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New Art:
Dropped off two paintings that were accepted into the juried show at the Bonita Arts Center, will find out Friday night if I won anything. Also submitted two pieces online for the All Florida show at Alliance For The Arts; will find out on the 15th if either or both are accepted. It's pretty competitive with artist from all of Florida. We'll see.
Finished a piece that has been driving me crazy for weeks, it is from a photo of the Thompson River behind the Wynbrier Wildlife Gallery in Estes Park. They have graciously been letting me show work, I sold one of the two I sent to them in late November. Will forward two more when the paint dries.
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| 8 x 10 oil on wrapped canvas |
Attended a demonstration for a workshop (that I am not attending) by Douglas David, an artist from Indianapolis. The class was for beginning oil painting (two women said they have never lifted a brush) but I always pick up from the demo's. This one was no exception.
Old Art:
I am going through my old work and either sanding down and covering over the ones that don't work, or touching up to see if what I have learned since can improve them and attract a buyer.
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| Mile Marker 360 plein air workshop |
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| 10-mile canal, southern look before a storm, oil on canvas board 8 x 10 |
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| Clayton NM, oil on board 5 x 7 |
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| Windmills in Zandaam, NL 10 x 8 Oil on canvas |
The Life And Works Of Gustav Klimt
Thomas Eakins - His Life And Art
Thomas Eakins - His Life And Art
Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Landscape Painting Inside and Out
Plein Air Painting in Watercolor and Oil
The Art of Painting Landscapes, Seascapes, and Skyscapes in Oil & Acrylic
Trying to get ready for my 5-day Plein Air workshop in Naples the first week in February with Morgan Samuel Price. Look up her work, I love it.
Started reading The 12 Keys to Spiritual Vitality for my Spiritual Aging 12-week class. The Author and DVD presence, Richard Johnson, Ph.D. is a resident of Wildwood and Executive Director of the Association for Lifelong Adult Ministry headquartered in Saint Louis. Discussion brought up one of the most important books in my life: Be The Person You Were Meant To Be by Jerry Greenwald. Out of print but worth it if you pick up a used copy on Amazon. Link: Johnson Institute/Lifelong Adult Faith Formation
AND...
"Mom says 'What's that noise?'
Mom's just jealous
'We're The Beastie Boys!"
Yes, I read the Beastie Boys Book. Did not know a lot about them, not a rap fan except for Eminem/Rihana's Love The Way You Lie and Run DMC/Arrowsmith's Walk This Way (which was featured multiple times in the book. They were conveniently gross and exhibited all the bad behavior you can think of when they were making money, apologetic to women and homosexuals after they made it. Nevertheless, three kids goofing around in high school following, falling into a music dream/experience that took them all over the world, made tens of millions of $, met all kinds of famous people...we see it all the time, artists that have 'IT" and have the drive to get somewhere. Always with assistance, but it is almost always their drive, vision, and persistence that make it happen. For better or worse. Persistence I have seen is a key to success in many fields.
She's crafty, she's got it right.
She's crafty, she's just my type.
Watching:
Online, there are many, many uTube videos for art, both general and instructive. One that I receive monthly is an artist that paints, primarily, Plein air landscapes in New Zealand. Andrew Tischler. Look him up. His commentary will walk you through his creative process. Good visual podcasts, also. Link: Andrew Tischler
Grabbed some videos at the library:
Exhibition On Screen: Vincent van Gogh's New Way Of Seeing...good remembrance from our trip last fall to Amsterdam.
Henri Matisse - Not a fan of his cut-outs and posters but more and more I like his treatment of space and color. I'd like to see the white mural in a chapel that is afflicted by color light cast through the opposite wall's stain glass pastel colored window.
Lady Gaga: The Media Collection. I thought it was going to be a DVD of her performance(s) but it was only a collection of about ten interviews conducted over her career. See above on drive, vision, persistence. In her case she explained more then once that every thing she does, records, performs, says, wears is focused on a successful image. Very controlling. The opposite of the BB's who just got up in the morning and went with whatever. Only regret is doing coke for a couple of years. But, in my opinion, someone who does a filmed (or any) interview in her bra and (I think) Spanx "just because I don't want to wear clothes today" is off center, regardless of the drive, vision, and persistence. But might just be me.
