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| Blood-root Leaves 9x12 Watercolor on 140 lb Cold Press Arches Paper |
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| Coral Leaf Watercolor on 12" Round Textured Paper |
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| Leaves Donna Vines *********** That I am a pack rat is a well established fact. Therefore, this tear-out from a 1997 copy of Country Living should be no surprise to anyone who knows me. Yes, I have been waiting that long to do something with the info in it. We are awaiting Hurricane Dorian, so it is a pleasure to escape into the memories of crisp and colorful falls.  Dogwood is my favorite tree. The dogwood is one of the first to change colors and is such a deep velvet red that I remember it still as vividly as one recalls those most special moments in life. Maples have the most brilliant of foliage, at least in Virginia. And they are also early to turn many different shades of gold and orange and cadmium red. The good ole oak is just plain dependable and strong.   Below I have tried to do water colors of the maple and the oak. I promised myself I would do it at one of our weekly gatherings and not go back to it. Well, the outcome is not what I envisioned. I probably should have started over and tried to get more variety and contrast. Next time.   Fay Picardi |
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| "A Call From Mother" by Carol Schiff 16x20" Oil on Canvas
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall You've seen it all, you've seen it all Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen Most of them dream, most of them dream
Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder I'm an over-forty victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast Never meant to last, never meant to last
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks But I got stop wishing, got to go fishing, down to rock bottom again Just a few friends, just a few friends |
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| Siesta after Gauguin Donnavinesart.etsy.com donnavinesart.blogspot.com **********
Fay's response to the challenge.
 Sunflowers 1877 Vincent Van Gogh Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this challenge, I have reverted to my most insistent creative instinct. I have reversed the February challenge and written a poem based on a painting.
Who can blame the sunflower?
Its energy, its inspiration,
its color, its form.
The way it reflects cultures.
Inspires painters, photographers.
Monet, Gaugin, O’Keefe. More.
In Sunflowers, 1877,
Van Gogh captured essence
with only two blooms.
Made beautiful the simple,
the imperfect, the spent.
Revealed the past is
always present in the future.
An image comes back.
Simply. High in the
my friends, my husband, me,
each in turn, set one foot on either side
of a low stone which still separates
A field of Swiss cows,
their brass bells, their low bleating,
broadcast their heavy pleasure.
An endless field of sunflowers,
each head turning (gira sole)
to follow the sun.
How could we blame that field, that lullaby,
that feeling of a world at peace?
How could we blame that moment in time
for what was to follow?
Just another beautiful September day.
That is, until it wasn’t.
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| Kathy Garvey "Wing-powered bicycle - if only I could travel like this!" Mixed media - watercolor and polymer clay - 9x12 www.Snailflower.etsy.com |
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| Donna Vines No matter where you go nothing says travel like a road trip. Imagine tooling along the highways and byways with all you need for a comfy stay trailing behind you. This 6x12 collage was done from old luggage stickers from the days when traveling was a real journey of the heart and the spirit. Donnavinesart@blogspot.com Donnavinesart.Etsy.com |
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| Carol Schiff Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky John Lennon 8x10" Oil www.CarolSchiffStudio.etsy.com |
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| Cindy Michaud Imagine it is Spring
Wow....just
not too happy about snow now....why not January?!
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| Kathy Garvey
Bird on Briar
"I like to paint
little birds, but not totally realistic ones. I like to imagine what they would
look like with decorative wings and designer feathers."
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| Donna Vines
Imagine if you had a learning tree in your yard. Anything you were curious about, anything you
wanted to know you could just go out, sit under the tree, close your eyes and
you would know all about it. The tree is
really a connecting road all knowledge.
It starts at the tree but the roots bring all knowledge to all
things. I am always fascinated by how
all things are connected, interconnected then connected yet again.
I thought it would be fun to imagine this as a
collage. After all it is paper and paper
comes from trees as do pages which are always turning, leading us on to new
things.
Collage
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My daughter ask me to do a collage
of how I imagined God would look. I gathered all of my favorite
photos, most taken by me. I included pictures of my daughters and
grandchildren, along with a few images from other sources. Then, I set to work
cutting and gluing. I surrounded the canvas with my favorite definition of God
from I Corinthians 13: 4-8. For me, this image is as true as I can create.
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When I first saw the property on the Indian river that
eventually became ours, one of the first things I noticed was hundreds of
dragonflies zipping around above me. I thought, "this place is
magical." And it was.
I see these guys frequently, They land on the papyrus in our
pond. My favorites are the magenta ones. Often I imagine, "what
would it be like to be a dragonfly for a day?!"
What it would be like
to be a dragonfly
and soar to great heights!
To watch birds flying below,
and catch dinner on the go.
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| Carmen Beecher Oil
When Carol challenged us with the theme “Imagine,” I immediately
thought of dragons. I have long wondered why dragons abound in historic art and
literature of so many nations on Earth, yet we have no archaeological evidence
that they ever existed. Why would the same mythic creature appear in Sumeria,
China, Greece, and practically every other exotic place you can think of? From
Chinese dragons to St. George and the dragon, how did the same fantasy reptiles
appear on opposite sides the the world, in cultures that didn’t know each
other? Of course, the fact that the creatures are mythical makes them easier to
paint because you are only limited by your imagination.
Besides my dragon question, I have also wondered this: If there
are aliens on other planets, do they have their own fictitious superheroes?
Or maybe dragons?
 Mary Warnick Watercolor
As we find travel difficult these days, we imagine
ourselves at places we once enjoyed. We
can remember happy trips to the Keys and pretend we are there once again.
This painting is of my daughter at Key West.
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I had not painted outside in two years, so this was quite a challenge. It was one of those paintings I had to improve upon in the studio. ...
