tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311799482024-03-12T23:59:11.568-05:00Quiet Beautyramonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254210131699811noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179948.post-14151816173167470272022-05-02T14:20:00.000-05:002022-05-02T14:20:08.834-05:00A Few Paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the last three months I've been able to devote some time to creating art. These paintings are all oils, either on stretched canvas or board. Two were painted over old landscapes that I painted years ago. The golden wheat field is now a slice of gold curtain.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The winter paintings. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In February while walking the hills of Sinnissippi Park, I became intrigued with the interplay of light and dark among the shadows of trees against snow. When the light changed, soft edges would suddenly turn sharp, snow became pink, sometimes purple, other times yellow. As time went on the snow paintings evolved and become more abstract until spring came and the snow melted. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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ramonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254210131699811noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179948.post-31055425874249961822020-02-05T14:04:00.000-06:002020-02-05T14:13:40.702-06:00To Remember<div class="mobile-photo">
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They find their way to her, large and small, winged and furred, and live out their lives in a small sanctuary in Bavaria Germany.<br />
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In 2013 I blogged about my visit with Dori in Germany and have remembered many of the animals some of which have passed away very recently.<br />
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As an artist I deeply connect to memories and events through art, sometimes symbolically or figuratively, the lines and paint are a conduit to the soul's expression.<br />
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Here my friend is shown with some animal companions that have died. An alpaca, white dog and chickens, a black sheep and cat all huddle around their caretaker while a sheep walks toward them. He is a red ram and is only partially drawn for he has only died a few days ago.<br />
He was called Pauli and had a big personality. I'm sure his absence will be felt for a long time to come.</div>
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I go among trees and sit still.<br />
All my stirring becomes quiet around me<br />
like circles on water.<br />
My tasks lie in their places where I left them<br />
asleep like cattle.<br />
Then what is afraid of me comes<br />
and lives a while in my sight.<br />
What it fears in me leaves me<br />
and the fear of me leaves it.<br />
It sings and I hear its song.<br />
Than what I am afraid of comes.<br />
I live for a while in its sight.<br />
What I fear in it leaves it<br />
and the fear of it leaves me.<br />
It sings and I hear its song.<br />
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Many Monarch eggs were found this year. Although I shared some with other Monarch Mavens, I was able to successfully release nine healthy and strong butterflies into the world. Here you can see a newborn just a few hours from emerging from it's chrysalis, clinging to a leaf while it's wings dry completely. In the background another Monarch feeds on nectar from a variety of flowers grown especially for butterflies.<br />
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ensure survival by bringing the plant with the egg into a protected area and raise the small larvae to a full grown caterpillar. When the caterpillar reaches maturity it forms a perfect jade green capsule..a chrysalis....a perfect container for the miracle that happens next.</div>
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When the bloom has faded, it coils up like a spring, later, the plant<br />
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<dt style="text-align: center;">"this is the garden:colours come and go,</dt>
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<dt style="text-align: center;">This is the garden:pursed lips do blow</dt>
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<dt style="text-align: left;"> e.e. cummings <i>This Is The Garden</i></dt>
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<i>Small painting on tin, completed today.</i></div>
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That moment when the creature is still and lets you behold her beauty.<br />
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I have often thought of Chagall while viewing German Artist, <a href="http://dorikult.blogspot.com/">Dori Stuffer's</a> paintings.</div>
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A very long and very cold winter has a firm grip on us.</div>
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Winter of 2014 will be but a memory.</div>
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I dress warm when it's cold and drink hot soup.</div>
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I look long at the shadows on snow</div>
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