I like simplifying things – sometimes – and these photos work for this today.
Deep Winter Spirit – because Winter IS here.
The thorns, wrapped in the web in the deep of night, intrigue me.
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If you are wondering what the original photos look like, here they are …
The Huon River – on a overcast winter day.
My rose arch on a frosty winter morn.
I couldn’t go past this beautiful golden fungi on my walk today without taking a photo
and then I inverted it, and look how glorious it is – like a little fairyland fantasy world.
Life can be like that – golden and then blue – but it is still wonderful in either colour.
I collected these leaves from my garden and then I played with layouts for a new resin art piece I am going to create.
I like to use a frame, and then take a photograph, as it helps me “see” them better.
I wanted to use the ferns branching out from the corners, but I couldn’t get a design to work that I really liked. I think the last frame in this set is the best.
I made minor adjustments to the seeds in each of these frames below, and it’s interesting to see how each small variation impacts on the flow of the piece.
My favourite is #4 then #2 (I think) .
This was a fun exercise, but I will probably go with the first arrangement I tried (below), because I like it’s simplicity, and the fuzzy lichen on the twig.
quietly she falls
her darkness soft and silky
crescent moon to comfort
till stars shine
quietly she falls
© ceenoa
I have been ramping up the creativity in the last few weeks, as my big annual market is approaching very quickly – only 7 weeks to go! So here are a few of my latest bits a pieces, hope you enjoy looking at them.
If you don’t, then quietly click away onto something you do – time is too precious to waste on things you don’t like – and truthfully I shall never know, so where is the harm?
I decided to kick things off with a bit of red wine – no, not drinking of, spilling of. After contemplating the mess it would have been if it was real, I thought some relaxation at the beach was in order.
I didn’t want to drive anywhere so I decided to make my own – in my empty pool (well, big glass platter – but let’s not quibble with the artisitc licence).
As you know, you need to be careful of bare feet at the beach, there are all sorts of hazards, like little crabs waiting to nibble on your toes. I successfully avoided them and found the water lapping the edge of the sand which was nicely bestrewn with shells and driftwood.
After that I thought a bit of garden time would round things off nicely.
Wandering through the flowers was very peaceful, and by then it was nearly time to go to sleep, so my last little offering (especially for Brian – if he has made it this far) is a little inversion to welcome the evening star.
Oh, and everyone knows that good things can make you a bit melancholy during the week of your anniversaries, when your special someone is no longer there to share it with – but do not worry because there is a solution apparently:
“Absinthe – makes the heart grow fonder”
P.S perhaps I should have drunk it instead of spilling it 🙂
Spring has Sprung in the South of the world, and in my little slice the daffies, crocus, hellebores and camellias are flowering.
So, what better way to preserve these lovelies than suffocating them in silica sand for 7 days and drowning them in resin (to use in my art).
Here’s a camellia that has just started her bath.
Once you have suffocated and drowned your flowers, you are ready to hang them. Here’s a new method I am trialling using black organza ribbon – appropriate for hanging, don’t ya think!
For those who struggle with the trauma associated with suffocating, drowning, or hanging flowers – don’t despair, or feel blue, as inversion therapy can assist.
Note: No flowers were harmed in the making of this post (well, not anymore than if you picked them from the garden and put them in a vase to slowly die from soil starvation).
I feel like I should make a post, but I didn’t have anything interesting to say ,
have some inverted pictures instead!
I’ve been doing a lot of “art” stuff lately – mostly dried flowers set into resin. Here’s a few photos (since I just upgraded my account and now I have another 3GB to fill with pics).
I love Dahlia, their flowers and the smell of their foliage. I only have one variety, a “spider” dahlia, in my garden, but it is so lovely that I fall in love with it each year, and of course I take lots of photos.
However, I also like to edit my photos a little bit, and one of my favourite edits is simply to invert the photo, and guess what? My dahlia looks totally awesome inverted, like some tentacled maw about to swallow you up. What do you think?
I had a niggly little thought
but it was full of holes
and so I didn’t say it, but left it in my head
and that’s as good as any place
to store it I suppose.
I had a little leaf
and it was full of holes
and yet they made it beautiful, an elegant design
so I found a way to keep it safe
and let it’s whole self show.
