The breeze speaks, and the trees rustle their leaves like butterflies alighting on wildflowers Her light voice plays gently in the grass, whispering along at my feetmaking her presence known through her light touch on my skin, twirling up, tousling my hair Flowers bob as if bowing as she passes, acknowledging her playful dignity Then …
Flickering candlelightglancing off raindropsshifting shadows offering glimpsesof the familiar roommade foreignby the plunge of darkness
The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas.
The Nature Hike line has expanded to redbubble! I’m really inspired by some of the tools available in the product design options, like the ability to tile your imaging! The Luna Moth was perfect for this, giving a hounds-tooth effect at a distance. The Trillium blossom turned out to be really nice against a dark …
A local playwright (Freddy Bradburn) wrote a bit in a folk tale performance that included a decapitated head, placed on a pike at the edge of town as a warning to others, that comes to life, greets its former traveling companions, and joins them in a song. And it needed to look like the actor …
Wrapping vector flame patterns across a golf cart hood with a uniform “blown-back” look required a map of the changing angles, so we wrapped the nose in a giant sheet of paper and made one. Working carefully over the pattern, we built the flames from both the center out and the edge in, aiming for …
Nature photo decals are here! Very excited about the new branding for these outdoor grade large-as-life vinyl decals. You can find them at Twisted Sisters, the McDowell Arts Council Artisan gift shop, and Signs by Design. Head over to the Nature Hike page and check them out!
There’s this dusty sunshine in my attic. It is soft around the edges and has a worn, warm look about it. I feel the world slow its turning to match the graceful pirouette of what looks like a cloud of memories gently glinting and turning in the shaft of light. Memories. Long shadows drawn across …
I remember the girls of my summersas if she were held together with butterfly glue,the one who taught me that sandy beaches make salty kissesThe one that ran like wild horsesin the hard packed sandat the edge of the surfuntil I staggered to a haltheart fluttering against my chest like a scared caged birdhands on …
That momentwhen the bell ringsand you’re freeso for the first time since morningI have the sun on my backand my feet on the groundwhen the purr of an engineturns my eyes and my mind skywardcatching the tail of atiny silver bird dragging my focusbehind it like a balloon on a stringas it lumbers away from …