Being and Doing More (Bees)

I'm on a roll with my bee theme. My small quilted square will be submitted to a contest/challenge in Quilting Arts magazine involving a single colour theme and why we picked that colour. I usually look blank when asked something like what my favorite colour is. As an artist I pretty much adore all colour. Of course I go through phases: my Santa Fe turquoise phase, my tangerine orange passion (I hear that's the IT colour this year), my current periwinkle blue fondness, but when I drift into the golds my preference is not for the bright sunshine or marigold hues, but the soft honey tones of beeswax and candlelight. So here above is that quilted square again, this time on a copper background. I received a gift awhile back wrapped in a honeycombed cut cardboard so I just spray painted it copper, out in my back driveway, like a graffiti artist. I know, I know....the Ozone! I swear it only took a few spritzes to coat it.
And here is another piece I played around with yesterday, then mounted on a rice paper collage background that was turning into a huge mess so I covered most of it up.

And finally, I had a  20"x20"canvas just sitting on an easel in my studio that I had painted first a bright chartreuse, then that honey gold, so eventually I decided it needed a GIANT bee in the middle of it. It's not quite finished but I am at that stage where I don't know what to do next without overkill. Such a delicate moment.

 My friend, Lisa, wrote in her blog about naming days after a significant or inspiring event, so a few days ago I saw my first and only bee of the season hovering near the pond, waiting for our Russian sage to bloom. And for Lisa I named that The Day of the Lonely Bee.