Charlie O'Shields

I’d rather exercise the mind than the body any day! Both your painting and your philosophy for the day was refreshing and an exercise in mindfulness!

Love the colors in the barbells. I agree it is wonderful to have the time to enjoy what you like and a master piece is not the reason to paint. It definitely is the process. Enjoying the moment.

I would definitely prefer to paint than exercise. Painting sparks joy, something I never got from exercising. So I try to eat healthy and behave myself instead. And yay me, it leaves much more time to paint. 🙂

I love this essay, and couldn’t agree more with your life philosophy!

As you are talking about the yoga u know i belonging to that country from where the yoga started but it is good n only do light yoga . Some special yoga’s not for us only saints can do that but now its business n people keeps different names but original name totally different. Keep fit is the mane eshu. Lovely u do i also do daily n walk 5km 4or5days in the week.enjoy lie.

Painting or doodling everyday is the best exercise for mental muscles.I think so,because may be I’m not a work out guy 😀

Great barbell … for a doorstop 🙂 LOL I became obsessed with running for a few years. I ended my time after challenging myself to running 6 full marathons in 12 months. The training involved required such dedication and the wear and tear on my body was hard to deal with. I had to give up endurance running and stick to smaller distances but eventually stopped all together. I too would rather exercise the brain these days.

I love how the colors (terrific hues) meld into one another. Magical.

So glad that you are a yes I will try it kind of guy! Makes life so much more interesting!

Now we really need to hear one of your shower singing sessions 🙂 Great mask!

How suitably extravagantly theatrical a mask it is! You’ve done it all, Charles!

Your mask is beautiful and your words inspirational. Listening to your heart is a good message. Thanks for sharing your words with us.

Your post today reminded me of my favorite quote, “Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down,” Kobi Yamada. I love the way you think, and your daily art amazes me.

I just love these colors. Just beautiful!

I loved the beautiful masks . Lie your stories always come from your ❤️ this hipnotized me.this is awesome.

Thanks so much, Sharon! 😃💕 Yeah… that is total chutzpah!! LOVE THAT!!

Thanks so much, Kerfe! 😃💕 Glad you liked this!

Aww thanks so much, Ellie! 😃💕 Yes, I’ve found, no matter what, the leap is totally worth it!!

Yay! I’m so glad you’re a musical fan as well! 😃💕

That is the most encouraging and amazing comment ever! Thank you so much! 😃💕 I’m so happy to hear that you enjoy my words. An incredible compliment as you’re so great with them yourself! Thank you for making me feel like a true writer. 😊

Charlie you are an awesome breath of inspiration.

Great painting! I used to love these too!

Now, that is a blast from the past!

Well, I remember the wall-o-matic! And trying to pry change from Mom and Dad to play a song. You’ve done a fabulous job in creating this site, Charlie, and you’re close to making your dream a total reality!

Love this post Charlie!Great message!

Lie as i have sad before 2. That u are very nice swemmer and always jump in to the sea, brought some things precious. Songs of 70s, weather English or Hindi. Both were made me mad . before dinner. We had a session of dance.wodnderfull.

this is so cool, Charlie! Thank you for sharing that! Love the shine!

What a great doodle, memory and site! Thank you Charlie for all of your hard work to build a wonderful place to come to.

What a wonderful painting of an item that was standard in my generation! The last time I enjoyed the mini jukebox was at The Diner in Los Gatos – one of papa and my favourite places to grab a brunch when we lived there. Happy memory! Thank you, once again, Charlie for letting your memories spark mine! ❤️

Aww thanks so much!! I truly appreciate hearing that!!😃💕

Thanks, Susan! Wasn’t it a blast!?! Loved those days!! 😃💕

LOL I remember flipping back and forth on the jukeboxes like maybe I missed a flap of songs 🙂 oh yeah the doodlewash community is cool for sure! Hey Charlie do you photograph or scan your posted doodlewashes?

Thanks so much, Shari! 😃💕 hehe… glad you liked this! Yeah.. I totally loved these things!!

I remember those little jukeboxes. So much fun and part of the outing for dinner.

Thank you for the excellent tips! I love your atmospheric colors and loose style!

Wonderful suggestions!! Thank you!

your work has improved 100%. Good luck at your next venture into oil paints, but always keep exploring watercolors.

Thanks for sharing your watercolor journey. I like your tips and also believe you need to play with the paints as they help you relax and enjoy the process. Have fun!

I so enjoyed seeing your work but even more so, learning your process. Thank you for sharing both!

Your paintings are lovely and loose, I particularly admire the way you’ve painted water in the last photo. Thank you for sharing the way you choose your colours and sketching tips 🙂

Wonderful capture of light and merging of colors! Congrats on being featured! <3

I love your Ping Pong paddles. They are much cooler than the ones I have on the garage wall. Where they stay because I have no ping pong table. They’re just something that I somehow inherited when I moved away from home. Clue was always one of my favorites!

