On another day of tragedy taking place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a message from our beautiful granddaughter whose radiant smile is lifting all of our spirits this weekend.
If only love was all you needed, but it certainly is a start.
all you need
family
the right road
This week’s Discover Challenge from WordPress “brings out the positive: tell us about a piece of advice you’ve received — and would like to share with others.”
Tony suggests making small loose drawings and washes as notes, and not to worry about the consequences. Some are very abstract but some became quite specific and more detailed as they developed, as you can see. Each was intended to convey the sense of a fork in the road with a choice of direction between the light and the dark.
The Right Road 14.7.16
When I was a young boy my beloved grandfather said to me:
” In life Andrew there are always two roads, the right road and the wrong road.
Make sure you always choose the right one.”
His advice has stayed with me all of my life and echoed in my mind over the years whenever an important decision has needed to be made or a life-changing direction to be followed. It has been the best advice a young boy could have ever have hoped.
To complement this week’s Discover Challenge, and particularly as this month I am working through Tony Smibert’s Painting Landscapes from your Imagination, and also painting as part of Worldwatercolormonth, I thought I would continue the exercises of Chapter 8 in the book with imagined images that reflect the spirit of my grandfather’s advice to me.
Tony suggests making small loose drawings and washes as notes, and not to worry about the consequences. Some are very abstract but some became quite specific and more detailed as they developed, as you can see. Each was intended to convey the sense of a fork in the road with a choice of direction between the light and the dark.
This last image is perhaps the darkest of all and reflects what might have been.
Dedicated to the memory of my wonderful grandpa from his grandson,
now a besotted grandpa himself.
the birthday girl
Happy First Birthday to our beautiful granddaughter
whose birth we were celebrating a year ago today.
Love, love, love.
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: Future
This week Jen asks us to…“share an image that represents the potential of things to come.”
No surprise to those of you who follow my blog that I would choose a picture of our beautiful granddaughter who this weekend is driving the most economical car of the future that runs on nothing but pure love.
Happy Easter
What could be happier than spending it with our beautiful Granddaughter,
who is nine months old today, and her mummy and daddy 🙂
Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love
Those of you who follow my blog will not be surprised at my interpretation of one love today.
WPC: State of Mind
For this week’s photo challenge Ben reminds us that, “Every photo we take says something about our emotions at the moment of taking it.” His challenge this week is to “…share an image where you see a particularly strong connection between what we see and what you felt as you pressed that shutter button on your camera or phone.”
Our beautiful granddaughter is 8 months old today and when I took this photo of her on my iPhone two days ago my state of mind was simply one that was full of love, joy and gratitude.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic
With our beautiful granddaughter visiting this weekend I couldn’t be more optimistic.
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