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Here's a poem-painting using a photo I took with a slow shutter from the passenger seat of our car while we drove along! With this image, I paint with an ipad, manipulating the original soft, blurry photo of this meadow and trees, and adding many layers of beautiful texture to my original image to arrive at my final digital painting.

The scene reminds me of dancing in the forest on a magic moonlit night. The trees have a mysterious blue aliveness to them, and you can almost hear them singing! The forest floor is luminous with a white sparkly diamond-light, and there's wonder in the air.

About a year ago now, something wonderful happened. I'd been going through an increasingly challenging time with my health, which has been a major teacher in my life, and was being brought to my knees by the experience. When my dear friend and partner Fred encouraged me to take up art, I was touched by an excitement that was like a thousand smiles singing inside me! I've always been an adventurous one,,, artistic, musical, and a great lover of spontaneous play. For much of my life, I've made my living as a luthier, specializing in unusual, made-up violin family instruments, as well as a whole host of flutes, harps, marimbas, tile-a-phones, etc. etc. But until last year, I'd never spent much time with a paintbrush, or let myself be...