Sanqhar, Scotland – 5″ x 7″ Watercolor and Ink

“If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you’re going to be cockeyed today.”
–Author Unknown

Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012

Sanqhar, Scotland – 5″ x 7″ Watercolor and Ink

Dominic posted the photo of Sanquar on WetCanvas over the weekend.   It was fun to paint.  I didn’t even have to eliminate the people… because there weren’t any in the photo.  Hmmmmm 

This quote is from my little book Wrinkles Don’t Hurt, by Ruth Fishel

Ruth Fishel, M.Ed., is an inspirational meditation teacher, workshop leader and the author of many books including:

 TIME FOR JOY

LIVING LIGHT AS A FEATHER

CHANGE ALMOST ANYTHING IN 21 DAYS

HANG IN ‘TIL THE MIRACLE HAPPENS

PRECIOUS SOLITUDE

TIME FOR PEACE: A Monthly Affirmation Plan

WRINKLES DON’T HURT, Daily Meditations on the Joy of Aging Mindfully

Bridgetown, Barbados

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
– James Bryant Conant

 

Bridgetown, Barbados
8″ x 8″ Acrylic on Ampersand Artist Panel

This is Broad Street, from Valri Ary’s WDE at WetCanvas.  Of course, I waaaay simplified it.  There was a lot of noise and I couldn’t wrap my head around all of it.  Okay…. I didn’t know how to paint it. 


I think I should have painted all the people with their arms up in the air, screaming, “Help me, I’m falling!”.  I had my perspective down pretty good, until I added the ground.  All the people should be sliding to their left.  Oh well.  I had fun and that’s what counts.  There are no perspective police in my world.  *giggle*

About James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant, the American chemist and educator, is known both for his role in the Manhattan Project — which developed the first nuclear weapons — and for his innovative tenure as president of Harvard University. Harvard had been a finishing school for the rich; Conant turned it into a world-class research university and created aptitude tests to choose students by ability. These tests became the basis for the SAT. He was born in Massachusetts in 1893 and died in New Hampshire in 1978.