Freckles - Frog Painting

“I don’t know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I know:  The only ones among
you who will be really happy are those who
have sought out and found how to serve.”

–Arnold Schweitzer



Freckles
2.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor ATC

Really…. I’m not kidding….  the frog in the photo was this color!  I am amazed by the wonderful little critter that is the frog!  Just when you thought you had seen everything….

I could find no biography on Dr. Schweitzer.  I just found that he was a Humanitarian and a Physician.

Freckles

“Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else…”
– Tennessee Williams

 
Freckles
2.5″  3.5″ Watercolor

I did this little frog for an ATC swap a while back.  The frog in the reference photo was just that color.  How fun frogs can be.  They come in so many different colors and designs!  Mother nature had fun with them, too!

About Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was the pen name of Thomas Lanier Williams, the multiple-award-winning Southern Gothic playwright best known for his plays Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. He was born in 1911 in Mississippi, where he had a difficult childhood with an abusive father, a smothering mother, and a schizophrenic sister. His emotionally honest plays often feature sensitive souls who don’t fit into a confining culture. He spent most of his adult life in New York City. He died in 1983.

Freckles - May 6, 2009

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."– Katharine Graham

Freckles - 2.5" x 3.5" watercolor

I remember the first time I heard an artist talk about a happy accident. (I bought the painting, by the way.) She made what some would have thought was a mistake and turned it into a painting that I have always been happy that I own. It's a wonderful little burst of color that became the most amazing light in her little cabin painting. I'll take a mistake like that anytime.