DREAM ON . . .

'DON'T BE AFRAID TO FOLLOW THAT DREAM'

6 x 6" Acrylic on canvas . . . with a lot of movement going on!

Maybe sometimes with a little trepidation, but don't let it get away.

I'm still out and about walking just about everyday with trusty camera in hand and I have been fortunate to get a few more nice shots that I thought I would share with you.  Some of you may have seen some of these before.  If so, I hope you enjoy them for a second time.

this photo is from behind the baptist church in ajo

One of my favorite photos taken over the last few weeks.  

This piece can be interpreted in so many ways.

'Death is not the greatest loss in life. 
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.'

~ norman cousins

from a small strip mall on our main road

Self explanatory :)

marcellas restaurant, ajo, az

I wonder how many people ate here and never noticed all the mis-matched fans?

main street ajo, az

Al Capone and his buddies must have been to town.

around the corner and down the street :)

How often do you get a burro, (looking at me!) a Raven and a flowering Saguaro all in one photo?  This looks to me like something from the old west.  And just to show you what it looks like in color:

Not nearly as much personality as in black and white

(in my humble opinion).  I love the black and white version,

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY . . .

'slow dancin', swayin' to the Music

no one else in the whole wide world . . .'

  Morning sky over Ajo, May 20th, 2021

Have a great weekend everyone!

Charleen

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR ...

'THE GATHERING'

16 x 20" Acrylic over an Acrylic Pour

for more information on this piece please click HERE

It's a special time, when we gather with friends and family.  Thankful for those very people we are blessed to have in our lives. People we can share our ups and downs with.  People we can share special times with.  

People we can share Thanksgiving dinner with!  :)

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.~henry van dyke

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NO CLOUDS IN THE SKY TODAY!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

Charleen

ADOPT THE PACE OF NATURE:

HER SECRET IS PATIENCE

                  ~ ralph waldo emerson

'AND SHE WAITS WITH THE PATIENCE
THAT THE FLOWERS HAVE TAUGHT HER'

12 x 12"  Mixed Media Collage over an Acrylic Pour

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For the longest time I looked at this background thinking it had to have an animal in there somewhere.  Birds ... maybe another Raven.  I put it away for several weeks and when I picked it up again, there she was. 
Waiting.  Patiently.  

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY . . .

I recently flew back east.  At one point this was my view from the plane.  I wish the photo was a little clearer as the clouds were just beautiful and it's a little hard to get the full effect here.  Not just big white billowing clouds, but so much detail within each one.   Mesmerizing.

Have a great week!

Charleen

DARK, DARKER, DARKEST...

"I will love the light for it shows me the way,

 yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

~og mandino

'HOW THE DARKNESS COMES'

12 x 12" Acrylic over an Acrylic Pour

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 CLOUDS OF THE DAY . . .

I took this over by Sprague Lake, WA.  Fortunately this was to the east of us and we didn't have to drive through it.  Oh, yes, and there's a nice big fish quietly swimming out of the storm on the right.  (I understand this is a good fishing lake:)

Have a great day!

Charleen

WELL INTO NOVEMBER, THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE HERE ...

(ACTUALLY, IT'S NOW INTO DECEMBER.  ALL I HAD TO DO WAS HIT THE 'SEND' BUTTON WHEN I FINISHED THIS AND FOR SOME REASON IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN)  :(  

 'HAZY SUNDAY MORNING. LATE SEPTEMBER.'

12 x 12" Acrylic on Textured Canvas

SEE WHAT I MEAN ... THIS WAS YESTERDAY MORNING.

MEANWHILE, DOWN IN AJO, THIS IS MY HUSBANDS MORNING VIEW . . .

    

                                                        

      

IF YOU READ LAST MONTHS BLOG THEN YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT ...

