<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748</id><updated>2011-11-21T08:45:36.940-08:00</updated><category term='lily'/><category term='michelangelo'/><category term='acrylic'/><category term='fruit'/><category term='rossetti'/><category term='fish'/><category term='reclaimed wood'/><category term='haagan dazs'/><category term='lady clare'/><category term='art'/><category term='flower'/><category term='shabby'/><category term='monna vanna'/><category term='proserpine'/><category term='rainbow'/><category term='guard shack'/><category term='art history'/><category term='sistine chapel'/><category term='sandhill crane'/><category term='green'/><category term='flamingo'/><category term='portrait'/><category term='watercolor'/><category term='mango'/><category term='trees'/><category term='bird'/><category term='canvas'/><category term='original'/><category term='turtle beach'/><category term='delphic sibyl'/><category term='sunset'/><category term='ice cream'/><category term='vision'/><category term='van goghs room'/><category term='rossettie'/><category term='photography'/><category term='koi'/><category term='floral birthday book'/><category term='still life'/><category term='goals'/><category term='venus'/><category term='dream'/><category term='van gogh'/><category term='wip'/><category term='watercolor tips'/><category term='possiblity'/><category term='haiku'/><category term='lonny magazine'/><category term='florida'/><category term='mermaid'/><category term='preraphaelite'/><category term='pinterest'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='beachy'/><category term='old wood'/><category term='painting'/><category term='siesta key'/><category term='vincent van gogh'/><category term='floral'/><title type='text'>RedHeadArt</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-5244534360330006064</id><published>2011-10-31T19:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T19:51:29.514-07:00</updated><title type='text'>work in progress...</title><content type='html'>Bocca Baciata (the kissed mouth)... after Rossetti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ktv_yF2mXm4/Tq9eTYVKcYI/AAAAAAAAE8E/yAnYaGdoJMM/s1600/BOccaWIP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ktv_yF2mXm4/Tq9eTYVKcYI/AAAAAAAAE8E/yAnYaGdoJMM/s320/BOccaWIP.jpg" width="259" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H4wZknCbsO8/Tq9eXi60MMI/AAAAAAAAE8M/O78y9gu8mYI/s1600/s114.bmfa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H4wZknCbsO8/Tq9eXi60MMI/AAAAAAAAE8M/O78y9gu8mYI/s320/s114.bmfa.jpg" width="271" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 23px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 23px;"&gt;The inscription (in DGR's hand on a slip of paper on the back of the picture) is the last sentence in Boccaccio's&lt;i&gt;Decameron&lt;/i&gt;, Day 2, Story 7. It translates: “The kissed mouth does not lose its freshness, but renews itself like the moon”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-5244534360330006064?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/5244534360330006064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/5244534360330006064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/5244534360330006064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress.html' title='work in progress...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ktv_yF2mXm4/Tq9eTYVKcYI/AAAAAAAAE8E/yAnYaGdoJMM/s72-c/BOccaWIP.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3644714213550153992</id><published>2011-10-07T03:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T03:39:05.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'>okie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H7F1KI949mY/ToBuwuUIVjI/AAAAAAAAAOY/57-sDXhQ8_k/s1600/IMG_2626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H7F1KI949mY/ToBuwuUIVjI/AAAAAAAAAOY/57-sDXhQ8_k/s320/IMG_2626.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a69_cjocX4c/ToBuw-zOsaI/AAAAAAAAAOg/3Ut-hqgU44o/s1600/IMG_2628.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a69_cjocX4c/ToBuw-zOsaI/AAAAAAAAAOg/3Ut-hqgU44o/s320/IMG_2628.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Vu4I3r3Myo/ToBuxYI_w2I/AAAAAAAAAOs/YwUn7kvbmF4/s1600/IMG_2631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Vu4I3r3Myo/ToBuxYI_w2I/AAAAAAAAAOs/YwUn7kvbmF4/s320/IMG_2631.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9RVsGqIEd-E/ToBuzB1FedI/AAAAAAAAAO4/thQSbWmEXvU/s1600/IMG_2634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9RVsGqIEd-E/ToBuzB1FedI/AAAAAAAAAO4/thQSbWmEXvU/s320/IMG_2634.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f-5F0lBeH_8/ToBuzmWEdwI/AAAAAAAAAPE/EN0Uty_TgIo/s1600/IMG_2637.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f-5F0lBeH_8/ToBuzmWEdwI/AAAAAAAAAPE/EN0Uty_TgIo/s320/IMG_2637.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-atuXorLzYJQ/ToBu1VAhfzI/AAAAAAAAAPo/SzKb9O10Trw/s1600/IMG_2655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-atuXorLzYJQ/ToBu1VAhfzI/AAAAAAAAAPo/SzKb9O10Trw/s320/IMG_2655.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uLJvHOJsPoM/ToBu20_cOqI/AAAAAAAAAQE/lUCgRR5DFXQ/s1600/okie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uLJvHOJsPoM/ToBu20_cOqI/AAAAAAAAAQE/lUCgRR5DFXQ/s320/okie.jpg" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Okie is a greyhound that I did a portrait of a few years ago... He had on his party collar :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3644714213550153992?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3644714213550153992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/okie.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3644714213550153992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3644714213550153992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/okie.html' title='okie'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H7F1KI949mY/ToBuwuUIVjI/AAAAAAAAAOY/57-sDXhQ8_k/s72-c/IMG_2626.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3427711647859715491</id><published>2011-10-01T11:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T11:07:59.434-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who dat?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_hvfC3Y3qoM/TiMHp1733XI/AAAAAAAAABM/nSBvaMvmCuc/s1600/Mammy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_hvfC3Y3qoM/TiMHp1733XI/AAAAAAAAABM/nSBvaMvmCuc/s320/Mammy.jpg" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Who dat? I ain't never seen hair that color before. Do you know a dyed haired woman?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Good ole Hattie McDaniel from Gone with the Wind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Did you know I was named after the character Melanie from that movie... yep. i was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3427711647859715491?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3427711647859715491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-dat.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3427711647859715491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3427711647859715491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-dat.html' title='Who dat?'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_hvfC3Y3qoM/TiMHp1733XI/AAAAAAAAABM/nSBvaMvmCuc/s72-c/Mammy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-6411005995468042896</id><published>2011-09-29T04:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T04:39:02.970-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ice cream'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haagan dazs'/><title type='text'>i scream, u scream...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGWd1RYFWV0/TiMHp0RT-eI/AAAAAAAAABM/OZVZCNYtRWs/s1600/icecream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGWd1RYFWV0/TiMHp0RT-eI/AAAAAAAAABM/OZVZCNYtRWs/s320/icecream.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-6411005995468042896?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/6411005995468042896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-scream-u-scream.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/6411005995468042896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/6411005995468042896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-scream-u-scream.html' title='i scream, u scream...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGWd1RYFWV0/TiMHp0RT-eI/AAAAAAAAABM/OZVZCNYtRWs/s72-c/icecream.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3792077121780095894</id><published>2011-09-21T09:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T09:39:27.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Little guard shack</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here it is... the litle 4inch by 4inch blue guard shack :-)&lt;br&gt;I'm pretty sure that I'll need to do more research for the other guard shacks on Siesta Key... have I mentioned it's only three miles from my house? I love living here!!&lt;br&gt;Hope everyone is having a beachy day no matter where you are!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-539-DGzUfds/TnoTKnuYP1I/AAAAAAAAANg/d1D2U6ciWLg/2011-09-21%25252012.26.59_edit0.png' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3792077121780095894?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3792077121780095894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/little-guard-shack.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3792077121780095894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3792077121780095894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/little-guard-shack.html' title='Little guard shack'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-539-DGzUfds/TnoTKnuYP1I/AAAAAAAAANg/d1D2U6ciWLg/s72-c/2011-09-21%25252012.26.59_edit0.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-4312285469025490988</id><published>2011-09-20T04:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T04:14:25.434-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guard shack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='siesta key'/><title type='text'>research required</title><content type='html'>I had a request to paint the blue guard shack at Siesta Key Beach... so of course, I had to do a little research! What a lovely way to spend a morning...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8vvE-vnVUbY/Tnh03Z1o00I/AAAAAAAAANc/wCJgmEKolL4/s1600/IMG_5017.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8vvE-vnVUbY/Tnh03Z1o00I/AAAAAAAAANc/wCJgmEKolL4/s320/IMG_5017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654397827341144898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-peaulf0VJ-I/Tnh03BkOLCI/AAAAAAAAANU/oFYAnj2T76o/s1600/IMG_5018.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-peaulf0VJ-I/Tnh03BkOLCI/AAAAAAAAANU/oFYAnj2T76o/s320/IMG_5018.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654397820825644066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;That's the red guard shack... I'll paint it too eventually :) I've already painted the yellow one - there is a green one too... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These folks were all doing yoga on the beach - now THAT's a way to start a day! wow! Exercising on the beach - that makes exercising bearable! ha!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77lF1Hi4XrA/Tnh024LVqbI/AAAAAAAAANM/WxBmFNGhWYM/s1600/IMG_5012.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77lF1Hi4XrA/Tnh024LVqbI/AAAAAAAAANM/WxBmFNGhWYM/s320/IMG_5012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654397818305358258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDzTGkoUTUk/Tnh02lgYwpI/AAAAAAAAANE/CHRcKaBV1no/s1600/IMG_5005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDzTGkoUTUk/Tnh02lgYwpI/AAAAAAAAANE/CHRcKaBV1no/s320/IMG_5005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654397813293367954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Everything looks so stunning next to the white sand...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eghdbBOCtkU/Tnh02IefuKI/AAAAAAAAAM8/r7x8Tl7hwFk/s1600/IMG_5009.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eghdbBOCtkU/Tnh02IefuKI/AAAAAAAAAM8/r7x8Tl7hwFk/s320/IMG_5009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654397805500807330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-4312285469025490988?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/4312285469025490988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/research-required.