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11/13/2021 12:11:30 PM | Comment on this
Playing with oil paint last night, delving back into the hike Lynn and I did this summer near Lake Jenny, in the Tetons.
"Beauty of a Cascade in the Forest"
12x9, oil on Gessobord
It's important for me to remember the value of Playing. Not everything has to be a Big Deal...or even Big. A diamond is quite a small thing--it just has to reflect light (and one's feelings) in the perfect way.
I like to play. That's how I started. May I never forget that.
"The child is the first artist. Out of the material around him he creates a world of his own. The prototypes of the forms which he devises exist in life, but it is the thing which he himself makes that interests him, not its original in nature. His play is his expression."
--from "The Gate of Appreciation", by art critic Carleton Noyes, 1907.
