How to Paint Sparkling Ocean Sea Waves in watercolors – Cats and Boats

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A copy of the post called,

“How to Paint Sparkling Ocean – Sea Waves in watercolors – Cats and Boats – Abstract Nautical Sailboat Sea Paintings and How to”

from August 2, 2009 (that I wrote on this blog.)

 

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Reply and Comment on my blog – 08-01-09

milan

89.216.155.158
Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 9:23am

am trying to lern to paint ocean water, transparent water with little waves on a beach .Do you have any DVDs that I can buy, or suggest some to me,that would be good, and where I can get them,Thankyou, MILAN CVJETIC.

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My Reply – 08-01-09

cricketdiane
livestream.com/crickethousestudios

71.59.51.42
Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 5:26pm

I’m sure there aren’t any I would watch – but that’s because it would be easier to get out some paint and play with it until it does what I want. Today, there isn’t a dvd that I’ve made about creating ocean waves in watercolor, however try this -

Imagine what the finished piece will be and the moment that you want to capture.

Everywhere there is to be sparkle, foam or waves – don’t put any paint there. Don’t wet the entire watercolor paper, but instead paint with limited areas of wetness across the page from side to side where the foam, sparkle and froth of the waves will not be.

Sounds pretty backwards, doesn’t it? In essence, paint everything in deep hues where the sea is getting deeper away from the viewer until it nears the horizon while leaving the irregular shapes of the wave crests near the viewer and where there are hints of building waves in the middle behind the detailed areas in the foreground.

CricketDiane “painting” of the ocean waves at sunset as my spirit is renewed – 9″ x 12″ (sold) – created in pastels on art paper, 2009, 1991 – Title: Serenity

There is a dry brush technique that works great for sparkle in watercolor – try it first on a separate piece of watercolor paper. Fill the dry paintbrush (stiff bristles have one set of effects, soft bristles have a different look done this way) with paint by gently, lightly dragging it across the top of the paint so it doesn’t fill the bristles completely. Then pull the color across the page drifting it across the surface in one smooth motion. Each swipe across the surface will fill in some of the color under the sparkle. This isn’t white paint in the brush, although you can do that with acrylics or oil paints.

For watercolors, the paper provides the only pure white in the painting, so when the sparkle happens – it is literally the paper showing through the other colors that convey visual information beneath the foam, the spray, the breaking wave froth, and the sparkly little bits that to the viewer seem to be on top of the water. It is easy to fill the brush with several colors of the water and sand to drag across the paper in front of a breaking wave to convey the sparkly foam in the shallows where we would splash and dig our toes into the wet sand.

cricketdiane 2009 – sea glory – ocean waves painting art trading card – Baby Crickets Ocean Series – 2.5″ x 3.5″ – original painted in acrylic 2007 – 2009

There is a little shadow beneath each wave’s crashing froth – it can be created with a light wash with only a hint of wet pigment slightly darker than the sea water and depending on the time of day in your painting, the frothiness of the wave can be captured with swirls of very, very thin prussian blue washes blended gently into the areas of white or using lightly wet soft bristles partially filled with a very, very thin wash of payne’s grey. Try it on another piece of paper first.

The clouds and sky will be the same thing – where there are white volumes of clouds must be left unpainted because where the white paper is ever given a tint, it will never be white again. The horizon at certain times of day and in some weather conditions will be almost invisible and lighter than the surrounding upper sky or deep ocean areas. And, at other times it is well-defined and occasionally, deeper in color. What looks right in your mind’s eye? Clouds can be defined from the white surface of the paper using light thin washes of blueish purple, grey, or cobalt that develop the curving forms of shadows beneath their fluffy round forms.

CricketDiane ocean waves painting 2009, 2007 – “Gone Swimming” created in watercolor beach surf and sunset – 2.5″ x 3.5″

Sunsets and sunrises, afternoons and dusk, all have particular tints to everything. As long as the tints match throughout the painting, it can be believable as if your viewer is standing at that place at that time of day.

The best thing to do is to have some fun with experimenting to find the different effects that can happen, but the basic rule for painting in watercolor is that white areas are left clean and lightly developed, lighter values go on first and each layer of color builds to the darkest which is painted last, rather than first as in acrylics and oil paintings.

Great fun painting – can’t wait to see the results!

