Category: Shibui Found Image Art & Foundation Work defined.
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Emma’s Reading Tree. Emma is my granddaughter, she is 10. The tree that lays across this path is her reading tree. You can’t see the bling very well in this shot, there is a windchime, and two whirly gigs and a string of crystals. The plan is to add more…
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Good Morning! Sunshine! Sunshine!
Title: Fruit Bowl. I know there is something more I want to do to this image, besides making the shadow on the right longer. Minor things. This is why it is not signed, Coffee at the right! Still a little hot, so not a sip as yet. Kids are off,…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
The studio. The second felt board is on the long green wall! Under it there is room where a still life can be created. I do need to see if the lighting equipment I have can do soft lighting. I have the set up for teaching live. Mic, web cam,…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
HMMMMMmmmmmmm! Good morning, everyone! Kids are off to school! One more day this week and then Monday and then its summer vacation! I am thinking about realness, the word real. We touch things and feel them, they are solid, so they are real. We feel certain feelings are “real” and…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Early morning sun. Love it! The red bellied woodpecker has come for his peanuts, the other birds for seeds. I am feeding a little less, scattering it wider as I will be away for three weeks at camp with kids and want them to return to their normal ways of…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
Good morning! May all be well with you! Looking good on this end! Kids are off, coffee is at the right, birds are fed. The Red Bellied Woodpecker has come for peanuts. Not a busy place at the moment. A quiet morning. Sun is out! Friday! All day long! More…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Good Morning! May your day be full of love, much happiness and blessings! Currently I am reading about plants and their consciousness. When I find something on the topic via documentaries, usually on Gaiam TV, I watch about plants and trees, fractals, and quantum physics. The topic of neurobiology, and…
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Good Morning Sunshine! Some thoughts about Shibui Found Image Art And the mind today.
An pastel pencil for grandson Oliver. This was fun.. Now he wants a painting with palm trees with a sunset, beach, dolphins and other fish and a coral reef. Good lord, that would be a challenge! Have to think about that. LOL! It is a rainy morning here. It held…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Good morning! May your day be sunny and bright! A second post today! I now have WordPress on my computer that went wonky! Putting things back in place! Much better than the phones keypad! I see my image is a little wonky this time too. Please forgive that! This time…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Pleased with my felt board. Looks great, and I can study the pastel paintings for tweaks. Yesterday I started setting things up again in my computer. Things went wonky and I lost things, and have to put things in place again. No one enjoys doing this even though it is…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Metamorphosis! It’s amazing what happens when you finally understand how to look at what you wish to paint, and paint well. A very good friend and fellow Canadian artist Alice Edwards helped me a great deal with understanding what I wasn’t getting right. Deeply appreciate her efforts. She’s not feeling…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
Not to many more tweaks. Often the best advice is to sit back and observe the painting your working. Run through your mental check list about composition, value, shading, and the all important light source. Drawing x what you see. Earlier there were to many sources of light which made…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
A beautiful day at Muddy Brook Studio! Ready for the pastels! Tea instead of Coffee. It’s Emma’s dance class, so she and Jacobie will be off soon. I will find some breakfast and get underway. I have a territorial bee building a nest outside my front door. She won’t be…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Art is more than a pretty painting! Color, composition, perspective, the story of the composition, the choice of medium used. Value, shading an the light source. It all matters, and it requires practicing no matter if your new to art, or if you have been around a while. The eye…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Field trip day! A few weeks and it’s summer time! Mean while back in the studio….the morning begins with….what else? Coffee at the right. Birds are fed, Alex is fed. The sun is out! There is a new still life set up. I shall do some sketching and practice some…
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Good Morning Sunshine. Nope, not yet!
I am done with this one. No more tweaks. It’s time to learn more from creating another image. Knowing when to stop is key. Stepping back. Time to pick up and take a break. Move it! Move it! Move it! Time to sit back with the rest of my coffee.…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
One little fix and this still life is done. I will put these the jug and light green vase together again in a new still life. Nor sure what the 3rd item will be. I have a lot to choose from. Thinking of just doing the jug and light green…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
Today’s guest. He I think tries hard to get tge attention he wants. Always outside my door, making his plans for the day. I am moving into chapter 2 of Stehen Harrod Buhner’s book. Plant Inteligence and the Imagional Realm. The follow quoted words are intriguing, thoughtful and inspiring, as…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
I sometimes feel like that! Cheeky little fellow 😜 ! Heavy rains last night so the earth really got a bath! My woodpecker was calling for food when I got the kids on the bus! Coffee is at the right. More bird seed comes and a set of brushes to…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Five more blank black pastel papers ready to go tomorrow. I made adjustments to the following paintings. Once I get 12 paintings done I will revamp my website, a put new work on it. Prepare for an exhibition at some point. It will be great to get back into the…
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GOOD Morning! Sunshine!
Games! Games can be a lot of fun, a great chance to laugh and have fun. I loved the 15 hours of gaming with my granddaughter Emma! This will be a fun trend. What a lovely long weekend! Now to see what tomorrow brings! Now it’s time to sit back…
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GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!
Had a marvelous day yesterday! Played games for 13 hours straight! Myself and Emma my granddaughter. We also played Roblox and Brain games to improve memory. It was so much fun! The Em stayed over night so that was very cool. Oh! Yes! Chess and UNO! We got a little…
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Good Morning! Sunshine!
This image was taken from my deck this morning. I love the sun shining through the trees. It’s Saturday! Why am i climbing out now? So I ask myself. One reward was seeing the sun coming through the trees. I marvel at how green it is. I am reminded other…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
A quick one. Trying an abstract with pastel pencil and Neo Colors. It’s been a while since I have tried my hands with an abstract. There are two pastel paintings created today. I will put them up and let them be for a while. See if they are done. Need…
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Good Morning Sunshine!
Emma’s reading tree. All lush and green! A beautiful blue sky. Working a simple vase in blue/ blue purple as an exercise. Practicing blending layers with colored pencil. Need to get those shadows darker so they work yet still cast blue. So far. I will get there. I woke up…

