Marked by the Muse

Inspired Artist striving to follow my Muse + see the sacredness in all things sometimes, I have to stare,but what I see makes its way onto paper. Welcome.

[Marked by the Muse @stepheybaker]

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Just posted a video @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/AvH4XpLlFF

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Just posted a video @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/9H5zaXq5Ki

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Feathers everywhere! Outside, inside and on the paper. I wil never get tired of observing and drawing feathers. Each are unique, like painting someone's finger print, only pretty. @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/yve0Tx6lpi

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Beautiful night for a walk
Everytime I look up
The moon plays hide and seek @ Church Hill North https://t.co/wvBwN1qjsw

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Warming up before I begin to work on the details within this feather + vibe'n with the harmonies in this classic holiday music. It's relaxing and nearly perfect for this kind of line work. ✒ @ Church Hill North https://t.co/K8V4hEZDAY

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Just posted a photo @ Church Hill North https://t.co/8OAwfcJNT1

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/NQn4rok9nc

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Just posted a photo @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/Hhh1SPNoLW

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Just posted a photo @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/SyWzBA9zXR

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This beauty came to visit me. Grateful that it allowed me to pick it up and put it back outside! A beautiful sage green and browns. Just the colors I've been wanting to revamp the living room 😁 @ Duck, North Carolina https://t.co/whRNbqDkSW

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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." Vincent Van Gogh @ Richmond, Virginia https://t.co/6kqnjYDHB6

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We've been experiencing weirdo rain storms in my neck of the woods the past week and have accumulated another 4" of rainfall! Because it's also been hotter than hot the fungi have sprouted up in abundance to play! I… https://t.co/VTafwRYAid

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Here's a glimpse into the process of setting up the bloom to the Rudbeckia subtomentosa or commonly known as Sweet coneflower because its blooms have a faint herb smell of anise. t
The flower head has tubular 'disk… https://t.co/TDPlNDT8Q3

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While waiting out yet another rain storm I'm spending time with these beauties, Rudbeckia subtomentosa.
Don't you think they're like sunshine in a vase? And in today's climate, who couldn't use some much needed sun.… https://t.co/D5sxpXFcED

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"The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how Nature designs...and it is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the Spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns… https://t.co/jD34KpI4II

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Out in the garden this morning checking in on the clover I planted as a living mulch. The soil is in bad shape and so this will help bring life back to it and the clover blooms will feed the bees too. Listening to… https://t.co/R2m3LbPP0d

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Still building layers --nearly complete 😁 and STILL enchanted with these mystical fungi, it's their coloring and subtle texture! What I love about the tradition of Botanical Art is its creative process. It's roots… https://t.co/HMm9wUSZzE

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"We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
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The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come."
-Joseph Campbell
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I came across this quote while… https://t.co/DV37DqMApZ

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I have the whole morning to myself and have been creating more watercolor studies, color palettes and started the underpainting of this piece + a fresh pot of coffee and blues on the ipad (nina, bessie and billie,… https://t.co/gt55VW1TVF