- cricketdiane, 07-31-09

CricketDiane 2009 – “Caveat” (title) – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Baby Crickets Ocean Series Sailboat Nautical Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 – how to paint ocean sea paintings – step by step how to paint watercolor sea paintings / ocean waves -

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 1 – cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 2 – cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

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Cricket House Studios Stuff – ocean paintings and how to paint ocean waves

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 3 – cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper ocean sea paintings nautical abstract sailboat

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 4 – cdcp07 ocean paintings in watercolor – nautical abstract – Baby Crickets – sailboats ocean waves paintings

[And the final work - ]

CricketDiane 2009 – caveat (title) – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Baby Crickets Ocean Nautical Sailboat Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 – how to paint ocean sea paintings

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And, just for fun – one of the other cricketdiane pocket art card original paintings from 2007 – this one with a cat and a sailboat titled:

“Playing with Mama’s Sailboat”

7-12-07 CricketDiane 2009 – playing with mamas sailboat – cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper 2009, 2007

In this watercolor pocket art card that I created, a snuggly kitty is doing what dittling about that happens when cats are in my life – playing with my toys . . .

- cricketdiane, 08-02-09

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CricketDiane 09 – Sonata by Cricket dcphillips 06 – watercolor on Arches wc paper 2009, 2006 – 2.5″ x 3.5″ ocean waves painting Baby Crickets pocket art

Note – this painting above may be watercolor and acrylic or china white watercolor paint riding over the transparent watercolors for the white of the surf and foam in the foreground. I experimented with a lot of different techniques and tried different ways to get the ocean to look the way I remembered it. If it feels like I could splash my feet in it – then, it works as far as I’m concerned.

- cricketdiane 2009

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ADDED – April 2012 -

If you would like to see the things I’ve been doing with my paintings of the ocean – you can find them here at a Zazzle store called, CricketDiane, of course -

This page has the small things with some of the ocean images that I’ve painted and I’ve figured out that if everybody buys one small thing – I will be able to fund starting my business properly – so I’m asking – please do . . .

A little magnet costs about $4 and it would help me to really get started making this into a real business with some appropriate startup funding. Thanks so much for wandering over to my blog and reading the things here and I do appreciate your interest – its very nifty.

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane/gifts?cg=196578798576118101&pg=2#products

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Ah, and the actual store is here – but there is a lot of things on it besides ocean waves art and the category “Small Things” has a lot of images that I’ve created and put on products which would be very little to own, less than $10 for any of them. so everybody go buy one – — LOL, but definitely, yes please do.

Hearing the Waves Crash – CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
More Cricketdiane Keychains

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Winter Sea – Save the Sea CricketDiane Button Pin by CricketDiane
Create buttons at zazzle.com

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“Elegant Seascape” CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
Create custom refrigerator magnets at Zazzle

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Soft Light Save the Sea Ocean Sticker by CricketDiane
Browse Cricketdiane Stickers

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The CricketDiane Store at Zazzle -

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane*

 

The CricketDiane Website – (which I just reworked and I’m still working on it, but some of it looks pretty good . . . )

http://www.cricketdiane.com/

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Another page in the Ocean Waves Small Things category -

 http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane/gifts?cg=196578798576118101&pg=3#products

 

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And, a quick note -

The other day, I went to make the products with the cat playing with mama’s sailboat watercolor that I did and the zazzle site got buggared just as I was doing them – although it only lasted a few minutes, it means that those products are waiting to be completed. The art is already uploaded and it will just take a little while to get them made and then a day or two before they can be seen on the site once I’ve made them. Please check back in a few days if you would like things with that cutest little cat thing on them – and they will be there.

- cricketdiane

Yes, very nifty . . .

 

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Floating

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2-9-008 aceo - closeup of a wave - cdcp08 acrylic-mat -1a - CricketDiane Ocean Art

How to Paint Sparkling Ocean – Sea Waves in watercolors – Cats and Boats – Abstract Nautical Sailboat Sea Paintings and How to

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Reply and Comment on my blog – 08-01-09

milan

89.216.155.158
Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 9:23am

am trying to lern to paint ocean water, transparent water with little waves on a beach .Do you have any DVDs that I can buy, or suggest some to me,that would be good, and where I can get them,Thankyou, MILAN CVJETIC.

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My Reply – 08-01-09

cricketdiane
livestream.com/crickethousestudios

71.59.51.42
Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 5:26pm

I’m sure there aren’t any I would watch – but that’s because it would be easier to get out some paint and play with it until it does what I want. Today, there isn’t a dvd that I’ve made about creating ocean waves in watercolor, however try this -

Imagine what the finished piece will be and the moment that you want to capture.