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4312285469025490988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4312285469025490988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/research-required.html' title='research required'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8vvE-vnVUbY/Tnh03Z1o00I/AAAAAAAAANc/wCJgmEKolL4/s72-c/IMG_5017.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-4538973238859307226</id><published>2011-09-15T19:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T19:38:19.261-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mermaid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reclaimed wood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>The Mermaid</title><content type='html'>I'll let the pictures do the talking today :)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WoMRGy4Ax5M/TnK2aVHQdqI/AAAAAAAAAM0/IRxj7zWIJw8/s1600/IMG_4986.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WoMRGy4Ax5M/TnK2aVHQdqI/AAAAAAAAAM0/IRxj7zWIJw8/s200/IMG_4986.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652781045763831458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_P5rf144SzE/TnK2S5hLiGI/AAAAAAAAAMs/iclYDcjnXeU/s1600/IMG_4988.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_P5rf144SzE/TnK2S5hLiGI/AAAAAAAAAMs/iclYDcjnXeU/s200/IMG_4988.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780918097283170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W7f1ipCYnFE/TnK2SZJafUI/AAAAAAAAAMk/E637fuzn7VU/s1600/IMG_4989.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W7f1ipCYnFE/TnK2SZJafUI/AAAAAAAAAMk/E637fuzn7VU/s200/IMG_4989.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780909407665474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LRIzZK3RR7s/TnK2SGj_ZBI/AAAAAAAAAMc/XZl_UsZJiD0/s1600/IMG_4991.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LRIzZK3RR7s/TnK2SGj_ZBI/AAAAAAAAAMc/XZl_UsZJiD0/s200/IMG_4991.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780904418862098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqdY-O9Lwfk/TnK2R7r99kI/AAAAAAAAAMU/pxhAHW1CP5I/s1600/IMG_4994.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqdY-O9Lwfk/TnK2R7r99kI/AAAAAAAAAMU/pxhAHW1CP5I/s200/IMG_4994.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780901499532866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PFiboFCvHGk/TnK2Rg5nmVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/ws8AUixTCCY/s1600/IMG_4995.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 104px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PFiboFCvHGk/TnK2Rg5nmVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/ws8AUixTCCY/s200/IMG_4995.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780894309030226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LuaSA90BhTs/TnK12PynjRI/AAAAAAAAAME/i8Fgy_02r7g/s1600/IMG_4997.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LuaSA90BhTs/TnK12PynjRI/AAAAAAAAAME/i8Fgy_02r7g/s200/IMG_4997.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780425859796242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MDon9xHlq_c/TnK11_99MRI/AAAAAAAAAL8/BQPskaknVoY/s1600/IMG_4998.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 82px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MDon9xHlq_c/TnK11_99MRI/AAAAAAAAAL8/BQPskaknVoY/s200/IMG_4998.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780421612384530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tz9pcyHWygw/TnK11i-oQkI/AAAAAAAAAL0/beUFj23HIZY/s1600/IMG_4999.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 118px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tz9pcyHWygw/TnK11i-oQkI/AAAAAAAAAL0/beUFj23HIZY/s200/IMG_4999.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780413830578754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W20yXXG23nI/TnK11Q03ZUI/AAAAAAAAALs/0LkazbQhw-I/s1600/IMG_5000.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W20yXXG23nI/TnK11Q03ZUI/AAAAAAAAALs/0LkazbQhw-I/s200/IMG_5000.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780408957789506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WXZBlsEjtjY/TnK11P5wrKI/AAAAAAAAALk/TMi96fQw72A/s1600/IMG_5001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 126px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WXZBlsEjtjY/TnK11P5wrKI/AAAAAAAAALk/TMi96fQw72A/s200/IMG_5001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652780408709885090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-4538973238859307226?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/4538973238859307226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/mermaid.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4538973238859307226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4538973238859307226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/mermaid.html' title='The Mermaid'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WoMRGy4Ax5M/TnK2aVHQdqI/AAAAAAAAAM0/IRxj7zWIJw8/s72-c/IMG_4986.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-8434367686836188725</id><published>2011-09-14T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T14:29:52.258-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lonny magazine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pinterest'/><title type='text'>true confessions...</title><content type='html'>i have been working and painting. a lot.&lt;div&gt;but today?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i have spent most of it drooling over this website and online magazine:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.lonnymag.com/images/home/janissue.jpg" alt="Current issue" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;www.lonnymag.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i L O V E that couch. and those pillows. and well, pretty much everything in the whole magazine. anyway, if you are into decor, don't say you haven't been warned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i found it on pinterest. another favorite (&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;timewaster)&lt;/span&gt; site of mine. You can find my boards here:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;http://pinterest.com/redheadart/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i promise to post my art soon! promise!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;hope all you gals (guys?) are having a fab time of it out there in blogger world :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i'm off to decorate something.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-8434367686836188725?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/8434367686836188725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/true-confessions.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8434367686836188725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8434367686836188725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/true-confessions.html' title='true confessions...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-1671941235041288271</id><published>2011-09-05T04:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T04:19:58.314-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandhill crane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bird'/><title type='text'>good intentions...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;do not make posts :)&lt;div&gt;Wow, can't believe I haven't posted since August 22nd! Where o where have I been?!?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Working! It's not for lack of painting - which is not something that I can always say ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, anyway - enough with the excuses... Since it's labor day, I thought I would share a couple of paintings with red,white and blue. These are a pair of Sandhill Cranes I painted in acrylic. They are birds commonly seen here in Florida - usually in pairs. They mate for life. There is a lovely couple that hang around the mall not far from me. They are very large birds - quite intimidating!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WUTKr8HKP_I/TmSwDGIbQ-I/AAAAAAAAAKw/5cENoBOta-8/s320/sandhill.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648833399861494754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Labor Day to one and all!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-1671941235041288271?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/1671941235041288271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-intentions.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1671941235041288271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1671941235041288271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-intentions.html' title='good intentions...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WUTKr8HKP_I/TmSwDGIbQ-I/AAAAAAAAAKw/5cENoBOta-8/s72-c/sandhill.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7111553638948675821</id><published>2011-08-22T04:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T04:45:12.201-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='florida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flamingo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canvas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bird'/><title type='text'>1001 Flamingos</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I started painting little 4x4 &lt;a href="http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/proud-little-flamingos.html"&gt;flamingos&lt;/a&gt; a few weeks ago...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lgecg2zJ8kQ/TlI5oE-wxSI/AAAAAAAAAJs/kkgFm2V8i3M/s320/IMG_4868.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643636643743188258" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F_K8oV8KUNU/TlI5n1JUeNI/AAAAAAAAAJk/tmvGApcGVXc/s320/IMG_4870.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643636639492503762" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I painted four of them - and couldn't come up with names - so I named them Flamingo #1, Flamingo #2, Flamingo #3.... you get the idea. Not very original - but it works! So my husband commented on the name - and I said, "yeah, I'm going to paint a thousand of them - a thousand and one." He laughed... and my creative brain said "YES! That's a great idea!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, why not? I've got the rest of my life, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1001 Flamingos it is then... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Numbers 1-4 are already sold. These are only $14.99!! Soon I hope to give them there own little blog and post them as I do them... but until then, here is where they shall live :) Unless they want to come live with you!  Here are numbers 5 though 8... I am on number 15 right now... have a long way to go - but I think that's the fun of it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7o9gb8-eTB8/TlJA2cXNGAI/AAAAAAAAAKk/DWlp6hfe3xA/s1600/f8.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7o9gb8-eTB8/TlJA2cXNGAI/AAAAAAAAAKk/DWlp6hfe3xA/s320/f8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643644587119286274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyX_6pgX2vg/TlJA10-mJGI/AAAAAAAAAKc/4LjQGrRNKnE/s1600/f7.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyX_6pgX2vg/TlJA10-mJGI/AAAAAAAAAKc/4LjQGrRNKnE/s320/f7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643644576547087458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qCNC8PoYrT8/TlJA1nNn6HI/AAAAAAAAAKU/PemToI3Df7E/s1600/f6.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qCNC8PoYrT8/TlJA1nNn6HI/AAAAAAAAAKU/PemToI3Df7E/s320/f6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643644572852021362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jXbw2igvGbY/TlJA1csrLFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/QTbJKXLNMsg/s1600/f5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jXbw2igvGbY/TlJA1csrLFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/QTbJKXLNMsg/s320/f5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643644570029468754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7111553638948675821?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7111553638948675821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/1001-flamingos.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7111553638948675821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7111553638948675821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/1001-flamingos.html' title='1001 Flamingos'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lgecg2zJ8kQ/TlI5oE-wxSI/AAAAAAAAAJs/kkgFm2V8i3M/s72-c/IMG_4868.