les Tournesols de St Marc

My art-related blogs and videos:

The organic development of a thought

AprylZA-Cézanne:  learning from the masters

Re-Impressionism explained

Picasso-les-Baux:  Cathedrale des images 2009

Walking with the Muse

Fresh is best!  Concentrated sunshine…

the Crucifixion painting

Even poppies have their day…

Apryl regards Picasso regards Cézanne

An art lesson on life…

Make your mark!

Breakin' Dishes

Artists in Space

ICCP Kids' Camp: the crafts

Potential Catyclism

Hubba, hubba…

Space!  We're surrounded

Nature: always in style

the High Points of Form

Look with your eyes…

The Space Inside an Organized Mind

Dynamic relationships are held together with forces, tensions & equilibrium…and occasionally string and duct tape

FORM & SPACE: the equilibrium of forces in landscape

Messing with Vision

Addition plus subtraction equals vision…now that's my kind of math!

Vision II: something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue

an expressive and significant combination of shapes and colors," and other artistic fireworks

VISION IV: the pictorial imagination

VISION V: seeing through your model

Get Fruity! with a collection of fresh produce for your kitchen or postbox

How to Draw Cartoons...and Break Through the Creative Block!

"There are a few things I've learned in life: always throw salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for good luck, and...

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." Martin Luther

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." Thorton Wilder

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." Blaise Pascal

You have 2 legs to walk, 2 hands to hold, 2 ears to hear, 2 eyes to see, but only 1 heart... Because you're meant to find the other

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." Carl Gustav Jung

Love can make you happy, but often times it hurts; Love is only special when you give it what it's worth

"The Life & Love we create is the Life & Love we Live." Dr Leo Buscaglia

If your heart's alive, you've got someone to thank for it!

What's in a name? That which we call a rose would still smell so sweet! 

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle

All the love you give today comes back to fill your heart each day  

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilites

Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship, united forever in love

Forget who hurt you yesterday, but don't forget who loves you tenderly today

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing

A kiss is something that you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving

If Love is a Rose, I have found my Bouquet

Soft Words of Love Can Melt the Hardest Heart

When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others'

Love is in the Air...and on my Zazzle!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawback it is a fine country." Mark Twain

Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." Willa Cather

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." Helen Gurley Brown

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal

Music is well said to be the speech of angels

The Ultimate Pin-Up: How to Make a Wine Corkboard

AIXtraterrestrial Camp Crafts