Everywhere there is to be sparkle, foam or waves – don’t put any paint there. Don’t wet the entire watercolor paper, but instead paint with limited areas of wetness across the page from side to side where the foam, sparkle and froth of the waves will not be.

Sounds pretty backwards, doesn’t it? In essence, paint everything in deep hues where the sea is getting deeper away from the viewer until it nears the horizon while leaving the irregular shapes of the wave crests near the viewer and where there are hints of building waves in the middle behind the detailed areas in the foreground.

CricketDiane "painting" of the ocean waves at sunset as my spirit is renewed - 9" x 12" (sold) - created in pastels on art paper, 2009, 1991 - Title: Serenity

There is a dry brush technique that works great for sparkle in watercolor – try it first on a separate piece of watercolor paper. Fill the dry paintbrush (stiff bristles have one set of effects, soft bristles have a different look done this way) with paint by gently, lightly dragging it across the top of the paint so it doesn’t fill the bristles completely. Then pull the color across the page drifting it across the surface in one smooth motion. Each swipe across the surface will fill in some of the color under the sparkle. This isn’t white paint in the brush, although you can do that with acrylics or oil paints.

For watercolors, the paper provides the only pure white in the painting, so when the sparkle happens – it is literally the paper showing through the other colors that convey visual information beneath the foam, the spray, the breaking wave froth, and the sparkly little bits that to the viewer seem to be on top of the water. It is easy to fill the brush with several colors of the water and sand to drag across the paper in front of a breaking wave to convey the sparkly foam in the shallows where we would splash and dig our toes into the wet sand.

cricketdiane 2009 - sea glory - ocean waves painting art trading card - Baby Crickets Ocean Series - 2.5" x 3.5" - original painted in acrylic 2007 - 2009

There is a little shadow beneath each wave’s crashing froth – it can be created with a light wash with only a hint of wet pigment slightly darker than the sea water and depending on the time of day in your painting, the frothiness of the wave can be captured with swirls of very, very thin prussian blue washes blended gently into the areas of white or using lightly wet soft bristles partially filled with a very, very thin wash of payne’s grey. Try it on another piece of paper first.

The clouds and sky will be the same thing – where there are white volumes of clouds must be left unpainted because where the white paper is ever given a tint, it will never be white again. The horizon at certain times of day and in some weather conditions will be almost invisible and lighter than the surrounding upper sky or deep ocean areas. And, at other times it is well-defined and occasionally, deeper in color. What looks right in your mind’s eye? Clouds can be defined from the white surface of the paper using light thin washes of blueish purple, grey, or cobalt that develop the curving forms of shadows beneath their fluffy round forms.

CricketDiane ocean waves painting 2009, 2007 - "Gone Swimming" created in watercolor beach surf and sunset - 2.5" x 3.5"

Sunsets and sunrises, afternoons and dusk, all have particular tints to everything. As long as the tints match throughout the painting, it can be believable as if your viewer is standing at that place at that time of day.

The best thing to do is to have some fun with experimenting to find the different effects that can happen, but the basic rule for painting in watercolor is that white areas are left clean and lightly developed, lighter values go on first and each layer of color builds to the darkest which is painted last, rather than first as in acrylics and oil paintings.

Great fun painting – can’t wait to see the results!

- cricketdiane, 07-31-09

CricketDiane 2009 – “Caveat” (title) – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Baby Crickets Ocean Series Sailboat Nautical Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 – how to paint ocean sea paintings – step by step how to paint watercolor sea paintings / ocean waves -

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 - caveat 1 - cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 - caveat 2 - cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

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painting ocean waves, how to paint ocean sea waves paintings in watercolor,

Cricket House Studios Stuff – ocean paintings and how to paint ocean waves

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 - caveat 3 - cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper ocean sea paintings nautical abstract sailboat

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 - caveat 4 - cdcp07 ocean paintings in watercolor - nautical abstract - Baby Crickets - sailboats ocean waves paintings

[And the final work - ]

CricketDiane 2009 - caveat (title) - 2.5" x 3.5" Baby Crickets Ocean Nautical Sailboat Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 - how to paint ocean sea paintings

***

And, just for fun – one of the other cricketdiane pocket art card original paintings from 2007 – this one with a cat and a sailboat titled:

“Playing with Mama’s Sailboat”

7-12-07 CricketDiane 2009 - playing with mamas sailboat - cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper 2009, 2007

In this watercolor pocket art card that I created, a snuggly kitty is doing what dittling about that happens when cats are in my life – playing with my toys . . .

