tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962335137812301412024-03-04T23:25:26.734-05:00Alice M. Edwards 30 Paintings in 30 DaysAlice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-25728252747297168912017-01-31T18:52:00.004-05:002017-01-31T18:54:06.971-05:00Day 31 30 Paintings in 30 Days Final Collage Jan 2017<span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I regret to inform you. It's over! Done! Dusted.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The 30 Paintings in 30 Days for Jan 2017 is finished.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />My next 30 Paintings in 30 Days will begin September 1, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Wonder what will be my focus then?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I do seem to keep exploring, which in my not so very humble opinion, is what life is all about.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When I was a kid my father told me, " If I didn't learn something new everyday I was dead but I was too stupid to lie down."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I believed him and life has held amazing discoveries ever since.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I hope you'll keep painting, writing, drawing, singing, dancing, building things with your own two hands and exploring the world around you in some way that feeds your soul because I can promise you this, if you do your life will be so rich and rewarding you'll knock your own socks off...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the meantime keep coming back here to see what I've been up to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll have a blast,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Coffee's played a big part in my life</b> and the lives of my friends.<br />For a time I drank my coffee black strong and straight up. I was young and working hard to be cool, to be very grownup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I did have myself convinced I liked it or at least that's what I told people people who raised their eyebrows at the thought of black coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I drank alot of it for about a year then I threw in the towel and added cream. A lot of it, three or four of those little restaurant creamers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Sometimes more when no was looking and sugar joined the cream pretty fast too!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />These days I don't drink coffee except decaf occasionally with lots of cream with triple sugar and then It puts me to sleep. Seems a waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Really feeling the need for some sunshine today.</b> I've spent the entire day behind the easel or bent over a table transferring a 40" x 30" drawing. It all takes time and of course I have a creeping deadline.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Well, it was creeping, now it's been shot of out of a cannon straight at me. The reason I know this is simple. I got an email from the gallery saying words to this effect,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">seeing the painting delivered on time and in good condition,) What that really means is dry enough to handle for hanging.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />They were much more polite about it of course but it made me take a look at a calendar.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />"Holy Toledo!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are right and my, I thought "easy schedule" just flew straight out the window right behind the calendar.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So today I've been a very busy little beaver. With some hard work and some luck I just might make it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Pray for me!<br />Here's todays treasure:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Pretending is how a child learns... Adults call it experimenting or trying it out ....What will happen if I ... (fill in your own blank) ...?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />What will happen if I learn to lasso a lamp post?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Who will tell the world what a fool I am for even <br />thinking about trying?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Who knows? There are plenty of wet blankets in the world. I've met a few in my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Most of them are too scared to even try it on for size in their minds never mind go for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Who will get mad? Someone who is too chicken to try. That'll be out of shame or envy. So they'll put you down. How sad for them. They don't know how to live.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />But with a pencil or pen and a piece of paper, perhaps even a little paint you and I can explore the world maybe even the galaxy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We're not scaredy pants but in the sanctuary of our minds and studios we can see how things could be for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Wanna go for it?</span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-73212473069940841172017-01-25T18:57:00.003-05:002017-01-25T18:57:51.430-05:00Day 25 30 Paintings in 30 Days Jan 2017<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The January thaw should have come and gone by now. Around here it's been above zero for quite a few days off and on. Not high above zero but a darn sight balmier feeling than is Canadian this time of year.</span><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Is it soup yet?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><br />I remember watching the soup commercial where the kid is pestering his mother because he's hungry or maybe just plain obnoxious.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Today, I'm like that kid, demanding that my little painting be something it's not, a masterpiece.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Somedays you just can't do anything right but it's ok as Scarlet said, "I'l think about it tomorrow or maybe ... I'll just have a bonfire ...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alice Edwards 1949 --<br />My Sketchbook<br />Any size<br />but with me all the time!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Day 23 30 Paintings in 30 days<br /><br /><b>My sketchbook is my private thinking and play ground.</b><br /><br />Like all painters, artists,writers, sculptors, choreographers, poets, musicians and so on, all creatives have some kind of notebook to capture the ideas that fly so fast and furiously through our minds.<br /><br />If we don't write/draw/notate those ideas down they can be gone in an instant and some times you just know you lost a really good one.<br /><br />That's not a good feeling in my experience even though so many others try to take their place.<br /><br />One elusive idea can drive me right round the twist without even trying. Sometimes even years later it'll float up on the periphery of my mind. Just like a cat will tease a dog. And dog like I chase that idea (my equivalent of chasing my tail) forever or may not quite that long but certainly long enough to stir things up.<br /><br />So I draw, write paint, poetry, save quotes, snatches of overheard conversations that get me thinking about something or other in my sketchbook.<br /><br />Without my sketchbook I'm a lost soul. It's where I keep track of my mind.<br /></span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-76277974823769590792017-01-22T10:47:00.002-05:002017-01-22T10:51:47.076-05:00Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Days jan 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is it about light that calls to us? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the darkness we can see nothing period, zip, nyet, nada, nem and so on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Doesn't matter what language you speak or what country you live in. The dark is dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We can't see.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />And that, scares the living daylights out of us. It's why our ancestors huddled around fires and stuck close to each other. There's safety in numbers and in knowing you're not alone in the dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Any kind of dark, the night time, a bad dream or circumstances where a bad dream would be better is swept away by turning on a little light somehow, someway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hot Chocolate </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">9' X 7"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes it's enough to hit the light switch. Other times we need the light of love and friendship.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We need the sunlight to make vitamin D and to recharge our batteries.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We need the light. Lightness in mind, body and spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So making sure I have a clear clean light source in my paintings is a reassuring feeling that the natural good order of things will assert itself in the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the meantime I paint on!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />How do you handle the dark?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I've wanted to paint this little jug for about 15 years now and today's the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />It's an interesting that the more intimately you know a subject, inanimate or otherwise it can become both easier and more difficult to paint.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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when I discover my expectations are the very things that are holding me
