Some people dream in regular, life-looks-like-this imagery. I dream in color, black and white, and many times, in cartoon. Not Daffy Duck cartoon, more like stick-figurey kind of cartoon. Last night I dreamt I had these amazing hands that exuded hearts of love and softness and peace and healing where ever I aimed them. If […]
CATZ BOW
The old movie I watched tonight was set in the 1950s. The story line was corny and moralistic – almost boring, actually. But it was a powerful reminder of how people used to act, as compared to the gross barbarity going on today in much of the world. I liked it that the characters in […]
CATZ
When I was a kid, there used to be a Sunday comic named Katzenjammer. Today when a friend asked me to do a silly portrait of her cat, out of the blue that comic strip came to mind. Not that this looks anything at all like the cats in those comics! But it made me […]
ODD GARDEN LADDER
I’m not sure what this is about – it just popped out of my fingertips without any overt intention on my part. Sometimes it’s like that, and I sit here watching as the Creative Force uses my hands to make odd things. Like being a human Art Puppet. Maybe it’s a strange ladder to nowhere […]
WHEELS
When I see this design, I think of that old gospel tune, Wheel In A Wheel – and then I wonder if those old timey people who wrote that song were seeing UFOs, way back then – Anyway this design came about because a friend asked me to design some wallpaper for her session room. […]
SPRING GARDEN
Looking out my window on a spring day makes me so happy – Seeing the flowers and smelling the soft breeze – makes me want to spend the day out there with them, instead of sitting here with my eyeballs glued to the screen – -=-=-=-=-=-=- JARDIN © Angela Treat Lyon 2026 instagram.com/angela.treat.lyon/
ICE CUBE FEET
Any of my three exes can verify that I am a shape-shifter. That I am a secret character in Marvel Comics called Ice Foot. That the second any part of my feet touched them as we laid together in bed, they’d feel the chill of ten thousand years run up their bodies until their brains […]
FLERRZ. I KNOW, WEIRD.
There’s no telling what names will come up out of thin air for my designs – sometimes they are ‘normal’ sounding, other times, not. So this one wanted to be called Flerrz. Like a combo of flurry and flower, all in a storm, but afterwards, when things calmed down again. Go figure. The repeat design […]
In MY GARDEN
Well, I don’t really have a garden – I have pots of plants that struggle through our hot, dry days and straggle their long fingers into the pathway across my front stoop. But I love them, even if they are funky looking! One day I shall have a real garden again! So in this design, […]
I’M BACK AGAIN!
Remember I said I’d found a pickle recipe? I had to try it! Annnnd, you know how I said I was going off social media so I could focus on my book series? I lasted a week – but couldn’t help cheating a couple days at the end. I know, Bad Me. So sue me. […]
BUTTYFLIES
Bright and light to cheer you up for the spring time bloomy time! Last year, they devoured the leaves on my redbud tree. Made little half-circle bites all around the edges. Pretty, but sad. This year so far they haven’t appeared. Maybe my landlord’s spraying has killed them off. I keep begging him to stop […]
For ALL MOTHERS
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! May your world be at peace May all good things come to you May we all honor, love, and respect you Not just today but every single day! Here are two plants with super healing powers get together in the garden – Isn’t it amazing how plants with such putting-off names can […]
BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
I’m one of the worst cooks on the planet. But I tried! I tried! I wanted to try to make up for the first batch of blueberry muffs. I was so careful to measure out everything perfectly! And … ummm … then I added twice the amount of blueberries called for. Because, you know – […]
FAT KATZ
An old friend visited. She had her fat cats with her in big ole kitty crates that were so big they took up the entire back of her SUV. I suggested she let them out once we were all inside and the door shut. I should have known how bad an idea that was by […]
OATMEAL COOKIES
I announced last week that I was going to be taking time off social media to focus on my next series of art books. And I did it, too! It was so hard! I missed everyone – seeing their posts, laughing at silly jokes, cussing under my breath at the stupidity humans are capable of. […]
CREATE BEAUTY.
