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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:44 PM Post #2625971
| This is a watercolor I did of my sister's koi pond. It is hanging in a doctor's office in Kansas City (or is it Lenexa or Overland Park...can't remember exactly which). 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:45 PM Post #2625976
| This is a watercolor of a Bearded Iris that I did for our wedding inviations...then I never got around to sending them out. Ooops! 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:47 PM Post #2625981
| Here are a pair of mixed media pieces I did for my son's room. The paintings are watercolor on white mulberry paper (couldn't find rice paper at the time) . The collage portion of the pieces are made of handmade papers. 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:48 PM Post #2625984
| Gloriosa lilies...from my sister's garden. Acrylics on canvas.
Edited to correct typos
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:50 PM Post #2625988
| Roadside wildflowers. Acrylics on canvas. This piece was donated to a fund raiser acution for the botanical gardens. I was told it was one of the hottest bid items in the auction. 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:51 PM Post #2625992
| Mexican Fire Vine. Watercolor
edited for typos again...LOL!
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:52 PM Post #2625997
| Passionflower vine. From my sister's garden. Watercolor. 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:54 PM Post #2626004
| Sunflowers. Acrlyic on canvas. Had a tough time photographing this one as the flash kept bouncing off the painting. Finally had to photograph it from an angle. This piece is hanging in a home in Illinois. 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:55 PM Post #2626007
| Blue Buttons. Acryllic on canvas 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:57 PM Post #2626010
| These next four are a series of small acryllic pieces that I did for my son's room. The bamboo collages hang over his mantle...these smaller ones were meant to hang on either side of his bed, but won't work because of the layout of the room. Once we get the room repainted and all, I will figure out a place to hang them.
Bamboo Fortune
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:58 PM Post #2626011
| Bamboo Luck 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:58 PM Post #2626014
| Bamboo Happiness 
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BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
06:59 PM Post #2626017
| Bamboo Health 
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Mahnot
DFW area, TX
(Zone 7b)
August 15, 2006
07:13 PM Post #2626045
| Very nicely done, Bama. The bamboo with collage for
your son's room is particularly delicate. I love the flop of
your sunflowers - so natural looking, and the gloriosa
lilies are quite striking.
I see you did the Mexican Fire Vine in watercolor.
Very nicely done. I've never been able to do watercolor
properly and finally gave up.
I'd be proud to hang any one of these on my walls. |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
07:24 PM Post #2626080
| Thank you so much Anita. I've never had formal lessons. I took one art class in high school. The teacher sat at his desk and drew or painted the whole period...never gave a single lesson. And when I did a painting using carved styrofoam affixed to the canvas, he gave me a bad grade and said it wasn't 'art'.
I got my 'training' from being engaged to a professional artist for 2.5 years...and then from buying all the old Walter Foster books I could find on the subjects that interested me. They have changed the books in the last few years...they are smaller and they are a lot more expensive. I had lost all of them when I left my son's dad...so I went on Ebay and replaced them for $1 each...or less. Now I have one of the best Walter Foster librairies around...LOL! |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
August 15, 2006
07:42 PM Post #2626135
| You taught yourself well! Lovely work.
As for your high school teacher, it seems that sometimes "those who can't" can't even teach! |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 15, 2006
07:49 PM Post #2626156
| Really! I was so depressed after that I didn't even try again till I was 19. I can't help but wonder if he was just a bad artist, or if he was mad that I used an unorthodox medium that he had never thought of using. What he didn't realize was that my parents couldn't afford a lot of art supplies...and canvases were not high on the priority list. I had to make do...so I got creative and used styrofoam which was FREE...and then I had the idea that if I were going to use the styrofoam as a canvas, it would be cool to take one item from the foreground of the piece and carve it out of styrofoam so that it literally popped out of the piece. Maybe he thought I ws beign lazy in carving the piece instead of trying to make it realistic by spednign more time on the details. But if he had just asked me what I was thinking, he would have realized that it was not laziness. Heck, I had to recarve that piece four times before I got it right. LOL! |
Mahnot
DFW area, TX
(Zone 7b)
August 15, 2006
08:35 PM Post #2626314
| Bama, obviously your teacher had never read Kipling,
one of my all time favorite authors:
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The Conundrum of the Workshops
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When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art ?"
