Robinson Preserve, Bradenton, Florida
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Rainy season
Cloud layers over the Manatee River
Bayou
Inspired by the gorgeously ever-evolving Still Outside Authority and Kestrelart, did some experimenting with acrylic paint over charcoal drawing. This was the least unsatisfying attempt. Realize how much I love oil painting!
Living and dying
One of the dead trees where the buzzards like to perch at Neil Preserve in Bradenton, Florida
Handsome
Gumbo Limbo at Robinson Preserve, Bradenton, Florida. One of my all-time favorite trees, native here. Soon I’ll paint one to capture the gleaming, tawny-red muscles of this handsome man.
Uprights
Palmettos along the pier in St. Petersburg, Florida
Subtropical park
Cedar tree at the new park on the old pier in St. Petersburg, Florida (with my new sketch meetup group!)
Close
Edge of the Manatee River, Bradenton, Florida
Canopy
San Mateo, Costa Rica
Refuge
Lighthouse Beach, Annisquam, Gloucester, Mass. (4×6″ oil on watercolor-paper postcard)
If we consider experience like a raging sea, in the middle of the sea there is a little island with a lighthouse on it, showing everyone who is lost at sea where to take refuge, where there is dry land, where it is safe. This patch of land is called ‘now’.
Normally we think that our suffering is in the now and so we try to escape our suffering by going into the past and the future. Actually, it’s only when we think of the past and future that we suffer. The now is the place where we’re safe.
—Rupert Spira
Art for Tiny Houses 