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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Wrap Up - A Break!


Ces And Her Dishes
Since 2006

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I must go for now and rest my drawing hand. Thank you for being here for me. I wouldn't have drawn the lines and squiggles had it not been for your encouragement and praise. I will return to being a Sunday painter as soon as I can. I will stop by your blogs now and then.


Here's my gift to you. If you click on the images, they may enlarge. These are most of what I posted on my blogs since 2006. That is a long time. Thank you for your kindness, for making me smile and making me laugh.

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Sincerely,
Ces

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I am just taking a break, I shall return.

100 comments:

  1. Oh, Ces. Please stay away as long as you need to. We'll miss your smile inducing art, but YOU will be back. Take care of you.

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  2. Don't go . .you can write short posts surely? So sorry about the hands darls it must be killing you now to paint and draw but it will get better

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  3. Oh, Ces, I am so sad you won't be posting regularly anymore, but I understand that you need to take care of yourself for now! Seeing all your work together like that is breath-taking! No wonder your wrists hurt!! Take it easy dear friend, and if you can visit from time to time... Love, Silke

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  4. The hardest part of being an artist, is the day when your body says, you shall not do this for quite a while.
    I have been down that road, and there is always the end of the road when you can once again, do what you do so well.
    I bid you a good rest and a good journey to health.
    And of course, I will miss your art!

    Pax.

    Anne Huskey-Lockard, El Milagro Studio

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  5. Ces I'm so sorry your hand is preventing you from doing what your soul is screaming out to do. Looking at all these wonderful images of your art couldn't you turn them into a calendar or book of some kind?

    Rest Tsup*!*

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  6. Oh my, this is so sad, just when I've found your blog and your wonderful art! Wishing you a full recovery to follow your passion.

    Take care,
    Alaine
    Oz

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  7. Ces.... dear God! Now wonder your hand is sore..... look at all this gorgeous work!!

    You make me smile girlfriend!!

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  8. I am sad! You have given so much to all of us and I sad for me. I will miss you my darling.
    Get better fast please.

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  9. It's Saturday night and it's just you and me!! lol

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  10. Oh I know Ces, but I was hanging out for late night craziness and all that and I feel like things are disappearing.
    1st B
    then R
    then my computer and now you and your hands.
    All the treasures.
    I will adjust, I am just sad now!

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  11. OMG!! I went there earlier today for some paint!!!

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  12. W.H.O.A.

    Holy macarena, my darling inkmaiden. These will keep me busy for a long, long time. Go, go and heal your hand. There are more drawings just waiting to be born. You look at all of these and ask yourself: why? I look at all these and tell myself: because you can, because of the overwhelming feeling it gives me to be embraced by your squiggles and palette scrapes. I cannot breathe when I look at all these at once. Such an incredible feat. If I were small enough to ride on the tip of your pen, I'm sure we would have traveled to the moon and back.

    Thank you for this parting gift. Not good bye, just see you later. Take all the time you need. We will be right here, waiting.

    ps. Is that you pole dancing?

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  13. I have all these palettes Ces and I end up using freezer paper on a large clipboard. When i get paint build up I throw it out and tear off a new sheet. I also have this huge canvas ready for me but I'm not sure what to do with it.
    Do you have a Blick's in your area? Mine is 10 minutes away. It's very dangerous over there. I'm an art supply addict! Hello.... my name is Manon.... and I'm an art junkie!! LOL

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  14. Oh my, it is sinful what I do with art supplies! Yes! yes! I was looking for a pallette and the funny thing, I always end up using freezer paper too!

    You and I are both art supply addicts. The Fedex and UPS men both know me! I don't buy pieces, I buy packs and loads! Oh My gosh! I once slept with a tube of Cobalt blue paint because I bought a tube for $45.00 in 1984 and it was so expensive for me, I figgured, I'd sleep right next to it on my night stand!

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  15. That's so funny Ces!! I hoard the stuff also! When I go into Blick's i can feel my pulse start to quicken! lol
    Jerry's Artarama is another good site! They always have such great deals.
    I was thinking the other day that I should get a J O B
    with Golden. God knows I use everything they have to offer...... they should employ me.

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  16. Thank you all for your kind words. It's not major, I just need a break, I mean a rest for my hands.


    Hello Leslie, I just need a pass at drawing and the pressure of creating so I can share and post.

    I did not say I was not visiting my favorites.

    Don't be sad Silke. I just need to be gentler to my hand.Drawing is very addictive to me, I can't stop once I start.

