tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207747355920448112024-03-12T21:41:47.071-07:00live from east boothbaysallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-81276314103351558742014-11-06T08:41:00.002-08:002014-11-06T08:41:56.894-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a study of my friend Judith, who happily sat for me a month ago. I am pleased with the result, as is she, and I will be doing more of these character studies. If the intensity of it disturbs you, please accept that she herself is a fairly intense person and I wanted to make that clear in her picture.</div>
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Then I went off to Ireland and Cornwall with friends and relatives. Those images are not ready for prime time yet, though some will be coming.</div>
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And in the meantime, there is an article I did for Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors magazine, on my sloop, Priscilla. Fun, but it won't pay the bills.</div>
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-22454758400315989492014-09-19T08:16:00.000-07:002014-09-19T08:16:20.753-07:00Re-connecting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been an amazingly busy spring and summer. I've been renovating several areas in the house - none of which projects are done. I am small potatoes for the guys who are doing it. But I wanted the best for this old house.<br />
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The work has called me back to my design work, which I have loved. That, plus the need to finally start being financially productive has caused me to spend a great deal of time working with my printer, making cards and small giclees of images which seem to be popular. Surprisingly enough, I sell a great deal (3) of work from the restaurant in town called 'Ports of Italy.' But mostly I sell cards from 'Tidepools' and the East Boothbay General Store, plus giclees from the Art Foundation. Though I had one major sale from the wall in the Art Foundation, one day after the painting went up. I do not even have an electronic image of that painting. So much for being organized.<br />
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So I've been doing small things, like the above image, and one large image which is still not quite done. And I have several more medium-sized things on the line...so I'll try and stay in better touch. 'Crooked Selfie' and the other self-portrait, somewhat toned down, will be in a show at River Arts that's coming up - hopefully. One can never tell though...<br />
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And I do hope to do more character sketches when I get the courage to ask for people to sit for me!<br />
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-89455641238497947712014-03-23T17:39:00.000-07:002014-03-23T17:39:32.680-07:00Crooked and not-so-crooked Selfies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Though this is not my final version - I have toned down the arm and the background a bit, this is my "Crooked Selfie"... I have been in a wonderful color theory class with Kris Engman, an adjunct prof at UMO, and have been learning an enormous amount from her. I've had to take in so much that I could not internalize it all, but am only now beginning to appreciate what it is that she has been trying to drum into my head.<br />
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And this is my not-so-crooked selfie in a shadow...though I am not sure this is also the final version...These are what they are and I hope to do more of these kind of character sketches - as there are so many wonderful characters in my life! You'll be seeing these on Facebook and ArtCollector Maine, as soon as I can get to putting them up.<br />
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-80909534333177970442014-02-25T17:53:00.000-08:002014-02-25T17:53:15.676-08:00Logo project done!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Voila the logo for the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor's capital campaign. The theme was decided before this design came to me, and is "Living Stones" - from a verse in 1Peter 2:5: "Like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house." Not a simple concept to visualize!</div>
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The first idea I had was to make little stones into stick figures. But that turned into M&M's, and I did not think they would raise lots of money to renovate a church. So I finally cut off the addition to the church and set it on a pyramid of stones, that were not square but squiggly like they were alive. Then because we are a harbor, I decided that it should be rising out of water, and be like a lighthouse. It is a popular image.</div>
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I have enjoyed making the communications materials based on this logo and the theme, Living Stones. But it has been as enormous amount of work, more than I anticipated. Still, very gratifying...so if you need a logo for a difficult theme or idea, just be in touch: <a href="mailto:salgsmith@gmail.com">salgsmith@gmail.com</a>.</div>
sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-60986610177049274282014-02-14T13:00:00.000-08:002014-02-14T13:00:10.067-08:00A Valentine for those in Need<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's been the coldest, snowiest winter of my tenure here in East Boothbay, and I have been dealing with broken furnaces and frozen pipes and insurance adjusters ad nauseam. At the moment, all systems are functioning though neither the furnace in the barn nor the one in my house are in optimum condition. They are at least keeping me warmish.<br />
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The instigation of this drama involved my travelling around the holidays, first to Tennessee to visit Sloane and her parents, then to Vermont for Christmas, and Cambridge for New Year's. While in Cambridge with two young Finnish couples, the children of my old friends in Helsinki, a huge storm came in with bitter cold to follow and I was stuck there for two days. Apparently, at some point, the power went out and my house furnace refused to come back on. When Duane Pinkham arrived that Saturday morning, the house was down to 32 degrees, the pipes to the upstairs bath were burst; ice was coming out of the kitchen faucet. He reset the furnace and it came on, but was not reliable after that. There was never any guarantee that it would come back on when it was needed. After 4 different visits by men from Dead River, who all told me one way or another that I needed a new furnace, one of them put on a new igniter and the furnace has been humming along ever since - although the initial problem of the burnt out baffles remains to be fixed, or a new furnace installed.<br />
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Then, I approached the barn fully expecting to walk into a cozy studio. It was not, and when I went to try the water, the faucet handle just popped right off in my hand! The water in the WC was frozen, and the radiant floor was not circulating.That issue remains, but there is water for the sink and the john, and whatever is happening in the floor, at least it is now keeping the studio warm.<br />
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So I have been busy learning more about furnaces than I ever wanted to, but also learning what good help is around here. John Jicka has been a huge help, making things work again, and then replacing busted faucets and light fixtures. Steve Monroe has been huge in opening up walls so John can fix things, and then closing them up again - as if nothing had happened. Now we'll see how long it takes for the insurance money to come through!<br />
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The toll in the house: 4 poinsettias gone, 1 cactus, 1/2 Christmas cactus, a peace lily, and part of a kaffir lily, and one orchid. The rosemary and the cyclamen seem to have made it through. It was kind of a shock to check the water in the base of the peace lily and discover it was frozen! But like all green things, there will be more where these once were...and I shall turn my attention from travel this year to the house, sort out the issues that need to be addressed and those that don't, and get on with life. In the meantime, I have a logo for the church to develop, and paintings to produce. Here's an old, but hopeful one:<br />
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This was an early work when I was still in undisciplined mode...it's called 'off to market', and I love the light moving around and reflecting off unseen walls. Dawn in Vaison la Romaine was amazingly beautiful, with the sun coming up over the mountains in the east, and people walking down through the hill town to the markets in the valley. I was still searching for the periwinkle blue in the shutters, which I didn't find until I got home and could use white again!<br />
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Les Buies is a village near Vaison la Romaine, named for its 'buies', or arches built under the town houses you see above. The houses are incredibly colorful,and even in October, after the grape harvest, there were still people in some of the homes. It rained while we were there, and so many of us painted under the arches, but I fell in love with the roof lines and colors.</div>
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This little pottery makes lovely china, which Tony and Jan have in their home in East Boothbay.<br />
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-72573721217066303612013-11-13T17:14:00.000-08:002013-11-13T17:14:48.314-08:00June- JUly BRAF show: Boats, Boats and more boats...The Boothbay Region Art Foundation early summer show begins for Windjammer Days: June 25th and 26th this year...so I am putting in boat paintings, though they are more or less illustration/ sketches of boats and the Harbor. Here they are:<br />
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This is my favorite, i.e. most finished, painting from Provence. It is currently in the Boothbay Region Art Foundation's Plein Air Show. In the tiny hill village of Brantes, population 65, we all painted for 2 days. You can see Tony painting down the road to the bottom right of the image. And because Tony kept after me saying, "no black holes in the middle of the painting," there's a ghostly friar in the doorway of the tiny chapel, where every Christmas the entire town parades up the hill and celebrates.<br />
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Then there is this little painting of the view from my bedroom window, which I painted for the lovely friends who drove me to Portland when I left, and picked me up when I returned nearly 3 weeks later. The periwinkle color of the shutters at the far end of the street is extremely hard to find in watercolor without using white, which I finally did use. And there were grape vines everywhere, as you can see!<br />
We stayed in a lovely inn called Hostellerie le Beffroi, le beffroi being a belltower, which in this case was over the old medieval gate to the village below the castle on top of the hill. We had to walk up the hill and into the Inn everytime we left. I have several views of le beffroi, and will post one as soon as one is finished to my liking.<br />
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After 12 days of joyous work, I left Vaison with one of the other painters, hopped on the TGV in Avignon and arrived in Paris in the mid-afternoon. I walked and talked and ate at the Cafe Constant on rue San Dominique with my friend Mme. Emily Donahue that evening, and did more of the same the next day. I spent the evening with Unesco friends, and the next day spent the whole day at the Grand Palais, in two exhibitions. The first was smaller, a retrospective of Felix Valloton, an Impressionist-era painter, who wasn't really an Impressionist. My favorite work of his is below:<br />
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Many of the works were photographable, though not theoretically this one, and I was chastised by a guard for taking this. But it's not as if you can confiscate film from a digital camera, now can you?<br />
The other, and the major exhibition in the Palais was FIAC Paris, one of the giant art shows proliferating around the world, led by ArtBasel and ArtMiami. FIAC is when all the biggest and 'best' galleries in Europe bring their artists' best work to show off to all the other galleries and to the hordes of collectors and spectators like me. I have not had time to sort many images out, so they'll have to wait...<br />
After Paris, I went to London to visit my niece, the Rev Dr. Jennifer Smith and her husband, Keith Riglin, an Anglican priest. We spent quite a while looking for Alastair Cooke in Westminster Abbey, only to discover later that he was spread in Central Park, not laid down in the Abbey where his Memorial was. Afterwards, we went to Whole Foods in London, by far the biggest one I have ever been in, and quite fun. It's in Kensington, near Harrods. I felt a little like I did when I headed straight for the Starbucks located at the foot on the Great Wall of China - a wee bit guilty, and a wee bit relieved to find something familiar there! Here's Jen and me in Whole Foods, looking kind of pleased:<br />
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Well, sorry, my blogspot seems to be refusing any more images...I shall have to end this now, and do more soon. Somehow I picked up a terrible cold in London, and spent the first week home, recovering. And now I'm trying madly to catch up with myself...More soon!sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-75180515189977793422013-08-25T16:45:00.000-07:002013-08-25T16:45:33.828-07:00Good Grief! Where has the Summer Gone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you might guess from this photo by Nick Mace of Southport, I've been sailing my boat intensively in August. July was such a weather wretched month, that I gave up for a while and only tended the garden. But the August weather perked up and I've been making up for lost sail time.<br />
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I spent another week out on Damariscove Island as substitute caretaker again with my friend Marianne. Once again, I failed to create a decent image out there, except for a poster for the Wine Dinner at the Yacht Club. I keep trying though and one of them has some potential.<br />
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The opening of the River Arts Show was great and really well attended though no sales. And the Unity Show opening was similar with poetry readings and quite moving talks. I'm very pleased with both though not financially.<br />
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I've begun work on some water colors for Art in Maine - one that was inspired by one of the poems from the Unity Show: Chickering Bog....<br />
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-20538282588280427782013-06-11T07:53:00.001-07:002013-06-11T07:53:25.454-07:00"And Place was where the Presence was...."The title of this show comes from Emily Dickinson's poem, "A Single Bird...", and is about places on the edge - of dawn, of history, of sunset, not unlike our planet's edge. But there is still beauty and presence where people once were, hence the show...<br />
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Here are my works for the show:<br />
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January Island</div>
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November Island!</div>
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<strong>The Four Seasons of Maine</strong></div>
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Every season in Maine has a different character, a different tonality. </div>
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Paintings by Lina Burley and Sally Smith reflect the seasons</div>
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as both a summer person and a native see them. </div>
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Using different media, the works are not place bound, </div>
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reflecting differing light, differing tonalities, the different character of branches and trees, water and rocks, flowers, and islands,</div>
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in every season.</div>
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The show will be at River Arts, on Route One, in Damariscotta</div>
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From June 21 through July 3.</div>
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Opening Reception is June 21, from 4-7pm.</div>
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sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-18404775487781712832013-05-25T14:27:00.002-07:002013-05-25T14:27:40.043-07:00What a Spring!And it's not over yet! I still have tulips and daffodils blooming in my yard, while the lilacs and apple blossoms are ready to burst just as soon as it stops raining and gets above 50 degrees. <br />
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Just like Congress will bloom -hopefully - after the next Congressional election! There are so many issues that need attention, that are being worked on by the more sensible Members, but the Tea Party rain and the chilliness of Obama are keeping everything from happening. Although the time was ripe for background checks, just as I dreaded - the NRA won out. Their bullying fingers were pointing words like Goya-esque paintings, at people who wish to make some kind of progress.<br />
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In the meantime, my life has been blooming. I've been asked to be a part of a show at Unity College in Unity, Maine, this summer. Another painter, Patty Ritzo, and a photographer, Barbara Goodbody, have come together under the aegis of Michele Leavitt, a poet and the wife of the President of the College. The theme of the show is a line from Emily Dickinson, "and Place was where the Presence was..." about a bird landing on a branch outside her window, and then flying away. <br />
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One of my small ink and watercolor paintings is my lead image:<br />
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called, "Where once he lived..." All of the others, with one exception - an abandoned barn in Carmel Valley, California, - are of islands. Some are larger like this one:<br />
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called Island Vertigo because sometimes when the fog is coming in, you can't see a horizon line at all, and it always gives me vertigo.<br />
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And others are smaller, like this one:</div>
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Though I have tried to match color and tones, it is difficult to do even with Photo Shop, so I have decided to go to a workshop at River Arts in Damariscotta to learn how better to use Photo Shop. I hope it helps because these paintings actually all have very similar tonalities. But yellow is hard for me to find on my machine!</div>
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There's another show, which I am putting together with Linda Burley, which will play for two weeks at River Arts. Linda's mother, Lina Burley, was a very fine, nearly abstract watercolorist and oil painter from Boston, who came to Boothbay each summer to paint. I think her work will complement some of my other island paintings even though many of them are snowy. Showing snowy paintings at the end of June is a bit daring, but so be it.</div>
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So the invitations will go out soon: the Unity show opens on June 27, at 5 pm, and will be around until early August. The Burley/Smith show will open on June 21st and be up at River Arts in Damariscotta until July 3. Do come see!</div>
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When I was a child, my grandparents and my aunt and uncle shared the work of a man who taught everyone how to drive cars and tractors, and hunt and fish. He kept the cars and trucks running and the barn full of drying meat and fish. He was from Canada. <br />
He also taught everyone how to shoot, and take care of guns. When I went to Girl Scout camp, and later other private camps, I shot 22's and was sponsored by the NRA as a Junior Marksman. My ex-husband and I always had a 22 around, and when the boys were little, a BB gun. I still have a BB gun, having discovered in California that coyotes, while not bothered at all by the BB's themselves, hate the sound of the gun cocking. The air compression must hurt their ears.<br />
So I have been encouraged lately by the signs that Congress might actually do something in response to the Newtown killings. Even if it's only to close the loopholes in the purchase process by requiring all sales to be given federal and/or state scrutiny and to limit magazine size. I consider that a brave move on the part of all of Congress.<br />
At the same time, there seems to be a "one step forward, one step backward process" happening. And I am reminded of the dreadfully negative power of the NRA. It is simplistic to think of them as just another lobbying group. Why? Because they have guns, and they unleash the bully inside many gun owners.<br />
All of a sudden, Senators and the President get poisoned letters. Bombs go off, killing 3, on Patriot's Day in Boston. I'm sure that the homes of many in Congress who support these new measures of gun control, are being patrolled by pickups with gun racks filled. Sheriff's are being called to protect and warn away threatening people. Fingers are being pointed as if they were guns, at people walking to work in government. The children of Congress people will be threatened at schools, and after school. It happens; it happened to me.<br />
So don't be fooled by the suave-talking dudes from the NRA. They may talk a good game, but underlying their smooth talk, is the ultimate threat: if you don't do as I say, I WILL get you, one way or another.<br />
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What we all need right now, is the courage to do the right thing - not a simple task in the face of such opposition, but absolutely necessary!<br />
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*The painting above is of an old friend who inhabits the wilds of Weld, Maine, in the summer, and California in the winter. He is not half as tough as he looks here.sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-11293032405422051662013-03-31T12:48:00.000-07:002013-03-31T12:49:40.654-07:00Hanging PicsReturning from California, I was over come by a blizzard here in East Boothbay. I was scheduled to be a part of a 3-person show at the Damariscotta River Grill, with an opening on Wednesday, March 20, but it started snowing that Monday night, and snowed ferociously all Tuesday when we were supposed to hang the show. Happily, on Wednesday morning, the snow began to stop and I bullied my car out the driveway and on up the road to Damariscotta where I hung the show with Greg Laderer and Lettie Chieu Husson. It is a pretty wonderful show. Here are some photos:<br />
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These are a pair of 'late bloomers,' flowers that lasted through the first frosts and were pretty rough and tough. So I painted them with palette knife and thick, rich paint, thinking of van Gogh all the while. The top one was the advertised one of mine, and is on postcards, if you'd like one.<br />
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These are not great pics, and there is a whole wall of Valentine vegetable posters, plus several of the original paintings of Veges, and some landscapes. So, if you're in the vicinity, do drop by the River Grill and check all the paintings out, including Greg'e and Lettie's wonderful landscapes... The food is great, too. The show is up until April 30... <br />
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Sometimes a photo triggers such a strong positive reaction, that it is impossible to try and duplicate it in paint. So I did it in ink and wash, from a slightly different perspective.
