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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mermaid Selfie


Mermaid Selfie #1 - Watercolor, 9x12

Friday, February 17, 2012

I’m not much of a green thumb. I like plants, gardens, things that grow. I’m just not particularly adept at keeping plants healthy. With a few exceptions. I seem to be able to keep succulents and cacti alive fairly well. Possibly this is due to the fact that they do well if they are ignored. And forgotten. Once in a while I remember and wonder if they need a little water…but, since this variety of plant is used to going for long stints without any H2O…it works out well for both of us. I know I’m not alone in embracing (although only figuratively) these spiny wonders.

I have come to adore cacti and succulents. There are so many varieties of these plants; a panoply of interesting shapes, colors and textures. I have a little mini collection of cacti on my back porch. This morning as I walked by, the sunlight was glowing off these little prickly wonders in the most beautiful way. Ah, thought I. Here’s my color for today! This little guy’s yellow spines work hard at protecting the soft, green flesh underneath. And, these two colors combine to form what I’m calling Cacti Green.

Hard-to-Kill Houseplants for the Brown Thumbed (rentersinsurance.com)
Cactus Garden (freshairlover.blogspot.com)
Cacti can clean up poisonous soils (grist.org)
Rolling woolly desert! (hortus2.wordpress.com)
Succulents! (seven7dayfool.wordpress.com)
“How do you trim a cactus?” (caterpickles.com)
Miniature Gardens: Shell-Potted Succulents (blogher.com)

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Nyquil Green and Sickly Yellow - Color A Day #31, #32

I’ve been sick for the last couple of days. Color inspiration, as a result, is leaning toward illness related colors.

Thus, I present…Color A Day #30 – Nyquil Green and #31: Sickly Yellow.

Hope I feel better soon….

Thinking About Death by Frida Kahlo

Give Me an IV of NyQuil Stat!!! (collectionsofthoughts.wordpress.com)
New Year’s NyQuil (kingdaughter.wordpress.com)
The long and winding road to fitness, day 172 (run4joy59.wordpress.com)
I’m not very good at being sick (michaeledwardkelly.com)
A Strange Tale of Rodents, NyQuil, and Random Christmas Lessons (staciechadwick.wordpress.com)
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Frida Kahlo (coffeeandfingernails.com)
Inspiration. (whuffling.wordpress.com)
You: Art review: ‘In Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists’ at LACMA (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

Frida’s Diary: Her Tortured Art Journal (sketchesandjottings.wordpress.com)
Frida Kahlo, one of the most important painters from Mexico. (evangelina86.wordpress.com)
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Frida Kahlo (coffeeandfingernails.com)
Inspiration. (whuffling.wordpress.com)
You: Art review: ‘In Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists’ at LACMA (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

Monday, January 30, 2012

That Green! - Color A Day #27

Image via Wikipedia

Today I was blowing time on the eye-candy addictive-ness that is Pinterest....(stop by and say Hi! and, see related links below)....when I saw a painting (by Chinese Artist Xiao Jin 肖進) that stopped me dead in my tracks.

I mean, that face! That Green! So bold, bright. Great work. Great color.
There it is: Color A Day #27...That Green!

Face No. 2 by Xiao Jin 肖進

Self-portrait...at age 6.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Color A Day #21 - Organic Green

Today's color is inspired by The Seed, a beautiful painting by Polish Artist Pawel Jonca.

The Seed by Polish artist Pawel Jonca

That earthy, mossy, Organic Green featured in this amazing painting is the color today. This green feels natural, homey and comforting to me. It's a connected feeling, a connected color; connected to the earth, to growth and renewal.

Image via Wikipedia

Image via Wikipedia

I don't see much of this mossy green here in dry Southern California. It's a color more often seen in places where it rains regularly. Places like the Redwood Forest, and the northwestern part of the United States. I remember taking a hike as a child at Silver Falls State Park near Corvallis, OR. It was damp, misty, and so very green. It stayed in my memory; it was unlike any place I had seen as a young child, with waterfalls and drippy moss around every turn.

My Favorite Mexican pottery mug...found in a pottery shop in Tubac, AZ

It's raining today in dry SoCal. So I'm remembering that wet hike, and thinking about Organic Green as I sip Chai Tea in my favorite Mexican pottery mug from Tubac, AZ...a mug that just so happens to match today's color perfectly.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Color A Day #13 - Joshua Tree Green

I had the opportunity to make a brief visit to Joshua Tree National Park this weekend. It's hard not to be inspired by this place...so full of stark beauty. Great, old Joshua Trees dot the landscape adding touches of soft green to an otherwise muted palette of neutral tans and browns. I'm inspired today by this silvery, yellow-tinged green. Joshua Trees makes such a living statement against the desert tan-scape as they reach their green spiked arms up into to cobalt sky.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Color A Day #7 - Happy Green

Green is my favorite color. I like all shapes and sizes of green, all shades, hues, variations. I'm open to all things green. I've been thinking about this particular green for a few days now. It just keeps popping up here and there, catching my eye. I've got a little knitted finger-puppet, and a felted wool hummingbird ornament displayed on my computer stand...just because the color green in these two pieces makes me happy.
So, happily, Color A Day #7 is Happy Green.