Robyn Martins

Lucy Takes the Job Lucy believed the notion that women were fragile was a curse on humanity, and she was glad she’d defied the idea by becoming self-sufficient. She was handy with all kinds of tools, which she …

A new installment in The Farley Stories on the Wordle Story blog…Lucy Takes the Job.

Betty’s Busy Day Betty Cobb arrived at the cafe early, as she did every morning because a good joint ain’t no joint if it isn’t spick-and-span, she always said. While she was slipping on her rubber gloves and filli…

Betty's Busy Day — a new story from Word Shorts

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Word Shorts

Members of my family have been playing Wordle and sharing our daily scores in a text thread. We began writing sentences with our guess words, which evolved into paragraphs, which evolved into short stories about recurring characters.
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Where the sea meets the green grass. 14” x 18” cold wax and oil on wood panel

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A little poetry for Tuesday—

Elements of nature flow down the hillside, catching the sunlight and sparkling with life.

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In honor of National Poetry Month, a little something from the Emerald Coast in Florida.

Dreamland

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Plucked purely from my imagination, I would absolutely love to be in this exact spot.

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It all comes together for form Sanctuary.

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What goes on over the horizon?

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I find warmth in cool colors.

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Turquoise and golden tones—and a river runs through it.

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Bright sunlight, flowering groundcover, and an invigorating gust of wind.

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Bright clouds drift above swaying trees and a carpet of pink flowers.

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Oooooo, an accent piece with so much fun texture!

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An abstract landscape with book cover vibes

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We are all subject to the elements, and the daily surprise of it all keeps us on our toes. Rivers surge, mountains rumble, and the sky swirls above it all.

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11 seconds of flowers. Who doesn’t need that on a Saturday afternoon?

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Lush ground beneath a bright, sunny sky.

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This darling is a 5” painting in an 8” custom-frame. For a long time, this frame style was hard to come by in the States, so my husband made them for me. Now they’re here commercially, but I’ll stick with the custom jobs.

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A splash of sea

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A little color diversion

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Dripping with color.

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Years ago, I was a freelance reporter for a small-town newspaper, and I was sent on assignment to interview a new winery owner who had set up shop in a 19th-century school house. The headline here—“A Taste of the Good Life”—is from that article.

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In the Etsy title listing, I call this a beach scene, but I am of two worlds. While I live near a white-sands beach, I spent most of my life along the Great Lakes where winters are generally white with snow. Both sights bring me joy.

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I love working with amate bark paper. It takes the paint but is still quite fragile, willing to be weathered and torn.

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As best you can, ignore him.

In this abstract landscape painting, a nostalgic and rustic landscape is made contemporary with colorful shapes and small details in the layers of color and texture.

20” x 20” • mixed media on canvas framed in unfinished white oak

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A quick preview of a new piece waiting for its frame to arrive. I started with some collage on a 12” canvas and then went to town. The headline is from a newspaper article I wrote years ago about a winery that had opened up in my little town in Ohio.