Tribute to the Boston Marathon 2013 #5/117

I have been working on #5/117 peace dove. It will be a mobile of 117 doves made out of recycled soda cans. As you can it is taking quite a bit of time.

My friend Jeanne donated two bags of cans - thanks Jeanne!

 Ends cut off of 60 cans.

 The cut cans washed and dried.

 Tracing the doves ...

 ... cutting ...

 ... sanding.

It took 5 layers of paint to cover the existing paint on the cans. This is where I am now. More to come.

Peace Dove Painting #4/117

My fourth Peace Dove painting is called Each Dove Is Singing Her Own Unique Tune, Yet Creating Harmony.

Peace dove #3 finished:)

My Peace Dove #3 is called Peace Dove Is Sailing through the Turbulence of the Human World."

#2/117 in My Peace Dove Series

This is my second Peace Dove painting. It is called Peace Dove Is Meditating On Love.

Thoughts after Boston Marathon

It had been a great weekend. I was able to celebrate my birthday with my daughter and my husband. We had traveled to Boston to watch Celia run the Boston Marathon. She finished her race and we were waiting to reunite with her when the bombs went off. After some confusion and panic we finally found her back in the hotel room. What happened after that in Boston has been so well covered by the media that there is not much I could add.

It is hard to tell how this event will affect our individual lives. On Monday through her tears my daughter screamed:”I never want to come back to this place!” On Tuesday she was determined to run the marathon again next year. All three of us thought it would be great if we all qualified to run the race. Now that is a far fetched dream for me, but I did start my training by going on a walk just in case. My husband did his first run as well.

I came back from Boston broken-hearted, I felt like I had gone through a wringer washer.  As part of my healing, I decided to do a series of paintings, drawings, prints, jewelry etc. of my favorite subject: the peace dove. I will make 117 of them, one for each year of the Boston Marathon. My dream is to accomplish this by the next year’s marathon.

I finished my first painting yesterday. It is called Too Much Work for One Little Bird. It has a weary looking peace dove watching over the earth. What I like to say with this painting is that we all need to help; we all need to work towards peace within ourselves and within our communities. Peace is the responsibility of all of us.

I am showing my Nature Mandala images at the CTN studio with three other artists until May. The opening reception will be April 5th. See more ...

snow alphabet

 

Two years ago I started taking pictures for a snow alphabet set, but never did anything with them. Then on Christmas day there was some snow on the ground and I decided to take pictures to finish my alphabet. This

 was my first attempt:

The following day Mother Nature realized I needed a snow storm to improve my snow alphabet set and she sent me a perfect amount of snow! Here is my improved snow alphabet set: