Waking up to this view makes you realize how lucky you are to live in such an amazing spot.
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Another Fall morning
Sometimes I am awestruck by the beauty of the Northwest and feel so lucky to awaken to this view in the mornings..
Good Morning Kingston
Sometimes when we awaken in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, we just need to stop for a minute and enjoy the sunrise. This the picturesque scene out the door from my home. It was a moment when I woke up, looked out and thought how lucky we are.
I don’t want to be interesting.
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Love this quote, but if we are good then are we not indeed interesting?
Andy Warhol is quoted saying “I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all its interest.” Interesting comment, but not sure I do agree with this one.
I would agree that staring at a soup can would not be interesting to me, but staring at a beautiful sunrise would never lose interest to me.
What are your thoughts?
Malcolm Gladwell wrote that it takes at least 10,000 hours to be good at anything.
Front Porch View
The Pacific Northwest is an amazing place to live. We have the rain, but we have the green and we have amazing morning sunrises.
This most likely would not make a wonderful painting, but it is wonderful to view first thing in the morning.
Pond painting for a friend of mine
This last month a friend asked me to paint her pond, so I had the opportunity to photograph and paint a scene.
It is fun to interpret a photograph into a painting as you will see here. As Picasso said to Gertrude Stein ” You don’t paint what you see, you paint what you know.”
November Morning in Kingston, Washington
”It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn’t see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.”
— Anna Quindlen
October Morning in Kingston, Washington
There are times in our lives when we wonder about our art. Should I be an artist and try to sell my art, or should I just enjoy the everyday wonders of retirement and paint and sketch when I want to do it.
Last week I painted three days with three different groups of friends and think I must have hit a plateau, as my back sent me to the chiropractor, and none of my paintings were worth sharing.
So many blogs talk about being inspired by friends and nature, but right now most of my friends are artists. we talk about doing art for the beauty of art or for the merchandization of art for the sale.
The one think in life I never want to be is a “Thomas Kincaid” of art. He started out as a fine artist, and gave up his work for the joy of making money. Where do you draw the line in art?
Sunrise Over Kingston
Woke up to this amazing sunrise out my front window this morning and this is Natures Art.