tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57790792969238468052024-02-19T07:16:51.427-07:00TUMBLEWEED CONTESSAA bit of poetry, A few shorts, A piece of my mind, And sillinessMimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.comBlogger371125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-68405605389265505122021-01-09T10:18:00.000-07:002021-01-09T10:18:08.926-07:00BREATHE, DARLING [From the Poem-like Letters I never Sent to You]<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iv1Ghu9TMuU/X_ngMLSbT7I/AAAAAAAADwM/xc5TNHdQA1Y9jslCGNTOyhgTQYpq1tM9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/love%2Bletters%2Btied%2B--%2Bletters%2BI%2Bnever%2Bsent%2Bto%2Byou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" height="344" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iv1Ghu9TMuU/X_ngMLSbT7I/AAAAAAAADwM/xc5TNHdQA1Y9jslCGNTOyhgTQYpq1tM9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w517-h344/love%2Bletters%2Btied%2B--%2Bletters%2BI%2Bnever%2Bsent%2Bto%2Byou.jpg" width="517" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;">©</span><b style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;">BREATHE,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Breathe, Darling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Sigh, if you dare, with relief because I have calmed down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I can’t seem to unlace my thoughts—<br />
it’s as though my minds on radio silence because<br />
the world’s frequency isn’t right for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I’m not quite as wicked as is said; however, I did slip on
the tiled kitchen floor,<br />
abraded my onion skin,<br />
and ate my own wickedness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I also ate the vigilantes of the extreme right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">It poisoned me until I was throwing up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I felt like John.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Yes, that character in Brave New World.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Everyone said, ‘It can’t happen here’. ‘Everyone’ was wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">As it turned out, he <i>was </i>a fascist!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">What was more frightening than his actions was the speed—<br />
and eagerness—<br />
at which a crazy-quilt of hater, fascist citizens joined him in his
authoritarian crusade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">The hatred spread across Earth faster than this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pandemic!<br />
Many of us cried.<br />
Many of us are hiding so we can survive the madding cruelty coming with the new
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">So, do not write to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I mail this to you but with no return address for me.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">When this end,<br />
when you come home<br />
if you are alive<br />
if I am alive<br />
don’t look for me. I will find you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I wrote a poem for you but, well, BUG HOLES!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I found what was left of this, as other poems I’d hid in a
cupboard—<br />
yes, the cupboard in that ancient, abandoned house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I was saving them for the right time to send to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">TERMITES found them before I could sneak back to that house
(to retrieve, and now to save).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Oh, heaven help me, I lost all those words!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I rewrote this one, added newer, fewer, and some left-over
words to those eaten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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loathe those unexplained deep sighs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">that
leave me feeling like a person with COPD;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">but
at least with that, those people feel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">which
is better than the empty chest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">feeling
I live with since you’re gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Please know and believe <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">I’m still afraid of that word.
Yes, that one: </span><strong><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit, serif; padding: 0in;">goodbye</span></i></strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">. So, I won’t say it.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">It may be an alteration of ‘G-d be with ye’, but it’s also a
conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">I don’t want us to conclude, so I’ll end with All My Love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">Your Love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">(unsigned)</span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_CWJFAn_pF8/VzKO_4uot7I/AAAAAAAACxE/upeXFETe8JAWN57aTb1QaEOwpZCaSUeoACPcBGAYYCw/s450/love%2Bletters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="450" height="289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_CWJFAn_pF8/VzKO_4uot7I/AAAAAAAACxE/upeXFETe8JAWN57aTb1QaEOwpZCaSUeoACPcBGAYYCw/w468-h289/love%2Bletters.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br />MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-45735115245385856712019-11-06T18:00:00.000-07:002019-11-06T18:00:06.525-07:00Introductions... With a TwistIntroductions... With A Twist<br />By Mimi Wolske<br />
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Anyone can give a hug.<br />
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Six foot something was the anyone standing at the bottom of the escalator with something more than a welcoming smile. Arms outstretched, his feet under his broad shoulders, and...<br />
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Did he just wink?<br />