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IT's been wonderful being out here in California, even though the weather has not always been like the above photo. IN fact, it has been chillier than usual except for the few days when it has been toasty.
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Lovers Point in Pacific Grove is not historically meant for romantic lovers; it is so named because Pacific Grove was begun as a chatauqua community, or summer community, founded by the Methodist and Epsicopalians of the Bay Area. They were, in fact, lovers of Jesus, and the point was where they would gather on Sundays.<br />
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Despite the attractiveness of the water off Lovers Point, it is as cold as any water in Maine, and usually only children go in without wet suits. Surfers wear their wet suits while surfing there, and wet suits are worn in the annual Triathlon here. Once, in the entire time I lived here, 13 years, I went swimming - when El Nino brought the warm waters of Baja north along the coast, and the water rose to about 68 degrees. IT was tolerable then, but it certainly isn't now. <br />
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Soon, I'll be back in EBB, where the water will be snowy and cold still, and not nearly so blue. BUt it will get better, and bluer, and then summer will happen. I can't wait.sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-22237544447104165582013-02-10T18:02:00.001-08:002013-02-10T18:02:25.776-08:00snowstorm!!!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was the door I usually use to go in and out of my house. This was the sight I found on Saturday morning after 24 hours of wind and snow. All the doors out of my house, except for one were blocked like this. The one I use the least had had the snow blown away from it, so that is where I first tried to get out. <br />
However, in order to shovel out this door, I had to fight my way through thigh high snow. At one point, I contemplated lying down and rolling down the hill. But then I thought I might not be able to get up again. <br />
I finally made it to this door, and shovelled it out, and then I shovelled the deck, and then a path to the driveway, should it ever be plowed. Then I went to bed after the second day of storm.<br />
This morning I awoke to brilliant sun and a plowed drive. I have never been so happy to be able to drive out the driveway. Cabin fever came early this year, but didn't last long.<br />
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In the beginning of my single life, I bought a leek and found a perfectly heart-shaped gingko leaf in its middle. So I started making valentines with messages from the vegetative world. This one was, "In the middle of the strangest places, you can find your valentine."<br />
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The next year, I found an onion with its roots intact. The message here, I think, is that, "Through tangled roots and deep inside, even an onion has a heart."<br />
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These carrots caused me to become more graphic. This one is called, "Heart's Desire," for obvious reasons.
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Keeping with the theme, these parsnips float for me above a Marc Chagall-like landscape, i.e wintry and Russian, like where and when they grow. But I love them, so I call this, "Parsnips a la Chagall."<br />
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"Squashkin" is an aberration, but I painted him for the friends who grew him. And squash is a simple vegetable, good to eat and easy to grow, like love.<br />
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After a silly and dangerous fling, I cut open this apple and found this perfect heart. So what I said was this, " He sliced open an apple and found my heart." But the apple turned out to be rotten.
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So this year, I found this perfectly shaped shiitake in my local food coop. "Out of the mud and muck of life, a perfect shiitake can grow." Though I am thinking that the mud and muck of life resembles chocolate this year.<br />
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'Where Once He lived' is a Tombo pen and ink sketch I did on my cousin's boat one hot day in the cove across from Castine, Maine. An old fishermans hut is barely visible in the undergrowth. No one has lived there in a long time.</div>
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'Foggy Dawn' is one of 4 watercolors I played with trying out large scale watercolor images. I love the mystery and romance of wet watercolor painting, and consider this a real Zen moment. It was in a Los Angeles watercolor show in the mid-2000's.</div>
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'Old River Dory" is an image I have worked on to try and add drama. But there is something quietly majestic about the dory shape that adds its own drama, so I've failed in several versions of this. But this one seems to be ready to go, as dories always are.
