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I’ve been working on some branding elements for selling our log grown shiitakes. What do you think about these color schemes? More on shiitakes coming soon. . . and hopefully a resurrection of the Spring Bird Newsletter!
Blue Triangles of Abundance! Get your new favorite jean jacket in time for Fall Jean Jacket Weather!!!! This Jean Jacket is made of: Jacket itself: 100% Cotton Applique: Upcycled cotton and linen fabric, cotton and bamboo threads SIZE: Small Brand: Wild Fable Measurements for this …
Alice Neel is my favorite portrait artist. I think about her work each time I paint a face – mine or someone else’s. This self portrait is . . . finished . . . I think. It’s certainly no Alice Neel. I guess it’s an …
This land that we call Spring Bird has also been called Siloam, Torkel Korling’s Arboretum, a dairy farm, and has been/is occupied Potawatomi, Peoria, Sioux, Ho-Chunk, Miami & Kickapoo Land. While this land that we call Spring Bird has had many identities, it has always …
I feel gratitude each time I turn down my gravel driveway. I’m grateful to be home. I’m grateful that my home is a woodland, and I am grateful for the “Quiet Thank You” sign that reminds me to be silent. If guests are staying at …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways that leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can trace a leaf onto paper and cut them out. I used …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways that leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can paint directly onto leaves! What to paint? Try patterns like dots …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can make art from the “ghost” images left behind on scratch paper that …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can make subtle leaf rubbings that reveal their delicate veins. That’s what I …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can choose a leaf that is interesting to you, and then trace its …
Many moons ago, I made some sketchbook studies of Etruscan tombs and art in preparation for painting the greenhouse murals. Actually dozens and dozens of moons ago, I visited Etruscan tombs while studying in Italy and was so taken by their zest for life depicted …
I draw my dog Lucy like Jack draws one of his French girls. She is my muse and my inspiration. I don’t know why, but I find the shapes that she makes with her resting body to be so interesting. Part of me wishes I …
This was a fun process to explore on this beautiful, sunny day. Artist Janelle Rae (former artist in residence at Spring Bird/current creator of the honeysuckle meditation hut featured in the blue bench meadow) recommended making hammer prints with the zinnias that we are growing. …
There are some seasonal changes that are not necessarily connected to our natural worlds. As Summer starts to fade into Fall (don’t worry, there is still plenty of Summer ahead), two seasonal markers of Fall have shown themselves already. One is “Jean Jacket Weather”! I …