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I turned my head right, then left; no one was behind me so I turned back to acknowledge this long-legged, fit, and late thirties anyone, angled my head up to meet his eyes, and stared at him questioningly. The upward pull of his lips triggered a dimpling of his chiseled cheeks. Lord help me, he was too good looking to be real.<br />
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"Do I know you?"<br />
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I ask you, the reader, what else could I safely ask this stranger?<br />
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"Please don't tell me I've waited here for fifteen minutes and you're the wrong woman."<br />
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He smirked.<br />
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My mouth suddenly felt full of cotton balls.<br />
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"I am a woman but I've never been called the <i>wrong </i>woman before."<br />
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That devilish smile he donned never faded. His line of vision fell to my clumsy but dutiful shoes and slowly worked their way up to my astonished expression.<br />
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"Right! Nothing wrong with you. Detective Downy? Please tell me you're her."<br />
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"She," I said with a challenging grin. "Yes, I'm Debra Downy, detective Downy. And you are?"<br />
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That's me; Debbie Downy, five foot four inches, just turned thirty yesterday but still shy, and never prepared to deal with forward men. My head was still angled back enough to look up at mister slick.<br />
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"Relived, corrected, and very pleased to meet you."<br />
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He was just a little too pleased. I stretched both arms forward to ward off that enthusiastic hug that reached me in two long strides.<br />
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He side stepped my warning arms and my question. I asked again. "Your name?"<br />
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He took my carry-on from my relinquishing grip, disappointing me that my assumption his outstretched arms were ready to embrace me.<br />
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"Nothing near as soft and pleasant as yours. They call me Dev."<br />
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Dev? As in Devilish Handsome? Devil-May-Care attitude? "I'm absolutely sure they do, but I think I'd like your name and why you're waiting for me."<br />
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His eyelids fell and long, dark lashes kissed the ridges of those cheeks. I was lost starring at his lashes and feeling a little jealous when they lifted. His smile had disappeared.<br />
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"Detective Devlin Dixon; I've been waiting for you because you requested someone meet you at LAX."<br />
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Dev Dix. Figured I get Mr. Hunk with the suggestive name.<br />
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"Did you notice we're both double Ds?" His obvious grin told me he'd used that <i>double D </i>line before.<br />
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I rolled my eyes. "Yes. Did you notice saying all those Ds together might sound like you're stuttering, D-D-D-Dev?"<br />
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"I think we're going to get along great!" he said. "You have a quick wit and you're funny, too."<br />
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"Whoa, there, D-D-D-Dev. I'm here to work, not entertain. Your office called our office and asked for a criminal profiler; that's me. Where's your car?"<br />
<br />
"Parked in the cool shade and awaiting you in the garage across the street."<br />
<br />
Maybe I had gotten our introductions off to a bad start and maybe I shouldn't have judged the book by its cover. My dad always told me it was better to be safe than sorry.<br />
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Okay, so our first meeting was nothing but similes, metaphors, and cliches. It will always be the introduction I will forget.<br />
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-84706698323209690922018-01-08T03:30:00.000-07:002018-01-08T08:30:23.666-07:00Portrait Paintings Using Two Different Techniques of Painting & Glazing<span style="font-size: large;">I do not glaze every painting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">It has never been because I'm too lazy. Although, patience is mandatory since the process can take months, maybe even a year, before it is complete and on a drying easel.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">No, the reason for not color glazing every painting is simple. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">I only learned the technique about ten years back and since then, have been too timid, afraid I would botch it and ruin a painting that might have been wonderful without the glazing technique.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">My first attempt, on my own without an instructor's input and encouragement, didn't turn out as I expected and not how I hoped.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">It was also an experiment with BLUE as the main hue, with burnt umber and white as the helpers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">I followed the gestural brushstrokes techniques seen in paintings by Valequez and Sargent; then I ruined it with the second glazing application. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">How? Instead of applying the glazes with the same gestural brushwork and building up the darker hues and lighter tints with a thicker and thicker application of paint to medium, I blended. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">As soon as I stood back and saw what I'd done with the second glaze, my heart slowed and I let out an audible sigh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">But, I persevered until I deemed the painting finished. Below is a</span> <span style="font-size: large;">detail from the oil painting completed in 2006.</span><b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: xx-large;"> </b><br />
