Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

I’m new to Prescott and the artist’s world here.   I’m new to craft shows, art shows and holiday shows.   Every venue is an adventure…… Prescott’s 5 th Annual Victorian Holiday Sale, my first event, had a good track record and I was excited.   Peter made 4 pegboard panels (2’ x 4’), hinged 2 panels together and I covered them with glittery black fabric.   The jewelry looks really good on them and I control the amount of space they require by angling them.   My stack of cards and books, my hatpins, and my tall cone tree covered with my silk flowers were ready.   The tall cone tree is made of wire with lots of spaces where I can hang things. I was going for height instead of width in my display, a good thing because upon arrival to set up, there was very little room.   This was a new location for the sale and the room was smaller than expected.   Before the evening was over, everyone had a space …or two.   My tall cone tree was on a table across the room from me; I shared a 6’ table wi

It is getting cooler in Prescott and ducks are flying in from the Arctic area (too cold with no food there!)    So Peter and I went birding to see how many ducks and what kinds were arriving.   Today we saw Mallards, Shovelers, Canvasbacks, Ring - Necked Ducks, Lesser Scaups, American Wigeons, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads and one Green - winged Teal.   Then I spotted the eye candy!   Three Wood Ducks swimming in a man-made waterfall area at the entrance to a housing development – a place one would not expect to find them since they like secluded areas like wooded swamps.   The one male and two females caused us to stop the car, get our binoculars and just stand there looking!   The colors on the females were blended so that the blues slid into the greens and browns and then the blue green on their heads caught the sunlight.   It was such a rich color that I just wanted to touch. There was a delicate white pattern around their eyes and an elegant shape to their heads. The male coloring is

It seems that man has always wanted to express himself with drawings.   Early man often used stones to peck on rocks as well as paint to leave his messages.   He recorded ceremonies, hunts, dreams, maps, animals and daily life.   Just to clarify the terms: ‘pictograph’ is anything depicted on a stone surface – carved, pecked or painted. ‘Petroglyph’ is the technical word for anything carved or pecked.   I’ve always been fascinated by pictographs.  And I take photographs of the images whenever I am fortunate to find them. Hopi, Pueblo, Paiute Navajo and Anasazi have left drawings on rocks all over the Southwest.     It is great to live in this area of pictorial wealth!   I just came across William Michael Stokes and William Lee Stokes book “Messages on Stone – Selections of Native Western Rock Art “.   The images are divided into types – Apparel and Adornment, Birds, The Corn Maidens, Design, etc.   Great little book for kids and adults! It is pretty easy to find a real pictograph, matc