SteveHendersonFineArt

SteveHendersonFineArt, 2 months ago to nature

Long before there was Silicon Valley and all its technocratic adulation, there were trees and mountains, meadows and blue sky -- places of beauty nature invited us to be in and enjoy.

And long after technocracy fails, the trees and mountains and meadows will remain. Still beautiful. Still inviting us to be in them and enjoy.

Seeing Red at the Seven Devils canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/seeing-red-at-the-seven-devils-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 10 months ago to oregon

The river moves calmly through its landscape, not in any particular hurry to get where it's going because, even if the pace is leisurely, it will still, eventually, reach its destination. A good thing to remember when we're tempted to rush through our day.

Evening on the Willamette art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/evening-on-the-willamette-steve-henderson.html

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 months ago to Freedom

All your promises,

You never meant to honor.

And you never did.

In the "land of the free," it's not a matter of blue vs. red or red vs. blue so much as Those with Power vs. Those Who Wish to Live Free.

We Just Wanted to Be Free canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/we-just-wanted-to-be-free-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 months ago to sailing

On the bay, they were far enough away from the city to escape the noise and bustle, but close enough to watch its endless activity. It was a good perspective, one that allowed them to observe without being distracted.

Elliot Bay canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/elliot-bay-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 6 months ago to art

The ability to create is a gift given to us as human beings.With our hands, hearts, minds, and skill we are able to fabricate and bring forth things of beauty and goodness . . . or, things that are not. We do well when we determine to use our creativity for good, and refuse to employ it for evil.

In the Workshop greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/in-the-workshop-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 1 month ago to art

So much of what we learn is self-taught.

Reading, questioning, thinking, researching, experimenting, failing, trying again -- it is through this process that we grow in our skills and intellect.

And pretending, imagining, daydreaming, wondering -- all those things I got in trouble for at school -- those are part of learning, too.

Boy in the Rhubarb Patch framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/boy-in-the-rhubarb-patch-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 months ago to dance

Spinning and turning,

She moved with smooth, quiet grace

As she danced her life.

Not all of us are trained or skilled as dancers on the stage, but in the dance of life, we have opportunity to move with strength, purpose, and meaning.

Dancer art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/dancer-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 months ago to Weather

The weather could go either way. It was one of those moments in which the storm hadn't quite decided whether it wanted to unleash itself in a torrent of rain, or slowly dissipate into a cloudy day broken by gleams of sunlight. Either way, the show would be worth seeing.

Golden Field canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/golden-field-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 months ago to art

Many creative projects demand that we give them time and attention. And why not? When we're doing something that interests us, why rush through it? The very act of creating provides as much satisfaction as the finished product.

These Gifts Are Better Than Toys greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/these-gifts-are-better-than-toys-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 6 months ago to nature

Rugged peaks form a ring encircling a high, clear, pristine, alpine lake. This is a landscape of intense silence, one where you can sit on a boulder along the banks, look out over the water, and think pleasant, interesting thoughts (why be grumpy in a place like this?).

Crystalline Waters art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/crystalline-waters-steve-henderson.html

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 3 months ago to nature

Is there such thing as a Great Awakening? I suspect that if there were, it would be quickly taken over by the authorities of the day and reconfigured to their satisfaction.

Quite fortunately, awakenings happen every day, one by one in individuals, as we see a truth, a light we had not been aware of before.

Awakening art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/awakening-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 10 months ago to Utah

I love Zion National Park in Utah, USA. Not the crowds, mind you, but if you're willing to explore the "back 40" of the park, the places not listed on brochures, you find all the majesty and splendor of the landscape, without the noise or crowds.

Zion's West Canyon art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/zions-west-canyon-steve-henderson.html

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 14 days ago to art

Well, why not believe the impossible, reach for the improbable? We do it all the time when we listen to the news readers and accept what they say as true.

Better to put that energy into determining what it is we want to achieve, and go about achieving it.

