Me on Ascender Rises Above

Hey, good news, I'm a star! I've just appeared on Ascender Rises Above's blog. You can see me HERE and read the rest of her article. Thanks so much, Ascender!!!

(Meanwhile, you can also click image to view larger.)

Weekword: Fugacious

I posted it at Imagik.

If you've come here, looking for it, please go THERE!!!

Jacob and the Waterspout

I wrote another new children's book, which is, as yet, untitled. First draft. I decided to work on illos for it, or studies or drafts for them in the moleskine exchange sketchbooks. I am using the large watercolor sketchbooks for another children's book, A Good Day to Stay Home. So I am using the yellow coated paper A3s for this new book. To see the full illo and read about it, go to my image blog, Imagik.

Washing up in Ballookey's Moleskine Sketchbook

I sort blobbed this up a little.

It has a story. Onondaga Lake, in Syracuse, NY, where I used to live, is one of the most polluted lakes in the country if not the world. I was there one day walking and taking pictures when a migrant worker drove up in his pick-up truck, got out, and washed up in the toxic waters of the lake. A storm was approaching--I tried to tell him that the water wasn't clean, but he didn't understand me. I was thinking the storm was a figurative one as well as a literal one.

I had some problems with this, and may try it again sometime.

acrylic.

New Art: Damselfly

My newest piece of art. See my second newest piece of art, me on a vintage Indian Motorcycle, here.

Weekword: Lagniappe

This weeks weekword is Lagniappe, which means something extra, a litle extra with your purchase or a little girt. To read more about it, go to Upside Down B who is hosting this week's weekword.

I've been overcommitted for several weeks and unable to participate, but I did have a possible thought for this week's word, which is pronounced Lan-yap.

Since people rarely get snail mail anymore, I like to offer a little treat when someone is down (or for a birthday or other occasion.) I send a handmade card and in it, I include another card for their use to send to someone else. Mail art.

I purchased some envelopes just large enough to hold two or three cards and sometimes, I even have glassines to put them in.

Depending on the situation, they might be very serious, or they might be silly.

I hope this fits the theme, I'm not really sure.

Have a good week. Mary :-D

Art in progress

I love doing art! It's so satisfying and a great way t spend a snowy evening. This piece is for a book I am working on for my grandson. it's not done yet.

Stay safe and warm!

Dragonfly Symbiosis

Dragonfly Symbiosis

A Story for Gretchen

Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to go out in the woods and meditate. One of her favorite places to sit in ZaZen was Lycopodium Knoll, a small rise in the sandy woods above Blue Heron Lagoon. The knoll was covered with lycopodia, and the girl would sit with her back to a red maple and her middle finger touching her thumb and her hands resting on her knees. And sit.

One day, however, her serenity was disturbed by deerfly. The deerflies buzzed nosily around and kept landing on the girl’s arms and shoulders. They were trying to bite her.

Suddenly, there was a much larger, louder buzzing and a huge insect landed on her knee. In its mandibles was a deer fly. The dragonfly noisily chomped down the deerfly and a moment later, zipped out and snagged another. When it had eaten that one, it snagged a third, and continued until it had eaten the entire platoon

Then the dragonfly sat calmly on the girl’s knee waiting. Each time another deerfly or mosquito homed in on the girl, the dragonfly captured it and ate it. The girl acted as a food magnet for the dragonfly and the dragonfly protected the girl from insect bites. And this is a true story. Mary Stebbins Taitt (Click image to view larger.) This is a collaboration with Gretchen Owen.

Happy Valentine's Day! A Bit of silliness

Hope you have FUN and LOVE!

Me, by Andrea

Andrea, at Something Different, posted this portrait of me. :-D