From the category archives:

art

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Small Craft on Pond, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.
My sister, Marybeth, gave me a wonderful book for my recent birthday — a book I intend to read cover-to-cover the way I read the Webster’s Dictionary [...]

more...

Cowgirl Dreaming Originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.
This digital painting for Beautiful Sunday, is dedicated to one of my flickr friends, Christine, whose photo-imagery I truly enjoy. She has a keen interest in and love of horses and all things-horse … and she is consistently generous with her comments not only on my photos, but [...]

more...

Lotte Glob is a Danish ceramics artist living and working in Scotland. Her work is intimately inspired by forms she finds in nature, especially around the Ultimate Rock Garden, as she calls her Scotland studio and home. I’d love to live and work in a place like this someday:
Glob has a beautiful online portfolio [...]

more...

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Co-curatoring 9, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.
This sketchbook page is part of my process on one of my favorite Flickr projects. It’s called the Co Curators’ Resource. The idea is to “curate” someone’s [...]

more...

Reach for the Realm of Light
I’ve been painting and drawing this willow for at least 15 years. It has several companion willows along the borrow-pit on a dirt road near my home. Although they are the type that would normally become large, venerable trees, these particular willows don’t get much bigger than this. They are [...]

more...

Inspiration Originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.
Have you ever thought of where your inspiration comes from? Of how there are so many widely different images in the world — human-made objects, natural textures, patterns and shapes — that inform your art, no matter what medium you use to [...]

more...

We’re back from the winter meeting with our study group … I will be posting a few drawings I did in my sketchbook/journal while on our trip. It was incredible weather – just perfect for Tim and me — when we left Montana last week, the temperature was -16F … brrrr! And on the coast, [...]

more...

Meditation on Autumn Garden Originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.
another in my series of leaf experiments.
Thank you for subscribing to my RSS Feed

more...

Arch sculpture at the Bray
From the Bray website:
The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts is a public, nonprofit, educational institution founded in 1951 by brickmaker Archie Bray, who intended it to be “a place to make available for all who are seriously and sincerely interested in any of the branches of the ceramic arts, [...]

more...

Another rescue (maybe) of some horribly blurred (on purpose) photos of our garden late in the day.
Thank you for subscribing to my RSS Feed

more...