    Oh Anne, you know this by heart!

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  17. HAHAHHA! Oh Manon, you are making me laugh! Yes, I met Jerry Artarama last week. That's where I bought the ATC mats. We need to start a support group!

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  18. Hello Bimbimbie! Yes, I will think of something. Thanks. I will still be over to listen to your birds.

    Alaine, it's nice to meet you. Congratulations on the Bella Sinclair Award. I am thrilled you received it! Do come back.

    Marie, don't be sad. Let's make a date with bella and Renee sometime.

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  19. I'm in!!
    Hello... again... my name is Manon....and today i bought 3 tubes of paint. 2 brushes, a canvas...oh ya....some soft gel molding paste..... and a cute pencil. I'm sorry.... i feel so bad now... i'll never do it again.... I will follow the the rules!

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  20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

    Oh I am so sorry. I did not mean to laugh at your problem Manon. HEHEHEHEHE!

    Hi I am Ces. We don't have Dick Click here so I shop online even though the shipping and handling is killing me! Don't you know me? Please wave off the 100 dollar handling fee for extra large canvases. I ordered 10, yes 10 30"x40" Gallery stretched canvas, 2 museum stretched canvas, a dozen cadmium oil paints in different colors, 24 of the 0.2mm Sakura pens, Bristol Boards, Damar varnishes and linseed oil. Oh! I also am thinking of buying the 36"x48" Gallery stretched canvas but I had to buy my daughters' school uniforms today so I actually gave in to something practical. But I will be back tomorrow.

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  21. I'll miss you! Your body of work is very impressive. It must be torture not being able to paint or draw.

    I hope your hands and wrists begin to feel better soon.

    Take care,
    Angela

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  22. So funny Ces!
    i freely admit that I cannot control myself when in the presence of all those beautiful colors
    I admit that the smell of new colored pencils drive me up the wall
    i acknowledge the fact that the feel of a new canvas makes both my knees weak
    and that the sight of new brushes brings tears to my eyes
    i need help sister

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  23. HAHAHAHAR! Poor Manon!!!

    You came to the wrong place because I will aid and abet you in your weakness. I am your enabler! HAHAHAHAHA!

    Oh I love to feel the surface of the canvas and run my fingers across it, kiss each new brush before I dip it into the paint, caress my palette knives before I slice the paint, hug the Bristol Board, droll over my Prisma colored pencils, delight in the sound of the tin cover opening of the charcoal pencil set. Oh my god! I love the glitter of the 118/10 stainless steel brush cleaner. I love the smell of turpentine, the reek of linseed oil. I love going to work wearing a suit and discovering paint stains on my forearm and hair...I think it is so sexy!

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  24. I'm laughing my butt off! I went to the bank the other day and the teller asked me if I was painting. I had paint all over my hands, arm and shirt. I was a lovely site! I can sooooo relate to you.

    So much for the art support group!! We'll enable each other. Spend all our money on supplies and die happy!

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  25. My dearest beloved FPOTted Bella Sinclair, my next to Dick Blick, I am addicted to your contagious enthusiasm. Correction, you are before Dick Blick, yes. You are first. Let me see. When did I start this drawing frenzy? Let me remember, oh yes, some wonderful artist of the most craetive and lovable flower girls inspired me! I thought she was my muse but NO! she was also a secret slave driver (without her knowledge)to my obssessive drawing hand! Thank you my dearest, I would love to take you to the moon and back. In fact, we went to the moon and back with the pachyderm adventure drawing.

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  26. Oh my gosh Manon covered in paint! What a lovely sight indeed!

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  27. My clothes too! I have this belt with a bit of cadmium red light that I can't get off. It goes with the territory.
    I started wearing all these cute aprons... it only helps a bit! lol

    Gotta run Ces! Thanks for tonight's sistermance!

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  28. Goodnight Manon, gotta rest the hand now too. Thanks.

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  29. Oh Ces! This shall keep me busy for a long time, falling into each drawing and painting. OMGosh. No wonder your poor little wrist is worn out. Oh how I am going to miss you **weeps** Sending magical healing dust on the wings of a desert sparrow, Love, Deb

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  30. Blessings to you Ces, and hopes for a complete healing. Thank you for this treasure trove you've created for us to return to and be inspired by until you are able to draw and paint again. and if worse comes to worst, we could start a new artists group - mouth painters unite?! I know you'll find a way to express yourself again - the world won't be deprived.
    love to you, Karin

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  31. Ces my dear, you have brught so much magic into our lives that the time is overdue for you to rest your hand, your head and your heart for a while. You know, although we adore your art, we love the artist more.

