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Discover Challenge: Portraits

August 11, 2016Art, Uncategorized#discoverWP, Art, Art studio, drawing, pencil drawing, portraits, weekly photo challenge, WPDiscoverAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

For this week’s Discover Challenge Michelle asks us to “…share a portrait.”

I loved this challenge as it took me to the bottom drawer in the studio once again to re-discover drawings of mine from many years ago, some from my schoolboy days in the sixties. The feature portrait of course is of my wife and daughter, just a few months old in 1976, who now forty years later has a beautiful baby daughter of her own.

After delving through the files and folders here is a selection of the portraits
some of whom you may well recognize.

…and just one more for my daughter.

Je suis, I am

June 29, 2016Photo Essay, UncategorizedArt studio, Istanbul, Remembrance, WPDiscoverAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

It was the first time, and it wouldn’t be the last.

On January 7th 2015 I spelled out Je Suis Charlie on my studio floor. It was the first time. Six days later on January 11th, as millions marched around the world, I used my palette to express solidarity in the best way I knew how. Later in the year on November 14th it became necessary once again to turn to my palette and to write the three words, Je suis Paris. Then on March 22nd of this year I became Belge et Bruxelles, and as recently as June 12th, Orlando.

Today…

With a heavy heart and in response to this week’s Discover Challenge: Opening line

remembering dad

June 19, 2016photography, UncategorizedFather's Day, photography, postaday, Remembrance, WPDiscoverAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

Happy Father’s Day with loving memories of our wonderful dad.

a day like no other

June 5, 2016Photo Essay, photography, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, blogging, Colitis, Crohn's Disease, gutsy walk, photography, postaday, weekly photo challenge, WPDiscoverAndrew Seal View all 36 comments

Today has been a day full of honour, gratitude and inspiration.

Where to start?

Perhaps I’ll use the words of Dylan Thomas from the opening of his great poem Under Milk Wood, “To begin at the beginning…”

The day began with a message from WordPress Discover on Twitter that my post “From Yardwork to Artwork” was being featured today as an editor’s pick.

discover iii

I had received an email a week ago from Krista, one of WordPress’s great Editors, informing me that she had made the selection and I wrote back to thank her and to say how honoured I was. Her weekly photo challenges are always so enjoyable as you all know, so a big, big thank you once again Krista.

This week’s Photo Challenge is all about Numbers, which certainly applies to today with my reaching over 1000 followers on The Changing Palette…

1000

…so I extend my gratitude to all of my wonderful followers for staying around for so long, and to those of you who have joined today in response to the post on WordPress Discover, a special welcome. I will be replying to all of your great comments over the next few days, so stay tuned.

Finally, the inspiration today was from all those taking part in this year’s Gutsy Walk for Crohn’s Disease and Colitis. I walk every year and wouldn’t miss it. This year it was held at Trout Lake in Vancouver on an unusually hot Sunday morning, but as always everyone was in the greatest of spirits. A special thank you to all of the volunteers, organizers and sponsors.