Joan DaGradi: The Painting Life or Postcards from New Orleans: "Late Afternoon, Louisville St., Lakeview"

watercolor, 11 x 14 inches

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"Beauty is ever present like the light of the sun- even in the most humble object, only it takes an artist's vision to detect it and a artists skill to reproduce it."
-Emil Carlsen

“Abundance is from activity.” Turkish proverb

"From the time I was six, I was in the habit of sketching things I saw around me, and around the age of fifty, I began to work in earnest, producing numerous designs. It was not until after my seventieth year, however, that I produced anything of significance. At the age of seventy-three, I began to grasp the underlying structure of birds and animals, insects and fish, and the way trees and plants grow. Thus, if I keep up my efforts, I will have an even better understanding when I am eighty, and by ninety will have penetrated to the heart of things. At one hundred, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live a decade beyond that, everything I paint- every dot and line- will be alive. I ask the god of longevity to grant me a life long enough to prove this true".

-Hokusai, postscript to One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, translated by Carol Morland.

Joan DaGradi: The Painting Life or Postcards from New Orleans

3/29/08

"Late Afternoon, Louisville St., Lakeview"

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