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For the Quote Box, Yeats
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of … Continue reading
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Follow the Heron Home
In darkness we cradled our sorrow And stoked all our fires with fear Now these bones that lie empty and hollow Are ready for gladness to cheer. (Chorus) By night and day we’ll sport and we’ll play And delight as … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, fae and elvish, From the Quote Box, Poetry and Lyrics
Tagged lyrics, process, quote
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From the Quote Box
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
Posted in Do the Work, From the Quote Box, process
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Just Make That First Mark
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don’t know anything. … Continue reading
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From Vincent
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like … Continue reading
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