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  32. I agree with annie - bimbimbie you must do something with your wonderful art!!!

    This is truly a delightful smorgasbord of art to savour... look after yourself Ces and come back to us refreshed and well!!! take it easy with that hand!!

    hugs krissie

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  33. Hey Girly,
    Do you have any idea of how much you are loved Ces??? Do you even have a clue???? I took the time to read every single comment left here for you talented lady! You are one of the most amazing spirits and characters that it's been my pleasure to know. Blogging is a very powerful tool cause look at what it's done to us. We have been become a family of bloggers ! Encouraging one another and laughing our butts off.
    A family of sistergirlfriends having this wonderful play with art and each others. When I look at all the delicious and yummy pieces of art it's like looking at a quilt sorts. A warm, whimsical, lovely collage of your life works that you so willing have shared with your blogger family. We climb up under it and are comforted by each piece. Laughing and being encouraged and sometimes crying. As Bella said, " this is not good bye, cause we know you will be back. And trust me, I know that we all will be coming around to see what you have done and waiting with baited breathe at that!!!! I know you need to take care of you beautiful self so run along and do this. My prayer for you my sister is that you will heal completely in body, mind and soul! There is still yet more to come out of that magical hand of yours and we are all waiting for more, but in time.
    I love you very much and you are ever on my mind and making me smile. Big hugs to you girly,
    V

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  34. Je n'avais pas visité votre blog depuis plusieurs semaines .
    Aujourd'hui...votre blog est une grande fête !
    Magnifique !
    Cette rétrospective est une riche idée !
    Je vous souhaite une riche continuation .
    Jean

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  35. Ces the new Edward Gorey.

    Amazing Ces everything is fantastic.

    Now what the heck are you talking about? Where are you going?

    I still want you and just because you are resting from drawing does not mean you need to disappear.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  36. Whew..........

    Big sigh of relief...............

    I almost had a canniption..........

    Okay back to the love and a blogromance. Count me in.

    You almost gave me a heart attack.

    Now rest that wrist. Ces, seriously that is very important.

    Your work is incredible. You are truly a genius.

    Love Renee xoxoxo

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  37. What time shall we have coffee or tea???? don't forget you have my email address so please email me!!! I love u girl!
    later
    V

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  38. Ohhhhh Ces...don't leave us completely..I will miss you so!! My sister in pen and ink!!
    What an amazing gift..all of that brilliant work. No wonder your hand is sore!!! There will be more of that I am sure!! Rest and return to us hon, Sarah

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  39. Okay, I did not say, I was quitting. I am taking a break from drawing because it makes me push myself to draw just so I can post about something. I want this blog to focus on my art. So Deborah, please don't weep because you are one of the special people I will keep on visitng.

    Oh Karin, I hope not. I rather love to handle the brush with my fingers and I like oil paint stains on my fingers, not on my face. I think you, know this problem intimately so you understand what I am dealing with.

    Arija, I just love your hollistic approach to everything. You truly are a sage and a wonderful beautiful friend. Thank you!

    Hello Krissie. Yes I hear her. And I'll be stopping down under to say hello.

    Yes Ms. V! I hear you loud and clear and my heart rejoices, truly at the thought of knowing a loving, giving person - you, you with your incredible ecclectic and wonderfully wickickedly funny sense of humor reflected in your art. You are a gifted, talented and marvelous woman and a constant source of joy. Thank you dear one.

    Oh Jean, I will draw and paint until my hand falls off if you promise to come here everday and speak French to me.

    Hold the requiem Renee! I shall return and I will be seeing you every day.

    Coffee my dear sistergirlfriend! Make mine dark mocha. Oh, Imagine! We should distribute earplugs to the other patrons!

    Sarah, yes, I will be around, not just putting so much pressure on my median nerve which drawing notoriously does. I shall see you.

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  40. WOW! What a screen play you have. Take good care of YOU and realize that I'm going to have to somehow copy your idea of putting all the pix on one blog. It's fabulous to see them together! Smile and know you will be drawing and painting when the time is right. Miss you, tho, till then.

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  41. Oh my gosh! Sandy, don't even joke about that! That would be a sight to behold! A master painter art show! Please do.

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  42. Almost 1 pm. I cannot survive
    Ceslessness. Please type with your nose. Use your forehead for the space bar. Thank you. **kisskiss**
    Deb

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  43. I have quietly followed your blog after finding your beautiful drawings from Renee's. I sincerely hope this is nothing more than a interval to renew your wrist and to give your art drawing magical hand a rest.

