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Free Shipping included on all small, unframed paintingsMarilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-58483820713466909752015-04-07T16:33:00.000-06:002015-04-07T16:33:20.678-06:00... to tryI am going to try.<br />
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I am going to try again to paint and post photos of the paintings I have done.<br />
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I cannot not paint. I will always <em>see</em> my little world through the lens of "If-I-were-painting-this-I- would-do-it-this-way...." I love translating everything into dark and light patterns and making color decisions.<br />
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I am going to try.Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-79984484605895742262015-01-19T19:59:00.000-07:002015-01-19T19:59:02.296-07:00...it's been so long, I can't remember how to do anything......I just spent a few hours painting in my studio....<br />
I used to think I was an pretty good painter. All such confidence is gone. <br />That is probably a good thing. I have gotten tighter and tighter in rendering. Need to loosen up. <br />
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So that is what I concentrated on with a small composition of a sunflower. If I can stand what I did by tomorrow I will post a photo of it (if I remember how...)<br />
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I have also started a landscape painting of an area of the river which I always find interesting. After I came back to the house after painting, I decided to smash into that landscape a bit too.... to loosen it. <br />
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I wonder if I can paint again????????<br />
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2014 was in many ways truly discouraging.<br />
I will make 2015 be a better one!Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-40080701728722074512014-04-23T21:24:00.000-06:002014-04-23T21:24:52.876-06:00...lost.....This has been a most discouraging time. After the disaster of the failed Open House, I have not been able to pull myself into my studio. So far in 2014, I have finished two very small paintings and not bothered to post either of them. Right along with that, nothing has been sold all year. <br />
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I am truly feeling lost and that no one notices or cares and that includes me.....<br />
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The one bright spot has been the installation by a dear friend, Dave, of a set of shelves on the west wall of my studio for the display of small paintings. They are lovely and the paintings look well displayed.<br />
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I have considered making a Web Site.... perhaps that would bring a bit of interest... or not.... My despondency stems from a rejection of my work to a web site long long ago. The person in charge said that my work was too ordinary. I guess he is right. It is so ordinary that no one notices it. I am considering making paintings which are MUCH more loosely constructed.... I am also considering just quitting. Never to paint again. I think I will go lose myself by watching a movie.Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-69868229095883746972014-01-02T17:36:00.000-07:002014-01-02T17:36:21.119-07:00Here goes 2014!<div>
A palette is the most interesting tool I have available. It holds all the pigments I have available to create all, every, and each color imaginable! And the space to mix them ~ each and all! </div>
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To start this 2014 year I decided to clean mine. If possible, I will send the photo I just took of my fresh, clean palette with my,as yet, very mysterious tablet. It is quite stunning to this old lady to be able to discover the tablets' abilities! Even a few of them....one by one. (I love that it knows to start sentences with capital letters!)</div>
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Back to the palette.. I did save a few bits of paint as I cleaned it. They were fresh and still usable!</div>
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I would have something under way ....started...would not need to figure out totally new thoughts....But now I am thinking,WHY NOT!?!</div>
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Very few people are at all interested in what I have been painting....Perhaps this is a time for NEWNESS! </div>
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(I wish I knew how to make grammatical corrections on this tablet...many are needed. I will discover that as I go step by step too!)</div>
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I will not immediately toss out all that I have been doing, just approach my paintings with a new outlook.... with less hesitancy...more willingness to accept what I wish to do....more artistic courage.</div>
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So,off I go.....new year, new steps to take... small and timid for now.....Deep breath....I am off! </div>
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Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-71605825503482805622013-12-13T10:11:00.000-07:002015-12-19T21:05:59.774-07:00Christmas 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Isn't Christmas in out hearts wonderful! The story, the symbols, the colors bring quiet joy. Today is the day for putting Nativity Sets on display, for decorating a tree, and for contemplation.</div>
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My grandmother lived about 9 miles from our home. The trip included crossing the Snake River which I always loved as a child. I loved seeing the river calm, like in this painting, wild, choppy.... whatever, The colors were always interesting in all seasons. We visited often, so I saw the river often. It still holds charms for me. I enjoy drawing and painting it in many seasons with or without a view of Mt. Harrison included.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">That approval is always a wonderful event! Doing commissioned work always includes at least twice the pressure</span>. I always want to make the best painting I can to please my own aesthetic sense. Add to that the desire to please someone else and their wishes for the work; to make it the best for them too.</div>
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Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-81821498136008862912013-10-25T16:59:00.000-06:002015-12-19T21:07:08.237-07:00Salt Lake Temple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am so thrilled that this painting finally was delivered and seems to have been happily received! It took far longer to paint than I had thought.... They always do..... The dear clients were VERY patient and even visited the slowly progressing project a few times through the summer.</div>
