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Summer 100 (43 of 100)
"Sunrise"

8 x 10 (plein air)

Got up early to paint the sunrise. Not as easy as it sounds and I'm not just talking about the getting up early part.

Favorite Billy Collins Poem

Horizon

You can use the brush of a Japanese monk
or a pencil stub from a race track.

As long as you draw the line a third
the way up from the bottom of the page,

the effect is the same: the world suddenly
divided into its elemental realms.

A moment ago there was only a piece of paper.
Now there is earth and sky, sky and sea.

You were sitting alone in a small room.
Now you are walking in the heat of a vast desert

or standing on the ledge of a winter beach
watching the light on the water, light in the air.

by Billy Collins
from the book "The Art of Drowning"

Quotes

I feel like my job as an artist is to craft the very finest work that I can possibly do. . . . To craft it lovingly and carefully like this is my one and only opportunity in life to get it right.

Daniel Sprick

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"If you don't make good memories, no one will do it for you."

Terry Clark

from the "Wreaking Ball Blog"

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“When I go to work every day I’m really just trying to create a painting that was better than my last one.”

Jeremy Lipking

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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

Haruki Marakami

from "What I Talk About, When I Talk About Running"

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WET PAINT

MOTTO FOR 2011

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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