Lol, so that’s what happened…. I got bit by a watercolor bug, side effects include irrational desire to buy all the colors and all the brands of watercolor… and brushes…. and paper 🙂

Clue was one of my favorite games, too. Was never good at ping pong. I like the way you describe the watercolor painting process. I am so happy that watercolor came into my life. It is like playing and seeing the paint working along with you or maybe against you is always amazing.

The art is awesome lie. And through art you have send me in my university days that i won the chempionship in singles and secend in dubbls . What a beautiful days . thanks Charlie .

Beautiful it is Charlie..
So nice to paint the things that we love a lot in our daily life and that makes a difference 👌

Aww that’s awesome, Susan! 😃💕 Yeah, my mother and aunts always ended up at family gatherings playing a game of Scrabble! hehe I tried to play with them, but I lacked the patience. The game took too long! 😊

hehe!! It was Professor Plum a LOT when I played! lol Wonder why? What a jerk! lol And yay! Magnetic Othello is just better in general really!

Man-o-mister Charlie you surely have my DNA in you! I love Clue … still love it and would be tickled to death (pun pun) to open up that lovely wooden box with you! I fell in love with Dame Agatha Christie as a fairly young child. Since then, mysteries and the psychology of crime are my fave genre of … everything, including my intended college courses before marriage and family took me into a different path.

Board and card games were always a riot but daddy enjoyed games that got us outside for physical fun so while we had a ping pong table, the badminton net was always up and if it was down, the backyard was still filled with the neighbourhood kids for a rousing softball game with daddy. ❤️

Nope, not in the end! Thanks so much, Yvonne!! 😃💕

Awww cool! I knew we had a lot in common!! 😃💕 Yeah, you need at least 4 to make Clue work properly. But I love murder mysteries!! I use to perform in live murder mystery dinner theatre which was a total blast. Wrote two of them as well… super challenging. You always had to have an ending for each character chosen that somehow made sense! LOL

Mork and Mindy! What a great memory! Great tv painting.

What a fantastic TV! Wonderful use of color.

I have a pretty cool connection to Mork and Mindy. My ex-husband owned the New York Delicatessen in Boulder where Mork (supposedly) worked. The show paid the restaurant $1 to use the name and the exterior of the restaurant. Robin Williams, Pam Dawber and the crew came out for a week for the filming on location shots- the main episodes were done on set in LA. We got to be extras in some of the exterior restaurant shots. Watching Robin Williams work was amazing. He was always ‘on’, doing funny things, making comments, and generally interacting with the world like he was an alien. I remember when he squirted the mustard straight up by squeezing the bottle. I don’t think that was in the script – he made it up. Tourists visiting Boulder still walk by and photograph Mork and Mindy’s house, but the New York Deli isn’t there anymore – now it’s a sushi restaurant.

I love your stories… they make me smile much like watching favorite shows from my childhood.

Yeah, that black & white television was the portal to a lot of exciting worlds. I’m a bit older, so ‘Bewitched’, ‘My Favorite Martian’ (the series, not the movie), ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’… good stuff. Totally dorky by today’s standards, but truly amazing to an audience that had yet to be jaded by CGI effects.

ahhh childhood. My favorites were wonder woman, Mash and, like you, Happy Days. I still love watching The Fonze in anything. It was such a wonderful shock to find out, as an adult, that he’s a lovely, gentle man. Gotta love the juxtaposition of that. The Fonze who was too cool for school and Henry Winkler who is such a gentle soul he could calm down a cat on a hot tin roof, lol. We grew up so similarly. I can still quote major lines from Mash.

you are the best storyteller Charlie. How great to have so many things in your life documented.

Love the story and can relate! Seems we enjoyed most of the same shows 🙂

I love the TV, so much character! I wish they still looked like that. It can be a bit of a risk going back to childhood favourites but the memories will always be there, at least!

TV memories! Things seemed so much simpler then and mostly because it wasn’t as serious. My favourite memory is of daddy coming in from Saturday’s yard work, or some other outdoor task, to watch the Road Runner with us kids. His laughter would shake the walls. Afterwards, we would all trek outside to help or find other playmates and fun. ❤️

Aww cool!! Bonanza was still on occasionally and my dad watched it. But the Disney Sunday nights I remember!! 😃💕

Thanks, Janina! 😃💕 Glad ya liked this! Yeah, those are some of my favorite memories!

Wow
This is great

hehe… thanks so much!! Nano, Nano, back to you! Man, I loved that show back then! Lol 😃💕

Your daily paintings are brilliant – are you keeping them all in one sketchbook?

Excellent and a very Unique Style Indeed!! Thanks for Sharing!!

