Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

i love how you're looking through the branches into the rest of the painting. great painting garry

awesome colors! and size! you have gone big, doreen. i'm still a little intimidated with big surfaces. as for the walls and floors...i used to use a spare bedroom as an art studio/craft room, never had enough space to move and were always scared of messing up the walls and carpet. none of that is go...

i think we get a feeling when it's our time. time and again i've seen (or heard) people try to make amends, recognize their blessings out loud or give a last piece of advice to a loved one just days or hours before they die. i think it's the universes compassionate way of giving us a last chance to ...

HT, i think your family is blessed to have a wise woman such as you in their midst. your words to me here are soothing and much appreciated. thank you. and yes, i am blessed to have many families, including S8.

and it was happening
in my ears
and in my eyes

dino...this image is delicious in it's richness for me.

and "life and art fusion"...made me wish i was there and saw it too

ht...i love little poems that capture sunny morning moments. it's my favorite time of day. and it reminded me of this spring poem i wrote a few months ago spring day walking outside alive! wicker chair in shade. birds easter eggs in trees it’s good to breathe dogs barking airplanes passing by he say...

there is a childlike trust and a grace and a sensuality in this poem.

rr ...i liked the image of the wind licking like a salty dog and the sentimental feel of the whole poem. and if i may, stilltrucking ... I don't know what it is about the sea that draws poets. I can relate to it even if I am not a poet. Fore me it is like homesickness. poets are homesick angels. ye...

i cringed (for your vulnerability) and i smiled. very clever and well said.

thank you very much...the world soul. yes.

okay. so here's a painting i worked on this last week. it's mixed media (papers acrylic paints and graphite pencil) on 16 x 20 inch canvas. the words on the bottom of the canvas is the "bird inside" poem. this is the first time i've used the new file attachment method (we used to just copy embedded ...

thank you HT. my brother, 4 years older than me, died 12 days ago in a car accident. i have other step siblings, but he was my only biological brother. he left behind a wife, two teenage daughters and a little boy only starting school next year. he was the sweetheart of our family, always ready to h...

i loved reading this thread. it's beautiful. it reminded me of how human and godly we are at the same time. compassionate. wise. afraid we're not enough. funny. sad. creative (loved that first quote!) your thoughts are valuable jack. sometimes we read them and sometimes we skip over, but we would be...

jack.truck ...your reply is not a ramble. it was the perfect reply that soothed me. yes, time. is bound to us. it's how we exist. and yet to the universe, it's everything and nothing all at once. my thoughts behind this poem...on the morning i found out my brother died (last week thursday), it beca...

judih ...yes, here you are and i will linger because i have always been held with love here.... thank you judih. you are always such a light to me. maree ...like i wanted to hold you when your mom passed away. death (including those of loved ones) is the one thing we cannot escape. and hugs from fr...