LYA 2016 Postcard #1, Mixed Media, Tina Walker.
I hope you can see the stitching on this card I received from Tina Walker. Brown, outlining the leaf, and green cross stitch around the edges of the card. There is wonderful texture, but I am not sure what techniques were used. Hoping to find out more on the LYA Facebook group page. I have a fondness for leaves, and I love the “made by hand” stitching! Beautiful!
Tina included this quote by Amit Ray:
In every change,
in every falling leaf,
there is some pain,
some beauty.
And that’s the way
new leaves grow.
This message coming to me at the perfect time. The move to Arizona is still ahead. Thank you Tina for sharing these inspiring words! I love this card!
LYA 2016 side swap #3, Strawberries in coloured pencil, Diane McWhirter.
I had to look at this closely, to try and figure out if it was a photograph, or a drawing. The details on these strawberries are unbelievable. Right down to the veins on the leaves, the shine on the skin, and even the tiny drop of water. This card came to me from Australia.
If you love these strawberries as much as I do, they are now available on RedBubble! Hop on over and look at Diane’s wonderful cats, and flowers, and birds! Thanks Diane for sharing your wonderful art with me! (And I love the stamp celebrating Queen Elizabeth II!)
Pauline Agnew – Artbytes One
In honor of St. Patrick’s day week, and in celebration of the fact that she is a proud Irish woman, Pauline Agnew gifted 10 lucky participants with a free download of her Artbytes One – A Tapestry of Texture. Lucky me to be one of them!
Pauline is an awesome teacher! Her Ecourse ‘Pathways to Abstraction’ starts Monday. If you want to check out her teaching style, you can access a free lesson. Pauline often offers free open studio weekends, with inspiring lessons. I first participated in 2013, and I still consider the result of that, one of my best works. You can read about it here.
I will share my work from the Artbytes lesson with you. Can’t wait to get started!
Congrats Sheila! And beautiful strawberries!
I am having fun with it Cindy 🙂
Congratulations on winning that class! Thank you for sharing links and info on Pauline and her work. I signed up for the free class and had a peek at her work. I look forward to seeing what you’ll be sharing with what you do in her class.
Those postcards are fun! I looked at the berries one on the link you posted…got to see a magnified version of all that incredible detail. Must be fun getting all that art in the mail box!
Best wishes for a smooth shift to Arizona. I visited CA many years ago and saw why it is so crowded! So beautiful, and with a great climate. Here’s to smooth sailing in your new digs.
Thank you Corinna 🙂 Diane’s work is incredible isn’t it! It is fun receiving art in the mail, wish we could do it all year long ;-/
California is gorgeous. I have lived here for almost 30 years, and in that time it has really exploded. We moved to the Temecula Valley when it still had a very small town feel, now it is very much a big city.
So glad you signed up for Pauline’s newsletter. Now you will receive invites to her Open studio weekends, be sure to join her facebook page as well and check out her Pinterest inspiration boards!
How Wonderful. The postcards are so pretty. I agree, Pauline is an awesome teacher!! Took one of her classes a few years ago and learned some great stuff. Have fun with her class.
I can see her influence in your face vases Joan. Your experimentation and creativity 🙂 I am having fun, hoping this year I can take one of her full courses 🙂
Lucky you for winning a class with Pauline. I saw her email too, had to search for the answers(i only recognized Sinead O’Connor), but obviously wasn’t fast enough. I know you’ll have lots of fun. Enjoy!
I knew them all but had to look up how to spell Saoirse! LOL Corinne I hope you are feeling great today! Take good care 🙂
Sheila, I’m blown away by this post! So rich with art and information and excitement. First, I love the received swap postcards you posted—they are both compelling and beautiful. I keep going back to look again. Second, congratulations on winning an Artbytes class! Can’t wait to see what you post from that adventure. Third, thanks for all the Pauline info. I am familiar with her but haven’t thought about her or her classes in a long time. I just revisited her website, at your inspiration. Finally, love the painting you did in 2013 when participating in one of Pauline’s open studio weekends. It’s fabulous.
Are you moving to Arizona???
So glad you enjoyed the post Dotty 🙂 I am a big fan of Pauline’s! You have got to check out her inspiring Pinterest boards!! https://www.pinterest.com/paulineagnew/ So glad you like that piece, it is one that I am proud of. Which is funny, because I feel like it created itself, more than I did. LOL
Wow, Sheila! You have a lot going on! I love both of the postcards. How fun! And congratulations on winning the class. I am going to check out all those links today. You are so generous with your art, your resources, and your promotion of other artists. I wonder where and why the move to Arizona? You are clearly one energetic, capable, creative, and multi tasked person, so I know you’ll prevail at whatever you do and where ever you are “planted”!
Aww, thanks so much for that Laurie 🙂 California is just getting so crowded. We live in Wildomar, which is half way between Los Angeles and San Diego. And our little subdivision is surrounded on three sides by open fields that were once horse ranches. We are at the base of the Santa Rosa Plateau, lovely hills to the west and east. But the traffic is a nightmare. Everyone lives in this area and commutes north or south. Our little bit of country is now like living in the heart of LA. So we are just trying to get back to small city living. Prescott, AZ. I will share more about that as it gets closer.
Lucky girl! congratulations Sheila I am sure it will be a great experience. Both of your postcards are wonderful
Thanks Val 🙂 It is so much fun to find fabulous art in your mailbox!