100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #39

Title: Aspens at Fisheye Lake
Medium: Acrylic
Size 6x8
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Tomorrow my autumn scene will be featured on the UK blog:
 art-landscape.blogspot.com 
for any of you who want to have a look.


Quote from Desiderata:
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. (in honour of Erica!)

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #38

Title: Deadfall - Magundy River Forest

Medium:  Acrylic

Size 8x10

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I love walking in the forest around my home in the bush - you see see little scenes like this all over the place and I find this really beautiful.   I suppose some people would want to firesmart all this dead underbrush as it could be a fire hazard but I think of the little squirrels and a male spruce grouse strutting his stuff on top of that log. Nature replenishes my spirit and is a necessity for my painting process.

Quote for the Day:

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it

took to blossom.

Anais Nin

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #37

Title: Pond - Robert Campbell Highway

Medium:  Acrylic

Size: 5x7

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I am always a little tired after the weekend as my teenagers stay up so late - I tend to do the same.  Gone are the days when you put the kids to bed at 7 or 8pm and have

the rest of the evening to yourself.  But having my teens around makes me feel younger!  I know the top 20 songs and I can see what's in and what's not!!

I know one thing: I would never want to go back - I am very happy being in the stage of life and age that I am. I finished my painting last night at 11:30 pm.  I tend to start painting later on the weekends.  What really works well is if I start my painting 1st thing in the morning and then I can finish it off in the early afternoon.

Quote for the Day: 

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity"

 Albert Einstein

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #36

Title: Aspen Glow

Medium:  Acrylic

Size: 8x10

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Quote for the Day:

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life.

But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first,

some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.

Happiness is the way.

So treasure every moment you have and remember that 

time waits for no one.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination...

Souza

These Aspens are growing along the trail that leads to the Far End of
 Fisheye Lake near Faro Yukon.

It was September so this is a classic  autumn scene.  In regards to Autumn - there is a blog that I follow called the Art of Landscape; it is the UK's third  most popular blog out of the top 25 Blogs list.  The Author is now inviting artists to submit their fall scenes to be shown daily on a Feature that is called "Seasonal Changes" . I have submitted my October 6 (Day 6 in a "100 in a 100") and it was accepted and will be posted next Wed (Nov. 9)
To view :  art-landscape.blogspot.com

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #35

Title: Driving the Dempster

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 6x8

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Quote for the Day:

To laugh often and much:

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,

to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.

This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #34

 Title:  Dance of Fire

Medium:  Acrylic

Size: 6x8

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REASONS WHY I READ THE ART OF MANLINESS BLOG 

1.  It is really interesting and a well-written, excellent content blog.

2.  YEAH! It celebrates being a man (in the traditional sense but also with lots of current information.  I have two sons and a husband and sometimes I think men get slammed with the whole " empowering women"  thing.  Yes it is something to celebrate but this site is a wonderful guide for boys/men and very empowering and practical for them.

3. I find some of the content very interesting, for example:  George S. Patton's letter to his son and how to lose gracefully.

Well as I quoted the Lord of the Rings yesterday - funny thing I have to admit I have not even read the book!  But I know a lot about it from the movies and my three Teenagers.  I don't think I have ever  mentioned that I am a mom of three teenagers in my blog, not once. Back to the Lord of the Rings - I recently saw it on a "100 Must Read Books for Men" listed on the above-mentioned site.

Quote for the Day:

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. 

 ~Mark Twain,Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894

  Today's Painting:  I thought I would warm you Yukoners up as it is

Freeking Cold out there!! -14 celsius and lows tonight of -17 eek!

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #33

Title: Winter Solitude

Medium: Acrylic

Size 6x6

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*Some of you may notice I change the photo sometimes. I do this because if I take the pic at night the lighting is poor - depends on when I get my painting done!

Title: Winter Solitude

Medium: Acrylic

Size 6x6

Quote for the Day:

 “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

Gandalf 

I really like Lord of the Rings - there's some really deep stuff in there and when I read this quote to my daughter, she begged me to post it!  So I did.  The temperature is dropping and the wind is frigid.  Time to sit by a warm fire!  

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #32

Title:  Ogilvie Mountains
Medium:  Acrylic
Size:6x6
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Quote for the Day:

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.  ~John Muir

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #31

Title:  Faro Peak from the Big Rock

Medium: Acrylic

Size:  6x8

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Quote for the day:

That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do.

Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to do it has increased! 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have now completed one month of painting - so I roughly have two more to go.

I put an update in our local newsletter called the Frozen Mukluk - anyone wanting to know all about the little community I live in can read the Mukluk on-line by going to our town website:  www.faroyukon.ca  click the Link to the newsletter.

