My Sweet Girl
Oil on Canvas, 8"x 10"
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Saturday, September 30, 2017
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Do You Remember When... Day Twenty-eight
oil on canvas, 6"x 6"
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Waning, Day Twenty-seven
oil on canvas, 6"x 6"
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I pulled the rest of my vegetable garden this evening. It was a disappointing season with a cold rainy Spring, my battle with insects, and then a woodchuck. I was able to harvest only one zucchini, which is usually unheard of! My harvest as a whole was frustratingly spare, for all the work that went in to it, not to mention money. But the season is past now, with the concept of impermanence being taught repeatedly. I like Autumn but I have a hard time with the shortening of the days and the loss of light. I can already begin to feel the mental heaviness beginning with the sun setting now setting before seven. Today is set at 6:34 pm. I find myself rushing to get things done before the sun slides out of sight. Otherwise, I quite like Fall. as a quieting of outside begins... Thanks for visiting.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Jetty, Day Twenty
Sketchbook painting, watercolor, 10"x8"
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Did this little painting this morning with thoughts of planning on doing it in oil, but time is at an essence this week and tonight is all about the second quilt and it's finishing. So I did painting today and now wish I had used actual watercolor paper. But I also love to do these sketchbook paintings. so with that, it is paint and it is on paper, so it works for me.
Monday, September 18, 2017
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Day Eighteen
oil on canvas, 8"x10"
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Somewhat? No, very distracted today. Phone calls, texts, things to attend to, allergy headache, and the tropical storm, Jose, is possibly going grace us with a visit here in southern New England. So I have some hatches to batten down I suppose. But I also would love to go to the shore a see the wild surf. So lesson learned today? Turn off phone and text when I am involved in my studio, until I am ready for both. Quite taken with exploring the rocks.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
From Another Place and Time, Day Seventeen
Oil on canvas, 6"x6"
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Saturday, September 16, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Flow, Day Fifteen
oil on canvas, 9"12"
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I am fifteen days into the challenge and I have to say, this is a great way to get refocused. It so far has been a strange month, one of unexpected phone calls carrying news in the juxtaposition of the birth and a death. So with that I have been spread a little thin. But I found that if I start the day in my studio with my sketchbook and some drawing tools, be they dry of wet, and do a fast sketch I seem to actually end up painting for a few hours, which has been my goal. But today I was looking at the sky, which I do a lot, and was thinking why not try clouds. Or waves, or what ever. This challenge also gives me the opportunity to try different techniques, subjects, and genres. I am pleased to say I was thinking about tomorrows painting and started it! A new subject for me.
So trying to stay ahead of the game and finish those two baby quilts by the 23rd of this month. Which by the way, both are pieced, layered with batting and backing, and I have begun the quilting on quilt number one and the count down now begins with the final week to work on them. The mom just found out she was pregnant at the end of August and then found out they were twins! So it is my deal that I made a quilt for each grand child as they came over the years, with these two now starting the great grand baby quilt thing. I can not even believe this but a Gigi I will be. That is what I think I will be to them. All fun.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Moses, Day Thirteen
oil on canvas, 6"x6"
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Today was a quick easy painting. It is on a canvas, it is painted, so it is a painting! A quick sketch with watercolor in my sketchbook of one of my favorite plants, then immediately to the easel and banged this out. I have much on my plate such as two baby quilts to sandwich and quilt by the twenty-third! The quilts are pieced and ready for the next step.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Charlestown Breachway, Day Twelve
oil on canvas, 9"x12"
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Landscape painting is not something I have explored much of but I had the occasion to visit this beautiful spot, here in Rhode Island, this summer a couple of times. The rocks intrigued me with their forms and lines. So I thought I would give it a try. I would like to do a few more from this place, which sits on a spit of land facing the Atlantic. It is home to beach home up on stilts, fishermen, beach goers, boaters, and shore birds with a lovely vantage point to view the sunset.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Aubergine Delight, Day Eleven
oil on canvas, 8"x10"
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Finding going right into my studio right after breakfast and doing some quick watercolor sketches in my sketchbook, as I sip that last mug of coffee, sets my sails on the right path for the day.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Is Where The Story Begins, Day Ten
Is Where The Story Begins
acrylic on canvas, 9"x12"
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Saturday, September 9, 2017
Or With Hidden Sun, Day Nine
acrylic on canvas, 9"x12"
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Not much to say yesterday or today which would explain my intense restlessness. I have much to do, much I am interested in, much I want to read, draw, and paint. But instead, I pace and have a restlessness I can not seem to banish. In many ways I understand it...but then again, I don't.
