Monday, July 27, 2009

Lovely Things


Look for a lovely thing
and you will find it.
Sara Teasdale

I love landscape oil paintings. It's what I'm always looking for when wandering through antique stores. I actually majored in Music and Art in college. I never did become an artist or a musician though. Instead, I began a career path in historic and environmental preservation, which to me is kind of the same thing. Like the arts, it's a passion for beauty in its most soulful, natural and creative forms.

I found this landscape painting a few weeks ago. It was exactly what I was looking for. Something lovely. I love those pink blue skies.

My little painting cost only $20. It comes without a frame and there are a few scratches here and there. But for me, the heart of whomever created this painting is very much still in tact. And that's what makes it so lovely.

4 comments:

  1. that IS so lovely! your finds are amazing!

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  2. It is so wonderful when we can combine our passions with our work. You are lucky to be able to do that. Pretty painting and flowers.

    Janet

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  3. I love the oil Trina! I looks so like the NW! Don't you just love a great find!

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  4. This post was very inspirational. I'm anxious to help my daughter decorate what she considers to be a dingy apartment which I think has lots of potential.

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