Coming into Giverny in Winter, Sunset / Claude Monet (1885)

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 9: Into the sunset

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Light sits

vibrant colors

dance along the roof tops

the gleam of a winter’s day gone

Sunset

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 2/4/18

Photo of artwork by Pinterest

Coming into Giverny in Winter, Sunset / Claude Monet (1885)

Snow Scene 1856 by Louis Remy Mignot

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 8: Winter’s Moments

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Grand snowy mountains

covered with winter’s moments

sturdy trees stand proud

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 2/3/18

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Louis Rémy Mignot (1831–1870), Snow Scene 1856

single old tree with blue ridge in background

Cinquain for a friend: Shenandoah

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Skyline

God’s magic sits

aging changing beauty

majesty of peaceful mountains

Blue Ridge

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas

Inspirational photo by high school friend Earl Ritter taken on one of his many rides through God’s country

Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park presents  the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley and the heart of the Appalachian Trail.

George Morland winter scene painting

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 7: Harmony

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Gray day

beasts and humans

work and play time passing

bring wintry moments together

Sturdy

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 2/1/18

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

George Morland (26 June 1763 in London – 29 October 1804 in Brighton) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes.

 

Lone Downy woodpecker on a branch in the snow

Cinquain: Tiny Red

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Downy

acrobatic

red spot identifies

tiny black white woodpecker

Downy

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 2/1/18

Inspirational photo by Pinterest

 

 

 

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar's impressionist painting of sunrise with snow

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 6: Absolute stillness

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first light

sun greets the trees

warmly waking the woods

winter blanket cushions the day

morning

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 1/31/18

Inspirational photograph by Pinterest

Winter Morning 1907 by Russian post-Impressionist painter Igor Grabar.

Several bluebirds huddle together in a wooden bird feeder...snow heaped on the top of the feeder

Haiku: Blue Community

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Huddled and puffed-up

Knowing they need each other

Blue community

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 1/30/18

Inspirational photo by Pinterest

 

The Frozen Pond : Fredrik Marinus Kruseman : 1882

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 5: A winter skate

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Playing

long-awaited

a frozen slick brings glee

fleeting moments embraced by all

crisp cold

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 1/29/18

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The Frozen Pond by Fredrik Marinus Kruseman, 1882

Camille Pissarro, Cows in the Snow, 1874

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 4: Whiteness

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White cows

finding their way

hooves silenced by  soft snow

in a landscape that becomes one

whiteness

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 1/28/18

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Camille Pissarro was a French landscape artist best known for his influence on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.

 

Watercolor of winter scene by Walter Emerson Baum

Celebrate Winter and Art Series 3: A sinuous blue

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The meandering

stream follows frigid snow banks

in serpentine blues

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 1/27/18

Inspirational photo of Walter Emerson Baum’s art by Pinterest

Walter Emerson Baum (December 14, 1884 – July 12, 1956) was an American artist and educator active in the Bucks and Lehigh County areas of Pennsylvania in the United States. In addition to being a prolific painter, Baum was also responsible for the founding of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum.