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ShirleySheltonArt: A Hard Days Week

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Sunday, May 01, 2011. A Hard Days Week. It's been a busy week (phew) with muggins (above in painterly mode) trying to be in a dozen different places doing a dozen different things. But do I complain? Well of course I do! But what fun would life be without it's challenges? Anyway folks, when I haven't been painting I've been photographing and when not engaged in either I'm glued to my computer immersed in the wild and wonderful world of photoshop. And when not doing that? Posted by Shirley Shelton. One re...

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ShirleySheltonArt: Sun-Scorched

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Here's a piece of trivia for you. Know why sunflowers are so named? Well, because they belong to the genus Helianthus annus. Translates into sun in Greek. Hmm, now fancy that. That and the fact they do actually resemble the sun (well at least a sun in a children's drawing) and their association with warmth, summer, Van Gogh. And all we miss in these winter months.brrrrrr. I took the original sunflower image this summer using my Sony A350. Posted by Shirley Shelton. At presen...

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ShirleySheltonArt: More Skies and Elephants!

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Sunday, March 13, 2011. More Skies and Elephants! I have my other half to thank for resurrecting this one! Believe it or not Red Horizon Elephants. Has been laying around my studio for the last couple of weeks simply begging for that finishing touch of…TLC (poor neglected thing! Alas I was all too busy indulging my appetite for abstract and enjoying the delights of my Sony DSLR. Anything could happen afterwards but we will never know? That has to be another of art’s great rewards…the joy of n...Hi, I&#82...

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ShirleySheltonArt: Blue Horizon

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Thursday, May 17, 2012. Do you like abstract art? That was the first question I was asked at art college. Can you imagine what my answer was? A big resounding.NO! No, I didn't like it. I didn't 'get it' and like many I thought it a refuge for the untalented who seemed to indulge in something the proverbial child of ten could knock out. How much our tastes change! Now half the paintings I work on are abstract or semi abstract. Why the change? I'll tell you at the end of this post. Posted by Shirley Shelton.

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ShirleySheltonArt: Black Swan: Some People Think it's Real?

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Thursday, February 24, 2011. Black Swan: Some People Think it's Real? One recent story concerning film of the moment Black Swan. Certainly made me smile. A spokesperson for The Royal Opera House. Which is staging its new production of Swan Lake. We have had people coming in and ringing up the box office to ask when Natalie Portman. Will be dancing in our production”. It's only make believe! But (and this is the big but) at no time did it enter my mind that she was a real ballet dancer! At present most of...

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ShirleySheltonArt: Sunflowers in a Blue Vase

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Friday, December 02, 2011. Sunflowers in a Blue Vase. 65279;. Hmm, continuing on with the theme of Sunflowers (. There's a pattern developing here. I offer a very different treatment from my last entry. In this case a portrait and though in many ways it's more conventional than 'Sun Scorched'. It's none the less highly stylized and owes it's entire look to digital enhancement. Again I used my Sony A350. I opened the file in Photoshop. But as always, you guys do the judging. At present most of my ...

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ShirleySheltonArt: Elephant Walk: Triptych (Acrylic on Canvas 183x76cm /72x30 inches)

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008. Elephant Walk: Triptych (Acrylic on Canvas 183x76cm /72x30 inches). Yes I know my posting has been a little hmm, erratic of late but please guys…don’t take me to task as I have been slaving away to produce all manner of creative goodies such as the one you see here! Let’s call it a reawakening of my ethnic period! OK so I’m pretty smug about Elephant Walk. It started as a commission by somebody who wanted a variation of one of my other pieces. Posted by Shirley Shelton. Es uste...

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ShirleySheltonArt: Solitary Bench on a Snowy Day

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Wednesday, February 08, 2012. Solitary Bench on a Snowy Day. A bench on a cold day. A snow covered and solitary bench in a park as the whole county reels under the grip of cold weather. The solitary bench is a subject often captured by photographers with a far keener eye than mine. But it's a subject begging to be approached again and again since it can symbolise so much or conversely mean absolutely nothing? Images that sit well with our modern tendency to favour the bleak, the dark and the cynical?

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ShirleySheltonArt: Splish Splash

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Thursday, November 24, 2011. Ok, it's been a while since my last post but hey, life has a habit of intervening! Other projects and concerns fight for attention and before you can spell B-L-O-G.six months have past and not a word or a picture published. Bad girl. Must and should do better? Fair enough. OK, I'll give it a go! Hmm, Splish Splash. I'm happy with the result but as always, you guys are the ones who judge and you either like or.you apply the big thumbs down! Posted by Shirley Shelton. My Art: I...