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The Eve of NaPoWriMo
Yes, we’ve circled back to the end of March, which means tomorrow is April Fools Day and YES National (Global) Poetry Writing Month. NaPoWriMo headquarters has issued an early bird prompt and it spoke to me. You can do this. … Continue reading
TGIF painting
I went out this morning thinking to paint at Hand Hollow. I stopped and finished my coffee there but it was too hot to paint. Listened to the birds awhile and then went home and painted from my porch. I had my bubba packed with ice and a cool beverage. Continue reading
Posted in Art in the world, Do the Work, en plein air, food, gardens and flowers, In the neighborhood, june challenge, landscape, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged flowers, garden yardpainting, peppers, pleinair, pleinairpainting, stilllife, vegetables, watercolor, watercolorpainting
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June the First – another 30 days?
I’m going to be aiming for another month of painting each day. Today it was so hot out that I opted to prune a branch from the rhododendron… Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, food, gardens and flowers, june challenge, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor, weather
Tagged dothework, flowers, food, pickled, process, rhododendron, stilllife, watercolor, watercolorpainting
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How far can it go?
I worked with this little watercolor painting tonight from the spontaneous watercolor landscape workshop. Continue reading
Posted in Classwork, Do the Work, gardens and flowers, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged Classwork, dothework, edges, flowers, watercolor, watercolorpainting, windowbox
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TGIF – Flowers
Had a nice outing with Mom to Becker’s in town for some hanging baskets and bedding plants. It was hotter than we thought but we made it home with no one wilting! Here’s one of the coleus I got. Continue reading