Welcome to my Monday post, I'm linking to-
Blue Monday hosted by Smiling Sally
Macro Monday 2 hosted by Gemma Wiseman
I Heart Macro hosted by Laura
Mandarin Orange Monday hosted by Lorik
Monday Mellow Yellows hosted by Gemma Wiseman
This is an original copper enamel piece I made quite a few years ago using a "water color" technique, "Tree planted by streams of living water"-
This is my needlepoint rendition of Klee's 'Senecio'- something orange and yellow-
My variegated Hoya vines in a west-facing window have 12 flower clusters in bloom on them, they are a "yellow-line" plant- if they were put on the yellow line of the highway, they would live as long as no one ran over them.;-) They make it on my short list of house plants I can grow. I love their geometric pentagonal form that splits into 5 triangles on top to fold back the 5 petals and reveal the 5-pointed star within-
In addition to being beautiful and fragrant, they exude a wonderful sweet nectar. Some other nocturnal critter somewhere must love them.
or cameras are macro
-Hannah
The hoya blossoms almost look like porcelain. I like your needlepoint and copper enameling work too.
ReplyDeleteI think a common name is something like wax flower. They are amazing flowers. Milkweed is a relative I want to grow but so far I have a little plant but no blooms as yet. I believe they also do the 5 point symmetry and parts folding open thing.
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ReplyDeleteThat copper enamel piece is really special with the blue "river."
Happy Blue Monday!
Thanks, copper enameling has such intense colors. I can't even remember how I did the texture in the brown area. Poor brain.
DeleteWhat a wonderful variety of images and art Hannah! Thanks for sharing the love up-close with I Heart Macro :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Laura, I thought I would share some of my art, I couldn't think of more blue flowers.
DeleteI have never seen a plant like that before. How lovely to have a flowering houseplant on your short list. Your copperwork is so pretty. Did you do the needlework?? That must have taken a very long time.
ReplyDeleteI copied the painting onto the canvas, then tried to stay true to all the little shading details, instead of just making big blocks of color. Paul Klee is one of my favorite artists. I like the simplicity and use of color and geometric shapes. His people are usually kind of quirky as well. I think at that point I had no children then maybe a baby, so some time to sit around and stitch.;-)
DeleteMy houseplant list is short because I have killed a lot of them so only a few can survive my care. Alison had a great post on plants she had killed, you might enjoy, it's a scream-
http://bonneylassie.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-dead-jim.html
Wonderful flower beautiful and emotional awakening feelings!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Leovi. They are so stylized and perfect, I'm in awe when they bloom. They keep up a succession of bloom from spring to fall, and bloom repeatedly on the same bloom stalks, you can see it above the flower in the last photo, the rough scars are where the former rings of flowers fell off.
DeleteYou are a very talented lady!
ReplyDeleteI really like the blooms, too.
Lea
Lea's Menagerie
Thanks, Lea. I dabble, more in the past than at present. Now my garden on 2 acres consumes all my time. I do sew and knit in the winter, do a tiny bit of ceramics, but I haven't done copper enameling much for a long time. When I made that piece I was taking an adult ed. class so had all the equipment set up, hot kilns, instruction, and time at the class to work. That helps.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! The Swedish name is porslinsblomma, porcelain flower.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gunilla. My husband's Swedish relatives were enamoured with the Oleanders when they came over to visit, in San Diego.
ReplyDeleteThe hoya is amazing. The appearance is so much like a crafted work of ceramic art. And the colours of your needlepoint remind me of the desert. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteThanks, it makes me happy to see the Hoya flowers hanging there. It was fun to make the copy of the painting I like, too.
Deleteluv it all, my favourite - the hoyas; have a Happy Thursday
ReplyDeletemuch love...
Thanks, Gillena, for exuberance of bloom they are my favorite houseplant.
ReplyDeleteWow, those Hoya blooms are lovely - and they are an easy, hard-to-kill plant? I want one!! I can keep Yuccas, Spider plants and geraniums and cacti and succulents, but precious little else, except a sweetheart vine which I've had since my elder son was born!
ReplyDeleteThe Hoya I have is H. carnosa variegata. I also have Hoya australis but while it grows it doesn't bloom abundantly like carnosa. It is one of those plants that roots very easily in water, so if you know someone that has one it is easy to get a cutting. I have also had mine kind of old and wilted looking and took cuttings and renewed the whole setup, I have 2 pots with 2-3 cuttings each in a west-facing window, which they love. They have been there a long time and are quite a mass of vines. They bloom on little spurs that get longer and longer with each passing season, and the vines grow and make more spurs. I will have to do a post soon on my short list of house plants that are hard to kill.
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