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Welcome to My New DIgs
New Digs
New Website & Blog
Welcome to my new digs. This is my new website & blog. I have decided to integrate everything I do into one site.
I had my blog on another service for nine years, and now it is here and this is the first post. I like the idea of being able to manage my own domain and the contents. Below this, in the right hand column you will see the blog archive where you can read my old posts. I will eventually move it all over here. For now, it will be a gradual transition.
A fresh start, feels wonderful, just in time for summer. Almost overnight green leaves have sprouted and the fragrance of blossoms fills the air. The launch of this website corresponds with the three year anniversary of being laid off as Director of the Music Academy. Since then, I have been working on establishing myself as a creative entrepreneur.
My music teaching schedule has shrunk for the summer, and art classes have finished. However ART CAMPS are coming! Stay tuned for the latest details about locations and availability. If you have a special group, a birthday party, ladies night we can cater to your wishes. Let’s create something together!
Upcoming Events
Caprice’s Fine Art Summer Event
Saturday June 14, 2014 10-5pm
10-5pm Inglewood Community Hall.
My Art will be on Display & For Sale, and my musical performance will be from 11 am to 12 pm. Many other fine artists, musicians, food trucks & more … come & hang out. The last one was a blast.
Posts

Promise of Spring

December’s Song

Another Spring, A Slower Pace

While the Garden Sleeps

Summer Mural Painting Complete

Warm Summer Breeze; A new Jazz Instrumental

Movement Naturally Occurs

Early May Days

Almost Spring

An Artful Life

January 2017 Daily Paintings

Possibilities & Plans; A New Year

New Hockey Mural!

