Polly Morgan's choir

What is this choir of possibilities you offer me? Where can it take us? What tragic song may be ours, what sort of future may a non-future contain? Then again, isn't it just a question of measure? Stop here. Stop here. The still. The gesture, frozen, with the impossible life no less possible than any other still. Still. Hold it more gently. Don't make your hand into a fist. Let them be flowers, let them be flowers, singing flowers, watching singing flowers, for just another, for just another still.

You can purchase this exclusive Polly Morgan print at murmurart. If you dare hang this on a wall.

30 Days hath September

Oh how I wish it had many more days! It flew by so fast.
This is my growing butterfly collection.

New art arrangement on the north wall of our studio/school.

*I haven't forgotten about the last installment of my video painting the flying birdie, I will post it this coming Friday.

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  Live Translator widget.

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Microsoft chimes in with their Live Translator widget
It’s not much to look at and it uses JavaScript for the code but it will translate your content in a side by side format on the Live Translate page. If your site is not optimized for Internet Explorer don’t expect much from this offering. It has a tendency to chop up your site in the side by side comparison. Why?? who knows. But I’m sure it has to do with the ‘beta’ status of this offering.

Feel free to ask!!COZ Your questions and suggestions are the only favour I get in return :)

They're here!

The beautiful cosmos have arrived.

& with them, inspiration for my late September journal pages.

U Comment I Follow(Increase Your Backlinks )

Those of you newbie bloggers that don’t know what U Comment I Follow means, it basically means if you leave a comment on my blog I will leave a comment on your blog, assuming of course that your blog is of some kind of interest to me. There are all kinds of U Comment I Follow Blogs out there, but I have yet to find a nice clean list of U Comment I Follow Blogs and hope that this will serve as that list.
If you are a blogger and you run a U Comment I Follow Blog please leave a comment with a link to your blog, and keep in mind leaving a comment here gets you two DoFollow backlinks from my blog. Now on the flip side don’t leave your site in the comments here if you have no intention of commenting back when other bloggers comment on your blog.

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In Hiding

Works by Janine Antoni (the first one is a sculpture - a cast of the artist - and not a photo of a performed action, as is the case with the second one).
And as a bonus, a work by her called Umbillical (2000), made of a "sterling silver cast of family silverware and negative impression of artist's mouth and mother's hand".

HTML Color Codes(Color Palatte)

About color codes and how to apply HTML color codes are hexadecimal triplets representing the colors red, green, and blue. For example, in the the color red, the color code is FF0000, which is '255' red, '0' green, and '0' blue.
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Major hexadecimal color codes

Color	Color Code	Color	Color Code
Red	#FF0000	White	#FFFFFF
Turquoise	#00FFFF	Light Grey	#C0C0C0
Light Blue	#0000FF	Dark Grey	#808080
Dark Blue	#0000A0	Black	#000000
Light Purple	#FF0080	Orange	#FF8040
Dark Purple	#800080	Brown	#804000
Yellow	#FFFF00	Burgundy	#800000
Pastel Green	#00FF00	Forest Green	#808000
Pink	#FF00FF	Grass Green	#408080

