tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450143026421745742024-03-19T06:03:04.818-07:00A division of spaceWENDIE THOMPSONWendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-88296191850825060752017-04-06T19:09:00.000-07:002017-04-06T19:09:21.260-07:00ROAD TRIP!! (Bucket List)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you have a bucket list of things or places you want to paint? I do and have! Most of my list includes painting fields of flowers or anything blooming! So tomorrow morning I'm getting in my car and driving south from the Milwaukee area. You can follow me here! Time to get my artist groove back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">This season has been chockfull of distractions. From family to illness to the constant unending barrage of political madness. Not much actual painting has been accomplished. Nevertheless, as spring approaches, I feel the tide rising. I have faith in future works my inner eyes have seen. I'm diving in!</span></div>
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<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-79078032502739247062016-09-01T13:08:00.000-07:002016-09-01T13:08:40.274-07:00September 1st :Painting Challenge! 30 PLEIN AIR Paintings in 30 Days!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a big day at my house! My grandson's first day of middle school. Grandma day with my 3 year old and the first day of the 30 day Plein air Challenge!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Grandson's bus comes at the ungodly hour of 6:15. That means we need to be up around 5 to make things work. This will be quite an adjustment for us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So right after he left I got my stuff out and began painting our sheep. What a lovely cool fall like morning around 65 degrees! I only had around 2 hours before the little one came. Had to be a "quick paint". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Autumn is a time for change and time for challenges! Children go back to school...colors change in the landscape right before our eyes, and weather can be downright bipolar!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the past I have made commitments to paint everyday in September. That has always been a great goal for me for a number of reasons. About this time of year I am tempted to stop painting for some reason...rest...review goals...recharge. But I have found that pushing forward in paint is the only way to work through the sludge of change. doing this has never let me down!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so I am making a commitment to myself and others to paint everyday in September. But this year there is a caveat to this...this year I will be painting PLEIN AIR everyday! Yup...outdoors...bugs, wind, rain, sun or frost....come what may I'm planning to be out there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please follow my adventure here and on Facebook! Throw me a note of encouragement...I hear you...it helps!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are also a number of plein air competitions I will be involved in during this time: New Berlin (Sept 7-11), Evansville WI (Sept 23-Oct1) , Plymouth (Sept 22-28) and Carmel IN (Sept 16-18) ...come watch me!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soooooooo...I got there. (If you read the last post you know how hard it was) I had zero expectations. My only goal was to put some paint on some canvases and to somehow recharge my empty batteries. Met my housemates at the Brewer House Inn around 4:30...unloaded my car and we started chatting and munching. Lori Beringer actually made us a pork roast...YUM!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why did it have to have it be so cold? Wednesday morning required many layers! I was still whinny. Pam Ruschman and I went to breakfast at the local breakfast place extraordinaire: The Red Rooster. And then it was out to paint. I ended up spotting a lawnchair between two buildings on ShakeRag St and commenced. I came back for a second pass at this painting the next day. This is something I hardly ever do but the light was the same. I'm glad I did as this turned out to be my second entry. Icicles had turned up on the roof and I added them as well as changing the shadow shape and color in the foreground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Thursday night we were invited to a beautifully restored victorian home belonging to one of the event committee members for dessert. What an amazing treat! Beautiful art everywhere and desserts for royalty...WHAT?? When we returned my Housemates all turned in but I was "called" out to paint again. I stood on the porch of the house and painted till after 11. It was cold but there was zero wind so it turns out I was actually warmer than I was earlier in the day! It was totally worth it: This painting was awarded 1st place!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later on both Wednesday and Thursday Lynn Rix, Pam and I went out to this stream on Ferndale Rd. I painted two paintings there. And I was really beginning to settle in...feeling more like an artist again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sooooooooo...some good friends, good food, lots of giggles and painting painting painting and I am out of my mid-winter artist funk. It was pure bonus to me to win an award (so honored and grateful!) and to sell a painting (the ultimate honor!) There is paint running through my veins once again!</span><br />
