tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80626687058167599622024-03-21T17:51:32.220-07:00Artemis - 12monthsOFwinterHeidi Koehler - Art and GraphicsH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-34336952339280808062014-05-08T15:44:00.001-07:002014-05-08T15:44:53.620-07:00Valley Visual Artists May Show
Copyright: Heidi I. Koehler
It's that time of year again...the Valley Visual Artists of Merritt, B.C. are having their Spring Show...here are some my drawings on display.
H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-22109979341728932602014-01-25T23:20:00.001-08:002014-01-25T23:20:19.124-08:00Art Journal ReviewArt Journal I bought a new sketch book- it's actually a Strathmore Visual Journal marketed at creative types who like to use heavier mediums in their art like collage materials. It takes water color washes quite well as it's 140 lb300gm2 paper. Since this is kind of an art materials review I have to say that the book isn't really aimed at artists but serves as a good place to try out new H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-17756094930055457782013-12-15T01:21:00.001-08:002013-12-15T01:21:32.363-08:00The Butterfly EffectI created a wallpaper some time ago under the name of 12monthsOFwinter and posted it on DeviantArt. Despite the watermark it
has been downloaded almost 200, 000 times since it first went online
some 4 years ago.
It consistently shows up on the first page of a
search for 'butterfly wallpaper' in search engines (partially because
it has been uploaded to various sites- usually without permissionH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-25703312621895876592013-12-09T17:15:00.001-08:002013-12-09T17:15:47.962-08:00December, Merritt<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-74316690048652254742013-07-12T18:59:00.001-07:002013-07-12T18:59:56.481-07:00Art and Photography by Heidi Koehler
I had some drawings up at the last art show in Merritt - mostly bird portraits that I was very pleased with. I was on a real roll with drawing and I will include fine art along with photography when I promote myself. Drawing was a big part of my life for many years and it's a good time to promote that as well as my photography Services.
I had 6 marker drawings, 1 of which wasH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-81557536121254022102013-05-12T22:48:00.002-07:002013-05-12T22:51:27.223-07:00Pen, Ink And Photography
I've been doing a fair bit of pen and ink this year as well as photography. I participated in the Nicola Valley Community Arts Council's "Night Of the Arts" with some black and white work and really wish there was more time in the day for art. Alas. :)
These went to the show at the Merritt Civic Center
I will simply post some of my latest works:
Banff- digitally coloured
H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-40222336855003282102013-01-11T18:37:00.003-08:002013-01-11T18:37:25.891-08:00TestIgnore this testH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-16091181939978405032012-11-02T22:12:00.000-07:002012-11-02T22:12:27.298-07:00KnightmareI had a 'knight'mare.
I dreamt that I was on the grounds of a castle estate. I had a knife in my hand to defend myself against an evil force that was haunting the walls. Several times I thrust the knife into thin air but the evil thing eluded me. At the last it came out of a tree that grew very close to the castle wall and again I thrust my knife and the spirit flew forward and came right at me.H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-33235174765268262912012-10-17T23:04:00.002-07:002012-10-17T23:04:30.676-07:00Shana - a Film in Lower Nicola.From the set of 'Shana - The Wolf's Music'. This movie was filmed for the most part in Lower Nicola and features a lot of local talent. I originally went to the set with my husband to show support for local events/doings and saw a lot of people I knew. Now looking at the photos I recognize other people who have since appeared in the talent show that went on in Merritt this past summer.
WeH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-62410647604417810162012-06-09T20:16:00.003-07:002012-06-09T20:16:38.187-07:00Water FestivalYesterday my husband and I stopped by Rotary Park to check out the Water Festival. This is kind of like 'Rivers Day' and was hosted by an organization called the Nicola Watershed Community Roundtable. The weather was really nice although a bit cool towards the evening.
The first person we talked to was a man from Oceans and Fisheries Canada who showed us the display that was set up and then H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-26413321238820104722012-05-30T11:09:00.001-07:002012-05-30T22:45:41.369-07:00Roland's VisitThis blog post is a bit more personal and is a bit of a tourism brochure for Merritt! My brother-in-law from Switzerland who visited us last year came back this month for 3 weeks. He loves Canada. :)
We had a great time again showing him our neck of the woods- the weather was brilliant for most of his stay which made it even better.
Hiking is what he most loves and he obviously does plenty of it.H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-25184995340619666232011-11-04T19:13:00.001-07:002011-11-04T19:13:54.016-07:00A Photograph's Death and FutureI am including a lot of links to Wikipedia that explain terms that may not be well understood.
We will all pass away some day and what becomes of our photographs...particularly our digital images after we are gone? Before computers and digital cameras- and especially the internet- our shoe boxes, cartons, portfolios, albums and envelopes that contained our original art, prints and H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-79501384170658093942011-10-30T10:40:00.000-07:002011-10-30T10:40:29.085-07:00Watercolor MiniatureCreativity did finally come knocking two days ago.