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One day soon, I expect to be back at work....</div>
Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-47243049559925048292013-09-11T18:36:00.000-06:002015-12-19T21:10:06.366-07:00Summer 2013....<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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Other than a commissioned piece which is almost finished, and one or two unfinished pantings, these three little paintings are my entire summer production of paintings.... A bit of a crisis of confidence..... Perhaps it is over, perhaps this is the end.... Or perhaps I am just getting started....</div>
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Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-88772040077376977652013-09-07T21:29:00.000-06:002013-09-07T21:29:16.667-06:00GREAT evening!<br class="atd_remove_me" /><br class="atd_remove_me" />To begin the evening, at about 6:00p.m. thunder began rumbling. I have never experienced this sort of storm.... the thunder was an incessant, though distant, roar for about 40 minutes! It was accompanied by rain like I have only seen in the Orient (Hong Kong and Manila). I wish I could have watched it from above the clouds. It must have been a spectacular show! Now that we have enjoyed a good soaking, of course our Idaho wind has begun....<br class="atd_remove_me" /><br class="atd_remove_me" /><span class="mceItemHidden">While it was still raining, I went out to the studio and stretched a small canvas. During the time that it took to listen to a recording of a Beethoven String Quartet, I was able to get it stretched and the first coat of <span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="of ">gesso</span> onto the canvas.</span><br class="atd_remove_me" /><br class="atd_remove_me" /><span class="mceItemHidden">This is significant only because of the rough few weeks <span class="hiddenGrammarError" pre="weeks ">have have</span><span class="mceItemHidden"> </span>spent <span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="spent ">questioning</span> if I, by painting, am adding anything to life or only adding to the world's piles of stuff. I remember suggesting to a friend whose wife was complaining about his time spent in studio work, that if he COULD quit, perhaps he should.... He continued, and so will I. </span><br class="atd_remove_me" /><br class="atd_remove_me" /><span class="mceItemHidden">There is no <span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="no ">possibility</span><span class="mceItemHidden"> </span>that I will be able to stop seeing the world through color relationships, shapes and <span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="and ">visual</span> ideas. My vision may be too ordinary, as I have been told several times in different situations. but I will continue to make what I hope is art....</span><br class="atd_remove_me" /><br class="atd_remove_me" />Then to top it all off, as I walked back to the house a most wonderful red sunset met me! <br />
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Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-76095079471185323192013-01-05T19:00:00.001-07:002013-01-06T10:03:33.474-07:00I can't think of a worse time for all this to happen.... (Google refusing to allow me to post my photos from the place I have them...). Many artists are right in the beginning of a great challenge, 30 Days, 30 Paintings, sponsored most generously by Leslie Saeta. <br />
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I really needed this because I have not worked consistently for months. I need this boost! I need the satisfaction to find out that that I can still swing a brush.<br />
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I have been contemplating a move of Blog for a while. The photo thing proved to be the last straw.<br />
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Of course, in my ineptness, I put the wrong address here.... But I have changed that.<br />
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I do hope you who have been so encouraging will come visit... <br />
It is so much easier to leave a message for me at this new place, which is one major reason to move. <br />
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Also, I can again, post my own photos of my paintings! Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-38435372484280581882013-01-04T07:50:00.000-07:002015-12-19T21:13:34.245-07:00Good bye GoogleGoogle, in its finite wisdom, no longer allows me to post new pictures. I no longer have <strong>access</strong> to <strong>Windows Photo Gallery</strong> on my computer. Therefore, unless this is changed back again, this is my last posting.<br />
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Is this corporate quarrelling?<br />
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Is this progress?<br />
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Am I missing something obvious? Am I too e stupid????<br />
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I could get photos from a phone..... but that would not allow for sizing and editing or give adequate quality of photograph. And I do not have a smart phone nor can I afford to acquire one.<br />
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I could post from Picasa Web Albums, but there are only six images shown; all old ones; and no visible way to get to others. <br />
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I could get photos from this blog, but they are already on the blog. I need the blog to post new photos, not ones already here....<br />
Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-46136953738779235172013-01-03T03:40:00.000-07:002015-12-19T21:17:44.355-07:00Second Day ~ 30 in 30 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Passage to Time ~ Persimmon and Feather</strong></div>
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We did not get a "White Christmas" but New Years is definitely WHITE. Happy New Year all!</div>
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<strong>A special "Thank you" to Leslie Saeta for her 30 Daily Painting Challenge...</strong> Starts Jan. 2. </div>
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Because of several events during the last five months of 2012, I have painted very little. I am using her wonderful idea to jump start my painting activity again.</div>
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I will be doing several at a time (hoping for at least two a day to begin) so I can skip Sundays and still have paintings to post.</div>
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Today is my day to prepare! Exciting for me, a little intimidating because it has been so long, and really challenging to be consistent for a whole month!!! Here we go! Happy New Year!