Color code chart

COLOR NAME	CODE	COLOR
Black	#000000	Black
Gray0	#150517	Gray0
Gray18	#250517	Gray18
Gray21	#2B1B17	Gray21
Gray23	#302217	Gray23
Gray24	#302226	Gray24
Gray25	#342826	Gray25
Gray26	#34282C	Gray26
Gray27	#382D2C	Gray27
Gray28	#3b3131	Gray28
Gray29	#3E3535	Gray29
Gray30	#413839	Gray30
Gray31	#41383C	Gray31
Gray32	#463E3F	Gray32
Gray34	#4A4344	Gray34
Gray35	#4C4646	Gray35
Gray36	#4E4848	Gray36
Gray37	#504A4B	Gray37
Gray38	#544E4F	Gray38
Gray39	#565051	Gray39
Gray40	#595454	Gray40
Gray41	#5C5858	Gray41
Gray42	#5F5A59	Gray42
Gray43	#625D5D	Gray43
Gray44	#646060	Gray44
Gray45	#666362	Gray45
Gray46	#696565	Gray46
Gray47	#6D6968	Gray47
Gray48	#6E6A6B	Gray48
Gray49	#726E6D	Gray49
Gray50	#747170	Gray50
Gray	#736F6E	Gray
Slate Gray4	#616D7E	Slate Gray4
Slate Gray	#657383	Slate Gray
Light Steel Blue4	#646D7E	Light Steel Blue4
Light Slate Gray	#6D7B8D	Light Slate Gray
Cadet Blue4	#4C787E	Cadet Blue4
Dark Slate Gray4	#4C7D7E	Dark Slate Gray4
Thistle4	#806D7E	Thistle4
Medium Slate Blue	#5E5A80	Medium Slate Blue
Medium Purple4	#4E387E	Medium Purple4
Midnight Blue	#151B54	Midnight Blue
Dark Slate Blue	#2B3856	Dark Slate Blue
Dark Slate Gray	#25383C	Dark Slate Gray
Dim Gray	#463E41	Dim Gray
Cornflower Blue	#151B8D	Cornflower Blue
Royal Blue4	#15317E	Royal Blue4
Slate Blue4	#342D7E	Slate Blue4
Royal Blue	#2B60DE	Royal Blue
Royal Blue1	#306EFF	Royal Blue1
Royal Blue2	#2B65EC	Royal Blue2
Royal Blue3	#2554C7	Royal Blue3
Deep Sky Blue	#3BB9FF	Deep Sky Blue
Deep Sky Blue2	#38ACEC	Deep Sky Blue2
Slate Blue	#357EC7	Slate Blue
Deep Sky Blue3	#3090C7	Deep Sky Blue3
Deep Sky Blue4	#25587E	Deep Sky Blue4
Dodger Blue	#1589FF	Dodger Blue
Dodger Blue2	#157DEC	Dodger Blue2
Dodger Blue3	#1569C7	Dodger Blue3
Dodger Blue4	#153E7E	Dodger Blue4
Steel Blue4	#2B547E	Steel Blue4
Steel Blue	#4863A0	Steel Blue
Slate Blue2	#6960EC	Slate Blue2
Violet	#8D38C9	Violet
Medium Purple3	#7A5DC7	Medium Purple3
Medium Purple	#8467D7	Medium Purple
Medium Purple2	#9172EC	Medium Purple2
Medium Purple1	#9E7BFF	Medium Purple1
Light Steel Blue	#728FCE	Light Steel Blue
Steel Blue3	#488AC7	Steel Blue3
Steel Blue2	#56A5EC	Steel Blue2
Steel Blue1	#5CB3FF	Steel Blue1
Sky Blue3	#659EC7	Sky Blue3
Sky Blue4	#41627E	Sky Blue4
Slate Blue	#737CA1	Slate Blue
Slate Blue	#737CA1	Slate Blue
Slate Gray3	#98AFC7	Slate Gray3
Violet Red	#F6358A	Violet Red
Violet Red1	#F6358A	Violet Red1
Violet Red2	#E4317F	Violet Red2
Deep Pink	#F52887	Deep Pink
Deep Pink2	#E4287C	Deep Pink2
Deep Pink3	#C12267	Deep Pink3
Deep Pink4	#7D053F	Deep Pink4
Medium Violet Red	#CA226B	Medium Violet Red
Violet Red3	#C12869	Violet Red3
Firebrick	#800517	Firebrick
Violet Red4	#7D0541	Violet Red4
Maroon4	#7D0552	Maroon4
Maroon	#810541	Maroon
Maroon3	#C12283	Maroon3
Maroon2	#E3319D	Maroon2
Maroon1	#F535AA	Maroon1
Magenta	#FF00FF	Magenta
Magenta1	#F433FF	Magenta1
Magenta2	#E238EC	Magenta2
Magenta3	#C031C7	Magenta3
Medium Orchid	#B048B5	Medium Orchid
Medium Orchid1	#D462FF	Medium Orchid1
Medium Orchid2	#C45AEC	Medium Orchid2
Medium Orchid3	#A74AC7	Medium Orchid3
Medium Orchid4	#6A287E	Medium Orchid4
