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@ Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2006 – 16:14:16
Rangitoto (Fire in the Sky in Maori) is an Auckland icon - like Big Ben is to London or the Golden Gate to San Francisco. I love painting it because it is a perfect conical shape and it is the same no matter which direction you view it. It is visible from most parts of Auckland and it stands guard just outside the harbour. I painted this about 10 years ago.
moonie
kiwi
I buy very little from the 'Art Supplies' shops - way too expensive. Instead I go to the Asian import shops - the $2 shops - I don't know what you call yours - and get canvases and paints and brushes there - cheaply. The quality is good enough. If I need a better quality end product, I underpaint with the cheap stuff and overpaint with the expensive - it works fine!
You go girl! It's very satisfying.
Lovely painting kiwi,
It's very goyaish and colourful, but what are the little green round things in the bowl - I can only guess gooseberries?
kiwi
Thank you so much! I appreciate your comments They're green grapes.
LOL Of course they are! I wonder where my head was at I even grow a few grapes Kiwi 
yolicoliflor
LOL LOL LOL
fun to start back on blog friends trails ! This conversattion really made me laugh ! comme quoi ! Funny how eye gives different views, which i rark are kiwi's speciality (just came from other viewiev posts...
"What's that , Gooseberries ?"
I went up to see picture again, thought my vocabulary is poor but could be just green grapes which in French are white... Could not be ! so maybe Hmmmm tropical we call "mamoncillo" in Cuba ? Strange. I go back to see the artist's answer.... LOL
"Green grapes !"
and then, Moondancer, "LOL, of course !"
Great ! Reeeealllllly great ! A big moment in my day.
I wanted to compliment....tate (?) say "Bravo !" to the artist I just saw 15 yrs ago and am glad to move to 10 yrs ago !
I now still say "More, pleeeeease !"
Good day or night to both of you !
yoli
kiwi
Thank you so much! You are very kind - I appreciate your encouragement.
Your English is very good - I teach English language and I can see you are a very good student.
Thanks again for your comments.
I will start painting again tomorrow.
Bon soir (jour/nuit) XXX
yolicoliflor
THAT'S THE BEST NEWS I'VE HAD AND WILL HAVE FOR THE DAY !!!!
I mean it ! I'm not kind. My comments are not just kind. They are felt ! heartedly felt !
Will sit and wait for your new painting views and others of course !
I'm stuck in my village in provence because of a bad repair on my car and new breakdown (three times crane ? pulled in 2 months). Now there is the experts boxing while i wait... But that got me finally back to my friends and i not miss my car anymore...
I'm now waiting not my car but your paintings !!!
sweet kiwi, so deep and wide !
thanks XXX
yoli
Oh ! From 10 to 14 yrs old iIwas in an American school in .... Rome. English took power over Spanish, my mother tongue but I married a Frenchman. English is raising up again since about a year !!! It's a true personal language for me in my story, unlike French... Funny ! Perhaps I was just too old when I learned French... I apreciate for its richness and "nuances" but too narrow around the lips when you pronounce it, "genre cul de poule" ? It's not mean. That's how I feel it inside. In fact, I find French women get wrinkles around their lips earlier than other nationalities... Never mind ! I'm weird but I like your blog
kiwi
Whoa - what an interesting life you have had!
What you say about speaking French - that is fascinating - I have never thought about it before - but I think you are right about the way you must hold your mouth 'narrow'. It must get very tiring. I can imagie it would cause wrinkles - like smoking. I wonder if that is why Brigitte Bardot pouted so much? Seriously?
Anyway you have some very original and interesting ideas! I like that. You are not weird - you a free-thinker. I look forward to reading your blog some more.
Best wishes,
Kiwi XXX
yolicoliflor
Smoking !
Yeah ! You're right ! Luckily I stopped upon having diagnostic of progressive deafness at 33 !!!
Can you imagine at 54 having spoken French since I was 14, and smoking since 16 ? ! my mouth would be like a dry prune or a cul de poule ! (chicken's ass tranlated) !
LOL ! LOL ! LOL !
It seems you're not allergic to free thinkers.. then ! How wonderful !
See you ! Go back to painting !
milliekitty
Wow nice painting, i had to do one like that in school, we were given insructions to paint a table with fruit on it and at window with one curtain and on the outside do palm trees! Just like yours! The volcano is beautiful!!!
Millie Kitty xx
kiwi
Thanks so much Millie Kitty! You are very kind! Funny about you painting the same thing at school eh? It must be a classic art class thing or something? Cool to think of people at opposite ends of the earth painting the same painting!
milliekitty
Yes, wow i thought you had just made it up thats why i was so shocked when i saw it but maybe if you did it in art class then, maybe its something they like to teach people, its a very nice painting though.
kiwi
That's the strange thing - I DID make it up - I did art at high school but I've never been to an actual art class since. Tee hee! Funny eh? Thanks for the invite to be pals - I've gladly accepted.
milliekitty
wow thats really wierd! - Well I really like your painting its much better than the one I did. Hehe.
Thanks for accepting my offer to be friends I'm glad you did.
MK XX
That painting is very beautiful, I'm impressed! It has a very expressive atmosphere, and especially the color composition prooves that you have taste and imaginative power.
kiwi
Whoa! Thank you so much! That is fullsome praise and much appreciated - thank you! Love - Kiwi XX
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i keep saying im going to paint, its somethign i have always wanted to try, but never got round to, i keep thinking i must buy some stuff to try this and i go look for the essentials and think oooh thats a bit steep and im usually skint at the time, so i think oh well next time,