Small Oil Paintings

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Showing posts with label acrylics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acrylics. Show all posts
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Stream of Consciousness

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   Creativity means thinking on your feet, making adjustments and sorties as you go along, advancing commitment as well as erasure. Unless y...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Spells of Calm

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Every life needs spells of calm, every life needs expanses of time when nothing much occurs,  when one may sit for several hours ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Tread Lightly on the Stones

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“ The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.” American Treading Softly on the Stones WIP 20...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Lost My Way in Storyland

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“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” - Jonath...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Purple Skies

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“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of t...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Early Tuesday Morning

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The blinding sun from my window The cool air without AC The sound of building site across the street Boker boker tov! This has been on...
Friday, August 14, 2020

See Saw Margery Daw

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The work becomes important when the meanings contained are greater than what the artist had in mind when he or she created the work. Ambui...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Sometimes We Need a Push

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We are now experiencing a second outbreak which has really got me down. Not a complete lockdown but they closed our small community pool, w...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Art-itude II

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Heat wave Hard to concentrate Want to slip in cool water When will the pool open! Poet, I am not, an artist maybe WIP ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Art-itude

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What's on my desk and easel. My bedside table is one great mess. pamphlets, Lily's medications, random writing tools, toilet paper ...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Reason to Continue

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" consider the desire to make progress reason enough to continue" A small quote from Sara Genn's biweekly newsletter that ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

A Coat of Many Colors

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ג   וְיִשְׂרָאֵל, אָהַב אֶת-יוֹסֵף מִכָּל-בָּנָיו--כִּי-בֶן-זְקֻנִים הוּא, לוֹ; וְעָשָׂה לוֹ, כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים. 3  Now Israel loved Josep...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Evolution of a Painting

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Painting using prompts often brings interesting outcomes. Never the same even when using the same recipe. Different colors, different sub...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Incarcerate

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To improve my vocabulary and my spelling I subscribe to  Word of the Day by Mirriam-Webster. Today the word was incarcerate . Very appropri...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Found Myself in a Aquarium

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I am always surprised by what comes out in the "underpants" paintings done by various audio prompts. I also find the editing proc...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Let's Test my Tablet

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My studio is topsy turvey! So tablet please behave! I am taking an online course with Joan Fullerton  where we work intuitivel...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Hoot Hoot Hoot

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Look who peeked out on one of my small-works using acrylics and neocolor I crayons. My soul mate hooty the Owl! Love using up small pieces ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Small and Bright

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Week 8 on PYHAS was all about landscapes. A lesson with Sherry Woodward.   A lesson in acrylics, layering, color-mixing, and abstraction. P...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Finished my Man

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Have finally finished my "man" portrait. Week nine with Muriel Stegers  at PYHAS 2019. It sat at my table for a while waiting for...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Going Crazy with Color Mixing

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I sometimes get obsessive with color mixing. The main reason being that I am not a good colorist so I have always loved learning about how ...