Source: rachelderstinedesigns.com via Margaret on Pinterest Rachel Derstine‘s work has a glow to bask in, with color variegation and pulsating quilting stitches. She is from my part of Pennsylvania, although she grew up in Japan, and combines the PA quilting tradition with kimonos, silks, ikat and batik. Rachel’s attention to texture is very inviting [...]
Barbara Rosenzweig’s World of Color in Watercolor
Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest Barbara Rosenzweig is another talented artist from the Philadelphia area, and her blog welcomes us to her world of color. Her watercolors have an infusion of vivid orange, and an eye for the beauty of [...]
Matthew Scissorhands: Matt W. Moore’s Cut Paper Collage
Source: mwmgraphics.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: mwmgraphics.com via Margaret on Pinterest Before I made mosaics, I made collages, and sometimes a work like this one by Matt W. Moore gives me a hankering for cut paper. I also have to dig a guy who calls this series Matthew Scissorhands. He also [...]
For All the Passions of the Heart
John Dahlsen: An Artist’s Palette Picked From Ocean Debris
Source: johndahlsen.com via Margaret on Pinterest John Dahlsen‘s environmental art came to my attention via Pinterest. Originally he was a landscape painter in Australia, and as he began collecting driftwood on the coastline to make furniture, he discovered a staggering amount of debris, much of it plastic, washed up on the shore. He collected 80 [...]
UnaOdd and Tangerine Tango-ing
Source: unaodd.blogspot.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest UnaOdd (aka Lynn Lunger) has been in the sisterhood of orange for the time that I have known her, and 2012, the Pantone Year of the Tangerine Tango is made for her. Recently, we had [...]
Dora Ficher and What the Bees Told Her: Vibrant Encaustic Art
Nutmeg Designs at Pebble Hill Gallery, February 1-25, 2012 in Doylestown, PA

Nutmeg Designs: Margaret Almon & Wayne Stratz Mosaics and Stained Glass February 1-25th, 2012 Pebble Hill Gallery, Doylestown, PA Reception February 5th, 2012, 12:15-2:00 pm Pebble Hill Gallery Hours Daytime: Sunday Afternoons….12:30 – 2:00pm Mon. Tues. Thurs. …..10:00am – 12:00pm Call ahead for weekday visits: 215-348-3428 x2 Evening: Monday nights…6:30 – 10:00pm 2nd Friday [...]
Nutmeg Designs in the Words of Our Fans: A Wordle

Nutmeg Designs Wordle with Words from Our Wonderful Fans Thank you to all who sent us words to describe Nutmeg Designs! Stratoz came up with this cool idea to make the Nutmeg Designs wordle and chose the final form and colors, which of course includes orange. I was awed by the words our friends [...]
Otto and Gertrud Natzler: Volcanic Orange and a Life Together in the Ceramic Studio

Source: portlandart.net via Margaret on Pinterest Untitled Oval Bowl, c. 1940 Ceramic with Pompeian glaze; 3.75 x 5 x 1.5 inches; Collection of Carol and Seymour Haber Photo Dan Kvitka Source: icollector.com via Margaret on Pinterest Natzler pottery mark Source: cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com via Margaret on Pinterest Gertrud and Otto Natzler, in the studio. Otto [...]

























