C’est un conte de fées que je lisais à ma petite soeur il y a presque 40 ans!!! Vindiou… ça nous rajeunit pas! Il était une fois une famille lapin qui comme toute les familles lapin était très nombreuse! Le plus âgé d’entre eux se nomme Grand-Papa Lapin. Il est artiste peintre. Chaque année ilContinue reading “Grand-Papa Lapin…”
Category Archives: Art
Transforming a cherry tree from landscape to furniture & art
Long ago, someone planted a tiny, spindly tree. It grew. A puppy chewed off much of the bark. The tree survived. It grew, and grew, and grew until it spread over the pool, the roof, the patio. Its trunk thickened until nobody could see the pool from the house. Sadly, it was time for theContinue reading “Transforming a cherry tree from landscape to furniture & art”
Blue Eyes, Blue Again
When Blue Eyes arrived, he (or is it she?) lived up to his name. The “eyes” in the rusty metal were indeed blue, albeit a deeper and less florescent hue than today. Over time, rust creeped, blue fled and Blue Eyes became Rust Eyes. We don’t know if the piece’s artist, Vern Peasenell, would approve,Continue reading “Blue Eyes, Blue Again”
Gnome Rejuvenation
Has your gnome lost his color? Has the twinkle faded from his eyes, the rose from his cheeks? You can recolor him, better than he was. Cleaner, brighter, gnomier! All it takes is a small flat brush and a small round one. I used artist’s acrylics, deciding not to worry about the paint fading becauseContinue reading “Gnome Rejuvenation”
Land Art… or just a pile of rocks?
In Provence, a borie is a shelter made of stones, up to a few meters tall. They look like this, only larger and made of gray stone instead of lava rock found in the back yard. An eight foot tall stone hut would look strange in the front yard, and in any case the realContinue reading “Land Art… or just a pile of rocks?”
Frosty Abstracts
A cold night paints the garden with abstract patterns of frost.