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larger cropped slice jpeg copymore than once i have been in a moment when i thought, “this is a slice of heaven.”  everyone has them.  like this scene, it may be on the beach.  it may be in the woods.  it may be in the rocking chair with your tiny baby.  it may be on the mountain in fresh powder.  it may be listening to music while running (or sitting quietly) or reading poetry in an adirondack chair.  it’s different for everyone.  regardless of where it is, of when it is, of what it is, everything feels in balance and all feels well with the world, at least in your little piece of the world.  we feel grateful and alive.  and we wish for more of those moments.

what if we treated every breathing moment like that?  like a slice of heaven.

A SLICE OF HEAVEN – if beaches are your heaven, here are products for you….

A SLICE OF HEAVEN – if you prefer just words, here are products for you…

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david’s painting this morsel came from is

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THEY DRAW SUNSETS IN THE SAND, mixed media 35.5″x47.5″

 

a slice of heaven FRAMED PRINT copy

 

 

a slice of heaven RECT pillow copy

throw pillows, floor pillows, rugs, shower curtains, clocks

 

a slice of heaven LEGGINGS copy

leggings

 

 

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close-up of the slice on leggings

 

a slice of heaven iPHONE case copy

 

a slice of heaven METAL TRAVEL MUG copy

mugs, travel mugs, tote bags

 

a slice of heaven cards copy

cards

 

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throw pillows, floor pillows

 

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beach towels

DR THURSDAY (DAVID ROBINSON THURSDAY) – ON OUR SITE

 

to read DAVID’S thoughts on A SLICE OF HEAVEN

a slice of heaven/they draw sunsets in the sand ©️ 2018 david robinson & kerri sherwood

 

 

 

 


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dr thursday

 

i love design.  and i love finding the small morsels of design hidden in each of david’s really exquisite paintings and, with my mind’s-eye-magnifying-glass creating products with them…my favorite new design challenges are – amazingly – leggings! but, regardless of the product i am designing, it makes me crazy how many stunning individual images are within the whole…i’m bowled over with my camera roll after i shoot a painting.

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earth interrupted I, mixed media 48″x53″

it occurs to me that this is not far from something i should notice in all of life.  quarter earth – a part of earth interrupted I – is no less a beautiful image because it is a smaller piece of a whole painting.  ahhh. it’s not a stretch to see – that the individual daisy is no less a beautiful image because it is a small part of a field of daisies…this moment is no less a beautiful image because it is a small part of a life of moments…we are no less a beautiful image because we are are a small part of a whole world of people. 

QUARTER EARTH MERCHANDISE

    society 6 info jpeg copy

 

quarter earth FRAMED ART PRINT copy

 

quarter earth LEGGINGS copy

 

quarter earth square pillow copy

 

quarter earth TOTE BAG copy

 

quarter earth CLOCK copy

 

DR THURSDAY (DAVID ROBINSON THURSDAY)

 

read DAVID’S thoughts about DR THURSDAY

earth interrupted I & quarter earth ©️ 2012 david robinson

 

 

 


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dr thursday

editedcityscape morsel jpeg.jpgthere is maybe nothing that says “cool” more than a bass player.  upright bass or electric.  they have a certain air, a je ne sais quoi, that just quietly and intensely says ‘phat’.  phat definition

jim is like that.  he was the throw-anything-at-me-and-i’ll-astound-you bass player on a couple of my albums.  such a great sound.   he’s a top-shelf musician and i’m proud to have had his playing as part of my recordings.

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the bass player, 24″ x 48″

this painting makes me think of jim and also of several of The Girl’s and The Boy’s friends from high school.  they were bass players in jazz band (and every other band that our district offers) and they rocked the house.  many of them, like jim, are in chicago now and i hope they are playing and still rocking the house.

 

this cityscape morsel comes from david’s painting the bass player.  when i was photographing the full painting, i kept zero-ing in on this morsel….the city at night.  i love the fun of it, the color, the chaos.  designing products with this morsel was a blast!  i got lost in the possibilities.  just as you can get lost in the night in this city.