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3001734013421594185</id><published>2011-08-17T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-17T11:13:36.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michelangelo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='delphic sibyl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sistine chapel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art history'/><title type='text'>a little art history...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REXs3ybZP58/TkwEhB-x6CI/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ru7Od0eIufg/s1600/2011-08-17%2B06.58.24_edit0.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REXs3ybZP58/TkwEhB-x6CI/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ru7Od0eIufg/s320/2011-08-17%2B06.58.24_edit0.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641889398702336034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;(my sketch of the Delphic Sibyl from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally got up from my chair (see last post) and figured out who the figure was that I had painted from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel... She is (drumroll....)&lt;div&gt;The Delphic Sybil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;huh?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yeah, I didn't know either - so I did a little research. She is one of five "sibyls" in the Sistine. 'Sibyl' is word meaning Prophetess. The five depicted on the chapel ceiling are heralded as having prophesied about the death of Christ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Youngest and loveliest of the five sibyls, Delphica sits in a pose suggested by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_della_Quercia"&gt;Jacopo della Quercia's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;Prudence&lt;/i&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Italic" border="0" class="gl_italic" /&gt; which then still stood alongside the central basin of the Fonte Gaia in the principal square of Siena.  She adjoins the Judith spandral, the symbol of Mary's triumph, and not unnaturally is developed from Michelangelo's early Madonna's... She shares with Greek tradition only her Apollonian beauty.  In reality the meaning of the image is based, as in the other sibyls, on the little book by Filippo Barbieri dedicated to Sixtus IV, builder of the Sistine Chapel, that was surely available to Cardinal Vigerio and to Michelangelo.  Barbieri tells us that Delphica, guided by the Holy Spirit, wrote many poems about the Incarnation, the Virgin Birth, the Passion, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.  Not by accident, therefore, she is not only Madonna-like but placed directly below the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.famous-painters.org/Michelangelo-paintings/The-Drunkenness-of-Noah.shtm"&gt;Drunkenness of Noah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; which foreshadows the death of Christ as the planting of the vine does His daily resurrection in the Eucharist."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How fascinating!! I wish I could read that little book by Filippo Barbieri!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a list of all the prophets/prophetesses on the ceiling: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 240); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Jonah, Jeremiah, Persian Sibyl, Ezekiel, Erythraean Sibyl, Joel, Zechariah, Delphic Sibyl, Isaiah, Cumaean Sibyl, Daniel, Libyan Sibyl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 240); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 240); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One day, Michelangelo and I will have some real time together in that Chapel... one day :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 240); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(The quoted info is an excerpt from my Michelangelo tome of a book... titled, of course, Michelangelo. The text is by Frederick Hartt)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3001734013421594185?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3001734013421594185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/little-art-history.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3001734013421594185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3001734013421594185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/little-art-history.html' title='a little art history...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REXs3ybZP58/TkwEhB-x6CI/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ru7Od0eIufg/s72-c/2011-08-17%2B06.58.24_edit0.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-4864257818159601311</id><published>2011-08-17T04:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-17T04:12:25.947-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Michelangelo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I figured since Van Gogh and I spent some time together, I should maybe spend a little time with Michelangelo too.. Gotta keep things even you know :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a sketch from one of the figures in the Sistine Chapel. I have a giant book on Michelangelo - and there is a wonderful closeup of this beauty... I can't remember who she is right now and I'm too comfortable in my current chair to go into the next room and find out!&lt;br&gt;I am totally happy with the way she came out. I love this sketch journal paper... it's Canson Mix-Media "XL" if you are interested... I got the 9x12 but they make all diferent sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I love being able to blog from my PHONE! I do hope the photographs are looking okay?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1oad4PxrX_w/TkugCeM05zI/AAAAAAAAAIY/I5zgwGJt_no/2011-08-17%25252006.58.24_edit0.png' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-4864257818159601311?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/4864257818159601311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/michelangelo.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4864257818159601311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4864257818159601311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/michelangelo.html' title='Michelangelo'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1oad4PxrX_w/TkugCeM05zI/AAAAAAAAAIY/I5zgwGJt_no/s72-c/2011-08-17%25252006.58.24_edit0.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-1837343912633951851</id><published>2011-08-16T19:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T19:07:44.576-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='van gogh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait'/><title type='text'>Van Gogh again..</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had to blog him just once more... I am very proud of this litle painting.&lt;br&gt;It's a 6x6 in acrylic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-VJLDddCEniM/Tksh_A3NZaI/AAAAAAAAAII/SMQROBQE3VE/3982932763460240133.png' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-1837343912633951851?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/1837343912633951851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/van-gogh-again.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1837343912633951851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1837343912633951851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/van-gogh-again.html' title='Van Gogh again..'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-VJLDddCEniM/Tksh_A3NZaI/AAAAAAAAAII/SMQROBQE3VE/s72-c/3982932763460240133.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-643764317820565767</id><published>2011-08-16T04:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T04:14:19.994-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vision'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream'/><title type='text'>in process...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oQmpT6gpDDM/TkpQ9n1b3II/AAAAAAAAAHQ/sP8AkXo3MmY/s1600/Sprout02_06_07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oQmpT6gpDDM/TkpQ9n1b3II/AAAAAAAAAHQ/sP8AkXo3MmY/s320/Sprout02_06_07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641410502830316674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been processing some thoughts about my business - exactly &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; my business is - what I &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; it to be and where I'd like it to go... I guess I've been in the process of creating myself - then re-creating myself! and perhaps a few more times before it's all said and done. (do we ever really stop? I hope not!)&lt;div&gt;One thing I know for sure - without a somewhat clear vision of what you want and where you want to go - you'll NEVER get there... I know this from very real experience. You see, I am not a planner. I am not a goal-setter by nature (is anyone? i dont know). And so for most of my life - I've just kinda trotted along - sorta, kinda having a dream of where I'd like to go - but never really making a concrete action plan to get there. I fully believe in what being &lt;i&gt;intentiona&lt;/i&gt;l can do for your life, for your dreams. I've seen this in action as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Right now I am still working on the 'somewhat clear vision'. Bear with me :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today I will invest my time in progress, growth and joy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;"To follow, without halt, one aim:  There's the secret of success.: - Anna Pavlova&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;"The formula for success is simple:  Do your best and someone might like it." -Marva Collins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-643764317820565767?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/643764317820565767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-process.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/643764317820565767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/643764317820565767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-process.html' title='in process...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oQmpT6gpDDM/TkpQ9n1b3II/AAAAAAAAAHQ/sP8AkXo3MmY/s72-c/Sprout02_06_07.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7192722429358951410</id><published>2011-08-04T11:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T11:48:08.162-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vincent van gogh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait'/><title type='text'>Fou-Roux</title><content type='html'>Van Gogh and I spent some valuable time together today...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOaFKi-Qv2c/TjrksFYF_qI/AAAAAAAAAGg/PrMhTykXHI0/s320/fouroux.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637069329616207522" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30kSH2QATbQ/TjrksufK5zI/AAAAAAAAAGo/u9B5pELKVzQ/s1600/VincentVanGogh.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30kSH2QATbQ/TjrksufK5zI/AAAAAAAAAGo/u9B5pELKVzQ/s320/VincentVanGogh.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637069340651743026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and what we figured out is that acrylics are a very forgiving medium and quite addicting. I think I might be stuck on them for a while... though, not to worry - watercolor will always be my first love. Anyway, my second favorite artist in the world (&lt;a href="http://watercolorcarol.blogspot.com/"&gt;Carol Carter&lt;/a&gt;) is visiting Sarasota in November to teach a watercolor class!! I can't even begin to tell you how excited this makes me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The painting of Van Gogh is affectionately titled 'Fou-Roux' - taken from a nick name he was given... but you'll have to read "&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lust-Life-Irving-Stone/dp/0452262496/ref=pd_luc_bxgy_02_01_t_lh"&gt;Lust for Life&lt;/a&gt;" - a novel about Van Gogh by Irving Stone to get the whole story. It's a wonderful read if your interested in Van Gogh. It was very defining for me personally and made me fall madly in love with his paintings. I think I might be a little looney like ol' Fou-Roux... but not &lt;i&gt;quite&lt;/i&gt; as crazy as he ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I stumbled across a new book that looks equally as fascinating. I think I'm going to order it. It's called '&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400068797/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;m=ATVPDKIKX0DER"&gt;Leaving Van Gogh&lt;/a&gt;' by Carol Wallace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;p class="bodymain" style="text-align: center;font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;"but one can't do everything one wants just like that. It will come little by little."