<b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b> <b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: xx-large;">"Winter" is copyrighted and ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. No reproductions or copies may be made for any reason until I am contacted.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">To make a long story short, my current glazing project is called "Blonde Against A Red Wall".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">It's a self-portrait I began early in 2016 with drawings and a couple of attempts to put it to canvas. But, unsatisfied with my attempts, I decided to play around on multimedia paper to see if I could ever be satisfied the the color glazing process on my own. The third attempt (below) was done about July 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sketched it in with oils and added an underpainting of grays. The first glazing over the gray values was done by adding a tint to the skin. an underpainting of grays. I added in a pinkish red I sketched it in with oils and added Blonde Against A Red Wall, the first glazing over the black, gray values painted for the skin was added; the hair has been added/painted. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">(the following examples are copyrighted and ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. No reproductions or copies are permitted for any reason until I am contacted.)</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took about 3 1/2 weeks for the painting to dry enough to add the third color glazing to the blouse (remember it was pink...I'm glazing it to become violet). It is the end of the 1st week of August and, hopefully, I can begin to add a darker still glaze to the yellowish skin and a deeper color glaze to the lips.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, Aug 29th, I detailed to eyes. A little spill over but that can be fixed; eyebrow over left eye is true, there really is a gap. This is only the under color of the eyebrow; the blue-black will diminish with the addition of true color. Added the first color glazing to the lips -- a little different now from the skin. <br /><br />Note: I haven't mentioned the hair. I've decided, for textural purposes, the hair will not be glazed, only painte</span>d.<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Sept 13th, the lips and skin are still tacky to the touch, so I turned the painting upside down to work on it.<br /><br />I have decided light source will come from the front of the figure.<br /><br />Added darker color glazes over all the skin.<br /><br />Next, when the painting is dry enough to work with, I will begin adding "tones" -- light, mid-, and dark -- to create shadows and hilites; which could be a little tricky and I will probably need to take some creative license in creating these since the light source is in front of the figure. One thing I think I can see is that the figure is looking not just ahead...could present some interesting shadowing under the face? Hmmm.</span>..<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Need more work on eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Need lots of work on the nose and the mouth; need to tone DOWN those teeth again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will be adding in the earring on figure's right ear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will be adding lighter glazing over the lavender blouse.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 6, 2016<br />added two more glazes to the painting since the last time I shared. This one is definitely showing more depth. Sept 2017 update.<br /><br />I still have a few more glazing steps to add.<br /><br />I'll try to find the "last post of this painting process" and post in the "comments" section below.<br /><br />I made a couple of "boo-boos" on the red background, but I'll wait until the last glazing is done before I go over the background one last time.<br /><br />Just as a silly but true observation -- the camera really does add weight to the subject. When I look at the painting, I look more like myself at that time. <br /><br />(Note to brain: when doing portraits, make individuals thinner than you think! They will appreciate the compliment.)</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Around Nov 27, added another glazing for more depth; thinking/hoping 1 or 2 more and this one will be done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, I've begun another portrait. <br /><br />In early December 2017, I began a sketch that I spent a day working on and studying and feeling like something wasn't quite right. But, I went ahead at did an oil-wash sketch on the paper I will use for the painting.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seeing it was the angle of the eyes and nose that were off, on 12-17, I changed them both with a neutral wash-sketch,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Painted in the background, and added a couple blue undertones for painting but there's still something that isn't quite right.<br /><br />So, by 12-27, I trashed my second attempt and began again. <br /><br />A total REDO was called for; so, an Impressionistic portrait of my beautiful, oldest daughter was begun a third time. <br /><br />Oil on 11- × 14-inch, 98-pound, multimedia paper, and hoping to keep visible my gestural brushstrokes. We'll see how that works out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jan 1, 2018<br /><br />Painted in the background and added a 2d, thicker paint/color glaze to the hair (using Valesquez' and Sargent's technique).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Lost her cheek definition, but it is easily brought back when I begin laying in the layers of paint/glaze to the face.<br /><br />I decided for this painting, there will be no glazing to the background, the blue around her head and the reddish color that will eventually show below the definition of her blouse.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Jan 7, 2018, I added another glaze to the lips for the painting A Blonde Against A Red Wall and was interrupted. It is nearly complete. Sorry, no photo of it at this time.