Saturday, November 13, 2010

Eggs

11,5 x 8,5 cm

I like the movie "Finding Forrester".    Forrester (Sean Connery) agreed to teach Jamal (Rob Brown) about writing.  Jamal sat down at the typewriter to write, but just sat.  Forrester asked him what he was doing, and Jamal answered, "I'm just thinking".  Forrester:  "No thinking - that comes later.  You must write your first draft with your heart.  You rewrite with your head.  The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!"
"Sometimes the simple rhythm of typing gets us from page one to page two."

My interpretation, translating it to painting, is that Sean Connery would tell me to paint with my heart.  Then refine (without suffocating what's painted).  The first key to painting is... to paint, not to think.
The simple rhythm of painting gets us from painting one to painting two. 

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Nutmeg


18 x 13 cm
 The grater isn't as innocent as it looks.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Pepper Shaker

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It has a "P" on the lid. 
I've been looking for glass salt and pepper shakers for painting, and when I saw this one in the store, it was pretty much what I had in mind.  But it was the only one.  I put salt in it because I need a salt shaker more often than a pepper shaker.
The dangerous thing is that I Googled pepper shaker (only because I live in Germany, where small words are combined into gargantuan words, and I couldn't remember if this was one word or two), and found a beautiful set of pewter and glass shakers from Italy.  Oh oh.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Für Frau Bensing

Silberlicht (by Gordon)


Wurzeln
Das Schicksal der Menschen ist auf glückliche Augenblicke, aber nicht auf glückliche Zeiten eingerichtet.  Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, October 8, 2010

Come Forward

10 x 15 cm
My intention was to paint roses in the basket, but it was more interesting when the gourd came forward..

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

Lean On Me

18 x 34,5 cm This guy had two sections when I brought him home. When a third section appeared, he started tipping over, so I removed the new one. And kept doing so with subsequent growth. But one day, when I wasn't looking, there came a few new ones and I didn't have the heart to take them off. I leaned him the right direction against the window for support, and everything is fine.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Good Blessings

17,5 x 18 cm
Gourds represent longevity and good blessings.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Warty

13,5 x 15 cm I love gourds with their warty lumps. It's probably no accident they are in season with witches.

Clown

We went to the circus this summer, and there were three clowns from Spain. They were great. This wasn't one of them.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Water Cooker

17,5 cm
How many wonderful things start out with something simple like hot water?

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Gathering

aceo Did you know that pawns jump? All over the place. Every time I looked, they were in different places. I didn't even dare get a drink for fear there wouldn't be any left when I came back. I was glad when I thought I had some positioning with them, and they started looking like pawns. Although one reminded me of Darth Vader when I was painting it.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Two Pairs

Relaunched. I thought the pears looked muddy in the original version, but I liked how they were done. I didn't do a thing with the pears but changed the background, and now they don't look muddy.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Duh

aceo Sometimes I wonder why there are so many duh moments in my life. Why was it so hard to see it? But I am glad for moments of illumination anyway.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Sunny

9 x 7 inches Since it was a traveling day when we saw the best sunflowers and the best weather, there was no time to stop and paint. My husband took the camera into the field, and meeting the sunflowers face to face, got some great shots.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Coffee Grinder

It grinds other things too. Like oat kernels for dog treats. A bit of work, and not the most favorite dog treats, though.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Sunflower Field

Sunflowers as far back as we could see. What more could one want on a gray day? (The sky in the painting is gray, no matter what your monitor or mine says.)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Hungarian Roadside

Corn, sunflowers, grapes, wheat, and wildflowers are the main ingredients.

Monday, July 26, 2010

By The Old Oak Tree

Die aelteste Eiche Europas We missed the turn Garmin suggested, so we consulted the map and decided to take some small roads again. Along the way we saw the sign that pointed to the oldest oak tree in Europe, and went up the hill to see. The tree is on private property, but the farmer allows people to walk over to the tree which stands just past the end of the road. A couple of years ago the tree was struck by lightning, and people filled it with cement, trying to help. Later on they found out the cement collected moisture and was making the tree rot from inside. A wealthy widow funded the project to remove the cement and a tree doctor who saves trees all over Europe, came to help. The future looks good.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Bottleneck

aceo I was reading that Vincent van Gogh liked the Japanese painting style, and added black outlining to at least some paintings. Sometimes I paint dark purple on my boards as a background, and this time let some show as a take on the outline idea.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Screwdrivers

This is not another story about my husband needing something and he went looking for it in my studio. This was his idea. When he saw the painting of the nail polish, he said I should paint some screwdrivers. So I got them, took them to my studio, and painted (a painting of) them.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Naia's Bouquet

Collin and Kristin were telling me how hard everyone was working in the yard. Naia collected some of the trimmings and made bouquets. Fruits of their labor.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Polish It

aceo * When my kids were young, we had a fun time at Halloween with nail polish and paint. We polished our nails, then painted spider webs, ghosts, and other Halloweeny motives on them.

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