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I have to practise shaking those old ways of thinking off so better things can take their place.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Really got to get a handle on that ...</span><br />
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Jug and Bottle<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Burning the Midnight Oil ...</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've never understood how people can make that Rubix Cube work.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Today ,I was given a little one about an inch by an inch by a friend at BBS. I'd noticed something I thought was a Rubix Cube key chain. It was just peeking out of a small jug up on a shelf. So I innocently asked my friend if that's what it was.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />She reached up. Got the thing down and handed it to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I was hooked immediately.</span><br />
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Burning the Midnight Oil<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First off I'd never seen a little one before. I've only ever seent the standard one. Pretty soon I was fiddling with it all the while talking about how I'd never been able to make the thing work into all its component colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Never once in all the years I've tried it. You'd think this smaller size would improve my chances</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />My friend just smiled at me gently then explained how it was and what kind of mind which was required to solve the thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Now, I know, I don't have that kind of mind but I couldn't help myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />My friend just smiled at me even more gently with sparkling eyes as she watched me do the same things over and over again, then calmly looked me right in the eye and said, "Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result was insanity."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />That would be Einstein she was quoting. I knew that much so clearly my mind is good for something unfortunately not for the whole Rubix Cube</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">.Somethings never change.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />She sent the cursed thing home with me. I do believe it's a dastardly plot to drive me straight out of my mind and the sad thing is it's working.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Did I mention she's a friend of mine? Hrumpf...</span><br />
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Here's todays little treasure<br />
Alice Edwards 1944 --<br />
Burning the Midnight Oil<br />
10" x 8"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We gotta talk tools ...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />All the good will in the world doesn't cut the mustard when you need the right brush or have dropped your palette knife for the 1000th time yesterday and now you can't find it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So taking the time to make sure you have everything handy is so so so worth it.<br />so the handy dandy check list comes into play,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />so brushes yes , water if your medium requires it changing it often too will keep your brushes clean</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />mineral spirits/mediums for oils traditional or miscible oils</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />palette knife, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />palette, disposable or permanent</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />rags, paper towels</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />apron/shirt to save your clothes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />drop cloth maybe?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />paints, chose your poison</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />sitting or standing? prep for you favourite</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace and quiet! did you turn off your phone, computer, send the kids to the neighbours.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Let the dog out so he doesn't come begging for<br />relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take breaks often</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />From here on in you make your own list to suit yourself. No point in having to hop up and down every two minutes because you can't find or forgot to get it out.</span><br />
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Building Blocks<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">on the other hand you just never know when the day going to turn around into something very special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So really it does pay to show up otherwise you could miss something good</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Can you believe it?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />It's been fun, a tad hectic but fun. These little painting tidbits are just a sample of waits for you playing with paint or a pencil.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alice Edwards 1949 --<br />Study of an Earring<br />"10" x 8"<br />oil on stretched canvas</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each gives you a fresh pair of eyes to rediscover the wonder of our world and many ways to let go and begin your life anew.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Feel like slinging some paint around?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-41384978525398764582017-01-14T17:56:00.002-05:002017-01-14T17:56:56.912-05:00Day 14 30 Paintings in 30 Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Occasionally time is the enemy. Only so many hours in a day and today does quite have enough</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Company is here. I'll talk to you tomorrow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">here is todays treasure </span><br />
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Blue Bowl <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Friday the 13th is my lucky day</b> ... good things always happen for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Perhaps I'm a backwards person but it's alway been a lucky charm. I think it a lack of fear mixed with desire and voila. Good things happen .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Take today, last week I bought a new drafting table. It was way to heavy for me to assemble on my own as I found out to my chagrin. I was lucky to gt it out of the car and into the house. fortunately with the aid of a trusty little portable hand truck I managed, bought for me last year as a gift on you guessed it a Friday the 13 th.. Been such a life saver so many times this little gizmo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Anyway as I was saying I knew I'd have to have help. I called my very busy son who said he had a day off on Friday .would that work? "It most certainly would" I said with great outward calm since Friday would be the 13th.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So today I had a visit with one of my favourite people my son. He got some very good news while he was here. The drafting table is ready. I painted afterwards. Woohoo! And, I got to make a video for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A good day all round and there's even loads of time to watch the boob tube if I wanna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A day in the studio</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />It's icy everywhere today but I bravely toddled off to the studio anyway. Did the penguin walk so as not to wind up on my keister. It's so undignified when that happens.</span><br />
