Shop from home, save carbon points.

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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.

A one day visit

Epiphyllum

This ugly – does not know which way to grow – long green branches of a cactus –  finely showed us the reason of its existence.

A one night – day –  stand and four years of waiting.

Epiphyllum or orchid cactus

        

      

  acrylic on watercolor paper 12×12″  . . . → Read More: A one day visit

Puppy love for poppies

selfseeding poppies#8

OK  - rainy season is over, stop painting that wet stuff

All painters do the poppy thing soon or later or at least ever so often, see the masters:

 Emile Nolde  G O’Keeffe

   Van Gogh

So nothing is stopping me to paint a few more poppies, they are just so tempting and the right . . . → Read More: Puppy love for poppies

Taken from Nature

storchenschnabel( purple geraniums)

Painting from nature does not mean to copy but to realise color impressions –

take natures elements and invent new ones 

 

 

Purple in the breeze  acrylic/arches paper   5×7″

Storchenschnabel – purple geranium   acrylic/canvas 22×22″

      

in the garden purple galore

 

 

. . . → Read More: Taken from Nature

Why do we like pictures of crows and ravens?

where the crow flies #3

If anyone has an answer, that would be interesting.

They are not pretty, just black, have a terrible voice, are scavenger and come in droves, especially the crows, steel songbirds eggs from the nest, try to chaise away any larger bird if they like to roost in their neighborhood,

But they are a family . . . → Read More: Why do we like pictures of crows and ravens?

Strings attached

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Pollock has his drips – Schwitter has Merz –  Hirst has his Formaldehyde – Duchamp did Ready Made -

 - and I have my string - 

size: 5×7″  acrylic on paper — with 2′ off white mat          only : $ 45.00 each              

pay by Paypal   . . . → Read More: Strings attached

Gerald’s Garden

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Dreaming of summer and the colors to come.

January is a good time to dream of a flower garden. Catalogues galore flying through the front door into my house, so to speak.

When we still lived in the Kootenays at the North end of the Lake,  not the best region for flower gardens but . . . → Read More: Gerald’s Garden

Near the Ocean

near the ocean (#12)

8×10″ acrylic/paper + mat  $ 125.00  easy Paypal

Summerheat

Summer heat

acrylic/canvas 18×24″  for sale

Tide is low and the sand is exposed – mid day sun- did you ever try to walk on a hot beach?