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Set of nine different cards with envelopes - $13.50 Individual card & envelope - $2.00 each (specify design) |
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This card was painted with a portrait approach. Rather than painting the entire plant with its many blooms, the artist took one flower and portrayed its ballet-like petals in a cameo style, with a leaf in the background to highlight its dance-like movement. This dramatic flower portrait is done in olive, moss and celedon greens, accenting the flower in magenta, rose and pink along with tints of taffeta white. There are touches of lavender and mauve with cocoa colors. |
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Again, Sher chose a theme of dance for these spring delights. A deep, velvety green-black background sets off the tulips with a sense of drama, a pas de trois of three dancers reaching to a spotlight above. Warm greens are used for the waxy leaves with highlights of gold and emerald green enhancing the spotlighted effect. The tulips are in shades of cerise, crimson, watermelon pink, and butterscotch yellow. |
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A garden orchid, drew the artist to handle its blooms in a portrait-like fashion. Anyone who has ever looked at a cymbidium knows that it is an exper-ience of incredible beauty. Sher was thus inspired and the orchid was painted in many colors of green and yellow-green (chartreuse) with sienna and burnt orange in the throat, and the leopard-like blotches are in shades of claret and burgundy. |
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This card is a painting of a purple, bearded iris employing the stan-dards as the window through which the viewer may see an ethereal mountain with a Van Gogh-like sky swirling with agate-like aquamarine and tur-quoise, and whipped clouds. This painting was inspired by one of the artist"s favorite flowers after a stay in the Southwest, hence the accompanying sagebrush, russet and saddle-red hills of the Four Corners area. |
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This painting represents a very personal and inspirational experience for the artist. While Sher was doing this painting of ivory colored hybrid lilies called Black Dragon strain, she threw the coins of I Ching, a book of poetic configurations written by Confuscius. She drew the first of the 64 oracles called the “Creative”. The 3 coins have to come up the same –all heads–six times to form a hexagram of 6 straight lines, with each line symbolizing one of the six dragons. This is a rare occurrence and means that the creative energy is in balance and harmony. The oracle is represented by a Chinese symbol of six dragons winging through the heavens. To celebrate the event and coincidence of her getting dragons in the Creative, she put the six lines with the dragon lilies in the sky. The marriage of the lilies with the “Chinese Ladder”, the hexagram, ascends over a southwest landscape. For those of you who might be familiar with the Ghost Ranch area between Santa Fe and Taos, the mountain featured is Flint Mountain or "Pedernal". |
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The heavenly quality of the orchid"s colors drew Sher to put this orchid in the starry heavens with an Aurora Borealis in the upper right corner in a rainbow spectrum. The orchid itself is in shades of magenta, red-violet, lilac, with tangerine highlights in the topaz colored throat. Tourmaline colors of pink and green and rust are like a rainbow and pick up the milkyway cloud in the midnight blue sky. |
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This painting was done during a full moon when the artist was caught up in working nonstop to catch the transcen-dental quality of the short blooming, white iris. The petals were magical for the paint-ing with many tints of sapphire blue to pearl grey and highlights of golden tones with moss green and tender browns. There is an almost moonstone quality in the fullness of the moon. The artist adds her wisp of a feather to tickle your fancy. |
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On one of Sher"s return trips to California from the South-west she stopped in a cotton field and in the evening"s light she discovered the soft beauty of cotton blooming by the side of the road. It so struck her that a cameo portrait of a cotton flower should be painted in the soft and cozy colors of fuzzy whites and pussy willow greys. She wrapped a liquid-like background of deep sea navy-blue and marine green behind the subject. Mixing the inspiration of different environs of mother nature appeals to her palette. There are hints of creamy ecru and lacy yellow in the curling cotton fibers. |
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This card has for its theme a tropical flower, the bird of paradise, coupled with the hint of another world in the lower right-hand corner. The azurite-malachite sky is made up of ultra-marine blue and robin"s egg blue with watercolor clouds of light blue and pale green. One bird of paradise in the lower left-hand corner is spreading its wings to take flight while the flower to the right is pointed like a bird looking to the sky. The globe is in amethyst-violet, lime green, lemon yellow, candy pink, and brown sugar, blending and swirling like an “out of this world” planetary paradise. |