Art class: Some fun things with acrylics

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From the artist. . .

When my friends rave about my talents and gifts, I am sort of stunned! When I reflect on any success I have enjoyed, I first think of my husband's love that makes it possible for me to blossom.

Then I am thankful for being a third generation person with retinitis pigmentosa; I have seen how my grandmother and mother coped with blindness. This helps me to choose my response.

And importantly, my yoga teacher and friend, Sundari Sitaram, taught me about Fearlessness, and ' not Hiding. This poem sums up my philosophy:

 I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova

I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear

of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible;

to loosen my heart

until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance,

to live so that which came to me as seed

goes to the next as blossom,

and that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit.

 

Barbara's Hydrangea

Lately I've been painting...

A modest and blessed individual, I have had the pleasure of exhibiting my art in three juried national shows: Passionate Focus 2010 in Chicago, Shared Visions in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse for the Blind's Insights in San Francisco.

Winter Hydrangea November 2011









Cliff's Bird March 2011







Chicago Poppies May 2011







Nochebuena December 2010

More Love poured out

Jill's Rose

2010









Blossom! January 2008




























Under The Sea May 2006


















Waterlily May 2009













Tulips' Tantrum April 2009













Sleeping Lady Sunflower August 2009















Slickrock Archangel September 2007



















Shanti Batik February 2009

















October Purple October 2008


















Lace Cap Hydrangea September 2008
















Hydrangea Lei August 2008















Cabin Fever! April 2009














August Hydrangea July 2009















Arches of Antiquity September 2007


















Anini Beach February 2007















Blue Hydrangea August 2008


















Daphne's Hydrangea August 2008















Annaliese's Hydrangea August 2009






























Angels from the Realms of Glory
December 2009











St. Poppy's Grange