Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

More beautiful seldom seen wildflowers from Anza Borrego Desert!  I think there are never enough.  Most of the flowers are small and it takes a lot of them to cover the hillsides.  Most amazing to find one flower standing alone in the otherwise barren area of the desert.  Enjoy! White Primrose Desert Lily California Poppy A favorite - The Five Spot These are so tiny and a lovely lavendar Tiny plants  These are about the size of your little fingernail  = maybe smaller! One brave yellow spot of color

Field of CA poppies Beautiful fields of yellow and of purple Green hills that I've only seen be brown in color Tiny flowers that only bloom every few years Rain makes the desert bloom! Brittle Bush Chia Fairie Duster Green Bug on Chia Penstamon California Poppy Most of these photos were taken on my recent trip to the Anza Borrego Desert where I thoroughly enjoyed the magic of the desert in bloom.  I hope you enjoy them too!   More picture next week of different desert blooms.

The Flower! The Prescott Art Market recently started a quarterly art show-competition.  There is space to hang 20 canvases that measure 20" x 20" x 2"  and anyone who shows their work in the gallery is eligible to participate.  The theme and color scheme is based on the seasons.  Spring is coming up!  March 1 is the opening show from 6 pm to 8 pm and you are invited! This is the color scheme for spring and these are my test pieces for the polymer colors. I'm trying some new (for me) ideas in polymer clay and instead of making only jewelry, I'm exploring polymer on a canvas with some 3 dimensional pieces. I gathered canes I had and made additional ones in the colors of the spring scheme and started to design a canvas that tells the story of making a 3 dimensional flower. Canes I selected for the project Several canes were selected to make a design line and then I sliced the long composite cane.  A thin blue sheet of polymer was r...