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Small Pink Rose with Plastic Filter Camera Bag, Friday 4-20-12
This next rose to bloom in the garden is a tough one. A small pink rose that is quite drought tolerant & grows quickly with the heat, plus a bit of water. I don't know for sure the variety, but it seems to be an old fairy rose.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
An Explanation, a Bit of Sharing-Ashtanga Yoga, Tremendous Tuesday 4-18-12
Ashtanga yoga, a bit of sharing & an explanation.
1st let me say, I'm sorry if I missed any comments over the last week. The allergies hit me hard, triggering my asthma, etc., etc. yuck. When this happens not only do I lose my breath, but I literally lose my brain to brain fog. Anywho, 6 days of rest, spring cleaning & cutting the garden back, I feel somewhat like my old self.
2nd thing, I want to explain is I have a convoluted way of blogging, mostly due to trying to keep up to date & trying new things. I'm jumping in to social media left, right & center, it's lots of fun & I really enjoy my friends online & off. Between the time lag getting up to speed & apple, Microsoft, google, Facebook, etc., etc. working in their own interest, my online posting has gotten a bit crazy. You can always find the posts in sequence on my blog. Also, I'm on Facebook a lot between family, friends, creative courage group, yoga & creativity group & an art group that I need to contribute to more. Too little time, sigh;) Here's how I do it,
The Plan
1. Photo including somehow the daily weather, this is my 365 project although, I started mid-January. To make it more interesting, the garden, out the window, in natural light, lake, farms, I stretch it to what is going on at the time.
2. Weekly a bit longer post sharing how I paint, photo, etc.
What I use
1. Cellspin, which is a social sight that posts to Flickr, Facebook & my blog. Easy, right, always works.
The Drawback is to write an explanation, I have to make a separate post. I try to do that immediately so they follow along well, but they can get separated & don't show up in flickr at all. Someday I'll find a solution, I keep looking. Any & all suggestions are welcome.
Anywho,There's the explanation, that's all for now on that, brain fog descending.
Now for the fun part, I've started taking 1 day a week Ashtanga Yoga Practice with a wonderful yoga instructor Jennifer Anders. I take 2 YMCA courses with her also. I consider this a life long process of staying healthy, calm & growing old gracefully. On her suggestion, I have an ebook Ashtanga Yoga by Gregor Maehle, which is great at explaining breathing techniques, etc. It is great for my asthma & I'm stronger now than the tom-boy kid I grew up as. An intention, a goal a dream is to use my iPad or iPhone to digitally draw something every day. I'm drawing the ashtanga yoga positions using Sketchbook Pro & Jennifer's handouts. Since this is my 3rd week & my 3rd drawing, it looks like it will shake out to a drawing a week. Hopefully, that will improve over this year. That's all for now, except Yvonne, I'm sorry I missed your comment on the blog, I hope this helps;)! Let me know;)!
1st let me say, I'm sorry if I missed any comments over the last week. The allergies hit me hard, triggering my asthma, etc., etc. yuck. When this happens not only do I lose my breath, but I literally lose my brain to brain fog. Anywho, 6 days of rest, spring cleaning & cutting the garden back, I feel somewhat like my old self.
2nd thing, I want to explain is I have a convoluted way of blogging, mostly due to trying to keep up to date & trying new things. I'm jumping in to social media left, right & center, it's lots of fun & I really enjoy my friends online & off. Between the time lag getting up to speed & apple, Microsoft, google, Facebook, etc., etc. working in their own interest, my online posting has gotten a bit crazy. You can always find the posts in sequence on my blog. Also, I'm on Facebook a lot between family, friends, creative courage group, yoga & creativity group & an art group that I need to contribute to more. Too little time, sigh;) Here's how I do it,
The Plan
1. Photo including somehow the daily weather, this is my 365 project although, I started mid-January. To make it more interesting, the garden, out the window, in natural light, lake, farms, I stretch it to what is going on at the time.
2. Weekly a bit longer post sharing how I paint, photo, etc.
What I use
1. Cellspin, which is a social sight that posts to Flickr, Facebook & my blog. Easy, right, always works.
The Drawback is to write an explanation, I have to make a separate post. I try to do that immediately so they follow along well, but they can get separated & don't show up in flickr at all. Someday I'll find a solution, I keep looking. Any & all suggestions are welcome.