- cricketdiane, 08-02-09

***

CricketDiane 09 - Sonata by Cricket dcphillips 06 - watercolor on Arches wc paper 2009, 2006 - 2.5" x 3.5" ocean waves painting Baby Crickets pocket art

Note – this painting above may be watercolor and acrylic or china white watercolor paint riding over the transparent watercolors for the white of the surf and foam in the foreground. I experimented with a lot of different techniques and tried different ways to get the ocean to look the way I remembered it. If it feels like I could splash my feet in it – then, it works as far as I’m concerned.

- cricketdiane 2009

***

ADDED – April 2012 -

If you would like to see the things I’ve been doing with my paintings of the ocean – you can find them here at a Zazzle store called, CricketDiane, of course -

This page has the small things with some of the ocean images that I’ve painted and I’ve figured out that if everybody buys one small thing – I will be able to fund starting my business properly – so I’m asking – please do . . .

A little magnet costs about $4 and it would help me to really get started making this into a real business with some appropriate startup funding. Thanks so much for wandering over to my blog and reading the things here and I do appreciate your interest – its very nifty.

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane/gifts?cg=196578798576118101&pg=2#products

**

Ah, and the actual store is here – but there is a lot of things on it besides ocean waves art and the category “Small Things” has a lot of images that I’ve created and put on products which would be very little to own, less than $10 for any of them. so everybody go buy one – — LOL, but definitely, yes please do.

Hearing the Waves Crash – CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
More Cricketdiane Keychains

**

Winter Sea – Save the Sea CricketDiane Button Pin by CricketDiane
Create buttons at zazzle.com

**

“Elegant Seascape” CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
Create custom refrigerator magnets at Zazzle

**

Soft Light Save the Sea Ocean Sticker by CricketDiane
Browse Cricketdiane Stickers

**

The CricketDiane Store at Zazzle -

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane*

 

The CricketDiane Website – (which I just reworked and I’m still working on it, but some of it looks pretty good . . . )

http://www.cricketdiane.com/

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My Note -

So, what if I know of three retro-fit inventions for their ships that would prevent pirates from boarding that are not being used right now . . .

What durn difference would it make because in this company and every other shipper, shipping and ship owner corporation – there is no way for anybody except insurers and expensive little boutique security companies to interact with them. So, there you go – what a waste.

- cricketdiane

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My note -

I emailed these available designs to shipowners and shipowners associations. It did no good – to them it is just spam. And, I’m here to allow that there are entire staffs of people whose only job is to keep people and their ideas out of those corporate offices at the same time they bitch and whine about wanting innovation. It is bullshit – either they do or they don’t and if they do want inventions, innovations, novel approaches, thinking “outside the box” perspectives, innovative thinking and creative applications to solve problems that are costing them a fortune – then they need to clear a path to make it happen and be willing to apportion some reasonable payment for it to happen. Because not doing so is costing every situation where these inventive solutions could work.

Most creative solutions are created at the kitchen table, not in the boardroom and at every convention, every conference and at every opportunity, these same big corporate entities are screaming for novel approaches, new ideas, innovation and inventiveness. Well, they are the ones preventing it by the excluding pathways they’ve created which disallow any reasonable approach to them and their willingness to steal ideas rather than to pay for them – so maybe nothing can be done about it.

I have a little book about Publishing It Yourself which has an introduction that describes a multitude of great writings, wonderful literature and entire books which we would have never had the opportunity to read or know about it if the publishing companies had the only decision in it. These included great works by authors and statesmen from the 1790′s till now.

This day, only those with a Harvard Ph.D. are given the opportunity to publicly market what they’ve written with any appreciable certainty, including being given the ability to access literary agents. These agents don’t have any use, time or inclination to consider the rest of us. And, that is a fact. Unless there is an agent, publication doesn’t happen and the same is likely true for inventions and other copyrighted materials, novel approaches to solutions, promotional campaigns and other great things that will never see the marketplace.

