The Ship is Sailing With My Art!

Two Magical Women Ready for Sea Adventures

The Costa Cruise line commission for two (5.5′ x 6′) back lit murals, adorning the newest ship FAVOLOSA is finished!

The second mural, WEAVER OF RAINBOWS, completes the pair.

(Last week I showed you the fIrst: SAILING BY MOONLIGHT)

Now this fabulous pair of women, sailing through sea and sky, will accompany the Favolosa passengers, inspiring their own magical sea voyage.

Weaving With Rainbows, © Helen Webber, 2011

Weaving With Rainbows, © Helen Webber, 2011
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Weaver of rainbows
Sings songs to the creatures of sea and sky.
Her music welcomes the sun.

Tessitore di arcobaleni
Canta canzoni per le creature del mare e del cielo.
La sua musica dà il benvenuto al sole.

Sailing by Moonlight, © Helen Webber, 2011

Sailing by Moonlight, © Helen Webber, 2011
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She is of the sea and sky.
She holds the moon.
She tells secrets to the stars.

Lei è del mare e del cielo.
Possiede la luna.
Racconta segreti alle stele.

Art That Sails the Seas…

Sailing by Moonlight, © Helen Webber, 2011

Sailing by Moonlight, © Helen Webber, 2011 - Click image to Enlarge.

Check out this back lit mural for Costa Cruise Lines newest ship FAVOLOSA.

This is one of two 5′x6′ panels that will glow like stained glass with back LED lighting, placed in two recessed walls leading to a large and dramatic theatre (that figures).

Let me know if you are interested in details about the mixed media technique I used for this project. Believe it or not, this approach is not so far removed from my fabric collage tapestries.

A New Years Wish

Click image to enlarge. © Helen Webber, 2011

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Here’s a new year wish
for all the children everywhere:

May they thrive
and grow their imaginations,
fly with brave wings
higher and higher
touching the clouds.
whispering to the stars
dancing with the moon,

May the sun shine on their
glorious faces.
May they be the music
for all of us.

© Helen Webber, 2011

Dreams are Dancers

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Dreams
are dancers that  dance with  time,
dawdling over shadows of the past.

They rise and  float above many rivers
whose depths I have never tested.

But in the rivers’ shimmering currents
I see  reflections of many faces
wavering and fractured
those faces I’ve  never forgotten.

Copyright ©2010 – Helen Webber

Take Some Time To Celebrate What We Believe In

TAKE  SOME TIME TO
CELEBRATE WHAT WE BELIEVE IN.

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© Helen Webber, 2010

Come celebrate the tenth anniversary
of the EARTH CHARTER movement.

EARTH CHARTER STANDS FOR
global sustainability
universal human rights
economic justice
respect for nature
and a world of peace

Don’t give up…KEEP ON TRUCKIN’
a valid slogan from the 60’s.

Everyone Is A Poet

The neighbor  boy strolled onto my porch.
uninvited
while I was reading and eating breakfast on a day that was perfect
for lazing around.  It was Sunday.
And it was perfect as I said.
Just a slight breeze.

He was, I guess about nine.
Of course I knew that he was wise beyond his years
probably wiser in some
secret way than
my 80 plus years.

His skin was soft, and his fingernails were dirty
Im reading some poems by kids,I told him.
Do you like poetry? I asked

He sat down at the table with his chin in his arms
He closed his very large eyes.
His feet couldn’t reach the floor.
He swung them back and forth
to a slow dreamy rhythm.

I am a poem, he said finally,
taking a grape from the bowl on the table

After a long silence between us,
he said, and so are you
with your African bathrobe
and your wrinkled skin all over
and your ten million memories
that poke into your thoughts at strange times.

I couldn’t breath while his words
tumbled out of his soft whispering
lips.

More silence.
I was afraid to break into his ideas
with my  grown up phrases of praise for his  his wisdom.

Then he said everybody is a poet
or else they are a poem.
Or both.

Are you a poem or a poet? I asked.

He looked away.
Both, he said.
Is that your cat? he asked, noticing Marco Polo
stalking a squirrel in the yard.

Without waiting for my reply
he  climbed off the porch
and ran after the cat
who disappeared into the deep grass.

© Helen Webber, 2010

ONE DAY OF PEACE TODAY!

September 21st, 2010. Celebrate one day of peace.

It’s spreading.

Celebrate. Join the world. If we can do it for one day,

peaceoneday.org

CIRCUS BOY & friends

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PERSONALISED POSTERS FOR THE KIDS YOU CARE ABOUT!

Here’s the Circus Boy and Friends: a grand gang, waiting for your special message to a special kid in your life.

You tell me what words will “happify” that kid

and I’ll weave them into the art work.

“Joyous, richly colored, imaginative, and above all original, Helen Webber’s personalized art posters will touch the creative spirit of a child you care about, and remind him or her of your love forever.”

Val Olson

Executive Coach and Career Consultant

http://linkedin.com/in/valolson1234

I’ve got three others in this collection of

Art for kids.. All four will be on line in a few weeks at my new online art shop.

ARE WE LISTENING?

ARE WE LISTENING

This is a bird of hope

that flies around  our spinning Earth,

carrying messages from the world’s children.

Are we listening?

The words framing the children’s bird of hope

are by William McDonough,

architect, thinker, author and a leader in the

sustainability movement.

“How do we love all the children,

of all species, for all time?

Please notice that I am not just saying our children;

I am saying all of the children.

And notice I am not just saying our species,

I am saying all species.

And notice I am not just saying now,

I am saying for all time…”

A book celebrating the rights of children,

CATCH A DREAMER, 64 pages of art and poetry,

can be seen at:

http://www.dovetailpublications.org