tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39036767872408335252012-02-16T18:17:43.012-05:00Artist's journal with thoughts and observations about the arts,painting, life, environment, third world, culture and the creative process.... showing original paintings, essays, videos and photography.Blue Planet......Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04084462484352365796noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903676787240833525.post-44367621900616253492008-05-12T13:34:00.003-04:002008-12-09T12:49:56.439-05:00

Medium: House Paints and Acrylics.

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My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all.Please, don’t be angry, happiness, and I take you as my due.May my dead, be patient with the way my memories fade.My apologies to time, for all the world I overlook each second.My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers

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Original Acrylic Painting 36"x36"

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Original Oil Painting 24"x36"

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Original Oil Painting 16"x20"

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Original Wall Relief Sculpture 20"x30"

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Original Oil Painting 18"x24"

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Original Oil Painting 18"x24"

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Original Oil Painting 18"x24"

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My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's blackIf ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hellI'm sorry for that evil wishand now I wish her well.My old man died in a fine big houseMy ma died in a shackI wonder where I'm gonna die,Being neither white or black? Langston Hughes(1902-1967)

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Brilliant Speech by Sir Ken Robinson Sir Ken is a cross between Micheal Cain, Robin Williams and your favorite school teacher or university professor. If you do not laugh while watching and listening to his speech, please check your pulse. It is very entertaining, enlightening, funny and will make you rethink children's education.

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Downtown area Brunswick, Georgia, 8am August 5th Bridge over Brunswick River 8:30am Sunday Aug 5th

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Are you afraid of sharks? Whenever someone is attacked by a shark it makes the front page of the newspapers and TV news around the planet. In 2005 along the Gulf Coast a beautiful teenage girl was tragically attacked and killed, three days later a teenage boy was attacked but survived while in shallow water along the Gulf Coast. CNN recently did a one hour special on the attacks. But, how

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If you have ever tried to comprehend the size of the universe? According to NASA, if you suspended a dime against the night sky at a distance of 75 feet (or 23 meters) from your viewing position, the dime will cover approximately 1500 Galaxies.

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The Art of Dreaming:Tools for Creative Dream Work the above book, two reviewers talk about making a dream mandala and healing mandala? This also struck a cord, as the subject of mandalas keeps coming up? Do you ever feel that the universe is trying to give you directions to the answers you seek? Synchronicities are there if you just acknowledge them.

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Sand Sculpture Festival in Haifa We all at some point return to dust! (hopefully many, many years from now) Sand sculpture tends to amplify that process, it can be like watching a life movie at very high speed. If you have ever visited the beach as a child, you have probably tried with a small bucket, sculpting sand. Many adults around the planet still like to play with sand sculpture; like

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Thinking about the "Big Problems" that affect billions of people and our planet.`It makes more sense than wasting your time worrying about all the little widgets.Tonight I have just finished reading Bill Gates recent speech at Harvard, where he champions, the poor, the homeless, the sick, those who do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation, the hundreds of millions of adults and

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Slow down and take a deep breath! Then watch this incredibly creative and inspiring film. 500 Years of Female Portraits. If you would like more details on each painting shown in the film click here

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If you have ever washed your dog on a dry day? Upon drying your dog with a towel this can cause static electricity. If your dog starts waging his tail while electrically charged, this can create electromagnetic waves as the electrons tear free from the tails end! Depending on how vigorously he's waging his tail will determine the wave cycle length. This electromagnetic wave will reach the moon in

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Here is another painting on the night shift, the flowers and green vase are a little washed out with the flash hitting that side of the painting.

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Most people love to solve puzzles? Try this one.............. http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/

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There is the risk you cannot afford to take, (and) there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.............Peter Drucker

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Medium: Oil paintBefore the mural was painted this door located in a design center was a plain beat up black metal exit door.

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Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.........Martin Ritt

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I found these three guests yesterday on my front porch; taking residence inside a hanging fern basket!

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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish........Ovid

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Here is the forth close up view of large still life painting.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery..............Francis Bacon

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Here is the third close up of the large painting. When viewing paintings in art galleries or museums most people like to eye ball the painting from twelve inches away observing the details, by presenting these close ups this way I am trying to create that same view point. The complete painting will be posted later in the week.

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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication............Claus Oldenburg

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Here is the 2nd picture detail of the large still life, can you visualize what the final painting looks like, given these clues?

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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform....... Paul Cezanne

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

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Lord, make me an instrument of your Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness light; And where there is sadness, joy....St Frances of Assisi (1182 - 1226)

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Instead of posting a two inch picture of a larger painting; which fails to show the details. I decided instead to first post a few detail shots, this is the first. I will post one daily this week before showing the final painting.

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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, if you can dream and not make dreams your

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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgement!....... Leonardo Da Vinci

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Where would Van Gogh and Rembrandt be if they were just starting out as artist's today? What if they had published their paintings on the web as they created them. How would the web have changed their careers? Many artists around the world would immediately have been copying their styles.If Picasso had published his very first cubist painting on the web and was immediately copied within a few

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An original oil painting showing a downtown street at dusk.

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Here we go again; update on the unfinished oil painting I posted a few weeks ago..... It is now almost finished:)

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Here is another oil painting in progress inside my studio,showing a contemporary urban landscape . I still have to finish the billboards and maybe add more people? the one person you can see sitting down is an alcoholic drinking; showing the sadder side of the glitzy party lifestyle image of alcohol.

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Painting on the night shift, showing a painting in progress, I will post again when finished

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We live in a universe that at the last count contained over 120 billion galaxies. Some scientist even talk of there being an infinite number of parallel universes, or extra dimensional space. Within these facts contemplate the following links. 1. The Best Kept Secret Ever??2. Former Canadian Defense Minister3. Paul Hellyer - Minister of Defense Canada4. Disclosure Project.5. Need To Know.

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Watching Tiger Woods at the Masters. I wondered about all the applause he and other top golfers receive almost every time they hit the ball. There is nothing wrong with that, but I wonder why we never applaud so many other dedicated people who do their job well. Most people go a lifetime without ever hearing applause, even though they are just as dedicated and hard-working, doing their job day

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Why do certain images find the secret combination to our brains memory banks? Our brains view and process thousands of images every day, the majority are filtered out. But occasionally, one image, finds that secret combination. It runs through our filtering system to our memory banks like a laser guided image bomb. It announces: I am here to stay. It might be the picture of a young girl on the

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Original Oil Painting 6"x6" - Still Life Study

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