My stencil hoard is growing! In all honesty I used to avoid using stencils in my work, but over the past year I've grown fond of building up layers with some good ol' stencils / stamps. It was a joy to play with Tam's new line with Artistcellar... Technique-wise: I used a sponge brush w/ acrylic for the words and then colored them in with stabilo crayons. Black dylusions spray inks were used for the house bits....and then along came this girl. Taa-daa:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
-Mary Oliver
What else? Oh yes.... I'm giving away 2 FREE SETS. 1 of each = "Tam's Whimsy" + "Tam's Inspiration". All you have to do is leave a comment below. For EXTRA entries: share this post in your social e-spheres, or sign up for my monthly newsletter in the upper right. Extra bonus entries: share your FAVORITE Halloween Get-up. Tally up where you shared & let me know in the comments below.
Chomping at the bit to buy your sets now? Here's a link ---> "Artistcellar Signature Series Stencils". Ready to hop on to the other stops? Right this way:
10/26 Artistcellar http://www.artistcellar.com/wp
10/27 Jill K. Berry http://jillberrydesign.com/blog
10/28 Dawn DeVries Sokol http://www.dawndsokol.com
10/29 Carla Sonheim carlasonheim.wordpress.com
10/30 Micki Wilde thesecrethermit.blogspot.com
10/31 Carissa Paige http://carissapaige.blogspot.com
11/1 Effy Wild www.effywild.com
11/2 Gracie Howle http://graciehowle.blogspot.com
11/3 Jane Davenport http://janedavenport.com
11/4 Chris Cozen http://chriscozenartist.typepad.com/my-blog/
11/5 Tamara Laporte www.willowing.org/blog
In other NEWS:
Ooooodles of NEW art + prints have been added to my shop today ==> right here
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Here I am pretending to be a Blythe Doll:
