April 30, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Yep, its a bowling pin. A flayed bowling pin, my husband spent hours on the porch with a utility knife and a chisel trying to hack it off. Finished just in time for the TikkiBowl fundraiser for Greenville AAF, an art auction organized by Chris Jones.
I had the pin for weeks but had been too busy to start on it until last night (12 hours before the deadline, mind you). I knew I wanted to do the wire and garlands but was clueless about the rest. . . I tried cake, then strawberries then repainted and considered cars (you know, the classic american used car lot) and cats since I had models and then I think was staring off into the distance and my brass rabbit brothers happened to be in my line of vacant gazing. . . and I just chose them. It started out looking like an easter egg and then in remembrance of the show Mollie and I had two years ago, I added crowns and a party hat and I think I lost the easter thing. It still feels strange to draw rabbits though. I had been wondering why I hadn’t seen many rabbits in my yard this spring, now I know where they were. . . they were at the lanes having a party.
April 29, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Seraphine Lois, french folk artist, her life story subject of a movie I just watched at the suggestion of my dear friend Annalisa. Really beautiful film and such a fascinating character. I’d love to see her work in person, the paintings nearly dance.
April 28, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Had to have the red lip lady painted by Shannon, the lovely wife of Chris Jones. The fabulous colors, peachy skin, blue eyes, purple necklace, red shirt, black hair, olive brown background (somehow this color grounds every palette). Yay for art trading!
AMAZING blog! Daily Poetics. Visual poetry. And more. And more.
April 27, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Clare! Clare Grill seen on Design*sponge , the colors that I hold dear, the vibrant shades of petals and leaves and fruit near the deep rich tones of the earth. More fuel for the fire in my quest for loosening up, the brush strokes that display the paint.
April 26, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Saturday had lunch with friends and made this herb shortbread recipe on For Me For You, salty sweet and gardeny, and a small batch so you aren’t left with temptation and probable guilt. The shortbread was great and so was the company.
Sunday night had dinner with friends Kent and Peggy and made pitas for the first time! They were so easy and turned out so perfect, I love watching them puff up in the oven. I used the master recipe from this great book, “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day”.
April 24, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Serena Mitnik-Miller, via dear ada. I think maybe I could be found arranging these for hours and then committed to a mental hospital with a rare case of triangle obsession.
April 23, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I know that I may have promised certain people more owls for the WW May show. . . but the proliferation of botanical specimens in my yard distracted me. More owls for the fall show and Indie Craft Parade, thats a promise.
This newly finished one, Luna, Mystery Weed and tribute to the Schiele Girl in the Striped Dress? Ok, so maybe that’s not the real title, I hate picking titles. I’ll just say that this is another milestone for me, a return to my former true art self. (weeeeeirdo. . .) What I mean is, I realized, that as I was finishing this one that it looked so much like my oil work in college ( I had been oil painting at least six years by then, I’ve been in acrylic about five now). The thick loose brushieness over glazes. And the color palette (yes, the obsession again) I can’t tell you how familiar it feels, I think perhaps these colors were in nearly every painting I produced from that time period, tubes and tubes or cerulean and the siennas. And I don’t mind actually. I guess returning to old techniques can be a good thing sometimes. We’ll see what the public thinks about it.
Below, another painting of the mystery weed, and a thank you to Paul Flint for tipping me off about this gray/blue paint was in the oops stack at paint store. A gallon of it for pocket change, yay.
April 22, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I’ve been reading an inch and a half book, The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson. Very heavy reading, a detailed account of the genocide of Native Americans and I do actually weep quite a lot. Leonard Baskin wept too and produced this litho series of Indian Cheiftans, mostly Souix. They are by far my favorites of all his work, given the subject matter, the color palette and the way he uses painterly color layering with the dark drawings. Its easy to see how he related to these people as their history parallels well with his own Jewish ancestors - exodus, genocide and the importance of those who came before you.
Back to lightness and beauty - the fascinating reusing of old canvases by Leslie Oshman, a feature on sfgirlbybay. I love the colors of old art. I think I’m finally figuring out how to put that into my own work.
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