Friday, September 8, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Sunset Rose Hips, Day Six
Watercolor, 5"x7"
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Another long day that revolved around a final goodbye to someone who was a good man... a husband, a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, worker, friend, and even a volunteer. Leaving a legacy of his wife and family of over sixty years, a good and productive family, my son-in-law being one of them. But yet there is a sadness because with each loss one realizes how close we all are to that finality. We are all marching in time towards it. That's what I do, I process, I think, and I usually walk away without answers. In this case, I guess it simply is to live, just live our ordinary lives, all the moments, and be grateful for them. I believe there a sacredness in the ordinary, if we allow ourselves to see it. I am an observer and take it all in, always have. I came home so tired and weary this afternoon and began to take care of myself with rest, food, and not really attending to anything. Tonight, feeling somewhat normal again, I painted this from memory along with a little sketch I had completed for reference, at the Charleston Breachway. I sat drawing the rose hips that evening as the sun was going down, feeling so totally at one with myself and all that was around me. The ordinary...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Morning Violets, Day Five
watercolor, 5"x7"
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This painting was done this week, waiting in the wings for such a day as this. The day after a three day weekend, full of the new month errands, bill paying, and the unexpected death of my daughter's father-in-law. So a wake was in today's plan, a sad plan.
This little watercolor was done in a sketchbook the other morning. It is a little African Violet I found in Trader Joe's along with a pink one, which I actually painted yesterday in oil. I like doing sketchbook paintings and drawings of what is in front of me. I suppose I think, 'sketchbook', and relax. Usually I title the page, 'From Where I Sit'...though this one and a few others, I did not title in that way. They are a meditation of sorts and seem to lead me to my oils. I am finding a looseness now in my watercolors , a change in my approach, which I have been working towards. So with that, I offer it today.
My time will have to be budgeted well because I found out tonight I have a baby shower to attend for my first great grand babies. Yes, babies. Twins. A long hormonal story, mom just found out about the pregnancy and the twins, three weeks ago. I am making not one, but now two quilts. And if that is not enough pressure, was told tonight the shower is September 23. So I will continue all of these ventures with just budgeting out my time better, hoping for no more unexpected events...
Monday, September 4, 2017
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017
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| Sunset With Maggie oil, 9"x12" This is my Maggie from one of my favorite images of her. My sweet girl breathed her last breath in my arms, July 13, 2017. She was fifteen years old and I had the privilege of being her person from when she was seven weeks old. I knew over the last year or so that my time with her was precious so I paid a lot of attention to her, did almost daily drawings of her, and I suppose after my husband's death four years ago, she became my purpose, my companion, my best friend. I miss that little read dog so much. |
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see
that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
~Kahlil Gibran
Rest in peace my sweet girl.
Maggie
June 7. 2002 - July 13, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
Monday, January 2, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
A New Beginning/ Painting Challenge 2017
I am once again, taking part in a new paint challenge for a few reasons. I think it will help get me back into the studio, daily...thinking about painting and actually painting as I have hit a few walls of late. Also it brings me right back to my blog which I some times think about writing also more regularly. So with that, I believe there is always room and time for new beginnings.
This first day of the year also found me drawing my fourteen year old beagle, Maggie. Just fast sketches of her, which I enjoy doing, both of her and in general. I love to do fast line drawings comprised of much mark making to get to the essence of my subject. My girl is aging visibly with her little white face and weight loss, and not so obvious is her deafness, weak hips, and confusion. But she still loves to beg, eat, and nap with an occasional run, with her bad hips to the door or kitchen to eat.
And the challenge painting for today...
This first day of the year also found me drawing my fourteen year old beagle, Maggie. Just fast sketches of her, which I enjoy doing, both of her and in general. I love to do fast line drawings comprised of much mark making to get to the essence of my subject. My girl is aging visibly with her little white face and weight loss, and not so obvious is her deafness, weak hips, and confusion. But she still loves to beg, eat, and nap with an occasional run, with her bad hips to the door or kitchen to eat.
And the challenge painting for today...
Angel's Trumpet #1
Watercolor
7"x10"
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