Keeping a Calm Spirt

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating, and yet don't look to good, nor talk to wise.....Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Learning to listen

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb!
Pythagoras 500 B.C.

500 Years of Female Portraits

Wow! Watch this incredible two minute film!!

Ocean View

Here is another almost finished oil painting. I tried to get away from my dark paintings with this one:) I was just looking for a beautiful peaceful scene, that would arouse a meditative feeling in the observer?

Still Life Study Large Oil Painting

Another large still life study oil painting on my studio easel. You start off with a vision of the painting inside your head, invariably it turns out differently than you imagined. Sometimes better, sometimes worse , sometimes your not sure?? With this painting I’ve been in the not sure mode, I like the large scale,the flowers, green vase and red tomatoes. I’m not thrilled with the white cloth and dark background?? Will I change it? I doubt it, I’d rather spend the time on a new painting instead and carry over lessons learned?
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