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<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-16663891414072408752015-09-30T09:22:00.000-07:002015-09-30T10:16:12.177-07:00Paintings 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of the 30/30 painting Challenge! Winners and losers!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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12x9 oil by Wendie Thompson<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today is September 30th and it is obvious that I will not be painting all 30 paintings for the 30/30 Challenge. I only painted 24! These last 5 were all done Plein Air (in the open air) in various communities around Wisconsin...soooooo was it worth it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You bet it was!! I have done this challenge 4 years in a row and twice I haven't completed it (loser?). But even with that I have painted more than I would have otherwise, honed my skill, learned some new tricks, found some new tools, made some new friends and sold some work (winner winner chicken dinner!)! What's not to like about that??</span><br />
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16x12 oil by Wendie Thompson<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is always a stretch to challenge myself to paint more but I have learned to relax into it, be gentle with myself (respect myself and my limits), look at the big picture (learning learning learning) and HAVE FUN!</span><br />
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10x20 oil by Wendie Thompson<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So what's next for me? I will be teaching my very first workshop in two weeks at the Beaver Dam Area Artists Association and am excited to do it! AND the fall color is just beginning in my area...Lord willing I will be outside painting it in all it's glory!</span><br />
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12x16 oil by Wendie Thompson<br />
Evansville Plein AIr</td></tr>
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Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-36431048288877046732015-09-24T11:47:00.003-07:002015-09-24T11:47:26.724-07:00September 30/30 Challenge #19 Plein Air!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">30 by 30...Will she make it??? Who knows! What I do know is I am many hours ahead in "Brush Time"! This one was panted at one of my favorite places to paint...Monches Perennial <a href="http://www.monchesfarm.com/">Farm! http://www.monchesfarm.com/</a></span><br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-41905327268998725992015-09-22T16:57:00.001-07:002015-09-22T16:57:57.094-07:0030/30 September Challenge Number 17 and 18<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been busy but not busy painting! So I have some catching up to do! Not to worry! By the end of September I'm sure I will have painted 30 paintings. But for now its 2 a day till I catch up!! I'm working o a series of sheep!</span><br />
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Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-74401836029875195092015-09-16T21:31:00.000-07:002015-09-16T21:31:40.798-07:00Day 16 30/30 Challenge: #1077<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-4814084829616032262015-09-15T14:02:00.000-07:002015-09-15T14:02:11.102-07:00Day 15 September 30/30 Challenge: Sherbet<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-34027606990189630672015-09-15T07:04:00.000-07:002015-09-15T07:04:33.315-07:00September 30/30 Sun Up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slow day today...new toys!!</span><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-9953077183841993082015-09-13T15:21:00.001-07:002015-09-13T15:21:09.024-07:00Sept 30/30 Challenge Day 13 Red Calla Lilys<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Woke up on empty this morning. Nothing in the proverbial tank. Yet I had commited to go paint plein air with the League of Milwaukee Artists at the Boerner Botanical Gardens. It took me awhile to get going and I seriously asked myself if it was even wise. However, the day was a rare weather day in Wisconsin...I call them "winter in Phoenix" days...and so I hauled my stuff and me and a second cuppa coffee in the car. Drove The hour drive to the gardens. I am soooooo glad I did!</span><br /><br />
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<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-4294993238574487712015-09-11T21:20:00.000-07:002015-09-11T21:20:15.652-07:00Day 12 of the 30/30 Challenge: #1031<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today was a very busy day! However I made a point of getting to the Jefferson Wool and Sheep Show! I had been looking forward to it all year. I love sheep. Many years we had them on our property and our neighbors had them on theirs. Today I walked away with many referance photos and a new pair of shearling slippers. My feet are HAPPY!</span><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-29668825953985649622015-09-10T19:59:00.000-07:002015-09-10T19:59:23.267-07:009-11: Day 11 of the 30/30 Challenge: Ghosts of the Twins<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-2918810153167597972015-09-10T06:17:00.000-07:002015-09-10T06:18:00.660-07:00Day 10 30/30 Challenge: Sunset on National<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Painting number two from the New Berlin Plein Air Competition. Man the light changes fast!!!</span><br />