Artistic Life Design

February is Here

The Dark of Winter
Summer Plans; Be a House Concert Host
Things Worth Holding Onto
Introspection
New Creations
Sweet Summer Dreams
Welcome to My New DIgs
Happy New Year 2014 New Story
Life is a Series of Transitions
Living Authentically
Embracing Change
Spring Rumblings
Vintage Jazz by Deborah Robinson
Happy Solstice
Mission Accomplished
Fast Track: Writing, Music, Art
ART EXHIBIT & SALE ON NOW
Chaos & Creativity
My Life is a Work in Progress
2012 … It’s Been Here a While Now
Already December
Writing A Book: NaNoWrimo
Indian Summer
The Golden Hour
Late Summer Stroll
Dog Day Reflections
On My Easel
Life Redesign
Spring Thaw
Transitions
Instinct & Evolution
October Garden
Thoughts on the Process of Art
Autumn Blooms
September Song
Buds & Woolen Socks
Prevailing Flow
Ladybug Festival & Unity Wave
Early Spring Remnants
More Expansion
For Creation Sake
Painting Story
Art Show Revue
Sneak Peek
Suspended Animation
Late Summer Light
Sunday at the Market
I Adore Hollyhocks
Sunday Concert in the Park
Summery Summary
Spring This Year
Welcome Spring
Open Water
Abstractive Reality
Abstractions
Moments Like These
Pixel Play
Make Me An Offer
Winter Solstice
Fabulous News!
Weekend Getaway
Remembering Gratitude
Golden Light Flow
Living & Dying
Transformations
Change in the Air
Summer Blazes
Nice Place to Work
Summertime
Pause to Refresh
Dog Days of Summer
Still Life
Zen & Then
Critters, Curtilage, Canvas & Clearing
Never A Dull Moment
For the Birds
Anatomy of a Painting
Bluebird Blessings
This N’ That
Spring HotchPotch Review
You’re Invited!
Creative Diversions
Just For Fun
In Like A Lion
Golden Sunset and Nature
By the Light
Continuous Flow
Life Imitating Art
To Under Paint … Or Not?
Virtuouso & Delicioso
This Very Moment
What’s Shakin’ Round Here
Needing Rest
Under the Chinook Arch
A Cup of Tea
Eluding Winter Blues
Fur Babies
New Beginnings
Happy New Year!
Letting Go
The Artist in Me Wants Out!
Take Time …
Artful Cheer
Writing, tech stuff & good eats
Bleak November
Snowy Monday
Rare Beauty
Rhapsodizing
Think Green
Good Medicine
October Passion
A Moment in Time
What I Need
I Have Seen
Change & All That
Gardening & Such
Summer Sustenance
Clearing Cobwebs
Twilight & Triptych
A Thousand Shades of Green
Painting From Life
Playing with a Full Deck
Spring Starts & Stops
Fait Accompli
Mountain Renewal
Guess Who?
Let Them Eat Cake …
Ever Feel Like This?
View from Here
February Gray
Markets, Minutes & Mysteries
Autumn the Movie Star
Going With the Flow
Wanna Know a Secret?
Rants & Such
Elemental Haiku
Saturday Inspiration
Beginning Again
Art and Healing
Tis the Season …
Destination Nirvana
Off the Wall
Bittersweet
State of Being
Chinooks, Sunday Mornings Conversations & Such
Language of Intuition
Staying Warm
More Beans Please
Being Green
Trial by Fire
Where the Air is Thin
The Shadow
Some Days are Better than Others
Getting the Groove Back
Miscellaneous Moments
Metaphysical Mind
New Site News
Diversion Tactics
The Human Condition
Intentionality
Attention All Bloggers!
Integration
Wounded in Action
Nature of Mind
Aspects of Reality
Chick With A Camera
Busy as a Bee
Stopped On A Dime
Random Acts
Perception
Imagination
The Journey
Dropping Rain
Individualism and Intellectualism In Art
Full Circle
A Day in the Life
I Just Had to Laugh …
Wonder of Phi
Artistic Integrity
Metamorphosis
Brave New Worlds
Art and Politics
Prelude to Autumn
Purpose of Art
Just Because
The Real Lowdown
Creative Process: Another View
Creative Process
Certifiably Insane?
Fresh Berries
Non-Representational Art: An Inevitability?
Down by the River
New Pair of Shoes
Society and Fear
Priorities
Following Your Own Path
Après le Carnaval
Crowdsourcing
State of Affairs
Back From the Desert
Pussy Willows
Flying Solo
No Compromise
My New Addiction
Manifesting
Gardening and Such
Still Life Experiment
Art Squared
Magnolia Continues
After the Carnival Continues
Magnolia WIP
After the Carnival
Oil From Life
Unwrapping the Mystery
Red Sunflower Miniature
A New Way to Shop
A River Runs Through It
Magnolia Beginnings
Completion
Trusting the Process
Improvisation
In Living Color
Moonlight Macro
Hibiscus Work in Progress
Divine Proportion … 1.6180339887
Hibiscus Macro
Lessitovka: Final Touches
Light is a Wonderful Thing
Tel’nii Podmalyovok
Podmalyovok & Lessirovka
Imprimatura
Old Classics New Mediums
The Cosmic Dancer
Cosmic Dancer
Golden Dragonfly
Summer Reprieve
Clearing the Clutter
Tragedy of Trends
Almost August
Yellow River
Cats & Curiosities
In The Shadows
Divine Proportion … 1.6180339887
Divine Proportion … 1.6180339887
Extinct, as of 65 million years ago, ammonite fossils, like this one from Madagascar, can be up to 400 million years old. It closely resembles, it’s ‘still living’ relative, the chambered nautilus.
Ammonite
I was attracted to this ammonite, by it’s spiral pattern, and the mystery of the divine proportion, or golden mean. Symbolic of the beauty and harmony of the universe, representational of the golden mean number, known as “Phi”, it can be found in all of nature and it’s living forms, in everything from sunflower spirals, to the solar system, to DNA structure.
To try to figure out this mystery of nature would take many life times, yet it is inspiring to me, to see in small things, the order of the universe, unfolding everyday around us. I cannot even pretend to try to understand the mathematics of this concept, so I opt instead to attempt to attune myself intuitively to the rhythm of nature, while creating.
Much talk has surrounded the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, and the evidence of this concept in his painting, especially with the popularity of the work of fiction by Dan Brown in “The Da Vinci Code”. I prefer to think that Da Vinci did not plan to include this in his paintings consciously. Instead I imagine that his masterpieces were a result of intuition, combined with a lifetime of observation.
In my experience, my best pieces of art have been done intuitively, without intellectually planning each and every detail, instead allowing myself to be an instrument of the divine. Allowing that which is greater than all of us, to flow through ourselves, from the hand and brush onto the canvas.
Perhaps then, the job of the artist is to keep the channel open, stay atune to the higher vibrations, and to the harmony or discord surrounding oneself. If that can be achieved, the work often comes effortlessly, and is often completed much more quickly than some.
Yet it would be overly optimistic to assume one can be inspired at all times, and so we move with the ebb and flow of life and that which is all encompassing. It is something to aspire to, while on our journey, a way to finding a purposeful existence.
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