Showing posts with label #Louisiana Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Louisiana Nature. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2021


 Tree with Ice Sparkles
2/2021

How long did that freeze last?  The Louisiana record freeze of 2021?  About five days of freezing weather,  below 32, some nights 26 degrees F.  Here in the subtropics, we felt like we were in Alaska.  Then one day, the ice was melting.  The ice cycles were dripping.  I looked up to a vivid cobalt blue sky and saw a leafless tree sparkling with a million diamonds.  I was amazed at the beauty.  I went for my camara, the battery was dead.  By the time the battery revived the ephemeral beauty was gone.  But, the image was engraved in my head.  So, I made this digital painting.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020


Guardian Angel

Inkjet print, signed, archival, limited edition

 

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Silver Creek Nature

The Nature of Silver Creek





Egrets and Creek

photograph, photoshopped, digital, 2020










Water Ripples, 2020

 photograph, Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition print




Blue Heron

trail cam photograph, Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition, ink jet print









My dog, Harpo

 on a trail by the creek
Trail cam photo and Photoshop










                                                                      Doe on Sandbar  

                                                                       Trail cam photo,
                                                              worked up with Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition inkjet print


                                                                    


Wisteria in Full Bloom

Photograph and Photoshop


I am so blessed to live in this  Louisiana jungle and share it with friends and family.  We have trails through the woodlands and swamp. I am not exaggerating when I call it a jungle.   Nature is potent, growing in wild tangles.  There are oak trees that are 6' in diameter and I guess 60', 80 feet tall.  This exuberant nature feeds my spirit with joy. 

Nature supports my art creations.  I make art almost every day.  Nature and art creation nourish my spirit.  I can feel the peaceful flowing soul energy of Mother Nature when I walk the trails.  

Wildlife here includes:  many deer, wild boar, beaver, armadillo, raccoon, rabbits, squirrels, frogs that throb the air with their songs, multicolored lizards, salamander, and box turtle.  Water turtle and fish in the creek. 

 A symphony of birds, including blue heron, large and small egret, king fisher, owls, hawks, a large and a small variety of woodpeckers.  The hummingbird feeders bring amazing, tiny, jewel colored birds, that zoom swiftly among the trees.  

And Snakes, most are not dangerous. Cotton mouth moccasins are rarely seen.  I feel an adrenaline fear rush and back away slowly.  I tell the children to watch where they put their feet and hands. 

The creek feeds into the Bogue Falaya, which flows into the Pearl River, and Honey Island Swamp.  A relatively, sparsely populated green corridor runs more than a hundred miles into the Gulf.  I have examined it on Google Earth.  It is a migration corridor for birds and other critters.  Eye witnesses claim to have seen Big Foot in Honey Island Swamp and along the Pearl.  I am on the look out, but have not seen him yet.  

Two inch benign banana spiders make webs that shimmer in the dappled sun light.  Occasionally, in the spring, mosquitoes bite.  Graceful butterflies of many colors.  Dragonflies that are black, accented with iridescent pthalo blue wings.

Such beauty, an embarrassment of riches.

The children like to kayak to a sandbar where we swim.  Sitting on the sandbar we hunt for fossils, agate and Native American artifacts.

We planted moso bamboo in 2006.  This plant can GROW!  It covers maybe half an acre now.  Sassafras, (historically used to make rootbeer and file for gumbo ), grows as a second story under the tall bamboo.

It took me a long time to get here.  I grew up moving around with my Air Force Dad. I moved around quite a bit as an adult.  Trying out different spots.  When I got close to retirement, I searched for my forever home.  

January 1, 2002, my family and I tent camped on our new land. My forever home.

I lived in a tent while my sons, brother, nephew, and friends, built the house.  I moved lightly into the house before it was closed in.  A bird nested in the woodwork framing.  We sat in the area that was to be the living room, the walls were up, but had no windows or doors.  Devoted Mama Bird flew over our heads, back and forth to feed the gaping beaks of tiny babies. 

I self identified as an Artist in 1980.  My family also built me a studio.  I create almost everyday, following an evolving stream of inspiration.  A few themes migrate into my work at different times.  Primarily nature and luminous women. I am a spiritual seeker, art maps out my seeker path.

 I am blessed with a satisfying way to experience life on earth.














Wednesday, August 26, 2020

 







Dolphins, 8/2020

digital






Three Graces, Ethereal

digital, 8/2020


I opened photoshop and decided to put myself on art autopilot.  Usually I have an idea in mind when i create.  This time, i just played around, just let whatever happened, happen.  Something rather ethereal and water like happened.  I saw dolphins.  Went to the web and harvested a photo of dolphins.  Worked on the dolphins, thinking about the graceful movements of dolphins and water.  I created light effects.   I liked what happened.  I liked the style, so decided to do another Three Graces in that style.  So, here, you have it.







Monday, August 17, 2020

Three Graces, canvas paintings









Three Graces, Painterly Realistic

acrylic on canvas, 48"x 36", 6/2020






Three Graces, Crystallized

acrylic on canvas, 48"x 36", 6/2020








Yoga Sunbeams, Deer

 digital, 2020

My muse leads me.  This year has been mostly women.  I did The Three Graces with two 48"x36", acrylic on canvas.  I dont know how many digital images I made.  At least twenty.  My intent was to do the same image in many different styles. So , I created the same figures in styles ranging from painterly realistic to cubistic to I dont know what to call it.  Also, I have done some painted driftwood pieces.

 There have been several images of women dancing. In the clouds, in the forest and so on.  

Next, I thought, "Yoga, eureka!".  This px shows a yoga headstand, in the forest, with a deer.  The inspiration picture of the deer came from a trail cam that we set up down by the creek.  I follow my muse along a path that is beautiful.

They have changed the format of blogger, and I dont know how to get the writing in the place where I want it.  Tech can be so annoying.   I would rather be painting or gardening.