At Home..Cottage French





Burlap Luxe At Home



Let's just keep it simple and
throw in some pillows, flowers,
and a special piece for me!

Carmel By The Sea
Canvas.

French Floral Can...
Real-life marvels.

Where I dwell and live creatively.

Artist Cindy Austin

"Carmel By The Sea"

Having such a dear friend in the art world and blogger, 
I mentioned to Cindy that I know of a photo that will 
inspire perhaps a new art piece out of her.
To my surprise! not only did she paint it,
but it arrived at my home with great
shock!!

With all the romance Carmel California added to
my life with the feeling of a European village;
I so connected with everything about this 
painting.


Growing up in the Bay Area of Northern California,
falling in love there, Carmel-by-the-Sea makes
the heart soar.
A European-style sea town where sheep graze
in the hillsides overlooking the roaring
surf, and calming breezes.

Carmel California, is rated one of the nation's
top sandy sea towns.

Tears flowed when I took notice of this special
signing on the side of the canvas.


Artist Cindy Austin-Redmen
Hillsborough, NC.
cindyaustinpaintings.com

If you are interested in her works of art and where
the inspiration of this painting came from, please follow
her over at her blog site...

 here...Cindy's Fractured Fairytale





The Trouble With Beauty

Dore Callaway Art and Home Designs.

The trouble with beauty is that it's difficult to agree exactly what it is.

Everything I create around has a charm of it's own, an imperfection here
and there rather then perfection; it's the imperfections that makes it interesting.

A rustic French grouping of floral cans inspire.

The white rose has retained its association with both love and formal ceremony.
Everlasting love that endure beyond all else.

I have been painting white roses sometimes called "the flower of light."
I am taking time to paint in its calm.

" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
~ Thomas Merton

When painting, a stillness comes over me letting go and freeing myself in what
bonds me to its pureness.

Everyday I see a part of art I've never seen before.

I paint on wood paneling, the roughness reminds me of grained linen canvas.
Artists centuries ago used this practice, and I want to feel the soul in each panel as
artists before me.

I then frame them in with salvage scraps of wood; making sure it speaks to me calling
out, "I am done."

It's then on completion that I am no longer its creator and a sense of sadness comes
over me when it's completed. With each dipping of brush to paint, and the blending of colour,
emotions tie me to each piece.

Garden salvage inspires.

Framed in weathered garden stakes, stained with the winter rains that rise up to
greet what blooms.

Soon my art will be added to my peaceful etsy shop, "BurlapLuxe"

I dip brush into my soul, while painting grace in ones heart.

Everyday I am inspired by its little imperfections.