Little Flames
It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. – Helen Walton This next Mini Vacations original, “Flammola (Pansy)”, has been […]
Getting Lost in Venice… On Purpose!
For Mini Vacations miniature #20, you can see that I’m still wandering around Venice (and will be for a few more pieces)! Venice is a very confusing place to wander in […]
Unexpected Pleasures
My latest art card (#16) features bricks! Of course it does! I have a thing for drawing and painting bricks, if you haven’t noticed. But painting all those bricks was […]
Little Pink Houses For You And Me
Several times I hummed Jonn Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” while I was drawing and painting art card #15. This pink house, while not so little, is found in Barga in northwest […]
Shutters and More Shutters
I’ve painted so many scenes that contain wooden shutters, especially the green ones found everywhere in Italy. In the south of France, those shutters are often a light blue. I’ve […]
Encountering a Lion in Chianti
I could probably make all 100 art cards from pictures of fountains I’ve taken! But for now, here’s just one of them for card #13 – the lion fountain in […]
Or… Beautiful Places with Flower Pots
These 2 art cards come from images of vacation places I’ve stayed at a few times – places where the settings and the people have given me profound moments of connection and peace. […]
Flower Pots in Beautiful Places
I decided to try to “lighten my load” this week by painting a few “mini vacations” art cards of flower pots, taken from our photos. Get away from winding streets, shutters, […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 