Archive for the ‘Seattle’ Category
April 18, 2012
After seeing the Gauguin exhibit in Seattle, I was very aware of the trees in Seattle. One day we took the ferry over to Vaschon Island. It was farmers market day so we joined the people sampling and buying food while a local band played in the background. Children and a golden retriever puppy rolled around in the grass.
Red 8″ x 6″ acrylic and charcoal on paper
Graphite Aquarell 8B drawing in a moleskine sketchbook
The following conversation went on after my new internet friend commented on yesterdays post Responding to Gauguin
I love it! Funny how in responding to Gauguin (both this one and yesterday’s are hot responses) you cannot not also respond to other things at the same time, like acrylics on paper.
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Tags:Abstract Art, drawing, Painting, Paul Gauguin, Polynesia, Seattle
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April 13, 2012
Deux Femmes/La Chevelure Fleurie (Detail) 16″ x 6″ acrylic on paper
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One hundred and ten years after Paul Gauguin was painting in Polynesia I copied some of his paintings. Making some notations in my moleskine sketchbook,
Gauguin La Chevelure fleurie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was blown away by the way Gauguin used color, the way he drew space using shapes and line. I sketched very quickly and noted the color of his simple shapes with the idea of going back home and painting a little rendition of a Gauguin.
Tags:color, drawing, moleskine sketchbook, Painting, Paul Gauguin, Seattle Art Museum
Posted in Animals, dogs, drawings, moleskine, Paintings, pets, pets,dogs, Seattle, SEATTLE, Sketchbooks, Travel Drawings, Washington | 8 Comments »
April 12, 2012
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Early in the morning we walked down to Cafe Presse in order to get seats to watch the teams play soccer live at 7:30 am. We sat up at the counter and read the paper and drank hot coffee until the game started. Œufs plats, jambon, fromage rounded out our meal. I had my iphone with me so while we watched the game on a big TV screen, I sketched the game using an app called Brushes.
Didn’t get a picture of Balotelli.
Tags:Arsenal F.C., Art, drawing, Manchester City F.C., Mario Balotelli, Travel
Posted in Abstract Painting, brushes, drawings, Iphone Paintings, Seattle, Travel Drawings | 2 Comments »
April 11, 2012
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Li Chen‘s work is on exhibit at the Frye Museum in Seattle. “Earth Piercing Fire” is made of clay, cracking with time, old pieces of wood lattice and some old wire. You can see Chen’s background as a sculptor in Taiwan where he made Buddhas. Later without any training he branched out into contemporary art pieces.
4″ x 6″ moleskine sketchbook, graphite aquarell pencil
Tags:Contemporary art, drawing, Li Chen, moleskine sketchbook, Seattle, Taiwan, Travel
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April 10, 2012
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The sun was shinning in Seattle and color was popping up everywhere. A friend stopped to say hello to us. She was in city dark clothing, but her arms cradled two large bunches of spring flowers and she had bright pink shoes on! Window boxes, filled with perfect red tulips, were placed under the police station. The building was painted a marvelous jewel tone blue. It reminded me of Yves St. Laurent’s garden in Morocco. His house was painted majorelle blue. A lemon tree dripping with bright yellow lemons was in the foreground. The pots for plants were painted bright colors. A little green frog chirped in the pond.
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| red: life |
| orange: healing |
| yellow: sunlight |
| green: nature |
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| indigo/blue: serenity/harmony |
| violet: spirit |
Tags:Art, color, Gay pride, Morocco, Yves St. Laurent's garden
Posted in Iphone photographs, Seattle, SEATTLE, Washington | 4 Comments »
February 17, 2012
I made the little box thinking it could be a container to hold stamps I picked up in Bhutan. The images remind me of Bhutanese folk tales. (click on the image to make it bigger)
The Bhutanese folktale called Four Friends is about an elephant, a monkey, a rabbit and a bird. They all learn to help each other by living together harmoniously. I should paint my impression of this folktale and send the finished product to Congress; a gift from an American. President Obama, The House of Representatives, the Senate, the Ameican people; It’s you I’m writing about.
Tags:american president, animals, Art, Artists' Book, Bhutan, Congress, elephant, Folktales, House of Representatives, Obama, Painting, the American people
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January 13, 2012
Get out the Brushes app and draw.
Watching soccer in a Seattle bar.
On the airplane with no paper and pen
But iphone in my purse.
Great way to try out new ways to draw or paint.
Tags:Brushes App, drawing, iphone, Painting, Seattle, Travel
Posted in Abstract Painting, brushes, drawings, Iphone Paintings, Seattle, Travel Drawings | 7 Comments »
January 6, 2012
Besides having trees with knitted sweaters, Seattle has some other cool things going for it. Barnaby and Sherri run www.foodista.com/ a culinary encyclopedia based in Seattle. Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook: 100 Great Recipes, Photographs, and Voices by Sheri L. Wetherell, Barnaby Dorfman and Colin M. Saunders can be ordered through Amazon. Amy Pennington has a thriving business, http://www.gogogreengarden.com/ in urban gardening and cooking. She is very busy writing books, practicing her skills and just being a loving dynamic woman.
Tags:cooking, drawing, gardening, moleskine sketchbook, Oddfellows, Seattle, Travel, www.Foodista.com, www.gogogreengarden.com
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January 5, 2012
On a wet grey day we drove by some trees wearing colorful knitted sweaters! How neat was that !
The little Winsor & Newton water color box I’ve had for years. It measures 2″ x 3″. I buy half pan paints, cut them in half and replace used up paints. The box and waterbrush easily fit in my pocket or purse.
I looked up knitted sweaters on trees and found the following installation artist.
Suzanne Tidwell http://www.facebook.com/tidwellart
Tags:Abstract Art, drawing, moleskine sketchbook, Painting, Seattle, Travel
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