just before leaving on my little excursion to be with my sisters...
I took about 100 of these, just mesmerized by this beauty and the way she flitted around the plants and myself ;)
and then i told you how we have hidden the beans,
climbing on the sunflowers, from the deer...
well...it's been GRAND luck..we have harvest LOTS of these
LONG HEIRLOOM green beans and flash frozen them, yum!
their flowers smell just like sweet peas...i never knew that!
this is Candy...YES we LAUGHED...
AND read menu's...this is Cookie...
she barbequed for us on their back patio in Seal Beach,
many an evening ;)
we were heading for a night of music where Candy's son, my nephew was playing...
we had to stay in a motel rather than camp...this is Diane our mutual SISTER/FRIEND...
WE tried to keep the luggage cart LIGHT, ha, trading, hauling, figuring out...
what to take to the venue and what to leave behind...not so LIGHT...;)
one morning, i found my toothbrush in hardened wax as a candle burned down through the evening...no harm done and yes, laughter once again!
we swam here during the day and then after
MIDNIGHT on several evenings...
so magical to us, looking at the stars, floating on our backs,
hearing the ships come in and far away laughter...
perfect summer nights to remember FOREVER!
welllll...lookie here...
i began an abstract as soon as i returned home.
the real colors were in between these two...
and then it morphed into this as i freely (oh yes, there were some struggles) and intuitively (mostly) painted and glued and scraped away...
and away...finding depths...
and fun subterfuge...
isn't it just absolutely MYSTERIOUS...
i am in love where it is headed and
promise to share when completed.
the next Art Walk will be in 10 days...
the pressure is on...the beautiful pressure that i tend to work well with!
HAPPY MORE SUMMER DAYS MY FRIENDS!!!
WOW. First of all, the woman and friends behind the scenes...this is what is a lovely surprise to give our readers once in a while, isn't it? Then, there's your art. Wanda, you are a very important inspiration for me because you celebrate PROGRESS. I love to hear you say, "...where it's heading." You see, in our poetry group (we're only about a year old, and learning together), there is a tendency on our parts to want to come to the workshop meeting with a "finished" poem....HAHAHHA! When is a poem or a painting ever really finished! But there gems that are embedded in the progress are so precious, yet I tend to over look them. Your process and discussing it is a very valuable lesson. I love what I see, yet YOU see more. THAT IS OUTSTANDING!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to visit; I had a blast that day dancing like when I was 20. 36 years later, I can still leap, but land with a THUD! teehehehehehehehheheheheh
Wanda, dear, dear Wanda!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming on by today with such an enthusiasm. KEEP ON THE JOURNEY my friend. I think that as artists, we are always thinking, don't cha think? teehehe....and when we do, we wonder. We ask if we should continue with something (blogging for example) or painting or writing. But again, YOU have taught me the value of reworking things until they satisfy. I almost felt like quitting poetry the other day, when something I wrote and REVISED and shared with my poetry group was squashed again. But those are the moments we grow. I just want to thank you for coming to visit me because as small as it may be, what I blog on takes a lot of time to organize and think of (as with your work too), and it's much appreciated when others leave a kind word. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Many hugs back to ya, WANDA MILLER! XOXOXOXOXOOX
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful vacation and inspiration that followed. That's the way to live!
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