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

Girls & Goodbyes

 We left in the wee hours of the morning to drive 8 hours out of the mountains and into the desert of Arizona.
The day had come, my baby was leaving home to start her new life as a college student - from a town of 900 to a campus of 78,000.
WHOA
Needless to say, she was a little nervous.
But all that faded away as we found her dorm to be pleasantly resort like, and her roomie a gem.
Not even the heat seemed to be an issue.
She is excited and ready to go. Bittersweet time for this mama.
My girls are leaving the Art Farm. First Blossom, now my girl - at least I still had my other daughter....Pearl.

Upon arriving home, we discovered that Pearl was missing - and to our horror learned she had been missing the entire week.
My heart sank.
Titanic style.

Luckily for us, we have a wonderful animal shelter which is where Pearl spent 7 days...someone decided she was lost (on our country road ) coaxed her into their home and kept her. After a f ew days they took her to the shelter. Meanwhile, our dogsitter, assumed a friend had come to get her and watch her at their house.
Whats even crazier is that she was up for adoption starting the day we got home. We actually had to adopt her back!
Happily I might add.
Never again will I let Pearl run around the farm bare naked...she didn't have a tag because she NEVER leaves the property!
PHEW - at least I got my girl back - this mom wouldn't have faired a complete empty- of- females nest!!!

Tell me about your "letting go" experiences. I need some advice! :)

xo milady

Sleeping with Nature Exhibit Wrap Up

 Sleeping with Nature 3'x 4'  SOLD

Custom designed silk bird panels for the custom outdoor bed

 Bird Panel 3  SOLD

 Wonder Wall SOLD

 Various Animals SOLD

 At Home 5' x 8 -'  SOLD

Star Mobile

 Silver Fox  SOLD

Deer Heads and Jewelry - SOLD

Hello Friends!

I made it through another show - what a busy busy summer! I contemplated showing the SOLD signs but I wanted to share my excitement! 

This show was called Sleeping with Nature - a sort of Snow White goes glamping with friendly woodland creatures. It's about dreaming, luxury and nature all combined. 

I am super proud of my first textile attempt ...dreamy pale turqoise silk with whimsical large scale birds. 

The exhibit was part of Art + Architecture event in Telluride Colorado last week. Super fun! If you look at the bottom of the page you will see a pic of me and a little girl sitting on my lap...she was a little visitor who loved coming in and drawing with me. xx

I've been such a lazy blogger because i've been so busy! I hope you all find your way back to the Art Farm and say HELLO!!! 

x stephanie

Almost

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The show is nearly here .  So much more to finish!

It's been so hot but the Mosquitos have taken over the cool evening air 

I so do love to work in .   Off to the sizzling studio!

Xo

A 

Milady

NEW WEBSITE!!

Well folks, I finally did it, made that website i've been talking about forever.
It's a new start to an old dream. I will continue to tinker with it and add pages. It's nice to refresh!
xo

Art Farming

Magic standing in front of a large canvas tacked to my barn door - She wants a treat that's

inside the door :)

There is another art farm I've discovered - someday I'd like to go there . It's not far from here and looks very interesting.  

Farm Love

"All creatures through their single imagination are aware of other creatures, seemingly gained by the helpful hand of natural selection, but what explains consciousness, as it may not be an evolved state: imagine consciousness closer to a chemical continuity across the spectrum of all plants and animals, simply arising as a property out of increasingly complex chemical interactions, and like our bodies’ specialized cells racing amok from the never-ending chemical addendum we blend into nature’s stew, consciousness continues expanding, unsympathetic to our aims on this mortal coil, as we are to the aims of worms and cockroaches while we grapple with life’s incoherence."

                                                                                                                            ~artfarmnebraska.org

Bird Brain

Hello friends!

ART    One of my most favorite things about summer is the birds. The lovely little songbirds voices carrying me throught the day and leading me into night. It changes, you can tell, if you listen. The hoot owl deep in the dark.  The sketches are for fabric which will part of an amazing collaboration I am working on for my next art show in July.  "Sleeping with Nature"  in Telluride and part of Art & Architecture Weekend.