You won’t be sorry, and the world will be a better place. And you’ll feel better, too. Someone asked me where do I get my design ideas. I just look around! Our lives are so full, so rich, so sweet, if we can just see it! Sometimes I get bogged down with problems and confusion […]
NO SOCIAL MEDIA
I’m taking time off social media so I can focus on creating my next series of art books, covering 2021 through 2026, with 200 of my best design images from each year in each book. The first book is already done! Over 200 images of my very best drawings, pastels and designs from 2021. 227 […]
BE KIND
The biggest test of late is this: no matter what happens, can you maintain your equilibrium? Can you remain detached enough from the swirling energy and emotions around you that you can make good choices? Be kind, even in the face of something distasteful? One mis-choice of words or actions can ripple down through years […]
FOUNTAIN of LIFE
Someone asked, what would happen if we jumped out of the Fountain? We all looked at each other, and a silent YES reverberated through each one of us. So we all, all at once, jumped right out of the fountain and into the air! We splashed and played until the sun went down, and swam […]
BIRDIES IN LOVE
Sometimes I feel so completely bowled over by life that I just can’t come up with an uplifting story for the art. Today was one of those days, so I decided to create a design that cheered me up – and it does, thank goodness. I’m seeing it as used in a quilt, or maybe […]
HORSE-LOVE
Lately an odd thing has been happening. Usually I have plenty to tell you about. But lately I have found that there are times I don’t have a story for a design I create – it’s just an alive thing and full of love, waiting for people to see and enjoy it. I love horses. […]
TATERS TOXIC?
I bet you didn’t know that potatoes, being of the Nightshade family, produce tomato-like fruit – that’s poisonous! I only found out because I planted some taters I got at the grocery store that were sprouting. The grocery guy told me to be careful, and about the fruities that would come if I allowed the […]
CRITICAL: BEING SILLY
I find myself consistently amazed at how much strife and upset there is to deal with on a daily basis now. Each day, I think, ‘this is the worst’ – but each day it all seems worse by magnitudes. What a mess. I laugh now – ruefully – that we thought, in the mid-50s, that […]
I MISS the BEACH
I miss only being a short walk to my favorite beach. I miss walking in the foam at the edge of the water, on the sand in my bare footses. I miss the ironwood trees and the stone boat ramp, and the little bitty islets out at the edge of the lagoon. The scent of […]
BELLS & BUGS
Every spring, I watch out my bedroom window as the red bud tree pops out into glorious color. First with tiny bunches of red/pink flowers, then with bright yellow-green heart-shaped baby leaves. You can see the sun through them, they are so transparent. And then, a silent signal blows across the world: Come the Bugs. […]
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
I’m so lucky! My neighbor has a huge camellia tree right next to the fence right outside my window. Entwined within many of its branches are those of a large red bud tree, most of its limbs reaching for the light over to my right, straining to get out from the camellia’s embrace. So I […]
DERAILED by BELIEFS
All my life, I’ve just had this natural Thing, this urge, this compulsion towards anything to do with art – appreciating it, making it, talking about it, eating-sleeping-breathing it. Making some more . . . Back in school my fellow teen class mates were buying my pencil drawings left and right. In my 20s and […]
SAVED BY HIS KITTY
A couple days ago there was a story posted on facebook about a 4 year-old deaf boy who thought it would be a good idea to traipse on outdoors while his mom took a shower. On a freezing cold day. With only a t-shirt, sweat pants and sneakers on. He never came back that afternoon. […]
RAISE YOUR FREQUENCY!
I hear this in so many places these days. But … but … how do I DO that, pray tell? I was told to think of our human vibrations, or frequencies, like a radio dial. An old-timey one, you know? Where you can see where the needle is on the face of the dial. Tune […]
WISHING ANGELS
Today as I shifted between just barely waking up and being fully awake after a nap, I had a dream/vision of a bunch of tall angels hanging out by my bed. They were waiting for me to pay attention – seems they get impatient with my need for sleep. They had a message for me: […]