Patterns in nature are like songs to the heart

For Jill's book, "Designs in Nature" I decided to try something new...dipped paper..a technique I learnt at the Third Annual Encaustic Conference...Here is one image of the work I completed..more images can be found on my blog here!  

For me I chose the theme Patterns and Symmetry...For I so adore the patterns all around us in nature, from the spirals in shells to the patterns in butterfly wings...Mother earth has given us many magical creations with designs and patterns to inspire...so in my pages I decided to include some of these elements embedded into the dipped paper.

Song by Amy Lowell

Oh! To be a flower 

Nodding in the sun, 

Bending, then upspringing 

As the breezes run; 

Holding up 

A scentbrimmed cup, 

Full of summer's fragrance to the summer sun. 

Oh! To be a butterfly 

Still, upon a flower, 

Winking with its painted wings, 

Happy in the hour. 

Blossoms hold 

Mines of gold 

Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower. 

Oh! To be a cloud 

Blowing through the blue, 

Shadowing the mountains, 

Rushing loudly through 

Valleys deep 

Where torrents keep 

Always their plunging thunder and their misty arch of blue. 

Oh! To be a wave 

Splintering on the sand, 

Drawing back, but leaving 

Lingeringly the land. 

Rainbow light 

Flashes bright 

Telling tales of coral caves half hid in yellow sand. 

Soon they die, the flowers; 

Insects live a day; 

Clouds dissolve in showers; 

Only waves at play 

Last forever. 

Shall endeavor 

Make a sea of purpose mightier than we dream today?.