by Carol Conklin | Oct 9, 2013
My morning walks up the hills are clouded with fog and dew. The sun gradually accents the fairy beds in the field and rises to reveal the distant farms and mountains. I practice my Tai Chi in the morning and gather my inspiration for the day. The Tai Chi helps...
by Carol Conklin | Oct 2, 2013
This Autumn, Mother Nature has been smiling on us. The air is soft and sweet and smells wonderful. Light mists rise from the fields and the mountains are accented with both deep shadows and highlights of sun. The air is a soft caress. Insects sing loudly their songs...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 30, 2013
A long sizzling sound filled the air amid the chorus of many bugs in the surrounding woods and fields. The insects produce a meditative buzz in the summer that seems to get louder as fall arrives. The “sizzle bug” is what I call this insect that heralds a...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 2, 2013
My fans are always asking me how I make my batik art. I thought I would make a poster to show them how it’s done! This is a simplified explanation of all the steps that are involved, but I thought I should share it with you here on my blog as well....
by Carol Conklin | Jun 5, 2013
Here are some process pictures of my large batik (26″x 39″), “Magic Frogs Rising.” You can see the batik in the long shallow dyebath, many pictures of the finished work still covered with wax, and finally covered with paper, a small section...
by Carol Conklin | May 21, 2013
Spring has evolved to what now seems like summer and the month of May is at the end. Memorial Day will always be an anniversary of when we moved to Amity Farm in Hartford, New York at the foothills of the Adirondacks. My Morgan mare, Amity (means friendship), gave her...
by Carol Conklin | May 7, 2013
Every spring I can’t help but be reminded of the strong relationship between farmers and the seasons. Spring of course is the beginning of the cycle. The season of optimism. Farmers forget their troubles of winter. There is the frozen water, the cold machines...
by Carol Conklin | Apr 24, 2013
My Sheep on a Sunny Summer Day batik was featured in the Spring issue of Seasoned, an online magazine by Julie Letowski and McKenzie Goetz. Click here to browse a sample or purchase the magazine, which also has a lot of wonderful fresh food recipes and well written...
by Carol Conklin | Apr 16, 2013
I am including some examples of some of the horses I have generated using the tjanting technique. The differences between the gray stallion and others. The Stallion was created using more painting effects rather than the narrow focused flow of wax from the tjanting...
by Carol Conklin | Mar 20, 2013
I am proud to announce that one of my pieces won a prize at the Nature Art Exhibit at the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center in Thompson’s Lake State Park in Voorheesville, New York! This piece, Horse Rises From the Earth and Merges With the Wind, won first place in...
