Yes, a Japanese Magnolia. I am grateful that the tree was blooming at the same time the artist in me woke up. I asked the question because one of the most intelligent people I will ever know called it a camellia! Thanks for looking.
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."
Although my artistic talent was realized as an adolescent, I took another track and became a high school choral director for many years. For four years, I taught elementary music and art. I spent the past five years as a special education teacher. In those twenty-something years as a teacher, wife, and mother, I put my artistic talent on a shelf for the most part - occasionally breaking out the paints to record a treasured scene or family member. I did pencil drawings of students here and there. I have stopped teaching, and I recently came across dailypainters.com and dailypaintworks.com. One viewing of those sites inspired me to stop my lifelong procrastination and finally follow my bliss. The journey begins with several studies of copper. I hope you enjoy viewing my paintings as much as I enjoy the practice.
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Is it a magnolia?
Yes, a Japanese Magnolia. I am grateful that the tree was blooming at the same time the artist in me woke up. I asked the question because one of the most intelligent people I will ever know called it a camellia! Thanks for looking.
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