by niya christine

Floral Elephant

Elephant painting on wood. Niya Christine. Copyright

#80/365 Paintings

The flowers really love this elephant. Her skin is to flowers what flypaper is to flies. She doesn’t mind. She surmises that flowers have the right to love whomever they like. What she doesn’t know is how gosh darn pretty she is. ; D

Project notes: This is my first painting on wood. It was wild. Sanding and dabbling, painting, inking, charcoaling until it was right.

in March | Fabric & Flowers / Project 365

3 comments

Sage Cohen March 21, 2013

“What she doesn’t know is how gosh darn pretty she is.” …my heart feels papered in flowers right now. It is art that returns our beauty to us in tact when once we were convinced it was lost or shattered or irreparable. Thank you for calling us back, Niya and Floral Elephant! I intend to bring forth my inner bouquet today! : )
- niya christine March 21, 2013
  
  This is the best thing anyone has ever said to me about art’s instrument to the human condition. You made my day beautiful woman!
Sage Cohen March 22, 2013

Looks like we made each other’s day! Lucky us! xoxo

Monthly Inspirational Quotes

January: Coffee & Tea "Coffee. Creative lighter fluid." ~ Floyd Maxwell

February: Love & Character "Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition."
~ Alan Alda

March: Fabric & Flowers "Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keefe

April: Cows & Canaries "Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
~ Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

May: Bunnies & Bicycles" "Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.” ~ Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free

"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.” ~ Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

June: Food & Wine “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” ~ Paulo Coelho, "Brida"

July: Wild Horses & Adobe Houses “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

August: WILD{card} “A healthy woman is much like a wolf, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive and loyal. Yet separation from her wildish nature causes a woman to become meager, anxious, and fearful. The wild nature carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories, dreams, words and songs." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Women Who Run with Wolves.”

September: Quirks & Curiosities “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.” ~ Woody Allen

October: Dogs & Doors “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” ― Tom Stoppard

“Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.” ~ Gene Hill

November: Fish Fabulous “…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” ~ Mark Nepo

Floral Elephant

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