Very beautiful. xx

Thanks so much, jendellas.

Wow Carol, this looks fabulous. The little cardinals look so pretty with their coating of snow. It sounds as though you are going to have a lovely white Christmas.

Thanks so much, Nancy. I'm sure we will have a white Christmas, and fortunately, I will be in Calif enjoying the nice warm sunshine with my family. :o)

Simply gorgeus Carol!

Lovely image

Gorgeous work Carol!

Stunning!

lovely

oooh frosty ! So pretty for the season!!!

Amazing work. God bless.

I owe you comments on several other images too, but I'll comment on this, this morning, as I felt it was kind of a mix of your alcohol-ink style with your other styles. That's just me, of course, but I can't help but feel that there's a spillover, at least in appearance. (Watch, you'll tell me you did this in 1986. So much for my alcohol-ink comment!) Well, it doesn't matter, it's just that you've made the frost into an intense rhythmic spread of beautiful cellular structures, which spread across the whole image in dapples and star-dust. They're obvious highlights on the flower petals and the cardinals; but they nearly took over the green leaves around them, and in the ghost-like images behind them. The background (in all four corners) is a deep 'reflection' of these leaves, as if the whole universe were made of them, as they palely whisper in the background while your 'main' image sings. It's beautiful the way you've broken-up the background leaves like that. Suggesting their forms as much as painting them; and making them almost entirely splotches of snow and frost.

The center image is a big bouquet of flowers, leaves and birds. It's a conglomerate, concentrated and budding. And the frost highlights take over everything the way cellular structures do in your alcohol-ink work. And it makes the center electric, atomic. This isn't 'cute' frost, it's atomic frost, deep frost, with a beautiful presence to make it holiday-like. And the composition of green leaves as the 'base' for the flowers and birds is terrific. And then, you have a few petals seen on the inside: And those insides are like burnished jewels; or like glimpses inside of jewels, like agates with lights shining in them. A peek into the interior soul of the flowers! (I love the veins in those smooth inner leaves: They look like glass balls with winter scenes inside, or like seaweeds flowing in water.) You have only two of these, but boy are they an image to themselves...And that's a big point: Your art has sub-worlds which are as powerful as the full image; and they exist in harmony with the image, while also being wholly unique. You have some of that texture in the top cardinal's torso, too (with a little light on it too.)

Overall, it's a bristling bouquet, presented in an ocean of rspirit-like leaves and deep green space. It's very intense, very condensed; and filled with light and dance-of-lights. This is much more than a holiday image, it's cosmic, a real Carol image, yet you've presented it as a wreath for our holidays and for our winters. With complementary greens and reds...Beautiful work, Carol. From top to bottom...

Mark, in the comment department you're all paid up for the next 150 years. It is I who owe you a very BIG THANK YOU, for the generous gift of your unique and inspiring insights about my artwork. And for the time you take to really look and see with your amazing vision. You don't just see, you also experience. And then share this with others. There is something so uniquely beautiful and inspiring about seeing frost and snow covered flowers, plants, and trees. Every petal, and leaf, and branch are coated and are seen and experienced in a new way. Something I had never truly experienced until coming to live in the mountains. When everything is coated in winter white, it is as if the beauty is frozen in time and you are suddenly transported into a winter wonderland that you know will only last for a few precious moments, because soon the sun or the wind will begin changing the scene and then the beauty must live in your memory. Like snow covered roses, I think through a lifetime we gather holiday memories that become very precious, and momentary, as times and circumstances, and seasons change. Wishing you a joyous holiday filled with precious memories, from now and the past.

Wow! Sugar and frost.

Stunning creation!!

A beautiful winter dusting! Wonderful work Carol!

The frostiness really conveys the winter mood in this lovely piece of artwork. Incredibly rich and wonderful!

Brrrrrr,,,lol..nice