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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Pastel Painting


My way to cool Kitty Kat Mozart!  

My orange tabby kitty is just independent enough to have a certain arrogance about him that makes him way to cool!  So it was only right  that I paint him with jeweled pins in his hair and jeweled sunglasses.  




Saturday, July 30, 2016

Other People's Words That Move Me

Excerpt from A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
(a well loved, well read, often read novel of mine that sits comfortably on my bedside table).


When true love is lost, life can bleed all meaning.  We are left blank.

But the possibility of destiny remains.

What we are meant for may yet be discovered, and once in a very long while that journey to find our destiny may defeat even time itself.




Pastel Painting - Beautiful Ladies


Getting back into my soft pastels and just absolutely loving the results.  Trying to learn how to paint pretty - no, no, - beautiful ladies!

So this one is actually darker than painted because I sprayed it with permanent fixative hoping that the pastels would not fade out.  Unfortunately the fixative makes the painting darker than originally painted.  I later read in the Pastel Journal never, never, ever use fixatives . . . . I think that may have just been a personal opinion because later I read yeah, use them . . . . just saying. 




Let's Give Them Something To Talk About. . . . .

Friday, July 29, 2016

Poetry . . . "The Dead Poet's Society"

Some friends and I have a small but intimate group and we call ourselves "The Dead Poets Society."  Yeah you guessed it!  After the Robin Williams movie.

Our goal is to learn more about poetry and from that learning grow to love it even more than we already do.  (A side of me you didn't know eh?).

So we take turns chosing a DEAD POET'S poem (hence the name) study it, and then share it with the group.  We do much of this over the internet.  We keep our own notes or if you are like me - you actually buy a very special journal to keep all your notes in!  (Type A personality here!).

BUT  . . . straying slightly --  a BIG exception was made for Mary Oliver who is still very much alive!  I just love her writings!  She won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Time discribes her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet!"  Not to shabby!

Mary was born September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio.  She studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College in the mid 50's but never received a degree at either college.

Here is one of Ms. Oliver's poems that I just love!



Mysteries, Yes

Truly, we live with mysteries to marvelous to be understood. 

How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of lambs. 

How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. 

How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken.

How people come from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always from those who think they have the answers. 

"Look!" and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads. 

by Mary Oliver.

Water Color Fun! Just Hanging Out to Dry!

Water Color Fun - or is it . . . sometimes I wonder . . . I'm not really that good with watercolors but I really want to be, so I keep at it, keep trying.  John Singer Sargent did a fantastic outdoor clothes line.  I pulled my idea from his.  But of - he was a art genius, I on the other hand am an art novice!



Oh My You Are A Creative Genius!

Just a follow up (from June 14th) for those Creative Genius Cards I am making.  I posted how I was making them, but index cards will do just fine too.

So here is one that I will share.

Remember that Creative Genius Cards are made on those days you are feeling very creative, and then on the days you do not feel at all creative - you just pull them out and read them - inspiring yourself and reminding yourself that you are indeed "Oh My You Are A Creative Genius!"




Oh My You Are A Creative Genius!

Just a follow up (from June 14th) for those Creative Genius Cards I am making.  I posted how I was making them, but index cards will do just fine too.

So here is one that I will share.

Remember that Creative Genius Cards are made on those days you are feeling very creative, and then on the days you do not feel at all creative - you just pull them out and read them - inspiring yourself and reminding yourself that you are indeed "Oh My You Are A Creative Genius!"