Tag: trees
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Somehow, I Managed It
As I was saying, I woke up to a an orderly mess of scribbles. So, what did I do. Sometimes, there are things in artwork that there are no words for. I did something here, I did something there, I added a little blue. So, I pulled it off. I captured the feeling a bright […]
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An Idea that Didn’t Make the Cut
Or if you’d rather..an idea that crashed and burned. It was to be entitled, “One Person’s Trash”. I saw it sitting, discarded, by the side of the road. I found it to be cute and interesting. Obviously, someone”s daughter outgrew it. So far, so good. But then I started thinking about that little girl, […]
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Even Endless Comes to an End
So, I’ve been working…okay, intermittently working on this drawing. I was rapt about the possibilities I could use to render the abstract shapes in the leaves. I must admit, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this picture. No doldrums, no boredom, I was on a roll. But all good things (and yes, bad things) come to an […]
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What is Paradise?
Darned if I know…. It’s just in this environment, wondering what I can draw that is upbeat and inspiring to people, I come back to my old idea of Paradise. It’s just that I don’t work well from imagination alone. I need some hard copy to ground me, to elaborate on, and interpret. Sometimes, I […]
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An Enforced Rest
My paper didn’t get here yesterday, as scheduled. It’s still in Pennsylvania, somewhere. Delayed, by weather, I’m assuming, although Fed Ex isn’t really clear about that. It’s serendipitous. If I had my paper, I’d probably feel I had to do a big project. As it is, I’m getting informal drawing practice in. I’m drawing trees, […]
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Mate for Life???? Who does that anymore?
Crows do. Some people do, too. There are probably other animals in the world who do, but this is a post about crows. And people. Going back down memory lane, I have a few drawings that were metaphors for lifetime relationships. As my boyfriend says, “I guess we’re stuck together” Oh, yes, the Work-In-Progress […]
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Back to Paradise….and a Work in Progress.
As i recall, one of my first attempts at healing through art was to create drawings of various paradises. Here’s an example of one of them Of course, like so many of my series pictures…I got totally bored with the idea before I had done too many, and quit. Am I a quitter, then? Maybe, […]
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Portrait of the Artist as a Kitten…Stage 2
Okay, progress….I have a title! Once again, I identify with cats. As promised, this picture is going to be complex with a lot of preliminary work. Here’s the next stage: Some of you may recognize it as the front yard of my good friends’ home in Connecticut. I was going to search through stock […]
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I’m in the Mood for Fall….
Most of autumn I hate. It’s the rain-soaked doorstep to winter. Bare trees, cold weather, and the beginning of the most stressful time of year for many folk…the Holidays, with a capital H. As in Hell. But there is a little sliver in time between the end of the summer weather, and the really dark […]
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