Flying Colors

Pouring Rain...

 

Historic flooding took place in Nashville, TN on May of 2010. Over 13 inches of rain was recorded over a two day period. The Nashville Flood of 2010 displaced thousands of residents and flooded hundreds of businesses. It was a serious disaster!

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"POURIN RAIN" is an awesome song and video of The Flood of 2010 in Nashville TN.

The artist is Nashville's own Ronnie Kimball.
The writer is John Laux and the co-writer is Debbie Laux.
A most beautiful, heart touching song! Thank You! U All

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Slander cannot destroy an honest man, when the flood recedes the rock is there.
~ Chinese proverb

...connecting branches!

 
Last fall I was invited by an online blogger
to participate in a collaborative project, The Paint-by-Number Exchange. Each participant was to select a Paint-By-Number kit to complete by hand and then to alter the image, giving it their own personal "twist" or embellishment  according to their artistic expression. I chose "The Almond Branches in Bloom", Saint Remy - circa 1890 a phenomenal piece by my champion, painter
~ Vincent Van Gogh. (view here)

This "Paint-by-Number Exchange" was proposed by fellow artist blogger Jacquelyn Berl.
You can view the other 10 entries at her blog: www.AscenderRisesAbove.com

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After painting the image (provided by Famous Art Kits) by hand, I scanned the image to digitally incorporate clothing buttons as flower buttons and alter the image with a flowing ribbon of text.
I then converted the entire image into an e-Stamp.
The "All Mundi" part of the title for this e-Stamp is both a play on words (Al-Mond)
and a reference to the "All World" scope of the e-Stamp.

All-Mundi Button Branch • 50 kilobyte e-Stamp
archival pigment print on archival paper • Lisa Rivas © 2011 • All Rights Reserved

If friends were flowers, I would pick you!

You can purchase this print here, it would be a wonderful gift!

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So what is an e-Stamp? It's my original concept of a virtual postage stamp for emails. I envisioned the e-Stamp as an art stamp with a global intention, as a way to honor "the internet" which has helped to connect us humans. The nationality of the e-Stamp is www—World Wide Web—and the denominations are in kB for kilobytes or mB for megabytes.
My e-Stamps also exist in the tactile "real" world as prints, produced as giclees on a 9-color archival digital printer. Their formats can be totally variable and printed on different substrates.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~ Elizabeth Foley
 

Microscopic for Fine Art

My botánica print titled "Attraction" was included in a very unique and interesting treasury on  Etsy 
titled "Microscopic for Fine Art Friday" by lauraprill

Laura Prill is a published illustrator and award winning fine artist. Her paintings, collages and drawings are in many private and public collections. She also worked for many years in the licensed greeting card world as an artist, designer and copywriter. Check her Etsy store

A wonderful collection of minute worlds.
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Visit my  Etsy  stores "Lisa Rivas" and "Flying Colors" on the web to purchase some of my work!

... a white Christmas today!

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

Is that "Santa Claus" across the street? We got a white Christmas this year!!!

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May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  ~Author Unknown

Etsy - Works on Paper

The e-Stamp "Leek Bird" was included in a beautiful treasury on  Etsy 
titled "Works on Paper" by retrofemme.
Retrofemme is a New Zealand based botanical artist and maker of colorful shoe themed "Objets d'art" - mixed media jewelry, ornamental sculptures and works on paper. Check her Etsy store :-)

A wonderful collection with an elegant and royal style.
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Visit my  Etsy  stores "Flying Colors" and "Lisa Rivas" on the web to purchase some of my work!

Happy New Year!!!

Best wishes for many blessings in 2010!

  

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

...a light in darkness.

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...The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness.
See it not outside yourself, but shinning in the Heaven within,
and accept it as the time of Christ has come.

 

"Blessed Be All"

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He comes demanding nothing.
No sacrifice of any kind, of anyone, is asked by Him... 

from “A Course in Miracles" (page 327-329) combined volume, third edition.
Chapter 15, The Holy Instant, Subchapter XI, Christmas as the End of Sacrifice.

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BRAVE NEW ART Exhibit

@: George A. Spiva Center for the Arts
You are cordially invited. I will be attending... more to come.

222 W. 3rd Street, Joplin, M0 64801  •  Phone: 417.623.0183

O'Miss Linda...

This post is for
my friend "Linda"
to honor the
appearance of her
"First Buttercup"
up north,
in CANADA!

Last year I painted
O'Miss Daff Odile
a bright sunny face,
and paired her
with Wilton Warbler.

And, once Daff
got together
with Warb
it has been
"daffy down dilly"
around here!

