"Chillaxin'" SOLD

"Chillaxin'"

12 x 12in oil on museum quality panel

$600

If you need tips on how to relax, Eddie's your man.

He prides himself on having achieved the Grand Master status;))

His pointers include:

1. Which time of the day is best for "chillaxing"
2. How to select the right place for this activity
3. What to do if someone interrupts the "chillaxing"

I saw his notes and figured I would save you the time involved in emailing him for his tips--

be prepared to be underwhelmed....

1. Which time of day is best?  Morning, noon, evening---not night--that time is reserved for prowling around the house and annoying those who have been working morning, noon and evening.
2. How to select the right place for this activity?  Measure carefully which areas of the home are used and needed most frequently.  Laser printers, sinks, and beds with the today's outfit spread out on it are all excellent choices.
3. What to do if someone interrupts the "chillaxing"?  Begin with a huge yawn, then get up like you are going to leave but instead reposition your body and begin vigorously grooming yourself to help "carpet" the place you are in.  If all else fails, fake coughing up a fur ball.  Works every time.

Remember, this is why we are friends. It's my job to spare you from people like Eddie;))

P.S.  Eddie has been saying that he wants a virus. 

I think what he means is he wants to go viral.  Share this post, help a friend---a happy Eddie means I can  get some work done today while he's checking his stats;))

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"Heaven S(c)ent" SOLD

"Heaven S(c)ent"

8 x 8in oil on museum quality panel

$350

As much as I kvetch about the little guy, truth is....when he strikes a pose like this...he kind of squeezes my heart:))

We RELISH so many of the same things--

a good nap 

sunshine 

and the absolutely DIVINE scent of real, old fashioned roses.  

The scent of a rose plus one furry gentleman named Eddie, both, on a day like to day, are s(c)ent from heaven:)!

In Other News:

With angels at my window

And a great place to sit and think

it becomes pretty apparent that it's going to be a great workshop in Cary, NC:))

Cary, NC Oil Painting Workshop begins Monday at  Chambers Arts!

I'll keep you posted on the details of meeting 18 wonderful artists Mon-Wed and then a second set of 18 amazing painters Fri-Sun.  A wonderful week of art in the making!!

P.S. For obvious reasons, please do not share this post with Eddie. 

A little power in the in the wrong paws can be a dangerous thing.  

Selah.

(pause and calmly think on that:)

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"Afterglow" SOLD

"Afterglow"

8 x 8in oil on museum quality panel

$350

"The Sun Never Says"

Even after all this time

the sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."

Look what happens with a love like that,

It lights up the Whole Sky.

 

 

--Hafiz

P.S.  A warm thanks to  you, Christine Bart, for sharing your Italy trip photos with me:))  The afterglow title could also be said for the smiles that were plastered on the faces of you and your friends in every photo taken there!!  I owe you a print... and so much more:))!

P.S.S. The just added Paris, KY workshop July 16-18,2012, has about 5 spots left:)).  Click here to learn more Pin It

"Individual Greatness"

"Sunny Side of the Street, French Style"

6 x 6in oil on museum quality panel

 SOLD

Now Available in Print/Click to Visit Dreama's Print Shop

There is a naïveness, a childlike approach that happens when we first try something new like painting. 

We are simply happy with the process. 

We enjoy the results and are eager to do it again. 

Somewhere on the path though, we start to pick up the fears, perfections, patterns of the collective art world around us. 

We "grow up". 

We become fearful, stilted, stymied, and sadly we are confirmed in our thinking

  Given a nod that this is how it works.

Sometimes it feels as if the collective way of thinking and approaching your gift is to give you just enough hope to keep you alive, 

not enough to thrive, 

or experience JOY, 

 just enough to keep you from starving to death.

Is  this really how our lives are intended to be? 

Is this where collective thinking  about what "great" art is, leads to?

So that you can see how far from the mark you really are 

and how unlikely you are to ever get there?

Reconnect.

Return.

Remember why it was that you became an artist.

Define.

Name.

Embrace that story of who you are.

Return to the Source.

All the JOY, the smiles, the passion of when you first began to paint emanated from somewhere within you. 

Shove back the crowd of collective thinking of what art is.

Allow room for your Source to breathe your gift.

Rest in the knowledge that you have been given exactly what you need

 to be the artist that you were born to be. 

