animal art

Tiger, Robin & Polar Bear! New 5 x 7 Originals and Prints Available – with a Fun Twist!

Posted by Barbara Techel
Becoming I Am

Tiger, Polar Bear, and Robin are new 5 x 7 mixed media animal friends I’ve added to my art shop on my website. Tiger and Polar Bear came about because of an inspiring reading I had from a friend this summer.

Tiger encourages us to know that we are always in a state of becoming and there is nothing we need to do, but to just fully embrace who we are fully in each moment.

While Polar Bear wanders its path with curiosity and without worry of what will be, the spirals reflect that this is the process of life as we wander. An ebb and flow of inward and then outward which is a necessary part of what walking our path is all about.

Wander the Path of Curiosity

Robin with its very vocal and beautiful song pulled me into a welcome trance one early evening. Noticing the change in light as we head toward fall, I appreciate how Robin sings its song in every season as it truly knows the song of its soul! And how gorgeous the colors of Robin looks among the foliage of fall.

Imagine the Song of Your Soul

With each original or print there is the option of an add on to make it even more personal as a gift for yourself or a friend… with a one card reading! In the write up I include the wisdom of the animal you purchase, plus I pull one oracle card from my collection of decks and intuit a personalized message to you (or friend).

Originals available here.

Prints available here.

My mixed media is a combination of collage paper, photos I’ve either taken or copyright-free images from various resources and then enhanced with pastel chalks, paint, gel pens, stencils, and sparkle gems. Plus I add dried flowers, twigs, feathers and/or stones I forage from around my Joyful Pause Cottage studio from what I gather on my early morning walks.

And…Inspired by the animals who are loving, compassionate, wise, and trusted informants and allies.

XO

Barb

    

 

New Animal Art Inspired by Sweet Encounter with Hummingbird!

Posted by Barbara Techel
Original available here. Prints available here.

Earlier last week I had a lovely time communing with Hummingbird which inspired this new 8 x 10 dimensional shadow box piece!

I sensed this message wasn’t just for me, but for others too and why I’m delighted to share with you what Hummingbird had to share:

There she was.
So tiny and sweet as can be.
Sitting upon the thinnest of branches in the birch tree.
Admiring her small but mighty self
I heard Hummingbird say,

Isn’t the universe remarkable?

Then slowly turning and looking at the trunk of the tree, using her beak as a pointer, her head moved up and down.

This tree may be one hundred times my stature, but my spirit holds the same vast essence, Hummingbird exclaimed!

How true, I communed back!

Her tender wings fluttered in excitement at my response.

In this moment I am calling you back to ancient wisdom and that you too hold deep in your soul this same essence, Hummingbird said.

It is more magnificent and expansive than you sometimes realize. And I am here in this space of time to remind you to come back to the truth of who you are.

There is nothing to do.

But just sit with me, marvel at nature, and allow her caring, sensitive, and loving qualities to fully envelop you.

And then you will know.

And more importantly, you will feel yourself arriving back once again to your true home that is within.

©Barbara Techel with Hummingbird Spirit

XO

Barb

    

Honoring the Autumn of Life – A New Mixed Media Print

Posted by Barbara Techel

Last week when I posted a photo on Facebook of this piece I created on an 8 x 10 birchwood panel as a gift for a friend who recently retired, I received so many lovely comments! So I decided to offer it for sale as a print in my online website shop. 5 x 7 is $15 and an 8 x 10 is $20 plus $5.00 shipping for either size.

For as long as I’ve known my friend, which has been over 20 years now, she has always adored acorns. One day in May we were visiting in my Joyful Pause Cottage studio when she spied a few dried oak leaves on my art table. She said how much she loved them. Right then I knew what I was going to create for her as a gift for her approaching new phase of life.
 
I included the bluebird, symbolic of happiness as a way of finding joy and new adventures in the autumn of one’s life.
 
The Oak tree from which the sweet acorns grow also known as the Tree of Life symbolic of longevity and considered one of the most sacred tress in many traditions.

Creating this piece had me contemplating once again, the autumn of my life that I am just on the cusp of as I begin my 60th orbit around the sun having just turned 59 a few weeks ago.

So much loving energy went into this piece and brought much peace and contentment as I worked on it…and I’m happy to say my friend was deeply touched and thrilled by it too.

If you’d like to purchase a print, just click here to be taken to the page in my online website shop.

XO

Barb