Art Project 2012 - Sept 20-22

More photos with the new camera... I love mornings in my garden! 

Sept 20: Orange nasturtium growing at the base of the monarda/bee balm

Sept 21: Forbidden Fruit... apple growing on the other side of the fence. This has been zoomed just slightly. :)

Sept 22: Coral Bells/Heuchera - one of John's stock nursery plants blooming again... I think this is the third blooming for this particular plant. 

Art Project 2012 - Sept 18 & 19

Playing with a new little camera this week...

Sept 18: Morning dew on orange chrysanthemum

Sept 19: Black Eyed Susans and rusty bird yard art

Art Project 2012 - August 27

View in the garden - Rudbeckia/Black Eyed Susan and Oregon Grape

Art Project 2012 - August 22

Photo of Goldenrod in our garden... a bee magnet!

Art Project 2012 - August 16

From Carolyns garden -  Echinacea aka coneflower beginning it's bloom. 

Art Project 2012 - August 5

Photo from my garden - onion flower. Love the textures... and will collect seeds to see if we can start our own. These flower heads attract beneficial insects, random factoid. :)

Art Project 2012 - August 4

Scented geranium - a potted plant on the deck blooming happily in the warmer weather. Fingers crossed that the warm weather hold. It's feeling like summer at last.

Art Project 2012 - August 3

4x4 Mixed media collage - with natural beeswax. Now available in my Etsy shop. 

Art Project 2012 - August 2

Photograph of the sedum blooms in our rock garden, on a quiet morning. Do you see the heart?

Art Project 2012 - July 31

Photograph - more echinacea from Carolyn's garden. 

Art Project 2012 - July 30

Photograph -  Echinacea from Carolyn's garden, an early morning visit when the dew was still present. 

Art Project 2012 - July 26

Photography: White campanula in the garden, covered in raindrops. Don't they look like sparkling fairy bells?

Art Project 2012 - July 25

In the garden after the rains - raindrops on the Autumn Sedum. One looks a bit like a heart, don't you think?

Art Project 2012 - July 23

Photo of light pink mallow, with a creeping thyme backdrop. From my garden.

Art Project 2012 - July 22

Photo of lavender in my garden

Art Project 2012 - July 9

Altered Book page (back of yesterday's page) for our local exchange. Inks, stamped script, collaged items and my original haiku. For Cheryl.

Art Project 2012 - July 4 & 5

Photos from my garden - which is in it's glory this time of year. 

July 4

July 5

Art Project 2012 - June 30

4x4 Beeswax collage - using inks, paper napkins, tissue, beeswax crayons. This is still a work in progress. 

Art Project 2012 - June 2

Flower Garden Chunky 4x4 - Stamped script on the background, tinted a bit with inks, layered the image and applied beeswax. I love how it all melds together. 

Art Project 2012 - May 17

Photo of a poppy just about to open in my garden...