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Jul 31
2 min

Nature the Foundation for Painting

Continuing our lesson from last month where we explore the strong case for the observation of nature as a basis for a painters training.

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Jul 13, 2022
1 min

Earth and Sky

Between earth and sky we stand. We are mediators, conduits, and guardians of this planet. We walk, Our feet on the earth, our heads...

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Jul 13, 2022
1 min

Green is the New Gold

Green is the new gold, Whose perfume captures our senses And awakens us to new way of smelling the roses, To new ways of opening our...

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Jul 13, 2022
1 min

Blue Planet - the overview Effect

Green grey, green red flowering gum. Blue wonder our home planet. Astronauts become poets and seers Awe struck by your beauty, they drink...

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Jun 11, 2022
1 min

Christmas Moon, Queen of Heaven At 11.11pm, 25th December, 2015.

Silver Ball, Sparkling illuminant Light my black heart, with songs so nascent, Sing me a song, of ancient ocean tides, rising and falling...

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Jun 11, 2022
1 min

Three Goat Farm

It says on the Gate ‘Three Goat Farm’ Your pretty little heads, dark brown and black nod gently at farmer Jo. Your beards dangling under...

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Jun 5, 2022
1 min

Wild Wonder Wisdom

My Poem Speaks, When I taste the yoke of my soul. The quest to taste the yoke and grasp the poetry, Here in W.A, north of Perth, As far...

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Jun 5, 2022
1 min

Moon Journey, 31/7/20

Last night I took a journey, across the moon, Guided by a periwinkle star, I mapped it as we went, through massive caverns, on the Milky...

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Jun 5, 2022
1 min

Following and Following and Following

Following and following and following, All the days crawl on bended knees, Into the abyss of hollow shadows, Returning and returning,...

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Jun 5, 2022
1 min

Celebrating Courage and Resilience this Christmas, December 2012

Tragedy befell my blackbird’s mate last year about this time. I wept to find its feathers strewn about the garden. Its mate frantically...

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Apr 29, 2022
1 min

Stones

The stones in the ancient creek bed, Are there to teach us about the birdsong, and to know I am not alone. One Village One Life.

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Apr 20, 2022
1 min

Painting in Nature

Belying this dry brown place, Green Lake you draw me in, your fertile bog, moist and dark, a crucible of stirring primal life.

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Apr 17, 2022
1 min

A Tent at the Foreshore.

Longing to be embraced by the bush, We attempt to show an outwad expression, with structures of homage to the sacred. A tent at the...

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Apr 6, 2022
2 min

Self Portraiture - the perfect exercise

Self portraiture is a mandatory discipline for me, especially at this time of autumn when the trees show us they are willing to let go to...

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Jan 28, 2022
1 min

Green Lake

Green Lake Conservation Reserve. A circle of mallee gums, around a dry lake bed, The locals say, there is a bog hole and water seeps...

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Oct 26, 2021
8 min

Welcome to Ellen Michel Art School 2021

by Ellen Michel | Feb 19, 2021 See above a photograph of an Atom. It’s the fuzzy edges interconnecting with the background. Atoms love to...

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