CITYSCAPE MERCHANDISE

THIScityscape LEGGINGS

 

cityscape PILLOW

 

 

cityscape TOTE BAG

 

cityscape MUG

 

cityscape IPHONE CASE

 

DR THURSDAY (DAVID ROBINSON THURSDAY)

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check out DAVID’S thoughts on this DR THURSDAY

cityscape ©️ 2018 david robinson & kerri sherwood

the bass player ©️ 2002 david robinson

 

 


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dr thursday #3

2mayyouBEpeace jpeg copypeace. the written word (or the symbol) punctuates the corners of our home.  it’s suspended on doorknobs, off of old window frames, made of old copper or tin, in my studio handmade by the boy out of a scrap of wood, a necklace from the girl hanging on a mirror, a chunky silver ring on my right hand from david…

“may you be peace” would be my motto, if we all had mottos.  i just feel like i can’t think of better places to lead from than kindness and peace.  way back in high school, a long while ago,  the-amazing-english-teacher-andrea made an impression on all of us – with her peace signs and her pay-it-forward-thinking; if my obsession with peace signs hadn’t already started by then, this indeed was its jump-start.

david’s painting MAY YOU wraps a buddhist prayer around you and is astoundingly beautiful. as i photographed it for his gallery site, i found myself concentrating also on morsels of the painting, each stunning in their own right.  this is one of the morsels.  may you be peace is simple and complex, beckoning you to be both of this world and beyond this world.  wishing you, today and every single day, this peace.

MAY YOU BE PEACE MERCHANDISE

framed print copy

iphone copy  clock copy greeting card copy

 

MayYouBe leggings

DR THURSDAY (DAVID ROBINSON THURSDAY)

MayYou copy

MAY YOU, mixed media 55″ x 36″

www.kerrianddavid.com/the-melange

read DAVID’S thoughts on MAY YOU BE PEACE

MAY YOU & MAY YOU BE PEACE ©️ 2015 david robinson

 

 

 

 


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dr thursday #2

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nap on the beach, mixed media 22.25″ x 55.5″

it snowed a lot here in the last week or so.  d tried to make our broken-ancient-snowblower into happy news of “getting exercise.”  the piles-of-snow-in-parking-lots are really high and they are at that stage where they look like yesterday’s news – they are dirty and a little tired.  today and tomorrow it’s supposed to rain which might clear some of that out.  our little xb (aka “little baby scion”) is filthy.  i look at the weather apps on my phone often, looking for sunny days and temperatures that linger above 50 degrees (maybe.)

we were out on the east coast last summer and went down to the cape to enjoy some beach time.  it was heaven.  (yes, i know the proper use is “heavenLY” but trust me, it was heaven.)  a warm day, ocean waves, full of lobster and amazing seafood we had eaten from wood’s seafood and fish market, we laid out our blanket.  we talked, we drew in the sand, we walked on the water’s edge, we collected rocks and shells, we napped.  the nap wasn’t intentional.  but it was delicious. if i close my eyes, i can almost (almost) touch it.

right about now, i am yearning for a nap on the beach.  so this stunning painting-by-my-sweet-husband on this dr thursday (david robinson thursday) in the melange speaks to me.  i’d imagine there are a few of you out there in the middle-of-winter who might be with me on that.

NAP ON THE BEACH MERCHANDISE (art prints, canvas prints)

nap on the beach framed print  nap on the beach art canvas

DR THURSDAY

PURCHASE THE ORIGINAL PAINTING

kerrianddavid.com/the-melange

check out DAVID’S thoughts about NAP ON THE BEACH

 


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dr thursday #1

EmbracedNow

held in grace:  embraced now – mixed media  48″ x 36″

this.  this feeling.  this painting.

it took my breath away when he painted it.  it takes my breath away now.

sharing studio space with my artist husband has many benefits.  we can interrupt each other with questions or comments or what-the-heck-is-thats or sometimes tears.  i am a great interrupter.  i am from long island; interrupting is an art form there. ask crunch or sue or marc AU.

two rocking chairs in the studio means we can mutually sip coffee (or wine) together while pondering what’s next.  or brainstorm.  or discuss current politics (ugh).  or argue.  or concoct new ideas.  my C5 is upstairs in a different studio, away from paint and acrylic and gesso and scissors and my sewing-machine-induced-scraps and power tools and a sound system that is sometimes cranked up.  a melange.  welcome to DR davidrobinson thursday.

i won’t forget the day i walked downstairs and saw this painting in progress.  the raw emotion is striking and -at once- comforting.

as you head into the weekend and, maybe, your celebration of valentine’s day, i wish for you – in whatever is your own cherished relationship – this feeling. loved. encircled. embraced.  held in grace indeed.

HELD IN GRACE: EMBRACED NOW – the painting

HELD IN GRACE: EMBRACED NOW – reproductions

DR thursday

www.kerrianddavid.com/the-melange

held in grace: embraced now ©️ 2017 david robinson