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="bodymain" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;-Van Gogh (speaking about his displeasure in his own watercolour paintings)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7192722429358951410?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7192722429358951410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/fou-roux.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7192722429358951410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7192722429358951410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/08/fou-roux.html' title='Fou-Roux'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOaFKi-Qv2c/TjrksFYF_qI/AAAAAAAAAGg/PrMhTykXHI0/s72-c/fouroux.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-8753941916408097861</id><published>2011-07-29T05:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T05:59:47.300-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='florida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flamingo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canvas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>Proud Little Flamingos</title><content type='html'>I am still playing with acrylics - and learning so much... it seems like the medium has finally 'clicked' for me and I am finally happy with the results of my efforts. But there is always more to learn - painting is a constant challenge - which I believe is one of the reasons I will never stop!&lt;br /&gt;I painted these little flamingos on small 4x4 canvases.&lt;br /&gt;I am quite proud of the little buggers!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sQxZIz3qmTU/TjKueuMV7QI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Sw6DHP84bEc/s1600/IMG_4869.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sQxZIz3qmTU/TjKueuMV7QI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Sw6DHP84bEc/s320/IMG_4869.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634757926613019906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RKz9K4mWySQ/TjKueEHzffI/AAAAAAAAAGA/2Nf0AnxEwMU/s1600/IMG_4871.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RKz9K4mWySQ/TjKueEHzffI/AAAAAAAAAGA/2Nf0AnxEwMU/s320/IMG_4871.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634757915319696882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IfDnIdHRabU/TjKud1CbCCI/AAAAAAAAAF4/18Uzm3b76S4/s1600/IMG_4870.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IfDnIdHRabU/TjKud1CbCCI/AAAAAAAAAF4/18Uzm3b76S4/s320/IMG_4870.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634757911270590498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e4XVSO_7wLM/TjKudpTpLHI/AAAAAAAAAFw/IdoHeyaUGqc/s1600/IMG_4872.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e4XVSO_7wLM/TjKudpTpLHI/AAAAAAAAAFw/IdoHeyaUGqc/s320/IMG_4872.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634757908121594994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nEY3GfTiX4g/TjKudYx9p2I/AAAAAAAAAFo/37Eg6QgMtb0/s1600/IMG_4868.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nEY3GfTiX4g/TjKudYx9p2I/AAAAAAAAAFo/37Eg6QgMtb0/s320/IMG_4868.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634757903685363554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-8753941916408097861?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/8753941916408097861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/proud-little-flamingos.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8753941916408097861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8753941916408097861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/proud-little-flamingos.html' title='Proud Little Flamingos'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sQxZIz3qmTU/TjKueuMV7QI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Sw6DHP84bEc/s72-c/IMG_4869.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7830306659585886549</id><published>2011-07-25T18:31:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T18:44:56.420-07:00</updated><title type='text'>more acrylic...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and more nautical!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was feeling a little crabby ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RsKFPNlcwzk/Ti4ZWoC73-I/AAAAAAAAAFg/QAPkvk1L6CA/s1600/IMG_4850.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RsKFPNlcwzk/Ti4ZWoC73-I/AAAAAAAAAFg/QAPkvk1L6CA/s320/IMG_4850.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633468060384616418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A2UylZbktTM/Ti4ZWYky8fI/AAAAAAAAAFY/kiI8FgjWEPQ/s1600/IMG_4849.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A2UylZbktTM/Ti4ZWYky8fI/AAAAAAAAAFY/kiI8FgjWEPQ/s320/IMG_4849.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633468056231670258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U6w_ys8KJ1c/Ti4ZWOmY1NI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/iUnlwTi8fn8/s1600/IMG_4848.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U6w_ys8KJ1c/Ti4ZWOmY1NI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/iUnlwTi8fn8/s320/IMG_4848.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633468053553992914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wLV8yekk_tg/Ti4ZV61sw4I/AAAAAAAAAFI/SbRyWnqqMkI/s1600/IMG_4847.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 153px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wLV8yekk_tg/Ti4ZV61sw4I/AAAAAAAAAFI/SbRyWnqqMkI/s320/IMG_4847.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633468048249504642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7830306659585886549?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7830306659585886549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-acrylic.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7830306659585886549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7830306659585886549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-acrylic.html' title='more acrylic...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RsKFPNlcwzk/Ti4ZWoC73-I/AAAAAAAAAFg/QAPkvk1L6CA/s72-c/IMG_4850.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-72584688491666524</id><published>2011-07-21T18:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-21T18:34:34.058-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old wood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>fresh catch :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xB8XGdCkIY/TijTUxMwbAI/AAAAAAAAAFA/vSN8stCvOqY/s1600/MepaintingFish.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xB8XGdCkIY/TijTUxMwbAI/AAAAAAAAAFA/vSN8stCvOqY/s320/MepaintingFish.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631983687784492034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-chjtvJCNuh8/TijTUmu4ssI/AAAAAAAAAE4/7uQFUBfQGGE/s1600/IMG_4841.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 136px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-chjtvJCNuh8/TijTUmu4ssI/AAAAAAAAAE4/7uQFUBfQGGE/s320/IMG_4841.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631983684974850754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;acrylic on old wood board :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-72584688491666524?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/72584688491666524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/fresh-catch.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/72584688491666524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/72584688491666524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/fresh-catch.html' title='fresh catch :)'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xB8XGdCkIY/TijTUxMwbAI/AAAAAAAAAFA/vSN8stCvOqY/s72-c/MepaintingFish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-122147045685272186</id><published>2011-07-18T05:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T17:42:33.088-07:00</updated><title type='text'>what i'm working on...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;And what I should be working on? My messy desk! Oh well... I suppose there is always time for that:-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that when I begin a painting, I want things nice, clean and organized. But during the work things tend to get completely out of order. I think its all part of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wTWSjRWoS8g/TiTS72f56wI/AAAAAAAAAD4/D97ByATrNe4/2011-07-18%25252008.53.25.png' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-122147045685272186?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/122147045685272186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-i-working-on.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/122147045685272186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/122147045685272186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-i-working-on.html' title='what i&amp;#39;m working on...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12016046848612849874</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wTWSjRWoS8g/TiTS72f56wI/AAAAAAAAAD4/D97ByATrNe4/s72-c/2011-07-18%25252008.53.25.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2421644940909286789</id><published>2011-07-15T11:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T11:35:43.403-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='van goghs room'/><title type='text'>I did it!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Van Gogh's Room is open for business y'all... its even got a blog and everything ;) Check it out!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://vangoghsroomblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://vangoghsroomblog.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2421644940909286789?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2421644940909286789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-did-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2421644940909286789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2421644940909286789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-did-it.html' title='I did it!'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-521174116329438941</id><published>2011-07-12T06:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T06:01:42.071-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fruit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><title type='text'>Morning Pair</title><content type='html'>does not include a pear :)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbGsAeSvUT4/ThxD0-k9ImI/AAAAAAAABdk/-bEWl8t7cPc/s1600/MorningPair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="313" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbGsAeSvUT4/ThxD0-k9ImI/AAAAAAAABdk/-bEWl8t7cPc/s320/MorningPair.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I have been going back through some photos of my watercolors and it really strikes me that a lot of my watercolors don't look like watercolors at all! I suppose it has to do with never having had a lesson. I just painted in my own way, figuring it out as I went along. This caused so many frustrations for me over the years (#%!!+&amp;lt;((%***!) but was totally worth it now that I look back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I had to give the biggest tip on what I've learned along the way? Use the best paper your money can buy. It makes the biggest difference, hands down. I remember the first time I painted on Arches 300lb paper - it's like everything in the world all of a sudden made sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then use the best paint. It too makes a huge difference...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paintbrushes? I don't know - maybe it's because I started out using inexpensive ones - I've tried some fairly expensive sable's and I just prefer my little squirrel hair brushes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's your best tip?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-521174116329438941?