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Art Snippets on the Go
Learning is hard work! Look for increments of progress over the weeks and months, rather than looking at others’ work.
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Violet and Shadows: Saturday
Courage….is Always, “good enough.” So says my lovely whiskered muse, as she sits contemplating her shadows in lilacs upon the wall.
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art | inspiration | painting | watercolors
Fresh Spring Watercolor Azaleas
Spring is here! Fresh and bright, sun drenched Azaleas with gorgeous new yellow green buds shooting forth in this lovely watercolor design!
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art | inspiration | painting | watercolors
Magical Mists: Monday Watercolors
stranger to blue water, dark and dusty, painted on the sky…. Magical Mists of Watercolor invites you in.
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art | painting | watercolors
Silly Saturday Watercolor Collage
A Watercolor Collage of papers, bright bold with ragged torn edges. Undulating shapes that could be hills and foliage layering the landscape in vibrant violet. Watercolor Collage Silly Saturday has not finished yet in my two part Saturday series- Vibrant Violet Watercolors first and this Silly Watercolor Collage tagging along! Silly Saturday is […]
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My Magical Monday
This is how I’m starting my Monday off: Paint for paint’s sake. Just looking at the painting with those Color bursts and the magical medley of color – makes me sing. On a Monday. So today – No instructions, no worries. Nor thoughts of pixels, stats, what’s popular, or Lightroom. I will […]
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Silly Saturday Returns
Cobalt Teal Blue ushers in a return to Silly Saturday! This relaxed mixed media abstract painting seems to float and drift peacefully across the paper. Silly Art Fun on a Saturday I had this painting waiting, for the finish of the long Zen Series. And it is actually meant to be viewed after […]
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Simply, The 7th Day of Zen
The 7th Day of Zen arrives! After a wonderful, enlightening artistic journey the final element of the Zen Art Series is Simplicity – “kanso.” In other words, keeping it simple. Simplicity. Simplifying. Simple Simple is not as easy as it sounds. Our minds and eyes seem to be always racing somewhere. Racing down the […]
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Beautiful Findings – Zen VI
Only in Stillness can I see, can I hear….the whisper thin song of the predawn cricket that fades into silence as the sun breaches the far horizon. There, in that space of time I have found a subtle and delicate grace and beauty. Such Beautiful Findings. Delight the soul. Inspire the creative […]
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Oddly Even – 7 Days of Zen V
“Old pond – frog jumps – the sound of water” Matsuo Basho This wonderful Haiku has a cadence and balance to it that is so Zen! Its very unevenness, asymmetrical syllables create a finely tuned, oddly perfect beauty. Zen and its branches The master Japanese poet Matsuo Basho (1644 – […]