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Deer Lake Paradise Customizable Card by Ginette_Callaway_2
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Deer Lake Paradise Impressionist Original Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

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Deer Lake Paradise
Impressionist Oil Painting
Size: 20 x 24 x 0.75 inches (Sides do not have staples and are painted dark, the painting will be ready to hang)
Artist: Ginette Callaway

Signed: Yes! Front and back

Time of Creation: 2010

Fresh of my easel. Will be dry in about a month. Can be shipped around August 10th 2010.

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Deer Lake Paradise Oil Painting by Ginette by Ginette FineArt

Title: Monarch Butterfly on Purple Coneflower Impressionist oil painting by Ginette Callaway Original Impressionist Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas (No Frame need / Ready to Hang out of the box, already with Wire attached) Size: 12 x 12 inches” Stretched canvas Signed: Yes! Front & Back Artist: Ginette [...]]]>

Monarch Butterfly on Purple Coneflower Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

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Title: Monarch Butterfly on Purple Coneflower
Impressionist oil painting by Ginette Callaway
Original Impressionist Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas (No Frame need / Ready to Hang out of the box, already with Wire attached)
Size: 12 x 12 inches”
Stretched canvas
Signed: Yes! Front & Back
Artist: Ginette Callaway

Fresh paint, still wet, will be dry to ship around July 29th 2010

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Since the oil spill I’ve been in Agony over [...]]]> It’s been a hot and humid day. But what’s new. It’s been like that for weeks. Even my cats don’t want to go outside and are laying around lazy.
My tomato plants are limpy. It’s been not my kind of weather so far this year here in Georgia.

Since the oil spill I’ve been in Agony over it and having excruciating back pain does not help.

Standing in front of my easel seems to let me forget about it.  Sitting down and doing work on the computer seems to make it worse. But I do have to take the pictures and list it and so on. Some day I may have someone help me with that but until then I have to grit my teeth. Oh I have stabbing paint right now, so let get this over with.

Just finished a new painting. It’s listed as a print in my Zazzle Store and the Original will later go up in my ETSY store.

Everglades Florida Wetland Original Art Poster by Ginette_Callaway
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Title: Everglades
Impressionist oil painting by Ginette Callaway
Original Impressionist Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas (No Frame need / Ready to Hang out of the box, already with Wire attached)
Size: 12 x 12 inches”
Stretched canvas
Signed: Yes! Front & Back
Artist: Ginette Callaway

Fresh paint, still wet, will be dry to ship around July 15th 2010

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“Wetlands” Impressionist Oil Painting Size: 20 x 24 x 0.75 inches (Sides do not have staples and are painted dark, the painting will be ready to hang) Artist: Ginette Callaway

Signed: Yes! Front and back

Time of Creation: 2010

Fresh of my easel. Will be dry in about a [...]]]>

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“Wetlands”
Impressionist Oil Painting
Size: 20 x 24 x 0.75 inches (Sides do not have staples and are painted dark, the painting will be ready to hang)
Artist: Ginette Callaway

Signed: Yes! Front and back

Time of Creation: 2010

Fresh of my easel. Will be dry in about a month. Can be shipped around July 30th 2010.

International Buyers (Outside US Mainland) please contact me if you are interested in purchasing my art. Shipping details, cost etc. are depending on where you want it shipped.

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Summer In The Garden of Good and Evil – Savannah Georgia
Impressionist Oil Painting
Size: 20 x 24 x 0.75 inches (Sides do not have staples and are painted dark, the painting will be ready to hang)
Artist: Ginette Callaway

Signed: Yes! Front and back

Time of Creation: 2010

Fresh of my easel. Will be dry in about a month. Can be shipped around July 30th 2010.

40 x 30 inch Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

In the meantime you can get prints.

Jekyll [...]]]> The painting “Jekyll Island – Last Of A Kind” is finished. Now it must dry and I will enter it in to a great competition this year. Therefore it won’t be for sale. At least not until later this year.

40 x 30 inch Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

In the meantime you can get prints.

Jekyll Island – The Last of a Kind – WIP from Ginette Callaway on Vimeo.

This is what I am working on right now40 x 20 inch oil painting

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Tulip Magnolia Tree in Bloom Impressionist Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

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Title: Tulip Magnolia Tree in Bloom Impressionist Oil Painting
Original Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas (No Frame need / Ready to Hang out of the box, already with Wire attached)
Size: 12 x 12 inches”
Signed: Yes! Front & Back
by: Ginette Callaway

Newly Painted needs a bit more drying time. Ready to ship around May 7th, 2010. Until it is fully dry I will offer it at a lower price then I would normally list. Regular price $199 until May 7th price will be $119.

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We are often told that the world is going from bad to worse, sacrificing everything to mammon. But this righteous uprising in defense of God’s trees in the midst of exciting politics and wars [...]]]> Oil Painting by Ginette Callaway

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Save the Redwoods

by John Muir

We are often told that the world is going from bad to worse, sacrificing everything to mammon. But this righteous uprising in defense of God’s trees in the midst of exciting politics and wars is telling a different story, and every Sequoia, I fancy, has heard the good news and is waving its branches for joy. The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when light comes the heart of the people is always right. Forty-seven years ago one of these Calaveras King Sequoias was laboriously cut down, that the stump might be had for a dancing-floor. Another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to London to show how fine and big that Calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. This grand tree is of course dead, a ghastly disfigured ruin, but it still stands erect and holds forth its majestic arms as if alive and saying, “Forgive them; they know not what they do.” Now some millmen want to cut all the Calaveras trees into lumber and money. But we have found a better use for them. No doubt these trees would make good lumber after passing through a sawmill, as George Washington after passing through the hands of a French cook would have made good food. But both for Washington and the tree that bears his name higher uses have been found.

