reflection – paintandsimple

Posted on October 7, 2018October 7, 2018 by paintandsimple

October Sail

12″x9″ pastel on sanded paper

The State Fair Regatta happened this weekend at White Rock Lake. The boats were so beautiful scattered on the lake. No wind may be a sailor’s nightmare, but it makes an artist’s job easier.

Please enjoy a celebration of pink paintings this month, in honor of breast cancer awareness. I paint for my friends and family who have fought the good fight against cancer, for their families, and for all caregivers who help along with the journey toward a healthy self (body, soul, and spirit). In my strokes of pink, are prayers of strength and healing.

Posted on August 7, 2018 by paintandsimple · 1 Comment

Sunrise with Coffee

10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper

Plein air

My sweet husband is a runner, and he spends his runs scouting out fantastic painting spots for me. Today he made coffee in the dark, brought me to a spectacular beach, and even set up my easel.

Posted on August 2, 2018July 31, 2018 by paintandsimple · 3 Comments

A Single Wave

8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” -Albert Schweitzer

Posted on August 1, 2018July 25, 2018 by paintandsimple

My Sunset Sky

10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper

Kauai

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -Rabindranath Tagore

Posted on July 30, 2018 by paintandsimple · 1 Comment

Snorkeler’s Cove

10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper

Play this sound track: “Look mom, an eel!, a school of so many fish” Now roll the surf in the background. It was a beautiful morning.

Plein air – Kauai

Posted on July 24, 2018July 22, 2018 by paintandsimple · 3 Comments

Launch on Every Wave

14″x11″ pastel on sanded paper

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” -Henry David Thoreau

Posted on July 16, 2018 by paintandsimple

Occasion for Hope

10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper”The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” -John Buchan

Posted on June 8, 2018 by paintandsimple · 2 Comments

Fine Wind for a Sail

24″x18″ pastel on sanded paper

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Posted on May 12, 2018 by paintandsimple

We and Our Shadow

4’x3′ mixed media

Walking to School series No• 15

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” -Jean de La Fontaine

I count the friendship between these two among my biggest blessings.

Posted on October 27, 2017 by paintandsimple · 1 Comment

Place to Ponder

12″x9″ pastel on sanded paper

When I look up from the sink and reflect this is my pondering place. Abstracted art is like magical realism: this is my view, only dreamier.