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Carmen Beecher
Oil Paintings and Collage
Friday, April 25, 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Quilling Fun I've Been Having Lately
Friday, March 28, 2025
Quillyfish
These little fish are for the Just Another Fish on the Wall exhibit at the Fifth Avenue Gallery in Melbourne on April 4th. The technique is called Quilling, hence my title, "Quillyfish." I look forward to seeing what the talented artists around here make for the exhibit.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Just for Fun Flippable Painting
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Olive, 12x16 oil on canvas
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Rosa Parks, 9x12 Graphite Drawing
On December 1,1955 in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks refused a bus driver's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a white female passenger who had complained to the driver the white section was full. She was arrested and subsequently became central to the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery. In her autobiography, My Story, she said:
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Frederick Douglass, 9x12 Graphite Drawing
Continuing my series of Civil Rights heroes, here is my rendering of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery and became a leader of the antislavery movement. He was a great writer and an orator who was much in demand. In describing his childhood, he wrote this:
"The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing...My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age....I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day. She was with me in the night. She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone."
What an amazing spirit he had to overcome beatings, dehumanization and loss of his mother to become one of the most respected intellectuals of his time. He credited finding faith in God when he was a teen with bringing him out of his despair.