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During the summer plans were made for a program of Christmas music for our community planned and performed by members of our Burley West Stake, Church of. Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was asked to make a painting for the cover of the program. While I was contemplating it, a wonderful photograph came on a Blog I have been following, "Huntsman's in the Holy Land". It showed a group of students standing near Bethlehem in what is called the L.D.S. Shepherd's Field. I was so excited. As I looked at it, I could see this painting and felt it would be perfect for the cover.</div>
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Our program was held Sunday, Dec. 16th and was a wonderful experience for all who attended.</div>
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First, of course, <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Lights</span></em>!</strong> </div>
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Lights to represent <strong><em><span style="color: red;">THE LIGHT of the world, Jesus Christ</span></em></strong>. </div>
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Lights to brighten us and to shine in our eyes.
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Then come the <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Glass Ornaments</span></em></strong>. Most are round, but some are differently shaped like the small blue ball with the convex silver and pink sculpted
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There are glass ornaments from all the decades our immediate family has existed. From the 30's, the glass bell that rings and a small pink glassine Christmas tree.
From the 40's a clear green glass ball with a paper top reminiscent of the scarcity of World War II days. The 50's brought ornaments of every color! Many painted with “Merry Christmas”, snow scenes, a Nativity, churches, a sleigh, and stripes. Through the 60's, and 70's my mother collected wonderful ornaments as marketing was done for the Drugstore, all colors and sizes. She got enough ornaments and lights to have our tree be all pink, or all blue, or all red, or all colors mixed. She got a wonderful six foot white plastic tree to display all and put it up religiously each Christmas to the delight of all who saw it. My Father always loved her creations and always photographed it each year.
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On my Tree, there must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Every Color</span></em></strong>! Red, pink, blue, yellow, orange, green. and violet! There is lots of white and gold. Bright colors, and pastel colors, and I even allow a bit of brown, maybe some grey.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Creatures</span></em></strong>! Lots of birds, a family of partridges, several pairs of doves with long tinsel tails, butterflies and a mouse. I really need at least one cat and one dog, preferably a fawn colored long hair Chihuahua....I'll keep looking.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Snow and Ice</span></em></strong>! We are in the north, but sometimes the only white Christmas that happens is with snow ornaments. There are clear sparkling snowflakes and crocheted snowflakes. And lots of icicles. I have two hand blown by an acquaintance in SLC and wonderful set of a dozen hand blown icicles given my Mother and I by our neighbor/friends, Kathleen and Randy
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<strong><em><span style="color: red;">Places</span></em></strong> I have visited (or wished to visit...) are represented. <strong><em><span style="color: red;">China </span></em></strong>is here in the way of small plastic triangular rectangles of colored braid with tassels which I found being sold one day by a street vendor in Hong Kong. I am so glad I bought them. I never saw them again until I came back to Burley in 1991.A crafts show on television showed how to make them! I was so tickled and made many with colored ribbon and nylon yarn tassels. They are wonderfully oriental and Christmassy, colorful and fun!
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The <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Philippines </span></em></strong>is represented by translucent butterflies made of gapis shell.
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<strong><em><span style="color: red;">Switzerland</span></em></strong> is represented with a small Indian infant doll with fur hair and beads made by my artist soul mate friend, Karin and several small colorful silk stuffed and beaded stars. She is a glass artist.... I wonder if she has ever considered making small glass angels?
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<strong><em><span style="color: red;">Iran</span></em></strong> and our older brother, Iraj, are here too with turquoise ceramic ornaments given to us by Iraj's wife when they came to visit. Iraj lived with us for a summer while he apprenticed with my Father in the Drugstore as part of his pharmaceutical training. Our association with him has enriched our lives in many wonderful ways.... and I feel that the Wise Men may have come from Persia.... Also, on a trip to New York at the Metropolitan Museum, I found a gold ornament from a Persian design.