    Years ago I fell like a ton of lead on my right side and stupidly I tried to break the fall. What I nearly broke instead was my right wrist. A very wise Chinese woman here in Portland from whom I used to buy healing herbs, said to me: "you need to put your hands together as if you were praying and push against your other palm firmly. It may hurt a little ( it hurt a lot by the way but I did up to four times ) but do it at least four or five times and then put ice for 15 minutes. When it really hurts badly and the ice doesn't help get Comfrey and make a tisane, and put your hand there as hot as you can stand the water to be. Let it there until the water cools". It worked for me.

    Maybe because I believe it would? I have no answer for that. In about 3 weeks my wrist was useful again and the pain didn't comeback. I wish the same for you.

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  44. Ces. I just showed hubby this post with all your art. After he placed his eyeballs back in the sockets, he said,
    "She sells all that, right?"

    I said no.

    Hubby said,

    "WHY?"

    Exactly. When is your Esty shop opening???

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  45. Hestia and I welcome you any time. If in a very small way I could repay the joy that your art has brought to me in moments where tears were closer than smiles, please come often. No need to post, just visit. Friends need not to talk to acknowledge each other's presence in comfort, the feeling that one has of not needing to express love when it is evident.

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  46. holy SMOKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CES!!! you sure need a break....I love the new pieces in colour and the whole collection is amazing!!!! I think you need to have an Exhibition across AMerica!!! you are amazing!!!!

    Hugsssssssssss
    Diana

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  47. The painting Ces. Wow. The banner is incredible. The colours......

    Love Renee xoxo

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  48. Look out your window...see me in the shadows???? HA! I have the notecard addressed and ready to be mailed tomorrow. I just took the orange bell pepper from your bowl. Sorry. **kisskiss** Deb

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  49. P.S. I LoVe the colorful freaky paintings you added to the top of this post. A different side of Ces.

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  50. It was not unkind, so no need to be vague. I am still laughing. I had to come back and look at them again. What do the long fingernails represent?

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  51. Wow, that's a lot of artwork!

    Ces, you remembered! I'm so touched! LOL! Thank you...I shall look forward to the instructions when I get them. I hope you have a lovely break. Look at all these people that are going to miss you.

    Your header is scary. It's amazing how a simple slash painted on a canvas can evoke such emotion, but it does...regardless of it's bright colors. I think it's the angles and stuff...hmmm...who knows! Maybe I'm just scared right now...

    ...just checked...no, I'm not scared, it's a scary header, LOL! ;)

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  52. Thanks for the second comment on my blog. It is a powerful painting and shows the anger or whatever you were expressing. Not to worry, I'm not scared! I am glad you have such a healthy coping mechanism such as your painting to help you stay (or get) centered! We're so blessed to have our art to help us with those things!

    I have sent you an email using the one on your profile...that way you shall have my email address without my publishing it! :)

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  53. Hello TattingChic. You should have received the email by now. I laughed at your response of my explanation for the painting and the duration of the significance and relationship of the comment to the current header. Trying to make a record for consistence of the inconsistent or constancy of the unconstant.

    Ah Deborah, where were you when I needed a cheerleader when I was struggling with doubt? Thank you for your perseverance and please come out of the shadows, there are snakes out there!


    Thank you Renee. And just for the record, you are referring to the painting which TattingChic calls a slash. The painting is called "A Punctuated Equilibrium".

    Diana my dear will the SMOKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS result to
    FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?

    Hahahah!

    Allegra any abode where Hestia resides and is honored is a good place. Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments.

    Again, my dear deborah, I need a business manager, you want the job?

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  54. Enjoy your break and thanks for leaving us with these images to oogle over..

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  55. Thank you Sandy. See you soon.

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  56. I love the use of the eye, that is how I feel.

    Angel love dust didn't work. Really? It worked on me 7 times. I was totally giving it up.

    Love Renee xoxoxo

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  57. hello my dearest ces,i don't mind one handed typing i love it. i really love it when i am holding madi.
    thanks for coming by, i wish you better fast now.
    i am so glad that you put all of your work on one page so i can visit and see you there.
    hope you are having a blessed and quiet day, have you considered finger painting yet hahaha
    love and hugs

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  58. Ces, I am so happy you still visit and leave me your lovely comments. Actually, we walk by Juliette Gordon Low's houses all the time - the one she grew up in and then her house later on. They are both right where Daniel teaches - most of the time you see many groups of very cute and lively girl scouts on their pilgrimage to Juliette's birth place... Hugs, Silke

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  59. WOW! That is an enormous amount of work!!! Wonderful, would not have missed this :)

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  60. hello renee how are you. ah yes, it worked for a couple of minutes after that it was just vapor.

    hah marie, i have learned to be resourceful.

    oh silke, you are lucky indeed. all those majestic live oak, a rich history and the home of the US Girl Scouts founder! a pilgrimage is due for me and epsilon ii.