Landscape Painting Inside and Out
Plein Air Painting in Watercolor and Oil
The Art of Painting Landscapes, Seascapes, and Skyscapes in Oil & Acrylic
Trying to get ready for my 5-day Plein Air workshop in Naples the first week in February with Morgan Samuel Price. Look up her work, I love it.
Started reading The 12 Keys to Spiritual Vitality for my Spiritual Aging 12-week class. The Author and DVD presence, Richard Johnson, Ph.D. is a resident of Wildwood and Executive Director of the Association for Lifelong Adult Ministry headquartered in Saint Louis. Discussion brought up one of the most important books in my life: Be The Person You Were Meant To Be by Jerry Greenwald. Out of print but worth it if you pick up a used copy on Amazon. Link: Johnson Institute/Lifelong Adult Faith Formation
AND...
"Mom says 'What's that noise?'
Mom's just jealous
'We're The Beastie Boys!"
Yes, I read the Beastie Boys Book. Did not know a lot about them, not a rap fan except for Eminem/Rihana's Love The Way You Lie and Run DMC/Arrowsmith's Walk This Way (which was featured multiple times in the book. They were conveniently gross and exhibited all the bad behavior you can think of when they were making money, apologetic to women and homosexuals after they made it. Nevertheless, three kids goofing around in high school following, falling into a music dream/experience that took them all over the world, made tens of millions of $, met all kinds of famous people...we see it all the time, artists that have 'IT" and have the drive to get somewhere. Always with assistance, but it is almost always their drive, vision, and persistence that make it happen. For better or worse. Persistence I have seen is a key to success in many fields.
She's crafty, she's got it right.
She's crafty, she's just my type.
Watching:
Online, there are many, many uTube videos for art, both general and instructive. One that I receive monthly is an artist that paints, primarily, Plein air landscapes in New Zealand. Andrew Tischler. Look him up. His commentary will walk you through his creative process. Good visual podcasts, also. Link: Andrew Tischler
Grabbed some videos at the library:
Exhibition On Screen: Vincent van Gogh's New Way Of Seeing...good remembrance from our trip last fall to Amsterdam.
Henri Matisse - Not a fan of his cut-outs and posters but more and more I like his treatment of space and color. I'd like to see the white mural in a chapel that is afflicted by color light cast through the opposite wall's stain glass pastel colored window.
Lady Gaga: The Media Collection. I thought it was going to be a DVD of her performance(s) but it was only a collection of about ten interviews conducted over her career. See above on drive, vision, persistence. In her case she explained more then once that every thing she does, records, performs, says, wears is focused on a successful image. Very controlling. The opposite of the BB's who just got up in the morning and went with whatever. Only regret is doing coke for a couple of years. But, in my opinion, someone who does a filmed (or any) interview in her bra and (I think) Spanx "just because I don't want to wear clothes today" is off center, regardless of the drive, vision, and persistence. But might just be me.
The Impressionist Masters Rebellious Pioneers - which was funny because they covered approximately 30 artists, really the whole gamut of pre, Impressionists, post, in 30 minutes. It was like "Cezanne used a dash line, very important guy; Surat used dots, part of the Pointillists; next...
Fun art links: Rijks Museum and The Van Gogh Museum they have a language button to convert to. English.
Listening:
Listening:
The Beastie Boys (so what I was reading made sense - in a musical way)
Bella Fleck & The Flecktones - combine Bluegrass and Jazz, a little Dave Matthews-like sound
Belinda Carlisle
Ben Harper & Charles Musselwhite - jazz
Benny Carter - jazz
Yes, I was working through the B's in my iTunes portfolio.
Eating:
Linda made a wonderful Red Bell Pepper Fettuccini in butter with shrimp tonight. The lemons were provided by my friend Bill Weber (Go Dragons) from his back-yard tree; one of the benefits of living in FLA. Some of you know how I lucked out when I met her. Last week she baked a Millionaire cake for the office.
