Painting America the Beautiful

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Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio. Part 2. A private view and more . . .

Janice KirkJanuary 26th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, observation, Painting America the Beautiful, wonder|Tags: Death Valley, earth stewardship, eco-communities, Fourteener peaks, green infrastructure, life networks, lifelines, Pilgrimage, plant communities, Red Rock Country, wholeness of creatioin|

Part 2. Painting my private view and “something more . . .” In my last [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio Pt. 1. A Sense of Place

Janice KirkJanuary 19th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Out Sketching, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Art Portfolio, Canyon Country, Colorado prairie, Great Basin, Journal, Rocky Mountains, Sabbatical, Sense of Place, Sketchbook|

Part 1. “A sense of place, a private view, and something more . . .” [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: River of Golden Aspen. Part 3. Something Beautiful

Janice KirkOctober 27th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: ash, basswood, birch, black locust, deciduous forest, Fall color, Gambel Oak, honey locust, maple, Mississippi River Valley, Montrose, narrow-leaf cottonwoods, oak, Quaking Aspen, Rocky Mountain White Oaks, sycamore, Uncompaghre River, Upper Midwest|

  River of Golden Aspen, Colorado Part 3. Something Beautiful Last week’s blog told the [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: River of Golden Aspen. Part 2. Nature Lore: Aspen

Janice KirkOctober 20th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: clonal colony, Golden Aspen, gray-green aspen, populus tremuloides, Wasatch Mountains Utah|

River of Golden Aspen Part 2. Nature Lore: Aspen In my previous blog I tell [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: River of Golden Aspen. Part 1. Chasing Fall Color

Janice KirkOctober 13th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Colorado Rockies, Fall color, Golden Aspen, Gunnison, Montrose, Sabbatical, Something Beautiful, Taylor River Campground, watercolors|

  River of Golden Aspen, Colorado Part 1. Chasing Fall Color We chased fall colors [...]

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Book Review: The Road to Beaver Park. Part 3.

Janice KirkOctober 6th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: calendars, journals, National Park Service, photos, sketches, Sue Ready, writer's group, writing prompt|

Amy's Journals       Part 3. Here’s the remainder of the book Review from [...]

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Book Review: The Road to Beaver Park. Part 2.

Janice KirkSeptember 29th, 2018|Categories: Blog, land stewards, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: animals, Christianity, colors, design, land stewards, listening, observation, painting, patterns, plants, San Miguel River, silence, solitude, Sue Ready|

Sunshine Peak San Juan Mountains, CO Part 2. In my previous Blog you will find [...]

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Book Review: The Road to Beaver Park

Janice KirkSeptember 22nd, 2018|Categories: Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: art appreciation, En Plein Air, field course, natural history, Pilgrimage, Sabbatical, Southwest, spiritual renewal, Travelogue, watercolor painting|

Thanks to Sue Ready who reviewed The Road to Beaver Park, Painting, Perception, and Pilgrimage. [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 3.

Janice KirkSeptember 15th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, cadmium red, fog, mystery, Prussian blue, raw sienna Payne's gray|

  Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 2. Leaf Language

Janice KirkSeptember 8th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, En Plein Air, fog, leaf language, Morilla watercolor paper, San Juan Mountains, sienna, spectrum|

  Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 1. Aspen Lore

Janice KirkSeptember 1st, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, inscape, Quaking Aspen, San Juan Mountains, wild edible plants|

  Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

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Painting America the Beautiful: Great Basin Valley South of Ely, NV. Part 3. Sky Island Topography and Art

Janice KirkAugust 25th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: "hidden wholeness", aspen, cottontail rabbit, En Plein Air, Great Basin, Great Basin National Park, light, mass, paintbrush, pinon pine, sagebrush, Sierras, silence, sky islands, solitude, space, unity, watercolor painting, wonder|

Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada Part 3. Sky Island Topography and Art In [...]

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