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A limited run (25 ea.) of my top 50 images, 11"x17"; one time price of $17.00 plus 4.95 shipping!

Scatterlings©

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Fresh Perspectives

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Acrylics

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Pointillism

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Illuminated Tiles

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Dry Pastels

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Photos

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Heard It In A Love Song; Prints, Photos

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Detail of The Luckiest Girl In The World #2

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Love has crept into her sealed heart
As a field bee, black and amber,
Breaks from the winter-cell, to clamber
Up the warm grass where the sunbeams start.

Love has crept into her summery eyes,
And a glint of colored sunshine brings
Such as his along the folded wings
Of the bee before he flies.

Song (“Love has crept…”) by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Facebook friend Sarah asks: Best Love Song Ever? Sticky-sweet? Or sappy? Or genuinely romantic?

Some of mine:

Brand New Key by Melanie

Happy Together by The Turtles

Maybe I’m Amazed by Wings

Something by The Beatles… and pretty much everything on Across The Universe.

Building A Mystery by Sarah McLachlan

I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick

Alison by Elvis Costello

Unforgettable by Nat King Cole

I’m Already There by Lonestar

I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab For Cutie

What are your favorite love songs?

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1) The Luckiest Girl In The World #2; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

2) Be Kind #2; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

Bird Stink Eye; Photos, Prints

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Bird Stink Eye; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos.

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Stink Eye sideswipes into you
out of nowhere
where somebody been thinking
evil thoughts about you,
wishing bad luck to blow bad breath upon you,
knock you down,
forget your words,
drop your tools,
make you sputter and drool.
Under the bed,
in Stink Eye’s room,
get one picture of you
stabbed like one pin cushion
with so many needles, stabbed
like one cactus, stabbed like one porcupine.

Stink Eye by Cathy Song

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Detail of Be Kind #2; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view.

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Detail of Be Kind (#1); Collage on Paper Print.

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1) The Luckiest Girl In The World #2; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

2) Be Kind #2; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

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1) Be Kind (#1); Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

2) Annie; Collage on Paper Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

Farewell; Photo

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Farewell; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos.

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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

J.D. Salinger

Lone Gull; Photos

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The Dying Sea Gull by Elhiu Vedder

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Fly on, sea-birds!
fly sideways,
or wheel in large circles high in the air;
Receive the summer sky,
you water,
and faithfully hold it
till all downcast eyes have time
to take it from you!
Diverge,
fine spokes of light,
from the shape of my head,
or any one’s head,
in the sunlit water!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

The American artist Elihu Vedder (1836-1923); an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet; is little known in contemporary art circles.

Vedder made a small living by undertaking commercial illustrations. He was involved in the bohemian ‘Pfaff’s’ coffee house group, and painted some of his most memorable paintings notable for their visionary nature, romantic imagery and often Oriental influences. Paintings of this time include ‘The Roc’s Egg’, ‘The Fisherman and the Genii’ and one of his most famous works, ‘Lair of the Sea Serpent.’ In the USA he sought out and became friends with Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and William Morris Hunt.

At the end of the Civil War he left America to live in Italy. He married Caroline Rosekrans and had four children. His daughter Anita Herriman Vedder played a vital role in handling the business of her father, who was notorious for his general aloofness towards details. Elihu’s son Enoch Rosekrans Vedder was a promising architect who married jewelry designer Angela Reston.

Elhiu Vedder often painted scenes of tragedy and death.  In The Dying Seagull one bird from the flock of Black headed gulls has fallen to the beach. Gulls are monogamous and the dying birds mate remains with it while their flock flies away in the distance. The paintings’ poignant meditation on the loss of family had particular resonance for Vedder; who two of this children had died before he painted this image.

To create paintings such as the dying sea gull Vedder combined observation of nature with fantasy. A similar seascape appears in several of Vedders’ paintings and is most like based in a beach in Italy where he lived much of his adult life. While the setting is from Vedders experience the artist’s subjects came from his imagination memory or literary sources.

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1) Blessing the Birds; Collage on Tile print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

2) Tropical Altar; Collage on Tile print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling.

Find more of my limited run (25 ea.) of my top 50 images here, 11″x17″; one time price of $17.00 plus 4.95 shipping!