Flying Colors

...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
 

IF • Swarm

In talking about flocks of bird and schools of fish… The swarm ...moments when creatures lock themselves into a group "soul" letting go of their particular desires and needs as individual creatures and becoming one body with a transcendent intelligence directing them, creating patterns of motion so complex that they seem to have been choreographed from above.
~ (p. 90) The Creative Life, by Eric Butterworth

"SWARM"  e-Stamp
• fused glass - illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

Infinite Mind —everywhere present–is the highest frequency of energy, in which all things exist as complete. When you see the creative process clearly, your ideas will get synchronized with energy of the same frequency, multiplying in like kind. This is the swarming process. (pp. 88-89) The Creative Life, by Eric Butterworth

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In life, the issue is not control, but dynamic connectedness. ~Erich Jantsche

... for Good Luck!

A staple in the Southern diet for over 300 years, black-eyed peas have long been associated with good luck. A dish of peas or lentils is a New Year's tradition in most areas, bringing good luck and prosperity for this New Year 2011.

Lisa Rivas © 2011 • archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Black Eyed Peas

"Remember, black-eyed peas on New Year's Day brings good luck for the entire year!"

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!

Tomato Art Fest!

This evening at 6:30 pm is the "Opening Bash of The Tomato Art Fest" a happening here in East Nashville, TN. Please join me if you are in the vicinity! This event will be going on the whole weekend and it will be all about tomatoes!
http://tomatoartfest.com/

I will be exhibiting my commemorative Tomato Art Fest e-Stamps at the Art & Invention Gallery, with many other artists and their fabulous "TOMATO ART".

•  "The Yellow Tomato" / e-Stamp (NEW) - click to purchase

Wonderfully delicious and fun, the Yellow Heirloom Tomatoes are open-pollinated rather than genetically modified - and are safe! They have less acid and with a lemony taste, perfect for someone suffering from ulcers who doesn’t want to give up on that delicious, home-grown tomato taste!

Try a Yellow Tomato Gazpacho with Avocados and Cilantro!

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

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... First Blogversary give-a-way!
A set of 15 Art e-Stamps honoring the experience, the friends & joy of this blog world...

Win a sheet of Flying Colors e-Stamps that you could actually tear apart, lick and stick!
To win this custom set of e-Stamps leave me a comment at this post.

This gift/prize is a courtesy and a thank you! 100% Free!
All countries are welcomed! No shipping fees I will send it to the winner :-)
Last day to leave a comment to participate in the drawing of names will be Monday, February 9th.

15 stamps (1.75" x 2" ea.) - Flying Colors blog e-Stamp set
Printed on perforated - dry gummed paper • 8.5" x 11" • Limited Edition

A name will be drawn and the winner will be announced on Wednesday, February 11th!

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Thank you for your visit & comment... there will be 6 more gifts coming up!

The Lacebug...

...is a very small insect which
has delicate wings with
numerous transparent areas.
Their wings seem like as
if they were made of lace.

Only by looking through a
magnifying glass or by taking
a macro picture is the beauty
of these tiny wings revealed!

 

"Lace Bug" e-Stamp
• "FUSED GLASS - illustration" printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

Veni, Vidi, Velcro...  I came, I saw and I stuck around...
~Author Unknown

Endangered species...

The Zayante band-winged grasshopper is found in a small area of the Santa Cruz Mountains known as the Zayante sand hills. These insects are good fliers and known to fly three to seven feet while producing a buzzing sound to avoid predators.

"ZAYANTE Band-winged Grasshopper" e-Stamp
• fused glass - illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

The primary threat to the species is loss of habitat due to human activities and alterations, such as sand mining, urban and agricultural development. Other threats include the introduction of non-native species, pesticides, and over collecting.
PLEASE COLLECT STAMPS! You can also buy this stamp HERE

THIS SPECIES IS LISTED AS ENDANGERED!

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

"Arlecchino"...

...is one of the stock characters
of the Commedia del'Arte, Italian Comedy.
From his ludicrous dress comes the
meaning "particolored", colored in sections.

The Harlequin Bug is a stinkbug,
dressed in multicolored, fanciful-patterns.

They are of the family of insects called
Pentatomidae, from the Greek words:
pente/five and tomos/sections.

"Arlecchino Stinkbug" e-Stamp
• fused glass - illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

Stinkbugs are so named because they secrete a foul-smelling liquid that is repulsive to most predators.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles
and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller

Fleeting time,

How temporal
your life is
little May Fly...

Today here and
gone tomorrow...

For this you are
called éphémère!

"Éphémère" e-Stamp
• fused "glass - illustration" printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

The lifespan of an adult mayfly can vary from just 30 minutes to one day depending on the species.
It belongs to the group 1 taxa of pollution–sensitive animals, this means if mayflies are in or around water. it is good quality water. They are the oldest of the extant (still living) winged insects. Due to their short lifespan they are also called the "day fly"  or the "ephemeral fly" in some languages.

IF • Packed

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell. Patricia Buckley

original painting - private collection - Chicago IL • "Trailing Tales"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36"H x 72"W • © Lisa Rivas

08 NACUMS • 2008 commemorative e-Stamp 
• custom e-Stamp printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
http://www.nacums.org/

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin 

Who is Roy G. Biv?

Color is the visible manifestation
of light's wavelength.

Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic*
for the sequence of hues in
the visible spectrum, in rainbows,
and in order from longest
to shortest wavelength:
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Indigo and Violet.

White light contains all colors, a "PRISM" can divide the colors and make them appear!

"Prizm Buzz" e-Stamp
• fused glass - illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Combining image layers with different blending modes,
in graphic applications will have similar "visible spectrum" effects!

*Mnemonic is something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
Mnemosyne the name of the goddess of memory in Greek mythology.
Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights and thereby created the nine Muses.

Breakthrough Campaign!

...with clickable e-Stamps

E-Stamps are stylish, but they are also a great way to fundraise and
introduce others to Breakthrough Ministries!

CREDITS:
E-Stamp Concept & Designs by Lisa Rivas blog / store |  Marketing Concept by Melissa Hovey
Development by Kent Thompson and Scott Ruth

On a wing!

May the wings of the butterfly
kiss the sun,
then find your shoulder to light on.
To bring you luck,
happiness and riches.

Today, tomorrow and beyond.
Irish Blessing

"Winging it..." e-Stamp
• fused glass - illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper

Love is like a butterfly:  It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
Author Unknown