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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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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 | inspiration | nature | oil paintings | photography
‘Dry Bushland’ Landscape in Oils
Walking on the edge of Autumn, is a wonderfully creative zone to be in. Cool mornings finally settle into place. Scorches of summer heat have scarred the land however, in monochromatic crisp browns. I left early for my walk, grateful for the invigorating morning air and full of curiosity. Wondering. What things of interest might […]
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Ways With Watercolor II Trees
Ways with Watercolor continues with more ideas on altering formats and designs, but this time with previous paintings of trees. Ways With Watercolor – Trees This first painting in near monochromatic palette was a long horizontal originally. It did not work that way. It does better in the square format. Small trees in silhouette, […]
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Monday’s Third Medley
Warm golden petals unfurling create a medley of abstract and interlocking shapes and designs. Drawing you nearer. Hugging you closer. My favorite color of rose has always been a warm golden yellow. The color evokes a warm, cheery inviting feeling but it energises as well. When the flower is nearly at its midpoint […]
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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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art | inspiration | meditation | painting | watercolors
Watercolor Contemplations
Watercolor, perfect for gentle laid back relaxing. Whether its shrouded marshland, or peach tinted skies these paintings are wonderfully contemplative.
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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 – […]