Halloween Poster

Getting my Etsy shop ready for Halloween! If you need a knock-out poster for your door....

Just Pine Needles

I was fooling around with a photo I had taken a while ago, after a rain storm, of some pine needles on the ground. Here's what I came up with! This was fun.

Scientific Illustration

I stumbled onto a couple of scientific art/illustration sites and I though I'd pass them along to anyone who is interested. One is http://www.science-art.com/ and the second is Guild of Natural Science Illustrators | GNSI
www.gnsi.org. Does anyone have any experience as a member of either of these sites? The first one looked interesting but doesn't seem to have updated newsletters or advertising. The last newsletter looks like 2007. But there are some good links on this page: http://www.science-art.com/links/. I sent them an email to see what's up with updating their site. I may contact a few of their artists for some feedback also.

Read this extremely moving blog/documentary....

http://www.darcypadilla.com/thejulieproject/intro.html

Volunteering

Always wanted to volunteer and decided to submit an application to a no-kill feline shelter. I'll keep you up to date when I hear back. This is exciting!

Vacation is over

We had a great time on Newfound Lake in New Hampshire. But all good vacations must end. Here's a great sunset over our beach and one of my granddaughter, Emily, and Cleopatra, having a deep conversation about when we will get to the ice cream shop at the end of the lake!

Tiger graphite drawing

I did this drawing a while ago and have been meaning to add giclees of him to my Etsy shop. You can see them here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/76755175/tiger

In honor of this momentous occasion, I am giving away a free 8x10 inch giclee to anyone who leaves a comment here on my posting of this tiger. So post before July 13th, and I will select one lucky winner! You've all been so supportive while I've been getting back on my feet. Hope you win! He comes printed on Moab Lasal Gloss paper printed in archival inks. Have a great day!

"Sky Water"

I've been listening to some meditation tapes and this is one section that I love listening too. Hope it will bring you some peace today!


"In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh; a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush,—this the light-dust cloth,—which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still."
Walden ~Thoreau