Anywho,There's the explanation, that's all for now on that, brain fog descending.
Now for the fun part, I've started taking 1 day a week Ashtanga Yoga Practice with a wonderful yoga instructor Jennifer Anders. I take 2 YMCA courses with her also. I consider this a life long process of staying healthy, calm & growing old gracefully. On her suggestion, I have an ebook Ashtanga Yoga by Gregor Maehle, which is great at explaining breathing techniques, etc. It is great for my asthma & I'm stronger now than the tom-boy kid I grew up as. An intention, a goal a dream is to use my iPad or iPhone to digitally draw something every day. I'm drawing the ashtanga yoga positions using Sketchbook Pro & Jennifer's handouts. Since this is my 3rd week & my 3rd drawing, it looks like it will shake out to a drawing a week. Hopefully, that will improve over this year. That's all for now, except Yvonne, I'm sorry I missed your comment on the blog, I hope this helps;)! Let me know;)!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Purple Phlox Massacre & a Spot of Beauty, Tuesday 4-17-12
I had to do it, but taking down all the Purple Phlox hurt. They were so beautiful, impeding my breathing so they had to go. On a brighter note the small pink roses are starting, they should be beautiful soon. I've included a bright spot above with a photo of a creamer, I design & painted at Paint a Piece. Enjoy, all is not lost, we can always find & create beauty;D!
Monday, April 16, 2012
Latest Bloom Paintings, Monday 4-16-12
These latest paintings are getting pretty close to being finished. At this point, I'm playing with color lines inspired by the work of Wayne Thiebaud. I love how he uses color to create 3D images along with edging the object with color lines. This makes the painting really vibrate, yet you can understand the image, whether it is a landscape or one of his pies/cakes.
Now, I'm into wild color as in neon, it started with the luscious purple neon glazes. A bit ago, I bought neon green, yellow, etc., I'm pleased with the way the neon really brings a spark of color to the painting. Another frosting detail I'm using, is the pearlized white & purple. The pearl seems to hold a bit of shape & the white takes on any color causing the color to shimmer.
Finally, I knew 2 of the paintings were going to be color field, water backgrounds (Big Heron & Sails Down the Bay). But, I'm pleasantly surprised that in the Peacock & the Heron/Bennett Cove island, both have a river running diagonally through each. The peacock river showed up first, I've been working awhile to flatten & calm the river water.
After I took the photo of the Heron/Bennett Cove Island, I realized the water continues out into the bay in a diagonal river. The calm water started with the along the island edge in neon purple, when the cap broke off the cobalt teal acrylic paint tube, it was game on. Use or lose it to drying out, quickly put it on as many paintings as possible in the areas I need variety. Low & behold, diagonal river water or in this case current in the bay continued the neon water edge out into the distance with cobalt teal. I just love serendipity;D!
Now, I'm into wild color as in neon, it started with the luscious purple neon glazes. A bit ago, I bought neon green, yellow, etc., I'm pleased with the way the neon really brings a spark of color to the painting. Another frosting detail I'm using, is the pearlized white & purple. The pearl seems to hold a bit of shape & the white takes on any color causing the color to shimmer.
Finally, I knew 2 of the paintings were going to be color field, water backgrounds (Big Heron & Sails Down the Bay). But, I'm pleasantly surprised that in the Peacock & the Heron/Bennett Cove island, both have a river running diagonally through each. The peacock river showed up first, I've been working awhile to flatten & calm the river water.
After I took the photo of the Heron/Bennett Cove Island, I realized the water continues out into the bay in a diagonal river. The calm water started with the along the island edge in neon purple, when the cap broke off the cobalt teal acrylic paint tube, it was game on. Use or lose it to drying out, quickly put it on as many paintings as possible in the areas I need variety. Low & behold, diagonal river water or in this case current in the bay continued the neon water edge out into the distance with cobalt teal. I just love serendipity;D!
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A Few Digital Sketches, Tremendous Tuesday 4-10-12
Just a Few Digital Sketches, they are a bit rough, but if felt good to sketch again.
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