Could one of these Sequoia Kings come to town in all its godlike majesty so as to be strikingly seen and allowed to plead its own cause, there would never again be any lack of defenders. And the same may be said of all the other Sequoia groves and forests of the Sierra with their companions and the noble Sequoia sempervirens, or redwood, of the coast mountains.

In a general view we find that the Sequoia gigantea, or Big Tree, is distributed in a widely interrupted belt along the west flank of the Sierra, from a small grove on the middle fork of the American River to the head of Deer Creek, a distance of about two hundred and sixty miles, at an elevation of about five thousand to a little over eight thousand feet above the sea. From the American River grove to the forest on Kings River the species occurs only in comparatively small isolated patches or groves so sparsely distributed along the belt that three of the gaps in it are from forty to sixty miles wide. From Kings River southward the Sequoia is not restricted to mere groves, but extends across the broad rugged basins of the Kaweah and Tule rivers in majestic forests a distance of nearly seventy miles, the continuity of this portion of the belt being but slightly broken save by the deep cañons.

In these noble groves and forests to the southward of the Calaveras Grove the axe and saw have long been busy, and thousands of the finest Sequoias have been felled, blasted into manageable dimensions, and sawed into lumber by methods destructive almost beyond belief, while fires have spread still wider and more lamentable ruin. In the course of my explorations twenty-five years ago, I found five sawmills located on or near the lower margin of the Sequoia belt, all of which were cutting more or less Big Tree lumber, which looks like the redwood of the coast, and was sold as redwood. One of the smallest of these mills in the season of 1874 sawed two million feet of Sequoia lumber. Since that time other mills have been built among the Sequoias, notably the large ones on Kings River and the head of the Fresno. The destruction of these grand trees is still going on.

On the other hand, the Calaveras Grove for forty years has been faithfully protected by Mr. Sperry, and with the exception of the two trees mentioned above is still in primeval beauty. The Tuolumne and Merced groves near Yosemite, the Dinky Creek grove, those of the General Grant National Park and the Sequoia National Park, with several outstanding groves that are nameless on the Kings, Kaweah, and Tule river basins, and included in the Sierra forest reservation, have of late years been partially protected by the Federal Government; while the well-known Mariposa Grove has long been guarded by the State.

For the thousands of acres of Sequoia forest outside of the reservation and national parks, and in the hands of lumbermen, no help is in sight. Probably more than three times as many Sequoias as are contained in the whole Calaveras Grove have been cut into lumber every year for the last twenty-six years without let or hindrance, and with scarce a word of protest on the part of the public, while at the first whisper of the bonding of the Calaveras Grove to lumbermen most everybody rose in alarm. This righteous and lively indignation on the part of Californians after the long period of deathlike apathy, in which they have witnessed the destruction of other groves unmoved, seems strange until the rapid growth that right public opinion has made during the last few years is considered and the peculiar interest that attaches to the Calaveras giants. They were the first discovered and are best known. Thousands of travelers from every country have come to pay them tribute of admiration and praise, their reputation is world-wide, and the names of great men have long been associated with them—Washington, Humboldt, Torrey and Gray, Sir Joseph Hooker, and others. These kings of the forest, the noblest of a noble race, rightly belong to the world, but as they are in California we cannot escape responsibility as their guardians. Fortunately the American people are equal to this trust, or any other that may arise, as soon as they see it and understand it.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the eventful centuries since Christ’s time, and long before that, God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand storms; but he cannot save them from sawmills and fools; this is left to the American people. The news from Washington is encouraging. On March third [1905?] the House passed a bill providing for the Government acquisition of the Calaveras giants. The danger these Sequoias have been in will do good far beyond the boundaries of the Calaveras Grove, in saving other groves and forests, and quickening interest in forest affairs in general. While the iron of public sentiment is hot let us strike hard. In particular, a reservation or national park of the only other species of Sequoia, the sempervirens, or redwood, hardly less wonderful than the gigantea, should be quickly secured. It will have to be acquired by gift or purchase, for the Government has sold every section of the entire redwood belt from the Oregon boundary to below Santa Cruz.

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Here are two paintings that are getting evaluated. One I already worked on to give it a certain feel I want that seemed missingand one that I am in the [...]]]> Sometimes when I have a painting that hangs around for a couple of years and doesn’t seem to wanna sell, I take a 2nd look at it.

Here are two paintings that are getting evaluated.
One I already worked on to give it a certain feel I want that seemed missingand one that I am in the middle of changing.

Here is the one that is already changed.
“Grandmothers Apple Tree. A 20 x 30 inch oil painting.
I wasn’t exactly happy with it after I looked at it for a few month.
The image on the left is the before, on the right the way it is now.

This is a tree that is in the corners of my memories all the time.

Here is the other painting that is getting a work over.

“Mona Lavender Still Life.” (The painting was up for sale on ETSY but I have taken it down until the new revised painting is finished.)

It was too busy and the negative space was non existent making it hard to get comfortable with.

While I loved it in one way I also felt something needed to be done to make it more pleasing.

Which is what I am trying to do now.

I may just end up ruin it all together when I am done but that is a risk I will take.

We will see the outcome. When the dark areas have dried a bit I will revisit the flowers.