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While listening to a podcast from the Arts and Healing Network, I heard a definition of respect that I hadn't heard before - the very one you see posted below.
- respect
(n.)
 - c.1300, from L. respectus
"regard," lit. "act of looking back at one," pp. of respicere "look back at, regard, consider," from re- "back" + specere
"look at" (see scope
(1)). The verb is 1542, from the noun.
Meaning "treat with deferential regard or esteem" is from 1560; respectable "worthy of respect" is from 1586
(implied in respected).
Never before had I thought of looking back at something as synonymous with respect.
This definition fits what I have been doing the past few months with my paintings. I have been revisiting my Palm Frond Series with new eyes and new enthusiasm.
When it comes to deciding what to paint, I can be a bit fickle. I work in series, following an unseen muse tugging at my curiosity until exhaustion sets in; after which time I start off on another new series.
Robin and Harry Sagara, of Sagara Development, have been friends and mentors for years. They built my website and taught me how to maintain it.
When Robin and Harry put out a call asking for an artist to work with them to develop a stop-action video of a painting in progress, I jumped at the opportunity. This was the chance for all of YOU to see how some of my paintings come together.
It took a month of my painting time, about 35 photos of the painting in progress, and time for Harry to work his video magic. Now you can see it all here:
While the video is less than two minutes long, the painting took a full month to complete. It is with great respect that I titled this painting "Chapters".
Each of the fronds represents a chapter in life. Each one started out as a bud, unfurled into a full-fledged frond, and later withered away, still clinging to the trunk of the tree. These particular fronds are from the Palmetto Palm Tree.
Palmetto palm fronds often stay on the tree long after their color has changed from green to golden brown to gray. The tree wears these fronds, like an old winter coat, until the gardeners remove them.
To my eyes, some trees read like a good book, with all of the chapters still hanging onto the trunk.
We all have several "chapters" in our lives. Each chapter is touched by the one before it, and often by the one to come. How rare is the day, year, or chapter, that isn't touched by our past or our future!
My Palm Frond paintings are some of my more methodical and meditative pieces. Follow one leaf across the page and it might take you on a meditative journey too.
 Deliberate Strength is one of my most well-known Palm Frond Paintings. She is pure inspiration, representing the internal strength we don't always know we have. If you, or someone you know, could use an extra surge of strength in life, she is available to you. Her sister painting, Sweet Dreams can be seen here. From now until June 2, you can order an 11x14 matted print of Deliberate Strength, or her sister print Sweet Dreams, for $34, I will ship her for FREE to any place in the USA. Simply click  and Please be sure to tell me which print you are
ordering (Deliberate Strength OR Sweet Dreams)!
*******************Did you miss this last month? Only six of you took me up on this offer last month so I will repeat it one last time! This FREE postcard is yours! Please send one first-class stamp to me. I will put four postcards in an envelope and and send them to you. Each postcard is suitable for framing OR, better yet, for sending on to a friend. This is your chance to get a great piece of art and help keep our post office in business! See more Magical Mermaid Paintings here. ******************* My Watercolor classes at Kaimuki Community School will begin June 21 and run through July 26, 2010. Seriously, this is absolutely the very best deal in town! Classes run from 6-9pm on Monday nights. You provide the supplies and I will provide instruction and inspiration.
Register in Person at Kaimuki Community School (in Kaimuki High School), 2705 Kaimuki Ave. Building D, Room 101; May 15-27: Saturday, May 15 8am-Noon; Mondays through Thursdays 8am-8pm; Friday, May 21 8am-3:30pm.
Mahalo for reading my eZine and for staying in touch. Thank you for clicking on the forward button at the bottom of the eZine and sharing it with your friends. Please share this on facebook & twitter too (the icons below make it easy!).
A Hui Hou,
 P.S. Contact Robin and Harry Sagara to see your art in movie form, or for any technical help! Robin and Harry can make your dreams come true on screen!**************************
"Perfectionism
has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly - and
that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become
quite good at it."
- Julia Cameron, "Finding Water"
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 Born in Port Washington, WI and educated at the University of Wisconsin/Madison, Patrice Federspiel first visited Hawai'i in January 2000. Within five months she had found a way to quit her job, sell her home, and move to Hawai'i to paint.
Previously an oil painter, Patrice learned the joys of watercolor upon her arrival in Honolulu in June 2000. She has been painting full time ever since. It is her intention to live her "Real Life" creatively, from the inside out; and to inspire others, through her paintings, art lessons, words, and example, to do the same.
"I paint with passion, live without regrets, and move joyfully forward through life." -Patrice Federspiel
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PO Box 61707
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