WINTER GLOW

Standing on the cusp of winter 2020, I thought back a year....back to a brilliant gold sunset sifting through spider webs of leafless trees, a living moment.  Patches of crystal ice droplets touched and glittered on the branches.  Mounds of far away snow appeared in the near distance.  

Quickly I grabbed small canvas for an instant pocket painting~ 6" by 6."  Pocket paintings are fun and portable, a take-with event.  The small stretched canvas on wooden stretcher bars meant instant hanging on a wall, a frameless frame. Three simple pure colors and a small chisel brush.  A moment captured in time.  I can even remember the diamond dust of air born crystal ice flakes drifting about in the frigid still air outside.  

In moments the light shifted and faded....gratitude for viewing the scene.  Happy to have chased and captured a memory.

How have I changed?  Or Have I? 

"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Emily Dickenson

"There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods," Byron

"Friendship is a Sheltering Tree," Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Time it was oh what a time it was....long ago I held a photograph, preserve your memories...." Simon and Garfunkel

Bogger Search Key Words:  Nature, Trees, Creativity, Poetry

Resources:

Pinkalicious, PBS kids cartoon, episode, The Painting Pixie, small paintings hidden in unexpected places, a Pixie grows her wings.

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, Enya 

Bookends album, Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends Theme

Dahlis Roy: Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner 

Image:  oil painting by Dahlis

Winter Glow, small pocket painting

AUTUMN LIGHT

*  "Everything the light touches....."

Have you ever watched the sunlight shift over your favorite paintings?  The strong vibrant full sun, the soft glows, the backlighting, the subtle colors and shades, wonders yet discovered and every day is "new" because of the ever shifting light.

With weather and colors lighting up in turn, seasonal paintings parade in our living room.  Each painting choice different, each fun and enjoyable.  Paintings emit unique energy all their own!  

Clouds and Water, reflections and refractions, trees shimmer and glow, soft detail.  Here the random brush strokes play and frolic, blending, at a distance into a more unified "wholeness" of the scene.  

Experimenting with French Impressionism technique is enjoyable and, depending on the lighting, you never know just what colors and shadows may appear.  Every Moment Different

Shadow Shift

Looking at the Abbey, I feel the blues "lighting up."  Until I saw the subtle light effects, I had forgotten just how many blue touches had entered the rocky sculptured look of brushstrokes and textures, of sky and sea.

Now I am spending more time with nature this year, observing clouds, plants, trees and light first hand, I feel more connected, more relaxed.  Daily "nature breaks" reset my mental computer and help body strength as well.  Feeling the breeze and touching leaves brings the heart mind into a unity of peace and reflection.

** "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."  Karle Wilson Baker

*** "A million oak leaves await within one forest."  David B. Axelrod.

Blogger Search Key Words: Autumn, Impressionist Painting, Architecture

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A Different Light, Painting Mont-Saint Michel, The Artist Meets the Archangel

Resources:

* Quote from The Lion King (1994) Walt Disney Productions, Mufasa talks to his cub Simba.

** Quote from Karle Wilson Baker from a message on a teabag, Traditional Medicinal Organic teas.

*** Quote from Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, one of many books written by David B. Alexrod, founder of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, album by Enya

Aspenglow  song by John Denver

Dahlis Roy, Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis

Backyard in Autumn, sunlight flickers over oil painting

Impressionist Sketch, oil painting

Abbey Church in Normandy, (708 AD) below Mont-Saint-Michel, oil painting.

"The Archangel Loved Heights" from the book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1909)

ONE MOMENT

 * "This moment is unlike any other moment.

Don't even say how it is similar."

** Color Wheel

Blogger Search Key Words:  Poetry, Color, Creativity

Resources:

* Quote from Another Way, Poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, p. 9, by David B. Axelrod, founder and director of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute. www.creative happiness.org  

** Color Wheel, Painting by Zoe, printed with permission

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Image: Painting by Zoe

** Color Wheel,