Rose

Sonntag, 14. April 2013

Invitation dc No 99

Laying under my chestnut branch indoors

my mind wanders to different places... a Hurray! for imagination... and inspiration!

How about a new theme for the 99th of drawing challenge? What about...

TILES?

May I invite you for this theme, please?

Tell me you are in and I will publish here a list of players

for the weekend, the 20th + 21st of April

PS: I will come to your beauty, soon.

Samstag, 13. April 2013

In the 17th century... it was in the Baroque period... painter and copperplate engraver specifically in Holland and Flanders made still lifes for capturing the beauty of nature. It was an age of exploration. For instance naturalist and artist Maria Sybilla Merian published her own books with beautiful paintings of flowers and butterflies to show people the beauty of nature from Suriname.

Today I can go to the flowershop round the corner... and find even in a late spring

fresh poppy...

kangaroo paw and tuberose

craspedia globosa... yellow drumstick

(stick of birch from the wood)...

freesia and checkered daffodil... tulips and branches of birch

and I design a still life... taking photos of it... trying to capture the beauty my way

Currently I dive into the era of the scarina Catherine the Great

and have got the obsession to own a pretty piece of the Royal porcelain manufacture of St. Petersburg, 1744 ... Lomonosov... like 'cobalt web' (see above with lychee)... now a piece from 'singing garden'.

I have tried to buy a stemmed fruit bowl by an online public sale... was bidding at an auction... but... I exited... too high... too expensive.... watched the count down with tears in my eyes... our children cheered me on to bid again... I was conflicted... countdown has started... 3...2... again a higher bid... not by me...1... finished.

Then our eldest daughter has said: "Mom, look at Dad!" As I looked at him he smiled... pointed at his screen... HE has auctioned the stemmed fruit bowl... for me... isn't that beautiful?!

Here it is:

This week's drawing challenge is hosted by woolfy Nadeschda with beauty...

The last days I have made a collection of items... wrote them down because of my bursting head... beauty: is in the eye of the beholder... depending on many things... from education to status quo of mood... beauty... is lively...

is perceptible by the senses... a treat for the eyes (and the other senses...)... delicious... proportion... harmony... vibration... sound... excitation... even philosophico-erotic... blessing... mirror of the soul...holy... is simple... so, is beauty producible after all?... can one only find it open-minded and open-hearted?

I am ever eager to find beauty... its a need... and... I love to come to the beauty of yours via dear Nadeschda.

♥

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No. 90 Bead

No. 91 Discovery

No. 92 Postage Stamps

No 96 Willow

Today: No 98 BEAUTY at woolfy Nadeschda of Woolfenbell

Next: No 99 at the 20th + 21st of April here at my place with... TILES

Follow: No 100 at the 27th + 28th of April at Patrice's

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♥

Mittwoch, 10. April 2013

Veilchen

Vor der Arbeit bin ich noch auf dem Markt gewesen und habe eingekauft...

Before work I've been to the market and bought some...

und war nachmittags nach der Arbeit fertig mit dem Einpflanzen der monochromen Veilchenpracht als es anfing sanft zu regnen... zu regnen... nicht zu schneien :)

and after work was ready with planting of the monochrome violas' pomp as it started to rain gently in the afternoon... to rain... not to snow :)

cheers!

Montag, 8. April 2013

Beflügelt

Willkommen zurück, liebe Sonne!... endlich schaffst Du es wieder bis in meine Ecke zu scheinen... hier im Salon auf der Nordseite der Burg am Eisenbach. Musik beim Ordnung schaffen beflügelt uns zusätzlich.

Welcome back, dear sun!... eventual you can shine again to my corner... here in the salon on the northern side of the Castle at the Eisenbach. Music wings us extra during establishing order.