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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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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Have a very Happy Christmas

in the Kootenays

AND A SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR

every one needs a holiday from it all – hope to see you in 2013 – stay with me – good things to come.

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

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

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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”

Beach Grass, Lister Duenen

beach grass

Painters or writers talk about writers block-painters block, I found my solution.

Start from “scratch” and ideas will follow,

Let me have a little show and tell in my studio

               

raw canvas                             . . . → Read More: Beach Grass, Lister Duenen

Tsunami

how healthy is our world

From fun filled and sunny images to a more distressing subject.

(that is the nature of things)

Images of the Tsunami aftermath, one year later – a worry for all of us, the ocean will never be the same to me (had a similar feeling when man was landing on the moon, how can you ever . . . → Read More: Tsunami

Who dictates?

allone

Who dictates?

There is no end in our art history that critics and public alike reject art.( We like to feel the power of lording,{ I guess} over something we don’t know much about) Why do artists have to go through so much hardship, they do what they do best and still people enjoy . . . → Read More: Who dictates?

A Project

house behind the wall

Inspired by the houses on the Island but –  I never lived in a house like that it is a bit utopia -have no real connection to them except that they are belonging to the whole theme of things – Island – Water – sky and the windbreaker walls with rugosa roses, we called them “Sylt Rosen”.

this will be . . . → Read More: A Project