One World One Heart

Thanks for stopping by Natures Walk Studio during your One World One Heart tour! My name is Helen and I am a mixed media artist living in the northwestern portion of Washington State, USA. My passions are creating art, taking photographs of the gorgeous scenery around our area, and being actively involved in wildlife habitat preservation. Our yard and garden is Certified Wildlife Sanctuary through the National Wildlife Federation, a nice mix of both native and non-native plants that attracts birds year round, and inspires me daily. My art and photography are primarily focused on nature.

This year I decided to challenge myself and do some type of art every day, along with a group of similar minded artists at atcsforall.com; the 2011 Project 365. I was inspired by a few of these Project 365 online friends to participate in One World One Heart this year.

As part of One World One Heart, I am giving away this 4x6 Gothic Arch I created to celebrate the new year... "Window to the Future"

Anyone world-wide may participate in the giveaway. You just need to be an active blogger, leave a comment, and be sure to include either your blog address or an email address so I can contact you. The winner will be announced Feb 17th, and I'll contact the winner by email as well.

UPDATE: Comments posted through Feb 17 4:00pm PST will be included in the drawing.

DRAWING IS CLOSED. Our winner is Laura from Artworks Studio  http://laura-comito.blogspot.com/.

Enjoy your journey through blog-land!

Hope is the thing

Hope is the thing with feathers

that perches in the soul, 

and sings the tune without words, 

and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

At the River

We had a great time at Rasar Park, lot's of rest and reading and taking walks down to the river. Not as much sunshine as promised, but at least it didn't rain heavily until we were headed home. The river wasn't as high as we expected, although we could see it had been. It was still the highest we've seen while camping. Usually there is a sandy beach all along this stretch.

And the rocky point is mostly underwater and filled with sand. I did find some rocks in the sand that worked for the Silly 3 photo assignment - making a face with odd objects.

And while we were having our picnic snack, I dropped some of my trail mix so created this face...

John sometimes wonders about me. :)

I wanna be here

And tomorrow we will be. Off in the morning to our favorite park for some winter camping. yay! Now I just hope the promised sunshine actually shows up. :)

We have a Winner!

I put everyone's names into a basket, and had my husband pick a name... Naked Heart Studio is the winner! Congratulations, Robin!

And because you can't have enough of a good thing (and I am still de-stashing), we picked a second place and it is Lynnsie. Congratulations, Lynn!

Please email your address to me at natureswalk at comcast dot net and I'll get your packages on their way.

Art

I have been doing quite a bit of art of late... the challenge to do art every day is keeping me doing some bit of art every day. Sometimes it's just the 10 minute exercises from Silly the Third, sometimes working on the journal pages for the Strathmore Visual Journaling Class, sometimes just 'cuz I wanna play. Here's a couple Altered Playing cards I created today...

 

These cards were brushed with gesso to mute the numbers, then layered with stamped script and paper napkins, images and inked edges. The birds in the heart also include beeswax and Glaze pen.

Clark's Point

Today, as our celebration of Martin Luther King Day, we joined a work party with the Whatcom Land Trust and Native Plant Society and helped removed invasive plants from the Clark's Point preserve. The biggest focus was on Scotch Broom, and English Holly. Bonus were the good company, no rain while we were there, hot scones one of the volunteers brought (yum!), a walk up and down hill through a gorgeous old growth area, and standing out on the point enjoying the view. You could feel the earths energy. 

Lagoon at Clark's Point 

John looking out from the spit at the Lagoon

John pulling up Scotch Broom and a good view. 

A few of the volunteers...

Looking out from the tip of Clark's Point.