"The Kick Off.."

to my 3rd annual week of Valentine hearts

begins today with this heart...

made in my Artful Musings Sketchbook

just for fun.

She was drawn lead free "ink straight in"...and

was originally designed to be a metaphor...

a heart-filled bridge

connecting winter to spring.

I never intended to color her...or even post her...

but as my Muse moped around pouting-

big ol' pitiful eyes and all...

I caved

and "Poof" out came the colored pencils,

"Mmmm" went the scanner,

and

"Click" went the mouse.

The size of this piece is about 8" square.

Here are the links to my previous

Valentine's day hearts

in case you might want to pop in for a look-see.

Click here for the "Black Hearts" series...

and here

for last year's Lemony Hearts series...:)

♥

"Follow your heart,

but be quiet for a while first.

Ask questions, then feel the answer.

Learn to trust your heart.”

Author Unknown

(Hmmm...Just a thought...

might one substitute the word "Muse " for "Heart" above?

Might they just be the same identity?

Today, I think so...:)

"Last Year..."

...I artistically

celebrated the week before Valentine's Day ♥

with a series of hearts I called

the "Black Heart" series.

The were heavily zentangled and very tatoo-like.

(You can check out the whole series here.)

♥

This year...

I am looking forward

to celebrating with a week of "Lemony Hearts"

the palettes of which are inspired

by the luscious "lemony yellow" lemons on our tree.

This first piece

was drawn lead free in my zen journal...

and...

as you will see...

became the theme of many of the pieces to follow.

I hope you, in turn,

will look forward to seeing all of them.

Stay tuned...:) ♥

“Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The farther backward

you can look,

the farther forward you are likely to see.”
~Winston Churchill

"Heart Views..."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."
~Charles Dickens

May your life's chains be golden and your heart

"views" filled with growth.

Black Heart Series #6

"Your vision will become clear

only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside,

awakens."

~Carl Jung

"Thinking about...

...some of the little everyday things
which
tug with all their might at tender heartstrings.

heart·strings (härt′striŋz′)
deepest feelings or affections
Etymology: tendons or nerves formerly believed

to brace the heart.

SOURCE: Webster's New World College Dictionary

Black Heart Series #5

"The best gifts are tied with heartstrings."

~Author Unknown

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings,

and

making music with them."
~ Dennis Gabor

"Rescue Me...!"

I'm stuck...and slowing fraying apart at the seams!

LOL :)

(#2 in the Black Heart Series)

Wishing all a stress free, unfrayed Cactus Monday!

"I am like a book,

with pages that have stuck together for want of use:

my mind needs unpacking

and the truths stored within must be turned over

from time to time,

to be ready when occasion demands."
~Seneca

(Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

"Hearts, Anyone...?"

How about a whole Valentine's day week

filled with them?!

Introducing here to you today...

the first in my "Black Heart" series of

art designs drawn with a bit of an

urban edge.

"One of the hardest things in life

is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
~ James Earl Jones