2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

Fritillaria_meleagris

Seems to me that was a very short year, did I oversleep a few weeks or something???? We did a little travelling,  , a bit visiting  -   a bit doing nothing and long hours in the garden  - as in ——– planting,weeding,weeding,resting,sleeping,watching things grow,watching birds making . . . → Read More: 2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

and now the love-in mode, Valentine

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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott “Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life” – Aphra Behn “We can do no

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The weather effect

8 the sun willshine again

Release (relieve) of the winter blaas –  in colour

We are strongly affected by the weather (at least, I am {I think})

I tend to go to the easel and let my “stuff” hang out – from brain –to heart –to  shoulder- to arm – hand – and the brush does its

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The Nature Effect

Before spring#2

I find it fascinating that I paint my paintings from following the happenings around me. In wintertime I tend to think more about the things I read in the News papers or about pictures I always wanted to paint and never did get around to do it – but now

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THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

What do we or my readers out there in cyber land really think when we say “go green”

Fresh strawberries in winter, fresh blueberries for Christmas or

-      eat what is in season and what grows in our neighborhood?

Or pay less at Walmart but replace it more often (because it only lasts

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The Smartphone effect

the smart phone effect

The smartphone effect     26×26″   acrylic/canvas    $400.00

The Smartphone effect

There should be a new guideline written “how and when NOT to use that cell phone in public.

We used to learn all kinds of etiquettes on how to

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THE BOOMERANG EFFECT

he boomerang affect

One artist is addressing a current issue:

THE BOOMERANG EFFECT

What we throw out will haunt us.

No grade 12 end exam, might just hurt their intelligence, so the school board says? Don’t give them the experience how the world is run outside their protective walls, too fragile (really?). We are so wise, we play

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It is a small world

the future will be here

I am still working on my canvasses, stretching and putting the gesso on, sanding – 4 times – quite a few more to do, on my large table there is no room for anything else, but I sneak in some small paintings, just so I keep the paintbrushes in use

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