"I'll be at SURTEX in NYC for the first time this year at Booth *463 and the dates are May 20, 21 and 22!
I will be presenting three collections: "Each one is distinctive in theme, style, and how I created it.
Some are created digitally, some by hand.
Yet each is founded in my appreciation of the deep beauty and wonders of Nature."
Here's a little peek...
...more to come soon!
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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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“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” ~ William Blake
The word Solstice, means in Latin Sun stands still. This is so because, the arc of the sun's visibility in the sky seems to stabilize for the winter solstice - making the sun rise and set in the place for several days.
So why is the solstice on December 21st and Christmas held on December 25th?
Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied from culture to culture, but most cultures have held a recognition of rebirth, involving holidays, festivals, gatherings, rituals or other celebrations around that time. And as long as there is a Winter Solstice there is the promise of life renewed.
... of "La Bruma"
Opening stages...
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... the adding of drama with India ink!
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... then the rendered wax line is ironed out and outlined with pencil.
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All the rendering is done in hot wax using the "tjanting", a tool for drawing fine wax lines.
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The "Grand Finale" will take place next week on another Cactus Monday post!
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,
but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order,
it is the continuous thread of revelation. Eudora Welty
...is a celebrated neighborhood festival in East Nashville, TN.
It started as a theme for an art show five years ago and this year's festival will be held this weekend on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 8 and 9.
For the festival I devised a commemorative -Tomato Art Fest- "e-Stamp" that will be premiering tomorrow Friday. It will be available for purchase at Z's Deli where the "Web-eStamp EXPO" is still showing. Or at the "Art and Invention Gallery" and also here.
Lisa Rivas © 2008 • archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Tomato Art Fest
Diners can celebrate East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest Saturday, Aug. 9 while enjoying a feast for the tummy, eyes, and ears. Z's Deli will be serving up tomato treats and on Saturday The Real Time Trio will be hosting its second Annual Blues Jam from noon-4 p.m. Local musicians will sign up prior to the festival and sit in with each other and play some low down blues.
Z’s Deli, located at:
1000 Main St., Suite 103, in the Walnut Exchange Building
Nashville, TN 37207 • Ph: (615) 226-5686
...in the rough! Comets consist of dust, ice and rock.
They have a variety of different orbital periods, ranging from a few years, to hundreds of thousands of years. Orbits extending only as far as Jupiter while others have orbits extending well beyond Pluto.
As it approaches the Sun, the sun's radiation warms and excites the comet's nucleus causing it to glow and reflect the solar radiation. Solar wind pushes the excited material away causing a tail to form.
The tail follows an incoming comet and proceeds an outbound comet.
Comet Hyakutake
Discovered less than three months before it's closest approach to Earth 3/25/96.
It was the brightest comet in 22 years with a tail extending across half of a dark night sky.
Comet Hyakutake should return to our part of space in 29500 years!
Comet Hale-Bopp
Discovered in July of 1995 it's closest approach to Earth was on 3/22/97.
An extraordinarily bright comet, 1000 times brighter than Comet Halley when discovered.
It was even brighter than Hyakutake, but it had a pair of short tails, one of yellowish dust and reflected sunlight and the other a bluish tail of ionized gas. Hale-Bopp should return in 2980 years.
...originally called Decoration Day,
is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
National Moment of Remembrance
Encouraging individual Americans everywhere, to pause for one minute
at 3:00 p.m. (local time) on Memorial Day, to remember and reflect on
the sacrifices made by so many to provide freedom for all.
"Open"
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10" x 10" • Lisa Rivas © 2007
The wearing of the "red poppy" to keep faith began when an American, Miss Moira Michael, read the poem "In Flanders Field" and was so greatly impressed that she decided always to wear a red poppy to keep the faith. She wrote a reply to this poem in November 1918 entitled : "We Shall Keep the Faith"
Today, enjoy a "Day of Peace" with family, friends and strangers!
...and so I chased after this little robin all over the front yard.
Then over to the neighbors yard...
...saw a dog! swiftly back to my place,
up the steps,
over to the ledge... and then it took a leap to fly!
Today this little robin flies around and will hop right on up to me...
Here is the nest under the eves of my front porch.
Upon peering over the baby robins to take a peek at them,
one of the chicks peeping out...
...jumped out of the nest when I took it's picture!
Oh dear!!! More tomorrow...
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every "mother" has it.
Chinese Proverb
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A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac
...an "Exhibit" that opens this Saturday 12th of April at 6:00pm at the BLUE LINE STUDIO in Chicago, IL.
I will be featuring 8 of the new "web-eStamps"!
Go, have fun and check them out!
• Start looking for nooks and crannies to hide your "colored ovals".
• Invite some friends over "Sunday" for the hunt! and some toast, bacon and eggs...
• Also make sure you check the weather for this week-end.
• HAPPY EASTER to you ALL!
I did a trial "hiding test" with my ovals and they were having a mind of their own...
Reason enough for me to call them • • • "Rolling Colors" • • •
Easter Eggs handcrafted by Lisa Rivas © 2008 (inquiries are welcomed)
With the yearning for warmer weather, I have been on the watch for the signs of spring.
This one caught my eye yesterday morning... upon investigating the soil for new growths.
A tiny RED dot peeked out at me, I was amazed at the "intense" color.
Then I noticed more and more and more of these little RED dots, they were everywhere.
Bear up! ...for here is a "tip" that spring will soon be here!
Ever so small (1/8" to 1/2") is this "MINUTE HEART" from the soil.
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