<br /><br /> Now I have two glazing projects and that leaves me with only my table easel to play around with smaller paintings.<br /><br /> Whether you prefer the blending method of the hues so that the gestural brushwork is practically nonexistent (as I accidentally did with Blonde Against A Red Wall) or you prefer the thicker buildup of paint/glazes and brushwork (as I will try to strictly adhere to in the painting of my daughter) is a personal decision.<br /><br /> Neither choice is right or wrong; it's only each person's preference for a particular style. Valequez and Sargent preferred to express their works using their expertise as artists with a gestural style while Bouguereau's work was smooth and luminous, a buildup of thin layers over a "grisaille" underpainting.<br /><br /> The foundations for these three painters' works stem from the same classical training, so their paintings often times start the same. The academic teaching at the French Academy was studied by both Sargent and Bouguereau, but the surface quality of their finished portraits is different (see examples of each artist's portraits at the end).<br /><br />Now that I have accidentally stepped into both styles, I'm truly hoping you will be able to see the difference in the two finished portraits I'm working on as easily as you might see between Bouguereau's portrait at Sargent's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above portraits: Bouguereau's La Bouquetiere and Sargent's Francisco Bernareggi <br /><br />(the works of both artists are in the public domain)</span><br />
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-6419891524125225262018-01-06T07:50:00.002-07:002018-01-06T08:00:48.248-07:00"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!"<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">There is no liberty<br />if the powers of our judiciary, legislative, and executive branches of government<br /> are not separate. </span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">We, each and every American, learned this in elementary school history. It was taught, emphasized, and re-emphasized every year of our education. That is how important it is for us to understand why the Revolutionary war was fought and why each war after that was fought.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">For Our Freedoms...Our Liberty! That Lady who stands faithfully as our Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States is there for us and for all people who desire freedom and liberty from dictators and monarchies. She represents the best of what we have become, of what our values truly are, and of what we desire to represent us for as long as any free woman or man breathes.<br /><br />Each branch of our Republic acts as a check and balance on the others. No one branch has total power. We cannot let that change at the whim of a few.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Our forefathers fought for our freedom and liberty and our constitutional government believing Patrick Henry that the alternative to fighting was slavery (the meaning then was the slavery of British rule). <br /><br />"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace. But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" said Patrick Henry. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">We have come to a time in our history where we find it necessary to fight for our freedom again. There is no division of classes, of race, of religion, that can thwart our desire to fight for what we want and that is the same as our forefathers wanted for themselves and their posterity. Unwilling to give up our liberty without raising a war against our own executive and legislative branches of government who dare to abolish them and then tax us for what we no longer possess, we need to stand together, as Americans, and shout “NO!” </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We cannot, after all these generations, let ONE MAN threaten our democracy and rip apart our Republic! Yes, we are again on the verge of the insanity of one man bullying a select few in government to seize control of the power of all three branches of our government and cast aside the freedoms and liberties of all Americans except the rich who feel entitled.<br /><br />Where are our representatives with political morals and ethics who swore an oath to protect America from all enemies foreign and domestic? Why do they cower and ignore their oath of allegiance to America? Why do they support one man who would try to take over the control of our country?<br /><br />I believe taxing the middle and lower classes to support and give more money to the wealthy upper class is a convoluted act similar to the British Parliament Stamp Act of 1765 when American colonies were expected to pay for the debts that were contracted in the French and Indian war. The question is, does the Trump/GOP Tax bill violate American rights? <br /><br />The greed and lies strip Americans to leave us weak and unprotected, but it goes further. It now begins to strip our individual states of their power as well. It begins to redistrict voting districts to ensure no matter how the Americans vote, there is only one sure winner and that will be the person who is in power now, the legislative party who is in power now.<br /><br />American citizens are being stripped of everything and are being set back to the early 1700s with no money, no power, and now no representative or leader with the power to return our freedoms and liberties to us.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">We are not infants. We have the power to get these usurpers out of government. We have the power of the entire nation of a united people to throw them out, every single one of them from the highest office to every chair in the legislative branch if none of them dares to stand with us and against those who would try to overthrow our government.<br /><br />I am but one small voice with no power on my own. BUT, I willingly stand with all of my brothers and sisters who want America back. I stand with Patrick Henry and I repeat/paraphrase his words:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>“Gentlemen (Mr. President and members of the GOP) may cry, Peace, Peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps … will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren (and our sisters) are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What (more) is it that (these overthrowers of our government) wish? What (more) would they have (American citizens stand like sheep while all is taken away)? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery (the very chains and slavery our country has fought against)? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me (us back our) liberty or give me death!”</b></span></div>
MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-63878138532373024552017-07-30T10:42:00.002-07:002017-07-30T11:37:19.776-07:00Softening Like Chocolate In Sunlight -- an erotic poem by Mona Arizona<br />
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-74481483577872454072017-07-15T08:20:00.001-07:002017-07-15T08:20:51.439-07:00Shackled<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It happened the same way<br />That a sudden curve in the road<br />Sends you down the wrong path,<br />A path full of secrets never shared.<br /><br />It was never something planned.<br />Pinwheels spun, aroused by a cloud’s<br />Summer breath; then one became many<br />Clouds casting shadows full of doubt.<br /><br />It came at you from nowhere,<br />From a place where life does not exist,<br />Released from a prison to let dreams live<br />While decomposed vines clung to each other.<br /><br />It no longer haunted your mirrors<br />Nor searched for approval<br />The way ink floods pages as<br />Wretched shadows performed inside of books.<br /><br />It snatched your existence; It dragged you<br />Into a foreign world, one without<br />Wonder and color and thought where<br />Death, for It was Death, held the key.<br /><br />Mimi Wolske</span></span><br /><i>All Rights Reserved</i><br />(painting: The Field Of The Slain by Evelyn De Morgan, 1916)<br /><br /><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-13903004989317365512017-07-02T04:00:00.000-07:002017-07-02T04:00:24.747-07:00One Last Smoke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was working on a scene where love had gone south, but it is the male character who is sad. Sadness is a strong emotion and I couldn't let the scene go with only the words: "She left him without a note or a goodbye". I want the reader to feel his shock, his pain, his hurt. This poem was written over a couple of days and I switched the characters around and it is the man who has walked away. This is not close to what I wrote in my WIP. It is a poem. It is shortened and, therefore, each word counts. </i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: large;">I…I wish I could look into your eyes,</span></div>
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-80482093894793598122017-06-28T17:15:00.001-07:002017-06-28T17:15:19.691-07:00Standing Alone Asking One Question<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-68836383436920494752017-06-28T17:06:00.000-07:002017-06-28T17:06:24.400-07:00Viscid Thoughts of Loss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">I am an old soul in a new moon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">water and whirling moonlight. Beating</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">psychosis is not my whole world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">Selective amnesia of your</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">past is not my disease. Release</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">I am an old soul in a new moon.</span></span></div>
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-70892532902459724032017-06-01T10:02:00.001-07:002017-06-01T10:02:06.704-07:00Cartwheeling Through Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-69113569238143332742017-05-15T12:06:00.002-07:002017-05-16T11:27:41.712-07:00What About Brothers Keepers? A Report on A Funny Book<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;">When the muse is away I will post reviews of books I recently finished.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;">Today, Brothers Keepers, and I'm only years and years (the book was originally published in 1975) late in reading this funny and sillier than "hell" book by Donald E. Westlake.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;">It seems that there is a small band of sixteen mild-mannered monks who, all quirky in their manner, manage to find peace and the needed solutions to their various problems in the Crispinite Order of the Nomum Mundum. These monks have managed to live rent free on some prime New York property. Now, their landlord, real estate mogul Daniel Flattery, wants to tear down that townhouse on Park Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets and the monks "gotta go". The thing is, the contemplative order is dedicated to the notion that travel is bad.</span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;">Not only does Brother Benedict deal with this threat, but he's faced with a second threat. He's falling in love with the landlord's daughter -- oh, my! Pretty divorcee Eileen is a real threat and an occasion for sin since Brother Benedict's attempts to have the townhouse declared a landmark involves many encounters by him with the Flatterys.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-large;">Let me add that this may be one of the funniest not-really-a-crime-novel(s) I've read and now this author has moved to the top of my crime-authors'-books-to-buy list. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has not read it or has not read any Westlake books.</span><br />
