Thursday, July 25, 2024
#482 • Maybe She Was Just Fishing
Saturday, July 20, 2024
#481 • Swans Island Walk
Thursday, July 18, 2024
#480 • Fog In the Thorofare
Hopefully fog is on break for a while out there in the water. Been a busy spring and early summer playing in it. It's almost impossible to stay on course when you're in it unless all eyes stay put on the compass or GPS. But before it fully engulfs it can be fascinating to watch move around.
Making our way across Penobscot Bay, we had just come out of the fog in the Fox Island Thorofare. I looked behind us and saw a finger drifting across to Southern Harbor. Sketched it out on my iPAd.
NFS
Sunday, July 7, 2024
#479 • Moods on the Coast
A fan sent me an email hoping that I had not expired because I had not posted a weekly painting since winter. I confess it was because I was busy with work and having too much fun skiing in between.
I don't paint while I'm on the boat. Sailing is a full time job. Besides, summer for me is time to get out there and explore the landscape for those magical thoughts that only appear when you're not thinking. I also take a lot of photos for winter time inspiration. Sometimes I even paint what I capture though there's no way I ever compete with Mother Nature.
So I use my iPAD to jot down thoughts. It's fun and easy and there's no clean-up, another issue when you're trying to conserve water. These are a couple of different moods I encounter out there, and there certainly have been many.
NFS
Thursday, February 15, 2024
#478 • City Sledding
http://www.claudiadiller.com/blog.htm
Friday, December 29, 2023
#477 • Hopeful Again
http://www.claudiadiller.com/blog.htm
So we didn't get the snow for Christmas. up here in Maine. The world didn't get peace again and I didn't get a Mercedes.
So Christmas was brown here - but it probably snowed somewhere - we just weren't specific enough. World peace is, well, out there somewhere, we just need to grasp the concept in our hearts. But we have to open our hearts before that happens. And my Prius with 150,000 miles on it is still running like a charm (knock on wood), so who needs a brand new Mercedes anyway.
A long time ago I decided to adhere to a Stones lyric that says:
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want ( think this is said three times because we don't seem to get it on the first two tries. Some of us still don't get it)
But if you try sometimes, well, you might find
you get what you need
Ah, yeah
Hopeful Again • 8" x 8" acrylic framed to 12" x 12" • $275
Monday, December 18, 2023
#476 • It Will Snow Again
http://www.claudiadiller.com/blog.htm
Don't despair you bumming skier
it will snow again.
It happens every year,
now and then.
And though it's hard to imagine a time
when we are skiing a sugar white slope
it will snow and the sun will shine
so tune your skis, imagine and hope!