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #30

Title: Northern  Legend

Media: Oil Pastel and Acrylic

Size: 6x8

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Quote for the Day:

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #29

Title: Oh Aurora!
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6x8

Quote for the Day:
"Drink your tea slowly & reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves -slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. 
Live the actual moment." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Life's Simple Little Pleasures

So much talk today of living in the moment and being fully present

 (concepts I heartily agree with). 

Enjoying simple tasks and appreciating the good things in my life are a

BIG part of this for me.

 In the morning, I enjoy grinding up my Midnight Sun dark roast coffee beans and seeing the rich black hue. Pouring the ground coffee into my Bodum Coffee Press and adding the boiling water.  The best part is the initial sound that results when the water hits the beans, it has a musical quality to it. Ahhh!! and then the aroma (they say that smell is the most evocative and powerful sense (probably true)

I have reached heaven on earth and I haven't even had my first sip yet!

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #28

Title:  The Three Sisters

Medium:  Acrylic

Size: 6x8

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Some of you may recognize this pond from the Mitchell Road.  A lot of people have photographed it. Halloween is just around the corner and I am coming up to completing my first month of daily painting.  People around town have asked me how I am doing with it and I have to say that I absolutely love it!  

I think the more you do something the easier it gets.

I have to do some extra painting in the next few days for my gallery in Whitehorse.

I intend to keep these hundred paintings as one whole collection for my show in March in  Whitehorse At Yukon Artists at Work. 

Title of the show:  A 100 in a 100!

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #27

Title:  Aspens and Sunshine

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 8x10
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Quote for the Day:

"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward." - Proverb

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #26

Morning Sonnet

Medium:  Oil Pastel

Size:5x7

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Quote for the Day:

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!  Dr. Seuss

I often strive for some form of realism in my painting but I love to do these pictures where I just paint what I feel.  Expressionism I guess. The use of oil pastel is like those crayons of the five year old girl.  Pressing and rubbing and blending - it really is so satisfying.

French impressionist, Paul Gauguin said not to assign a fixed  and unchangeable colour  to every object. Use your imagination.  I have always loved Dr.Seuss's unique and quirky imagination - he would say that he looked at life through the wrong end of the telescope and that fantasy is a necessary ingredient of living.

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #25

Title: Heigl's Place
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 8x10

Quote for the Day:

 "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between

 work and play"Arnold Toynbee.

I love my painting - it's something I have always done.  When I was a little girl of 5 years old; I received a colouring book and crayons from my parents and my art career was launched.  First thing I did was to colour the skin on the people.  Well there was no skin tone in the box of crayons I received so I began using a combination of brown, orange, red and then a hard pressing of a white crayon on top and wa la!  There you have it - skin.  This was a very labour intensive  process because there was lots of pressing and blending involved to get that skin tone. But I can remember that moment as clear as if it was yesterday. This was when I knew I wanted to be an artist.  

It is all I have ever wanted to be.

There is a lot of work involved in being an artist but for me it is play.

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #24

Title: Wings of Hope

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x8

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Quote for the Day:

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.  My strength lies solely in my tenacity."  Louis Pasteur

I read my friend Kara Went's Blog today and she said she had a bad day yesterday.  

Kara I dedicate this painting to you.  I believe in you and I know you can do it.

Keep your chin up! Sometimes it's just one step at a time.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #23

Title: Raven Sunrise

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x8

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Quote for the Day:

"I believe we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.  In each, it's the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."  

Martha Graham

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #22

Title: 40 Below on the Yukon River

Medium:  Acrylic

Size 6x6
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I have finally succumbed ! There you have it snow and ice and cold temperatures

The weather forecast shows temperatures as low as -15 in the next few nights.

I love the look of the landscape it has a magical look.  

Quote for the Day:  

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.  It also includes the inner pictures of the Soul.  Edvard Munch

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #21

Title:  Into the Mystic

Medium:  Mixed Media
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Size: 6x6

Quote for the day:
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you"
T. Alan Armstrong

This started out as a lake and became mountains and a lake.  Another from imagination piece.  I notice my "from imagination pieces" are very impressionistic and my photo referenced pieces lean more towards realism.

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #20

Title: Sunrise:  Tintina Trench

Medium:  Acrylic

Size: 5x7
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Quote for the day:
"Dawn and sunset are the times when nature herself is unstable and in flux.  The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief moment coexisting. It's not a neat hard cut, but a blurred, irregular dissolve.  These moments are the seams in existence through which we can get a glimpse of the deeper, fundamentally random, chance workings of a system in which we are only a small, insignificant player."
Bill Viola

I used Nina Toeller's photo for reference for this painting.