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<br />MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-45411523911618818342017-04-19T10:26:00.001-07:002021-01-09T09:43:11.516-07:00I Am Watched; My Every Move Documented...from "Letters I Never Sent to You"<div style="text-align: center;">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Sometimes love struggles to survive and letters continue to be written and never sent. There is a reason. And, as each letter is read, it is another chapter to a love story; a little more is learned and we want more letters; we want to know who, why, where, when, and what...and how, how will the story end? Love Letters Never Sent...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: x-large;">You took possession of my heart and left me here with nothing to desire, no one to love. How many years have I been alive without a word from you? How I long to embrace you. I had to stop a wipe a few tears because it just keeps going through my mind how long it has been since we were naked lying skin to skin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: x-large;">Dammit! I feel like I am losing this battle and I was never even fighting the war. I feel as though I am like a house, still standing after the battle, but empty. Lonely. Hopeful for your return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: x-large;">I dare not post this. You’ll understand when you return and read all of my letters. Your sister, M, escaped but they shot your mother, J. They said it was because she was hiding me. She never did. I had been somewhere else but I heard what happened. I don't know what happened to your brother and his wife. No one does. Well, you know the reason why. </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: x-large;">For now, I am safe.</span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";">Until the end of time, I am always</span></b></div>
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-2347593936085311012017-04-10T08:59:00.000-07:002017-04-10T12:01:37.693-07:00Fill Me With Your Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fill Me With Your Love</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />There’s a bunch of men in most cities<br />who are handsome as can be<br />and they’ll take you anywhere you want<br />for a nominal fee<br /><br />But you, you only wanted<br />to dance me to the edge, and<br />you promised, with your whiskey breath,<br />it was me, only me<br /><br />Wrapped me in your blanket<br />danced me with the stars above<br />until the earth tilted on its axis,<br />then filled me with your love<br /><br />Whiskey and blankets<br />and stars winking from above<br />won’t you dance me to the edge and<br />give me all your love<br /><br />Whiskey<br />and<br />blankets<br />and stars winking<br />from above<br />won’t you dance me to the edge<br />and<br />give me all your love<br /><br />You loved me as if we’re out of time<br />Love me now as if it were a crime<br />Won’t you love me<br />Love me as long as a lifetime<br /><br />Whiskey and blankets<br />and stars winking from above<br />won’t you dance me to the edge and<br />give me all your love<br /><br />Mimi Wolske</span></span><br />
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<br /><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">As If It's Real</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Having me some Leonard with my coffee<br />and my memories of you,<br />there's nothing left to do<br />when all our wishes are through.<br />my mind wants to read,<br />my hands want to write,<br />my heart wants to paint<br />my brain tells me--just sail out that door and have some fun.<br />don't we all live our lives as if they're real;<br />don't lose your grip,<br />don't let them press you to the limits,<br />don't slip or you may end up in my masterpiece.<br />never any broken promises too deep<br />that left time for us to weep;<br />I guess you'll always be the gift<br />I was never meant to keep.<br /><br />Mimi Wolske</span></span><br /><i>All Rights Reserved</i><br /><br /><br /><i>(painting by Eric G Thompson called Good Morning)</i>MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-38223636382958003802017-04-07T05:00:00.002-07:002017-04-07T05:05:39.155-07:00No More, a poem<div style="text-align: center;">
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MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-6308228036458910052017-02-24T11:16:00.001-07:002017-02-24T11:16:27.680-07:00Narrative and Poem -- Stumble. Stop.<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Growing up in a funeral home isn’t scary. I've only known life with dead people. I always look at them, the dead. They're the temporary guests in our house,</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> guests I’ve never met before, but I am completely comfortable around them — and they seem to enjoy my entertainment. I kind of like them in a way; I don’t know anything about their lives — whether they were nice or mean or crazy. They're just our temporary guests</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> who have callers coming and going and whispering and crying.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Come and go, come and go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is an enormous risk to make yourself vulnerable to another person.<br />You may have faced these risks of hurt or rejection when you asked someone to have lunch or dinner with you, dressed up for a date (possibly giving away how excited you are about the person), said "I love you" for the first time to someone, or made the first move with a kiss or a touch.<br />Did you take the chance? Did you roll the dice?</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">The insurgent who attacks the foundation of our government, our constitution, our ethics, and our morals from within is able to fool some of the people all of the time. </span></span></div>
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<i>(cartoon: NY-Daily-News-Trump)</i>MimiandMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15601320448285569775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779079296923846805.post-25823671715044057172017-01-11T08:23:00.000-07:002017-01-11T08:51:14.135-07:00GONE<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." ~~ T.S.Eliot</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">Next to more glass where his arms stretched,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">Longing to embrace the full sweep of her summits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">Naked, she stood in a sea of shining diamonds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">And iridescent pearls created by his hands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">Mimi Wolske</span></div>
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