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Yellow Rose

10.16.2018 by Barbara Grant //

Yellow Rose
Yellow Rose

Whatever device you use to view this last yellow rose from my garden…it won’t allow you to experience the powerful but delightful fragrance of this tiny flower – a delicacy I will hold in my memory as we fall into the winter months here in the midwest. 

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The Beginning of Autumn

09.22.2018 by Barbara Grant //

This weekend marks the beginning of Autumn — sweater weather and football here in the midwest. There’s an old superstition that claims you can balance an egg on it’s end during this Fall Equinox, 

Visions A-Z: E is for Egg
Visions A-Z: E is for Egg

but according to fact-checker Snopes you can do that any ole’ day of the year.

(“Vision A-Z: E is for Egg” artwork is available at GrantviewStudio.com)

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Heart-shaped Cucumber

07.23.2018 by Barbara Grant //

Here she is modeling the heart-shaped fruit of a Japanese Climbing Cucumber plant that grows in a pot on her porch. I am lucky that our friendship has continued through the years, and that she enjoys posing for me now and then.

I first met Peggy in an exercise class over 10 years ago. After we’d gotten to know each other well enough, I asked if she would pose for a painting I was working on. It was her profile that I wanted to copy: straight nose, high cheek bones, long neck. 

She enjoyed sitting for me, and after that experience went on to do more modeling for our nearby college art department. She is such a wonderful model, because she can stick a pose and hold it until the timer goes off. (Artists tend to lose track of time when engrossed, so a wise model utilizes a clock.)  

I believe it is Peggy’s yoga practice and knowing her own body that help her settle into long poses. She is able to meditate or become lost in thought, even as she is aware of the the bustling of artists at work: the scratch of drawing tools, creak of easels and stools, sigh of exasperation!

She stays cool as a cucumber ~ ~ ~

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