"Frost"

This is the 7th of my Illustrated Haiku series. You can see the others HERE

 Frost

 frost on the windows

 brought by fairies in the night

 a wonderous sight 

It is a mixed media piece on a 9 x 12 gallery wrap canvas, and includes, acrylic and watercolor paints, colored pencils, glitter glue, twine, watercolor paper, Christmas ornaments, silk leaves, my original Haiku. What you can't see in the photo is the glitter glue, her skin has a light coating of gold glitter, her wings are coated with silver glitter, and her headband is also silver glitter.

Illustrated Haiku #2

I have been working on the Haiku for this for several days but couldn't get it to feel right. This morning I went outside to commune with Nature for a bit and while sitting there watching the bees on the clover the words just flowed right into my mind. So I rushed in and began this. 7 hours later here is the completed piece!
First I painted the background using acrylics on a 9x12" gallery wrapped (staples in the back) canvas,,which means the painting goes all along the sides too, so no frame is needed, most of the sides are blue, but the flower stems also continue on the bottom side.
Next I picked flowers for my field and sewed them to the canvas with buttons for
the centers. This took quite some time, finding the right flowers and buttons, deciding on placement and the sewing.
Then I painted on the leaves and stems.
Then very lightly in pencil I wrote the Haiku and then traced it twice with a
very fine Sharpie. Even though I made sure all the words were right, I was convinced I had
spelled one wrong and wrecked the whole thing..LOL
Next I made the bee and ladybug from felt and sewed them on.
Last signed and dated it.
I am VERY happy with this piece!
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Illustrated Haiku

This is the first in a series I am calling *Illustrated Haiku*, the verse is my original and first attempt at doing a Haiku..don't know if it is actually one and don't know if it's any good, but I liked it so went with it..lol
It is all hand pieced and made mostly of felt, the middle "painted desert" mountains are cotton. not really sure they give the effect I was hoping for though. The spines on the cactus are made with white embroidery floss, the rain is a metallic thread that has white, light blue and pinkish colors in it and I scattered some silvery bugle beads around too.
I purposely did the Haiku in wavy lines and primitive embroidered letters .
This is 8x10 and isn't quilted in the traditional sense of the word, it IS sewn to a piece of card stock and some outline stitching was done through the felt and card stock. It is going to be framed so I didn't want it to thick. The metal brackets you see on the edges now holds a piece of clear glass in front of this, I kept it off for picture purposes. The frame will allow it to stand or be hung.