“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.”
~Claude Monet
“What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it’s pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is – did I make a beautiful picture?”
Oracle 2012
Oracle 2012 by Drea Jensen showing at Sebastopol Center for the Arts to raise money for Cameron Varnell.
Here is the promo for Oracle. The plan is to have the painting in an art show at Sebastopol Center for the Arts on September 6th. My intention is to raise money for Cameron Varnell. So let’s put out positive energy and generate some well deserved cash for Cam!
New Work…
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
~ Emily Dickinson
Whistling Shen by Rosemary Allen
Artist Rosemary Allen shares:
“And here is my new painting from Shiloh’s class, Las Promesas, part of the Red Key Quest from Cosmic Cowgirls. This is called Whistling Shen. Shen is Chinese for heart and mind and the hummingbird, acting as my ear is pointing to an acupuncture point where I get my best visions…making me whistle out to other ‘birds’.”
This painting was created during Shiloh Sopia’s class, Cosmic Cowgirl’s Red Key Quest.
Conception 2012
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
~ Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems
“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God, or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget; that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die. The grace with which we embrace life, inspite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before.”
~ Alice Walker
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
~ Maya Angelou
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