Purple	#8E35EF	Purple
Purple1	#893BFF	Purple1
Purple2	#7F38EC	Purple2
Purple3	#6C2DC7	Purple3
Purple4	#461B7E	Purple4
Dark Orchid4	#571B7e	Dark Orchid4
Dark Orchid	#7D1B7E	Dark Orchid
Dark Violet	#842DCE	Dark Violet
Dark Orchid3	#8B31C7	Dark Orchid3
Dark Orchid2	#A23BEC	Dark Orchid2
Dark Orchid1	#B041FF	Dark Orchid1
Plum4	#7E587E	Plum4
Pale Violet Red	#D16587	Pale Violet Red
Pale Violet Red1	#F778A1	Pale Violet Red1
Pale Violet Red2	#E56E94	Pale Violet Red2
Pale Violet Red3	#C25A7C	Pale Violet Red3
Pale Violet Red4	#7E354D	Pale Violet Red4
Plum	#B93B8F	Plum
Plum1	#F9B7FF	Plum1
Plum2	#E6A9EC	Plum2
Plum3	#C38EC7	Plum3
Thistle	#D2B9D3	Thistle
Thistle3	#C6AEC7	Thistle3
Lavender Blush2	#EBDDE2	Lavender Blush2
Lavender Blush3	#C8BBBE	Lavender Blush3
Thistle2	#E9CFEC	Thistle2
Thistle1	#FCDFFF	Thistle1
Lavender	#E3E4FA	Lavender
Lavender Blush	#FDEEF4	Lavender Blush
Light Steel Blue1	#C6DEFF	Light Steel Blue1
Light Blue	#ADDFFF	Light Blue
Light Blue1	#BDEDFF	Light Blue1
Light Cyan	#E0FFFF	Light Cyan
Slate Gray1	#C2DFFF	Slate Gray1
Slate Gray2	#B4CFEC	Slate Gray2
Light Steel Blue2	#B7CEEC	Light Steel Blue2
Turquoise1	#52F3FF	Turquoise1
Cyan	#00FFFF	Cyan
Cyan1	#57FEFF	Cyan1
Cyan2	#50EBEC	Cyan2
Turquoise2	#4EE2EC	Turquoise2
Medium Turquoise	#48CCCD	Medium Turquoise
Turquoise	#43C6DB	Turquoise
Dark Slate Gray1	#9AFEFF	Dark Slate Gray1
Dark Slate Gray2	#8EEBEC	Dark slate Gray2
Dark Slate Gray3	#78c7c7	Dark Slate Gray3
Cyan3	#46C7C7	Cyan3
Turquoise3	#43BFC7	Turquoise3
Cadet Blue3	#77BFC7	Cadet Blue3
Pale Turquoise3	#92C7C7	Pale Turquoise3
Light Blue2	#AFDCEC	Light Blue2
Dark Turquoise	#3B9C9C	Dark Turquoise
Cyan4	#307D7E	Cyan4
Light Sea Green	#3EA99F	Light Sea Green
Light Sky Blue	#82CAFA	Light Sky Blue
Light Sky Blue2	#A0CFEC	Light Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue3	#87AFC7	Light Sky Blue3
Sky Blue	#82CAFF	Sky Blue
Sky Blue2	#79BAEC	Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue4	#566D7E	Light Sky Blue4
Sky Blue	#6698FF	Sky Blue
Light Slate Blue	#736AFF	Light Slate Blue
Light Cyan2	#CFECEC	Light Cyan2
Light Cyan3	#AFC7C7	Light Cyan3
Light Cyan4	#717D7D	Light Cyan4
Light Blue3	#95B9C7	Light Blue3
Light Blue4	#5E767E	Light Blue4
Pale Turquoise4	#5E7D7E	Pale Turquoise4
Dark Sea Green4	#617C58	Dark Sea Green4
Medium Aquamarine	#348781	Medium Aquamarine
Medium Sea Green	#306754	Medium Sea Green
Sea Green	#4E8975	Sea Green
Dark Green	#254117	Dark Green
Sea Green4	#387C44	Sea Green4
Forest Green	#4E9258	Forest Green
Medium Forest Green	#347235	Medium Forest Green
Spring Green4	#347C2C	Spring Green4
Dark Olive Green4	#667C26	Dark Olive Green4
Chartreuse4	#437C17	Chartreuse4
Green4	#347C17	Green4
Medium Spring Green	#348017	Medium Spring Green
Spring Green	#4AA02C	Spring Green
Lime Green	#41A317	Lime Green
Spring Green	#4AA02C	Spring Green
Dark Sea Green	#8BB381	Dark Sea Green
Dark Sea Green3	#99C68E	Dark Sea Green3
Green3	#4CC417	Green3
Chartreuse3	#6CC417	Chartreuse3
Yellow Green	#52D017	Yellow Green
Spring Green3	#4CC552	Spring Green3
Sea Green3	#54C571	Sea Green3
Spring Green2	#57E964	Spring Green2