<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-72958243232806531582015-09-09T19:48:00.000-07:002015-09-10T06:18:12.862-07:00Day 9 30/30 Challenge: New Berlin Plein Air Competition!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soooooo I live in Wisconsin Don'tchaknow! September is a particularly beautiful month here and it's loaded with a very active Plein Air Competition roster! Today was the start of the New Berlin Competition and I painted this old barn. This is one of two paintings I can submit for consideration...WAY too much fun!!!</span><br />
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<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-31968788173477635462015-09-08T16:33:00.000-07:002015-09-08T16:33:38.389-07:00Day 8 30/30 Challenge: Dreams of Dancing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I was little I took lessons...dance, voice, drama and some art. I had no fear of audiences. I don't know why. Today I played in paint...laid it down...scraped it off...messed it up and laid more down...I can still dream....</span><br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-35506057053575061942015-09-07T17:13:00.000-07:002015-09-07T17:28:47.073-07:00Day 7: 2015 30/30 Challenge: It's Labor Day!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so today I gave myself a sort of assignment to work with some new colors and techniques as discussed in the comment section of the post. Focusing on values I worked out of an image in my head and not a photo so as not to frustrate myself with trying to get the features right. The first photo is the result...the black and white shows values. Learning, learning, loving learning!!! Not saying I'm done with this painting...but I'm done for today!</span><br />
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Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-61354338464417382802015-09-06T11:33:00.001-07:002015-09-06T11:33:13.720-07:00September 30/30 Challenge: Day 6 Ms Scooby II<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms Scooby II<br />8x8 oil by Wendie Thompson</td></tr>
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My little dog called me again today...pure JOY!<br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-67407640182702413872015-09-05T18:30:00.000-07:002015-09-05T18:30:38.244-07:00September 30 in 30 Challenge: Ms Scooby<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms Scooby<br />8x8 oil by Wendie Thompson</td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have I told you how much I love my little Cavapoo? Her name is Ms Scooby! This is the first time I have painted her but probably not the last!!</span><br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-14924600318894374902015-09-04T12:35:00.000-07:002015-09-04T12:35:47.685-07:00September 30/30 Challenge :Day 4... A day for a Wiper!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you know artists have some very frustrating days?? Yup...there are just some days when you wonder if you really are an artist. Or maybe, as one of my friends and I say...I am not an artist today. That leaves tomorrow wide open. Yesterday was one for me...I could not get this face right. I wiped it off 3 times and then decided it didn't hold enough merit to continue. Maybe it was because my granddaughter was here and I was trying to do this while she was napping? I don't know. But this I do know...the effort is not wasted. I learned some things that don't work. All is well and she's a goner! </span>Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-59305341228549274722015-09-03T05:25:00.000-07:002015-09-03T05:25:46.369-07:00September 30/30 Challenge: Day 3...Blue <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am endlessly working on faces. They fascinate me. The smallest twitch and the whole persona changes. My assignment for myself was to lay down pieces of color and not mess with them. I am using cold wax medium to add body to the paint. Learning, learning, learning!</span><br />
<br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-4170438650146132482015-09-01T15:42:00.000-07:002015-09-02T05:21:27.770-07:00September 30/30 Challenge: Day 2 Chicory<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicory<br />8x8 oil by Wendie Thompson</td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been working from photos the last two days but beginning with them upside down. Don't ask me why but it helps to more clearly see the value shapes. The wildflowers this summer on my morning walk with the dog seemed magical to me. This particular morning was moody...I tried to capture that while keeping it loose and harmonious.</span><br /><br />Wendie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018217185415639412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345014302642174574.post-80983839970220773652015-09-01T10:51:00.001-07:002015-09-01T10:51:24.470-07:00It's September! Must be the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge! Day 1<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">September has come and I have signed up to do Leslie Saeta's 30/30 challenge once again...but why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, first I have learned something each and every time I have done it. Second, September comes and I need a renewed focus. Third, I have been right at a place in my soul where I have grown dissatisfied with my work. I've been doing this long enough to know that this is the very time to push ahead instead of being discouraged. Every time I have I have been rewarded with some new skill or ability in my work...so here I go...DAY ONE!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lillies<br />8x8 oil by Wendie Thompson</td></tr>
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