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sketch no. 205
Filed under: 366 sketches, sketch Tagged: art, birds, drawing, ink, island, landscape, ocean, sketchbook, sun, waves
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365 good days: #38
A rainbow over the ocean, how does that not make any day a little brighter? Filed under: 365 good days Tagged: camera +, hill, island, nature, ocean, rainbow
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365 good days: #46
Summer is coming. I know it is only mid-February, but hints of summer are in the air. The sun is starting to feel warmer, the scent of flowers is on the ocean breeze. I love how my eyes subtly ache...
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commission: never give up hope
I was really excited to create this recently commissioned piece. My client and his family are scheduled to leave the island in the next couple of months and he wanted something meaningful to...
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365 good days: #119
Today is beautiful and sunny. It is my first day off this week, and even though I am cleaning, running errands, and doing laundry–I am happy to have slept in, and woke up to this gorgeous sunshine....
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my love of a quiet island life…
Local village festivals are a beautifully quaint and genuine part of summer life on Terceira. I have seen flags, branches, flowers and quilts decorate roadside, fences, streets, balconies and...
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image progression: …the beauty, left behind
A couple of months ago, I was asked to take part in a local group exhibition commemorating the earthquake that struck Terceira on January 1, 1980. Many of the abandoned spaces captured in my Sonhos...
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image progression: i used to belong
Filed under: acrylic painting, art Tagged: acrylic, colorful, fish, intuitive painting, island, leaves, nature, ocean, paint, seashell, water
View Articleat four months
Terceira is a gorgeous small island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. I knew nothing about this island (and impressively little about the Azores in general) until my husband told me his next duty...
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We step out of my black Austin mini and walk toward the green overgrowth right off the rural street. My mother and I step over a shallow ditch once intended for drainage, and over a low stone fence....
View Article2011: sonhos melancolia (melancholy dreams)
Artist Statement: Terceira (a Portuguese island in the Azores) has a seemingly endless amount of abandoned buildings; I adore them. An earthquake struck the island near Angra de Heroismo in 1980. I...
View Articleartist date: june 2012
My June artist date was a trip to the beach in Praia de Vitoria. This was my first time going to the beach this summer. I love going to the beach with friends, but I also truly enjoy lying in the...
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