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Lines Written in Early Spring…by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind .
To her fair works did Nature link the human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think what man [...]
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I’ve just finished reading a book called Clara and Mr.Tiffany by Susan Vreeland and so it was fun to see several panels of Tiffany Glass exhibited on display when I visited the Metropolitan Museum in N.Y.C. last week.
From the book I learned alot about the delicate process of “painting” with glass shards and also about the women who designed many of the nature [...]
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“What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself~life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
~WILLA CATHER~ from “The Song of the Lark”
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I’ve always been drawn to Russia. I’m easily pulled into Russian novels, I love Russian Ballet and Dr. Zhavigo is one of my favorite movies. Books by Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy are on my bedside table so that I can pick them up to read before drifting off to sleep at night . I [...]
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OIL PASTEL 8×10
It was a long time coming but finally I ’m able to paint the fields with soft hues of pinks, greens and violet.
Spring always seems to drift by way too fast. I need to get out the next few days and paint its budding colors before it’s too late!
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“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness”
Each morning I sit and stare at the sky and the horizon for awhile before I begin my day. Maybe it’s because I am a painter or maybe [...]
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I picked up the phone this week and made a reservation to go back to Monhegan Island and stay at the Island Inn for a few days in in June. .. I needed to have a plan. I’ll be there when the Inn reopens for the season so I’m hoping that I’ll be ahead of the tourists that [...]
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oil pastel 9×12 Crane Beach…”Stopping”
This is one of my paintings that is hanging at Valeries Gallery in Newburyport. It is a 9×12 oil pastel framed with a 3 in. black and gold frame. Love the way it looks hanging on the rustic brick wall at the Gallery. Fun to see so many people “out and about” yesterday…lots [...]
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