Unfortunately, in this restricted non-competitive marketplace that the US has become at the hands of the Republican Party – most Americans, including me are left to the mercy of the world or excluded altogether. Its like living in a time and place with absolutely no use for anything that they can’t already do the way it is being done even when that isn’t working well.

Sometimes, I don’t know why I have worked so many long hours each and every day to produce things that there is not now, nor will there ever be any use for in the country where I live. At this moment, I know it has likely always been this way in the United States and the rest of the propaganda, about opportunity being available to all, has been nothing but that – propaganda, to keep us all moving like cattle spending money on the pools of income streams to feed the rich and the already established corporations.

Here is some of “How to Paint Ocean Abstract Sailboat” – Cricket Diane, 2007

Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 1 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 1 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 3 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 4 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 5 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 6 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - How To Paint an Abstract Ocean Sailboat Painting - 1 - from 2007

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - 1

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 3 - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 4 - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 5 - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 6 -2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings with boats, ships and sailboats - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009 - Original Signature Card

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - ocean waves painting - ocean art card - 2009, 2007 - original acrylic ocean waves painting

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings Stolen Art - Pirates Treasure - Treasure Map - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009 -1

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings Stolen Art - Pirates Treasure - Treasure Map - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009 - 2

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Serenity - pastel painting - 2008 - 1991 - sold

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Cricket Diane C Phillips - Ships of the Imagination - 2009 - New Series of ocean waves paintings Stolen Art - Pirates Treasure - Treasure Map - Sea Paintings by cricketdiane - 2009, 2007 - Titled: "Sea Glory" - sold 2007 - prints available trading card sized

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Sky Sounds by Cricket Diane C Phillips - ocean waves miniature paintings / trading cards - ocean series - 2007 - original sold - prints available with orignal artist signature -

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Cricket House Studios Logo - Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2009

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Line In The Sand – What I Do – Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2008

Line In The Sand – What I Do – Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2008
4 04 2008

Cricket Diane Quote of the Day -

“Living Will & Testament as taught to me – means (”Get up off your dead ass and go do something to do some good unless you’re in the ground already – There is no excuse – and if your death is permanent and you didn’t let us know before this —   WHOO BUDDY! you’re in some stuff now!”). When did the meaning get changed?”

- Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 2008

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Line In The Sand -

What I Do That Works -

2008, Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips

So when somebody draws a line in the sand or better yet, takes a stick 18″ – 26″ long and doves a line in the sand, what do you do? [doves a line . . .  -  means, “you can go up to your side of this line and still keep the peace between us. (It is arbitrary in where the line is located & rarely negotiated.)]

–>  (So) What do you do? I know what I do that works, I sit down and start playing with the line from my side in the sand, cross-legged Indian-style.  — “I sit on my butt & start (zigging) zig-zqzagging the line without changing in position nor location (as if that is the only thing that interests me).” Then –>

“I ask what they got over on that side of the line where they are,  that I want. How’s things look over there on your side – got any good stuff around you to look at? What does it look like? What parts do you like? What kind of stuff do y’all eat – is it that much different than what I like? Do y’all have games you play – your own songs like we do? and then I ask them if they play chess? And do they like it or in a fit of (oh, well) what do you play? cards, or cricket, soccer, polo or you like to watch horse races, cars? You got that over there don’t you?”

Etc., etc., etc. and on it goes – I never cross that line with hands, foot, toes or getsure and if they are very nervous and uncomfortable when I’m playing in the sand with my fingers (I watch their feet,) then I just do back up (1) one foot to look up at them as I’m propping back on one arm  — (like are you gonna talk to me or what – you got something  – anything  better to do?) and on and on it goes.”

—>  after awhile either the person is my friend or isn’t. I never bother to cross the line neither to antagonize them into making a move to cross the line aggressively (if they are annoyed as shit already & can’t be resolved between us at any point to the x – moment I have available ) then a.) I say thankyou for your patience & kindness & I go away   (saying, “Later, then” as I go  ) and I leave, tell no one and sometime later approach again.

or,  (b). I wouldn’t get in a bath with all hot or all cold water if I could help it  –  therefore   (A) yes,  (B) no, —–> are not the only choices  –> so (b) in this case is to construct, create, work with, modify all of what we both want into an “all – win” solution that serves ALL and ANY & EACH & EVERY thing that we both want or we’re not doing it, that is options  (C), (D), (E), (F),  —> through Infinity somewhere.

or –> if none of the above, then (c.) which is to disarm, the stinker; destroy all evidence of the line with my foot and then explain in terms they can understand. At which point  – I just generally take whatever I want, whatever I cam for and then graciously say thankyou as I help them back up on their feet.

