Tag: artists

• A Room: What a Turn of the Chair May Do and More Relaxation

  

  🐱Peeko shows you… It’s made such an improvement to move this chair in toward the room away from the back wall, tilt toward the bed with a view of the window. —🐱💕Peeko Yoga: The yoga night class was great. I first noticed the incense was very therapeutic with plenty of circulation in the room, along […]

  02/01/2023 7:47 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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• 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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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• “Acknowledgment”

  “Acknowledgment” by Jade Nicole Beals (poem read) Because I wanted to surprise you with my contrast to the idea that not everyone you meet in the day wants to give you something—make you a cup of coffee, or tea with a teaspoon of fresh tea leaves, show you my art originals. I have a ton […]

  01/11/2023 6:03 am

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• Best Bath Tips for Relaxation and Favorite Spa Fruit (with photos)

  

  For the new year…treat yourself extra good, especially if you are, for example, an artist, and no one but you may let you know it is time for your vacation…now 🙂 I recommend no phone in the bath though, this was an exception. 🙂 Cucumber slices for eyes, a few moments, eat a few, let […]

  12/30/2022 2:41 pm

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• A Glam Christmas Party, at the Party

  

  This was such an original idea by my cousin in law to have a dress up glam Christmas party and definitely my kind of fun. Pictures in… a photo of a selfie happening 💋 I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season…who knows, maybe you’ll want to have a glam party yourself….Break up the […]

  12/18/2022 9:53 am

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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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• Christina Rossetti, A Classic Poet Not Often Heard, Celebrates a Birthday

  

  A poet whose writings meant a lot to me this year is Christina Rossetti. Born in London the same year as Emily Dickinson in 1830, she was of British and Italian heritage, wrote just a few questioning, romantic, sassy poems, along with her better known childrens’ rhyme in a book called Goblin Market, and was […]

  12/12/2022 9:00 am

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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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• 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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• A ‘Lost’ Recipe Found and Made for Dinner, Delicious

  

  (my photo) I am not an 👩‍🍳official chef, but I cook plenty, and I made this Armenian-Lebanese dinner tonight. I am happy with the creativity you can find in cooking and wanted to share some. I’d heard of this meal sometime ago on a list, a rare or forgotten Armenian-Lebanese dinner recipe…It involves lightly stir-fried […]

  12/08/2022 7:37 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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• #8

  ‘What’s made you feel better today?’ (Have you seen your own face?… It is so aglow)…‘Hm, I don’t know…’ (…Radiant, I think your smile has lit up my smile. Yes, this remedy is working well.) (a tanka poem, from my haiku and tanka collection, may be a future project; they are a longer haiku)

  12/02/2022 2:00 pm

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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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• 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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• Tuesday, Just after Teatime, Morning Sun

  Tuesday, just after teatime, literary salon beginning and plum village meditation next… Welcome to the literary salon; I am not the host though 😀 ‘…? :)’ Note: I wanted to delete all these esp. this accidental crazed look one 😅 but the literary host, Miss May says, no, not to delete 😊💞(a journalistic word of […]

  11/22/2022 10:13 pm

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• My Books

  

  November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]

  11/12/2022 11:41 am

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• The Birthday Cat Wakes Up to Greet, Blog Show Part 2

  🎈Sorry, this is kind of like a Rugrats Parents thing 😂; but I was a little bit scattered some months and better mindful now, you can find my sketch of Peeko here. He’s been purring all this afternoon. Jade

  11/08/2022 4:29 pm

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• Homemade Products for Healing and Rest: Showcasing…Pillow and Moisturizer

  UPDATE: I found over time this pillow is too hard for me personally, even if I’d enjoyed the design / stability. I would like to sleep on a cotton pillow; I’ve found how / where you place your head on a pillow can allow you more space and comfort. This pillow may be good for […]

  11/06/2022 3:07 pm

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• A New Lamp Shade (To Be Shown Next Time)

  

  The missing part with the very dim lampshade: a metal fastener that goes right around the light bulb socket and now allows a lampshade with the corresponding washer size to attach to this current lamp base! A frosted lightbulb is another option to use for a calmer light, and I will also look for a […]

  10/31/2022 8:52 am

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• Pictures, Delights, Easels and Paints

  

  What did I drink when I just typed all this (post formerly here)? Water. Am sorry to myself too, am going to eat something delicious like chocolate, my mind keeps returning to paints and pictures, I just put together this simple wooden portable easel, that is me in the reflection (not a ghost), and I […]

  10/05/2022 3:18 pm

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• My Blog Shows Playlist

  On my Jade Nicole Beals YouTube channel, you may find a playlist called “Poets Read Aloud,” and I have recreated the playlist I’d had “Blog Shows” and put the two videos (First, May 14, 2021) Audio and the second video (Sept. 10, 2021 Blog Show 1) back…Let’s stop the blog banning (by me of my […]

  10/04/2022 4:04 pm

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• This Home Has a New Sparkle, A Secret View to be Shared

  

  So what does this do? I wanted to share with you what it looks like inside…It’s been mostly small ways of decorating. There’d been a question from myself to myself: Why am I not really sitting or outside on the balcony on beautiful days? —I realized I just wanted a small pillow for the back […]

  10/01/2022 7:37 pm

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• Drawing and Portraits, What Artists Might Like to Draw with

  I love to paint, and I also found that I love to sketch on the go, and draw. Drawing, sketching, and painting all enhance each other and develop different artist skills, while each creates a different artwork or result. I drew May Ziadeh with pencil in my pocket sketchbook…I loved to do that, and I […]

  09/27/2022 12:06 pm

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• My Wooden Easel and Art Supplies

  

  I brought in my portable wooden easel tonight. I cleaned it well with natural soaps and water, cleaned, neatened bristles, and arranged all my brushes, and set up all paints inside. I also placed on my blank 9 x 12 canvas, deep cleansed and airing out the wooden easel with the cool open window. I […]

  09/15/2022 8:02 pm

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• My Replenish and Restore Index Cards—for when things are very exciting & stimulating—even if good

  

  I wrote this for Artists or Authors or anyone designing a schedule, and if not doing that daily, some ideas for relaxation are here for anyone. I thought of this idea today, as I can be very excited by creativity…information…ideas…comments to and from…on my screen, and then become stimulated (‘tho often starts in a good […]

  08/19/2022 5:27 am

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• Intermission

  

  During these heatwave days, I had some fun moments with these mirrors. Was not here to work out, but my favs are yoga and dance. … Please Follow Blush of Dawn at the end of the page if you’d like to be notified of post updates as this Journal continues, Jade painter, artist, poet, and […]

  08/07/2022 11:36 am

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• …Storybook Yoga with Monet

  

  (Monet and his paintings, 1923, colorized, credit: openculture) After awhile of living and painting many garden lily pond scenes outside his home in France, the artist Claude Monet became enthralled with the ocean. He wanted to paint it as he saw it and would get as close to it as possible with his paintbrush and […]

  07/29/2022 9:24 am

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• My Teacups on Display—Yoga with Monet…

  

  The second shelf center cup just arrived yesterday…it gleams so purely on display. I’d looked to find another antique-style cup after my favorite cup I accidentally dropped into the kitchen sink the other day and it broke in half, felt a deep tug of my heart when that happened ’cause I’d loved it, ‘tho no […]

  07/29/2022 9:10 am

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