Gypsy Dance

The Fiddler plays
laugh,sing
mesmerise me with dizzy swirls of your skirt
dance
gypsy blood of passion
dance, dance
dance for the lust of gold
dance for my soul
dance for me gypsy

Gypsy Dance, music landscape

About This Painting:
Gypsy Dance 8x6 oil on RayMar panel ready to frame.

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Truban Squash

Turban squash, with its bizarre shapes, extravagant coloration and bulb like blossom end, is wonderful to paint,to feel,to write about.

I came to the bedroom
my towel of red and orange a turban squash on my damp hair

I stand a moment uncertain
where have those wiggle worm socks and worn flannel nightie gone
Like the popcorn and the wine on my night stand they comfort me

I sit cross legged in the middle of my bed
prizes found
turban crown, wine in hand, pop corn wedged between my legs,a book of romance and adventure at my side
Queen of fuzzy socks and worn flannel

I am comforted

Fall Harvest No.2,turban squash,vegetable,orange

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Fall Harvest No.2
10x12 oil on canvas mounted on hardwood panel

Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 10 in (30.5 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Inspiration for the Impossible

"The ruby-throated hummingbird is a wonder of migration. Every winter it makes an amazing journey. Some have been known to make a journey of 2500 miles or more, from Alaska to Central America.

Because of it, the hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible. It will teach you how to find the miracle of joyful living from your own life circumstances." Ted Andrews, Animal-
Hummingbird and Poppies

About This Painting:
Hummingbird and Poppies
8x10
oil on stretched canvas

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Carry your happiness

Only the artist, or the free scholar, carries his happiness within him. Ludwig vana Beethoven .

As an artist I paint daily, this is truly my happy time.

Pumpkin Pie al a Mode

About This Painting:
Pumpkin Pie A La Mode
6x8 oil on canvas mounted on hardboard (RayMar Panel

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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A kiss, Cone Flowers

A Kiss, Cone Flowers:

When objects in art just touch it is called a kiss. These cone flowers just kiss on the cheek in passing.

There are many kinds of kisses in life:

Butterfly, one of my favorites.

Cheek kisses, like your auntie used to give you.

Earlobe ones, those I hate.

Eye kisses, what ever. Finger kisses,oh so romantic.

Foot kisses, now that is a whole different subject.

Forehead kiss, like the kind an old lover gives on his way out.

French kisses, now your 16 and really know your way around kissing.

Fruity kisses, those I learn to give when I was in Montana. It was along time ago but I still remeber those sweet little kisses.

Hand Kisses, oh so European.

Hickey kisses, haven't seen that mush passion in years.

Mistletoe Kiss, oh yes I long for Christmas when lissing anyone is allowed if you have a little mistletoe.Note to self buy Mistletoe.

Letter kisses, only when you are 12 going on 13.

A kiss, Cone Flowers

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A Kiss, Cone Flowers
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
8x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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I had a Dream

I had a dream a few nights ago about a painting I had done. I tried to paint it last night but I think I missed a few things I now remember in the dream. I will try to work it out in water color then if I think I have the concept I will try it in oils.

Zinnias and Bumble Bee, flower garden

About This Painting:
Zinnias and Bumble Bee
watercolor
12x9

Delilah Smith, Michigan, USA

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $10 USD

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Creamsicle Martini

Trivia
1. Cherry is the No. 1 Popsicle ice pop flavor
2. Popsicle ice pop sticks have riddles on them, but you have to eat the whole ice pop to find the answer
3. During World War II, the Eighth Airforce Unit chose Popsicle ice pops as a symbol of American life
4. The very first “ice cream man” sold Popsicle ice pops from a horse-drawn cart to children in Nebraska
5. The Twin Popsicle ice pop was invented during The Great Depression, so two children could share an ice pop for a nickel
6. Some Popsicle ice pops are made from the outside in
7. Popsicle has several products based on popular cartoon and comic book characters, including Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants andSpider-ManCreamsicle
A childhood treat - with a kick!
Fill a mixing cup with 1/2 way with ice.

1/2 oz. Vodka or Orange Vodka
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Orange Juice
1 oz. Cream

Shake all ingredients well and strain into a cocktail glass.

Use a scoop of vanilla ice cream instead of cream & ice, and you've got a Dreamsicle. Serve in a large stem or hurricane glass. YUM!