Change the collective thought

live into

your individual greatness.

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"Pocketful of Susnshine" SOLD

 

"Pocketful of Sunshine"

8 x 8in oil on museum quality panel

$350

So much good. 
Overwhelmed, bowled over, lump in throat kind of good.

Huge harvest moon hung like pure gold in  deep navy sky.

Music, words, melodies to sing the day away.

Belly full.

A good bed to dream sweet dreams upon.

Indeed, a pocket full of sunshine
To guide me everyday.

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"Beautiful Simplicity" SOLD

"Beautiful Simplicity"

6 x 6in oil on museum quality panel

$200

There is a sweet roughness to clothes dried on breeze, bleached by sun.

Laundry that is beautiful in its absence of complexity

With all of life's mysteries, this one we get

"Curl laundry over line, clip firmly with wooden pin

Let hang 'til dry"

Simply beautiful:))

I love the simplicity of acoustic guitar.  Michael Dowdle plays "A Simple Life". 

 Savor the beauty of this day and this moment. 

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"Magical Morning Sun" SOLD

"Magical Morning Sun"

6 x6" oil on museum quality panel

$200

Old stones warming in the sun 

 Bees humming a dance to the fragrance of the rose

The sameness of it all brings comfort to passing days 

 Our "transience" is the complement to their timelessness 

Houses like a living thing, harbouring all of our lives,

guarding our hearts to be awakened to another day by

 Old stones warming in the sun

Wild bees humming a dance to the fragrance of the rose

All by the beauty of  magical morning sun

Just an FYI---if you ever need to find a specific blog post I've done, there are two ways to search for it.  Well, three actually-- if you want to add you spending an entire day looking over 300 plus postings by the old scroll method.
I'm gonna guess you would be interested more in the first two:))

First, click here to ensure that you are indeed on my blog and not a) on your email  or b) on the portion of my blog embedded in my website. Then...

Way No. 1:  On right hand side of my blog, scroll down the page until you see my smiling face and the blurb about me.  Directly under that you will see a small box that says above it "Search This Blog".  Type in any word, phrase, etc. that may be a clue to what you are looking for.  Your answers will appear at the top of the blog.  Just like magic!!    Note:  The first four will be listed, but if there are more posts (like there are about Eddie) you will see page numbers at the bottom, denoting more pages to view in your search.

Way No. 2:  On right hand side of my blog, scroll down 'til the very last thing called "Labels".  This generally groups like artwork together.  Generally.  It is only as effective as the guy who "tagged" the paintings with the label, which in this case would be Eddie.  Please direct all complaints for errors to him. Pin It

"Sunny Side Up in Italy" SOLD

"Sunny Side Up in Italy"

6 x 12in oil on museum quality panel

$350

And this is what I love about painting.  It may be blowing snow outside (and it is) and it may be going to be 9, count 'em, 9 whole degrees tonight (and it is) however.....I am hanging out in Italy, basking in the sunshine and hypnotizing myself by the reflections in the water.  It's a big place and there is definitely room for one  more....:)))

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It's beginning to look a lot like Catmas??





Claw Monet







(Eddie)Billie Holicat



Just feel I need to warn you.  Eddie is putting up a cat tree.  He has been collecting all things cat for quite some time.  This includes a host of stuffed cats, including the famous artist, Claw Monet, famous jazz vocalist, Billi Holicat with her own sheet music of "God Bless the Cat" with lots of crescendo meows....not a good thing. 

 I keep hearing Eddie bragging to Phyllis about what a good boy he has been all year. 

Yeah, you guessed it.

Eddie Bill believes.

In Santa Claws.

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"A Sunny Morn in Tuscany" SOLD

"A Sunny Morn in Tuscany"
12 x 12in oil on museum quality panel
$550

There is a sacred silence in the way the sun quietly starts our days.  Dusting gold on rims of flowers,  buildings  shaped from the earth, and at last, lingering on our face, warming it with the promise of the hope of a new day.  The sun certainly has its work cut out for it in Italy--it must bend, slide under, and glide around narrow passes to spill its joy onto the streets.  But it does it every day, faithfully.  

There happens to be a red roadster parked just down the street.  It's a beautiful day to grab a friend, roll down the windows and take off  like you haven't a care in the world.  Make the most of this amazing life of yours--just this one day--out of all the thousands you will live...

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