It Seems To Me:
I was reading several articles and short pieces and weirdly, they all had a common theme. Tough times in which we live, isn't it? Lots of division in this country, in the world. Unhappiness in our life, lacking purpose. What's It All About, and all that. One commentary I read pointed out that...
"Discussing the homogenizing and stultifying effects of television upon culture, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 depicts an America that had degenerated into a state of utter inanity, where reading is a lost art and people spend more quality time with strangers on video screens (today it is their 'smart' phone) than with their own family and neighbors. The same mark is found in Aldous Huxley’s classic Brave New World, which depicts a world where sex has been disassociated from family and procreation, religion has been reduced to a form of social therapy, and science is meticulously censored so as to preserve a political orthodoxy".
So what are we to do? Are we really so different from earlier generations when we consider the fundamental problem and a universal solution? Our creator never left us alone, initiating salvation though the Jewish people. But what about the rest of us? Another commentary pointed out that "From the beginning of the Christian story, then, the world has been ugly, hostile to God come to earth in Jesus and those who follow and worship him. So too for us today, for the world is not yet redeemed, and human progress often sets itself up as a temptation to love this world alone and as a servant of that false secular messianism the Catechism identifies and decries (§§ 675–677). But our horizon of hope is the end of time in God, our rest forever. Reflection on that—through meditative and contemplative prayer, through praise, through sacramental participation, through liturgical worship—will give us the peace, joy, and hope we need in these trying times. And so we ought to escape the city of man and dwell even now in the City of God...not Gnostic escape, but a realization that Heaven is greater than whatever is keeping us up at night (Romans 8.)
So what are we to do? Are we really so different from earlier generations when we consider the fundamental problem and a universal solution? Our creator never left us alone, initiating salvation though the Jewish people. But what about the rest of us? Another commentary pointed out that "From the beginning of the Christian story, then, the world has been ugly, hostile to God come to earth in Jesus and those who follow and worship him. So too for us today, for the world is not yet redeemed, and human progress often sets itself up as a temptation to love this world alone and as a servant of that false secular messianism the Catechism identifies and decries (§§ 675–677). But our horizon of hope is the end of time in God, our rest forever. Reflection on that—through meditative and contemplative prayer, through praise, through sacramental participation, through liturgical worship—will give us the peace, joy, and hope we need in these trying times. And so we ought to escape the city of man and dwell even now in the City of God...not Gnostic escape, but a realization that Heaven is greater than whatever is keeping us up at night (Romans 8.)
This seems to tie into the class I am taking on Aging and the Spiritual Life. How we respond to love or fear is all important to how and how long we live, in general, realizing that health and genes have a role to play. Take on the new man. Don't forget that there are two worlds, the human and the spiritual. They're both real.
I apologize for the inconsistent type I tried to cut and paste and cannot figure out how to fix the inconsistent type in this program.
In Closing, I need to relate the satirical headline I saw today in the Babylon Bee online:
Link to Babylon Bee
Link to Babylon Bee
"Report: More Unborn Babies In New York Identifying As Convicted Criminals So They Can't Legally Be Executed" . Since capital punishment in the state has been banned but abortion is legal pretty much whenever and however you want, unborn babies quickly formulated the survival strategy of identifying as murderers, rapists, and genocidal maniacs.
Usually their satirical articles are funny, this one is sad, but necessary. It finishes up with an imagined comment - State leaders were blindsided by the strategy and aren't sure whether they should restrict abortion or rescind the ban on capital punishment "We're definitely in a bit of a pickle," Governor Andrew Coumo said. "We must respect these babies' chosen identities as serial killers, and we obviously can't perform a lethal injection on a serial killer." "That would just be inhumane, " he added, shaking his head.
Usually their satirical articles are funny, this one is sad, but necessary. It finishes up with an imagined comment - State leaders were blindsided by the strategy and aren't sure whether they should restrict abortion or rescind the ban on capital punishment "We're definitely in a bit of a pickle," Governor Andrew Coumo said. "We must respect these babies' chosen identities as serial killers, and we obviously can't perform a lethal injection on a serial killer." "That would just be inhumane, " he added, shaking his head.
I'll try to stick to art, music and travel in subsequent posts.
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