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viviennehollisart · 22 days

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That's right! All the raspberry yoghurt ice cream with sugary sprinkles is from the tiny little pot! 🍨

I've got a load more sewn bits made for this pudding textile artwork - ready to be attached to the rest of the piece.

I'm making a series, and a banana split is on the way too… What are your favourite desserts to indulge in, folks!? Let me know the ones you love😍

These quirky pieces will be on show as part of the Sunderland Arts and Culture Trail in the North East of England, which I'm taking part in later this year. More details will follow over the coming weeks.

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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Pink Savanna

She wears it well

Those pieces of pink

Vast land, Savanna

With riches, her kisses

Like American minks

She's shy and she hides

But look at her colours

In vast land, Savanna

She's minx and Madonna

Gouache, paper, ink, pencil, fabric, stitch, and beads on canvas panel

It's such a struggle not to use pink when I make artwork, and sometimes I just have to go all-out and go wild with the pink...

💗💗💗

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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Words to make you think... beautiful words ❣️

Althea Davis.

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#beautiful words #althea davis #life quotes #words words words #death #heaven #words to make you think #prose #kindness #love for animals

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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Hungry Clouds (Nighttime version) Hungry Clouds Daydream told me a story About Nighttime catching her stars "When the dusk stirs, She wakes up, and she's hungry. So she eats them!"

Gouache, inks, pencil, textile art and beadwork on 5 x 5 inch Ampersand panel

#artists on tumblr #art #textile art #contemporary embroidery #cloud art #abstract embroidery #beadwork #female artists #women artists #wall art decor #slow stitching #needlework #hand embroidery #mixed media #hand crafted #arts and crafts #art for sale

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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I love your art!! It's so vibrant and fun, looking at it just makes me want to smile. 💕✨️

Hello Holly! Thank you so much, you made my day - I'm glad the colourful art makes you smile, I'm very happy when I'm making them, except for the many accidental finger stabs with the very sharp beading needle, ha ha. V x

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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Love this work by @lstevesart! A gorgeous modern twist. @lstevesart are you a fan of Tacita Dean?

Hand-embroidered vintage postcard of Switzerland.

Postage on the back shows that it was sent in 1958 from Gersau, Switzerland. The postage also commemorates the two-hundredth anniversary of Nyon, a municipality in Switzerland.

With my embroidery and beadwork, I tried to enhance the simple beauty of the image, while adding texture and color.

Available in my Etsy shop: LStevesArt

#lstevesart #artists on tumblr #vintage photography #embroidery #beadwork #switzerland #postcard #nostalgic

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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I save up all the little painted sections that I make for other artworks, but for whatever reason were not used... Then once there's a good pile, I made abstract textile art out of them :)

All the remaining canvas will be filled with tiny stitched fabrics once done

#art wip #current wip #textile art #i love colors #contemporary embroidery #artists on tumblr #art #wall decor #slow stitching #hand embroidery #makers #mixed media #beadwork #abstract art #arts and crafts #crafting

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viviennehollisart · 5 months

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"These flowers smell so good! It must be the pretty raindrops Feeding them magick and wonder. I want to stay in this place For a very long time."

~ Says Bonnie, the pink flower bug.

#pink bunny #rabbit art #textile art #small art blog #small painting #artists on tumblr #modern embroidery #beadwork #flora and fauna #slow stitching #wall decor #colourful #mixed medium

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

#good words #annie dillard #writers life #prose

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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From the series: 'Love' this is the 3rd version. it's a mini series, and also a mini artwork on a 4"x 4" canvas panel. Every piece I make is little!

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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Love (5th version)

Another little miniature ~ full of little hand-cut, hand-stitched love hearts, with pretty beads throughout.

Mixed media: Gouache, ink and pencil on paper. Hand embroidery. Everything on a 4 inch canvas panel... LOTS of texture!

Love, love, love!!!

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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Flowers in Hawaii Blue petals Sweet smells Pink sunshine Like a heaven Vibrant yellows Hawaiian weather A gardens garland Nature's gesture

Mini art!

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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July (third version)

The early earth murmured We need to prepare Our annual treat For those trunks that walk July-time!

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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Came across these gorgeous illustrations by @sabinahahn - such a lovely tumblr blog to check out!

I was lucky enough to have lunch with Etgar Keret while in Tel Aviv.

Etgar , with his deft hand, named this drawing “The Carrot Of Damocles”.

If you haven’t read his books, I highly recommend. Start anywhere! One of my favorites is “The Bus driver who wanted to be God”; one of my favorite quotes comes from there.

"There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed."

— Etgar Keret

#illustration #daily art #drawing #dinner time #i like it #illustrators on tumblr #tiny drawing #mini art

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viviennehollisart · 7 months

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Strawberry Moon It's the Pinkest Reverie That I have ever seen It's real, yes she's real Just look up at ripened skies And Pink sputniks See! She isn't made of cheese She's made of strawberries & dreams

(Don't believe the folk who tell you the moon is made of cheese!)

On a square 4-inch Ampersand panel

Made with Gouache, inks, pencil, paper, hand embroidery and beads

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viviennehollisart · 8 months

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Love (3rd version)

A mini textile art on a 4-inch square canvas panel

With paper, ink, coloured pencil, and lots of cute, teeny tiny beads stitched by hand ❤️❤️❤️

Everything will come to pass Except for love ❤️❤️❤️

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viviennehollisart · 8 months

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Is it a red onion? Is it a tree?

Red Onion Tree When Winter, the Red Onion Tree Throws up snaggled arms Wild berries fly and land Rolling, finding a home Amongst foliage they nest And slowly grow little trunks and limbs When it's next season They do what they've just learned

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