Rhapsody in Blue
I admire paintings where the artist is able to play with reality and yet still convey the subject clearly. I decided last year to try this for myself. I find it very difficult. I start with a flamboyant idea and…
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Monthly Archive: January 2022
Leona’s Paintings
My lovely mother-in-law shares my passion for painting (she’s try to get me to share her passion for Mahjong but so far it’s not taking). When she and my father-in-law winter in Florida she spends her time between the beach…
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Fruits
When we built our house about 16 years ago one of the first things we did was plant trees. Israel has a scarcity of water so we did not install an irrigation system. We hand-watered the trees with a bucket…
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Portraits
When I was 7 years Miss Finnegan asked the class to produce a picture illustrating something we had done over the Christmas holidays (in Australia this was the summer holidays, an 8 week break). I had joined my brother and…
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Sunflowers
I love sunflowers. They look so hopeful. I love the way they follow the sun. It wasn’t until I moved to Israel that I saw sunflowers grown in fields. I didn’t know that people actually ate the seeds either (the…
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