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Ellen Michel
Mar 7, 202311 min read
Can I learn paint? Ellen Michel |Sept 2, 21|
IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO LEARN TO PAINT. YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO CREATE YOUR OWN BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS. When I started I had no knowledge...
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Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Desert Library Morocco, 2020
I wandered in search, of what makes me human, Down to the creek bed, along the corridors of the library, made eons before words and...
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Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Tent and Homemaking - 6.30pm 24/7/2010
My tent billows and tugs, like a boat on an anchor rope. The great easterly springs to life. cooling the scorched earth. Tiny beads of...
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Ellen Michel
Apr 19, 20221 min read
Japanese Flute Player
Out of the mist of time, The poppies dance, drifting into the painting, on a sweet note.
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Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read
The Thunder Dragon.
As mountains roar, above valleys cupped in dew, the Thunder Dragon, rises to the Tigers Nest, armed in scales of truth, burnished by the...
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Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read
Astonishment.
Astonishment befitting. How did these images, sated to canvas arrive at this place, in this lifetime? I marvel.
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Ellen Michel
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Flags of Hope
Many prayer flags, and prayer wheels spinning, blowing in the breeze, they say to the traveler, 'One step is a prayer, take one step at a...
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Ellen Michel
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Bhutan
Climbing the mountain, I will trust in the sure footed donkey, the wind and a prayer.
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Ellen Michel
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Travelling to Morocco in March 2020.
Travelling with a little band of writers and artists, from Tangier, through the blue city of Chefchaouen, Fes, and the Riff Valley to...
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Ellen Michel
Jan 28, 20222 min read
A Sestina for India
India is wild and full of love. Its zigzag life and dreams, Are a sacred beaded tree, Hiding forgotten secrets, In a heavily woven...
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Ellen Michel
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Colour
The history of colour is long and complex. All of antiquity has played a part in the multi facets of its story. Colour straddles the...
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Ellen Michel
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Portraiture
The announcement of the 2013 winner of the Archibald Prize led me to ask the question – what is portraiture? The artworks making up the...
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Ellen Michel
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Colour Preferences – where do they come from?
Colour influences many aspects of our lives; the clothes we wear, the foods we eat (would you eat green eggs and ham?) and the paints we...
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Ellen Michel
Aug 10, 20202 min read
Tips on how to choose a subject for your artwork.
Are you having trouble deciding on the subject for your next work of art? Feeling lost and uninspired? You’re not alone, it happens to...
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