I painted a small watercolour ( or 'watercolor' )and then another the next evening...by small I mean miniature. The desire to paint was strong but discouragement over the potential outcome had been stronger till about 2 weeks ago when I saw a really lovely card sized painting a friend of mine had done which was followed last week by seeing aH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-34890488887564042092011-10-26T18:49:00.000-07:002011-10-26T18:49:24.411-07:00Bearsreposted from my photography blog
Bears are difficult for me to photograph when I come across them. Difficult because they strike on a primal fear that I have to intellectualize past. This kind of gets in the way of things like having quick reaction on the camera controls, setting up the photo's composition...planning my path of retreat first tends to take priority and remains an everH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-65091523825991564992011-10-24T22:27:00.000-07:002011-10-24T22:28:43.733-07:00Finding Creativity
I was thinking about creativity a week or so ago and lamenting that I seem to have lost a lot of mine in the past year. A few days before my grad reunion a friend of mine showed me a water colour she had just had printed up as a card. As an artist who enjoys painting in the field she too is trying to find her creativity during these cold months and she manages to do it and inspires me. But H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-75841851165272093592011-10-20T22:04:00.001-07:002011-10-20T22:04:40.881-07:00Falls LakeI was missing the green-ness of home when I suggested to my husband and brother-in-law that we check out Falls Lake. This is a tiny little lake located within the Coqhihalla Summit Recreation Area. While I would like to have explored more of the park we came rather late in the afternoon of a sunny weekend. It was distinctly cooler and damper in this area compared to Merritt which lies within the H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-41590183483694978462011-10-13T20:20:00.000-07:002011-10-14T14:44:42.450-07:00Start of OctoberTime to update!My brother in law from Switzerland has been living with us the past month on a well deserved holiday and it quite fun to have such an easy-going house guest...we are going to miss him when he goes home. Othmar took him hunting and scouting at least 3 times a week and I like to think my German improved a bit because of Roland.Even tho I'm no great cook he never had a bad thing to H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-83845847036495423612011-09-25T18:33:00.000-07:002011-09-25T18:33:17.588-07:00End of SeptemberFall has begun after a fun summer and the garden is in it's last stages. I will be updating pretty quickly with some tips on gardening- what went good and not-so-good with carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, potatoes etc. in this hot and dusty climate.
Of particular interest to me is seed saving and plant propagation in general. I actually collected way more flower (annuals) seed that I will ever H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-50916988574139311332011-06-30T23:54:00.000-07:002011-06-30T23:54:27.199-07:00End Of JuneBeen busy outdoors for the past two months. I have spent very little time online and have focused on the immediate world and contacts around me but it's time for an update.
I have a new computer for email and browsing although I am doing all my writing, editing, photography, graphics etc. on my old machine which runs XP.
There is so much that still needs to be done on the new machine like H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-25729176105020817192011-06-12T22:50:00.000-07:002011-06-12T22:53:34.504-07:00June in Merritt B.C.Spring in Merritt...wonderful what all can go down here. There are sandbags on the river which may well flood again, a small tornado actually hit town a few days ago and damaged one property, and all around is that disgusting cottonwood fluff.
Even the birds are puzzled by all this new water everywhere.
In one of the lanes is a big cottonwood tree that drops pounds of this white stuff which H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-46378283592558549942011-03-14T22:47:00.000-07:002011-03-14T22:58:22.968-07:00BC Boat & Sportsmen's & BC Hunting Show at Tradex, Abbotsford, B.C.Kind of a long title, eh?
I am posting some of the photos I took at the BC Boat & Sportsmen's & BC Hunting Show at Tradex, in Abbotsford, B.C. The bulk of the photos will be at my photography blog http://heidikoehler.blogspot.com/ but I thought some of them should be posted here as well. I'm not a hunter as of yet but I went to support my husband who was a paid seminar speaker and H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-42797111590522945432011-03-03T12:10:00.000-08:002011-03-03T12:11:06.117-08:00March- 2011I've been busy with this and that the past month that I completely forgot to pick up my art at the Courthouse gallery! The two pictures I had in for the community art show are an abstract of a frosted over cactus photo and a painting of two dear in a snowy meadow against the backdrop of the Merritt hills. I'm afraid I'm cheaping out a bit with the imagery!
"The Cold Points"
"The Natives"
H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-75947980262889083122011-01-05T23:35:00.000-08:002011-01-13T19:31:12.456-08:00David Tennant, Jememy Wade, Jim Parsons, etc.Christmas is finally over and it was great- family came up to see us in Merritt and we even had snow for them!
Back to the usual. Oh that's right- there is no usual...that cat of mine is getting fixed come Monday and I don't care how much snow is on the Coquihalla. It has to be done because she is driving me insane.
Been doing a few more assignments photography wise and more art...even tho H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-79562305818978675322010-12-02T11:04:00.000-08:002010-12-02T17:44:30.542-08:00Rosehip Jelly recipe and infoRose Hip Jelly Recipe (Hagebutte)(recipe at bottom of post)I didn't post a recipe for rose hip jelly earlier because I had tried 5 different versions of recipes (because I had LOTS of rose hips), wrote them down on scraps of paper and then put them away until we had tested out the various end results.No. 1 was probably the best- very sweet, wonderful flavor, firm consistency. 4 cups strained roseH.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062668705816759962.post-51584603938180716402010-11-17T20:36:00.000-08:002010-11-17T21:00:18.932-08:00Electronics- vintage and modernAlmost finished updating my entire system. What a task. My computer had a meltdown and something caused 2 of my partitions to disappear. If it weren't for religious backups I would have lost my entire photo archive plus a whole lot of miscellaneous documents. During breaks between installing devices and programs, and getting all my photos and documents in order, I was able to tackle a few other H.I.Koehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15678511391649862699noreply@blogger.com0