Towering storm clouds

driving through storm clouds

It is peaceful inside.

Very merry Christmas

and peaceful outside.

but in many places in this world the weather is dreadful.

driving home

24 x 30″  acrylic on stretched canvas   art for sale    PayPal

with my last paintings I recorded the weather the way we will see it very frequently

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colours can hide forwarning

blue pretty blue danger

words without words

Blue, pretty blue danger

size: 9×12″ with 2″ mat/acid free paper

 

size : 17×21″ canvas/acrylic

How sweet it is:        pretty pink with flaws

art is like always  -   for sale  inquire at     . . . → Read More: colours can hide forwarning

NOVEMBER

colors in the garden

Just about December, this came fast. After a wonderful late, long stretched out sunny summer spell our winter weather is back.

So are we ready to think of Christmas? I will bet that we are not “on course “ this year.

Thanksgiving is gone – Halloween came and went – time is running.

But you . . . → Read More: NOVEMBER

Stars

large star1

Every year for -at least- – I cannot spell that # – I started around end of October to go into my crafty mode, making Christmas and window decoration out of ordinary straw. A craft I learn in my childhood and sold hundreds of them in the 80th, from then on the world moved . . . → Read More: Stars

Shop from home, save carbon points.

Epiphyllum4

Shop from home, save carbon points.

It is raining where I live, so who wants to go shopping in this kind of weather.

Just a few ideas to lift the bad weather spirit – or –

Small is beautiful – small is good  Shipping is free

My pick in 4×4”on acid free water colour . . . → Read More: Shop from home, save carbon points.

Taming of the …….Elements

taming the wild

When an extra high tide and a big spring storm hit the coast line at the same time -what a spectacle it is.

Every 1500 m or so the groynes( brake-waters) will try to tame the angry temperament of the sea and   the waves attack the wooden breaker

I  feel more than see . . . → Read More: Taming of the …….Elements

Summary

marshland erosion

 

The world in me.

Best results…  I get when I paint what I know about.

Nature

Water

Environment

and of course paint with emotion, paint colour and feelings

on the one hand I would like to keep my work all around me

never sell  -   rather give them to a friend

(LIFE IS . . . → Read More: Summary

From here to there, the birch tree challenge

portrait of a birch

From here to there, the birch tree challenge

The Birch Tree Challenge

posted by Christine Striemer on Saturday Sep 29, 2012

 

 

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Birch trees are one of my favorite subjects to paint. The shadow and light of the round trunks give them form. The blisters, lines, and highlights of the bark’s . . . → Read More: From here to there, the birch tree challenge

Bird-brain -challenge – from ” Daily Painter”

feeding frenzy

Here’s a change from still life to not so still. Well, I suppose he’s still in this picture, but he wasn’t when I pointed my camera at him, I can tell you that! I had to practically chase him around the pier. Your challenge this week is to paint either this gull or any . . . → Read More: Bird-brain -challenge – from ” Daily Painter”

Trumpet Vine and Crocosmia

campis radicans and crocosmia

I have to start my blog with an explanation why I paint abstract: In my art I always search for something new, not necessarily popular but I do not want to copy nature – nature is too perfect. I make myself free from any form and shape what has been there before and try . . . → Read More: Trumpet Vine and Crocosmia