Spring Green1	#5EFB6E	Spring Green1
Sea Green2	#64E986	Sea Green2
Sea Green1	#6AFB92	Sea Green1
Dark Sea Green2	#B5EAAA	Dark Sea Green2
Dark Sea Green1	#C3FDB8	Dark Sea Green1
Green	#00FF00	Green
Lawn Green	#87F717	Lawn Green
Green1	#5FFB17	Green1
Green2	#59E817	Green2
Chartreuse2	#7FE817	Chartreuse2
Chartreuse	#8AFB17	Chartreuse
Green Yellow	#B1FB17	Green Yellow
Dark Olive Green1	#CCFB5D	Dark Olive Green1
Dark Olive Green2	#BCE954	Dark Olive Green2
Dark Olive Green3	#A0C544	Dark Olive Green3
Yellow	#FFFF00	Yellow
Yellow1	#FFFC17	Yellow1
Khaki1	#FFF380	Khaki1
Khaki2	#EDE275	Khaki2
Goldenrod	#EDDA74	Goldenrod
Gold2	#EAC117	Gold2
Gold1	#FDD017	Gold1
Goldenrod1	#FBB917	Goldenrod1
Goldenrod2	#E9AB17	Goldenrod2
Gold	#D4A017	Gold
Gold3	#C7A317	Gold3
Goldenrod3	#C68E17	Goldenrod3
Dark Goldenrod	#AF7817	Dark Goldenrod
Khaki	#ADA96E	Khaki
Khaki3	#C9BE62	Khaki3
Khaki4	#827839	Khaki4
Dark Goldenrod1	#FBB117	Dark Goldenrod1
Dark Goldenrod2	#E8A317	Dark Goldenrod2
Dark Goldenrod3	#C58917	Dark Goldenrod3
Sienna1	#F87431	Sienna1
Sienna2	#E66C2C	Sienna2
Dark Orange	#F88017	Dark Orange
Dark Orange1	#F87217	Dark Orange1
Dark Orange2	#E56717	Dark Orange2
Dark Orange3	#C35617	Dark Orange3
Sienna3	#C35817	Sienna3
Sienna	#8A4117	Sienna
Sienna4	#7E3517	Sienna4
Indian Red4	#7E2217	Indian Red4
Dark Orange3	#7E3117	Dark Orange3
Salmon4	#7E3817	Salmon4
Dark Goldenrod4	#7F5217	Dark Goldenrod4
Gold4	#806517	Gold4
Goldenrod4	#805817	Goldenrod4
Light Salmon4	#7F462C	Light Salmon4
Chocolate	#C85A17	Chocolate
Coral3	#C34A2C	Coral3
Coral2	#E55B3C	Coral2
Coral	#F76541	Coral
Dark Salmon	#E18B6B	Dark Salmon
Salmon1	#F88158	Pale Turquoise4
Salmon2	#E67451	Salmon2
Salmon3	#C36241	Salmon3
Light Salmon3	#C47451	Light Salmon3
Light Salmon2	#E78A61	Light Salmon2
Light Salmon	#F9966B	Light Salmon
Sandy Brown	#EE9A4D	Sandy Brown
Hot Pink	#F660AB	Hot Pink
Hot Pink1	#F665AB	Hot Pink1
Hot Pink2	#E45E9D	Hot Pink2
Hot Pink3	#C25283	Hot Pink3
Hot Pink4	#7D2252	Hot Pink4
Light Coral	#E77471	Light Coral
Indian Red1	#F75D59	Indian Red1
Indian Red2	#E55451	Indian Red2
Indian Red3	#C24641	Indian Red3
Red	#FF0000	Red
Red1	#F62217	Red1
Red2	#E41B17	Red2
Firebrick1	#F62817	Firebrick1
Firebrick2	#E42217	Firebrick2
Firebrick3	#C11B17	Firebrick3
Pink	#FAAFBE	Pink
Rosy Brown1	#FBBBB9	Rosy Brown1
Rosy Brown2	#E8ADAA	Rosy Brown2
Pink2	#E7A1B0	Pink2
Light Pink	#FAAFBA	Light Pink
Light Pink1	#F9A7B0	Light Pink1
Light Pink2	#E799A3	Light Pink2
Pink3	#C48793	Pink3
Rosy Brown3	#C5908E	Rosy Brown3
Rosy Brown	#B38481	Rosy Brown
Light Pink3	#C48189	Light Pink3
Rosy Brown4	#7F5A58	Rosy Brown4
Light Pink4	#7F4E52	Light Pink4
Pink4	#7F525D	Pink4
Lavender Blush4	#817679	Lavendar Blush4
Light Goldenrod4	#817339	Light Goldenrod4
Lemon Chiffon4	#827B60	Lemon Chiffon4
Lemon Chiffon3	#C9C299	Lemon Chiffon3
Light Goldenrod3	#C8B560	Light Goldenrod3
Light Golden2	#ECD672	Light Golden2
Light Goldenrod	#ECD872	Light Goldenrod
Light Goldenrod1	#FFE87C	Light Goldenrod1
Lemon Chiffon2	#ECE5B6	Lemon Chiffon2
Lemon Chiffon	#FFF8C6	Lemon Chiffon
Light Goldenrod Yellow	#FAF8CC	Light Goldenrod Yellow

