Irish Sketches

January 11th, 2013

Raw drizzly day – going through things in my studio and came across these sketches I did when we were in Ireland. I remember exploring with a roughly textured paper and a bamboo reed pen.

Sketch of Down Patrick Head, County Mayo, Ireland

The weather changes faster than one can blink!

Sketch of Down Patrick Head, County Mayo, Ireland

The second shows our cottage window as it looks out to the North Atlantic.

Spring

January 10th, 2013

Playing around with some melted, mixed and reformed crayons I was given and it turned into this. Think I’m thinking spring.

Lemon, Asparagus and a basket of Spring!

Lens for my iPhone

January 3rd, 2013

I love my new lens for my iPhone! Kevan and Erin gave me this lens that slips onto my iPhone. One way it is a fisheye lens and the other a wide angle. If you remove the wide angle lens it becomes a macro lens.

Lens for my iPhone

Here are 3 views of the same thing. The first set is in my garden.

Normal Lens Wide angle Lens Fisheye Lens

The second set is of my lap top.

Lap top with normal lens Lap top with wide angle Lap top with fish eye

Desk top with Fisheye lens Close up with Macro Lens

I didn’t realize about the macro at first so here is a sample fisheye and a macro of the orange pencil. All taken with my iPhone!!

Glass Ball-Pottery Shards

December 27th, 2012

Glass Ball with pottery shards Glass Ball with pottery shards, close up

Several years ago my cousin Susan took me pottery shard hunting. Shards are little bits of broken pottery and Susan has a special place off the New England coast that she likes to go. (I won’t define the location more than that as shard hunters guard their locations fiercely.) We had a wonderful afternoon and I treasure my small hoard of shards. So… they are featured in my globe as we begin the new year! Thanks, Cuz!

Cards

December 10th, 2012

Working on cards for this year and thinking about all the cards I have made over the years and then I thought I’d create a page with previous holiday cards!
Here’s last years card and it links to the others.

Deck the Halls!

Form and Function

November 26th, 2012

flower seeds flower seeds

I took this image last summer in Canada. I love the way it evolved to do it’s job so well! Break apart and blow about! And it’s beautiful—form and function!