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/521174116329438941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/morning-pair.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/521174116329438941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/521174116329438941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/morning-pair.html' title='Morning Pair'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbGsAeSvUT4/ThxD0-k9ImI/AAAAAAAABdk/-bEWl8t7cPc/s72-c/MorningPair.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-8077896879736960806</id><published>2011-07-11T07:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T07:03:47.851-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My new thing...</title><content type='html'>Here's my newest project - something I am very excited about!&lt;br /&gt;I am opening up a little space inside a shop that has many vendors- There is everything from antiques to light fixtures to vintage clothing to art. This is so exciting for me because my interests and creativity are so varied - It allows me to branch outside of just producing watercolors - which I love! But I also love hunting for/finding/recreating an old piece of furniture into something wonderful and new.&lt;br /&gt;This Friday is my move-in day - so I am little, well, nuts! If I am sparsely seen around here in blogger world, you'll know why :)&lt;br /&gt;My little shop name is the icing on the cake! It's called (drum roll....) "Van Gogh's Room"! I thought this was so appropriate because number one - I am slightly obsessed with Van Gogh - number two - he was an artist, but I think also a latent decorator - here is his description of his little room in the Yellow House that he wrote to his brother:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My dear Theo,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;At last I can send you a little sketch to give you     at least an idea of the way the work is shaping up. For today I     am all right again.&lt;label&gt; My eyes are still tired&lt;/label&gt; but then I had     a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it. Another size 30     canvas.&lt;a class="dottedunderline" href=""&gt; &lt;b&gt;This time it's just simply my bedroom&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;,     only here colour is to do everything, and giving by its     simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive     here of &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking     at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the     imagination.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The walls are pale violet. The floor is of red tiles.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The wood of the bed and chairs is the yellow of fresh     butter, the sheets and pillows very light greenish-citron.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The coverlet scarlet. The window green.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The toilet table orange, the basin blue.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The doors lilac.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And that is all - there is nothing in this room with its     closed shutters.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The squareness of the furniture again must express     inviolable rest. Portraits on the walls, and a mirror and a     towel and some clothes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The frame - as there is no white in the picture - will be     white.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This by way of revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged     to take.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I shall work on it again all day, but you see how simple the     conception is. The shadows and the cast shadows are suppressed;     it is painted in free flat tints like the Japanese prints. It     is going to be a contrast to, for instance, the Tarascon     diligence and the night café.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am not writing you a long letter, because tomorrow very     early I am going to begin in the cool morning light, so as to     finish my canvas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;label&gt;How are the pains - don't forget to tell me about them.&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I know that you will write one of these days.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I will make you sketches of the other rooms too someday.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;With a good handshake.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ever yours, Vincent&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love his descriptions - so full of color and life - just like his paintings... It's all related - and that is why I chose the name for my little space. Being able to be creative in all these varied ways rests and exhilarates my brain. Thank you Vincent :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98u2yaG2Ax4/ThsCeLF_2CI/AAAAAAAABdU/XpziNq9cVjA/s1600/VGRSketchLogoTags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="236" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98u2yaG2Ax4/ThsCeLF_2CI/AAAAAAAABdU/XpziNq9cVjA/s320/VGRSketchLogoTags.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ever yours, with a good handshake....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-8077896879736960806?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/8077896879736960806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-new-thing.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8077896879736960806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8077896879736960806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-new-thing.html' title='My new thing...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98u2yaG2Ax4/ThsCeLF_2CI/AAAAAAAABdU/XpziNq9cVjA/s72-c/VGRSketchLogoTags.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-5303962365950585034</id><published>2011-07-09T20:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T20:41:37.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>footprints... some black and white photography...</title><content type='html'>"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." -M. Scott Peck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuRwv8NsKsg/ThkfLi6WB9I/AAAAAAAABdQ/mxzuWd2CS20/s1600/footprints.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuRwv8NsKsg/ThkfLi6WB9I/AAAAAAAABdQ/mxzuWd2CS20/s320/footprints.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;footprints&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-5303962365950585034?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/5303962365950585034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/footprints-some-black-and-white.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/5303962365950585034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/5303962365950585034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/footprints-some-black-and-white.html' title='footprints... some black and white photography...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuRwv8NsKsg/ThkfLi6WB9I/AAAAAAAABdQ/mxzuWd2CS20/s72-c/footprints.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-770121384015228072</id><published>2011-07-06T15:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-06T15:11:53.327-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haiku'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turtle beach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunset'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rainbow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>my creation for today?</title><content type='html'>a haiku:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Golden Glimmer Sun&lt;br /&gt;falling beneath the ocean&lt;br /&gt;destiny begun &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJWG7iCyXMk/ThTc8QaYe4I/AAAAAAAABcw/vx8tZQ2lkCA/s1600/IMG_4530.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbGX3iRmL-s/ThTdivE_gvI/AAAAAAAABc0/wMY-Nh6569Y/s1600/IMG_4521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbGX3iRmL-s/ThTdivE_gvI/AAAAAAAABc0/wMY-Nh6569Y/s320/IMG_4521.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SZ6fBT5E1ag/ThTcpHfdY3I/AAAAAAAABcs/P2IUjZ4UQUw/s1600/IMG_4544.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SZ6fBT5E1ag/ThTcpHfdY3I/AAAAAAAABcs/P2IUjZ4UQUw/s320/IMG_4544.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and maybe one more:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seeing the Rainbow&lt;br /&gt;she saw the colors set free&lt;br /&gt;loosed into her Heart&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-770121384015228072?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/770121384015228072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-creation-for-today.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/770121384015228072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/770121384015228072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-creation-for-today.html' title='my creation for today?'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbGX3iRmL-s/ThTdivE_gvI/AAAAAAAABc0/wMY-Nh6569Y/s72-c/IMG_4521.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-1973893244353465516</id><published>2011-07-05T10:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T10:30:07.384-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shabby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old wood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beachy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='venus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>The Pearl</title><content type='html'>I stayed up half the night listening to fireworks (not by choice, mind you) so I decided to paint. I made a good start on this beauty and was able to finish her this morning after a quick trip to the ocean to search for seashells... I found one perfect olive (i call them periwinkle's because my dad does too.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't be more pleased with the way she looks - a real beauty. That old board was calling for her, methinks... Botticelli and Venus gave me a bit of inspiration...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4SZPRy4SKGs/ThNG9bS8OtI/AAAAAAAABcc/TBvz1O_Hwl4/s1600/periwinkle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="138" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4SZPRy4SKGs/ThNG9bS8OtI/AAAAAAAABcc/TBvz1O_Hwl4/s320/periwinkle.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;a perfect olive shell&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BBwWJ1TfXlA/ThNJ-oqMRiI/AAAAAAAABck/IysbzKitvjM/s1600/Pearl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BBwWJ1TfXlA/ThNJ-oqMRiI/AAAAAAAABck/IysbzKitvjM/s320/Pearl.jpg" width="92" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Pearl ~ Acrylic on Recycled Old Wood&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-1973893244353465516?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/1973893244353465516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/pearl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1973893244353465516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/1973893244353465516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/pearl.html' title='The Pearl'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4SZPRy4SKGs/ThNG9bS8OtI/AAAAAAAABcc/TBvz1O_Hwl4/s72-c/periwinkle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7514581052507011305</id><published>2011-07-04T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T13:10:25.545-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='koi'/><title type='text'>Red, White and Blue</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YGIPznzKJdw/ThH9WCf7UaI/AAAAAAAABcY/3Rkbh5q9lCI/s1600/2Koi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YGIPznzKJdw/ThH9WCf7UaI/AAAAAAAABcY/3Rkbh5q9lCI/s320/2Koi.jpg" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;2 Koi ~ Watercolor ~ 16x20&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Without even thinking about it - I painted this last night with the perfect 4th color combo - Red, White and Blue! It doesn't exactly have an American theme - but, hey, there are plenty of koi ponds here too! Ha! &lt;br /&gt;Red and Blue are my two favorite colors to put together - Especially a cool/hot combo like the two in this painting. I haven't painted koi in a long time - it was a nice relaxing painting - and a bigger one than I have painted in a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7514581052507011305?