Category: Shibui Found Image Art & Foundation Work defined.
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studios 1/15/2024 You never know what a Shibui will be. It becomes something exciting! Good morning to you! Yes, it is still morning at 11:24. Today a little window into my day. The birds are fed. Not watching them today. Today one goal is writing my blog. Black…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/18/2024 What’s your favorite love song, one you love to dance with your sweetheart. One of mine, I feel, and still when I hear it, I am dancing with Tom. The song is Ti Amo and Italian love song. This is what its lyrics are in English.…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/17/2024 Love Is____ LOVE IS Love is as a river, deep and fast, clear and cloudy, fluid and ferocious. It takes everything in its wake! Love leaves you breathless and revoked. Love claims you, and there you are needing trust, respect as roots to love. It…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/16/2024 My Thomas, my love. We found love, and we gave our hearts. This was so easy. Our love for each other shone like rays of sunshine beginning as smiles. Flaws fell away because love was all there was, was the richest, the deepest love. Acceptance. Real…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/15/2024 Today I slept in, getting up around, 11:00 am. I would rather get up, when you stay up late, well there you are. Now I have returned to the cottage from being at my daughters, settling into my evening. While at Jacobie’s I watched “She…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/14/2024 ~The Artist as Entrepeneur~ Creating one’s art, is our personal creative process and it is just the beginning of being an artist. If we do not learn how to sell our type of art, and most importantly put in the necessary efforts to sell our brand…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Road Studio 1/13/2024 I love photography! Love playing with it too. This time I plan to do a pastel self-portrait with this image. I always say I am not going to do self-portraits and end up doing them for other people. Why is that. Or an oil…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/13/2024 6:30 a.m. is too early to have Shit happen! I really don’t know quite how to begin, but if this is a sign of how the day will go, I should go back to bed! I have not had coffee that’s coming! So, I can’t laugh…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/12/2-24 It’s not always Shibui Found Image Art I do. Sometimes it is chalk pastels, and commissioned work. This was from a photo given to use. I used a sanded paper. very velvety to use. I am also a printmaker. This image is my daughter Clairissa. This…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/11/2024 Shibui in Progress. This is an unfinished Shibui Found Image Art. The edges were there! And I worked them. It always amazes me as I continue the layering process with the pastel pencils. What happens is that the pastels as you go over and over, creating…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/11/2024 I don’t seem to read far into the book, The Creative Trance before I am delighted by new thoughts about the creative process. I give you what I have read. “One of the most widespread aspects of the creative trance is also one of the most…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
(Coffee on the right!) From Muddy Brook Studio 1/11/2024 Working on a Shibui Found Image Art. Finding the story within art. This is me working a Shibui. It has become a favorite of mine. As I worked my way around it I found all these characters! The image consists of…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/11/2024 It was here among these roses, and day lilies I feel in love with books spending as long as I could reading. I would take a small pillow, and lay on the large, flat granite rock, it was very hard, but I did not mind. In…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/11/2024 Hard to believe I am 68 next birthday! Don’t feel 68! I think the things is not to worry about how old you are. You do think about time, and how fast it goes by. I think I was 65 when this was taken. Photos…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/11/2024 I am reminded of my childhood home when I look at this image, it is why I saved it. Our home was a big two-family home. Historical due to its age, and the history of the people who had lived there. There was a window just…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Road Cottage 1/10/2024 In my research to learn if other books existed on the topic of trance and the creative process, I did find other authors, saving the books so I could check them out later on. First I want to glean the thoughts of Tobi Zausner.…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/10/24 I should add my work has copywrite. (I do not give my permission for my work to be used. Requests need to be made.) I share it so that it can be seen and better understood. This is why I blog about Shibui. The title…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Studio 1/10/2024 I slept in late today. Now, coffee is on the right! All set! We had snow yesterday and last night’s driving rains too it all away. All of it gone! A warning came over my phone. There is a town somewhere in RI that has…
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Shibui Found Image Art
From Muddy Brook Cottage Studio 1/9/2024 Shibui Found Image Art can be beautifully simple. With this Shibui it is following the edges and enhancing the watercolor on the foundations. The whole thing becomes the event. It is totally abstract and it is easy to fall into the trance like creative process…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
From Muddy Brook Road Studio. 1/09/2024 If you spend time with this Shibui Found Image Art you will come to see how a Shibui works. The blue gray areas are from the watercolor used. In the beginning there are no lines from 005- or 05-micron pens. Just “the field” of…

