Lake District Doodles

🌿🐦 HELLO LOVELIES! JANICE IS AN EXPERT ON EVERY MOTIF FROM NATURE.

Janice Duke Illustration

Recently I went on a short trip to the Lake District with a new sketchbook. It’s a beautiful place and I would like to go back and do some proper hill walking next time. This was just a jolly to have a look around and the highlight of my explorations was, of course, the Wildlife Park. Especially the bald eagle and eagle owls. Squeeee!

My new sketchbook is an A5 Artway Enviro Casebound, from a their range of recycled paper sketchbboks. It fits nicely in my handbag and is fantastic for pen and wash.

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oh my dry eyes.

🐒 🐦🐠 SO TRUE BEAUTIES. SHE IS A PERFECT FRIEND OF ANIMALS.

doodle marathon

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The Way I See It

HI SUGARS! I ADORE THIS ABSTRACT WORK BY TIFFANY AND ITS ORANGE COLOUR. I WANT TO ADD A SONG ABOUT THE RAINBOW MENTIONED BY DOLLY PARTON. I’M SURE YOU WILL LIKE THE SONG OF THE LINK I LET YOU. ENJOY! https://youtu.be/rxJ2lFcJCKg

Tiffany Arp-Daleo Art

11″ x 14″ Mixed media on canvas

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”

― Dolly Parton

Well, there better be a whole heck of a lot of rainbows after 2020! 😁😉🌈

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Sketches from the State Museum of Hesse, Darmstadt (Hessisches Landesmuseum)

📋 SO TRUE LOVELIES. NUDE IS AN IDEAL CLASSIC MOTIF TO PRACTICE. EVEN IN THE SAME POSE, THE MODEL ALWAYS LOOKS DIFFERENT.

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Poetry: The Thing We Die for Lack Of

😍 “MY EYES WERE BLIND, AND SOMETHING STARTED IN MY SOUL” (“Mis ojos estaban ciegos, y algo empezó en mi alma”). OH DARLINGS , THESE WORDS BY PABLO NERUDA WITH THE WORK BY KLEE, ARE IN MY OPINION PURE PLEASURE.

Deborah J. Brasket

Paul Klee, Versunkene Landschaft, 1918

Wallace Stevens once famously said: “You can’t get the news from poems, but men die every day for lack of what is found there.”

It may be hard to argue the truthfulness of that statement when we consider the widespread unpopularity of reading poetry. A recent study finds that “since 2002, the share of poetry-readers has contracted by 45 percent—resulting in the steepest decline in participation in any literary genre.”

Poetry, it appears, is less popular than knitting, jazz, and dance. Perhaps that’s why we need the month of April to celebrate poetry, to help curb the decline and rekindle a comeback.

But Stevens wasn’t arguing that we die from the lack of reading poetry, but from the lack of what is found in there, the thing that inspires poets to put pen to paper, and artists to pick up their brushes, and musicians to…

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Fragments

👀 🔶 WELL DARLINGS, AS YOU CAN SEE, WITH MIXED MEDIA WE CAN GET US STUNNING EFFECTS LIKE THIS. THANKS OLORIEL !

Color me in Cyanide and Cherry

Mixed media / September 2020

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Ask the artist: 10 questions with Sandra Wyman

📣 WELL DEARS, I’M PLEASED TO INTRODUCE YOU THE GREAT ARTIST SANDRA WYMAN. I’M SURE YOU WILL LIKE HER WORK. THANK YOU HELENA, FOR YOUR WONDERFUL POST.

Ask the artist

Featured image: Not Just DNA by Sandra Wyman. All images used in this article courtesy the artist.

Who are you and what do you make or do? Sandra Wyman: maker, artist, political activist, retired teacher, Argentine tango dancer.  Introverted, passionate, bipolar. I make art quilts and mixed media pieces.  I also draw and paint.

Who are your main influences? Not so much who as what.  Whilst I love many artists – amongst them textile artist Jo Budd, painter Mark Rothko, and sculptor Peter Randall Page – my chief influences are natural forms and patterns, and words, especially poetry.

Above: ‘Moving On’ by Sandra Wyman.

Where might we have come across your work before? I’ve taken part in group exhibitions with textile groups Contemporary Quilt, Etcetera, and Cwilt Cymru, recently at Stockport Art Gallery, Macclesfield Silk Museum and Minerva Arts Centre in Llanidloes.

You have mentioned previously that your work has had…

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Women’s Health

💁 HELLO SISTERS! COURTNEY ALWAYS HAS A SKETCH FOR EVERY TIME OF THE DAY, OF ANY ROUTINE ACTIVITY IN A BOLD AND ELEGANT WAY. CONGRATS!

Courtney Buckland Art

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red, red yarn

🔺🔻 SO TRUE DEARS, HER RED YARN IS A NATURAL PRIDE.

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Feminism: The misconceptions and The Truth

💜✊ WELL DEARS, TODAY IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. I THINK A GOOD DAY FOR REBLOG THIS INTERESTING BLOG. (Don’t miss visit the gorgeous illustrations of the link below. You will enjoy) . THANK YOU PRECIOUS!

A Happy Macaroni and Cheese

Feminism is still an unpopular word.

As a feminist, you’re seen as unnecessarily angry, aggressive, impulsive, unattractive and sometimes, even possessed by an evil spirit in some parts of Africa. In Nigeria, you’re labelled as a “Feminist witch.” Over time, Feminists have been depicted with a very popular image: an ugly woman with unshaved legs and armpits, who doesn’t wear deodorants and has awful hatred for men. Some believe Feminists are a group of mad women and brain washed men who want to annihilate men from the surface of the Earth. Others simply settle with the idea that it is a “Man-hating agenda.” A lot of people decide that if you must call yourself a feminist, then you must have nothing to do with men, hence, they criticize you harshly, if you have a husband, boyfriend or simply like to enjoy good sex with a man. Men who join in…

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