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  61. hello val, it's lovely to see you!

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  62. Ces, ma soeur-amie!

    The drawing of the two robed figures and the artist's self portraits....aaaaahh, they are so beautiful! A different style, and still so exquisite, just like the artist herself.

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  63. Bella, et vous êtes mon soeur-ami aimé !

    Yes, I was making some fabric studies. Thank you!

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  64. Holy Cesessesness! The new header is WONDERFUL! Startling. WILD...
    Ces, the Wild Child.

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  65. Deborah, inspired by Epsilon II, it is called Epsilon Naif. Thank you ma'am!

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  66. Drive by commenting? BAHAHAHAHAHA!

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  67. Thank you for getting all on one page...seen this way one can notice leaps and backlashes. Images to fascinate. -Jayne

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  68. What a nice surprise!
    How are you, Ces?
    Glad we meet again !

    What a body of work... this is truly amazing !

    Come back soon !
    I am sure you will... it is so addictive !

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  69. Ces what a treat it is to see your paintings on the banner; a new one each day.

    How are you feeling?

    Love Renee xoxo

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  70. Ces you are kind to me always.

    'I wish I was more like you with a loving and kind heart. I am not like that anymore. The serpent ate almost all of my heart.'

    You may think the serpent did, but I know different. Your heart is all there and is intact. Nothing can touch you for long because you have the heart of a lion and the will of ten.

    Ces your drawing and speaking hand is just having a rest and it will be back sooner than you think. It will get rid of anything you no longer require soon.

    I love you.

    Renee xoxoxo

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  71. Hi Ces! I have just recently started lurking around your blog (haha). I am so sorry to hear your hand is out of sorts. Your art is just amazing and fabulous! Rest up so you can get back at it, and give the rest of us some more late night eye-snacks. :) Hope you feel better soon! xox Pam

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  72. I love it even more knowing that. I had to come back to look at it again. I had completely missed the clown. It's Cesamazing.
    **kisskiss** Deb

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  73. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Apparently you forgot that serpents die when eating sweetness and compassion. Have you forgotten, really?
    I am sure you have. Reading at Renee's I realized that you need to be reminded of mirrors, to place in front of the lady with the bad hair day.

    Lovely Ces, please paint in your mind while the hand rest. Write of your paintings like maps to follow when things get better, lines and colors, images and tales of wonder. Write them as you would paint them, for yourself, just for you. Who cares if you are a different person when the wrist is rested? Who cares if you never bring to your canvas what you are seeing now? You will have a record of what it could have been and maybe could be sometime in time.

    And bees get drunk, you know?
    If they get nasty, open the window and out with them. A broom is a good thing. I should know since I use mine to fly.

    Be well dear. And keep a mirror at hand for you know who.

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  74. Did you say BANG. You naughty girl, you are supposed to be giving that hand a rest. Bad Ces and Bad Viking.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  75. Hello ces, i have come over from Alaines's blog, and have to say your work is so very beautiful. Have a good rest so that you can be mended & ready to draw again very soon *ruthie*

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  76. I is in your kitchen, eating your pansit. Muy delicioso!

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  77. i will really miss your daily blog...

    you see, it's like a daily inspiration...

    cant start my day without it.

    -ingat po kayo palagi, and sana gumaling na po ang kamay nyo.. ;D

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  78. Don't you dare just yet! I have a few others that willdefinitely turn you on but I'm not sending them till yout hand is mended.

    Till then, just feel loved.

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  79. Hey Ces, Tabitha's daddy is looking for ya! I love that top color illustrtation my friend. So full of life! Love you sweetie
    v

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  80. Hey Ces, Tabitha's daddy is looking for ya! I love that top color illustrtation my friend. So full of life! Love you sweetie
    v

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  81. Oh my gosh - I haven't visited for a day or so and look what I find.... well, I will miss you but look forward to having you back, healed and full of energy to begin again. Your drawings are marvellous and I will pop back from time to time to take them all in slowly. Please email me with your address if you get a moment. Caroline x0x

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  82. Ces, the header today is one of the best examples of what makes your work so unique and hypnotizing. I am telling you that your work stands out in a crowd. One of a kind. Read Vanessa's blog today and see what she has been up to. Perhaps the wrist injury is meant for you to take the time to find out how to get your work published in magazines, placed in art shows, getting the recognition you so deserve. DO IT! **kisskiss**
    Deb

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  83. I love your work.

