Monday, May 4, 2009

""Exile of the Black Horse

I received an amazing comment about one of my paintings today. Jeff said:

"Love your work, especially 'Exile of the black horse', the poem below complements the work beautifully! Must be my mind state, but it expresses something i feel when i visit the battlefields of Normandy each year....."

I am fascinated by that. The battlefields of Normandy.
I am channeling into something, which I long for in my work, beyond pretty pictures.
Soli Deo Gloria.....that's all I can say.


Artomatic Update

Yesterday afternoon we headed down to Artomatic to putty my partition. Craig had to park 15 minutes down M Street at the Navy Yard. It is a well known fact that parking near Capitol Hill is a nightmare, not to mention that there was a Nationals game yesterday.
On Friday, we move on to priming and painting.
Crazy people going to the ballgame on a day like this. 180 degree turn from my site. The game ended getting called.


Yahhh! All done! (I must have been in a weird mood, because I work rather hard to appear more dignified than this normally.)
I am spending all day looking at my reference photo collection and going over any ideas with some solidity. I was offered an exhibit overlapping one already scheduled, so I am really feeling the crush! I have a lot to do but a well of great ideas, and this IS my day job, so I can swing it.
Oh, and then there is Artomatic which opens in a few weeks!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Chicago School of Fusing May birthday lunch

Many of the members of the Chicago School of Fusing have birthdays in May; Laura Wasilowski, Frieda Anderson, Emily Parson and Anne Lullie. Life's busy schedules prevented Emily and Anne from making it this year and unfortunately Melody is now too far away to come for lunch.

On Saturday Frieda and Laura picked up Nina and I and we drove to Quiltology, then the lovely yarn shop Nina.
Quiltology is a small and aesthetically beautiful store, that carries a limited selection of fabrics focusing on fabric lines by Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, Anna Maria Horner and a few others. Quiltology also offers classes making simple patch work quilts using fabrics from these designers lines. This store does not cater to the serious quilter but the hobbiest who wants to accessorize their home with beautiful home sewn projects.

After our field trip, Trish Williams came over and joined us for lunch. We had greek salad and spanokopita, followed by pound cake, strawberries and whip cream, yum.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Immigration March

Less than two hours after the events at Harpo studios on Friday I heard helicopters buzzing around and looked out the window and saw the street was blocked off to cross traffic as far as I could see east and west. I forgot that it was the time of the year for the Immigration march. The last few years it has happened on warm sunny days, so I was thrown off by our cold overcast weather and had not expected it.

Many people seem to think that immigration is purely a Latin American issue, when viewing the march, it is clear that it effects many nationalities.

Documentary Art

Lenny Campello, whose special knowledge about anything art-related I am in awe of, has a post on his blog about Knoxville photographer David Habercom's latest collaborative work. It is a film about the homeless in Knoxville featuring Habercom's portraits along with audio of the people talking about their struggles in a homless life. The film is called "Adrift on American Streets" and you can see the website and a preview here.

The Painter's Key: Hyper-Perfectionism

Robert Genn's "The Painter's Keys" has a great "letter" about hyper-perfectionism, a disease I am afraid I may suffer from periodically. Ok.....often.

Great meeting with Kathleen. What a blessing to connect with another artist and find that we often wrestle with the same issues and have such similar desires for our work.
I am off the meet for coffee with Kathleen Kendall, another artist I am having the Candy Factory show with in February. Her work is really great. She is part of the Workhouse Art Center, an old prison recently turned arts center with a lot of potential.

There are so many of you I wish I could sit down and have a coffee with regularly......I have this totally unrealistc fantasy that someday we can all meet somewhere for a weekend even though we are scattered all over the world.