Creamsicle Martini

About This Painting:
Creamsicle Martini
(I09-1053)

8x6
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
Delilah Smith, MIchigan USA

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Tulip Mania

All summer I have had my bag of bulbs ready
Tulips of every color
I dream of rows of pink and yellow
Kneeling now as if in prayer
I plant for hours
Snug in the deep warm earth
they will survive the cold winter
slow to awaken
rows of pink and yellow

Delilah Smith,Michigan, USA

Tulip Mania,large watercolor garden of tulips

About This Painting:
Tulip Mania
(I09-1052)
Watercolor on cold pressed watercolor paper
Very large watercolor painting 22x30


Media: watercolor
Size: 30 in X 22 in (76.2 cm X 55.9 cm)
Price: $700 USD

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Canned Tomato's

I am the little Red Hen
with a passion I tend my garden
planted the seeds
weeded the vines

Tomato's canned and sealed
tiny bits of sunshine in jars
warm my winter days with jelly bean color
orange,green,and red
brewed,stewed, and pureed too

Not one left behind
not one on the vine
all in mason jars for winter time
Vespers in the dark of the basement

Canned Tomato's

About This Painting:
Canned Tomato's
10x8
oil on hardboard

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $150 USD

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State of Relalxtion

State of relaxation was the title I gave to this painting while plien air painting on Little Travers Bay in Michigan. This sail boat was painted in plien air on a day that the rain was off and on all day long. I think the title reflex's the way I felt painting that day.

Today I am off to paint on a farm in Jackson county the day is sunny with no rain in site.

Me at my box or plien air easel.

En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.
Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became particularly important to the Impressionism. The popularity of painting en plein air increased in the 1870s with the introduction of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpaste tubes). Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil.
It was during this period that the "Box Easel", typically known as the French Box Easel, was invented. It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette, made treks into the forest and up the hillsides less onerous. Still made today, they remain a popular choice even for home use since they fold up to the size of a brief case and thus are easy to store

State of Relaxation

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State of Relaxation
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
8x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Delilah Smith,Michigan, USA

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Procrastination

Like most of you, I've got a long "to do" list.

There are just some days when I inevitably will avoid doing what I should be doing... I've been this way all my life and nothing short of a miracle or looming deadline is going to erase my tendency to procrastinate. Today I had tons of yard work that needed to be done and my office also needs to be cleaned. I can work on the organization of my office while watching a net flicks so that task will get started. I did paint today. I reworked a painting that I didn't care for the colors in, now I like it better now. So as they say,"keep the chicken flying" a quote Jack White master painter.
Chicken Pen

About This Painting:
Chicken Pen 9x12 oil on stretched canvas with staple free sides.

Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $200 USD

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Sailboats and Vineyards

Sailboats and Vineyards (I09-1044)

About This Painting:

I have been painting up north Michigan lately. We have been staying at different bed and breakfasts near wineries and vineyards that overlook Lake Michigan. The views are wonderful and as the day warms up out come the sail boats into the bay.
Sailboats and Vineyards
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas


Media: oil
Size: 36 in X 24 in (91.4 cm X 61 cm)
Price: $2000 USD

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Pears

Pears are so much fun to paint, I keep going back to them. I'm not sure which I like to paint more pears or peppers?

My tomato's are are ripe in the garden so I will be canning tomato's at some point today. I am a very visual person, what ever is in my visual field at the moment is the most real thing for me. So what ever activity I start has a lot to do with what I paint that day. I bet I end up with some paintings of tomato's before the day is over. Now off to the post office to ship paintings that have sold.

Pear

About This Painting:
Pear
8x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas.The back is wired and this painting can be hung as is or framed.

Delilah Smith, MICHIGAN, USA

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Expressions in Teal, 1020

In the mid 20th century during and after WWII American artist explored a new freedom in art they also tried new techniques this was the begining of Abstract Expressionism.Abstract Expressionism is suppose to invoke an emotion in the viewer.Today my emotions are in teal.
Abstract Expressionism has no distinct image instead you are looking at how someone feels how it comes across as action,color,and movement. My paintings are always full of color and movement but with this series of abstract work I am concentrating on how I feel at this moment.Today I feel Teal.

Delilah Smith,Michigan, USA

Expressions in Teal, 1020

About This Painting:
Expressions in Teal
Abstract Expressionism
This painting is done in oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas the sides have been painted and the back is wired. It may be hung as is or framed.

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 10 in (25.4 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $200 USD

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Expressions

Mark Rothko’s style is called colorfield painting.
His works consist of strong formal elements, such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale. The things every good painter uses.

Because a canvas is a two-dimensional surface, painting should avoid any illusion of three-dimensional representation. Even so, Rothko refused to be considered solely in these terms, arguing, “It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academic painting…. However, there is no such thing as good painting about nothing”.

Rothko believed that while flat, two-dimensional forms destroyed illusion, they also revealed truth.

What is the truth that Rothko attempted to reveal?
The titles of his paintings offer few answers, as Rothko begins to abandon conventional titles in 1947. Some critics have suggested that Rothko’s works refer to Western American landscape.