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Autumn leaves intervention

Found these on my walk with Turbo and gave them some TLC with my brushes and some paint.
I love the Fall! It's the season I am most inspired by.

DETAILS (A TAXONOMY FOR BEGINNERS)

Here's how it goes:

There are details that hum and details that sing. There are details that accumulate like silt when the artist isn't paying enough attention, and smother the picture.

Then there are details where artists with impeccable technique find refuge from questions of meaning and purpose.

Wrightson

There are details that are diamantiferous...


Briggs

all the way down to the subatomic level....







Then there are details so insanely disproportionate that we can only attribute them to the addiction to drawing (an addiction that has so far bested every methadone program offered by art schools).


Drucker

Of course, we forgive the excessive details in Renaissance art; those details were created in an era of new excitement for empirical facts and the physical world, after artists awakened from the long medieval fixation on the afterlife. Renaissance artists were entitled to their painstaking focus on the natural world, but you'd better have an equally good excuse if you want to get away with the same level of detail today.


Altdorfer
There are details which are just a playground for scamps.


Wood
Then there are sly details, the ones that seduce the artist with his own skill. Be on your guard, for these are the most dangerous details of all!


Frazetta

There are details that envelop you in a warm bath, and there are details that shimmer like phosphorescence in the sea at night and swirl around you, drawing you deeper into the picture to the place where mermaids whisper that answers do exist.

On those rare occasions when an artist exercises restraint, the few carefully selected details can acquire supernatural power. The single line of a stocking can inspire you to leave a bookstore and go hunting for your wife.



Sometimes detail gets lucky and is given a starring role in a picture, as when an artist merges the background with the foreground, making the center of the picture everywhere at once.


Fawcett

Once upon a time, laborious detail was the cheapest and safest way to make sure a viewer valued a picture. Even if the art was no good, viewers were subconsciously flattered that the artist was willing to trade so many hours of his life to entertain them. But the muse became indignant that so many of her supplicants were abandoning her for the god of manual labor, so she invented photoshop. Now even the lure of cheap flattery is gone.


Nicolausson

Scientists report that fully 17% of the artistic details in the known universe are attributable to cowardice; there are artists who add detail to hedge their bets, believing that it is safer to draw lots of little lines than one big one. But artists who believe they can escape accountability by blurring their choices with three or four lines where one would suffice are wrong. The fatal flaw with their theory is what the economists call diminishing marginal utility: with each additional superfluous line the artist invests a little less thought or judgment (and adds less value to the picture).

So many lines-- hundreds of millions of them throughout history-- are conceived in hope, only to end up as part of an endurance test for crow quill pens. One can only ponder the wasted potential, the disappointed ambitions of these lines whose lives were stripped of individuality, personality, and any other trait that might have redeemed them. It is, my friends, a holocaust of mind numbing proportions. But who will hear their cry?