Drawing Challenge : GARLAND and a break in advent explanation

Tis the season my friends...

to adorn and drape all surfaces with boughs of garland

made from branches collected in my woods

entwined with lights and pinecones

the garlands surround us with the holiday spirit - as we sit down to sip cocoa and create handmade ornaments with friends

Garland, sweet garland...i'd have you up all year round if I could!

See Tiny Woolf for more garland goodness!

PS ADVENT UPDATE

my tech stuff is dying...scanner won't scan, camera won't take pics, computer sounds like an airplane trying

to take off....ADVENT 9- present will come when i am rested up. I suppose my computer is telling me to rest...i just had my gallbladder taken out and am recovering. as much as i wanted to upload my garland sketches and keep up with my advent...it is out of my hands. off to nap, again!

i'd love to hear from all of you!

xo milady

Christmas Craftsaganza already?!

IT's here again, Christmas. WHAT? seriously, i don't know where the time has gone - it's speeding up, or i am blacking out or perhaps some universal mystery is playing tricks on me.  I love to make things and have lots and lots of ideas....i think i can pull off each and every one of them in extremely unrealistic time frames.
I go for it....and whatever gets made is what makes it to fair.
lots of exciting things are happening in my life - so busy , as you've all gathered, that i don't even post anymore! i've been off the farm more than ever - not here, at my desk, in the kitchen, wandering the countryside. i miss that but times a flyin' so i've got to strike while the iron is hot! Art shows in other towns, products created at other's studios...oh, and then those kids! ;) sports, sports, sports, homework, field trips, volunteering, meetings...yikes!
anyhoo, I miss communicating with you gals, across the ethers, my fine feathered kindred spirits.
come back, come back! xoxo

NATURE - Drawing Challenge

                                             

Nature - what is it? is it out or is it within?

Natural State - what is organic and god-given, what is animal, what is human?

My last exhibit, Sleeping with Nature, was all about these rhetorical ponderings.

The awe I feel in the natural world around me, the beauty and perfection of simple growing things.

The natural rythmn of life for all of us on this wonderous planet.

Thank you Nadine for personally reeling me back into to our fabulous circle of creatives!

Feels good to be back!

XO milady

Drawing Challenge: Aquarius



Norwegian Creation Myth



pondering mythology

Unce upon a dream...

i sense winged beauties spiralling



from an
unknown source (pic)
literally

Aquarius, blue, water and wisdom
I think of my mother
our Mother
and the infinite mystery
sparkling

Its homework for a book project
a bit of a secret for now
but you will be seeing it more and more!

xo milady

Garden: Drawing Challenge

AN ARTIST'S CHORE : TILLING THE SOUL
- stephanie morgan rogers

the garden of good and evil
Archbishop of Salzburg's Missal

visit Renilde's garden for much more!

xo milady

Drawing Challenge: Blanket



Handmade quilts by my grandmother's grandpeople.



restoration hardware - but you get the idea :)

 Blanket.
Makes me think of moms and babies,
Of grandmas and hand stitched gatherings
Of ladies around a big table,
Chatting and assembling
The scraps and memories of fabric worked to the bone.

We have alot of faux fuzzy lamby blankets around the house.
We buy them at the store.
But they are warm and cozy and make you look like a giant teddy bear
in soft browns and creams.

Good thing too because it is still freezing here. A fresh blanket of snow the last few days.Christmas like.
We live under piles of blankets to read a book, watch a movie, and I wrap one around my neck like a shawl like some old woman from a nursey rhyme as I walk from one end of the house to the other.

I didn't draw but let my great grand ladies speak for me with their beautiful stitches and floral remnants.
I am lucky to have what's left of them.

For more blankets visit the adorable quilt covered Greta for more!

xo milady

Monogram : Drawing Challenge

Ink, i.d., initials

What's in a name?

I've been pondering a name change.

But I love my "smr" logo.

Lots of artists just use their name, so i just plucked out one of them.

Morgan.

So many of you have come to know me as "milady" - and that would never change.

But i need a cohesive i.d. Something that umbrellas all I do.

what do you think?

of

Morgan, ink.

?

besides, M's are the funnest to pen with ink.

I look forward to your thoughts on this matter!!!!!

Patrice A. is our hostess this week.See her Monogram flourish before your eyes!

xo milady

Drawing Challenge: Butterfly

 Butterflies Flutterby


1. Once upon a time there lived a giant Butterly who was made of Golden Sun and Blue Sky.
2.There lived also a man who was happy most of the time which made him colorful.
3.The Giant Butterfly had 3 little children and their followed their mother everywhere.
4. One day, they flew by the man who was only feeling his blue color.  Their magic was so powerful their wings sucked all the color out of him.
5. The mother saw all the colors rising otwards her and was happy.
6. The man , however, was not.

 


7.The man became so mad that his color was stolen that dark clouds began to gather and droop all around him.
8. After a long while he gave up and fell down in hopelessness.
9. /10. At that moment when the man was most hopeless, his cry for help burst through the clouds.
11. The Giant Butterfly and her children's colors made the black cloud go away while following her flight back to the man below.


 And they all lived colorfully ever after!

 
Flying, winged, hope and magic...I never tire of these images! Today, Morgan and I made a cartoon while being lazy in bed. It's Sunday afterall! Perhaps Monday by now at Nadine's across the world from me. Be sure to visit her amazing shop while you flying over the land of Tiny Woolf!
 Oh well, I always say...better late than never!

xo milady
                            

Bundle : A Drawing Challenge

Bundles

of berried branches

blossoms

and joy

babies, books

and all kinds of animals



seems like everything comes in a bundle around here!


Rachel has bundled up a bunch at her place.

xo milady

Tea Time A drawing Challenge

me

 I desire a large cup of tea....


unknown source



lovely earl grey tea  

 
with its fragrant bits of Bergamot and Lavender and a little splash of cream...mmmmmm


I should like to sip it here while i wait for company....


tash tudor

such as dear Tasha Tudor

And a flamboyant mad man in plaids and tweed

and whoever else wanted to come....
                           and share a cuppa

share their thoughts

on what inspires them.

 I am already there! With all these dear inspirations seated at Ariane's Table...please come!

Amber Alexander