NOTHING LIKE TRYING TO MAKE THE PLACE SEEM A LITTLE HOMEY ... AT LEAST FOR THE HUMMINGBIRDS! :)

                                                                                                               ~ indy behrendt

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS TREE IS SWALLOWING ALL THE ENERGY FROM THE SKY. 

ACCORDING TO THE OLD CELTIC ALPHABET THE LETTER 'STR' (YES, I KNOW, BUT IT COUNTS AS ONE LETTER :) IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLACKTHORN TREE AND THE BLACKTHORN TREE IS SAID TO BE GOOD FOR GROUNDING AND SETTLING DISTURBED EMOTIONS.  

LET'S GO WITH THAT.  THIS IS A BLACKTHORN TREE AND IT'S GROUNDING/SETTLING A BUNCH OF UNHAPPY ANGELS DISTURBED EMOTIONS.

I HOPE THEIR DAY IS BETTER TOMORROW!  

AND I HOPE YOURS IS GREAT!

Charleen

THE LAST OF THE SUMMER RAIN ...

NOW, WE HAVE SNOW ON THE HILLS HERE ...  :(

'REFLECTIONS OF A SUMMER RAIN'

16 x 20  Abstract Acrylic Pour

I was really pleased with this Pour and immediately had the title because that is what I saw.  Probably Cherry Blossom Petals reflections in the water.  :)

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This little gem is in the next town over, just off the highway. 
Whaddaya think ... ?

Think they might be into collecting ... stuff.  :)

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY . . .

A LITTLE JURASSIC PARK GOING ON HERE, DON'T YOU THINK?  AND THIS WAS TAKEN IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!!

Charleen

"I've watched Jurassic Park twice in my life ~ once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago.  It inspired me to think about how the gaps in time change our way of perceiving.
                                                                        ~  Nicolas Jaar

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SMILE FOR ME. PLEASE.

TEN FOR SOME SMILES . . .

SMILING MOON, DANCING PEARS

12 x 12" Mixed Media Collage on Canvas

THE PEAR FAMILY:  EIGHT IS ENOUGH

12 x 12" Mixed Media Collage on Canvas

BOTH OF THESE ARE CURRENTLY AT ENTREE GALLERY 
IN NORDMAN, IDAHO

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EVEN WHEN SOMEONE WE LOVE IS FAR AWAY,
REMEMBER, WE ARE ALL UNDER THE
SAME SUN, MOON, STARS AND SKY.

JUST LOOK UP.

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CHARLEEN

AT THE MARKET ...

AND A LONG DAY UNDER THE SUN ...

THE BASKET SELLER:

LONG DAY AT THE MARKET

12 x 12" Mixed Media Collage on Canvas

Another of my sisters Series.  Interestingly, when I recently brought some of my newer pieces into one of the Galleries I'm in, the owner was surprised, and pleased, that some of these newer pieces were on white backgrounds.  She had recently been in a Gallery back East and saw some work done on a white background and she said she thought to herself " Why doesn't anyone work on a white background anymore?"   Voila!!  There I was!  :)

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We went camping this past weekend on the St. Joe River here in Idaho.  Overall we had beautiful weather ... a little warm (95ish) and the skies were a little smokey from the fires  :(  in the area, but we had a spot right on the river so why would I complain?!  :)  I did get some great reference photos for future paintings too.  :)  (And for my Artist friends, please feel free to also use them)

This is evening over Black Lake as we headed for the St. Joe.  Smokey, but beautiful nonetheless.

Another scene from Black Lake

This is the old guy in our family.  Well ... in dog years, he's the same age as I am so I guess, really, he's just a Spring Chicken!  :)

I followed this fellow down the River for a while until he could get into places I couldn't!  My presence didn't seem to faze him one bit.

Some flowers from the old Train Depot in Avery, Idaho.  They also have a very nice Fly Fishing tackle shop there that serves the best Ice Cream!  :)

I think the photos over Black Lake can serve as cloud photos for today.  :)

"When I am no longer rapping, I want to open an Ice Cream Parlor 

and call myself Scoop Dogg".

