Parasol mushroom at sunrise.

 

This beautiful mushroom was growing in my garden and just had to be picked and drawn in sepia pen.  The next morning the sunrise was so spectacular I decided to use it as a background to set off the creamy mushroom.

Morning is my favourite time

W&N watercolour on DalerRowney 220gsm heavy-weight sketching paper - sunrise over our smallholding, view towards the neighbour's property

Morning is my favourite time when everything is new; 

flowers drink the morning dew and skies are painted in a golden hue.

Each tree stands tall and stately – different shades and different face. 

I’m viewing morning’s painting, done with Nature’s brush of Grace.

The sun peeks slowly in the East, then rises with its smile;

Another morning greeting and we walk another mile.

UNKNOWN 

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1 Jan 2012 - Waking the sun every morning - Maree

Artemis waking the Sun every morning at 4am on our smallholding in Tarlton, South Africa (or so all our other farm animals believe!)

"Chanticleer is a proud rooster whose singing wakes the sun every morning (or so the other farm animals believe). His singing keeps the other animals happy and the farm free from downpours. However, one morning, Chanticleer is attacked by a rooster sent by the "Grand Duke of Owls". Chanticleer wins, but forgets to crow and the sun rises without his singing (it is not greatly hinted, but it is believed the Duke raised the sun with his powers as a means to help his plans of getting rid of Chanticleer). The other animals reject him and drive him out of the farm, causing a perpetual rainstorm and the beginning of the Grand Duke's reign of terror on the farm."
- From Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler

Here's wishing everybody a beautiful sunrise every morning in the years to come and may your 2012 be filled with LOVE, JOY and INSPIRATION!

South African Sunrise - Maree

“With each sunrise, we start anew”



At the edge of our smallholding stands this lonely little Syringa tree, and I was up early enough one morning to capture the sun rising.