Sunset After a Light Snow
This is in the mail on the way to New York City for the Twitter Art Exhibit to be held in March. Proceeds benefit Foster Pride’s HandMade program, which teaches girls in foster care how to crochet and then market…
Carolyn A Pappas
Nature and Landscape Art
Category Mixed Media Work
Pink Peony with Buds
A pink peony for Valentine’s Day, drawn from my photo archives. I have really been enjoying the artwork of Inky Leaves on Instagram and I’m getting inspired to start making some more botanical themed artwork myself in the near future.…
Winter Atmosphere
This year, it does not feel like a normal winter. It is mid January and we are just starting to get some of the expected winter weather, but we haven’t yet had a proper blizzard. I miss it in a…
We had a bountiful pear harvest this year.
This season is the first one that yielded a significant number of pears from the pear trees (Bartletts, two of them). The first year, there was nothing and the trees had to be dug up and rotated as they were…
Spinach Illustrations
The above images are three illustrations of spinach I made for Sow True Seed, an open-pollinated and heirloom garden seed company. I illustrated three varieties of spinach: America, Winter Giant, and Bloomsdale Longstanding (shown in that order), and these images…
Spring!
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Today felt like a late January winter’s day with snow and wind, but over the past few weeks the snow mounds have gone down some and I…
Bonus Art Day
The blizzard we had yesterday turned out to be a blessing in disguise, an extra day off work and time to spend inking and watercoloring. I made the picture below, plus got a good chunk done on something else which…
Merry Christmas
I would like to wish everyone a lovely and stress-free Christmas. I am having a wonderful time with my family this year, and my daughter, who is 3, is so much fun at her age. I did not buy her…
Collaboration on a Title via Twitter
Last November I tweeted an image of one of my finished pieces and asked for help coming up with a title. At first I didn’t hear anything but then after a few retweets months later, I got so many responses…