Can’t quite put into words what this trip to New Mexico means to me each summer. Everyone finds their own story.
Join me in June to paint and draw and ponder a different way to travel.
Taos NM.
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So nice to spend some quality time with this gorgeous work by Ferdinand Hodler at @cincyartmuseum this afternoon. Divine color work filled with subtleties and compositional interest. I find myself fascinated by the process evident in this painting. Can you spot where there might have been more figures? I did!
#ferdinandhodler#masterstudy#carandache Thanks @carriejjp for your love of Hodler’s work and sending me down the 🐇 🕳️ of this Swiss painter’s work. And thanks @aprileightsongsandstories for the nudge to get out the door, in spite of this lingering head cold 🤧
Registration is still open for this summer’s workshop in Taos, New Mexico at beautiful @mabeldodgeluhanhouse2
We will learn to capture our travel experiences in a small book with a few colors and lines. Join us!
Still pondering Monday’s eclipse. Back in 2017, I wrote the following in a blog post and it still rings true:
“There are times in our lives when the universe seems to hold its breath for a few moments. If we are fortunate, and if perhaps we have taken the time and care to be paying proper attention, we can catch a little whiff of the Otherworld in these auspicious times.
Still points in life are found in the usual, expected places – the moment a baby is born and draws it’s first breath, or at the bedside of a loved one in the process of a peaceful passing on. I’ve witnessed a fair number of both of these scenarios and for a time immediately following these life changing moments, the world doesn’t seem quite it’s usual self. There is a palpable divinity in everything somehow. It is as if a veil is lifted for a time and we are Reminded. In a more reverent and perfect world, perhaps we could feel this in the day-to-day, yes?
I find it difficult to express the Otherworldliness that this eclipse provided our merry band of sky-watchers. The mere shift of the light was the very same I’d heard described (but never quite witnessed) in all the stories of Faerie-land. Time stood still. We marveled and wept at the cosmic beauty we had the great fortune to behold in this very moment. Life itself is a miracle really and moments such as this remind us in a way that is nearly heart-breaking.
I could go on and on. But it is difficult to convey. Perhaps Annie Dillard says it best in this quote from her article from 1982:
‘Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.’ “
#eclipse#totality#blogger#artistsoninstagram
We are but specks of stardust in the cosmos really and it’s nice to witness a stunning reminder of this humble smallness in the Big Picture of things.
We ventured to Evansville Indiana to spend some time with @bogard_jack and the @evvphil (wonderful pops offering featuring the music of Louis Armstrong!) and to sink into a few moments of totality. Evansville as a town does not disappoint. And, frankly neither do the cosmos. Thanks to @bogeysurf for constant company and @beampaints for the interpretation tools capable of capturing this magnificent spectacle of natural wonders. #eclipse2024
Sketching beautiful Antigua alongside a fabulous group of fellow artists. We honor this place with our spirit of close attention while we make new friends with one another and locals we encounter along the way. This is powerful, magical, life changing work.
#amybogardtraveljournalworkshop#antiguaguatemala#traveljournal#travelsketching
Hallooo from Antigua Guatemala. See link in bio for more photos. I’ll be posting mostly free writings while I’m here. Thanks to those who support my work over there on Patreon!!
