Exhibit at Market Mortgage

I am having a duo exhibit with my friend Erma Pierce at the Market Mortgage on E Wilson Bridge Road in July. Market Mortgage graciously allows members of the Worthington Art League to hang monthly art shows in their lobby. We will be hanging our exhibit this Thursday. I will try to remember to take my camera for photos to post here, but if you are in the Columbus area, please take time to stop during normal business hours and view the show!

Painting of the Week - Metal Bowl with Grape Earrings

Painting of the Week - Cowboy Hat

Painting of the Week - Sun Dial

Getting Back in the Groove

Watercolor classes started up again last week. I started this in class, but didn't finish. Last night, I played around with adding soft pastels on top to finish it. I like it, but I need to loosen up and get that soft watercolor style back.

"Art" on You-Tube

This is really cute:

Gardening

Below is my veggie garden. Roma Grape tomatoes with basil and summer squash for me. Catnip and grass for Spanky.

Clematis on the garden gate.



Front porch shade garden.

Wegerzyn Gardens - Dayton Ohio

Wegerzyn Gardens in Dayton. Garden 'rooms' and Children's Discovery Gardens.
(As always, you can click on a picture to see a larger view.)

Drawing Class - Week 6

Last class. We were to make sketches from photos using markers and/or gouache.

Drawing Class - Week 5, Portraits

Doesn't look much like the guy in the photo for the assignment, but not bad.

Drawing Class - Week 4

I haven't had much to share from drawing class. Just alot of quick sketches.

I did this one last night at home. It was 'homework' for tonight's class.

Drawing Class

We played with charcoal last night. I had forgotten how much I enjoy using charcoal and pastels.

Spring At Inniswood Metro Park

Fun With Ebay / Painting on Hold

I had great fun selling my art quilts on Ebay. I sold a total of 41 pieces and although they didn't all sell for my market price, I am happy. Feels good to purge things that were just hiding in storage under the bed. I kept my favorites, of course.

Painting class is on hold. My teacher, Stan is ill and will probably need heart surgery in a couple months. Wishing him a speedy recovery. When time allows, I will get the paints out on my own.

Next week I start a drawing class with my previous teacher, Charlie. Looking forward to that and will probably post scans from that class soon.

Spring finally seems to be taking hold over Winter, so here is an old springlike picture of mine from Inniswood Metro park to brighten the blog.

What Happened?

Saw this light pole on Polaris Parkway and thought it was really funny....
'Did you see that? Somebody hit me!"

Painting of the Week - Blue Leaf Rose

Experiment with a neutral background and an unexpected color palette.

Widowed..... No, single

I have been a widow for 3 yrs today. When do I quit using the term 'widow'? Maybe today would be good. Just 'single' now.

Snowed In

And plowed out:

Painting of the Week - Black and White Study

Our task last night was to paint in shades of grey, which is more difficult than it sounds. I was happy with the result. Because I was working on paper larger than my desk color scanner, the first image is a merge of two color scans using Photoshop. The bottom two images are from my work network copier/scanner which scans only in a black and white, in different resolution. All are very interesting when viewed online. (As always, click on pictures for a bigger view.)

Art Process

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art.

Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994

Playing with Photoshop

Winter

"The Marsh in Winter" by Timothy Walsh, from Wild Apples.© Parallel Press. 2004.

The Marsh in Winter

If you stand and listen,
you will hear the voice.
Reeds sharp as rapiers rasp the wind.
Frost creaks in the trees.

Sunlight, ice-bright, falls from the sky.
Scattered cedars and junipers loom like shadows.
Sheathed in ice, a willow droops heavily
across the path.

Driven snow packs the creviced bark of cottonwoods.
Once-hidden bird nests now plainly marked
by a white cap of snow...

Out on the marsh, blue water shows through shifting ice.
Tall brown reeds, slim as dancers, bend in the breeze.
A hundred thousand cattails, each one lit
by the low-angled light of westering sun,
each brown seed head blazing
like the head of a saint.

Painting of the Week - Herd of Lobsters

Wasn't feeling much like painting last night. It must have been catching, as most of us students weren't in the mood. I like the vibrant colors, but this isn't a good painting. I need to setup some new still lives and get some new reference photos to work from.

Slide show of Vet Convention Art Exhibit

Taken with my cellphone and converted into a mini slide show. Only two pieces in the whole show sold.... and not mine. It was a very nice show. Quality work. Should have taken more pictures, but was not sure of the quality of my cellphone camera.



Notice the animal sculptures - made from forks and spoons - the raccoon was the President's Choice Award winner. The large painting of the horse getting shoes, was the People's Choice Award winner.

Gallery exhibit

I will have two paintings (LUCY and LOBSTER) exhibited in the following gallery for March:

The talented artists of the Worthington Area Art League are mounting a March exhibit called “ART FROM THE HEART: Personal Expressions” for their eighth anniversary of quality shows at High Road Gallery, 12 E. Stafford Ave, in Worthington. Twice a year the League assembles more than 100 member pieces of original art that is created expressly for members' friends and neighbors in their hometowns of Worthington and Metro Columbus. The show will be open from February 27th to March 22nd with the Artists' Reception on Sunday, March 2nd from 2-4 PM. At the reception awards will be given by a judge selected by the committee. Special awards will be selected by Leadership Worthington and Partners for Leadership and Character. A People's Choice award will also be given.

Three craft artists have been invited by the League to join the show. Paul Mahler will show Ceramics, Wayne Cruze has Celtic Carvings and other wood pieces and Steve Cantlon will have hand crafted furniture.
The gallery is open from Wednesday through Friday, 12-4 and Saturday 11:30-4. Gallery phone is 614-781-6454. Admission is free. Check out the website at www.highroadgallery.org

Painting of the Week - Lobster