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Views From My Artistic Vantage Point
Overlooking Yellowstone National Park On The Yellowstone River
- by Shirl Ireland -
Spring into GREEN
I'm hopping around in this blog lately (and my painting), as we find our way through this pandemic together. Right now, I'm feeling like...
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Happy Mother's Day!
A break from the usual routine of my blog - to say Happy Mother's Day in pictures. :) As a mother myself, 'motherhood' often comes out in...
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#27 - A Tribute to Italy - Art & Architecture
Especially now, paying tribute to Italy seems particularly opportune. As we are being shown how interconnected we all are in this world...
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#26 - Walking through the History of Art...
Moving on from Paris to less well known pockets of Art history... With such deep roots here in the history of art and architecture, I can...
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#25 - Lingering a bit...
With this pandemic, we have taken a detour on the blog. Come along with me as we make our way through all this together and I take this...
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#24 - Off to Europe!
Destination - PARIS! So after my son had been asking half his life - granted it was only 5 years. He was now just 10. But he had...
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Let's Get Creative!
I'm starting an online LIVE painting class Thursday April 9, 2020 @ 9:30 am Mountain Time for any of my blog followers who may be...
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#23 - ART as a life style
If you are doing the math, we have had MANY years of continual major construction projects. And, yes, we did manage to play hard in...
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Painting Classes 'LIVE' Anyone?
As an artist, I have heard so many people over the years tell me how much they'd like to learn to paint, to be more creative... with such...
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#22 - Wildlife Out The Windows
So what to do in the face of such troubles throughout the world? How can one artist help? Should I continue on this blogging path I've...
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#21 - Our Accommodations for Guests
We went back to the Guest House and completely gutted it to the exterior studs & updated absolutely everything. We wanted to take it up...
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#20 - Architecture as a "hobby"
I really enjoy good architecture and interior design. I did even consider them as majors in college. I dabbled. I was an Architecture...
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#19 - Teaching Art & Exhibiting Art
Eventually, we improved our living conditions above "camping". We worked to finish the studio and gallery side completely, so I had space...
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#18 - Time to 'hunker down'...
Time was ticking - as we watched the economy slip and our artist friends getting hit hard. Our best idea was to supplement our Art by...
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#17 - Building On The Edge
Meanwhile the building is progressing in our 'free time' while we're also continuing with Painting, Sculpture and Custom Lighting work....
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#16 - Art Mixed With Kids
It certainly was a challenge to fit it all in around young kids! In the Art world circles, it was very rare to see any other couple with...
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#15 - My favorite time & place to paint...
Out of necessity, I got in the habit of painting sunrise in Yellowstone. Designing and building a home and studio ourselves, designing...
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# 14 - The Practice of Art
When we arrived in Montana, we needed to be able to work immediately – delivery deadlines had been established long ago for a lighting...
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#13 - Ahhhhhhh!!!
I remember the moment well... I WAS DONE! I was ready to live on our Adirondack property forever more. I could not take the real estate...
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#12 - Art Shows, House Building & Toddlers
Juggling two kids into the current schedule was certainly challenging my time management abilities!... even with my Sleep Is For Sissies...
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