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Study Abandoned Tubes of Paint<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Watered the plants, worked on the final drawing for this year's entry in the International Women's Day Show. Although there's lots of time I paint in oils and they can take awhile to set up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Gallerists frown mightily at wet paint on their clothes when hanging a show. So there's no brownie points for wet paint.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Had lunch with a friend, had a visitor come in.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I need to paint todays' painting done. Then go home and put together the slide show.</span><br />
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Study Abandoned Tubes of Paint<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Egads! I just realized that the delivery date for something else is in 13 days!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I gotta a get a move on here</span><br />
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Alice Edwards 1949 --<br />
Study Abandoned Tubes of Paint<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Lost the light</b> got a bad photo. I really cannot be trusted around new toys. All these bells and whistles have gone straight to my head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'll post a good shot tomorrow in </span><span style="font-size: large;">the meantime enjoy the show.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Here's todays Treasure</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Some days it's <b>all about slinging paint around</b> for the fun of it.</span><br />
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The Loner<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Days like that are for invention pure or otherwise. Imagination running amok covered with colours. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Days without turning it all into a job of work but playtime pure and simple. So today I invented a tree just for the h*** of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />My only concession to reality today is snow because I love it and there's a lot of it falling from the sky at the moment. I'm cool with that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So did ya sling any paint about with great abandon today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's Jan 10th -- we are already one third through <br />30 Paintings in 30 Days in Jan<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />email me: artlady1921@outlook.com</span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-30063096427529786962017-01-10T11:03:00.000-05:002017-01-10T11:25:50.366-05:00Day 9 30 Paintings in 30 days Jan 2017<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Teddy bears are sacred. Most kids have one of some kind or other. Some adults sleep with one or keep them in plain sight in the bedroom feeling just a little safer knowing 'Teddy' (or fill in the Blank) is still watching over them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The comfort offered by these creatures, (which sometimes doesn't actually look much like a bear anymore, that's when they are in disguise you see) is universal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Most times when a new baby comes into the world the first gift is a teddy bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some people collect them, There are whole teddy bear communities out there and some very serious collectors. There are shows too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's a teddy bear, exactly the right teddy bear, for everyone out there somewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I was a little girl I was given a record of ''The Teddy Bear's Picnic'. I loved that song. I still know all the words, " If you go... " I can heard the song in my mind as I type these words.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I didn't have a teddy bear I had other things but my daughter got me one. So did my son. I still have them both.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When I go see a brand new baby you better believe I bring one as my first offering to the new life that baby is, has and represents.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Do you know where your Teddy Bear is?</span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-91235228353941635712017-01-08T18:13:00.001-05:002017-01-08T18:13:10.431-05:00Day 8 30 Paintings in 30 Days Jan 2017<span style="font-size: large;">Feel free to share</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A good book is my great escape. Always has been. I've read a lot of books in my time both good and bad.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The truth is I'm a word junkie. In moments of desperation I've read the labels on cans and bottles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Just words anywhere anytime pretty much but in a good book with a terrific story is as good as it gets. In fact better than most vacations I've been on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Books have helped me keep my mind when my world turns up side down. They've kept me company in times of loneliness and sorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Books have educated me about the world I Iive in. The world that surrounds me has endless mysteries and stories, both plant and animal, human or stone.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />People who like to read are intensely interested in life and are innately curious about everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So give us a good book that covers all the bases and we won't come out into this world until we understand the one between the book covers we're holding in our hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296233513781230141.post-88779711471653982982017-01-07T21:59:00.000-05:002017-01-07T22:02:06.436-05:00Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 days<span style="font-size: large;">feel free to share</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>My Camera is My Friend</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I've come to depend on my nifty trusty phone camera as a handy dandy pocket sized tool for my painting trade.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the good old days you held the painting up to a mirror to see it things were working together well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />You did it to break the mindset that had you married to doing things a certain way, as though that was the only way which is a kind of blindness for a painter.</span><br />
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Time for Tea<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />You did it to rest your mind and to get a fresh take on the blankety blank painting. You did it help catch flaws in design, composition colour, values. You did it to find the problem areas and so on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Occasionally, if the Painting Gods were in your corner you could see the good things too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />That last is a really tough thing for an artist. We're notoriously hard on ourselves and our work.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />You're always looking to fix things and you can wind up fixing the thing to death. I know because I've done it. We all have especially in the beginning of our learning curve for painting and drawing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So where does the camera come into things?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When I photograph a painting and it's reduced to phone size. I immediately see if it works, if it reads well. I see the oddities in composition, design, colour, value and various size relationships. Things jump right out at me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Then I have it, the HaHa moment, right before my very eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When I know what the problem is I can do something about and it'll all look better.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Saves me a lot of angst.</span>Alice M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541152018723392675noreply@blogger.com0