red paint studio in New Mexico — landscape

My list of good things

Aug 28, 2019 Laura Balombini

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I start lists everywhere I am..to do lists with columns of "house" "work" and "other". My " good things" list is mostly a morning vocation and exists fleetingly in my head..and then..is gone. Good things Roadrunner Hairy Woodpecker Two grown rabbits light rain fell in night and rain barrel is full again purple sage in bloom first Sandhill Cranes flying along the Rio Grande..migration has begun. fish painting done for a friend When I was a kid and my parents would start a yelling match that I could not bear to witness ..I learned that nature and art could take...

after the summer heat

Aug 13, 2019 Laura Balombini

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Summer is long and hot ..but we're learning to chill like the rest of the plants and critters.

The pantone color for 2017 is Greenery..I'd better get some green going!

Mar 09, 2017 Laura Balombini

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In between planting raspberries, mending fences and sewing up girls tunics for a photo shoot...I paint and look in awe at the desert landscape that now is starting to inform my colors and textures. I squint and see landscapes and layers of plant life colors changing in a day from brown to sage green and the roadrunner up on the chimney yells down thru the flue .." hey ..hey..you live in New Mexico..get out there and see it!!...I will. Creative types find uneasy times unnerving and it can hinder work..makes us come out of the studio and say "Be kind..be...