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7514581052507011305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-white-and-blue.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7514581052507011305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7514581052507011305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-white-and-blue.html' title='Red, White and Blue'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YGIPznzKJdw/ThH9WCf7UaI/AAAAAAAABcY/3Rkbh5q9lCI/s72-c/2Koi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3033124581366889255</id><published>2011-06-27T08:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-27T08:08:11.254-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='proserpine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rossettie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preraphaelite'/><title type='text'>Pining for Proserpine</title><content type='html'>My internet presence will be sporadic this week - I have a dear friend coming to town for a visit. We'll be seeing all the fabulous things to see here in Sarasota, so I am sure to have some wonderful photographs to share.&lt;br /&gt;Until I am back to 'normal' (what?) I was thinking of revisiting this painting again in a larger format soon - it's a Rossetti (love.) The title is 'Proserpine' (google for more info...)&lt;br /&gt;I did a little teeny-tiny study of it a couple of years ago but would love to revisit it with some room on the paper...&lt;br /&gt;The model here for Rossetti was Jane Morris - wife of William Morris. I believe Rossetti had quite an infatuation with her.. and I can understand why. I have always loved the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, but I am only beginning to study the artists/models/movement... it's absolutely fascinating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow. I just went on a hunt for my original picture of the study I did on Proserpine - this was back in August of 2007. Four years ago. How did that happen? I was just starting to paint and blog seriously - so much has happened since that time. In many ways, I feel I was a better painter then - I wasn't so concerned about what the outcome might be - I was just painting. I am happy to report that after going around a few bends in life, I feel I am coming back to that point - painting for love and love only... or what is the point?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my sweet little study of Proserpine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FFfEFlKe58Y/TgibdSmIefI/AAAAAAAABcU/JTBtCvippQw/s1600/pers_progress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FFfEFlKe58Y/TgibdSmIefI/AAAAAAAABcU/JTBtCvippQw/s200/pers_progress.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ahhzsXWLI-I/TgibdGtepKI/AAAAAAAABcQ/U4aGDwE5gkw/s1600/pers_completeprogress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ahhzsXWLI-I/TgibdGtepKI/AAAAAAAABcQ/U4aGDwE5gkw/s200/pers_completeprogress.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wGe0FoKXDb8/TgibcoIchcI/AAAAAAAABcM/CA_EtbanEjo/s1600/pers_complete2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wGe0FoKXDb8/TgibcoIchcI/AAAAAAAABcM/CA_EtbanEjo/s200/pers_complete2.jpg" width="141" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It doesn't look like watercolor, does it? Wow. Go me! I really love this. I wish I still had it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;'&lt;i&gt;Woe me for thee, unhappy Proserpine&lt;/i&gt;'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="poetry"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Afar away the light that brings cold cheer &lt;br /&gt;Unto this wall, - one instant and no more &lt;br /&gt;Admitted at my distant palace-door &lt;br /&gt;Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear &lt;br /&gt;Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here. &lt;br /&gt;Afar those skies from this Tartarean grey &lt;br /&gt;That chills me: and afar how far away, &lt;br /&gt;The nights that shall become the days that were.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="poetry"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing&lt;br /&gt;Strange ways in thought, and listenfor a sign:&lt;br /&gt;And still some heart unto some soul doth pine,&lt;br /&gt;O, Whose sounds mine inner sense in fain to bring,&lt;br /&gt;Continually together murmuring)  —&lt;br /&gt;'Woe me for thee, unhappy Proserpine'.&lt;br /&gt;— D. G. Rossetti&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3033124581366889255?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3033124581366889255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/pining-for-proserpine.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3033124581366889255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3033124581366889255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/pining-for-proserpine.html' title='Pining for Proserpine'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FFfEFlKe58Y/TgibdSmIefI/AAAAAAAABcU/JTBtCvippQw/s72-c/pers_progress.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-566416143100074669</id><published>2011-06-24T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-24T13:02:03.972-07:00</updated><title type='text'>welcome summer...</title><content type='html'>Whew! It's a hot one y'all! Must be summer...&lt;br /&gt;I don't think this fella is feeling the heat today - I think I'd like to be swimming alongside him, how 'bout you?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BORenHVehX8/TgTsDb29_vI/AAAAAAAABbg/FG2fGCTcgsk/s1600/IMG_4483.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BORenHVehX8/TgTsDb29_vI/AAAAAAAABbg/FG2fGCTcgsk/s320/IMG_4483.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yt7a3Xpnut8/TgTsFi0vi7I/AAAAAAAABbk/U59RwUFMxv0/s1600/IMG_4486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yt7a3Xpnut8/TgTsFi0vi7I/AAAAAAAABbk/U59RwUFMxv0/s320/IMG_4486.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9VBY0i0t4zU/TgTsHKMk-pI/AAAAAAAABbo/fhByQvxQXlM/s1600/IMG_4488.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="171" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9VBY0i0t4zU/TgTsHKMk-pI/AAAAAAAABbo/fhByQvxQXlM/s320/IMG_4488.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;He's a work in progress (obviously) The long skinny size of this is inspiring to me - I happened to have a frame this size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since it IS summer now - I will share one of my most favorite poems, from one of my most favorite poets, Mary Oliver... This is called 'The Summer Day':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Who made the world?&lt;br /&gt;Who made the swan, and the black bear?&lt;br /&gt;Who made the grasshopper?&lt;br /&gt;This grasshopper, I mean-&lt;br /&gt;the one who has flung herself out of the grass,&lt;br /&gt;the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,&lt;br /&gt;who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-&lt;br /&gt;who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.&lt;br /&gt;Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.&lt;br /&gt;Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know exactly what a prayer is.&lt;br /&gt;I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down&lt;br /&gt;into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,&lt;br /&gt;how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,&lt;br /&gt;which is what I have been doing all day.&lt;br /&gt;Tell me, what else should I have done?&lt;br /&gt;Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?&lt;br /&gt;Tell me, what is it you plan to do&lt;br /&gt;with your one wild and precious life?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-566416143100074669?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/566416143100074669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/welcome-summer.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/566416143100074669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/566416143100074669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/welcome-summer.html' title='welcome summer...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BORenHVehX8/TgTsDb29_vI/AAAAAAAABbg/FG2fGCTcgsk/s72-c/IMG_4483.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-8042358962428109436</id><published>2011-06-22T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T12:46:07.771-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='possiblity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='green'/><title type='text'>Holding Possibility</title><content type='html'>Remember this from a bug's life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004929/"&gt;Flik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: Here, pretend - pretend that that's a seed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/"&gt;Dot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: It's a rock.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004929/"&gt;Flik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: Oh, I know it's a rock, I know. But let's just pretend for a minute that  it's a seed, alright? We'll just use our imaginations. Now, now do you  see our tree? Everything that made that giant tree is already contained  inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of  sunshine and rain, and voilá!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/"&gt;Dot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: This rock will be a tree?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004929/"&gt;Flik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: Seed to tree. You've gotta work with me, here. Alright? Okay. Now, y-you  might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well,  you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're  still a seed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/"&gt;Dot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: But it's a rock.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004929/"&gt;Flik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: [&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class="fine"&gt;shouting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;] I know it's a rock! Don't you think I know a rock when I see a rock? I've spent a lot of time around rocks!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/"&gt;Dot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: You're weird, but I like you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uM_4TnqEoiM/TgJDw-dgj2I/AAAAAAAABbM/Q_OegAE9bOQ/s1600/HoldingPossibility.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uM_4TnqEoiM/TgJDw-dgj2I/AAAAAAAABbM/Q_OegAE9bOQ/s320/HoldingPossibility.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Holding Possibility~Watercolor~8x10~HotPress Paper&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;That is supposed to be me - if I were a woodland fairy looking type creature :) I am really happy with the colors - how the red hair stands out against all the green -&amp;nbsp; and I do love the crooked trees... If you don't know already - I love trees. We have similar looking trees here in Florida... perhaps not so green, and maybe not quite so crooked...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xdzXxDiHq7g/TgJFn5w1-BI/AAAAAAAABbQ/oR0jFWY-nfs/s1600/IMG_3816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xdzXxDiHq7g/TgJFn5w1-BI/AAAAAAAABbQ/oR0jFWY-nfs/s320/IMG_3816.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R-9WBudv6VI/TgJF380EYWI/AAAAAAAABbU/DZFrCr40YIY/s1600/IMG_3817.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R-9WBudv6VI/TgJF380EYWI/AAAAAAAABbU/DZFrCr40YIY/s320/IMG_3817.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...But that's what the imagination is for :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-8042358962428109436?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/8042358962428109436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/holding-possibility.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8042358962428109436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8042358962428109436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/holding-possibility.html' title='Holding Possibility'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uM_4TnqEoiM/TgJDw-dgj2I/AAAAAAAABbM/Q_OegAE9bOQ/s72-c/HoldingPossibility.