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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. — John Ruskin And this: It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy … Continue reading
From the Quote Box
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither … Continue reading
Day 2 NaPoWriMo
Quiet day but it started out with the solution to using up bananas: Banana pancakes! morning slatted light across the waiting table glowing sugar bowl banana pancakes filled two plates and our stomachs jolly good breakfast. quiet afternoon some mundane … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, food, From the Quote Box, haiku, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process
Tagged dothework, food, GloPoWriMo, haiku, NaPoWriMo, TakingTimetoLook
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Ukraine
It has been a rising tide of news until you can barely stand up against the waves that come faster and faster. This morning I sat down to write out a few bonus postcards for the world peace poetry postcard … Continue reading
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Tip of the hat to Robert LaFond: Painters of marines do not represent the sea well, in general. The same approach may be applied to them as to the painters of landscape. They want to show too much science, make … Continue reading
Posted in From the Quote Box, landscape, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged delacroix, landscape, marine, painting, process, quote, quotebox
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