Daffodil painting 2011

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Dear Everyone:

I am tracking Spring pretty

closely this year.

This posting is of a photoreference

and a daffodil folk art painting.

I hope you enjoy the

painting.

Helen

Something Blue miscellaneous 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Just a collection of images relating

to the Something Blue theme.

The Queen's Annes lace

are lacy like wedding finery.
"Something old. Something new.

Something borrowed. Something blue".

Enjoy.

Helen.

Blush tones 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Was struck by colours of beige and blush tones

this week.

I put together a few images for you to

see- a folk art painting, a photograph

of blush-tinged tea roses with a beige

background, a fashion spread of nude/

blush hued clothing (Vogue Australia)

and an interior of blush tones

by noted interior designer Thomas

O'Brien from his newly released book

-"American Modern".

Hope that you find these images

inspiring and soothing.

Have a well-reasoned day.

Helen.

Iconic Tree Trunk - #2 2009

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For this folk art my photo reference is of

the same tree as yesterday's painting

at a distance that is less close-up.

I knew that I wanted to use

the colour burnt sienna again.

The green sort of presented itself.

As I did the painting the pink

called light peony made the image work.

So using colours mostly found in

nature on trees such as the sienna and green

and black and then adding the pink

for the trunk.

I am quite pleased with this image.

I find it to be very graceful.

Hope you enjoy the image.

Have a draw-your-courage-up

for-winter kind of day.

Helen.

Celestial collage 2009

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I have been wishing to use these
colours together since I used
them yesterday in a piece
I haven't posted yet.



The flesh tone of the scroll shapes
is of particular interest as is the
pink and coral of the rose.



Hope that you enjoy this image.



Have an enjoy-the-build-up
to-Christmas kind of day.

Helen.

Jacob Ebriani - Painter

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I discovered a talent new to me

yesterday.

A painter named Jacob Ebriani,

he was born in Iran, but has resided

in California since the 1970's.

His work is very poetic and mystical.

See a larger selection at www.jacobebriani.com

See what you think.

Have a be-open-to-the-

universe kind of day.

Helen.

November abstract 2009

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This image came to me this morning.

An aqua backdrop with a yellow

and a pink lightning strike line.

When an image comes to me it has no reference

in the real world. It is solely borne of my

imagination.

Hope that you enjoy this image.

Have a treasure the small-moments-

kind of day.

Helen.

October abstract I

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Well I am just playing.

Made an abstract art image.

This is my first effort so be kind.

There is something very enjoyable

about the process of making this piece.

Have a don't-hesitate-to-improve-oneself

kind of day.

Helen.

Nature's Beauty

Setting out with my camera each day is a trip of discovery.

Like a paparazzi I stalk shots in the world around me.

When I see a shot there is a thrill. A state of revving up.

There seems to be endless beauty. Endless interest.



Here floral painter Bobbie Burgers (at http://www.bau-xi.com/)

remarks on her own fascination with painting flowers:



"The excitement of the change of seasons, and the elusiveness
of nature are what inherently draws me to flowers and landscapes.
Trees over-ripe with fruit and gardens bursting with flowers
so quickly fall into autumn with all it's rich colours and golden hues,
then silent winter white. By the time spring comes around again
we are all searching for the first sign of life, colour, warmth and the
cycle begins again. Whether it be blossom branches cut to bring
the beauty of spring inside, summer's gluttony of flowers and fruit,
or fall's vineyards in a golden haze, I have a deep yearning to
capture and hold these images in paintings, as a reminder of what
is gone and what we can look forward to seeing again.



Ever since I can remember, I have been enchanted by the
beauty that nature offers."



My Greek sister-in-law wrote to me recently that Pantheism
comes from the Greek word "pantheos" meaning god/divinity
is everywhere. She thought I would be interested, as she wrote
"what greater expression of the divine in the natural world
than flowers-in fragrance, form and colour". It is a miracle
how we are shown these natural delights, how things blossom,
bloom, grow, procreate. How all around us little miracles
are occuring cultivating our souls.



Painting flowers is like having an endless selection of models.
They come in every shape and colour, they twist and turn and
evolve daily. I can go from a more traditional still life, all prim and
proper, to a sort of portrait of a group of friends, a head shot and
finally the flower explodes, covering the entire canvas as if
ready to swallow and intoxicate the viewer. Conversely a flower
can be seen not as an individual flower alone, but as one of masses:
a lily in my backyard surrounded by dozens like it, a tulip,
one of thousands in a field, a blossom on a tree bursting with them.
Perhaps it is the never-ending possibilities with flowers and landscapes
that keeps me riveted. Depending on my point of view:distant/cropped,
inside/outside,my choices seem to multiply.



I am still so excited by all the options and who knows, around the next
corner could be the perfect vista, or I may receive the quintessential
hand-picked bouqet."


It is this mood of expectation Bobbie so aptly describes. Getting that next
best shot drives my photography. I am indeed driven.

Have-a-full-of-possibilities-day.

Helen.