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Showing posts with label Contemporary Expressionism. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Holy Cow Butterfly

Holy Cow! Butterfly #54  -  Graphic Illustration  -  2.23.12



The Cow

    The friendly cow all red and white,
    I love with all my heart:
    She gives me cream with all her might,
    To eat with apple-tart.

    She wanders lowing here and there,
    And yet she cannot stray,
    All in the pleasant open air,
    The pleasant light of day;

    And blown by all the winds that pass
    And wet with all the showers,
    She walks among the meadow grass
    And eats the meadow flowers.

- by Robert Louis Stephenson


In honor of my friend Anne Woerner, Happy Birthday!


Sunday, February 19, 2012



Sea of Flight  #50  -  Textile Fabric Design  -  (Pucci Palette)  2-19-12


Far out at sea, --the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, 
We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, 
Far out at sea.    - Richard Hengist Horne 





Saturday, February 18, 2012


Familija Leptir  #49  -  Ink Doodles, Mixed Media  2.18.12



The Butterfly Family
They dance and cling to air, swirling in space, 
fluttering in secret, living in joy. 
Together, they fly as one and are never alone. 

- Tanja Nikolic





Friday, February 17, 2012



Give Me Wings   #48  -  Watercolor, Cut Paper, Mixed Media Digital  2.17.12


Give Me Wings
Give me wings to soar, give me hope to smile,
give me life to give, on the wings of love, let's live.

- Tanja Nikolic Nobert  2012




Thursday, February 16, 2012


Leptir Zelin  -  Paper Design  - Graphic   2.16.12




“Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”  - You've got mail quotes (Movie)


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day!

hearts a flutter - silver, acrylic on canvas  2-14-12


The Butterfly

    As love falls down from the sky,
It lands on the wings of a butterfly.
The butterfly sings it's songs and rhymes,
And flies through the air, No concept of time.
It is the messenger of patience and change,
From flower to flower, it's odd and it's strange.
The butterfly can transform it's world.
And give way to new beginnings, unfurled,
It is the keeper of transformation,
And flies on faith and imagination.
The butterfly has no fear of change,
It bravely escapes it's homemade cage.
To change, it knows is necessary,
For all the burdens we need not carry.
The butterfly soars, and merrily sings,
For, without change, it could never grow wings.


-Heather Reneé Adamkiewicz 

Monday, February 13, 2012

Graphic B. - Pucci Inspired - 2-13-12



LOOK THROUGH EYES OF HOPE AND SEE
A BUTTERFLY INSIDE THE CATERPILLAR,
HOPE KNOWS THAT BEAUTY IS WAITING TO BE
BORN IN THE UNLIKELIEST PLACES ...

Thea Miller Ryan






Saturday, February 11, 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012


Pink & Red  -  ink, paper, digital mixed media  -  textile design


Free the butterflies-
I'll be there
to see them soar
upon the air.
Know my spirit
is on the wing,
feel my laughter-
hear me sing.

Forever in your dreams
always in your heart.

-Fran LeMasters

Thursday, February 9, 2012


Tribute to Tiffany Diamond Butterfly Collection - Digital Mixed Media  -  Inspired by Tiffany Print Campaign



Clasp my love around your neck, Wear my heart on your finger.
My soul will be your pendant: I live to adorn you - You're the precious one.
 
~Grey Livingston, "Genuine Adoration"





Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Flutter, Movement #2


Flutter, Wing Movement #2 - Paper on Press Board


“A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly”
-Andre Gide 
(French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)
Flutter, Movement #1 

Flutter, Wing Movement #1 - Oil, Acrylic and Wood on Press Board


“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised
a butterfly in the winter woods” - Edith Wharton

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Vintage Parlor Butterfly Swirls

Vintage Parlor Butterfly Swirls - Textile and Paper Design  © Tanja Nikolic - 2012


“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into 
beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”  - Drew Barrymore

Thursday, February 2, 2012


Orange you a pretty butterfly?

Orange you a pretty butterfly?  -  Textile Art - Fine Art Print  © Tanja Nikoic - 2012





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, 
freedom and a little flower."  ~Hans Christian Andersen"

Friday, January 13, 2012

House of Cups



In Progress-



House of Cups
Mixed Media 

Early Stage of Painting. It will be a mixed media piece.
I will post the progress as it develops.