tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24214066594283262462024-02-18T21:10:41.720-08:00RavenpaintingAmusements in Art and NatureLori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.comBlogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-70315576534741150072013-05-23T14:45:00.000-07:002013-05-23T14:48:32.656-07:00New BlogJust a note to some of you who I miss hearing from ... I have created a new art blog and you can visit me there now at <a href="http://www.atfoxglovehollow.blogspot.com/">Foxglove Hollow</a><br />
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Hope to hear from you and reconnect!<br />
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Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-5952504081180442512013-04-23T18:16:00.002-07:002013-04-23T18:16:47.988-07:00Royal Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the <a href="http://www.collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/"> Collage Obsession </a>challenge this week "Postal Art". Imagery from itKuPiLli, Rosey Posey, Manuela and googled Elizabethan script. All blended and layered in PSE.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-23707065198331148952013-04-22T06:28:00.000-07:002013-04-22T06:28:28.515-07:00Earth's Keeper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Earth Day!<br />
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May we all take time today to cherish our home planet, to share in her beauty and abundance and to find ways in which to help her remain vital and sustaining. We all can do our part to keep the balance and make efforts to give back from all that we take from our home Mother.<br />
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Blessed be!<br />
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imagery from itKuPiLLi , Finecrafted Designs and Holliewood all at Deviant Scrap.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-89825000956818708602013-04-19T15:28:00.000-07:002013-04-19T15:29:13.865-07:00La Mer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for this upcoming week's challenge at <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word</a> "The Sea". After a nice break to renew, and refuel my inner muse with gardening, a little travel and some remodel/refurbishing at home; I again feel at home in my digital workshop. With some beautiful new images from itKuPiLLi and Finecrafted Designs this renaissance merwoman inspires us to connect with the sea.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-47510228281504718392013-03-13T10:38:00.000-07:002013-03-13T10:38:04.986-07:00Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/">CollageObsession</a> challenge "Fairy Tales and children's literature".<br />
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This is my "Steampunk" entry for the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses</a> challenge this week. Smoky and misty and odd this great old photo is from Vintage blog along with eye chart from graphic 45,doors from itKuPiLLi and clockworks from Finecrafted designs.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-2638100690035852902013-03-08T16:47:00.000-08:002013-03-08T16:48:18.143-08:00Greenwood Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Aine of Knockaine is a Celtic goddess of love and fertility, later known as the Fairy Queen. Aine is revered among Irish herbalists and healers and is said to be responsible for the body's life force".<br />
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"Green" is the theme for the upcoming<a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/"> Take A Word </a> challenge. My digital collage is a tribute to the Celtic spirit; it's love of nature, myth and the turning of the wheel. Imagery from Dover books, itKuPiLLi, Christine Rennee and Ztampf at Scrapbookgraphics.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-31019682486131550642013-03-05T06:54:00.000-08:002013-03-05T06:56:24.456-08:00Felicity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses </a>challenge to use children in our art work this week. A lovely young girl from Hidden Vintage Studios along with imagery from itKuPilli, Catherine Moore art papers, botanical stamps and "difference" filters used for a more vintage look in PSE.<br />
A little Easter spirit is beginning to stir!Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-48651841735915111082013-03-03T17:04:00.000-08:002013-03-03T17:04:26.268-08:00Belle Fleur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">TAW</a> challenge this week using "Warm Colors". Always a delight to the eye these colors create a visual feast and excite the senses. Imagery for this digital collage from itKuPilli, K& Company art papers with overlay of handwritten notes.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-16428427134314358102013-02-26T16:12:00.000-08:002013-02-26T18:19:23.153-08:00Rites Of Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I want to thank the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses</a> for embracing the early signs of Spring as our challenge this week . I have been trying to jump out of the Winter doldrums this year to no avail. January was a very stressful month for me along with most of February (taxes and all that) and I finally feel the creative bug biting again! I also found a lovely new digital kit from itkupilli for this digital piece along with imagery from Pink Lotty and Rebecca McMeen.<br />
