Revenue stream goals for 2024: (1) The creation of 12 pastel still life’s. Below is one example of my work so far. The plan is to create and pick from the best when 12 or more are completed. (2) other revenue stream goals will be paintings in one or more of the following mediums: oil, watercolor or gouache. It’s been a while as my focus has been on Shibui Found Image Art. A pivot is a good thing as I write about Shibui. I am loving Paul Rembrandt pastels. The colors are amazing.

It’s been since 1994 that I have had fun with the pastels. I began Shibui 2011. A lot happened after that. I have my new home in my cottage studio and just now feel I am underway! A new easel awaits me! Varooooom! Or perhaps its “Let’s move it! Move it! Move it! More like that! I love claiming my Boho cottage studio!

Good Morning Sunshine!

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Good Morning! A thoughtful morning with coffee at the right. I am thinking about the world we live in and how amazing it is.

Inside the stone

Up in the woods,

in a circle among the beech trees,

last winter one of the lumber horses split a stone

horizontally, with a clip of his big steel shoe.

It had seemed to be a plain gray stone,

but when it was opened a black wall appeared,

rusty at the edges, flecked with pale checks

like unknown constellations, and over all

floated wisps of blue-gray, trailing feathers of clouds.

I brushed away the fallen leaves

and stare into the distance inside the stone.

if one could become a bird_____

if one could fly into that night___

if one could see the circling of those stars___

and the woods became still,

the beech leaves blur at the edge of my vision.

I find I am bending lower and lower.

By Kate Barnes, Where the deer were, page 39. May you enjoy this bit of poetry. I know such an experience, perhaps you do too? Stones are fascinating to examine. And it is true some do look other-worldly inside. Stones have vibration, and they are alive, as is the earth itself full of life. How extraordinary our world is.

Best wishes! Pejj Nunes

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