Palettescape 20.7.16
The details of today’s palette demonstrate how serendipity
can so often create the best landscapes of all.
Worldwatercolormonth Day 20
Weekly Photo Challenge: Details
Weekly Photo Challenge
Looking up on the Admiralty Trail in the Pacific Spirit Regional Park in Vancouver on a beautiful Spring day in April this year. You can see more photos of these spectacular leafy canopies from our trail walk in spring forward fall back, and the same trail decked out in glorious autumnal colors last October in Boundaries.
For this week’s Photo Challenge: Opposites Ben invites us to “show how opposites can tell a story about people, places, or objects. The tension can reside in what you choose to show — old vs. new, big vs. small, dark vs. light — or in how you frame and design your shot.
In this photo of the work table in my studio, which I think meets Ben’s criteria, the two watercolour paintings opposite each other are of different views of the McDowell Sonoran Reserve in Arizona. I have also submitted this today as part of a post for Worldwatercolor month under the title “Be your own painter,” where you can read more about the story behind the title.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve 2
This magnificent carving by the late great Haida artist Bill Reid, entitled The Raven and The First Men, can be seen in the Bill Reid Rotunda of the Museum of Anthropology on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
The stunning beauty of this work with all of its majestic curves is truly breathtaking and you can read about its meaning on the Bill Reid Foundation web site.
It seems the perfect photographic way with which to celebrate National Aboriginal Day today.
The sensational sinuous curves of Antelope Canyon, Arizona
This photo from Lower Antelope Canyon will be familiar to those of you who follow thechangingpalette. Our visit there just over a year ago was simply spectacular and I was greatly honoured when Cheri featured the mesh gallery I created from the trip in The Daily Post’s Photos We Loved last September.
More curves to follow.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure
Surely nothing can be more pure than our beautiful granddaughter whom, as those of you who follow thechangingpalette know, I love more than anything in the world, and who will be one year old this month.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers
“Numbers are everywhere” says Ben for this week’s Photo Challenge.
They certainly are and within a few minutes in the studio today I realized I was surrounded by them. On pens and pencils, paints and brushes,
boxes and cases…they were just about everywhere I looked.
A new champion takes the stage
7-5, 6-4
The numbers spell Garbine Muguruza the new French Open Champion at Roland-Garros today. What a match! What a future!
Photo taken from the television during the broadcast by NBC sports
Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant
“Rejoice! It’s the end of the week” says Michelle “and time for a celebratory photo challenge.”
What could be more celebratory than all the colour and joy of the festivities in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas leading up to Inti Raymi, the Inca festival of the winter solstice, which we had the good fortune of experiencing during our memorable visit to Peru, and of course Machu Picchu, in 2013.
Perhaps also a moment to be personally jubilant as it is exactly three years ago when I started blogging just before we embarked on our Peruvian adventure. It’s been a great ride and long may it continue 🙂
Face-off
Face-off – the photo.
The title of today’s post will soon become evident. Since this week’s Photo Challenge is all about faces it seemed appropriate to begin with this photo of my pencil box with the iconic portrait of Mono Lisa on its lid. It caught my eye as I was in the process of cleaning my white porcelain palette, still with its copse and rubbers image from a few days ago.
Seeing Mona Lisa looking at me in with those eyes that seem to follow you wherever you are, and clearly with this week’s Photo Challenge still in my mind, suddenly it seemed like a good idea to paint her onto the half cleaned tile.
Face-off – the painting
Mission accomplished, time for her to go.
Face-off – the movie
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