Here is another South Island summer landscape and my first painting of 2024. It features four magnificent eucalyptus trees, a charming wooden farmhouse and seven teeny tiny sheep dots.
This painting is also destined for the exhibition in June. More info about that a little later.
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 
You always amaze me, over and over, even when, I have been told/shown by you, over and over, what to expect – the photo reference – the pics taken along the way of the artistic process you work through, to create the painting of the photo reference – you still just always impress me in your ways of creating, stopping to document the process and SHARING it with others – too – sheesh! You are one I admire that I wouldn’t even know where to start, much less, try to do as you do, but I surely appreciate so much of what you ‘do’ and share here! ❤
Thank you very much for your lovely words and enthusiastic appreciation. Funny story, I do sometimes forget to document the process, especially when I’m caught up in the ‘creative flow’ ~ how I wish there was a rewind button that could bring those moments back. And I appreciate you too, Tamrah Jo : )
Sometimes, for myself, I sit back and look over moments in time, when I didn’t document the process on ‘any front’ at all – so deeply focused in the ‘process’ of Life, at the time, only to find out, later? Much later? Some other human, recorded it and documented it in their heart and mind and brain – whether I thought a single thing about the moment as being of any import or creativity, etc, at the moment, at all – or even remembered it – so I guess, for me, I figure, often, “my basic job’ on this earth, often, is simply being the witness and reminder to others, “hot durn! now, aint what you doin’ a work of art???” 😀
Hi : ) On an unrelated matter, WP tells me that your site is currently private… I was trying to like a post and it flatly refused to let me. I hope all is okay with you and that your blog returns to public viewing access soon.
Hi Anna! NOT unrelated at all (to my mind!) I put my blog into private mode in hopes to ‘buy’ some time, to test, try, not be behind on posting/replying to comments, etc., some time ago.
And…also…to not give myself an easy ‘way out’ to post “WTH is up with this stuff?’ hard front in online land notifications, etc.
Blog is put back up to ‘public’ with various ‘options’ chosen, unless, until, I figure, having it live just leaves folks feeling led astray and/or ‘judged’ etc., as my personal front, locally, rather heats up on many fronts and well, ya know – I can log in here and spend 18 hours straight, forget to eat, etc., reading my feed, commenting, writing, editing, etc.” and well –
Something had to go, for a bit, just so, I didn’t have to ‘apologize’ for going MIA stuff to long-time bloggy pals who check in when they can!
Thanks for checking in – totally on me – and well…just FYI!
I’m STILL not dead or dying or anything else, I just had to figure out, best way I knew how, for a time, to use ‘settings’ to save me from external fronts AND myself for being ‘late to the party” – 😀
Hope this finds you and yours doing well, too!
I hoped it was something like that (and I’m very glad to hear that you are not dead or dying or similarly afflicted). I am on my way now to check out your new blog, xxx
nothing new here – I shut down to redesign and didn’t get to, and simply logged in to ensure I hadn’t left a ‘dark silence’ in my wake – of “Argghh! not enough time to do this stuff just now!” LOL took me nearly 4 years to update my blog theme/pictures, content to tell the truth that I no longer lived in the Rocky Mountains but out on the Great Plains – but anymore, feels as if more important to try and convey the truth of oneself, overall. Sigh…
Sadly, for me, it a danger of the world I work in, to believe reality is understood, in virtual land, even if I don’t say it umpteen times a day in various ways – LOL
Very nice Anna! I love seeing the process. Congrats on the exhibit. Catherine
Thank you, Catherine : )
You’re welcome!