Welcoming My Muse…

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Creative, Marc Chagall, Muse, watercolor

My Muse watercolor © Joan Currie

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her. – Marc Chagall

Merely opening the window does not ensure that my Muse will arrive – she is attracted by genuine intent. So when she appears, I am truly grateful. And if she appears after my opus is complete, she still guides me on my creative journey, which is never-ending.

One of my favorite Chagall paintings, Les Amoureux (1928), is discussed https://youtu.be/5v7C2nMnZjc

Fire Quellers…

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Creativity, Fire queller, Matisse, Photography, watercolor

Watercolor © Joan Currie

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent
with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. – Matisse

Allow no one to extinguish your creative fires…

Standing pretty…

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Fashion, John Burroughs, Poetry, Shoes, watercolor

Lauren DiMarco in Joshua Tree

What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it hath sown,
And garner up its fruit of tears.
from the poem Waiting by John Burroughs

Still hopeful that you will stand by my side one day…

Bursting at the seams…

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Beauty, In Absence, Love, Relationships, watercolor

© Joan Currie – watercolor

Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Trying to wait patiently for your return…

Regrouping…

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Labyrinth of Desire, Love, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan, watercolor

© Rachel Valley

She does not yet  know that real love does not demand perfection.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan

But she is about to meet the man who will teach her …

Model: Lauren DiMarco

My Red Shoes…

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Art, Design, Photography, Red Shoes, Valentine's Day, watercolor

© Joan Currie – Red Shoes watercolor

Julian?
Yes, my darling?
Take off the red shoes.
from The Red Shoes movie (1948)

My red shoes for tripping the light fantastic on February 14th.

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Comforts of Home…

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Anaïs Nin, Art, beautiful, Postaweek 2012, watercolor, WIngback Chair

© Joan Currie – Wingback Chair Watercolor

Fraenkel loved my home, the idea of a house, a home as a pivot, a base, a hub. Henry, the vagabond, was amazed at Fraenkel’s assertion that this was necessary to creation, that rolling and drifting prevented growth, that this was the way to grow and expand. – from the Diary of Anaïs Nin 

The muse visits me when I am curled up reading in my favorite wingback chair.

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Femme Fatale…

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Art, beautiful, Corset, Femme fatale, Henry Miller, lingerie, Photography, Postaweek 2012, watercolor

© Joan Currie - Red Corset Watercolor

You suffer when you try to possess her, because you rob her of the mystery – the very thing that attracted you in the first place! by Henry Miller

She can be as elusive as a cloud…

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Enchanting Undergarment…

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Art, Constance Woodrow, lingerie, Tulle & Satin Garments, Underskirt, watercolor

© Joan Currie - Watercolor of High Waist Underskirt

The dearest and tenderest girlhood dreams
I stitch into gossamer hems and seams.
from Song of a Sewing Machine by Constance Woodrow 

As a child I was ensorcelled by the beautiful tulle and satin garments in my mother’s trunk.

Loves Gone…

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Art, Butterfly, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poetry, postaweek 2011, watercolor

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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!

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