When I was a kid, I looked up in the sky and wondered if the stars were pointy. Would they stick or sting me if I touched them? Were they poisonous? Thinking about that made me sad. So I decided stars were kind, and would let me ride on them. I made hundreds of drawings […]
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Category: Art by Angela
THE GOOD CATCH
In our not-too-long-ago past, there used to be little fishing villages where the guys go out every morning and come back with their boats laden with fishies. When they return when dusk is on the rosy horizon, the women and chilluns gather round down on the strand and dance and sing, celebrating the good catch […]
BIRDIES in the OAKS
Hot Summer is over! Yay! It’s finally cooler, and I can breathe again – at last. It’s been a very long, very hot summer. I’ve been surprised by my inability to handle the heat – I never felt like I was going to melt completely down into a flaccid puddle of sweltering, sweating hot human […]
SING THE SEA
I wonder sometimes if there are invisible goddesses who Sing the Sea into Being. Maybe there are some days they allow themselves to be seen. At first I drew them touching their own faces. But it looked like they were scared. Can’t have goddesses looking scared! So I ended up with this design because it […]
COONS & FRIENDS
I bet you thought those raccoons were going to eat those fishies! Nope! They jump into the river under the vines, scoop up the fishies in their hands, and flinnnnng them into the air, everybody laughing as the wee little fishies scream in delight! I love seeing them play – they’re like little kids, totally […]
DOC SUN
I had a doctor friend who was known for his sunny disposition, always cheering people up. He was amazing – he could make even the most impossibly depressed people laugh until tears ran down their cheeks. On the darkest days ever, being with him felt like being inside one of those enormous lamps they used […]
EXPERIMENTING
I like to experiment. I wanted to see how a line drawing would look filled in. It’s so different it’s as if it’s a whole nother drawing! I think it’s going to blow your mind! Which one do you like best? I like the fine line one, especially the repeat. But as a scarf, I […]
I DON’T WANNA WORK
It’s too damn hot to even breathe today. And yesterday. And the day before that. All week! I never thought I’d hear myself say I can’t wait for winter, but I did today! I have so much to do! Four more books in my Legacy series. Building a book for a client. Creating a painting […]
ROSES on the WALL
My neighbor has a lovely red rose plant outside her front window. I can smell their heady scent even two houses down the path. But she knows nothing about how to dead-head for more flower growth, nor how to let the last roses of the summer die and stay on the stems so she can […]
I LOVE TOMATOES!
I love this time of year! So much lovely fresh produce! If only I had room for a garden, I’d grow enough for my whole neighborhood. Really – would that be cool, or what? I could put up a little stand at the end of my driveway (assuming I had one) and stack it with […]
OVERLAP
Sometimes I let my designs do themselves. I start with a basic criss-cross of my surface, and then just play with lines. I like this one a lot. It feels clean and clear in a world that has gotten too nasty and violent for my taste – I stay inside and make art. That’s it. […]
GET STUFF DONE!
EARLY BIRDIES CATCH THE WORM! Maybe I should have named it Early Fat Birdies – these are truly chubby guys! But no matter – they got their worms and are happy campers. Not me! I do way too many things. But I get distracted – I’m doing one thing, and halfway through, I see something […]
HAPPY LATE JULY 4th!
This is my Red Bud tree, blossoming alongside the pointy leaves of my palm trees. It looked to me like fireworks, so I figgered why not release it for happy 4th of July? Only I’m a little late – oops! Oh well. I love the repeat design. Available as a 36″ square silk scarf. Contact […]
DOLPHINS & FRIENDS
Instead of exploiting, we oughta be saving/preserving/protecting the ocean and the whales, dolphins, fishies, and other ocean critters. I despair when I see stories about ships scraping the ocean bottom with their nets. I don’t understand how they can possibly ignore both the short-term and long-term damage. Don’t they get that if they destroy the […]
ME, YOU & BABY = 3
A friend of mine called all excited tonight, saying her oldest daughter was ‘loaded with her first baby.’ She laughed and said, “and her husband is doing sympathetic weight gain, pound for pound!” So here they are – with baby making three, both of them getting bigger by the day. They say they want to […]
CATZ & CHRISTMAS
This was the other design I created while attending Liz Kohler Brown’s wonderful Summer School for fun this week. I wanted to create a design that said Christmas, but that wasn’t your everyday snowman, St. Nick, or wrapped presents. I like how it came out – so I made some stuff with it – check […]
NAUGHTY KITTY
Those silly cats! This was a design I created while attending Liz Kohler Brown’s wonderful fun Summer School for fun this week. I like how you see the abstract form first, and then you get a surprise when you zoom in and see the kitties! Sly kitty thinks he’s so smart . . . You […]
LOVE DREAM
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/
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 […]