Earth Day – any day +water

#057 holding the power

just  2 paintings with mother earth in mind

ocean and wind power   size: 24×30″      acrylic on canvas

sea detail:

 

Flower in power  size: 12×22″   acrylic on canvas

 this abstract painting is for earth day and the importance of water

 title: #057 – holding the power

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I FIGURED IT OUT

life comes in 3 parts

Life comes in three parts

1)  Growing up

2)  Life came in the way

3)  Continue to grow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

” STICKS AND STONES”  

 

And that is because:

When” #3″ comes around in your life, one thinks a lot about the years of “#1″ and most likely with . . . → Read More: I FIGURED IT OUT

Going –going – green

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What do we really understand or mean when we say “GOING GREEN”?

Less garbage, less plastic, less house, less junk food?

It means a lot of different things to different people!

Smaller house? No plastic at all? not following every trend which comes a long? Less electricity- no hairdryer, no toaster oven?

Many things . . . → Read More: Going –going – green

The colour of Cooking – Gardening and Painting!

the loki

Can anybody think of a better way to fill your day?

Cooking:

If my memory serves me right I was only 13 when I thought I could cook a better dinner than my mother did – teenager –eh.

(But I do not remember how it turned out, lucky me.)

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The man in black

The tree that will be

          

     

Pierre Soulages (French Painter, post war abstractionist) has an amazing show in”The Pompidou Gallery”, Paris.

I did a little research – (thanks to Google, I do not have to leave my house,  buy expensive tickets to fly to Paris ( would not mind so) or expensive tickets to . . . → Read More: The man in black

Fruehlings Blumen Spring Flowers

IN hope of spring

I hear my mother say, -go – take your bike and come home with some wild spring flowers.

My garden is probably shaped of these memories, the idea of wild flowers, or going in the garden to pick a bunch of flowers for the breakfast table, no hybrids or exotics just locals. If possible . . . → Read More: Fruehlings Blumen Spring Flowers

2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

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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 out

Had some sick days, had . . . → Read More: 2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

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 – at this time . . . → Read More: The Nature Effect

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 one . . . → Read More: THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

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 be a lady or how to behave as gentlemen or which . . . → Read More: The Smartphone effect