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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011
    SoCalLisa, absolutely beautiful! Maybe you can't paint it, but you sure do capture the beauty!
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    I can't do that either...but I wish I had the gene..my Mom does

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  • gingerstx
    gingerstx Member Posts: 91
    edited May 2011

    SoCalLisa:  that's a gorgeous photo!  Did you take it?  From what I've seen of your work, you could easily paint it!   I'm an oil painter too.  It's a hobby I pursued after I retired.  I usually paint plein air and love doing landscapes.  I've just returned home from Alabama where I went for my treatments, and I'm eager to start painting again.  I usually don't paint flowers but I admire anyone who can!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2014

    or, Faber-Castell Albrect Durer Watercolor pencils - which are DIVINE.  Feel like a regular artist grade colored pencil  - and when you go overe it with a small wet brush - voila, watercolor.

    LOVE LOVE LOVE the picture - what kind of flowers are they?

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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011

    Hi Gingerstx, You must be so glad to be home! I'd love to see some of your paintings. Can you share with us?

    Caerus-Sunflowers, You're making me want to go out and buy some art supplies. I think I'd better look through our stuff and see what we have leftover from my hubby's art class days before I buy anything new.

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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011
    Here are a couple of pics I took last weekend when we went for a ride about 10 miles north of us in Moscow, Maine.
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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011

    I have a thing for trees: (I'll try to make this one smaller!)

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    Sandy, I love the reflections in the water..so wonderful

    I took the pictures of what I think are calla lillies in Amsterdam

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011

    OMGosh Sandy, this is beautiful. The tree with the cerealean blue, actually I can even pin point the color but it is beautiful.  This would be so much fun to paint with such brillian colors. 

    Sandy your an excellent photographer so painting is not essential but thought I would try and nudge you. ;)

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011

    Ginger, I started out plein air painting in ca. I met many wonderful well known painters and even had the blessed opportunity to take some of their workshops. 

    I also love abstracts and still lifes.  I painted many plein air scenes good one and bad ones. LOL   I now live in Arkansas where I do continue taking workshops when the traveling artists come through.   I think since moving here I have had artist block and but still trying to get my mojo up.  I do enjoy painting plein air.  I dont worry about nothing when I am painting..  It is so much fun and relaxing.  I thought right now I would just do some dead artist paintings copies.  This way I dont have to figure out tech things just look at the painting and see what they have done.  Plein air is the colors are right there in front of your eyes.

     I would love to see some of your paintings.  Do you belong to a local painters group?  

     Happy Mothers Day peeps

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  • gingerstx
    gingerstx Member Posts: 91
    edited May 2011

    I do have a painting group that goes out every Friday morning to paint at a different location.  In addition to historic and public sites, we've painted at hotels, restaurants, and private homes.  We're known as the Palletteers (misspelled on purpose) of St. Croix and I have become their organizer and blog keeper.   How do you post pix?  Can you just cut and paste? 

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011

    Well if you have a photobucket account or even a fb i think you can just do a right click on the image and copy , then click on the little tree by the smilie face right about where you type your message. Then just paste the link into Image URL box.    Are you still in the Virgin Island?

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    I did just see, "The Girl with the Pearl" in The Hague last week, very very nice

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    Here is a photo of the picture, I didn't take it though..

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011

    OMGosh I love this one. I sketched this girl out years ago on some watercolor paper and never finished her.  I should find her and finish her.  Beautiful painting indeed. 

    Thank you for sharing....LOVE IT

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2014

    Sandymess

    Art supllies - TOYS FOR GROWNUPSWink

    Truly, I indulge myself.  Learned, finally, that you get what you pay for in this case - and Artist Quality is so worth the little bit of extra money.  I say this, because I am a regular ustomer at Dick Blick - more smiles - so if you haven't checked out their website:  http://www.dickblick.com/  - you are in for a treat.   they also have superb customer service ( sorry if this sounds like an ad!) - but it makes it so easy to create a good supply of various media, and WE DESERVE ITKiss

     I also buy from http://www.fineartstore.com/  They have an incredible selection of pastels - as well as all other art supplies.  I know there are other online sources, but I just LOVE these two.  Both have fabulous websites, and give you so much information about their products.