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"Daffy Down Dilly"
• archival pigmented print
on canvas or paper
• 40" x 12"
Lisa Rivas © 2008

Gego

For the past few months, while focusing on the diverse / unique structures of cacti and rendering their forms, a very dear professor of mine would come to mind often, her name is Gertrude Goldschmidt, also known as GEGO.

Gego taught a course called "Three-Dimensional Form & Spatial Solutions" at the Hans Neumann School of Design in Caracas, Venezuela where I studied  Graphic Design. I took this in depth course of hers for 3 consecutive years and worked extensively with spatial concepts... that explains why I think of her so often when I look at these cacti and succulents.

Upon pondering it came to me how spatially interconnected we all are and thus with nature also. And that thanks to the web and art we have been able to express it in so many a wonderful ways, like this Cactus Monday group has done!

• 10" x 10" • (thelocactus) • © Lisa Rivas • "Tribute to GEGO"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

Gego is a very well known artist, she played with the idea of the stable and the unstable elements of art. The stable elements of art was the sculpture itself, while the unstable elements consist of the constantly changing shadows and the slight movement in her design. She used scraps of metal that she would bend and weave together in order to evoke movement, experimentation and spontaneity. (Venezuelan, born Germany. 1912-1994)

She did a whole series called "Drawings without Paper"...
...to read more about her click GEGO

The creative economy is giving rise to a new spatial fix and a very different geography
– the contours of which are only now emerging...

Lolo's tenderness...

When I saw this little piece
by Studio Lolo
I was struck by it's simplicity,
it had a delicate personality,
and oh! I saw it was a portrait!
...a soft-shy "Cactus Sprite"
So very magical!
Then Laurel sent it to me !!!
...in it's own custom envelope
and a very appreciative note!
So now I am the one saying
"Thanks" Lolo! "Thank You"

Studio Lolo is a "wonderful artist" and an avid "animal caretaker" from San José, CA.
I met her through my participation in Cactus Monday, please visit her site!

Mega... e-Stamp

The first MegaByte e-Stamp
Giving a "mega" THANKS to you, your friends and love ones!
Mega: it comes from the Greek word "megalo" meaning great.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Thanking You • 11 megabyte e-Stamp
archival pigment print on archival paper • Lisa Rivas © 2009

You can purchase this print here, it would be a wonderful gift!

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

A lucky Thank You!

The results for the

Blogversary give-a-way • #3

is to wonderful artist and baker

MESSY FISH

all the way over from

Sydney, AUSTRALIA!

She bakes 1000 lil' cakes a week!

I met Messy Fish through the Cactus Monday group and have truly enjoyed visiting her fun blog. She is so very real in many, many dimensions!
I totally encourage you to visit her realm @ http://messyfish.blogspot.com/

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A tidbit about Sydney, AUSTRALIA this is the city that did the first:

EARTH HOUR

EARTH HOUR will occur again on March 28th. all over the world - I invite you to join in!

For more info go here: http://www.earthhourus.org/faq.php

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Thank you for your visit & comments... Soon there will be the opportunity of another Give-a-Way gift!

Give-a-Way results...

...the custom cahiers have found a home with lucky Carol Adamec.

Carol is a fabulous "wordsmith" and "painter", multi-gifted and hard working.
You can see her work and words at her blog: ART by CAROL ADAMEC

 

Carol has been a dear friend of mine for over 20 years! She is the person that has help me express myself through words, there was a time in my life it created panic and terrible fear to write something! To put words to my work - to even talk, I thought I could just stay visual. Having a blog has been a challenge... it has been an incredible learning experience. Even leaving comments at your sites and blogs was hard at first :-) Now you can't keep me still.

Today, I still request Carol's professional help when needed... she is my "ghost writer".

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can.
Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway

one lucky winner...

...from the drawing of names for the 15 Art-eStamp Set turned out to be Indigene.
A very dear & talented artist, with a deep and wise spirit. A wonderful collaborator to the blog world with her regular visits, comments and marvelous posts + art on her site / blog: www.indigeneart.com

This was the dear song Indigene left in her comment to Flying Colors' for one year of blogging
THANK YOU !!!

Happy Blog Year to You, Happy Blog Year to you,
Happy Blog Year, dear Lisa, Happy Blog Year to you!
Way to go! Yeah! Congrats!
I love these stamps! How are they made? I'd love to know!
Peace & Hugs, Indigene

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I want to thank everyone for all their great comments and visits!
I am the lucky one to know that Flying Colors is held in such high regard.

Thank you again and there are more give-a-ways posted and also coming up.
So just keep coming back you might just get lucky the next time :-)