flowers & sunglasses

It's Two Birds: Inspiration Monday.

My version of

today's inspiration is

Gwyneth Paltrow

...It was spring at last, and I wanted to breathe spring, see and smell spring, and look like spring. Outside my window, the trees between the stoops were jubilant, dressed in pigment permanent green light, but the oil-painted colors had it all wrong.
 It wasn't permanent. It was all too brief...

from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland



...The petals look like wings of fuchsia butterflies
about to fly out the window...

from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

...Five glass cases were filled with blown forms, some with iridescent detailing in the motifs of feathers, flames, and arabesques. In the glass, streams meandered, clouds drifted, blossoms opened...
from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland



...beneath a magnolia tree radiant with enormous creamy blossoms, each petal a cup of sunlight...
from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

My fringed jacket is thrifted.
Also seen worn & styled differently here.

..."Things that have been lost and found are doubly precious, don't you think?" she said cheerfully, "people."...from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

skirt is thrifted

...I played with my kaleidoscope
and watched the pieces crash...
from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

...He reckons that what he re-creates from the world has the power to raise up a persons thoughts or feelings."...
from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

my art journal page

"You mean seeing art can make a person moral?...
..."If he's open to it, because it make his soul better.
 More appreciative and sensitive and compassionate"...
from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

Another art journal page

..."Fog comes across the water,"..."so I like to have a palette of cool, dusky colors like those hollyhocks, foxgloves, hydrangeas, and lilacs against the grey air."...from book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

Art Journal page
from May 11, 2012

It says: All day the sky was grey,
 threatening to rain,
 and when it finally did that night,
it pounded the roof,
while the hail pelleted down,
Lightening striking the tree limbs around.