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colour pencil drawing - Kiskadee we look with wonder -
morning sun rising to
kiskadee and i
© gillena cox 2021

MUSEUM MODE - colour pencil collage

More New Year Stickers  - digital creations

 

Here are some more of the cards i received for Year of The Ox 2009, New Year Card exchange by snail mail. I will show some more next Friday.

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Paint Party Friday: Week 46, Year 10 

AND

recuerda mi corazon

REVISIT
MY post to PPF Week 46, Year 9
MY post to PPF Week 46, Year 8
MY post to PPF Week 45, Year 7

Bon Appetit - photo mine from my 2020 archives

apples, bananas, portugals

ENJOY THE ART VIDEO 

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Kiskadee in a digital frame

Kiskadee colour pencil drawing

kiskadee  -

she sings to me at  dawn then

 rests  for a while

© gillena cox 2021

 2021 sticker  - i am creating a lot of these this January

Sorrel from my archives to toast today at our art date

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Thursday Art Date

Birds and the sky

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REVISIT
14 January 2020
14 January 2018
14 January 2017

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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[a 3 by 4 inch sketch, ink and brush, done on a white drawing pad page]
kiskadee
on my neighbour's rooftop -
beak slicing the air
© gillena cox 2019


Here in T&T it's Carnival Time, Season of Bacchanal.

A happy Season of Carnival to T&T.

Sunday Smiles

[Smiley from google]


ENJOY THE MUSIC


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #55 of the series SUMI-E SUNDAYS. Tell me about your Sunday
email me
post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



REVISIT
Sunday Standard 55
Sunday Lime 55
19 January 2018


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Recuerda Mi Corazon
a weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love

AND


Poets and Storytellers United
Writers' Pantry: #3: Be Warm


AND


Carpe Diem
Weekend Meditation #112 Transformation ... sketching from life (Shiki's Shasei technique)
Shiki hated associations, contrasts, comparisons, wordplays, puns, and riddles - all the things we are cherishing here! He favored the quiet simplicity of just stating what he saw without anything else happening in the haiku. He found the greatest beauty in the common sight, simply reported exactly as it was seen, and ninety-nine percent of his haiku written in his style.

PROMPT:This weekend I love to challenge you to re-create a haiku (in Shasei style) by Shiki into a Tanka. Here is the haiku to work with:

kaboocha yori nasu muzukashiki shasei kana
Sketching from life —
eggplants are harder to do
than pumpkins
© Masaoka Shiki (Tr. Burton Watson)

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pumpkins and baigan
so colourful the market stalls
my one basket serves
to take all my purchases
carefully back to my house
© gillena cox 2020

In Trinidad and Tobago we do say eggplant, but we also call them BAIGAN


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CARNIVAL PAST photos © gillena cox



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[this Pink Periwinkle from my garden]

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[kiskadee haiga]


she frolics
through the aged mango tree -
flashes of yellow
© gillena cox 2018


[Kiskadee digital composition]



[Listening to the kiskadee photo inspiration]



[photo after PicsArt magic]



[Crop Listening to the kiskadee watercolour]



[Listening to the kiskadee watercolour art on the drawing board]



[Happy 7th PPF]



Blog hopping with

7th Birthday PPF

AND


ANIMAL



ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
9 March 2011
9 March 2010
9 March 2009

1994

puffy white clouds
sit on the mountain top
imagine
the songs of kiskadee
rising to serenade them
© gillena cox 2016



Blog hopping today at

Carpe Diem
Tanka Splendor #26 meditation


[video of choice]

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Trending September Day 9

no summers
just Caribbean breezes
no winters either

fallen blossoms
on the paved walk

leaf cutter ants
they have a mind of their own
carrying cuttings

some faithful ladies arrange
vases for their church altar

automatic doors -
the intimated welcome
to grocery shoppers

persistent honking of horns
Sunday cooking gas sellers

polling day
the longest lines
for stained fingers

delicious! watermelons
did i mention, the red team won

kiskadee
this bird singing out its name
kis ka ke ee ee
© gillena cox


This is DAY NINE of Trending September a haiku sequence. During this September sequence i will not be linking to prompts at other sites.

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I made a sketch of Caricature Plant leaves. Took a photos of the sketch and the leaves; Combined photo and sketches, to create a digital piece. I still don't know what I've come up with, so let's have some fun. Suggest a title for this piece above. And now here a little bit of the process in collage




I am blog hopping today at
PPF Week 24, Year 5


SPIN OF YELLOW - A SIJO
the yellow underbelly of a kiskadee resting
on high voltages wires this dull sunlit morning
like a daub of sunshine splashes of yellow on leaves
© gillena cox


Revisit
Caricature 2014
Caricature 2013
Caricature 2012

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Mac Donalds, Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain Trinidad



Series Picture Post Cards #38


flash of yellow -
the underbelly of a
kiskadee in flight
© gillena cox



Revisit
sunny day
frenzied
kis ka dee



I am blog hopping today at
Monday Mellow Yellows




...


Carpe Diem #706, Delusion

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MacDonald's; Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain Trinidad, 2015

encouraging
the morning on -
kiskadee's song
© gillena cox




Revisit
days of
signs
when they



I am blog hopping today at
signs signs


...

Thursday's Challenge"TWO" (Twins, Two of Anything,...)

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a wildflower
in the path of sunlight -
revellery

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singing its name
into the light of morning
kiskadee
© gillena cox

'singing its name' a repost of March 19, 2010






blog hopping today at
Carpe Diem #679, Light


...

will Link also to