May
24
2008
Today’s featured art is Waves at Ponquogue Beach by Leslie Nazarian: Lesruba Designs
Ocean waves are so lovely and energizing. The colors here are a complex mixture of blues and greens and white foam with a tiny little touch of beach sand at the bottom that has a lot of potential for someone to create an abstract patterned seascape from looking at it. Watercolors would be perfect to draw abstract patterns and then to use a rainbow of blues and greens with various whites of the paper left tfor the foam. I think I will now go paint one looking at this and see what I can create. A crazy quilt idea is what I am mulling over in my mind’s eye.
May
06
2008
Today’s featured art is Angry Ocean 2 by John Kimball
All seascapes are not sunny and peaceful … some are angry and full of destructive energy while being gloriously lovely and real … this photograph is one of them! This would make a great painting trying to capture the wind, blowing water and the beach stillness in total opposite contrast to the water. Try it .. show me how you did trying to paint the angry sea.
For those wondering why I am not very active here at the moment - I have not had time to paint much recently between my very demanding day job and several doctor appts. plus I have been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis - it is pretty active right now and it still needs to be reined in like an unruly school child … LOL … once it is … I expect to be much less exhausted and have the energy to again do more than collapse in my office chair once I get home from work.
I think this angry seascape resonated with me so much tonite because I am VERY angry with the RA trying to take over my life … and I refuse to allow that to happen … but I do rest much more since I am so very tired … more so than before … and the doctor said that is unfortunately a part of the RA … in time, this too shall pass or I will adjust and force it to heel on command 
I LIKE painting and it is a very important part of my life … I WILL find my concentration again
