A Christmas Day Bouquet
Painting
Golden Yellow
This collage featuring Olga Korbet, the golden girl of the ’72 and ’76 Olympic Games, will be familiar to those of you who follow my Monday Bouquet.
Her never-to-be forgotten gold medal performances and a smile that is as heart warming and magical today as I remember it in 1972 are worth re-visiting in this official YouTube video from the International Olympic Committee: http://youtu.be/c2NGqI6FqeQ
For Krista’s Photo Challenge: Yellow, and Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Golden
Sedona Creek
Wishing all my friends in the States a very Happy 4th of July with this painting of a creek in Sedona, Arizona.
After a year blogging with the Twenty Eleven Theme I am trying out McKinley. I like its uncluttered zen-like quality with its great photo clarity. Love to hear your thoughts.
Have a Happy Abstract Wednesday…
Bloggaversary
Today, May 19th, marks the One Year Anniversary of thechangingpalette.
Happy Birthday to me!
I started blogging one year ago as a complete novice with machupicchucountdown, in preparation for our trek to Machu Picchu, the adventure of a lifetime . With this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art, my recent painting of this archeological wonder seems to be the perfect way to celebrate the occasion.
Thank you to WordPress who make it all possible, to the great people at The Daily Post who have made me a better blogger (I hope), and to all of you who have been gracious enough to follow me on my journey. Over the year I have met so many of you in the blogosphere and have enjoyed your company as we have travelled together to distant lands and shared new adventures.
I look forward to Year Two of the thechangingpalette and very much hope that you will continue to join me on my journey. With best wishes…Andrew
This is knot: a painting – homage to Rene Magritte
I thought I would follow up my submission to the Daily Prompt: Make Me Smile with this homage to Rene Magritte’s painting Ceci nest pas une pipe.
Its partner piece is entitled not a painting or Ceci n’est pas une peinture in keeping with the homage, since it really isn’t a painting, but as you can see is indeed a knot…in a frame…which by the way is not for sale!
Finally, this week I submitted for the first time to the Weekly Writing Challenge. This week’s challenge is to write a story in exactly fifty words. I entitled it Knot at Home (sound familiar?) It is another homage, this one to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, as you will see if you visit the post on my other site theotherpalette.
OK…I think it’s time in the immortal words of George Burns to “Say Goodnight, Gracie”…
The Monday Bouquet: Feb 24
…dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandela…
First iPad Paintings
…inspired by the master, David Hockney…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers or Birth of a Painting
…Every painting tells a story and no more so than in the layers that lie beneath the finished work. My painting entitled Cypress Alleyway was inspired by a visit to Castello di Reschio in Umbria and a photograph I took of that glorious Italian landscape…
…Back home in my studio a canvas was stretched and gessoed, a charcoal sketch developed, loose thin layers of acrylic paint applied until, finally…
…I could feel the warmth of that Umbrian sun and I knew that I had arrived…
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