[and dust them off and ask if they are hurt anywhere. If they are - I do what I can to fix it (more times than not,) before I leave.]

See y’all later and I’m usually gone by the time the last of it is trailing off in the distance ’cause I got better things to do than this.

So, if y’all are having the line in the sand thing going on, you can follow these as I have and then it works. Otherwise, just go ahead and take their marbles cause they aren’t using them anyway.

To challenge an opponent such as we are – all of us – with hidden strengths and resources is so ridiculous that they obviously aren’t using their marbles and don’t know what to do with them anyway. Just take them marbles and go home. There are better things to do.

Thanx Y’all -

Written by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, UXA1 – USAX1 – USA1 – 2008 – {CD}9
- 040408 USA1

A Cricket Diane Moment 08-February – film by Miss K – Cricket House Studios – 2008 Cricket Diane Carole – Sparky Phillips

I hope I wasn’t cussin’. I didn’t listen to it yet – a little busy right now finishing taxes for CPA to fix tomorrow. Thanx, CDCP08 – atl1-USAX12

The News from Kudzu Holler – cause I can – Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2008

THE NEWS FROM KUDZU HOLLER -

No its not 2008 – to hear it told – its I don’t know when. That is what I would like everyone to know – that lying is great for beer parties, poker games and other tall tales of chance and imagination. That is where it belongs and what it is great for doing – everything else, anything else, all else and any other occasion – that ain’t it and it ain’t gittin it.

Now – honestly I wasn’t raised around here and all my family from the South calls me a Yankee – which I am but there is County Country Southern Blood running in my heart and its truth o meter – called a BULLOMETER down around me – says Ben Bernanke needs to be sitting in jail for reverence to the code of palpable lying  – tale telling and outright fibbing. He said they knew three months ago and last year they knew bidding problems were occurring behind the scenes on leverages to Bear Stearns – he didn’t say it that way – but it still is what he said.

Then he turned right around – under oath because that is what it is when any American citizen sits there in front of Congress and said they didn’t know but 24 hours before Bear Stearns was going to file collapse – help us bankruptcy court papers. That is a lie – I’m not a professional – I hold no degrees – I have $4.91 in my bank account and most of the time am an ignorant fool much to my chagrin – but even I knew ahead of this it was going to happen because the International Monetary Committees about May of last year (and before) had already said so and I trust they know more about it than I do.

Yes, I read it – it wasn’t hard to find – it was last year and prior to that when I read it so the Federal Reserve DAMN SURE knew it. And lying to Congress isn’t an inconvenience or a little no-no. It is against the law. Who does he think he is? We paid him – right. They don’t pay me. . .

and – even I know to tell the truth to Congress or go to jail and work there paying off the fines for my insolence and poor choices after taking an oath. What?

Yes – a little on the peevey-geevey side from watching two days of C/Span – that’ll rock your world alright.

Love ya’ll anyway – but durn – I’d druther make moonshine than this. And that’s all from Kudzu Cricket’s Asparkin” Holler

Cricket Diane C Phillips, “Sparky” – 2008

Cricket House Studios, USAX1 – USA1 – (in Atlanta sort of sideways over in the sticks from there USA_GEORGIA) 04/03/08

“on suicide” – We gotta help stop this as a solution to foreclosure and bankruptcy and failure – Please use this – it works – Cricket Diane

“on suicide”

2008 Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips

I know we’ve all heard the stories, of the deputies coming to the house as a result of these foreclosures being served, hearing shots ring out from the home to find the homeowner gone forever, gun still in hand.

What could I say that would save even one life from this course of action? But, that if I knew, would it ever be heard in time to make a difference?

If I were there in person which I have been on some occasions like this, I would say:

1.  “Hey, don’t waste those expensive bullets and make a durn mess I’ve gotta clean up when you’re done.”

2.  “You do know there is no taxi service back, if you change your mind and don’t like it being dead?”

3.  “You haven’t got one problem that money won’t solve. You’re always making money at stuff, what is the problem?”

4.  “Yes, you’re right. It does suck, it isn’t fair, it isn’t right and it damn sure must be serious if you would give up the only thing you actually do own – you know, we can’t make another one like you, right?”

5.  “You do know – dead might be like on that movie Beetlejuice, you know – quit laughing – that ain’t funny.”

