The Art of 42

04/27/2018

Do you ever find everyday things that just pop you in new ways? This is the light in my bedroom. The only change is the bulbs have all been replaced with LEDs. But I was struck by the perspective this morning just before heading to bed (after working all night).

03/31/2018

Continuing progress. I had purchased a dollar store set of acrylic paints. So was using the colours as they came. The only colour not in the box was violet. I googled to assist my colour mixing knowledge, which is stored in my high school brain somewhere. Guess I’m going to need to work up a colour where for reference.

07/09/2017

Exactly perfect.

Our color perceptions change with our age. Take this test to find out what your age is based on the colors you see!

07/05/2017

On my way to a gallery opening by Miramichi Art Core, I saw this lovely rainbow. I was particularly drawn to the fact I could see the violet so vibrantly. I had my camera so I stopped for a quick shot. Going to the gallery opening was my introduction to a group of local artists banded together to encourage each other in their work. I am now planning to join their group.

06/21/2017

A work in progress. Started with charcoal on canvas. No idea where I will finish. Outside of my photography, the first piece I have started since high school.

10/30/2016

Love this poem and art by my friend Ruth Calder-Murphy. We celebrate and live 42 together.

Raising the Bar
- By Ruth Calder Murphy -

Growing older -
And I’m raising the Bar
Every year,
Looking Fear in the face,
Kissing its would-be ugly
And dancing it in a close embrace
Over the horizon
To another new place.

Destinations blossom in technicolour
Just around the bend
And over the hill.
I mark them on my round-the-bend,
Over-the-hill
Map of Me,
My eccentricity emerging for all to see,
Never mind how unseemly it might be.

Here I go again,
Into another older age,
Running with the wolves of Fear and Hope
And aiming higher than I have before.

I’m raising the Bar
And setting myself towards new mountain peaks,
Aligning myself with all the beautiful freaks
Who seize the day
And take Time with a pinch of sea-surf-salt,
All tangy on the tongue -
And head off to the land that Time forgot.

I’m growing older
and raising the bar
to the moonbeam-magicked sky
Because why
In all the spiraling galaxies
Should I not?

*****

Image: "Starry Night" By Ruth Calder Murphy(Arciemme)

10/06/2016

I'm open to suggestions to locations to photograph in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.