Author: turtlemoonimpressions

As a native plant gardener, the natural world is phenomenal and so much of the man-made world - our architecture, our cities - are stunning accomplishments. They exist hand in hand in both beautiful expressions and sometimes disastrous manifestations. Our entire existence with the natural and the invented is intertwined – each dependent on the other, even as my art evolves, each breathing in the wake of the other. As a mixed media artist - textile, paper, printmaker - various substrates and mediums - surface design is one aspect of the process that I love. I thoroughly enjoy the play with color, value and construct, particularly the improvisation which starts with one thing, an idea, a glimpse of a vision, perhaps something that captures my eye for a moment in time and it grows organically. I become focused on whatever piece I'm working on and follow my muse to find my way.

January 15, 2015

Frozen In Time

Linking up with Nature’s Footsteps Abstract Challenge Winter Theme

January 14, 2015

No Escaping Failure

There’s no escaping failure from time to time, especially when you spend as much time at one thing as I do. Sometimes I get an idea in my head and can’t let it go, even after I see that the results are not getting me where I want to be. I love photography and this […]

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015

January One Four Challenge – Week 2

I lost track of some of what I did in the beginning, but somehow, after giving it a new crop, I pretty much had a silhouette with a deep rosy color. And I layered that with a B&W image and merged those two layers. I then boosted the saturation and used the Cutout Filter. […]