And that’s usually about all it takes – then we can “talk” and I can listen.

I do listen as if there is not one other thing in the entire Universe more important than this – no matter what it is & no matter how long it takes – I do not use foolish repeating crap from what is said to get them to talk more. That is bull and the person I’m with is more valuable than that.

What this person was willing to give away the only thing precious in the Universe over, I want to know. They must be right – it must be that serious because they have already stated that level and degree of seriousness about it by their actions.

All I need to know is why they believe it to be so – not to argue, though sometimes I do, not to debate, not to win, not even to save their ass. I want to know because they may be right and theirs is a menu of options that only includes one.

I do approach it differently cause first, I’m not going to fix “their” emotional well-being, that is not my job – that is their own job.

Second, if this is the first time they’ve had something taken away they worked for, been disappointed or rejects or failed or whatever, I want to know cause that is a thing that threw all of us at least a time or two.

Third, I do know that options of responses to shit happening and this person being right about it are multiple, not singular. By the time anyone has only one option left on the menu (having to do with severely disabling permanent, long-term solutions to short term problems) [like suicide] –> that person needs a new menu & they are limitless.

See There Really Is A Bigger – Bigger Picture and Perspective – Cricket Diane C Phillips

          Please reconsider your precious place in this great Universe and your 
special abilities to bring healing, openness and respect for the extraordinary 
efforts of China, her leadership and especially her people. It is hard to know 
the act of conscience that must be made when our knowledge of other events are 
distracting our course. Did we not say this would make a historically 
significant difference in our world's and her leaders' willingness to cooperate 
with one another? Is it no longer worthy of this effort after we've persuaded 
China to be part of our worlds and allow us to participate in hers?

          There are much greater issues at stake than a moment's stand against a 
brutality in Tibet that has occurred (Nepal et al.) At the cost of boycotting 
the Olympiad and the opening ceremonies, no change can be made in the manner our 
friends in China choose to handle their difficulties. We can only hope to make 
that difference by standing with them in their time of pride and willingness to take their place beside us and us beside them. 

To Shun The Chinese People and Their Efforts - Is Wrong. 

To Degrade The Proceedings Of The Opening Ceremonies in order to make a very 
small unworthy social statement  - Is Wrong.

To Place Our Athletes From Every Country Into This Difficult Choice and Allow 
Leaders To Use This Olympiad In This Manner - Is Wrong.

It is Wrong because the cost is too high and we will never have the position to 
help our country's leaders to better ways of handling these difficult kinds of 
situations like Tibet's desire for independence. Together as we stand with China 
as a member nation of the larger world and celebrate with her the showcasing of 
a nation that has been cloistered rather than included, we make possible many 
solutions that may be negotiated in every moment ahead of us. Shunning and 
boycotting and shaming a nation, any nation at a vulnerable moment of 
well-deserved national pride certainly creates a hideous path rather than a 
smooth clean one. 

          For we are all, honestly living on one dead rock floating in an infinity of 
unknowns throughout our Universe and our time in history. Please make the way 
clear to do all that you can to reconsider these choices in light of greater - 
much greater things. 

Thank you,
Ever Your Friend,
Cricket Diane C Phillips

Please let our national leadership in Poland, France and all other member 
nations of this viewpoint as I know you are able. At least, they will know more 
than one short-sighted perspective on the matter and have the opportunity to 
make better choices. Thanks again.

America -

I know that you are angry and hurting and disappointed and frustrated and as scared in all this as I am. I do know how it feels but stop being so alone in all of this because where once you only had limited resources to handle it – now you have many as we are all in this together.

Long ago and far away from here, the resources were put into place to help each and every one of us when these times came upon us. They are here now – resources and hope and skill sets and knowledge, understanding, wisdom, common sense, innovative applications of good sense and intelligence in real-life, real-time, real-world difficulties.

We can share with one another these resources to become familiar with fly-by-wire, thinking-on-you-feet resourcing and problem-solving. We can do it together . . .

Boycotts of great significance can be made with care in some applications but in light of the dynamics inherent in a much larger picture as we have now – a boycott of the Olympics or trucking service corridors are small stands to IMPACT GREAT HARM that will last for centuries. The purpose of boycott is to create positive change and force that to be considered.

These current boycotts do not do that. They are not made to create positive change nor to force it to be considered.

Written by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 04/01/08