Tag: art

• Servant of Love by Patty Griffin, with One Favorite Thing About Monday

  One Favorite Thing About Monday Finding 2 new favorite poems, by W.B. Yeats, instead of one (I am practicing them for your listen), and how he’d once said (paraphrased): “You give a poem its fine machinery, and that is all you do,” with his poems of lakes and isles and clover and honey…My favorite poems […]

  01/31/2023 7:59 am

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• Intermission: Poetry by W.B Yeats

  

  Pride and Prejudice reached a point of intermission for me to enjoy a night hour of poetry from Selected Poems by W.B.Yeats. Instead of writing a review, I will read to you my favorite poem from the collection that you may listen. I liked the cover photoed in this when I found the book at […]

  01/29/2023 6:53 pm

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• My Personal Healing Story

  “Lighthouse” painting by me (2013) Originally Posted: November 23, 2020 If you’ve been reading this blog this year, you might have seen me mention my own healing early spring this year and might have wondered from what I had found healing and what had helped me heal.  I want to share this story because maybe […]

  01/26/2023 4:31 pm

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• A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press

  

  Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in […]

  01/25/2023 9:39 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Submitting My Paintings to the Boston Arts Museum and Writing My Novel

  

  🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition for Abstract Art. They could accept one or more to display at the Museum, and they would also be up for sale there during that time! […]

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

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• Yoga Night

  

  January 19, 2023 with my painting and books

  01/21/2023 1:34 pm

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• A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic

  I’d enjoyed so very soon the concise, often comedic poetry of the author Charles Simic, a poet who recently passed away last week; many prayers and blessings and poetry readings: here is one… The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic The way the light and shadow Go on with their tug-of-war While the night […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• Why All the Sagittarius Birthday Wishes?: A Reflection on Self and Soul

  There is something I found last year, and although I am not serious about astrology as if it were a religion to me, I enjoy the patterns it suggests in life as a kind of artwork. I find it very accurate in many ways. I had found in my life great, deep healing in the […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

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• Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry

  

  It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Sun Shower

  

  My latest painting is complete! “Sun Shower” by Jade Nicole Beals, January 17, 2023, 18 x 24 acrylic on wrapped canvas, can display directly on wall or in a frame, shown close up in natural light.

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• About Sun Shower

  January 17, 2023 It’s been the sunniest day the day I completed this painting; I’d been wishing for sun. And some natural framing, in the generous flood of morning sunlight, I didn’t place in the rainbows in the next photo 😊 (or the bubbles.) I focused on this painting as my project of the week. […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters

  

  Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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• A Leaf Composition

  

  a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade

  12/29/2022 7:09 pm

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• Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat

  

  This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes […]

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

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• A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh

  

  (in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with […]

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• Mountain Peak

  

  “Mountain Peak” by Jade Nicole Beals, original abstract acrylic painting on 20 x 24 canvas, December 12, 2022.

  12/12/2022 12:49 pm

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• An Abstract Painting in the Making, Session 2

  

  IN PROGRESS. Session 2. An abstract painting in the making. (This was session 1 when I was trying out texture on canvas.) * A unique composition, I notice is forming that I’d like to keep, and this one I find best painted with very slow additions and its simplicity and pure space preserved. I will […]

  12/12/2022 8:07 am

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• Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today

  

  “People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]

  12/11/2022 7:02 pm

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• Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket

  

  …🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

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• One Question

  

  —What do you enjoy besides painting or writing or the fine arts? One thing: I really like fashion; I will need to find an outfit for a “Glam Christmas party” I received an invite to, and casual fashion is fashion too; I’d not heard of an event like that. But I like it. I got […]

  12/11/2022 5:53 pm

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• Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed

  Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote […]

  12/09/2022 8:43 pm

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)

  My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night […]

  12/05/2022 12:53 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• Painting in Progress: Abstract Texture

  

  FEATURED ART PROJECT, new painting at very start 🙂

  12/02/2022 2:49 pm

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• I Finish My Falling Apart Copy of Jane Eyre Before Midnight

  

  (photo and content update, “the morning after”) …I started with a short paint session, and I have the first part of my idea started well while the rest of the canvas looks in messy distress, but I was able to stop in time to just paint a little and also complete Jane Eyre (1847) while […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but […]

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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• “This Ring”

  

  (my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]

  11/29/2022 5:32 pm

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• A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning

  

  morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?😅 my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten […]

  11/29/2022 10:42 am

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• Peeko’s Puffy Kitten Face, A Couple of New Art Supplies

  

  A rainy Sunday evening: my fine art collector and curator,🐱Peeko viewing again my latest drawing I finished yesterday before it is placed inside an art folder for safekeeping. I was careful not to hold it too close to the kitten. He made a little tiny grunt of delight as he looked into one little part […]

  11/27/2022 6:30 pm

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• So Relaxing

  

  I completed my latest drawing this evening! “So Relaxing” by Jade Nicole Beals, Nov. 26, 2022, graphite pencils on paper, surreal still life imagined. You may notice different things: a bowl of cereal with a spoon, a checkered scarf or throw blanket, a fluffed bedtime pillow, throw pillow, a small throw rug, a pot of […]

  11/27/2022 3:54 pm

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• Session #3 Drawing in Progress, Grateful with Art Supporter :)

  

  with my dad in law, Dave who is a great supporter of my art and bought my painting “Mornings at the Sea” at my first art show!! 🙏💕😊💕With my new drawing In Progress! Session #3📝! I brought it to Thanksgiving in my new drawing book a great thing to do, draw while at a home […]

  11/24/2022 6:21 pm

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• I Begin a New Drawing

  

  Thanksgiving update: I just woke from a long morningtime nap, sun on my face, so refreshing; my drawing in progress came to mind. This is what it has been so far 🙂 In progress drawing, first session. (My small paper yesterday came to be a practice paper.) I draw the imagined scene now on 9 […]

  11/24/2022 10:00 am

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