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Muddy Letters
Purple Coneflower, miniature “I think all great innovations are built on rejections.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine, (from The Painter’s Keys) All artists face rejection at sometime or other. It is...
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Falling Chips
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” Hugh Nibley (from The Painter’s Keys) Suppose your goal is to create “beautiful” art. The first thing you might set out to do is define, “beautiful.” Good luck with...
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Consciously Unconscious
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper (from Artpromotivate.com) An eagle in flight, the newly opened bud of a spring flower, the crashing waves on a white...
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Breezy Magic
“The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” William Butler Yeats (from The Painter’s Keys) To provoke the senses is to be inspired. Without the conscious act...
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Sunday Slideshow-Foggy Fall Morning on the Mountain
A beautiful mist shrouded this October morning on Monteagle Mountain in Southeast Tennessee. An eerie stillness covers the landscape where only the sounds of the dripping beads of moisture on the...
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Eclipsing the Brain
The Rational Redbird Better be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte (from The Painter’s Keys) The purpose in art is frequently directed toward the rational, the brain. Many artists seek...
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Sunday Slide Show-A Last Look at Fall
A last look at the beautiful fall colors until next year.Filed under: art, nature, photography, trees, Uncategorized Tagged: autumn, Fall leaves, trees
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Beautifully Purposeful
“Create we must, and respond to this dark hour.” Makoto Fujimura The artistic process for many can be a compulsion, striving to express an idea, a thought, a feeling bubbling up from deep inside. The...
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Christmas Tree Creativity
Creating is a response to the gift of life. Rosalind Pinsent (from The Painter’s Keys) There are all kinds of comments and opinions on Christmas trees that crop up every year about this time....
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Tennessee Ice Storm
People like to tease us in Tennessee for shutting everything down for winter storms but we have enough sense not to drive on a solid sheet of ice no matter how hard we get teased. Shutting everything...
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Sunday Slideshow-Smoky Mountains
Filed under: art, nature, Tennessee Parks, Uncategorized Tagged: Mountain Stream, Mountains, peaceful scenes, Smoky Mountain National Park, Smoky Mountains
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Theft or Flattery???
Goldfinch Miniature4″ x 4″ “A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa but people still line up to see the original.” Louis Armstrong (from The Painter’s Keys) Help me out here! When is it okay to appropriate...
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The Ebenezer Stone
The Ebenezer Stone Did Charles Dickens have a deeper meaning in mind when he named his iconic character “Ebenezer” Scrooge? Its a topic that had never occurred to me until I heard the literal...
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Hummingbird Inspiration
Another week and the hummingbirds are still here swooping in and out of the yard, stopping at the feeders then swooping off again. There are still at least 6-7 of them between my 5 feeders. Its hard...
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ZOOM Botanical Style Painting Workshops Open
Purple Pansies, watercolor Registration is open for the first Two series of 3-Step Botanical Watercolor workshops that will be held in 2 hour increments over 3 weeks. The First part will cover the...
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Pelicans
White Pelican, oil on canvas The white pelicans are arriving in my part of the US on a daily basis. They will hang out here for the winter. Large numbers of them come to Kentucky Lake and Reelfoot...
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The Tufted Titmouse
Bird Group, oil on canvas If Elvis was a bird would he be a Tufted Titmouse? These funny little guys, the tufted titmice, love to flit around in the trees around my bird feeder haranguing with the...
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Roseate Spoonbill
Driving through the St Marks Wildlife Refuge in Florida, my eye was caught by a group of pink birds standing still in the marsh water. I had never seen pink birds before outside of flamingos in the...
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Chickadee Chatter
It was a sunny afternoon in the valley when the Chickadees all swooped in to take a break in the old pine tree. They had all had their fill of red berries from a shrub up on the hill. Now it was time...
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The Guardian Eagle
High on a ridge overlooking the valley, the Guardian is perched in the top of the old oak tree. From his vantage point, he can see the goings on down in the valley while at the same time keeping up...
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