Flying Colors

Earth Day :-)

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
~ Rachel Carson

 

• 24" x 18" • Lisa Rivas • "The Stem"
• digital and mixed media on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
~ Douglas Jerrold

IF • Linked

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  ~proverb

 

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "Birds of Paradise"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
~Leo Tolstoy

IF • Dip

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

original painting - private collection - Portsmouth, NH  - USA - "Blooming Innocence"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~Henry Ward Beecher