FARM   My farm is settling into itself without Blossom.  Who knew what an absence she would leave.
The only solace I can find is in planting flowers where I dare not before...Blossom was a free soul, frree to wander up to the house, sit on the porch, nap on the deck...no flowers were safe!
We did get 2 babies. Remy, my chosen little love, didn't want anything to do with me...ran away from me!
She was already a good 2 months old and didn't know me like Blossom did. So I chose 2 others because you know, a lamb will die from a broken heart if left alone...that night, one of them did indeed die. I couldn't take it...the one left over was so sweet and loved people..but there was a problem...he was now alone. I couldn't face the possibility so we made a decision to take him back - back to his friends, whose fates are unthinkable.  I won't post a pic of him - too heartbreaking - cos he was indeed ADORABLE.
Everything about him made me miss Blossom even more - how "trained" she actually was, how calm and loving she was, how special and irreplaceable she was.
He is happy with his people...about 8 other bums, the gang. We visit him and are working on finding homes.

ME  I have built a new website StephanieMorganRogers.com   with the thought of using Milady Productions as my shop.  The bones of the site will be live TODAY!. Please come and have a look! These matters take me a long time - since i'm distracted by birds and lambies and painting. :)
I decided to go for it and continue shaping it as I go...isn't that the way of life?

Hope you are all enjoying yourselves, are surrounded by things and creatures you love and love you and are doing what you love.

xoxo

S

Faith Elizabeth Hough: Dear Artist

Faith Elizabeth Hough: Dear Artist: Be not afraid. I've come to believe that there is no greater danger to artists than fear. Living takes courage. Doing what you love ta...

With Great Sadness...

My dear Blossom has left the Art Farm.

2009 2 weeks old

2010 1 year

 The last photo a few days ago...after her annual shear

 Blossom and blossoms   spring 2013

that wonderful wool!

Free range friends

                                                                 Goodbye Friend
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Friends, with a great sadness I regret to inform you that Blossom has died. For all of you who have gotten to know me via my sheep, I trust that you know what a gaping hole she has left on the farm.
 She got kicked by her best friend, Magic, the white horse. She followed her everywhere, no fences needed, the pair roamed freely like elegant lawn decor.She never failed to make me smile, seeing her walk by my window, giving me friendly bleat as I rapped on the window or called out to her.Whenever I went out to feed she'd be there. When a car drove up to the house, she'd be there too. She was not your ordinary sheep. She was the incredible Lamb-dog we all (including husband) grew to love as much as I did.
 
Blossom was one in a million. A dream come true - a pet lamb! Although I could never replace her, I am heading to the lamb shed to see who else needs a mom.  I need it as much as they do. I've picked out a sweet little girl named Remy who I had planned to bring home as a companion for Blossom. Remy has that unusual air about her. All lamb with something else mixed in. A trusting friend. More on her soon.

Blossom is buried with our family pets around the box elder memory tree. We had to get a cowboy to come over with a big back hoe and dig a hole. I'm quite certain he was confused.

You may wonder, why a sheep? why so dramatic? Well, all i can tell you is that friends come in all shapes, color and fur.  A bond is a bond and love knows no boundaries.

 "The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak -Rumi
xoxo

Fly Little Bird, FLY!

My firstborn graduated yesterday and will be 18 years old in a matter of days. Her time has come to fly from the nest.
This week and the months leading up to it have been a sweet mixture of excitement and dread, love and sadness, nerves and zen...all backdropped by this huge GOODBYE.
I don't have an empty nest yet, there are 2 little brothers in tow, but the family is changing as we prepare to send off the baby girl who started this whole family thing.
We are so proud of this girl, her spitfire soul graced with elegance and compassion. She will soar out there in the world because she is not afraid. She is smart and wise. She is fun and controlled. She can communicate with precision and stands up for her beliefs. She is present and has beautiful strong wings.
Fly my daughter, fly high! I will be right here with my hand over brow shading the bright sun while I watch you soar.
xoxoxo Mama