~  Snoop Dogg

CHARLEEN

HOODOO? I DO ...

DO YOU?

'IT'S A HOODOO MOON'

12 x 12" (partial) Acrylic Pour on Canvas

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I just recently found out that Hoodoo is another term for Pinnacle.  I was striving to replicate the feeling of the Pinnacles in Bryce Canyon and thought this came close.  I like the title of Hoodoo Moon a wee bit better than Pinnacle Moon so I went with it.  :).

I painted the Sky first, then did the Pour, Moon last.  It was interesting to mix the two genres ... straight painting and a Pour.  I'm going to have to try more.  


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CLOUDS OF THE DAY ...

I see a face down on the right.  Just an eye and a nose, with long hair sweeping around.  It's a mans face.  With an inviting light coming from the sky.  Another one of those 'Spiritual' Clouds.  I've been on the computer for several hours ... I think I'm being told to go outside and enjoy the day and I think I'm going to take that advice!!

'HEARTY LAUGHTER IS A GOOD WAY TO JOG INTERNALLY
WITHOUT HAVING TO GO OUTDOORS.'
~  norman cousins

See you soon!

Charleen

DISCUSSIONS ... MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT ...

LET'S GO WITH AFTERNOON.  :)

'AFTERNOON DISCUSSION'

9 x 12" Acrylic and Pastel on Wood Panel

I really love the colors in this, just not as loose as I want to be.  Too many years of cutting tiny pieces of paper for my Collages and fitting them together like a 1000 piece puzzle.  Maybe I need to go buy a couple of children's 10 piece puzzles and practice putting them together so I get the feel of larger/looser!  

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY ...

'THE KISS'

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech

when words become superfluous.
                                                                         ~   Ingrid Bergman

Have a Great Day!

Charleen

AT LEAST IT'S NOT ME SINGING!

WE'LL LET THE NIGHT SING INSTEAD ...  :)

Carry a tune I cannot do.  I have one granddaughter who has said to me on more than one occasion when she has caught me 'singing' (and I use the word loosely), "O.K. Grams ... that's enough!"  :)

'THE NIGHT SINGS BRIGHT'

6 x 8" Acrylic on Wood Panel

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"I DON'T SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY ...  I'M HAPPY BECAUSE I SING."~ William James

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY ...

I see large, turbulent ocean waves under a stormy sky.
Or ... is that another Smurf up there?!

Charleen

READY. SET. GO! FOLLOW ME.

IN WHAT DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED?

"THIS WAY.  FOLLOW ME."

12 x 12 x 1.5"  Mixed Media on Wood Panel.

Second one in a set of two.  More information can be found HERE .

IF EVERYBODY IS DOING IT ONE WAY, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE

YOU CAN FIND YOUR NICHE BY GOING EXACTLY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

~ Sam Walton

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY ...

I see 'The Man in the (Quarter) Moon'.  He's laughing and

he's over on the right.  :)

Charleen

HAPPY SPRING!

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE! 

FRESH FLOWERS TO HELP CELEBRATE THE DAY . . .

Just wanted to share a smile with you ...

'SMILES IN BLOOM'

4 x 4" Acrylic on Wood Panel

WHAT'S AROUND YOUR CORNER ...?

'ROUND THE CORNER, CATCH THE PENNY.'

12 x 12 x 1.5" Mixed Media on Wood Panel.

As you can see, I went a little abstract.  This is one of two that are quite similar and could easily be hung as a set.  Can you find the Penny?  :)

Both of these can be found on my Website at www.charleenmartin.com

IN THE SPRING I HAVE COUNTED 136 DIFFERENT KINDS OF WEATHER

INSIDE OF FOUR AND TWENTY HOURS.

~ Mark Twain

(isn't that the truth!)

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CLOUDS OF THE DAY ...

I see Oscar the Grouch!

Charleen