What appears as chaos.....

This piece of art began with this pretty 8 1/2 by 11 paper from the Club Scrap Garden Shed collection

I changed the orientation and knew I wanted to use a dragon stencil from Stencil Girl. I used pan pastels and dye based inks with the stencil. Then for reasons I could not understand I wanted to add bees. I do not like bees, having been attached by them years ago. I placed them all around in different orientations, some stamped, others fuzzy cut from images included in the Garden Shed collection. It felt right, but I had no idea why. I left it and the next morning, I had a saying come to me as I was waking up- What appears as chaos to me, may be someone else's organized survival.

The bees made total sense to me now!This statement really describes my life and reminds me to have compassion for other's struggles. 

Another fun element came to me on a walk with Mark and Sasha, we went to an area we have not been in quite a while and on the ground there were "claws", which  were perfect for the dragons feet, so the piece really came together.

I framed it an it is actually is hanging up in our living room, it is a pretty special piece of art for me.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cathy

 

Comments

[Lynn B]

What a beautiful piece!

[Julie Heyer]

This is stunning Cathy!!

[Pattie Fernandez]

Neat, I love it too!!! Your Sis, Pattie