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'Linekin Bay Island' is a pen and ink image from my cousin's porch in Bayville, Maine. There are several versions in some color, and in black and white. I love island images even though no person is an island. It sometimes feels that way.</div>
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Back in the Salinas Valley, I spent a lot of time up at a ranch above Soledad, where friends were planting and developing a vineyard. Grapevines have the most amazing shapes when they are pruned for growing wine grapes, and against the hills and mountains of that Valley, they have a special drama.</div>
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"Carlos" came to a costume class in Pacific Grove dressed as a golfer. Some people let him be a golfer, I think I saw something deeper. He was actually a Mexican radio man. His life was not simple.</div>
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'Cowgirl' came one day to a class in Carmel. She was quite shy though quite famous as a rider. She lives now at the ranch in Soledad. But she more than fills this screen.</div>
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'Yankee Man' teaches math at Cal State Monterey Bay, but his heart remains in Weld, Maine, on the shores of Lake Webb. Tumbledown Mountain is in the background.</div>
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The above image is a water color. The next one is oil on raw linen canvas:<br />
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The camera does seem to have a foggy effect...I guess I'll have to retake a number of photos of my work, in order to get them to be as crisp as the first watercolor is. Let's hope it works.sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-83699955145306771882012-12-29T17:03:00.000-08:002012-12-29T17:03:06.766-08:00Black and White show at River ArtsIn this season of snow and darkness, the River Arts Gallery in Damariscotta has put together a remarkable show of artworks in all black and white, and gray. Some are photographs, some are sculptures, many are drawings, some are paintings or other kinds of wall art. But it is a great show, even allowing for my pleasure at their having included two of my works, which are below:<br />
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Called Figure V, this was done with black oil paint and Q-tips, on yupo paper. Yupo is a new paper made from recycled plastics, kind of like white board. But if you make a drawing and don't like it, you can simply erase it all no matter what the material. But if you do like whatever you've created, you must put a spacer between the paper and the glass over it, or else it will smudge. While this drawing is far from perfect, it has some power to it, so I've left it as is, and it's in the show along with Big Snow.<br />
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In the meantime, in lieu of driving through the snow to Vermont for New Year's, I have spent the last two days painting all day! Tomorrow I will venture out into the snow, and go to Vermont with skiis, snowshoes, warm clothes, and new camera!<br />
sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720774735592044811.post-54407458408324567432012-12-14T14:59:00.000-08:002012-12-14T14:59:00.294-08:00a sad and difficult day, after a beautiful fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It leaves me nearly speechless, this latest bit of brutality committed by a young man with weapons and body armor in an elementary school. And, after a lifetime of avoiding the issue which ruined my ex-husband's political career, I think that I will make sensible gun control my dying issue.<br />
Some background: I grew up where guns were not present though they were all around in Orono, Maine. People would always bring my father some venison, or moose, or even bear meat every fall, because he did not hunt though many of the men he worked with in the woods, did hunt. I went to Girl Scout camp, and then to a bigger summer camp in Sargentville, Maine, and learned to shoot a 22. I shoot well still.<br />
My former husband learned to shoot in Vermont, and while he did not hunt, he did own a left-handed 22, and eventually, a shotgun that I gave him to keep the raccoons out of the chicken pen. When, however, he was elected to Congress, on a whim and without talking with either his staff or me, he signed on as a sponsor of a semi-automatic gun control bill. It was a decision with terrible consequences for him, and nearly for me and our 3 sons, although in the end I had to support his position.<br />
In large measure, I made the decision to move to DC because of the harassment that both my sons in public schools, and myself at our home in the country, suffered. While nothing bad happened in the end, people would drive by the house and point their fingers at me. People watching us in parades would do the same. In the schools, several teachers spoke ill of my sons' father.The State Police had to be called one night after several threatening phone calls were received.<br />
So, we moved and all of a sudden I understood the difference between guns used for hunting, and guns that are used primarily for killing people. My youngest son was 10 when we moved to DC. He and I were quite used to watching the evening news while eating supper. As a politician, his father was rarely home for dinner, and was often in Vermont, on TV news, so we were used to watching. In DC, however, David stopped watching the news. It was all about all the crime in DC rather than politics, and I began to see the difference in guns.<br />
It has been impossible to articulate that difference with the NRA all over the issue with threats and money, and too much bull. But it is time to get on the bandwagon to stop this killing. We do know what to do - to control access to all guns reponsibly, to sell only after background checks are done nationally. Perhaps we should also restrict access to body armor also, since these latest killers all wore lots of body armor. But this is not Afghanistan! though we seem to be eager to let our young men own the weapons of war here at home.<br />
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It is time to make some changes! Please!sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785339600425462737noreply@blogger.com0