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Look for those early signs of Spring and let them lead you to a more colorful place!Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-54613001568888578602013-01-06T10:37:00.001-08:002013-01-06T10:37:18.327-08:00Life Canvas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The theme at <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word</a> challenge this week is simply "Art" and what it means to you.<br />
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Art is color, beauty and for me a sense of the feminine along with a connection to nature. Art is different for every one. Some see the darker aspects of life and some see the skewed, surreal forms through art expression. Art is fantasy and the grotesque.<br />
Art makes you feel; it moves you and inspires you (both good and bad). As long as it makes you react.... it is art.<br />
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This digital piece is made with imagery from art papers (Donna Estabrooks), Dover books and Finecrafted designs.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-40812028392563309882012-12-30T11:36:00.001-08:002012-12-30T11:36:27.645-08:00Aurora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bright blessings for the New Year!<br />
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word </a>challenge this week using "Turquoise and Purple". A digital collage made to have a "pastel" feeling to it with the swirls and hues of the Aurora Borealis or Northern lights. Goddess of the North and keeper of the mysterious lights. Imagery from Dover, and Pink Lotty at Deviant Scrap.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-50559664425242024362012-12-20T17:57:00.000-08:002012-12-20T17:57:52.187-08:00Winter Solstice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As we come to the Winter Solstice and the shortest day of the year we are reminded that the wheel is now turning again and the light will return to us slowly and methodically. I love how nature never rushes. It is pure and absolute. If only we could learn to pace ourselves as nature does.<br />
Take the time to engage winter in her harshness and her beauty.Use this time to go inward and be present, alive and awake, noting the changes but never urging them on.<br />
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This piece is the December page for my "Book of Days". Imagery from Stampington, Rucola Designs, Finecrafted Designs with artistic filters added in PSE.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-42792488495460670062012-12-15T10:33:00.001-08:002012-12-15T10:33:37.332-08:00Winterland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Ti's the Season".... is the theme for this upcoming week's <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A word </a>challenge. And challenge it was. As we are all so busy in preparing for this season of wonder and quiet reflection; this joyous time of family and especially for children that the horrors of Friday's school shooting in Connecticut leave us all numb and broken.<br />
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It was very difficult (as is this writing) to not allow the negative energy to influence a creative expression. It stops you in your tracks and makes you feel trivial and small.<br />
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This season for me (is) all about children. Their innocence, their belief in the wondrous and magical aspects of life, their ability to view the world as we adults have lost to some degree and each year at the Holidays we connect to that child in ourselves and we forget being adults for a while.<br />
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It is important that we all try to not let this horrific incident create more horror and try to carry on through loving, caring and sharing this holiday season as we always have. Believe in all of the good that<u> is</u> out there; give power to the positive not the negative and spread the wonder that this season can bring.<br />
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The best to you all...<br />
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Imagery in this digital piece from Rucola designs and Downunder studios.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-83453242053557242702012-12-01T17:20:00.001-08:002012-12-01T17:20:57.749-08:00Carte Postale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word</a> challenge this week to create"Mail Art". Vintage and journal style; this digital piece includes imagery from somerset artist papers (Lynne Perella collection and Jennifer Razo), Graphic 45 along with postal ephemera and artistic filters added.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-55292161668890692252012-11-18T08:17:00.000-08:002012-11-18T08:17:41.796-08:00Angelique<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word </a>challenge this week where the theme is (one of my favorites) "Angel". Despite having numerous beautiful angel images in my cache, I created a bit of an abstract angel from bits and pieces. Neither religious nor mythical I like to envision an angel as human with a sense of an "aura" of wings; of transcendence or the possibility of having angelic traits as called upon in life. The invisible becomes real and visible to those who care to see. Imagery from Dover books, Holliewood and Finecrafted designs at Deviantscrap and backgrounds from Pink Lotty.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-81446654187781388152012-11-13T06:37:00.000-08:002012-11-13T06:37:20.831-08:00Lady of the Beasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lovely you are and kind<br />
