Slim Paley Photo
..Painter’s palette plates at Fishes Eddy NYC.
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I had such lofty plans for doing some painting this summer.
I was saving,
saving
and saving this post until I could add just one finished painting of my own.
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I’m not going to suggest it would have been anything like this
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John Singer Sargent was in Greece.
I was in Greece too!
One of us was a bit more productive.
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though I did take my watercolours to Paris
and I certainly visited Laduree…
This is not my painting. (via Pinterest)
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even just a little bird like this would have been something
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But alas, my painting muse flew the coop
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I did find a few pretty images of paint boxes in my travels both on land and the internet 
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and colours blending in a water coloury fashion
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I could certainly paint this, couldn’t I?
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Perhaps I simply spent too much time on my ‘gadgets’
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ah-D’ya think???!
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Let’s all take a collective moment to be thankful that Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso et al didn’t have an iPad.
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These sweet little slippers from Anthropology whispered;
“You never painted this summer! For shame, for shame”
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”Christopher Clutches” filled with watery colour goodness mocked me too
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Watercolours in every permutation floated through my days,
a spectral reminder of broken promises to myself
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Black Crow
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Tablescapes
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Pillows
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Baboucherie
Down the runway
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…and back to the table again
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John Singer Sargent
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Images abounded to chide me;
PAINT! PAINT! What’s the matter with you? PAINT!!
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Tamara Comolli Collection
Well, actually, this image was more like “Buy me! Buy me! What’s the matter with you?? Buy me!”
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.Slim Paley photo
My little box of travel watercolours (Winsor & Newton)
and one very tightly painted pear from my class. I had to cut it out from the page because my shadowing was so bad.
Did I mention I’m a Virgo?? Albeit one that doesn’t feel the need to clean her paintbox or cut her pear particularly well?!)
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Sargent.
LOOK at this!
I could say this is why I don’t even try
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Paola Navone china
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Sargent.
He kills me.
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Wallpapers available at BLACK CROW STUDIOS
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If one were really, really brave, you could forgo the wallpaper altogether, soak the wall and just go at it with your own paints.
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Issey Miyake feeling it
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Who would think baking a cake would ever start looking like the easiest option?!
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Slim Paley photo
Fishes Eddy NY
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Sargent
I’m visiting friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico soon.
My travel paints will be going into my luggage.
Taking bets??!
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How about you? Have you been artistic this summer?
I hope so!
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