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“Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all places people thought you never would.” E.V. (Erin Van Vuren) I painted this using Procreate with the dry brush.

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Dance the nights away the way we did in World War II. Oh, I remember dancing. I painted this in Procreate using the dry brush.

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A cool April morning and a hike on the Pond Trail with Robin MacBlane put four miles under our feet and some great reference photos for watercolor greeting cards.

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“I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride it where I like”

By Freddie Mercury

I painted this as a watercolor on a blank greeting card using Winsor & Newton pan watercolor paints.

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There is something comforting about the sight of a barn in a distant field. I painted this one in watercolor on a blank greeting card.

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“The Kaleidoscope Horse” painted in Procreate using the dry brush.

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“And blow, blow from the Okeechobee

All the way up to Micanopy

Blow across the home of the Seminole

The alligators and the gar.” From Seminole Wind by John Anderson. I’m simply calling this, “Florida Sunrise.” I painted this with Winsor & Newton pan watercolors.

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“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don't labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.” Luke 12:27

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Driving along Hwy 467 near Belleview yesterday, Robin MacBlane and I passed the beautiful landscape that is there. I took no photo but made some mental notes so I could, at least, attempt to capture the way the golden morning light looked as it lit the trees and reflected off the surface of a pond. As always, we can never truly recreate God’s beautiful artwork. But I tried. I painted this greeting card with pan watercolor paints.

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“Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.” Vernon Howard - I painted this on Procreate using the dry brush.

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A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. This watercolor greeting card was painted with Winsor & Newton watercolor paints.

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"Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach

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I painted this greeting card for Pastor Jeffrey Shanks and Anette Shanks and named it “Joseph” after the story in Genesis about Joseph and the many colored coat. I painted this with Winsor & Newton pan watercolor paints.

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“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost

I painted this greeting card using Winsor & Newton pan watercolor paint.

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Tigers, they say, live alone.

Except when their cubs need a home.

When collaborative skills,

In their deep jungle kills,

Feed the kids with some fresh zebra bones.

I painted this tiger on a greeting card using pen and ink and watercolor paint with a touch of gouache for the white whiskers.

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The word for today is “cute.” I painted this little guy with Winsor & Newton pan watercolor paints. I used pen and ink for his eyes, stripes, and inner ears.

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“Adeera, she breathed, and her eyes pierced my soul.” I don’t remember the rest. But that one line always stuck with me. I painted this on my iPad with the Procreate app and the dry and oil brush.

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