Mona's Art

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I have been sitting on a couple of awards for some time. Today I want to pass on one of those to a very fine and special woman.







The sisterhood award came to me from the ever ebullient and friendly Natalie at Musings from the deep, and honours a shared commitment to blogging but more importantly that shared camaraderie, support and encouragement, and generosity of spirit that arises from blogging.


Mona Van Dijk has been by my side since I began blogging in January of this year. Although she only lives 2.25 hours away we have not met but I hope that we will before too long.

Every day Mona contributes sincere, thoughtful comments to my posts and genuine words of encouragement and appreciation. The addition of her thoughts and feelings regarding the content of the post engenders a conversation between us and builds a deepening rapport.

In addition to being a warm and generous person, Mona is an accomplished artist. Her wonderful work continually surprises me with its creativity, intricacy and beauty.


I am going to show you a small selection of Mona's art and I suggest that you look further on her blog, Mona's-inbox to enjoy more of her work.


The first of Mona's pieces is titled Palm Trees:

Palm Trees

This is one of my favourite pieces of Mona's work that I have seen to date. The painting is an A 4 size using Japanese water colours as paint and the details have been relined with black permanent ink pen.

Reflection Trees


Acrylic paint on canvas A 5 size.

The Knitted Trees

In this felted piece, Mona used used Australian merino wool, tussah and mulberry silk, (tussah silk is not as shiny as Mulberry silk) and the trees were knitted with silk yarn.

Treeflowers

The beautiful Treeflowers painting is an A 4 size, using Japanese water colours and the details have been done with a permanent black ink pen.



I am very fortunate to have found a blogging sister such as the warmhearted, kind and very talented Mona.



Mona's-inbox

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