Wow Clare! I can’t even begin to pick my favorite style of your work. I’m in love with your layered paintings. The dimension is so cool! Then the detail of your portraits are stunning. I’m inspired by your immense range of talent. Cheers.

I love Minnie Small as well. That’s my favourite channel on you tube!

Loving your art, really creative and cool!

Fabulous article and so inspiring. Your paintings are beautiful xx

Your work is amazing! I really love the layered piece with all the people, and in spite of you saying you struggle with colors, the colors in all your pieces are lovely.

Outstanding work!! Love your colors and designs! And, thanks for the tip about the purple colored pencil.

Your work is so beautiful! I’m like you – like the cockles you get with cheaper or non-watercolor paper. I like the sound it makes when you turn the page! Thank you for sharing your work and artistic journey with us.

fantastic work and your buildings definitely have a distinctive style which I covet. I’ve followed you and added a friend request to stay connected. Really beautiful work.

I tried to reply to your comment before memadtwo, but it doesn’t seem to have worked! Thank you very much, I think it’s very hard to find a style, so your comment makes me very happy!

Thanks jmnowak – I know it’s possible but the balance is in favour of the day job and being a Mum at the moment! Hoping to turn that around!

Awesome and beauty full work done Clare.

Yummy 😋
Very nice 👌

Thank you so much Clare for sharing your story, it is inspiring. Your work is absolutely beautiful and I wish you every success in your journey. One day if I return to the UK I would love to see your work on display in a gallery!

You have a lovely and creative technique. How do you construct the paper cut paintings? Are the figures attached with foam to create depth?

Putting on a fresh pair of socks – if only it were as easy to put on a fresh perspective on life. You make it sound possible though!

Profound ramblings today but perfectly sensible too. lol Love those sneakers! ❤️

My mother bought my husband a package of new socks every Xmas. Now that she has passed away there are a lot of holes in his dresser drawer. I think I know what to get him for Xmas this year!

This is beautiful Charlie. Love the red and freshness.. 😍

Lol, I don’t even own a pair of socks. Like your mom, shoes are not my favorite and adding in socks is just too much. 🙂 But you are right, personal preferences are what makes us who we are. If we were all the same the world would be a boring place indeed. 🙂

Thanks so much, Kyra! 😃💕

hehe!!! Yay to a clean undies and creativity!! LOL 😃💕 That’s really all we need in the end to get through this crazy life I think. 😉

Yay!! 😃💕 Love that! Glad ya liked it Susan!

Thanks so much! 😃💕 hehe.. and extra points for a fellow ballet student? I used to take ballet in high school.

Yay! Glad you enjoyed this one, Kerfe! 😃💕And I agree!! Actually cleaning sheets is not fun at all, but I guess worth it for the end result.

You totally made me blush… and tear up a bit… that’s one of the most amazing compliments I’ve ever received. That anyone could receive. Thank you so much! 😃💕 It’s exceedingly tough to show up and make these posts each day. Knowing that you enjoy them, makes my heart smile. 😊

Thanks, Elizabeth! 😃💕 Yeah, I’m pretty sure that in an emergency situation, clean underwear in the last thing on absolutely everyone’s mind! LOL But bless mother’s everywhere for that sage advice. hehe

Nothing like a glass of wine that smells of cat pee! Eww! I’ll stick with smells like cherry or raspberry!

Probably the only good thing about the wildfires that have burned here in Oregon the past few years is that the wines are supposed to be spectacular from picking up the ash in the soil. I haven’t tried them yet, but however they taste, I’m sure they won’t be as beautiful to look at as your painting!

Liked the bottle n 🍷 wah kya bat hen maza aa gaya. Due to u , i have win the game in my club function. Hey hey u have introduse so many drinks . thanks charlie.

It’s a very good description of tastes Charlie!
We have very fine local brands from highland.I’ll be careful to find out the taste next time 😉

Great job bouncing the reflection of the precious juice around the glass! Cheers Charlie & Philippe 🍷 🍷

Enjoyable blog on wines, Charlie! I think your observation of “time/place/experience” greatly impacting its delivery on us is true of everything in life for the most part. Those people/places/things that become more enjoyable over time are the keepsakes. ❤️

I will let you enjoy your wine 🍷 for me, as I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never really met a wine I couldn’t do with out. 😊

Thanks so much, Susan! Cheers! 😃💕

hehe! Glad you enjoyed this one, Jill! Cheers!! 😃💕

Thanks so much, Phil! 😃💕 You should definitely open a bottle then! hehe😉

I just love the way you paint glass and reflections. Just lovely.

haha!! I’ll taking those chocolate tasting notes… sounds delicious!! 😃💕

Thanks so much for the awesome comment, Elizabeth! 😃💕 Yeah, wine descriptions are confusing indeed. But I’m enamored by the scene you described with that PB&J… I totally get it! Amazing!!