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-4569622298650957439</id><published>2011-06-20T12:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T12:41:25.212-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rossetti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monna vanna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preraphaelite'/><title type='text'>Isn't She Lovely...</title><content type='html'>isn't she wonderful...&lt;br /&gt;That is the song that kept running through my mind while I was painting this... This was actually just going to be a doodle that I started this morning - but then I got inspired to keep painting... and, well, isn't she lovely?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&amp;amp;workid=12777&amp;amp;tabview=text&amp;amp;texttype=10"&gt;original painting&lt;/a&gt; was done by Rossetti in 1866. It was titled Monna Vanna (a vein woman).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've changed mine up a little and added the bird - I dont know why - it just seemed like she should be holding a bird. He is paying about as much attention to her as she is to him... I think they are both too busy looking into mirrors at themselves! perhaps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3vKeAbVQ8g/Tf-h4LuY2UI/AAAAAAAABa4/mbzeC8nJzEs/s1600/IsntSheLovely.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="259" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3vKeAbVQ8g/Tf-h4LuY2UI/AAAAAAAABa4/mbzeC8nJzEs/s320/IsntSheLovely.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Isn't She Lovely, 8x10, watercolor ~ after Rossetti&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(If you'd like to see a larger view, just click on the painting.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-4569622298650957439?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/4569622298650957439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/isnt-she-lovely.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4569622298650957439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/4569622298650957439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/isnt-she-lovely.html' title='Isn&apos;t She Lovely...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3vKeAbVQ8g/Tf-h4LuY2UI/AAAAAAAABa4/mbzeC8nJzEs/s72-c/IsntSheLovely.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2635545921626209320</id><published>2011-06-16T15:29:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-16T15:29:17.891-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady Clare all finished...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5840841334/" title="Lady Clare"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/5840841334_81d8fb6d7e.jpg" alt="Lady Clare by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5840841334/"&gt;Lady Clare&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Via Flickr:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;She clad herself in a russen gown,&lt;br /&gt;She was no longer Lady Clare:&lt;br /&gt;She went by dale, and she went by down,&lt;br /&gt;With a single rose in her hair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lily-white doe Lord Ronald had brought&lt;br /&gt;Leapt up from where she lay.&lt;br /&gt;Dropped her head in the maiden's hand.&lt;br /&gt;And followed her all the way.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Watercolor&lt;br /&gt;8x10&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2635545921626209320?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2635545921626209320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare-all-finished.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2635545921626209320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2635545921626209320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare-all-finished.html' title='Lady Clare all finished...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/5840841334_81d8fb6d7e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2613593121293649914</id><published>2011-06-15T14:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-15T14:43:29.999-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady clare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='floral birthday book'/><title type='text'>Lady Clare in progress and a sweet little book...</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;I dropped my hubby off at the airport today (he is on his merry way to England for work) and since I was already close, I stopped by a favorite little gettin' spot of mine called the 'Vintage Vagabond'. For less than five dollars, I came home with these two fabulous treasures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W5fsBgZQa-4/TfklpAgsEyI/AAAAAAAABao/EdBNaKnegDo/s1600/flowerbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W5fsBgZQa-4/TfklpAgsEyI/AAAAAAAABao/EdBNaKnegDo/s400/flowerbook.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The little book is called the 'Floral Birthday Book' - for each day of the year there is a small poem (or part of a poem) a flower and the name and meaning of the flower. Too fun. I love stuff like that. I also nabbed that cute little paper weight - it's a little cat holding a flower with an Express Mail cap on :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;So, would you like to know what your birthday says? Leave a comment with the date you'd like me to look up, and I will tell you... fun!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I also had a little time to work on Lady Clare - she is coming along nicely, I think...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bSj6gQ6XaCU/TfklvUIFY5I/AAAAAAAABas/bZZfX835POI/s1600/LadyClare2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bSj6gQ6XaCU/TfklvUIFY5I/AAAAAAAABas/bZZfX835POI/s400/LadyClare2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;As you can see - I am depicting Lady Clare in the dark... I don't think the poem says, so I am using my creative license. Its a full moon tonight, you know ;) I might just stay up long enough to see it! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2613593121293649914?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2613593121293649914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare-in-progress-and-sweet-little.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2613593121293649914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2613593121293649914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare-in-progress-and-sweet-little.html' title='Lady Clare in progress and a sweet little book...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W5fsBgZQa-4/TfklpAgsEyI/AAAAAAAABao/EdBNaKnegDo/s72-c/flowerbook.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-8532031592910458373</id><published>2011-06-14T14:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T14:14:41.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady Clare</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5834049314/" title="Lady Clare"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/5834049314_2256352df2.jpg" alt="Lady Clare by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5834049314/"&gt;Lady Clare&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Via Flickr:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pre-Drawing... ready to paint!&lt;br /&gt;I am doing a rendition of Lady Clare, which is a &lt;a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lady-clare/" rel="nofollow"&gt;poem&lt;/a&gt; by Alfred Lord Tennyson &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, Lady Clare is NOT Lady Clare - she is the nurse's daughter, but has grown up as the Lady Clare... So along comes Lord Ronald to marry her - he's definitely smitten - as he gifts her with a perfect lily-white doe. &lt;br /&gt;When Lady Clare finds out she is not really who she thinks she is - she immediately goes her way to tell Lord Ronald the truth - she will not lie! So, off she goes to his crib with her sweet deer in hand... Wonder what Ronald does in the end? Then I reckon you'd better read the &lt;a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lady-clare/" rel="nofollow"&gt;poem&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JW Waterhouse &lt;a href="http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=26" rel="nofollow"&gt;did a lovely painting of &lt;/a&gt;Lady Clare... and his &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/40876478/" rel="nofollow"&gt;sketch&lt;/a&gt; is one of my favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-8532031592910458373?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/8532031592910458373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8532031592910458373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/8532031592910458373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/lady-clare.html' title='Lady Clare'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/5834049314_2256352df2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2976509273029766110</id><published>2011-06-13T14:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-13T14:27:31.996-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sea Adventure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5830444558/" title="Adventure"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5077/5830444558_3c2d2b1b71.jpg" alt="Adventure by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5830444558/"&gt;Adventure&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Via Flickr:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8x10 watercolor&lt;br /&gt;I am so happy about the way this came out... It took me forever to work out the initial drawing... but was worth it in the end. The only thing that bugs me about this painting is that I need a better way to apply masking fluid - it blobbed up on the little fish and they didnt come out quite like I wanted them to...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2976509273029766110?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2976509273029766110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sea-adventure.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2976509273029766110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2976509273029766110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sea-adventure.html' title='Sea Adventure'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5077/5830444558_3c2d2b1b71_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3464690492643013118</id><published>2011-06-11T05:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T05:30:21.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sea Treasure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5819847038/" title="Sea Treasure"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/5819847038_7becf1c855.jpg" alt="Sea Treasure by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5819847038/"&gt;Sea Treasure&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;finished her last night - I am very happy with the way she came out and really enjoying painting the fantasy realm... I've always felt drawn to illustrative type art and always felt like my own art had an element of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite part of this is the sea turtle peaking at her treasure :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3464690492643013118?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3464690492643013118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sea-treasure.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3464690492643013118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3464690492643013118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sea-treasure.html' title='Sea Treasure'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/5819847038_7becf1c855_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2824801786937519487</id><published>2011-06-10T15:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-10T15:05:28.512-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ocean Fairy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5819536546/" title="Ocean Fairy"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5319/5819536546_af0d2d95a5.jpg" alt="Ocean Fairy by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5819536546/"&gt;Ocean Fairy&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a work in progress... a little 5x7 sweetheart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good coffee and a painting - lovely way to spend the afternoon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2824801786937519487?