Sunday, April 21, 2019

THE EASTER BUNNY AND THE CATS ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ

A wish come true. The Easter Bunny dropped in for a visit this morning on Easter Sunday.

 Happy Easter๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ



Saturday, April 20, 2019

FADE TO GREY ~ DEVENIR GRIS, DEVENIR GRIS ~ VISAGE ๐Ÿ–ผ๐Ÿ–Œ๐ŸŽจ

"Devenir Gris, Devenir Gris
Feel the rain like an English summer
Hear the notes from a distant song

Aaah, we fade to grey" There was a time I was young and getting old was so, so far away.

It is raining, again. I feel the rain in my bones but I adore it, its pitter-pattering on the window pane quiets my mind and I drift back.


 I was an eighties girl. I loved the music, the clubs, and dancing. Life was simple, never imperiled, easy and free to love. A youth, almost perfect then only now, I'm much older, timeworn, feeling the years, lost in a chilling world. I watched Notre Dame burn this week, I choked, my vision signed. So much loss : (


I did this illustration of a girl inspired by Modigliani.

                                VISAGE


Its titled "Visage ". A girl with a haunting, melancholic look..."two eyes staring cold and silent. "

It's a homage to Notre Dame Cathedral and the people of France.

Devenir gris
Devenir gris
One man on a lonely platform
One case sitting by his side
Two eyes staring cold and silent
Show fear as he turns to hide
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Un homme dans une gare isolรฉe
Une valise a ses cotรฉs
Des yeux fixes et froids
Montre de la peur lorsqu'il
Se tourne pour se cacher
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Sent la pluie comme un รฉtรฉ Anglais
Entends les notes d'une chanson lointaine
Sortant de derriere d'un poster
Espรฉrant que la vie ne fut aussi longue
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)
Feel the rain like an English summer
Hear the notes from a distant song
Stepping out from a back shop poster
Wishing life wouldn't be so long


Below I'm sharing an amazing video of "Fade to Grey " remix done by:








KEEP FAITH❤️

Sunday, April 14, 2019

THE OWL, THE CAT, AND THE HARE or WHO LIKES THE NIGHT? ๐Ÿฆ‰๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ‡

And the Moon and Stars Float, ever so Quiet, on Candy Floss Clouds ๐ŸŒš✨☁️





There is not enough time in a day to do what you truly want to do. I like to think I started this painting in February but likely it was much earlier, can't remember. More importantly, it's finally done.
And now is a good moment for me to become truly mindful, learn the art of appreciating life at the moment ... "mindfulness is recognizing how extraordinarily special every moment of the present already is.” 






















Like The Owl, The Cat, And The Hare have learned to see, hear and feel in their heart the beauty in the quiet of the full moon night.

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Happy Caturday!

Cats can be sneaky...it's ok!



Happy Caturday!

" THE WINDOW INTO THE UNSEEN IS OPENED IN WAKING HOURS " ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ–Œ๐Ÿ–ผ


Painting Magic? 




Waking from my sleep, the dreams of the night filled my head with lovely, mysterious, secret places to escape to and so I thought I would try to paint some magic.
The trials and tribulations that accompany a wip painting are many, at least for me. I am just an amateur painter who loves art, doesn't and can't produce artwork in minutes or hours and even if I could, I'm too fussy and like to work on the little things that I believe make the painting special. 


This painting has been lingering around for some time now and with everything else that has happened in life in recent weeks, it has been left behind. So this morning I returned to it, didn't like the trees, cat, cottage, cypress, etc and made some changes. Still far from finished but I like the direction it's taking. The cat will return, only a little different.

Friday, March 29, 2019

Muse - Unintended







You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You could be the one I'll always love
You could be the one who listens
To my deepest inquisitions
You could be the one I'll always love
I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life I had before
First there was the one who challenged
All my dreams and all my balance
She could never be as good as you
You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You should be the one I'll always love
I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life I had before
I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life I had before
Before you






Have fun guys. Muse & Montreal ❤️


Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting:

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar.




~ “Intimations of Immortality”
 1804 William Wordsworth


Creatures of the night, in their nocturnal habit they dance on the threads of the gleaming moon.

Emrick, happy to have finally arrived at his journey's end sits by the river and watches the aerial ballet. In the starry, almost scary heavenly world above, Emrick catches a glimpse of another world, one he might know.

I loved painting on this 6 x 6 canvas. I was inspired by Old Quebec paintings for this landscape and gave it more of a surreal, magical fairytale Victorian Gothic style.












Hubby named the cat, Emrick, a name from Wales meaning immortal, from that a story materialized. I will eventually make some prints to sell this artwork. I like how it turned out.

Monday, March 25, 2019

EMRICK BAT ๐Ÿ–ผ๐ŸŽจ


EMRICK BAT 










OOO...Emrick Bat sits and watches the spooky night in Old Quebec; his long journey has finally come to an end and the scenery in front of him promises to be everything but boring.

I'm a Pisces and my sign is a pair of fish swimming in opposite directions. And being a Pisces, I always seem to go two ways at once, like my 2 wip paintings : ) I look forward to completing both in the next week. This one with Emrick (the name means immortal ) Bat, is a 6 x 6 canvas and I will be painting it in inks.

Friday, March 22, 2019

Ghostly Sound by GhostTales

Ghostly Sound by GhostTales

There's a place far and away, secluded, mysterious and haunting by the sea. In the luminous light of the moon, the four coves scintillate and resound the songs of the sea or perhaps the voices of lost ghosts whose melodies have drifted in.


Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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