Ascender

Ascender, Artist Burlingame, CA Main site http://ascenderrisesabove.com Blog http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress Etsy Store http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=88025 Squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/ascenderrisesabove/ My home is my studio; my studio is my home. I create many different types of art which you can read about here. This month I am working on another of my Scatterlings©. Scatterlings© is a collection of self-directed enchantment art which combines actual foliage with watercolor and color pencil mediums. Hidden among the actual and rendered foliage are an enchanted assortment of 'Scatterlings'©; mythical animals and fairies. A framed Scatterlings© on the mantel; awaiting a gallery. This is the upcoming Scatterlings© I am working on. The tree shown stands at the Filoli House which is located 30 miles south of San Francisco. Every third Thursday of the month Filoli allows artists and photographers to have access to the garden after hours. I grow most of the flowers that are dried and pressed in my Scatterlings. I tell people this is a photo of an angel I caught blessing my flowers early one morning. Close-up of hand-made Christmas ornaments, a stack of Interior Design books, mixed in with some antiques acquired along the way. My modified light table; assorted collage and mixed media supplies; a few of my books and magazines. This is right off the fireplace; which is quite soothing - doing art with a fire crackling and some quiet music barely audible. Embellishments, collage, mixed media supplies, glues, beads; the other side of my modified light table. Feathers; glass bottles preserving dried flowers; stamps, inks; critters in the making. More books on computer software; many many art technique books, books on advertising and marketing; antique bookcase. Is there ever enough book shelves? Kitchen window; angels, angels and more angels; some altered magnets I am working on. Next month I will feature another corner of my studio - featuring where I work on dry and oil pastels, collage/mixed media, pointillism, watercolors, perspective renderings and my computer workstation.