    Wonderful !!!!

    Maravilloso!!!

    From Argentina,Liliana.

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  84. Thank you for stopping by my blog to leave birthday wishes! Pls come visit me again sometime. ~ Beth

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  85. Just making sure you're indeed resting!!

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  86. Of course you are right about our blessed lives. But I do believe that something has shifted, call it the equilibrium of time or our own desire to understand how can we be exposed to so much, so fast and for our little brain to process all of it instantly, leave aside trying to understand the effect it may have on the spirit.

    I abandoned tv watching nearly 26 years ago. Never once have I experienced the curiosity or the inclination to go back because the sheer amount of nonsense that was the admission ticket for the few and far between expressions of intellectual worth, resulted in driving me to what to my eyes resembled a form of depression. I felt completely disconnected from the world they portrayed and inside which I was supposedly living.

    So keeping the fires burning in my case resulted in a serious case of introspection, trying to understand the meaning of things that resembled Calibans dancing in an orgy of fire, sometimes blinding me to the obvious, making me humble in the process of recognizing not a superior loneliness but a very deep one.

    I do feel the need to divest, now more than ever. My atelier is a veritable maze that makes my finding a way to create - me, who lives by order above all - a real challenge. I guess I can identify with Anne because I believe she felt the duality of desire, the pull and push of the emotional ocean to which our own personal lunar cycles seem to be subjected to. So I am off to clean, to give away, to discard the material things that right now seem like invisible pebbles in what I hoped would be a smooth path to personal expression. Wish me luck.

    PS: I love the new banner today.

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  87. I completely agree. There is nothing more pathetic that someone doing what the Egyptians used to call "eating one's heart". Why PC? what happened to an honest opinion, discussed with civility, agreeing to disagree with good manners and without offense? My grandfather used to say that good manners were the backbone of civilization. Poor Granpapá would be horrified at what passes for manners these days.

    Are you resting your hand, young lady? I don't know how much typing you are allowed to do, but remember what I told you. Much as I enjoy our little tête-à-têtes I don't want to be the cause of any stress. Reneé's news had me in tears most of the day, I hurt for her and what she has to go through. My atelier is still a mess. Of course. However, your friendly notes have managed to take me away from that space and for that, I thank you Ces.

    I am going to take a swim in that drawing of yours tonight.
    I know you won't mind if I leave some wet spots on the blog, only water. Thank you for stopping by to say good night. I am enjoying your company more than I can say.

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  88. I is in your tree trunk, making micro squigglies so you don't have to.

    whoooooooosh, and there I go. Drive-by. BAM!

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  89. Hey Ces Yul Bynner here! hee he he hee the address is oohlaladesignstudio@gmail.com it's on the blog too hee he he! I know how it is. Send your address now. love ya!

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  90. Would you like to rub lotion on Yul's head?

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  91. Thank you all my sweet friends, sisters, sisterfriends, visitors and welcome new friends. I am fine, thank you very much for your well wishes. I am actually getting antsy and bored not doing any art work but I always have something else to do. Thank you very much!

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  92. As for Yul's head - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Not your's Ms. V, the real Yul head. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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  93. Stop for a minute to clean up the water tracks and to wish you good night. Good night sweet Ces.

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  94. Ces.... where do I start?
    First of all.... love the banner/profile pic of the solar eclipse.... it's beautiful
    You must have had at least 11 cups of coffee this morning...lol!
    Seriously... thank you!
    You know there are so many talented people out there. I'm continually blown away. I don't pretend to possess that much talent but I do know what you and i have..... passion. I could care less if I ever sold a painting because what really drives me is the need to let all these emotions out. I know that you feel the same sisterfriend!
    I never know what I'm painting from one day to the next. I let my heart be my guide.
    damn.... now i need some caffeine!!
    hope you're having a fab day

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  95. I is in your medicine cabinet, looking for something viscous.

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  96. Check the bottom cabinet, to the left of the sink.

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  97. Oh no no no no. You did NOT put up a post and abandon this one when it's so close to 100.

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  98. I is in your moleskin, hiding things in your squiggles.

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