Door

By Anita Murphy / September 13, 2006 /

Someone left and left this door – not sure what they intended to do with it but I am thinking of making it into a dining table. The colours are more obvious than they appear here, ultramarine blue and burnt umber on the raw wood. My office looks out onto a little patio area with…

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One week on

By Anita Murphy / September 5, 2006 /

No art as yet though I fully intend to get down to it by the end of this week. Thinking a lot about interiors and also some still lifes. In our new home we have some interior angles that are very interesting and might lend themselves to some Hopperesque work. I am a little stumped…

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Sand, Sand and more Sand!

By Anita Murphy / September 1, 2006 /

Endless miles of brown sandy landscape. City of sandy brown houses.No photography allowed.Hot, Very Hot, VERY VERY HOT, dry, Very Dry, VERY VERY DRY.

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Sculptures and Monuments

By Anita Murphy / August 29, 2006 /

Today is our last day in DC – flying out tomorrow night. Next post will be from …………. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller

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Mt Vernon and Georgetown, DC

By Anita Murphy / August 27, 2006 /

Its been a busy week. Judi and Robin from WetCanvas came to DC to meet me and we have spent four days together. Wonderful to meet them both and its been an art extravaganza and even though we all religiously carried our sketchbooks everywhere we went, we didn’t do any drawing at all! Thursday we…

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Textures and Reflections

By Anita Murphy / August 25, 2006 /
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Reflections

By Anita Murphy / August 21, 2006 /

The view from our hotel is limited but infinte as we look straight out at another builidng but in that buildings windows are others reflected.

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Portrait from Iowa

By Anita Murphy / August 11, 2006 /

I finally got an photo of this to post on here. I’m not entirely happy with it but can’t figure out why its not quite right. I might play with it some more. If you comment please note that her adoring Grandmother looks at my blog! 🙂 The photo has come out much darker than…

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The next stage

By Anita Murphy / August 9, 2006 /

I’ve had trouble getting to the internet to post the next stage of our journey. NO art work this week as I was totally uninspired by anything – oh except the second portrait for the wetcanvas class but I forgot to photo that to put on here. Doh! So we had four days at the…

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On the move

By Anita Murphy / August 2, 2006 /

Its been too long! We left Mexico City a week ago tomorrow. Wednesday was filled with tearful goodbyes. We had a wonderful two years there and it was sad to leave. We flew out to Dallas and I managed a couple of sketches – one of fellow travellers on the plane from Mexico City to…

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