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Monday, July 20, 2009

Floozy. Lydia Host daily painting a day 8x8

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You know the sort; seemingly slightly drunk at all times, stands too close in conversations, careening laughter. And yet somehow you just can't help but adore her.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Fish day. Lydia Host daily painting a day 6x6

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How exciting to paint a fish. At first I felt sorry for it, but Mary Elizabeth pointed out that we were memorializing it....so all better! Lacking any silver oil paint, it was fun to try and capture the shiny scale-y -ness of it. And, well.... its dour expression was sort of a winning point as well. hurray for the fish. L.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Welcome Home. Lydia Host daily painting a day 8x10

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what says welcome home better than a fresh bouquet of flowers on the entry way table? L.

Great Thoughts to ponder.

"We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them." (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barack Obama)

"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the Soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another to cause vibrations in the Soul." W. Kandinsky

Each day, one to the other, we produce what we can. There are good days and bad days. One can only do one's best with what one has been given. Natural form, atmosphere and design arouses, entangles, and often defeats you. From time to time there are passages of creative joy that make it all worthwhile. And tomorrow is always another day

. * The secret of the arts is to correct nature. * Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. * The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. * Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. * Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. * Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Lydia Host's Painting a day.