MOVING SPIRIT- work in progress

This garden scene was begging for a coat of paint and I obliged. It's been hanging around since it was painted in 1995. There were things I liked and still like about it, but I like it better now. The result used up yet more of my water soluble oils and offers some interesting possibilities for completion.

Promise, promises

These are photos of material I'm going to use to create a new banner. I've been doing sketches and plans. I'll post some of those soon. I just love all the subtle colors and textures. Now...if I can just get my sewing machine to work! Just another kind of art supply and it holds all the promise and potential for something beautiful...if I can just get my sewing machine to work!
I'm like my daughter when she was 3- I know what I want to do but I'm frustrated by my lack of knowledge...if I can just get my sewing machine to work! Does that sound like a prayer? It is!

Password?

It's been too long between blogs when you forget your own password!

Jetson's Library

This morning I hung 51 pieces of art at the Wyoming (MI) Public Library AKA the Jetson's Library- you see why it's nicknamed that! It's a wild design and there's a huge gallery space as part of it. Dee Versluis, Mary Andersen, Sue Bukrey and my darlin' Fred helped me hang the show.

51 pieces of art- OH MY!

Here's the show. Details below.







The fire extinguiser isn't one of my pieces!

Wyoming postcard

HILLSIDE SKETCH

I have been remiss! Time is flying and I'm not blogging like I used to. So many things demanding attention this time of year. This tiny watercolor is like August's last hurrah.

I'm hanging a big show of work tomorrow at the Wyoming Library and there are many details to address before we load the cars and go to hang it. Thankfully there should me many hands available! I hoping the world will slow down a bit and I'll have time to do more icons and other painting, not just framing and labeling and hanging.

I changed my whole wall at Fire and Water in Lowell too. Whew!

Emerging work

This is a 30"x40" painting. This is only the first layer. I just started pushing paint around and the figure emerged. I'm using an old set of MAX water soluble oils that I've had for a while but I really don't like- thought I'd see about using some of it up on an oil painting from years ago- redeeming both the canvas and the paint! Here are some details.

Fire and Water Glass Show

These are pieces I'm hanging today at the Fire and water Showroom for our show of the Beauties of Glass or would it be Beauty's of Glass?

I don't do lovely glass jewelry like Kathleen Mooney, but I have been interested in capturing the light through glass in many of my paintings.

Check the blog for more info.: www.fireandwaterart.blogspot.com

Golden

We've just returned from a trip to Golden, Colorado to escort our youngest to graduate school there. Not much art to post as a result, but lovely images and memories to inform future studio work. What a variety of landscapes in this world of ours!

REDEEMED 2

This is a recent piece completed on a piece of 300 lb watercolor paper I saw in the trash at a workshop. That stuff is too expensive to not have a second chance to I 'redeemed' it and obliterated what was on it under layers of paint. So I guess Redeemed has two meanings here.

It's the second painting in a series. I posted the first one July 2nd. That was painted to go in a frame I redeemed and repainted. Maybe all the pieces in the Redeemed series will mean salvation through Christ and new life for old materials considered worthless in another context and now worthy to be saved and honored! Whew! That's a little heavy!

TREES ON 56th version 2005

I thought this one was done in 2005, but I was wrong. There are some things I really like about it, but the following posts will show you where it has gone this week.

TREES ON 56th version b

TREES ON 56th version c

Almost there.

TREES ON 56th- final version

AERIAL VIEWS 2 and 11- 2005

This is the way these paintings looked last week. The current versions are in the following post.

AERIAL VIEW 2 AND 11 -2007

These are the updated version of paintings that have been hanging around since I thought they were finished in 2005- I think they're truly finished now. There are some things I liked about the first versions, but this is what staisfies me today.

new postcard

I've been working on a new postcard I'll send out to promote a solo show I'm having in the fall at the Wyoming Library. I spent hours this week with my friend Mary Andersen (http://www.maryeandersen.com/) working on a PowerPoint presentation of her work she's presenting at MANNA on Monday (www.mannagr.blogspot.com). We were laughing about how people think the life of an artist is all about pushing paint around and they don't see the bits and pieces that take up hours. Promotion, preparation, accounting, arranging for shows, applying for shows are the left brained part of this art business. Time to go push some paint around!!

VINEYARD

This is the last of the little postcard sized paintings I did up North. Not sure it's done, but I'm trying to avoid being too 'finished'. I've been working on a few things since we've come home, but they have not been photographed. It's been fun having this 'stash' of photos to blog from.

Here's a quote:

"When love and skill work together
expect a masterpiece." (John Ruskin)

I found that on the Painter's Keys this
morning and it's worth chewing on...
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HOLLYHOCK

Ah, summer!