My Heart's in the Highlands

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My Heart's in the Highlands

SIZE: 20 cm x 20 cm - 5,5" x 5,5"

PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND AQUABORD 3 mm

COLORS: QOR WATERCOLORS 

2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birthplace of Valour, the country of Worth;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands forever I'll love.

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by Robert Burns, Scotland - 1789

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In the Christmas forest

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In the Christmas Forest

SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Es treibt der Wind im Winterwalde
Die Flockenheerde wie ein Hirt,
Und manche Tanne ahnt, wie balde
Sie fromm und lichterheilig wird;
 Und lauscht hinaus.
Den weissen Wegen
Streckt sie die Zweige hin – bereit,
Und wehrt dem Wind und wächst entgegen
Der einen Nacht der Herrlichkeit.


 Rainer Maria Rilke, Schmargendorf, im Dezember 1897.

inspired again by  Jean Haines Online Art School  

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Dear Deer!

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Dear Deer! 

SIZE:   15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 425 g/m² - 200 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors and SCHMINCKE HORODAM watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Planned as a background wash for a sheep painting today I looked at it and a deer appears. 

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