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2824801786937519487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ocean-fairy.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2824801786937519487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2824801786937519487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ocean-fairy.html' title='Ocean Fairy'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5319/5819536546_af0d2d95a5_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2901042738678362669</id><published>2011-06-09T13:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-09T13:35:56.473-07:00</updated><title type='text'>in my head...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5816307986/" title="June8"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/5816307986_08d78c4c8c.jpg" alt="June8 by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5816307986/"&gt;June8&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have a painting in my head... these are parts of it. &lt;br /&gt;Don't you think there are such a thing as ocean fairies? NOT mermaids, mind you... they don't have fish like qualities... and no one knows how they breathe underwater - its secret. Yea, i'm pretty sure they're there... I think they tickle my toes sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2901042738678362669?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2901042738678362669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-my-head.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2901042738678362669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2901042738678362669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-my-head.html' title='in my head...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/5816307986_08d78c4c8c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7135545298079617053</id><published>2011-06-08T14:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-08T19:44:55.462-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Courting Lunacy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5812650781/" title="Courting Lunacy"&gt;&lt;img alt="Courting Lunacy by RedHead Art" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/5812650781_c084750503.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5812650781/"&gt;Courting Lunacy&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is a very different painting for me - I've finally gotten around to reading/studying a book I've had for a long time: 'Dreamscapes, Myth and Magic' by &lt;a href="http://shadowscapes-stephanielaw.blogspot.com/"&gt;Stephanie Pui-Mun Law&lt;/a&gt;... this painting is a result of that.&lt;br /&gt;I have to say - I really enjoyed it. It's very time consuming - this little painting took hours... And it sucked the creative life right outta me... but in a good way :)&lt;br /&gt;I think I might be exploring this type of painting for a while - who knows? I was always fascinated with this type of stuff when I was younger.  I remember making houses for faeries in the playground using whatever I could find in nature... &lt;br /&gt;Anyway - Painting that tree with all its twists/turns/faces was quite satisfying... and while I am not totally pleased with the woman, it's not so bad. She is not a fairy - she is me. and i am definitely courting lunacy :)&lt;br /&gt;The title came because of the moon in the painting - in some cultures and superstitions letting the moonlight touch you while you are asleep can cause you to go mad - the terms 'lunacy' and 'lunatic' actually come from the Latin word for moon (Luna). &lt;br /&gt;What do you think?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7135545298079617053?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7135545298079617053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/courting-lunacy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7135545298079617053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7135545298079617053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/courting-lunacy.html' title='Courting Lunacy'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/5812650781_c084750503_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7046660208653127083</id><published>2011-06-07T13:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T13:18:24.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Starfish</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5809595302/" title="Starfish"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/5809595302_851b8493ee.jpg" alt="Starfish by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5809595302/"&gt;Starfish&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I painted this little darling today. It was so therapeutic painting all those little rocks... felt good and came out lovely, i think!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am all for anything sea-inspired these days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7046660208653127083?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7046660208653127083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/starfish.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7046660208653127083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7046660208653127083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/starfish.html' title='Starfish'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/5809595302_851b8493ee_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-7862030639008812977</id><published>2011-06-06T14:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T14:50:23.341-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japanese Koi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5806175746/" title="Japanese Koi"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5235/5806175746_f905efe78a.jpg" alt="Japanese Koi by RedHead Art" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5806175746/"&gt;Japanese Koi&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/"&gt;RedHead Art&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;i picked up some paint chips while at Lowe's... and this one was just too inspirational not to paint! (Note the name of the paint... i wish i had that job - to come up with paint color names... how do you get that job??)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-7862030639008812977?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/7862030639008812977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/japanese-koi.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7862030639008812977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/7862030639008812977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/japanese-koi.html' title='Japanese Koi'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5235/5806175746_f905efe78a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-2754050593372282820</id><published>2011-06-06T10:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T10:09:39.219-07:00</updated><title type='text'>sometimes i can't believe i live here... 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padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/5804383533_ab5569ae4f_s.jpg" alt="IMG_2504" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5804383891/in/set-72157626775077737/" title="IMG_2506" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/5804383891_0eeee3c257_s.jpg" alt="IMG_2506" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5804384253/in/set-72157626775077737/" title="IMG_2514" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2304/5804384253_10e4bebe8a_s.jpg" alt="IMG_2514" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/5804941294/in/set-72157626775077737/" title="IMG_2515" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5120/5804941294_8a031504d6_s.jpg" alt="IMG_2515" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br clear="all"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadart/sets/72157626775077737/"&gt;sometimes i can't believe i live here... Sarasota, Florida&lt;/a&gt;, a set on Flickr.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today I took some time to upload the mass of photographs I've taken since moving here to Sarasota, Florida five months ago. I can't get over how beautiful it is here sometimes... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-2754050593372282820?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/2754050593372282820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sometimes-i-can-believe-i-live-here.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2754050593372282820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/2754050593372282820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/sometimes-i-can-believe-i-live-here.html' title='sometimes i can&amp;#39;t believe i live here... Sarasota, Florida'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/5804930422_8281dd19b7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-3166949933654906289</id><published>2011-06-04T06:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T06:04:08.089-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lily'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='floral'/><title type='text'>one word...</title><content type='html'>the compound word of the day:&lt;br /&gt;Yardwork.&lt;br /&gt;Things grow very fast here in Florida :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I busy myself with that, I wanted to take a minute to post this lovely little watercolor I finished last night...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VE1O-1IgwT8/TeosjMJZpuI/AAAAAAAABZw/GCFAiRRUZZo/s1600/IMG_4308.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="295" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VE1O-1IgwT8/TeosjMJZpuI/AAAAAAAABZw/GCFAiRRUZZo/s400/IMG_4308.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;lily ~ 8x10 ~ watercolor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-3166949933654906289?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/3166949933654906289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-word.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3166949933654906289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/3166949933654906289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-word.html' title='one word...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VE1O-1IgwT8/TeosjMJZpuI/AAAAAAAABZw/GCFAiRRUZZo/s72-c/IMG_4308.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618942228550233748.post-6334842933257617548</id><published>2011-06-03T22:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T22:01:29.061-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='still life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fruit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mango'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><title type='text'>mango mojo...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcUjq8SLBMI/Tem7xNoXaXI/AAAAAAAABZo/m6xzDLoXlcQ/s1600/mangomojo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcUjq8SLBMI/Tem7xNoXaXI/AAAAAAAABZo/m6xzDLoXlcQ/s320/mangomojo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;mango mojo in process...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H-BaO7qYPog/Tem74VsYRzI/AAAAAAAABZs/qdutkOWvNCE/s1600/mangomojo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H-BaO7qYPog/Tem74VsYRzI/AAAAAAAABZs/qdutkOWvNCE/s320/mangomojo2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mango Mojo ~ Watercolor ~ 8x10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;excited to be back to blogging - here's a watercolor I did just a few days ago. i love the colors... and i love mangoes :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7618942228550233748-6334842933257617548?l=redheadart.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/feeds/6334842933257617548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/mango-mojo.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/6334842933257617548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7618942228550233748/posts/default/6334842933257617548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redheadart.blogspot.com/2011/06/mango-mojo.html' title='mango mojo...'/><author><name>Melanie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyS4JhCc4sM/Td6pBtXShFI/AAAAAAAABXw/DfI26ai59mw/s220/siddalcropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcUjq8SLBMI/Tem7xNoXaXI/AAAAAAAABZo/m6xzDLoXlcQ/s72-c/mangomojo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
