Ah Painting!

What would be our lives without paintings? Dull, bland, and sad.

Painting is the oldest way of expressing human creativity in the process of applying color to a surface with a brush, a sponge, a rock, a knife, or own fingers. It appeared long before writing, around 25,000-30,000 years BP (Before the Present), when  hunters painted pictures on cave walls.

Nevertheless, some historians claim that the paintings at the Grotte Chauvet in France, which are the oldest in the world, are approximately 32,000 years old.

From the prehistoric cave paintings to Claude Monet's Seine Basin with Argenteuil (1872) the visual arts have come a long way; the impact on us, however, is the same: admiration, pleasure, and joy.

 

And now my small collection of oil and watercolor paintings, and ink pen drawings. None are made by me. Some are originals some very good copies. Enjoy!

What is about Life...

...that makes it worth living? I say it is the beauty in nature, people, things that surrounds us and last but not least in the human spirit. How many of you believe that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?" It is still true after so many centuries of existence. This adage first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek, then later was adopted by John Lyly, Shakespeare ("Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye"), Benjamin Franklin, and David Hume. Nevertheless, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, was the writer who created the idiom in its current form in 1878.

Welcome to my blog. Fill your spirit with images of my precious, inexpensive paintings, positive thoughts, and natural remedies.

Carpe Diem! Seize the moment! Wise men advised mankind centuries ago. Advice still stands.

Splendour in the Grass

What though the radiance

 which was once so bright

 Be now for ever taken from my sight,

 Though nothing can bring back the hour

 Of splendour in the grass,

 of glory in the flower,

 We will grieve not, rather find

 Strength in what remains behind;

 In the primal sympathy

 Which having been must ever be;

 In the soothing thoughts that spring

 Out of human suffering;

 In the faith that looks through death,

 In years that bring the philosophic mind.

-- William Wordsworth