OH WOW!   another sync moment

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Do you know of Bruce Lipton? 

Ha, You may already know more about Teilhard than I.....

49%?  how scary!  I do not understand why science cannot also be God Inspired.

I personally am one of those who believe duality is a misperception,  The Grand illusion.

And wonder if it really is necessary inorder to experience life in the human form...

like you, not only does painting provide a link, but to me shows the absolute connection  as One with Creator, As Creator

  thus my Question...what Inspires you... I'm sure you know the first meaning of Inspire...To Breath in...the Breath of God.

anyway, maybe this is not a subject for the comment section of our art pages...and then again...

By the way, I am not one who believes in God of Religion...I am more the believer of Quantum physics, The realm of Infinite possibilities... and why Can't God take this form I ask?

I'm a big fan of leary, named a child after him, but more recently I discovered Terrence McKenna and absolutely love him.   I do recall a time when I was on a job stripping stained paneling in an unventilated room...definitely interesting inspirations from the ethers....then a really bad headache....I quit the job...right after I tumbled from the ladder...

 I find whiskey(although I prefer wine) helps me with creative writing...... 

I had the most interesting coincidence happen today..Do you know who Pierre Teilhard De Chardin is?

they make house paint really really good these days...especially Benjamin Moore....but I usually only use it as a base...and often I protect my work with a matte varnish.  You  might be surprised if you knew all the different things I use...and some of my work has been around for 10- 15 years and still looks new. (i know that is not a very long time...but it is relative to me...

Ok remember some of the colors are used as a wash,  if you want I'll send you a file(jpg) of the painting so you can study the color.. I do think the combinations made some really interesting shades and reminds me of a pond with sun reflections..

and back to inspiration,  I'd have to agree with you, it does flood in, that was happening to me a few weeks ago and everytime I'd start a painting it would just become this mess of many ideas and inspirations.  So I just had to stop and enjoy all the inspirations but do nothing with them, until I could settle down.

I've been looking at your second painting as I type this...It's actually very interesting...stormy!  eerie, and at the same time Hopeful! Kinda like life...out there!I can't believe Myanmar...all the tornadoes here...

K. 

"cleanse our doors of perception."

Now this is something I'm going to have to think about....

Ok, so I use lots of color washing  and blending, making my own colors but I can give you the basic palette on the wispy willow.

Remember I'm an acrylic painter...I use several different paints including houshold paints. but for the most part on this painting I used liquitex and Basic.... Brilliant yellow green,, bright Aqua Green, Bronze yellow, lightblue violet, Raw Sienna.  I used a sage housepaint mixed with a sky blue.  and I used a bright turquoise.

It's hard to tell in this photo but all the leaves and the branches are from a stencil I made, it is heavy texture.

 I've actually never really done collage,as for cheating, maybe in the sense that you are including possibly someone else's creation in your work.

So when I ask what inspires you(or anyone for that matter) I know personally Other Artist and their work inspires me.....I'd have to say even though I don't technically use someone else's product, I certainly have taken parts of someone elses vision to create my own work.  As original as I try to be, can't make something from nothing....Everything (well, almost) around me inspires me at some point or another...It's nice(courteous) though when we "copy" or are inspired by another we are conscious of the process... 

wow, you do have oodles of women here!

I am getting ready to go to an art auction where I will start and finish a painting that will then be auctioned off later but get this, I am the only wet paint artist doing this and when I found out I didnt want to do it, usually there are 3 of us, but they begged, and I didnt say no. I will photograph my painting and post it later but I sure hope it doesnt suck. You never know whatcha gonna get!

You must be busy getting settled back at home, I hope you post your pieces from this week. I found out I sold a small painting in a gallery show that just ended, and sold a print off the internet this week. If I land a teaching job I think I would give a party and invite all of scuttlebutt!