I brought my sandstone powder and watercolors with me on vacation to Doha because I wanted to be able to experiment with them during the days while Rob was at work and I was at the apartment. They’re fortunately very …
Category: Art by Madison Woods
All of my paintings feature Ozark pigments I’ve collected by hand and processed into paints. I use titanium oxide pigment to make white for adjusting and blending oil paints made from the Ozark pigments.
When I travel, I also gather rocks from those locations. When I make paint with rocks from other locations, the scene will be one from the homeland of the pigment, and the pigment sources will be specified in my process page or product listing if they are not Ozark colors.
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The posts below are from my blog and have to do with my art-making.
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Nature Art Recap for the Month of June
The past weeks were very creative ones for me with nature art. I tried something new and have found a new passion that’s bound to grow with a little time – milling pigments! Next step in that exploration is making …
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Organizing, Day 2. One of the More Odd Boxes in My Nature Art Studio
I’ve been organizing my studio and categorizing my nature art supplies so they’re easier to find when I need them.
It’s a normal habit of mine to collect things during my morning walks. Lichens, mosses, interesting rocks, chunks of sandstone …
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Fairy Garden Accessories from Wild Ozark
Introducing my new line of Fairy Garden Accessories – all handmade and one-of-a-kind artwork to complement your fairy garden terrariums!
Market Mainstays
Fairy Gardens have been a mainstay for the Wild Ozark market booth this season. Now I’m starting to …
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Fairy Swing Mushrooms – A New Nature Art from Wild Ozark
Update as of 112118- I’m not making these very often anymore but there are still some in stock at Kingston Square Arts in Kingston, AR.
These adorable little fairy swing mushrooms are the latest creations from the Wild Ozark studio!…
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Day 14: Nature Journal Series – Sunlight on Distant Hills
Sunlight on distant hills always makes for a pretty picture. It’s just hard to capture, whether by camera or pencil. This time I tried with my Prismacolor pencils.
About this journal entry
Some autumn seasons bring vivid colors, while others …
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Day 13: Nature Journal Series
Signs of Life
About this journal entry
The signs of life during the coldest parts of winter always intrigue me. I love seeing the green grass shoots found under a layer of snow or peeking out from the shelter of …
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Day 12 – Outline of an Ambitious Drawing
About this journal entry
I started drawing (again) when my husband bought me a set of Prismacolor pencils for my birthday in 2015. Before that it had been decades since I last picked up an art utensil of any …
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Relics of Seasons Past & Sepia-toned Beauty
I went in search of harbingers of spring but found only sepia colored relics of seasons past.
Relics
Not sure what the flower is, but it makes a pretty relic. …
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Namesake of the Dragon – Another Green Dragon Drawing
Here’s the second of the Green Dragon drawings I’ve been working on. I posted the first part of it last week. This part is called the spathe (the hood) and the spadix (the long ‘tongue’) and it is the …
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Day 11 – Nature Journal Series
About this journal entry
My son says my nature sketching looks like a turkey feather. It is not. It is a leaf half submerged in the water, haha. Can’t have the world at large making the same mistake.
About the
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Day 10: Nature Journal Series
Old Oak Tree
About this journal entry
I’m not sure this tree is a Post Oak, but she is old and her name is Gloria. Gloria graces our front yard and she has been there for probably 200 years. …
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A Green Dragon Drawing
I’ve been working on a Green Dragon drawing for the cover of NANPS’s summer issue of Blazing Star. There will be another of the spathe and spadix to do next. That one will be used in the article.
Here’s the …
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What Does a Nature Farm Produce?
Today I took a little hike after feeding the horses. I was on a mission to collect moss and lichen-covered branches. These are just some of the things the Wild Ozark Nature Farm produces.
And that’s how a nature farm …
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Freezing Fingers for Nature Art – Photos, Bringing Hay to Horses on an Icy Morning
It was 12* F as the sun came up over the mountain yesterday morning. I headed outside to feed the animals, and freezing fingers were in the forecast. When I fed the horses, I walked across the creek to check …
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Endings and Hopeful for New Beginnings
Sometimes it takes a thing ending to spark renewed efforts to find new beginnings.
Endings
One of our little shops in town closed its doors abruptly this weekend. The owner has tried to make a successful business of it, but …
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Day 9: Nature Journal Series
Grapevine & Insect Observation
Nature Journal entry from Day 9.
About this journal entry
On Day 9 of my daily journaling stint, I didn’t feel like getting off of the porch and I wondered if I could find something nearby …
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Day 8: Nature Journal Series
Acorn on Weathered Stick
Nature Journal entry from Day 8.
About this journal entry
On Day 8 of my daily journaling stint, I couldn’t help reflecting on the sounds of trees dying in the distance. Chainsaws and crashing …
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Book a Forest Folk Workshop Near You!
Want a Workshop Close to You?
If you’d like to host, or know somewhere good to have a workshop, get in touch. I’m willing to travel within 50 miles of Kingston, AR for groups of at least 10. Cost …
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Day 7: Nature Journal Series
Christmas Fern
About this journal entry
On Day 7 of my daily journaling stint, I decided to draw the Christmas fern. These ferns are often present in good ginseng habitat. So it’s known as a companion plant, or indicator …
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Day 6: Nature Journal Series
Lobelia inflata in Late Summer
About this journal entry
Lobelia inflata is one of my most treasured wild-crafted herbs. It grows around us here like a “weed”, and most would never think it to be a useful plant. It’s …
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Day 5: Nature Journal Series
Little Orange Mushroom
About this journal entry
It’s amazing how quickly an hour flies by when you are trying unsuccessfully to figure out how to do something.
On another note, I’m finding that it is getting harder to focus …
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Day 4: Nature Journal Series
Ground Cherry
About this Entry
The inklings of trouble is starting to reveal itself already.
“This one will be much easier,” I thought as I settled on a subject for today’s entry. It is all mostly green, with hardly any …
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Making Twig Art: Gumball Folk Bride and Groom
My granddaughter stayed the night with us last night and today I thought we could make some twig art together. She wanted us to make a bride and groom Forest Folk pair, so we went outside to gather some botanicals.…
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Day 3: Nature Journal Series
Sycamore Leaf
About the Wild Ozark Nature Journal
I’m slowly scanning my nature journal entries and adding them to this blog.
Some of you may have already seen these, because I started this a few years ago and then …
