Pretty Imperfections

"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world." -Mary Oliver

[loumargi]

[suzette-vida]

I started a blog! www.petpaintingaday.com - send me photos of your pets to paint!

[loumargi]

Εdmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922).

[suzette-vida]

Brooklyn - Oil on canvas

[suzette-vida]

Pippa - Acrylic on canvas

[wonderingaboutitall]

Through The Vines -  Frederick Carl Frieseke

[purplebuddhaproject]

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Vincent van Gogh (via purplebuddhaproject)

[blue-voids]

Henry Moore - The Artists Hands (verso), circa 1974

[alongtimealone]

[thunderstruck9]

Emile Friant (French, 1863-1932), Autoportrait. Oil on cardboard, 18.3 x 13.2 cm.

[jes68]

Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Old Mill, 1921.

[jedavu]

Art Teacher Paints Watercolor Landscapes Using Water Found at Her Destinations

Hannah Jesus Koh does not bring ordinary tap water with her when she creates watercolor paintings of her stunning surroundings. Using liquid straight from the environment that she wants to portray, the high school art teacher paints remarkable landscapes within the confines of her journal.

[jes68]

J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), The Lace Maker

[wordsnquotes]

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories (via wordsnquotes)

[bloghqualls]

VINCENT DESIDERIO

[loumargi]

Guido Cadorin (1892 - 1978)

[wnq-writers]

I think we often spend so much time consumed by the idea of appearances and the way that we look that somehow we forget that we are all people. We all live, we all die, we all bleed, we all need love. That’s honestly as simple as it is.

writersblockedmind  (via wordsnquotes)