Shades of Autumn

By Anita Murphy / October 26, 2009 /

Benefits of being stalled in Washington is getting to experience autumn for the first time in several years. Amazing colours everywhere (enhanced by great sunglasses!) – dark reds, dusky pinks, brilliant oranges, acid yellows, purples and many shades of green from lime to darkest evergreens.

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York II

By Anita Murphy / January 12, 2009 /

I love reflections in still water, slight ripples disturbing the reflections so they just shimmer.

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Crazy Mix

By Anita Murphy / November 30, 2008 /

Nothing like painting ice-cream to make you paint fast!! I think someone on the outside looking in would have been rather amused by my running up and down stairs with a choc-ice. I painted a bit then took it back down to the freezer while I worked a bit more on building up the painting,…

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Colour

By Anita Murphy / November 29, 2008 /

I recently made a list of my favourite artists and wrote down why I liked their work – the artists are many and varied in style, Monet, Bonnard, Seurat, Macke, Thiebaud, Diebenkorn, Hopper, Rothko to name a few. The predominant theme that ran through my little discourse was colour. It struck me as strange that…

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