to the tender young of ravening lions.<br />
For sucklings of all savage<br />
beasts that lurk in the lonely places<br />
you have sympathy.<br />
Aeschylus<br />
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses</a> challenge this week where "Animal Magic" is the theme. Imagery from Dover books, Finecrafted designs Lorie Davison and the wonderful animal imagery from Tumblefish studios. Background from Pink Lotty.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-72659506413937091302012-11-04T06:45:00.000-08:002012-11-04T06:45:20.392-08:00Envision<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take a Word </a>challenge this week "Steampunk". A dreamer, a visionary,a soul from the past ; a seer of the future. My steampunk maiden is a compilation of grunge and lightness and mixed emotions. Imagery from Dover books, Finecrafted designs and Rosey PoseyLori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-21582935653598640612012-10-28T07:44:00.000-07:002012-10-28T07:44:13.880-07:00Transcendence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/">Take A Word </a>challenge this week where "wings" are the theme. An ethereal dream scape of transcendence by flight and fancy. Wings almost always conjure up a sense of lightness, escape and spiritual ascendance to me- a lifting- up skyward motion. Imagery for this digital collage from Dover books, Rosey Posey, Holliewood and Beth Rimmer.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-63245492453802841042012-10-20T17:16:00.000-07:002012-10-20T17:16:30.068-07:00Fresco Rose<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for this week's<a href="http://www.takeaword.blogspot.com/"> Take a Word </a>challenge "Roses". Old world imagery "Mary Queen of Roses" from Dover books, blended with rose imagery with the "Fresco" filter added in Photoshop, and background from Pink Lotty. I'm posting a bit early as I have to work tomorrow but will be back in the afternoon to join in with the challenge!Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-29664007584254333122012-10-17T08:27:00.000-07:002012-10-17T08:27:52.222-07:00All Hallows Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taking a break from a very busy October 31st this little "Witch" is my entry for the <a href="http://www.collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/">Collage Obsession </a>challenge this week. Imagery from Finecrafted Designs, Holliewood, Lorie Davison and some googled images as well.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-26058430961951022562012-10-16T07:11:00.000-07:002012-10-16T07:11:08.964-07:00Hallowed Veil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my eerie take on the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses "</a>vintage" theme this week. A spectral visitation in the form of a long past vintage beauty who for whatever reason appears on an old glass slide; beckoning the beholding viewer deeply into her trance....<br />
Imagery from Vintage Photography blog, Rosey Posey, Dover and Christine ReneeLori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-38797844339480981822012-10-13T07:27:00.000-07:002012-10-13T07:27:49.293-07:00Raven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All month long at the <a href="http://www.sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com/">Sunday Postcard Art </a> challenge Halloween is being celebrated and this week "Ravens" are the theme. Couldn't pass this one up ....ravens are one of my favorite birds; dark and ominous as they are depicted in literature and myth yet highly intelligent with a complex social structure and curious by nature. I worked for quite a few years as a Raptor handler for a wildlife rehab and education center and worked with Ravens on the glove as well. They never ceased to amaze me!Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-40857303900414764882012-10-10T08:44:00.000-07:002012-10-10T08:45:24.301-07:00Royal Sepia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/">Collage Obsession </a>challenge using the color"Brown" this week. Imagery from Dover books, Holliewood, Finecrafted designs and Rosey Posey all blended with brushes and filters in Photoshop.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421406659428326246.post-52755127869468120842012-10-09T09:05:00.000-07:002012-10-09T09:06:39.055-07:00Sea Pearl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the <a href="http://www.thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/">Three Muses </a>challenge this week "The Sea" A magical underwater goddess in her luminous water world. Imagery from Dover books, Holliewood at Deviant Scrap and art papers from K& Company.Lori Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518444945130246092noreply@blogger.com26