Hibiscus I
watercolor monotype & colored pencil
by Lorraine Bromley

"The best times as an artist is when I am so caught up in the

work that I can hardly bear to tear myself away."

Colors

I am going through my paints a little faster than I thought, I had to order more paint. We will see how long it takes to get here in Colon. I found a new color I like, Blue Apatite Genuine by Daniel Smith. I am using alot of greens, every green color you can think of, leaf green, olive green, yellow green and cobalt green. My green period!

Feliz Anos Nuevo 2009 todos amigos y familia

Happy New Year 2009 to all my friends & family
I found this poem in the colony that an artist wrote, it describes this retreat.

A Time and a Place:
Ciudad Colón. May 2008

In Ciudad Colón there is a place, perched on a hill of verdant green

Mango, banana vie for space with lemon, lime and bean.

Pass through wrought-iron Colony gates, family and friends all disappear

Cometh the time, the hour is nigh, to spread our wings and fly.

Pintor, escritor gravitate, in casas, casitas hunker down

To chase the Muse and so alone

but wind that makes the bamboo groan.

Take it as a special gift, as we pursue our lonely quest

To have this place, to be alone, submit, oblit, repeat and hone.

Tropical plants unceasingly, give forth their fruit prodigiously

Hummingbirds sip, with unearthly

quiet where writers write.

Coconuts crowd high in the sky, as rain relentless passes by

Worker ants unceasing toil, cut pathways in the verdant soil.

Go now to another plain, heed not hunger, thirst or pain

Be thou creative with pen and brush,

waste not this time bestowed on us.

By James Cullinane

December Group

(left-right) Shelly, Patricia, Mark, Sarah, Roxy, Jonathan, me
(missing, Vivian, Katherine, Kirstin, Jorgy)

I hate this picture of me, I am trying to photoshop it, so I look thinner, will upload it when I finish it! I can not believe I look like this, I think that the camera is on wide angle. wow! Even Patricia looks heavy and that is not the case at all. Have I made myself clear?

New Year's Eve get together at Francisco's main house, we will watch fireworks and have pot luck dinner., The house is on side of a steep hill and we'll be able to see fireworks in Cuidad Colon, I think if we were on the other side of mountain we could see fireworks all over San Jose, we are facing southwest. Can see Venus at about 2:00 AM, yes I wake up then for some reason. Planet so bright, in my bedroom windowI am going to check tonight if I can see other planets as well in line with Venus.

Mi Las Caudros

Pensaro

I am thinking about......orchids, montotypes, super mora, meatballs, the ledge, Forrest, Katherine, Spanish lesson, pasta, avacados, fruit, smoothies, madarines, bananas, papyas, Patricia, Joseph, Simon, cala lilies, birds of paradise, canyon, river, sunsets, Dad, colored pencils, Kansas Burning, Summer in Tuscany, bamboo, ants, ants, ants, Rigo, fireworks, pizza, zoo. pool, sunshine & ants, Aja, Hudson, what am I going to paint next....homework, J&W, studio, visitors, budget & ants. Chlorox, clean sheets, clothesline, breezes, coffee and yogurt.

Ants

Zoologico

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