EDM 128 - A View through a Doorway

This is one of my favorite views in our house, from a dark room, looking into a sunny one. I'm sure it's a metaphor, or something.

EDM 128 - Through a Doorway; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 127 - A Skyscape

What's the most famous skyscape in the history of art? Yeah, I went with the obvious on this one. I love Van Gogh's original. I never planned to try to copy it. Not ever. I'm not sure I should have, but it's too late.

EDM 127 - A Skyscape; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 126 - A Sponge

This is a weird piece, but that's one of the privileges of being an artist. I spent a few minutes contemplating the life of a sponge. (I'll never get THOSE few minutes back!) Sponges don't make messes; they clean them up...OUR messes...our grape Koolaid messes...and so many others. I'm not suggesting a national Sponge Appreciation Day or anything....

EDM 126 - A Sponge; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 125 - A Bird

When I saw "draw a bird," my mind immediately hatched a plan to NOT draw a bird. I'd rather admire beautiful nature drawings and paintings done by others than do my own paintings of nature. But graphic design? Sign me up! I used what is probably my favorite design element. Negative space = how to draw something by not drawing it. It feels a little like cheating.

EDM 125 - A Bird; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 124 - All Things Yellow

Yellow has been my favorite color my entire life. I think I liked yellow before I even knew colors had names. One of my earliest memories is being asked by an adult what my favorite color was. I still remember the surprised look I received after I answered, "Lemon yellow." I think I was four years old. I got the very precise color name from my favorite crayon color. I assure you, I was not precocious...at all; just an artist in the making.

EDM 124 - Yellow; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 123 - A Bell

This is another goody from one of my husband's collections of unique, old things, that he has had since before I met him 30+ years ago. This is a brass Indian elephant bell (I Googled it), and I painted it pretty much actual size. The sound it makes is mesmerizing.

EDM 123 - A Bell; 3x3" watercolor

And, here is a picture of the baby bell with its bigger brother. The sound these bells make is amazing. I would love to have a wind chime that sounds like they do when they ring.

Brass Indian Elephant Bells

EDM 122 - Essential Shadows

Sunny days make for great weddings, but anyone will tell you that it's the shadows that make for stunning wedding pictures. You can't have shadows without light, but it must be slanted light. The severe slant of hard winter casts the longest shadows. Bright, summery sunlight, directly overhead, makes for flat art and for a flat, untested life. You don't get to the end of a beautiful life without spending a good deal of that life enrolled in the School of Shadows. So, we should embrace the "certain slant of light" and trust the One who determines its degree. Here's a favorite poem about the "slant of light" by master word-painter Emily Dickinson.

EDM 122 - Essential Shadows; 3x3" watercolor