i am going to watercolor you

this one, is wow. I wanna paint it. what is so great about this Orchid, is it doesn’t have the painted/dyed green bamboo to hold it upright. if you want this on, it is at Leaf N’Petal in Mountain Brook Village! perhaps this one too.

she is mine.

we went shopping in a part of town where we could only afford the lemonade. Mountain Brook Village, Alabama

make a Monet in one shot

sort of. i don’t have his gardens, but this is an abstract, created by shooting a creek’s reflection of the sky & trees above it.

i’m a cheater…wanna know why?

 i found this insanely HUGE spiderweb, but in order for YOU to see it, i must make dew.  no, i didn’t misspell that. i had to create a way for it to be seen. i used a spritzer bottle  filled with water. shoot from one side & BAM, there it is. shoot with the sun,…

blood extracted from rhinoceros tears…for dinner

Intro of last night “Sophie, i want you to make dinner tonight” i said. i was in my art studio, writing up a grocery list. she came in, sat down in a chair & put her head on the table. i asked, “and this drama means what?” she extended her arm, with a hand, groping…

yup…more flower pictures

 the wee rose is in a one inch vase. i love light. i have mirrors to play with the sun (that is what these roses are sitting on, the reflection is of the ceiling), prisms to shatter light, disco balls to spin the sun dizzy & one fake HUGE diamond that peppers my kitchen with…

the kind of spiders i love

i made a promise to myself-i wouldn’t buy any store bought flowers while my garden is still flowering. but i missed these mums! besides, i forgot the darn eggs & had to return to the grocery store…to make myself feel better, i bought these. ~amy

love you to the moon & back– an art project

love you to the moon & back…i found these words in a catalog, a photograph of a kids room, with the tiny painting of love you to the moon… this art project made me look at EVERYTHING in a whole new way. i save some cool catalogs, but i never thought, nor could i afford…