However, Rothko declared that there was no “landscape” in his art. Instead, Rothko argued that his paintings are “fully visible” to the viewer. They do not refer to anything else.

In other words, what you see is what you get. Ideally, the viewer would stand in front of his paintings, focusing on large fields of color and abstract forms, and come to terms with the self and his or her own scale. Colorfield painters believe that art could encourage the physical sensation of time and being there with the work.

I have started a series of colorful expressionist works.

The Color of Expression

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Media: oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas
Size: 24 in X 24 in (61 cm X 61 cm)
Price: $720 USD

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Today I painted in an intensely emotional manner. I emphasized not an objecst but subjective emotions that expressed my mood.

Expressions

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Expressions
10x10
This is an oil painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas with painted sides.The back is wired and the painting can be hung as is or framed.
Delilah Smith, Michigan, USA

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 10 in (25.4 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $200 USD

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Frankfort Michigan

It was a warm sunny day today to bike the trails of Michigan. I had to stop in the park at Frankfort and enjoy the children playing in the big waves coming in off of Lake Michigan.

There is a lot to see in Frankfort, Michigan and they have a wonderful bike trail there. We visited the old coast gard center which is being converted to a new art center.

It is cherry season in Michigan right now. The season is late this year. I put some sweet Michigan cherries on the top of my cupcakes as I ate some nice fresh ones, always good to eat.

Cherries on Top

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Cherries on Top
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
4x6
Delilah Smith,Michigan, USA

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 4 in (15.2 cm X 10.2 cm)
Price: $50 USD

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Tvedten Fine Art

Tvedten Fine Art Gallery holds an invitational event every year in August. The date of the paint out for the Wet Paint Fresh Ink is Saturday Aug 8 2009. The opening reception is 6:30-8:30. The Little Travers Conservancy will recieve 20% of the sales from the paintout.
I hope to see you at the opening

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Crooked Tree Arts Center Paint Out

Sail Boats in the bay.













Crooked Tree Arts Center 461 East Mitchel Street, Petoskey Michigan.







The day was overcast and looked like rain would start at any time.








I liked the red sail.

I painted this lone sail boat.

The opening night at the gallery.














Two finished paintings are now on display at the gallery until Aug 30th.


This painting I started the day of the paintout but I got rained out just before I finished it. I went back to my room and finished it the next day.

Red Sails in the Sun

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Red Sails in the Sun
8x10
oil on canvas mounted on hardwood

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $150 USD

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Paint out 2009 Petosky Michigan

There will be artists painting all around Petoskey on Saturday August 1, 2009 for Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Fourth Annual Paint-Out.
Beginning at 8 a.m. artists will gather to have canvases or paper stamped to verify that the material they will be painting on was blank in the morning of the paint-out.
I will be there again this year bright and early for the annual paint out.

They will then venture anywhere in the Petosky area to begin a day of plein air painting. As the sun moves across the sky, artists will be painting and capturing a day in the life of northern Michigan on canvas. The completed artwork must be returned framed and ready to hang between 4-6 p.m. that same day.

At 6 p.m. there will be a wine and cheese reception celebrating all of the work created that day.

All work will be for sale and work will be on display until August 30th. If you can't make the reception on Saturaday and meet a wonderful group of artist from the US but will be in the area later stop in and see the wonderful plien air paintings.

This paint-out is a great way to join artists with the community and celebrate the beauty and talent of this region.

Delilah Smith Michigan, USA
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Cows in the Pasture No 3

When I was a kid on the farm July and August were hay baling time. Always on the hottest day of the year we would cut and bale the hay because it had to be dry. Moisture in the bails would cause heat which after being put in the barn could make the hay catch on fire. I had an uncle who had bales do that and almost burnt down his barn.

When I was a kid the bales were square now most hay bales are big and round. I like the round bales, they don't have to be loaded on wagon and taken into the barn like the old square bales that I remember. My job as a kid was unloading the wagons and putting the hay unto the elevator that took the bails up to the top of the barn where they were stored for use in the winter. Nice memories but so glad I don't have to do the work any more. Its much more enjoyable just to paint them.
Cows in the Pasture #3

About This Painting:
oil on stretched canvas 11x14

Media: oil
Size: 14 in X 11 in

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$400.00

Delilah Smith Michigan USA


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Just Peachy

For those of you who know me, you know I live on ice cream and there is nothing like fresh peach ice cream.

