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I am so filled with appreciation ! The 3rd Annual Studio Show was a huge success!! Seeing friends from long ago and welcoming first time visitors to my Studio was truly enjoyable..
The weather was unseasonably warm and the mood as people shopped and shared conversation while sipping sangria was like being at a fun party!
Melynn [...]
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For the past several years now in early autumn, Charlie Schurcliff who is a wonderful painter and neighbor has invited me to join him at his home to paint and have lunch with a small group of artist friends. They travel from as far away as Montreal for the opportunity to paint the special vistas. [...]
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“How does one become a butterfly,…You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” ~Trina Paulus
My studio has been a safe and comfortable cocoon for me this summer. A place where I can spend hours getting lost in my landscapes…dreaming… drawing…putting colors on canvas and paper.
But now [...]
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Two days in Vermont just made me want more. Motoring through the mountains and watching the cotton candy clouds drip across the tips of the hills in the early morning made me want to pull over and set up my easel!
A few years ago I spent an entire week exploring Southern Vermont with my brushes…no [...]
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“KEEP YOUR LOVE OF NATURE, FOR THAT IS THE TRUE WAY TO UNDERSTAND ART BETTER.”
~VINCENT VAN GOGH
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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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