    We have a few small Art Supply stores near me, that is within 25 miles, but they by necessity have a much smaller selection, and more expensive.  I try to support these stores, but I can't afford to buy everything from them.  Living in as rural an area as I do, shopping online, no postage, really makes a difference.

    Dick Blick has a catalog, but prices always lower onlne.  Know they have a store in Boston, and keep telling myself when I go to Dana Farber for a "check-up" I'll stop in there, but am so exhausted by the end of the day, I haven't yet....

    Sandymess, I'm smiling ( and doing a little bit of a hpapy dance) thinking of your stocking up on "toys" from Dick Blick...Happy Creating

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011
    Sunflowers, yes I have purchased from dick blick, jerrys, asw, daniel smith, and many more. lol  I use high quailty paints just as you said, you get what you pay for.   When I lived in Dallas, me and other artists would make a trip to Jerrys in Austin. It was a complete day of driving and browsing in the art store.  The best money I ever spent in my life is when I buy art supplies.  I feel like a kid in a candy store.  I buy my sables from kalish brushes in New York.  I know art supplies SmileTongue out
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  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 2,193
    edited May 2011

    Hello, ladies! I love this thread! I read it this morning from the beginning, and I must say, you are a wonderful group of talented, inspired women! I am primarily a singer/songwriter, and writer of poetry and children's stories. I love photography, too, and my computer is loaded with literally thousands of pics. You may enjoy some of them. I was given an art set for Christmas after chemo, and have had no art instruction, except finding demos on youtube, but it has been fun dabbling, primarily with watercolor. It would be great to find a good teacher in the community.

    I also love to find pics on the internet, and post regularly on "awwwhhhh that's cute thread" and "life's a beach". I think you ladies would really enjoy these threads as well. I just posted beautiful birds this morning that would make a lovely study for a painting.

    Hope you all are having a wonderful day!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    I wonder what they are saying to each other...

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    they were enjoying this canal

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    here they are again

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  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 2,193
    edited May 2011

    How beautiful, Lisa! I love the dark, reflective water. Those birds have it made. What a life!

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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011

    SoCalLisa, those photos are absolutely stunning!

    MissBianca, I'm a writer, too. I'm working on an adult fiction novel right now. (Well, I was until chemo kidnapped my brain! Hope to get back to my last 5 or 6 chapters very soon.) But I also write poetry. I'll try to post a couple I wrote about this lovely dance with cancer. Tongue out

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited May 2011

    I love poetry and would love read some of your. I too write but do more visual arts than write anymore. 

    Beautiful photographs.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2014

    Oh, yes, poetry please.  Has anyone read Virginia Hamilton Adair - published her first book of poetry Ants on the Melon at age 83 (years young) in 1996.

    Love, love the photographs..isn't water an amazing "mirror."

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    back when I was in College I talked with Robert Frost for two hours ...but I had

    no idea it was he..I thought he was someone's grandfather just waiting

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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011

    Caerus, I haven't read that, but I'll look for it. It sounds interesting. Maybe I'll be like Ms. Adair and get published at 83!

    SoCalLisa, That is incredible! What did you talk about? 

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  • sandymess
    sandymess Member Posts: 299
    edited May 2011

    FIGHTING THE BEAR


    Gazing out the window
    With my chin against my fist
    Watching Mother Nature and
    The beauty I have missed

    Since summer I've been busy
    My head bowed low in fear
    Breast cancer and its treatments
    Are like fighting with a bear

    The danger and the pain
    When you get a swat or bite
    Then praying for survival
    With this rival full of might


    Two biopsies, three surgeries
    Plus chemotherapy
    Dissections and infections
    Then balding vanity

    Next comes radiation
    Will my skin survive or burn?
    This is information that I
    Wish I did not learn

    Come Summer I'll have
    Hair again
    My independence too
    I'll greet our Mother Nature
    With vitality anew

    The future is uncertain
    I know this more than ever
    I never will forget this strife
    I'll be my best forever

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  • gingerstx
    gingerstx Member Posts: 91
    edited May 2011

    sandymess:  Great poem! 

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    great poem Sandy...

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