31 Saturday Dec 2011
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Art, Design, Emerson, Happy New Year, Journal, Photography, postaweek 2011
© Joan Currie - My Copper & Stainless Steel Journal
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Emerson
My journal is filled with wonderful memories of this year.
Wishing you and your loved ones all the very best for 2012!
30 Friday Dec 2011
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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!
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20 Tuesday Dec 2011
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© Joan Currie - Watercolor
Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. – Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s score for the Nutcracker ballet is my favorite music of the holiday along with a dozen classic carols.
18 Sunday Dec 2011
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A Holly Jolly Christmas, Art, Baking, beautiful, Christmas, Christmas baking, Crafts, Gingerbread House, Michael Bublé, Norman Vincent Peale, postaweek 2011
Have a holly, jolly Christmas,
It’s the best time of the year,
I don’t know if there’ll be snow,
But have a cup of cheer.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks – sung by Michael Bublé
Voilà – this year’s gingerbread house thanks to very thick royal frosting!
Photo: James Currie
04 Sunday Dec 2011
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For a moment Anne’s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes
faltered under Gilbert’s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face.
from Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I always have great hopes for a romantic holiday season.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
from Color by Christina Rossetti
A pear – my favorite shape of late.
Watercolor © Joan Currie
05 Saturday Nov 2011
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© Joan Currie – Watercolor
And who do you think you are
Running ’round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
from Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri
He kept only my heart.
28 Wednesday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie - Charcoal on Paper
It’s a natural state. I’ve seen more vulgarity in people wearing clothes.
Laetitia Casta
Strut it!
02 Thursday Jun 2011
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America's Top Model, Art, Degas, Hopper, Israels, Khrystyana Kazakova, Matisse, Miller, Photography, postaweek 2011, Reclining Nudes, Renoir
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…the artist is he who can take a piece of flint and wring out of it drops of attar of roses. – Walter Sickert
In celebration of the beautiful feminine form, here are my favorite reclining nude paintings – most of them by the Impressionists:
1. Reclining Nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2. Reclining Nude by Richard Edward Miller
3. Reclining Nude by Richard Edward Miller
4. Reclining Nude by Isaac Israels
5. Autumn by Frederick Carl Frieseke
6. Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude) by Henri Matisse
7. Reclining Nude by Jean Frédéric Bazille
8. Olympia by Edouard Manet
9. After the Bath or Reclining Nude by Edgar Degas
10. Reclining Nude by Edward Hopper
11. Reclining Nude by Douglas Hofmann
12. The Reclining Shepherdess by Berthe Morisot
13. Reclining Nude by Giovanni Boldini
14. Reclining Nude with Mirror by Delphin Enjolras
15. Reclining Nude by István Szőnyi
16. Reclining Woman Magenta Green and Orange by Beverly Brown
17. Reclining Nude by Amedeo Modigliani
18. Nude with Hands behind Head by Amedeo Modigliani
19. Nude by Salvador Dali
20. Mornington Crescent Nude by Walter Sickert
31 Tuesday May 2011
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Art, Brooker, Corot, Enjoiras, Fashion, Fragonard, Monet, Orpen, Perugini, Photography, postaweek 2011, Renoir, Sargent, Ukushu Khrystyna, van Gogh, Women reading
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir loved to paint women and girls engaged in everyday activities, especially reading. Below are beautiful paintings of women and girls reading:
1. Woman Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2. Reading Woman by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
3. Two Young Girls Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
4. Young Woman Reading By A Window by Delphin Enjolras
5. A Favorite Book by Delphin Enjolras
6. A Woman Reading by Claude Monet
7. The Novel Reader by Vincent van Gogh
8. Reading Lesson by Auguste Toulmouche
9. Girl Reading or in the Orangery by Charles Perugini
10. Girl reading by Franz Eybi
11. American Girl Reading by George Cochran Lambdin
12. A Young Woman Reading by Jean-Honore Fragonard
13. Woman Reading in a Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
14. Woman Reading by David Park
15. The Window Seat by Sir William Orpen
16. Grace Reading at Howth Bay by Sir William Orpen
17. The Treasured Volume by Harry Brooker
18. Compagnie by Escha Van den bogerd
19. Reading (The Artist’s Sister) by Berthe Morisot
20. Simplon Pass: Reading by Singer Sargent
21. The Little Convalescent by Eastman Johnson
22. Fire Opal by Laura Coombs Hills
23. Reading on the Rocks by John George Brown
Model: Ukushu Khrystyna
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