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11/27/2013

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I know I would have gotten a lot more excited, if I could do this...Whoohoo...our minds are amazing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

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The Holidays are over and it is the beginning of a new year - 2014! Wow... how time flies when you are having fun. The holidays were very good. Everyone in my household is very happy and healthy and that means a lot. However, I have not painted much.  But I have had time for reflection on the past year... and happy thoughts about the future.  Which brings my to my topic of being present in the present. I just bought a book. It is titled "NOW! The Art of Being Truly Present" by Jean Smith.

Randomly this morning I opened a page and began to read....about seeing.

This is what I read...

"I look out the window at noon and see the green trees, yellow flowers, and a brown house. I look out the same window at midnight and perceive only black and gray shapes.

Before changing lanes I check the rear-view and side mirrors but see nothing until I glance over my shoulder, and discover another car alongside my rear fender. When I become angry, I see red. When I am sad, I feel blue."

"WE HUMANS rely heavily on our sense of vision, even in metaphors. And yet what and how we see depend upon external conditions such as light and location, upon what we have been taught, and also our emotions. All of these conditions determine how we feel about what we see and how we respond through our actions. Whether we find something attractive or aversive does not inhere in the object we see, but rather its pleasant and unpleasant qualities are in "the eyes of the beholder" ourselves."

I highly recommend this book by Jean Smith. I found it on Amazon.





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Art News and more....

11/27/2013

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http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/11/26/spc-inside-louvre-mona-lisa-restoration.cnn.html

One of the world's greatest paintings is the Mona Lisa...this link address the question, should it be restored? Hum... I think Leonardo would have already found a solution to this problem.

Frida Kahlo: Why Mexico's elite still shun the artist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25061658

Frida truly created her own universe...her memory and art lives on.

THE GOLDEN MEAN and Composition... YouTube Video by Stafan Baumann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32MjX0HDm0

Painting this way is like going back in time to the old masters. It seems to be a lot of work, but doing it brings paintings up to another level. With practice, I hope to be able to achieve these proportions without having to draw in the lines. Happy Painting!



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Red rose in the spot light.

This is a painting I did using the Golden Mean. It is 9 x 12 and was painted in about an hour.  The book is a music book, and origninally I wanted to put in the music notes, but I decided the spotlight was on the rose, and that was all that was really needed in this study. I am very happy with how it turned out.

With spring in the air...I hope to get out and do some plein air painting....

Becky Joy is one of my favorite Plein Air Artists...you can check out her web site at:
http://www.beckyjoy.com/
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