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Smoke and Mirrors
Depicting abstract concepts through images is not a novel idea, and images tell stories. After having painted realistic pictures in both...
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artbydilmit
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
Morning Light on Garden Pots
"And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness...", the sun’s rays never fail to create magic. Even though in his play,...
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artbydilmit
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Golden Birches
Aphorisms – those pithy sayings that are not truly descriptions but succinct, word-compacted, meaning-packed one-liners certainly cajole...
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artbydilmit
- Oct 21, 2020
- 2 min
Autumn Leaves
The turn of leaves takes me back to my English classroom long long ago, sitting and reading John Keats’ Ode to Autumn written in 1819....
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artbydilmit
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Joshua Tree National Park
One can read the history of Joshua Tree National Park on many research sites that explore the geography, geology and history of the...
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artbydilmit
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
The One and Only Bard
I love reading and reciting Shakespeare. I do not respond to his wit and wisdom cerebrally or get caught up in his universality that...
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artbydilmit
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
As Far As The Eye Can See
Emerson wrote, “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” Swaddled by...
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artbydilmit
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min
St. Bede's
I wasn’t sketching or painting much in my teenage years when I left my hometown for the first time to attend St. Bede’s College. With...
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artbydilmit
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Fried Egg Flower
If you are not a fan of the sunny side up fried egg, this watercolor rendition of the matilija may not resonate with the breakfast image....
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artbydilmit
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Toast
With retirement came quarantine. Friends and coworkers stated my timing was impeccable but I am ambivalent. Not particularly keen on...
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artbydilmit
- Aug 9, 2020
- 1 min
The Art of Learning
“You have no idea how much you’ve meant to me. Never has any teacher inspired me like you.” At the end of this pandemic-impacted year in...
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artbydilmit
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
The Queen of Cereus a la The Gorettians
Tempus fugit. I recently connected with mates from my high school in India, St. Maria Goretti, after five decades. You heard that right,...
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artbydilmit
- Jul 25, 2020
- 1 min
Plein Air Greens
Where do I begin? Choosing a subject in plein air painting is almost always a challenge for me. Winding paths, benches under shady trees,...
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artbydilmit
- Jul 18, 2020
- 2 min
The Potter
I wish I could remember the name of the dirt road that led to the little hamlet on the outskirts of Udaipur where I photographed the...
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artbydilmit
- Jul 11, 2020
- 1 min
The Fishing Village
India is a complexity of immeasurable proportions and yet can be simplified in the faint outline of a humble fisherwoman striding...
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artbydilmit
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
A Pre-Lockdown Reminiscence
The desire to sketch and paint the orange roofs of Lisbon, the wine country of the Algarve, and Alvor's tiny fishing villages in water...
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artbydilmit
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
Despair
The haunting images circulated in the media of caravans of migrants displaced by the pandemic became a de facto deep seated metaphor for...
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artbydilmit
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Morning Delight
My hikes along Cherry Canyon are my morning delight, my cup-o-java. Daybreak is the optimal time for a one on one Zoom meeting with the...
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