Everything is the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different everything is not the same.
-Gertrude Stein

Forever – is Composed of Nows-

-Emily Dickinson

The only authenticated likeness of Emily Dickinson can be viewed on the Emily Dickinson Museum page.

My favourite resource for Emily Dickinson poems is edickinson.org. High resolution images of her surviving handwritten poems can be found there! If you want to read and discuss her poetry or discover other amazing poetry, from Emily Dickinson to present day poets, I highly recommend Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (ModPo). It is the most incredible, unique and educational online poetry course I’ve ever completed, (and gone back to over and over again) and it’s free! It’s not just a course, it’s a community. If you enjoy poetry at any level, check it out for yourself, and you’ll soon know what I mean.

I saw a darling bunny poking around in our backyard a few days ago and I was inspired! Spring is coming folks, and sunnier days ahead, so stay strong, positive and looking forward. I created a little bunny image that I hope you’ll agree is cute, cute cute! I’m offering it as a free download for your children to colour.

Please feel free to download and print one or several…play is good for our health and happiness! Pass it on!

8×8 Bunny Colouring Page

It’s a faux cutout card created digitally using my CARDINAL SILHOUETTE IMAGE now available in my Etsy Shop. This is a flat single paper printed image, but it tricks the eye doesn’t it?

The PDF file link is available HERE and will print at 10″ x 7″ so all you have to do is cut it out, and fold it in half for a 5″ x 7″ card.

I hope this is useful to some of you, as Father’s Day is just around the corner.

Please share a link to this post if you like the card and would like to make others aware of the free printable, thanks!

Have a creative day!

Deena x

My Beatrice study – a practice in shading, blending and shadowing, painted on my IPad using the Procreate painting app and my Apple Pencil.

I was recently inspired to paint this after the passing of my sweet grandmother, who shares the name of Beatrice.

Dante Gabrielle Rosetti – May 12 1828 – April 9 1882

A stanza of  Rosetti’s poem “The Portrait”

This is her picture as she was:

It seems a thing to wonder on,

As though mine image in the glass

Should tarry when myself am gone.

I gaze until she seems to stir,–

Until mine eyes almost aver

That now, even now, the sweet lips part

To breathe the words of the sweet heart:–

And yet the earth is over her.

–Dante Gabriel Rosetti 

Society6  is an online venue where I am selling some of my artwork.  There are hundreds of thousands of artists on Society6 doing the same. So I’m just a small fish in a very large pond, but still, I have had some success! Yay!

For all my friends today I’m happy to offer (in time for the Holidays) a 20% discount and FREE Worldwide Shipping!! This is a really great time to get some art for your walls, or a friend’s wall!

You have to use one of these direct links in this post to access my sale.

Society6 LINK FOR 20% OFF SALE 

I hope you will take a moment to see what I have to offer there!

Enjoy your day!

Deena x

Stop by A Creative Need for your digital images this weekend and get 40% off everything in your cart! Don’t miss out, this sale ends Monday the 30th 2015.