Saturday, November 2, 2024

Potato prints and nature rubbings.....




Years ago while working as an Arts and Ecology Director at Girl Scout Camp Farnsworth in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, I started doing potato and other vegetable printing as well as various kinds of nature "rubbings" with the campers and fellow counselors there.
Since then I used this medium with kids and adults in many of my Environmental Education/Interpretive Naturalist jobs and still love doing both to this day.
Over the past several years in my role as Caretaker for my Dad, who passed away this past May, this medium became pure art therapy for me.

Now I have boxes and boxes of such prints and I hope to sell some to be able to support myself beyond what I receive in my monthly ss retirement.
I will probably continue to create art this way for the rest of my life and share them here in hopes that....someday , someone might want to own an original. " ANNIE B."!
Here are a few more that I created yesterday....


 


Yesterday on my walk with Bella...





 










Thursday, October 31, 2024

Grateful for these 30 years....

 


HALLOWEEN marks my 30 year survival from Ovarian Cancer. I am truly Grateful for ALL of the help that I have received from friends and family to continue to stay alive this year, and at the same time am grieving the loss of many friends and family to various forms of cancer  and other life stealing illnesses.

 Right now Bella, this land , my garden plants and plans, music and ART are helping me to heal from nearly 16 years of combined trauma.. I Thank My parents and ancestors, The Great Spirit, God/dess, ALL-THAT-IS for my LIFE Each and Every Day .

"Four Owls on Halloween"
Mixed Media
By
Annie B. Siemer 
10/30/2024


My ART created this week and found in my "storage"....


 









 



My new "As the Crow Flies" pole


Tuesday, October 29, 2024