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From <span style="color: red;">Washington D.C</span>., I have two annual ornaments from the <strong><em><span style="color: red;">White House</span></em></strong>. One I bought to commemorate 2007 when my Aunt Glenna and I were guests at the artist reception at the White House because I was invited to paint an ornament of City of Rocks which hung on the tree in the Blue Room. What a fine day that was! The other was given me by Linda and Dr. Joe Petersen who so graciously gave us the gift of a stay at the Marriott for that occasion.
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<strong><em><span style="color: red;"> Israel</span></em></strong>, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Jewish people are represented by a tiny trio of olive wood Nativity ornaments given me by my friend Cheryl. Perhaps the most important object on my tree comes from a dear friend in Salt Lake city, a fellow artist and Jewish man who made a beautiful brass ornament of Hebrew letters saying “Shalom”. I do cherish it and hang it with reverence each year.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Books</span></em></strong>! Tiny books of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, and “A Christmas Carol” hang each year. Today I decided I must make a new small book of Luke 2, the first Christmas story. as an ornament....
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Toys</span></em></strong>! Julie, my music mentor friend, gave me a small articulated nutcracker/soldier. I have thought many times this year about the first time I saw The Nutcracker Ballet performed. It was a magical Christmas present ~ tickets to attend a performance by the Utah Ballet at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake when I was probably 11 or twelve years old. Ballet was my first love and that performance still lives fresh in my mind.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Temples</span></em></strong>! I have pretty, gold replicas given us by Judy of the Salt Lake Temple because it is THE Temple., Nauvoo because several of our family progenitors did get their work done in it before coming west, and the Logan Temple where Mom and Dad were married May 29, 1935.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Hearts</span></em></strong>! The two red hearts Mom bought to represent their love for each other. I love remembering them as I put them on the tree each year.
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There must be<strong><em><span style="color: red;"> Music</span></em></strong>! Bells, French Horns, Cellos... and piano sheet- music.
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There must be <strong><em><span style="color: red;">Stars</span></em></strong>! As many stars a possible! I have mirrored stars and the Swiss silk stars. I think I would like to carve and paint some wooden stars. I have for the past several years painted stars with jewels on glass ornaments and have one on my tree.
One thing is missing so far this year.... Last year my star tree topper was broken.
I must find a <em>GREAT</em> star for the top of my tree. It won't quite be Christmas until I find it.... maybe today!
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<strong><em><span style="color: red;">Wishing each of us and all of us Christmas JOY!</span></em></strong></div>
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My paternal Grandfather returned to his native Denmark to serve as a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in about 1905 and returned to Idaho and his family in about 1908. He brought this wonderful shell with him then. </div>
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As a child, I was sure it was the seas around Denmark that I could hear roaring by putting my ear to its opening. </div>
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I loved knowing that by touching this shell, I was touching something of my Grandfather who died before I was born. Much of our Family History is represented by it. One of my father's brothers was born and died while their father was away. Another brother, just older than my father, also died during that time.</div>
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The leaf was caught my eye a few days ago while walking my little Lili Chili Chihuahua.</div>
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I thought the choice to paint them together was purely random.....</div>
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But in the process of painting, I became more and more aware of the Divine Patterns they have in common with each other and even with me and with you.</div>
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Four Seasons Saw Blade </div>
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Spring: Doe & Fawn, Bear and Cubs</div>
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Summer: Antelope</div>
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Autumn: Mule Deer</div>
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Winter: Elk, Mountain Lion, & Canada Geese</div>
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Today! Finished!!!!! </div>
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Mary and Tyler brought this five foot plus saw blade a few years ago. It sat in the garage for a while. It has been hanging in my studio as hung by Tyler for a few years too while I have struggled to take time to paint it with the animals he and his family love to hunt.Ty is a bow hunter. All have bagged deer. Their living room holds many of their trophy animals. This will go there also. I am so happy to be able to let them kmow it is complete and will be anxious to see it in its new home.</div>
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The saw blade itself is from Ty's family. His grandfather owned a saw mill and Tyler was able to keep this blade as a memento. I was quite surprised by it. It is a beautiful object, well designed and very heavy. I enjoy being able to move my cnavas around as I paint, not possible with this. It is being held in place to be painted with drywall screws and has stayed in place very nicely. Because it is such an interesting object of itself, I wished to retain some of the original texture and color and to make sure the blade keys were visible. Each tooth has two pieces to allow changing single tooth replacements. </div>
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I was amazed at the sharpness. As they were hanging the blade, it ripped through six or seven layers of the roll of heavy cotton damn canvas standing next to the easel.</div>
