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Lorraine Ortner-Blake
N6096 Highway W
Portage, WI 53901

 

Lorraine created these original with watercolor, gouache and other water media. They are one-of-a-kind.

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Original Art

These originals are unique; they are created by Lorraine, by hand, using dip pens, watercolor, gouache, and other media. You are welcome to return the original art within a reasonable amount of time.

Please email or call me (608.742-0000) with your selection. I'll ship it to you for a closer look.

This original art is about 24 x 30 inches framed in solid wood. I created it with walnut ink, watercolor and gouache on Arches 140# watercolor paper. It has three quotations:

Who plants a tree plants a hope.
Trees are God's first alphabet. W. C. Bryant
We grow when we plant trees whose shade we shall never sit it.
Greek Proverb

I was inspired by the beautiful changing seasons to create an artwork about trees. I played with the idea of painting a circle around the "m"-shaped willow tree so that it sort of said "om," but decided it didn't carry the word well enough so let the willow stand on it's own. The watercolor vine in the background has many sorts of leaves and tree seeds.

I hope you are enjoying the autumn and beginning of winter, too.

TREES ARE GOD'S FIRST ALPHABET
Framed: $265 plus shipping | Without mats or frame: $210 plus shipping

Shakespeare is always on my favs list. Here is a quotation from Much Ado (the good-humored Beatrice is telling the prince about her happy disposition.) The text says "A star danced and under that was I born."

I created this with a collage of papers and metallic leaf, excited painted with acrylics. The lettering is done with gouache (opaque watercolor) and walnut ink. The solid oak frame is 6 x 18 inches.

A STAR DANCED Framed: $78 plus shipping | Without mats or frame: $60 plus shipping

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

These two originals are about 7 x 18 inches and are sensual and tantalizing with layers of sophisticated colors. They are $100 each, framed, plus shipping of about $12.

Email me if you'd like to purchase one or both and I'll get them shipped to you!

 

Birch trees stand out in unobstructed winter. This poem from Robert Frost is titled Birches; I've created the calligraphic artwork above using this exerpt:

I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

(To read the entire poem click here.)

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Purchase this matted and framed original painting for $165 plus shipping (shipping is about $12 depending where you are). The frame is oak, the size is about 12 x 24 inches. No reproductions are available of this artwork. Contact me by phone, email, or mail and I'll send it to you.

 

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THIS ARTWORK IS SOLD.

The artwork of the Apache Wedding Blessing is created with a collage of papers, fabrics, and water media. The text says:

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
Now you are two persons but there is only one life before you.
May your days together be good and long upon the earth.
Apache Wedding Blessing

I've painted a little dragonfly near the text; the calligraphy is done with gouache.