stephanie Law has a Patreon page

she shares about her art

and bussiness.

In one post she shows how to use cold leaf and watercolor grounds. 

I tried her technique with this mushroom piece.

So much fun. 

But with both photography or scanning I can not capture the beauty of the gold shimmering,

accurate colors, I guess do to all the texture that is created. 

Stephanie also shares an article about how she captures real life images of her art. 

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I am enjoying being a patron of hers.

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Sentries

they stood true
her sentries
among the wild weaving weedy seeds
 her protectors
fungi who are from the underworld
and the heavens
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snow has arrived

days are cold

nights even colder

pretty sure this snow is here for the season

so pretty under the light of the big moon

 at night

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Fungi Sentries

they stood true

her sentries
among the wild weaving weedy seeds
her protectors

fungi who are from the underworld

and the heavens

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looking out my windows

the world is white

snow clad forest

like sugar snow pours from the sky

it is no longer 

a colorful autumn world

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Auction for Puerto Rico Disaster Relief

This morning I added this painting

to an auction for Puerto Rico.

There is only one day left to the auction

so good chance it can be bought for a low price. 

It is a good cause:

Link:

Auction

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