Winter Evening

December 8, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 8 Comments

Rain and warm winds play and sing through the night. There had been a wind warning but nothing came of it. I wake at 4:20 am. Dawn is hours away as we near winter solstice. I must decide what to post. Thinking I will use another of my blue sky images I open the photograph folder. I stop over photos I had taken on the evening of November 20, 2010. I never went any further.

Looking over Georgia Straight to Vancouver.

Then south east a bit the light had faded even further. It was a full moon.

Sprout question: What is the softest point of reflection for you today?

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Nothing but blue skies from now…

December 7, 2010December 7, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 11 Comments

Sometimes it feels like nothing but blue skies from now on… when the grey clears in the winter and the blue is so intense. Here are a couple of photographs of an arbutus tree against the clear blue in the winter sky. Arbutus trees are difficult to catch on their own. They like company and often lean on other trees for support on their journey to meet the sun.

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To help set the mood of the moment, let’s have Ella Fitzgerald do it up right with this beautiful rendition of – Blue Skies…

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Sprout question: What is your favourite blue sky experience?

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KEXP Documentaries: “Sirens of Jazz” ‒ Ella Fitzgerald (kexp.org)

Wrap up of three paintings over three days

December 6, 2010December 6, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 13 Comments

Welcome to Monday morning at Creative Potager. Shall we start with a little sandstone, sea and blue sky before getting into the three paintings over three days wrap up? I thought you might be like that.

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This photograph is the first of several I will introduce this week from our walk on Saturday in the beautiful clear blue of the winter sun.

The special sale event for three paintings over three days has been amazing. Guess why? Because of you! All the views, the comments, the emails, the tweets, and the writings on my FB wall have left me full of gratitude with a powerful desire to take my work forward. What a wonderful way to bring a close to my work in 2010. Thank you. Thank you each and every one of you for being part of my creative journey in such a profound way.

Now for the details because today is the last day….

The sale price of $950.00 Canadian for each of these paintings regularly $1,200 Canadian each will end at midnight PST tonight, Monday December 6, 2010.

The first painting East Point Cliffs is still available at the time of this posting.

The second painting Owl’s View is still available at the time of this posting.

The third painting Far Shore is still available at the time of this posting.

TO BUY THIS PAINTING: Critical information for Buyers including the price is posted on a separate page HERE.

And some more great news that I am extremely excited about – my work as been accepted into the new ART of DAY online gallery. James Day is a sculpture and great supporter of artists. His artist features on the ART of DAY wordpress blog are widely read and appreciated. You may remember his feature of my work “Impressionist Painting of Nature by Terrill Welch” in October of this year. Well, I now have five paintings of various sizes listed in the ART of DAY online store. Please feel free to drop by and browse.

Sprout question: What do you do when you are feeling absolutely full of gratitude?

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Monet’s Giverny – (epicurienne.wordpress.com)

I like a few clouds in the sky

November 30, 2010November 30, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 26 Comments

I have an unrelenting habit of looking at the sky. Sometimes I take a photograph of just a cloud because it pleases me.

I don’t often show anyone these photographs because well… they are just clouds. Still, they make me feel good. I smile on the inside when I look at them.

Sprout question: What is a creative habit you don’t often share?

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Cloud atlas: Scientist maps the meaning of mid-level clouds (physorg.com)

High Tide

November 29, 2010November 28, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 12 Comments

Saturday was a bright day with patches of blue providing the perfect background for puffy snow clouds. We decided to go for a walk but the water was too high to get onto the beaches.

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It was beautiful just the same with a fresh new view of a familiar scene.

Sprout question: What recent change has given you a new view?

P.S. Just so you know, it is the last day of 15% off canvas and framed prints for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the days in between at my redbubble storefront.

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Edge of the Sea

November 25, 2010November 25, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 17 Comments

Standing close, feeling the softness of the smudged edge of the sea, being washed into a possibility.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all of our USA Creative Potager friends… may your year be bountiful with simple abundance and love. It is a perfect day for us all to take a moment and count our blessings.

Sprout question: What are you grateful for today?

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My Top 10 Gratitude List (tricitypsychology.com)
G is for Gratitude (speaking from the heart)

One

November 24, 2010November 25, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 19 Comments

Rolling continuation yet no second like the one before.

Come now! It is just a rock and a bit of sea water reflecting the blue sky. What makes that worthy of contemplation?

What defense do I have? It was cold and my stiff fingers slipped on the shutter button. I am a bit touched from being to long on an island. Whatever the reason, I have come back to this image more than once in deciding what to post for today.

This is it. Enjoy a Zen moment. Or not:)

Sprout question: What are some repeating themes in your creativity?

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Fence in Snow

November 23, 2010November 23, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 26 Comments

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It is a long lean frame. My sight line moves back and forth… until I pause in the middle of the field at the tree only then to notice blue sky. I believe it has to be together, just as it is.

Sprout question: What might have you creatively sitting on the fence?

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Snow-bearing cold front blasts southwest B.C. (cbc.ca)
Is it Going to Snow Over the Lowlands? (cliffmass.blogspot.com)
W. Wash. sees snow in NW interior, Hood Canal area (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

A Search for Colour ends in the Japanese Garden

November 18, 2010November 18, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 24 Comments

With the slate gray of winter loping around cavorting with my finer spirits, tempting them into the gloom, I went in search of colour.

There is this leaf amongst the twigs with the sun soaking through it.

An orange calendula is there to greet me in its last rain-soaked days before predicted weekend frost will pluck its brilliance.

These yellow calendulas will fair no better.

Then I go to the Japanese Garden. At last I feel satisfied. I take this image home and render it in a painterly fashion.

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I prefer the simplicity of this version rather than just a photograph… but I do have that way as well.

Sprout question: What keeps your spirits up when the sun fails to find you?

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Photographers feast on fall colors at special Japanese Garden shoots (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary in Northern California Named “America’s Most Spiritual Spa” (prweb.com)
5 Incredible Gardens of France (hotelclub.com)
Visions of Paradise – The Japanese Garden in the UK (punjapit.wordpress.com)

Washed Smooth

November 17, 2010November 17, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 15 Comments

The heaviness of the cloud pushes down until I hunch under its dreary weight. West coast winter has arrived. Last nights winds were an early warning of what is yet to come. Today is smoldering quiet. Only small birds twitter in the trees as we walk.

I cast my eyes south,