Ramblings Archive October 2009

October 22, 2009

JoyCatherine&MyrnaatArtist'sChatemWell the first weekend of the open house is over and yesterday I hosted my first ever artist chat afternoon.  It was a good time; full of laughs and mutual support.  Eleven folks participated, including Jim and I!  One of the highlights was that Catherine McMillen, an old artist friend from Halifax joined us.  At eighty-two, she is still going strong and credits her painting with keeping her going.

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Today I finished up a flower painting that I had wanted to get done for the open house.  Oh well, it will be up on the walls for the second weekend.  It’s so hard to go back to a painting that has been left to sit for a couple of months.  I feel like bursting out and doing something really wild and creative but instead I was trying to invent flowers and leaves that were frosted at least a month ago.  In the end, it’s a peaceful painting that almost seemed to require my old traditional framing instead of the new contemporary molding.

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Oct 22, 2009 8:02 PM

October 7, 2009


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A week of glorious skies-

Day after day, the mortal tries to immortalize.

Some days, I almost succeed.

Painting the colourful cloud-filled vistas

Also means being prepared for light mists

Or a deluge of rain.

When the air smells of moisture,

I take my hat off so that I immediately detect

The shift into ruinous droplets.

When it showers,

I turn my little painting upside down,

I hunker on my stool,

And wait.

Wait for the air to clear,

Or the rain to fall.

In that event, I stuff my fragile damp painting

Into my pack and run for shelter.

There is a peaceful harmony about painting inclement skies.

The painter is tuned to the landscape;

Trying to capture

Pale cerulean on the horizon,

The shift to ultramarine,

The billowing cumulonimbus

In mauves and grays

That are edged with glowing sunshine.

While the painter paints,

God plays.

Oct 7, 2009 7:58 PM
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