tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59112269288351194442024-03-13T10:44:05.665-07:00Intersections of GraceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-31798102016352689982016-05-13T12:34:00.002-07:002016-05-13T12:34:42.166-07:00exhibit<span style="font-size: large;">I have new work based on travels to the Skagit Valley area of Washington State in an exhibit at the Hill Center Galleries in DC: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Gather In"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hill Center Galleries in Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 5- June 17th</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opening Reception: May 17th 6-8 pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Washington, DC 20003</span></div>
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<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-63527854855768967232016-05-07T13:50:00.000-07:002016-05-07T13:50:59.765-07:00thoughts<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a somewhat somber poem for a beautiful spring day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">O let me not die in the cold gray of winter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And let me not die in the merciless heat of summer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And let me not die in the giddy, heedless spring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But let me die in fall with an honor guard of color</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-54022090684073524022016-04-16T16:09:00.001-07:002016-04-16T16:09:52.267-07:00a month laterMy plan was to post again a month later on the day of my quote from 2015- missed it by a day. Clearly the flowers are on a different schedule this year! The flowers on my lilac bush have bloomed and are starting to wither. Curiously we are seeing a lot of butterflies already. <br />
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Here is some new work- some pastels in a larger size than I usually do. They are from a trip a couple years ago to St. George Bermuda. <br />
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March spring is still tentative and not entirely trustworthy, but every week
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found an entry in my journal dated April 15, 2015,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The crocus flowers have melted away, those
flowers that were such a surprise a month ago, coming so hard on the heels of
snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The daffodils are starting to
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-1435784230451919972016-02-24T08:33:00.000-08:002016-02-24T08:33:34.174-08:00a poem and two paintings<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a little poem for a today:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I've always been intrigued with the challenge of painting a mountain in a small two dimensional space that does more than just create a realistic illusion. I don't know how many times I have taken photos of mountains only to be disappointed with the little 4x6 glossy print in my hand. It always fails to convey their massive presence. So here are two more attempts. The first is from our trip to the Isle of Skye in Scotland a year ago, and the second is from Skagit Valley, Washington State where once a year fields of tulips blaze color below snow capped mountains. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-12446689222146630122016-02-01T18:11:00.000-08:002016-02-01T18:11:26.122-08:00new pastels<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-73729762754916470572016-01-27T08:12:00.001-08:002016-01-28T18:33:54.302-08:00poem<style>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-22672402845236913852016-01-25T12:41:00.002-08:002016-01-25T12:41:39.462-08:00digging out<span style="font-size: large;"> It was warm enough today after shoveling to sit and sketch while my husband finished the job!</span> <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-44270516109071239972016-01-20T08:22:00.003-08:002016-01-20T08:22:57.907-08:00oceanview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finished this painting a couple weeks ago. The inspiration came from a trip two years ago to St. George, Bermuda. We walked along a little road through a neighborhood where residents lived on the edge of a sprawling abandoned golf course. The road followed the ridge of the island with views here and there of the sea both to the North and the South. The sun was getting low and these houses with views of the ocean were catching the last light. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-2894073214093906562016-01-03T12:29:00.002-08:002016-01-03T12:29:52.402-08:00museum sketches<span style="font-size: large;">We went to Washington DC Jan 1st. It's the best day of the year to go, the museums are open and there are no crowds or traffic on the way there. Our first stop was the wildlife photography show at the Natural History Museum. Then the Portrait Gallery. Of course I had to do a little sketching!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-40667031140644141682015-12-22T13:08:00.001-08:002015-12-23T09:35:05.045-08:00Rodin<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There is a great exhibit at the Virginia Fine Arts Museum in Richmond of Rodin’s
work. It's all about the thumb print on the clay, the soft give when
pressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Michaelangelo’s genius but
softer, a malleable exquisite modeling of the human form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every muscle is correct, proportions and
weighting are perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right in a way you
can feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exhibit walked us through
his work and his methods and ended with three of the Burghers of Calais, the
city leaders who offered themselves as sacrifices to save the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each person went resolute to their expected
death but the feelings of fear, apprehension, determination powered through
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Here are some sketches from my visit:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-42202866221807603592015-12-03T17:54:00.001-08:002015-12-03T17:56:44.455-08:00new work<span style="font-size: large;">I've been doing some little paintings for the holidays:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have had some really beautiful days here in Fredericksburg. For about a week at the end of October there were these trees that were like candles ablaze with light that fell all over the sidewalk and lawns. Here is a little poem for you:</span><br />
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Painting</div>
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Sometimes I feel like each canvas </div>
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And if I could paint enough</div>
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it would all make sense.</div>
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Where the Artist paints in the perfect medium</div>
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completeness in motion,</div>
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I paint in finite, stop and go</div>
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with brief brushes of transcendence</div>
