Category Archives: watercolor

For the Quote Box

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

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NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-two

Painting while the car shakes I knew it wasn’t warm and sunny when I headed out to paint But it was sunny at least and there were clouds flying I thought I’d check on the great blue heron’s nest and … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day Thirteen

I went outside to sit with the daffodils today. It may snow. That’s right. It may snow. Won’t be the first time the daffodils have been beaten down in their glory but it seemed a good idea to sit with … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day Six

Feels like forgiveness Sitting here in the sun painting the waves of daffodils The ones who survived the snow a few days ago, bent, now standing. You can’t tell them from those more newly bloomed. And more to come. I … Continue reading

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December 2020

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Continue reading

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