Peach Ice Cream
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups milk
4 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons vanilla
4 cups whipping cream
2 1/2 cups crushed or pureed peaches, sweetened to taste

Preparation:Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in top of double boiler; gradually blend in milk. Cook over hot water, stirring occasionally, for about 12 to 15 minutes, or until thickened. Stir a small amount of the hot mixture into the beaten eggs, then return egg mixture to pan with remaining hot mixture. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, for 4 to 5 minutes, until it is about as thick as pudding. Chill thoroughly, about 3 hours. Stir vanilla and cream into the chilled mixture. Pour into a 1-gallon ice cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer's directions. Remove dasher and stir in crushed or pureed sweetened peaches; repack ice cream freezer with 1 part rock salt to 6 parts crushed ice and let ripen for 2 hours.

Just Peachy

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Just Peachy
6x8
oil oncanvas mounted on hardboard

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Sunshine Fruit

Sunshine Fruit

About This Painting:

Habits reap favorable results. It seems that simple habits contribute more to success than luck, happenstance, or even a favoring economy. As artists, we need to regularly refresh the habit of truly looking, truly seeing and truly understanding. Its not a big deal. It's just a habit.

Recent studies on the nature of genius indicate that self-generated habits are mighty muscles indeed. While all of us who wish to master specific skills need to tailor our habits accordingly, here are a few for starters: Squeeze out paint in the morning before your coffee is cold.Program creative work balanced with rest, exercise and study. Train yourself to be regular, punctual and workmanlike.Shoot down your lazy tendencies before they shoot you.

Habits, It seems contribute more to success than luck, happenstance, or even the economy.
Sunshine Fruit
6x12
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas


Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 6 in (30.5 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Ann Arbor Art Fair

The Ann Arbor Art Fair has started here in Michigan it runs from July 15-18 so if you have stopped in to view hundreds of the best artist in the US it is time to make the trip.




There is live music so you can take a break rest your feet and hear some wonderful bands play in the shade of the tent.






Or if you would rather hear the music from these sculptures. There is lots to see and hear.






Or if you like your sculptures live this one was so interest to watch. He would blow you a kiss if you tipped him. ( the only time he moved.)







There was a little wind on Wednesday when I visited the fair so these wonderful wind sculptures were in their glory.




Take the time to visit you will be glad you did.


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At the Beach-SOLD

At the Beach

About This Painting:
At the Beach
30x40
oil on stretched canvas

SOLD

Media: oil
Size: 40 in X 30 in (101.6 cm X 76.2 cm)
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Morning Glories

Morning Glories flowers open only during the morning and then fade by early afternoon, but there are an abundance of buds ready to open on each successive morning over many days. I feel like a Morning Glory somedays, up bright a cherrful then fadeing with not much energy left by the end of the day.

Morning Glories No.2

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Morning Glories no.2
12x9
watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Inspiration

When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare
When the rose is faded, Memory may still dwell on Her beauty shadowed, And the sweet smell gone. That vanishing loveliness, That burdening breath, No bond of life hath then, Nor grief of death. 'Tis the immortal thought Whose passion still Makes the changing The unchangeable. Oh, thus thy beauty, Loveliest on earth to me, Dark with no sorrow, shines And burns, with thee.

Inspiration of Roses

My inspiration comes from nature and the things I see every day. What inspires you?

Inspiration of Roses

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Inspiration of Roses
12x9
watercolor on 140 lb coldpressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Day Lillies No.3

The bloom of the day lily is glorious,but gone in just a day. I plant the bulbs,dig my fingers deep into the soil to make sure they are secure in their bed of soil. I pull the weeds and feed them for this one day of glory. When the moment comes their flames of orange wave proudly on the tall thin stakes of green.I know it was the worth the effort for this moment.
Daylilies

About This Painting:
Daylilies
10x8 oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas


Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $150 USD

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Delilah Smith, Michigan , United States


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North Carolina

I have been traveling and painting again. I love North Carolina. A state rich in history it was first attempted to be colonized by the Spanish and then later the British. North Carolina,as a plantation state had a long history of slavery.

Yesterday I traveled to Raleigh , the capital of the state and a city know for it lovely oaks. The park in the down town area boasts a large sculpture of an acorn. While I was in Raleigh I visited "Art Space. The building houses 28 working artist along with exhibitions and education class' in the arts taught by the residence artist.

The minute I walked into Art Space I thought of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria Virginia that I toured last year. Art Space is much smaller having 28 working artist where the Torpedo Factory has 82 working artist the feel is similar. I spoke to some of the artist there and they said that, yes it had been modeled after the torpedo factory. If I were an artist in the area I would want to be in this space the artistic juice was flowing here.

If you visit Raleigh the Art Space is a must see and while you are there stop and see the gallery of watercolorists Nancy Meadow Taylor.

Seahorses and Bubbles

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Seahorses and Bubbles
12x9
watercolor on 140 lb watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Jazz

The origin of the word Jazz did not refer to music but it was a slang term that started on the West coast referring to the way a baseball was pitched.

Jazz

About This Painting:
Jazz
12x9
watercolor on 300 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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