“Winter, Sky, Trees, Moss” 7×5 inches 8 pages. Watercolor, collage, graphite, textile, paste paper.
In Portland, winter can be mostly gray, and doesn’t change much from day to day. It was supposed to be dry today with a predicted weak sun, but when I woke up this morning I could hear the rain on the street as cars went rolling down the road. So another gray day. But standing outside later, I saw such beauty in the drape of bare tree branches, and gray sky, and here and there the brightest little green tufts of moss, clinging to rocks, and the concrete stairs leading up to the street. I love those little tufts of tenacity; clinging patiently through the dry times, coming carefully back to brilliant color in the rain of winter.
4 Rooms and the Moon 
oh sigh, olivia… i love everything you do. and you do everything so well…
xoxo
Me too. 🙂 These capture the feeling of winter so well! I love how the bits of trees and moss, etc, surpass the canvas. Always a pleasure to see what you are working on. 🙂
Love them all. You have captured winter’s beauty…beautifully
Thank you, Judee! I am trying to be more constant in my posts – trying for once a week now. It also keeps me committed to those hours in the studio!
Oh thank you, Rosemary. I love winter trees so much! I had posted a paragraph on how I collaged the trees from the edges of scrap paper – but wordpress ate it up and it didn’t post. xoO