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as momentary as a leaf fall in November. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-73234595627065891022015-11-02T16:18:00.001-08:002015-11-02T16:18:10.156-08:00Belmont<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gari Melchers was an impressionist artist living in Stafford, Virginia. He had several outbuildings constructed around his grounds that are very picturesque. Perfect for painting pictures of! The main house and gardens are beautifully maintained- it's a great place to go sketching! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-91288816260374308582015-10-25T13:58:00.000-07:002015-10-25T13:58:44.383-07:00Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Living Here</div>
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The Muleshoe Salient is still imprinted on the land in the
fields and woods </div>
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of Spotslyvania Courthouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The mounds of dirt they dug</div>
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in haste for cover </div>
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are low now and covered with moss, twigs,</div>
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grasses nibbled on by the deer and rabbits.</div>
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Longstreet Drive, Jackson Street, Ewell Lane,</div>
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new roads with token names, a nod to what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Restless dreams</div>
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and flags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Layer after layer of fall leaves laid in now cover the dead. </div>
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Curried golf courses and battlefields mowed every fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Chancellorsville, First Day, preserved.</div>
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The scrub woods that was the horror </div>
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It veils new subdivisions hidden back in the woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Stories float among us of misty dawn ghost soldiers in the
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I half believe them.</div>
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In the fall the shadows get longer,</div>
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Like the deer and moss and new trees, </div>
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living on mostly we forget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-11376801758722113552015-10-14T08:18:00.001-07:002015-10-14T08:18:36.914-07:00small poem<span style="font-size: large;"> Grinding exactitudes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> parsing ever finer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> flowering outward with smaller</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> and smaller branches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> until meaning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> is lost.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">pastel sketch for the next painting</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-70737010070214714882015-10-02T17:58:00.000-07:002015-10-02T18:01:32.607-07:00poem<style>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-181396524756800352015-08-05T08:51:00.001-07:002015-08-05T14:34:58.362-07:00beach sketches<span style="font-size: large;">While I sometimes pine for a southern beach, in say South Carolina, with warm water and palm trees, I do love Cape May, New Jersey where our family gathers every year. We have layered memories of beach vacations from over thirty years of visits. The year we stayed in a dilapidated Victorian house with mushrooms sprouting in the bathroom was especially memorable. That house was later transformed into a pink confection called Angel by the Sea with paint and a massive amount of gingerbread. Now we find ourselves sitting on at the table after dinner reminiscing about which year the hurricane blew over us and which year various friends and family came. And we spend hours at the beach. The water there is icy cold, but on hot days like we had last week it is refreshing. And we reminded ourselves, sharks don't like cold water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the Mainstay Hotel, possibly my favorite house in Cape May, however it's very hard to choose. It was built in 1872 as a gambling club. While I was sketching the man who purchased it in 1977 walked by and introduced himself. He and his wife transformed it with countless hours of hard work into a beautiful building inside and out. At his suggestion I knocked on the door and they let me look around the living room, parlor and dining room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the rental umbrellas on our section of beach were yellow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We didn't visit an art gallery on our trip to England in May. But we visited Harewood House, a huge confectionary cake of a house set down among an array of gardens, lakes, fields. Overhead red kites wheel and soar. Like our bald eagle these hawks have come back from the brink and are now an ordinary sight in the UK. But they are extraordinary! Beautiful birds with forked tails. </span><br />
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other. Robert Adam designed rugs that echo the color and pattern of the
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chandeliers! The yellow drawing room was for me the most beautiful room so I asked permission to sit and sketch. I was even allowed to use watercolor. The volunteer docent chatted with me while I worked, so I learned all kinds of things. Between the fireplace and the table is a discreet little device used for calling the lady in waiting. The ceramic dish in my sketch was smuggled out of France during the French Revolution and was supposedly originally designed to serve a sauce to go with a fish dish that celebrated a victory at Marne. The sauce was the ancestor of our mayonnaise. I had to draw the dish. </span><br />
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<br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504905744143823923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911226928835119444.post-1707223045515746452015-07-08T10:38:00.000-07:002015-07-08T10:38:35.298-07:00sketching Fredericksburg<span style="font-size: large;">I'm taking a break from the studio for a few weeks this summer and hitting the streets of Fredericksburg! My goal is to sketch as many buildings as I can and experiment with technique and tools along the way. Here are some recent ones:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Sunken Well Tavern, a Fredericksburg institution. It has delicious food. I sat in the shade across the street to sketch. I used a micron pen and watercolor. I also used an ink brush pen for the really dark areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much changes in the garden in six weeks! The salvia may night has been cut back and is reblooming but in a flea bitten sort of way. The penstemon quietly shrinks back to a ground cover after I shear the spent blossoms. The rose after it's spring bloom loses nearly all it's leaves to mildew. But now as the day lilies finish the phlox, black eyed susans, annuals and grasses take center stage. </span><br />
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