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With my family, I remember as a child seeing a similar saw in action at a sawmill here in Northern Idaho. It was impressive to watch as large logs were turned into raw lumber in very few minutes.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last night, finally, I worked on the vase and I think I completed the painting! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After contemplating it for a few years, and working on it for several months (the flowers are shriveled and dry in the vase... all who come into the studio ask about why I am painting <em>that...)</em> it feels great to have it complete.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Among other things, it has taught me that I really need to loosen up a bit. So I am planning on purchasing a few large brushes and doing just that. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also learned to love this doily even more, having explored it in painting. I am no longer sure whether it was crocheted by my Mother or Grandmother, perhaps even by a Great Grandmother. It is intricate and beautiful. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are many sentimentally beautiful treasures around me. Seeing them day to day is almost as good as being able to chat with my family, the makers or users of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Studying a painting for very long can lead to changes. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Now there have been three versions of this painting. </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Which do you prefer? Shall I just give up and destroy it? Shall I try something else with it?? Shall I study it more???? Shall I put it out of sight?????<br />
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Last night's work makes three times I have worked on "crocheting" this doily on the painting... It is really great fun, especially on hot days, to work on tediousness which requires little but repeat of a pattern.Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-23314122965404164302012-07-06T22:02:00.001-06:002012-07-07T16:27:40.712-06:00Genesis One: Creation Series<div align="CENTER"><br />
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</div><div align="left">The adventure of making this series took two years to complete study, thoughts, and painting. It was completed in October of 2010. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">While the actual painting was usually quite fast, the reading and contemplating and arriving at each concept took time and was a wonderful process. It is deeply satisfying to study such classical and beautiful words from scriptures over time, sometimes spending days with a single verse working out both the meanings and the visual symbol for those words. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">The image of the lizard as the "Creeping thing that creepeth", was a fine experience. As I was working through the series, I often contemplated what I might use for that. I had thought I ought to be able to use a bug, a beetle, and that I could probably get one all by myself. I tried several local bugs.... never good enough. One day as I was looking on the Internet, I found a wonderful photo of a lizard. When I looked up the source, it was from a photographer that lives very near me! I called to inquire what he would charge for a single use of his image. He needed to think about it. A few days later, he brought a fine copy for me to use and asked nothing to use it, AND I could keep the photo! <strong>Thank you, Gordan Hardcastle, for allowing me to use it. It is perfect!</strong></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Each painting is 16 inches by 16 inches. They are to be hung about two inches apart to make a single continuous composition about eighteen feet in length.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">I have happily been living with it hanging in my studio for nearly two years. I have loved discussing it with studio visitors. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Today the young couple who are purchasing it, and their three dear children came to take it to its new home! I am so thrilled that it is going to them. They have been dear friends of our family for many years and his parents posed for the Man's and Woman's hands.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">I loved it when the oldest son, about eight years old, noticed that it was all one picture.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">One of the great things about its leaving is that it gives me a fine reason to start all over again. I truly love the Biblical account of Creation. The new series has already begun to take form in my mind.....</div><div align="CENTER"><br />
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</div></div></div></div><div class="tlTxFe" style="text-align: left;">"Marilyn, the Creation Series is officially on the wall and they look gorgeous. I now just need an excuse for a lot of people to come visit my house and see them!"</div>Marilyn R Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08966277390278388040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751603732340769867.post-36462923437654528692012-06-28T19:16:00.001-06:002012-06-28T19:18:28.923-06:00from Psalms and Revelations...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUDvdpK80qQ/T-z9xCFmUoI/AAAAAAAABRQ/5i2MSTRCadQ/s1600/TemplePhotosNorth+side+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUDvdpK80qQ/T-z9xCFmUoI/AAAAAAAABRQ/5i2MSTRCadQ/s320/TemplePhotosNorth+side+017.JPG" width="317" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Leaves</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on Panel 8" x8" nfs</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Leaves" was done for a dear friend to celebrate her birthday. I am pleased with the result and with the continuity with paintings done for my Masters of Fine Arts degree years ago. I love combining scripture verses with visual ideas. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until I started the painting of leaves for June, it never ocurred to me to use my own script rather than an attempt at lettering. I love scratching a signature through the paint and I am quite happy with the painterly quality of writing into the paint. The dove painting was done months ago , but I was never satisfied with the results. I like this much better. I think I will play with this concept again.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br />
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