Amor Milagre Pink Peony Oil Painting, June Flowers Rose Cottage Garden
It’s June. The peonies, salvia, lavender, irises, clovers, lupines, foxgloves, dogwood, and daisies are blooming. This morning, I bunny-hopped out to catch a pink peony. I’d rather she stay snug in her bed, but due to neighbour pollution I cannot paint her out there, so in she came before her petals fell in the afternoon rainfall. Her portrait will now live forever in my shop. The original painting, archival art prints, and stationery cards are available today! A matching Flower Photography art print will accompany this piece soon. Remember, we all share this air, and we can all enjoy nature’s ever-art.
Happy Summer! Love, Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Pink Peony Oil Painting, June Flowers Rose Cottage Garden
My favourite way to paint is with plants because the scene keeps refreshing itself each moment.
Atelier Amor Milagre: Art, Books, Stationery, Interior Design, Organic Gardening & Kitchen. This interior is our library-atelier-office-homeschool room. We love painting with watercolours in here.
Now that our Rose Cottage renovations are winding down, I am able to catch up on finishing endless books, illustrations, interior design before & afters, stationery, and other fun projects to add to my shop.
A summer wax seal sticker and notecard set will release soon. New warm-weather inspired packaging will be dressing your orders beginning this month. I am excited about my new Autumn-Halloween stationery collection! The cookbook will probably release next winter. The newly illustrated Vol.I of The Love Letter Diaries, Leona’s Homecoming novels 1-4 will release this summer. I am mulling over a fresh film series to begin over the winter, but first the novelettes and children’s books draw my attention.
At the moment, we’re enduring that certain sting of updating the computers and printers. If you could just design them to last, please…that would be helpful and sustainable. The prices are not kind, but the worst part is testing out the new settings…just trying to capture the correct colours. I am most terrible particular about colours and sizes. And, why not? Painting in the desired colours and scope means something. If you’ve ever seen the work of an old master sold as art prints, with your pick of five different lights and shades, cropped until confusing, then you’ll know that those sellers have not visited the original, assessed what the faded level of colour is, and configured their senseless printers to best represent this aging. Every detail the artist includes matters, and as a whole this makes up the symbolic story of the composition.
This weekend, we had a quick bite…a fresh hot tortilla and roasted pepper hummus. It was comforting after a nice long walk. Oxygen health breathes new ideas, stories, and leaves space to work on aging ones before they are lost to the stacks of notebooks in the bookcases.
There is much to do on this calming cleaning day, so I’m off now, riding the tickly bristles of my golden brush across the page. All things bewitching, coming soon. Love, ~Amor Milagre
This June, we are writing out our annual homeschool reading lists, reorganizing our library, adding more bookcases, planting a clematis on our new trellis wall to grow along with the English roses, illustrating my children’s books and novels, and enjoying some fresh summer broccoli sprouts and sweet melon. Simmering ideas in the shade is a good way to meditate on the year ahead. This is a stimulating time to grow organic plant foods and positive thoughts.
I’ve noticed that the children’s apparel pieces that I hand-design last several years, size-wise, rather than just six months to a few years. These heirloom items also don’t stretch out and are saved in our archival baby box to perhaps use later on if wanted. Etiquette lessons, and using napkins, keep clothing from being spoiled. Mostly, we keep our special pieces as a memory portal back to a certain stage of precious giggles and sparkling eyes.
Also, if fabric can be sewn, it can be easily edited if needed as babies grow to extend wear. We love styling up our outfits with light layers. Historical silhouettes influence more comfortable designs here at Rose Cottage.
We enjoy connecting to all of the beautiful techniques left for us by past nimble fingers and minds. Fashion and costume design are a weekly course in our homeschool Fine Arts & History lessons. Art is in everything we do, and we’re never done learning and experimenting. The dolls acquire most of our finery. Every button is saved to use for something extraordinary.