Wherefore he called to his wife, and fled to fashion his work anew -
The first of his race who cared a fig for the first, most dread review;
And he left his lore to the use of his sons -- and that was a glorious gain
When the Devil chuckled "Is it Art ?" in the ear of the branded Cain.
They fought and they talked in the North and the South, they talked and they fought in the West,
Till the waters rose on the pitiful land, and the poor Red Clay had rest -
Had rest till that dank blank-canvas dawn when the dove was preened to start,
And the Devil bubbled below the keel: "It's human, but is it Art ?"
They builded a tower to shiver the sky and wrench the stars apart,
Till the Devil grunted behind the bricks: "It's striking, but is it Art ?"
The stone was dropped at the quarry-side and the idle derrick swung,
While each man talked of the aims of Art, and each in an alien tongue.
The tale is as old as the Eden Tree - and new as the new-cut tooth -
For each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows he is master of Art and Truth;
And each man hears as the twilight nears, to the beat of his dying heart,
The Devil drum on the darkened pane: "You did it, but was it Art ?"
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg,
We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg,
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art ?"
When the flicker of London sun falls faint on the Club-room's green and gold,
The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mould -
They scratch with their pens in the mould of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start,
For the Devil mutters behind the leaves: "It's pretty, but is it Art ?"
Now, if we could win to the Eden Tree where the Four Great Rivers flow,
And the Wreath of Eve is red on the turf as she left it long ago,
And if we could come when the sentry slept and softly scurry through,
By the favour of God we might know as much - as our father Adam knew!
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GD_Rankin
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 15, 2006
08:36 PM Post #2626315
| Yeah I'm think'n that teacher was just be'n a jerk . . . you obviously have talent and an eye for what you do . . . very nice work BamaBelle. Thanks for share'n :)
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nap
Depew, NY
(Zone 6a)
August 15, 2006
09:21 PM Post #2626500
| Wow. You're good. And I thought you only did kitty-voices! |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 16, 2006
02:42 PM Post #2629092
| Thanks all. Mahnot...I LOVE it. How did I miss that Kipling poem back in my poetry period???
Kitty voices are a nice hobby, but they don't pay the rent...LOL! |
Mahnot
DFW area, TX
(Zone 7b)
August 16, 2006
08:52 PM Post #2630060
| You missed it because no one teaches Kipling
any more. Also, I think mostly men read him, but he
has always been one of my favorites. |
grampapa
Wheatfield, NY
(Zone 6a)
August 16, 2006
10:35 PM Post #2630341
| They are all lovely, Bama. I really like the bamboo.
gram |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 17, 2006
04:02 AM Post #2630861
| Thank you Gram... |
aprilwillis
Missouri City, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 17, 2006
10:46 AM Post #2631476
| BamaBelle you are very talented! Those are wonderful paintings. |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 17, 2006
12:20 PM Post #2631762
| Thank you very much, April! Painting kept me sane for the last seven years when I couldn't have a garden. Now I"m so busy gardening and canning I have to wait till the winter to paint. LOL! |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
August 17, 2006
07:37 PM Post #2633038
| Kitty voices? |
nap
Depew, NY
(Zone 6a)
August 17, 2006
08:58 PM Post #2633284
| Over in the Pets Forum, there's quite a bit of "pet talk" going on. Cats are taking over and creating their own threads and having conversations with one another. With the help of their humans, of course. It's great stuff, funny. BamaBelle has allowed her cats some computer time there. |
BamaBelle
Headland, AL
(Zone 8a)
August 18, 2006
01:38 PM Post #2635456
| Meezer is the worst. He is quite loquacious. The other cats tend to more shy. Although Hobie and Lucy occasionally get on...especially if there is a hunky Tom cat on. Lucy has no comprehenshion of the term "Hard to get". |
