Tess and Maya

I had a lovely surprise yesterday.    Tess and Maya (the two models in this image) have returned from S. America after three years and will be modelling again this summer….

This prompted me to tell the story of Tess and Maya.

Three years ago, when I was doing a lot of life painting at the Boathouse Studios,  I arrived to find a  lovely young model accompanied by her Mother who was looking after her new baby.

During the break, the young girl said that she would have to go home because of the baby….and so it was suggested that they model together.

The studio was very warm and quiet.   Little Maya settled in with her Mother and totally relaxed….

This was quite a fast watercolour…..and here you will see that I am adding a dark into the negative space, surrounding Mother and child. 

Which leads me to the final frame.

Such a beautiful experience….and so now I look forward to painting Tess and Maya again, only this time little Maya is three years old….

Another one of those days when the magical hummingbirds were definitely hovering:)

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Tip toe through the tulips…….

A friend brought me some tulips this weekend which I am now enjoying.

Observing the tulips got me thinking about humankind’s fickleness and need for status symbols!

Today the  tulip is simply a tulip…..a lovely flower usually originating from Holland and one that we enjoy during spring time.

However, during the Dutch Golden Age, roughly spanning the 17th century, Tulip Mania, broke out with some single tulip bulbs selling for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. 

The tulip with its saturated intense petal colour became a status symbol.

The magical hummingbird flies free of such constraints, drinking from the sweet nectar of life. 

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The Seven Wonders of the World…..

How ironic that the  Seven Wonders of the World are free…..

Wishing everyone a beautiful day filled with these wonders and Magical Hummingbirds. 

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……or you stand still like the hummingbird………Henry Miller

When you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

 

The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realise it.  

The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.  – Henry Miller. 

 

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