ms. le reux's angel

ms. le reux's angel, 2/26/09 ~ 4" x 6"

huh! first i met ms. le reux's gardener, and now her angel shows up!!

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what the bird said

'what the bird said', 2/21/09

'find yourself', 2/22/09


on saturday i walked past this gate until i'd had enough of walking through soft, melting snow; then i got off the road and headed up the south facing slope to my left, where the ground was mostly bare.


i hung out with the rocks and juniper trees for the first time since early november. it was nice! this stretch must have been a giant lava flow at one time, and now these peaky, pinnacle-y rocks are just downright magical.


every few steps you see a juniper that's been there for hundreds of years. being with them is like visiting all of the old, wise people you ever knew. you feel like you're about to burst with goodness after a few hours with them...

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all stitched up...

(music to view guerilla knitting by... thank you, Iz!)




















blowing kisses to you, grrl, for inspiring us!

(and thank you for these stickers)

XOXOXO

red angel

red angel, 2/18/09

in case it's not obvious, these faces are from my journal... since i've gotten caught up on pieces for the graffiti wall collaboration, i've been able to work in my journal again. which makes me extremely happy!

a couple of people have asked about left handed drawing... most of the drawings that i've done lately (these faces and the birds before them) were drawn primarily with my left/nondominant hand. i don't have any rules about this -- if i don't like an eye or the the lips after i've drawn them with my left hand, i draw them with my right. and also, i erase until i like what i have. so i don't just draw quickly with my left hand and that's that. in this painting her beak was drawn with my right hand -- there's no way i could draw lines that straight left handed! but her head, wings, eyes, and neck were mostly drawn left handed. i say mostly because if i don't like a particular part of an eye, i erase just that part and redo it with my right hand -- or left. whatever feels right. i've been drawing left handed since i started journaling in 2006 -- it's amazing how much better you get with practice!

if you haven't watched this interview of rosalie gascoigne on jo horswill's blog, mystory, i highly recommend it. this is what rosalie says about art/her work: "It’s not about how it looks, it’s about how you feel about it." yes! thank you, jo, for sharing this video!

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loose ends

tying them up...

i love black and white tagged me to show the 6th photo in the 6th folder... it's a bead photo in a folder of bead photos i'd forgotten about! for pure visual delight check out this post of covers for manholes and miscellaneous underground things on i love black and white's blog...


and i want to thank robyn at art propelled for awarding me with the proximidade blog award. thank you, robyn... it's an honor...


after much pondering i've decided to post shorter posts more often, and talk less... please know that if you feel like waving as you pass by instead of commenting, i'll see you. sometimes i find myself wishing that bloggers would slow down with posting because i can't keep up with commenting! so, yeah, feel free to wave!

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any choice

any choice, 2/16/09

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nowHere (nowhere)

nowHere (nowhere), 2/14/09

the words say (for fellow ponderers : )

the search for enlightenment that has remained ever elusive leads you to the same destination, for there is nowhere for you to be beyond where you are right now. so long as you perceive yourself to be short of the mark, you will experience discontentment, regardless of how far you have journeyed.

from 'oneness', by rasha

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