Opposites

Can’t decide between two different things?

Put them together and see what happens!

Red + blue = purple

Blue + yellow = green

Yellow + red = orange

Old + New = Vintage modern

Big dots go with small stripes

Little dots go with large stripes

Big leaves go with little leaves

Rough goes with smooth

Hard goes with soft

It’s about contrast, proportion, scale, size, value, depth, intensity…all mixed together in different ways.

Tall goes with short

Wide goes with narrow

Now, go make something fun, and enjoy doing it!

REMAKE BEAUTY

My backyard is filled with flowers, many are perennials designed to come up again so I don’t have to replant them every year.

So many colors and plant sizes and shapes, mixed together with my potteries and souvenirs from hiking expeditions; they all blend into a beautiful patchwork quilt of color and texture that give me such delight to look at, to touch and to share with others.

Anticipating an upcoming move, I am thinking how I will miss all this loveliness, remembering all the places I’ve been, all the people who have shared plants with me, wondering how much space I might have at my new home, and then what to grab and take along!

Generally, I have discovered when people move out, the new residents have different gardening tastes than I do, and often the garden areas are mowed over or converted into another type space.

That thought is tough, but ….. WAIT!!!

I will have a new palate to paint from, new plants to choose, new dirt to turn over and begin to make beauty all over again.

I won’t be giving anything up. That painting is finished, it added to my portfolio of gardening experience, and now is time to begin another painting.

I will remake my beauty again…another place!

Do you need to remake your own beauty somewhere today?

Where? How? Just begin!