Greetings

from Polly

Romantic Painter with a touch of the  Old Masters

"LakeArtist Studio's" 

 Winnisquam - Lakes Region - New Hampshire

 Dunedin - Gulf Coast - Florida

Please feel free to contact me: lakeartist@metrocast.net

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"You come before nature with theories: Nature throws them to the ground."  Renoir

Renoir always had black on his palette: "We should use black, but in a mixture as it is in nature. " Renoir 

Renoir died at age of 78, he was still painting - a flower piece - on the morning of the day he died. It is reported that when he put down his brushes he said, "I feel I've leaned something today."

"When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have in front of you, a tree, a field...Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene." Monet

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 a cool well beside the monk"s house

a clear spring feeds the well and the water has great powers

emerald green leaves grow on the wall

the deep red berries shine like copper

the flourishing branch like a walking stick

the old root in a dog's shape signals good fortune

the goji nourishes body and spirit

drink of the well and enjoy a long life.

                     Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi (772-842 AD)

Please check it out: www.pollyberlin.freelife.com