Vacation from painting.

I have finally stopped myself from painting for a few days! It's not a BAD thing. I told myself to take a vacation and then started painting the next morning, but I've calmed down and I'm enjoying the change.

I'm not sitting like a blob in front of the tv on my self inflicted vacation. I've been on the computer morning till night creating a workshop series on Adobe Photoshop and Computer Basics for artists! I'm doing these free of charge, in conjunction with the Porcupine Art Club as part of their 60th anniversary.

Note: If anyone is looking for a Great Photo Editing program, equal to Photoshop, I suggest GIMP! No charge, just download from the internet.

I'm also working on a second website for the club, to mentor young local artists on-line.

As you can see, I'm not bored! I do get some interesting reading done in the evening. (There's NOTHING on television.) I get to read my favourite murder mystery series, "The Cat Who..." by Lillian Jackson Braun. Yes, it is a CAT that helps solve all the murders. :)

So, until my self imposed vacation is over, around the 25th of Aug., have a great summer!

Pam

Art In The Park 2007

Well...what a great turnout for Art In The Park! Our annual sale and invitation to the public to see our studio and view painting demonstrations by the artists.

I worked on the cello painting just because it was big, bold and would draw people in from the park.

Here is step 3. I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate music symbols into the background as I go.

I'll also have to add a new section to my website named Miscellaneous paintings. You might have noticed that there is NO LANDSCAPE in this painting and you might think it is a strange subject for me to paint. The truth is, classical cello music is one of my favourite types of music and I listen to it while I paint. So, I am painting what inspires me. :)

Pam

November art show.

So.....I have to create two pieces of work to hang in our November exhibition at Northern College.

I have to do one self-portrait (already started) and create another piece that shows what inspires me (can be inspired by words from a poem or music). The name of the show will be, "Artist and Inspiration".

The self portrait won't be hard, it's already started, about 1/2 done, painted from life using a mirror.

My painting desk and table easel will be in the background with the "Inspiration" piece in progress on the easel. I have to find the perfect inspiration piece to match the poem I have chosen.

FRIENDS IN THE FOREST

by Bernard Freeman Trotter, 1906 in Wolfville.

Second Lieutenant, Eleventh Leicesters, Killed in Action, in France, May 7, 1917.
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Give me no crowded city,

When my heart is lone, and sad,

With its countless thronging thousands.--

The tumult would drive me mad.

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In the throbbing life of the city,

Who cares for another's moan?--

Tho' around me the crowd were surging,

I should stand by myself, alone.

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Give me no heaving ocean,

Give me no wind-swept plain;

For there--is but time for brooding,

Nothing to heal the pain.

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But give me the wide-spread forest,

With its hemlock, and beech, and pine,

With its ash, and its oak, and its maple,

And its ferns, and its mosses fine,

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With its rocky glens and streamlets,

And the music of water-falls,

With its birds, and beasts, and flowers,

And its dreamy wild-wood calls.

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Tho' I wander, alone, through the forest,

There are friends upon every hand:

Tried friends, who comfort and soothe me,

As they whisper "We understand."

Pam

A puzzle.

Question: What does an Artist do on Vacation?



The Answer: The SAME thing she does when NOT on vacation!



SIGH.....

I'm obsessed! I MUST BE....otherwise I would not want to paint when I told myself that I was on vacation.

Oh well.... I couldn't help it so....here is step 1 of "Cello".
Acrylic on canvas, 24.5 x 29.5"

I'll probably work on something else tonight...I give in. :)

Pam