HAPPY NEW YEAR !

H A P P Y   2 0 1 6 !

Wishing you all a blessed and happy new year!

Flowers for the Winter Solstice

Flowers From My Garden

FLOWERS IN TEAPOT

This was done based on several sketches I did at the Cleveland Fine Art by the Hand this past November when the traffic got slow. Cleveland skies get quite overcast this time of year and I though illustrating a floral was a nice change of pace.

 

Spring's Promise

Spring's Promise

Okay, I know Christmas is in less than two weeks, but it has been unseasonably warm. Yesterday it felt like a warm day in March. If I didn't see the Christmas wreath on my door, I  would have thought time traveling was possible.  All this year, the weather has been a bit out of sorts. March was like February, April like March and so one. But these last two days, I have seen men sporting shorts, and I live in the Cleveland area! 

Anyway I had fun in illustrating it. 

Must be all this warm weather we've been having!  

The Christmas Pointsettia

The Christmas Poinsettia

Yes, finally, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I have not posted here for a while. Missed November completely. I have been going through a few annoyances that have kept me away from creating, as well as kept me in the BLAH zone! Finally, as I am recovering from my second cataract surgery, it looks like I am getting out of the woods to see the lights of Christmas! 

So here with a little Christmas cheer I post here, 

I wish you all...

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S !  

N is for Neptune

 N is for Neptune

Yes, it is another letter N. 

Maybe it is I am on a roll, but when thinking up the idea for N is for Nightingale in my previous post, the idea of using the Greek god Neptune also came to mind. 

 

N is for Nightingale

N is for Nightingale

Every time I do a show, I realize I need to expand my selection of letters. A friend named Nelly had stopped by at one of my shows early this summer, and needless to say, my letter N selection of two options was not blowing up her skirt. 

So this is my new stab at another option of the letter N.

N is for Nightingale,  

nest,  

nasturtiums, 

 and the newspaper pattern in the branches. 

I is for Indian

I is for Indian on an Island with an Idea

I think the letter I, although simple in shape, is one of the more difficult letters to design to. Most of the words associated with the letter I tend to be adjectives. Of the nouns, most of them do not lend themselves to the shape of the letter I.

After two other illustrations of the letter I, designing it as an Indian seemed to be my next choice as opposed to an ibex or an iguana. So this Indian who finds himself on an island needs to use his imagination to come up with an illuminating idea; note the incandescent light bulb. 

Yes, maybe I was stretching it there.