Tea for Two canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/tea-for-two-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 5 days ago to oregon

When I first saw Hughes House, the 1898 home (now a museum) built by the Pacific Ocean near Port Orford, OR, I thought, "This is a place to grow up in, be a child in, run about and play in!"

And it is good to know that, at one time and for awhile, there was a family in this house, there were children, and they did run and play through this magical place.

Hughes House framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/hughes-house-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 10 days ago to DaftPunk

I send thanks to the buyer from Oregon who purchased several 10-packs of greeting cards of

The Broughton House -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/the-broughton-house-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

May the artwork take both you and the people to whom you send the cards to a place of welcoming, warmth, and home, and may you feel as if you could run about the yard of this house and play with the joy and freedom of a child.

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 14 days ago to art

I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased a 10-pack of greeting cards of

The Teal Umbrella -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/the-teal-umbrella-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

May the artwork take both you and the people to whom you send the cards to a place of summer joy, one in which the simple, quiet things in life are celebrated and honored.

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 9 days ago to art

It all started with a single thought, a moment of doubt in which, for the first time in her life, she questioned what she had been told about the matter.

And it grew from there. She asked more questions. She read books. She talked to others about her doubts -- most dismissed her, or even acted offended that she didn't just believe.

But she kept going. And growing.

Afternoon with a Book framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/afternoon-with-a-book-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 10 days ago to Battlemaps

"Winter is such a drab, colorless time. Everything is white or grey."

The little bush laughed to itself when the hillside upon which it grew shared the conversations it had overheard over the seasons.

"Aren't generalizations silly?" the bush replied. "They confine the people who make them into a small, drab, colorless world."

Redbush framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/redbush-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 10 days ago to nature

Years ago, it began to grow along the steep hillside overlooking the valley. As a sapling, it weathered the wind that buffeted it, struggled until it reached a size that its roots ran strong and deep.

How it managed to not be decimated by the deer passing through, it wasn't quite sure. But it made it, alone and lone, firm, and strong.

Lone Pine framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lone-pine-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 4 days ago to free

I send thanks to the buyer from Canada who purchased a canvas print of

Spirit of the Canyon -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/spirit-of-the-canyon-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the artwork bring to your soul the joy and independence that living free -- thinking, speaking, and journeying -- engenders, nurtures, and strengthens.

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 9 days ago to Horses

There was plenty of food and plenty of time, so there was no need to push one another aside (is that ever, really, the right thing to do?) nor take giant, hasty mouthfuls and gulp them down.

So they sociably grazed, enjoying the day, the surroundings, and the companionship of one another.

In the Hollow canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/in-the-hollow-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 5 days ago to nature

It was red rock country, all right, but not limited to that. The surface of the rocks and cliffs caught light, absorbed shadows, in such a way that an array of colors set forth before the viewer.

And they didn't just stay that way. As the light shifted and changed, so did the colors of the canyon.

Nature refuses to be circumscribed and classified.

Many Hues canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/many-hues-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 days ago to art

Generally, there are no signs on country back roads barring the "Warning: Primitive Road Ahead," in which case you probably don't want to go much further in a regular car.

But if you don't see that sign, keep going, see what you see, maybe pull over to the side, step out of the vehicle, take a good stretch, and listen for the subtle sounds of the rural landscape.

Columbia County Backroads framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/columbia-county-backroads-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 16 days ago to oregon

Out in the middle of nowhere is actually somewhere: it's a landscape surrounded by space, and within that space one can walk around outside in one's bathrobe -- or not even that if you please -- and not be seen by the neighbors.

You don't hear their TV or music. No loud cars, or sirens. No shouting, flashing lights, LED advertisements in your face.

That's someplace worth being.

Lonesome Barn canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lonesome-barn-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

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SteveHendersonFineArt, 7 days ago to art

I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased an art print of

Zion's Watchman -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/zions-watchman-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

May the artwork take you to a place of great beauty and majesty, one in which you feel watched over by a benevolent force of goodness, truth, and peace.

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