Tag: art
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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! […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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A Leaf Composition
a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Mountain Peak
“Mountain Peak” by Jade Nicole Beals, original abstract acrylic painting on 20 x 24 canvas, December 12, 2022.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]