Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
May 24, 2012
This is Not a Flower Pencil and watercolor
Unfinished Blue Painting acrylic on canvas 52″ x 36″
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One year ago today, I was operated on for cancer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. During my stay at the hospital, I made little paintings in a moleskine sketchbook. The whole time I was there, I was surrounded by an extensive collection of art. There was a volunteer who brought a cart full of paintings into my room each day. Patients could choose a painting to be hung in their room. Today, I’m going to work on a larger painting started yesterday. A lot can happen in a year. Art heals.
Tags:abstract painting, Art and Healing, Arts, Mayo Clinic, moleskine sketchbook, Travel, Visual Arts
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May 17, 2012
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In Morocco, moushrabiyas or geometrical screens keep Muslim women hidden from view. These screens allow women to observe their surroundings without themselves being seen.
When making an Artists’ Book with this beautiful young lady, I asked her in sign language if she had some scissors. She took me to her room where she flicked on the TV. A static zig zag pattern filled the screen. The room was set up for her family, three outfits hung on rope across one corner of the room. We tore the sheet of paper, folded it and sewed it together with a piece of thread we found. I wondered what this girls’ future was going to be. This idea was the impetus for my book. Zellig, also spelled Zellige, is a collage of patterns making up the tile decoration in Morocco. When making the book I used a collage of my work made up of my poems, paintings, drawings and photography.
Iris printing, on Somerset 175 gram soft white, by Urban Digital Color.
Typography and letterpress printing by Norman Clayton One Heart Press.
A limited edition of twenty copies and three artists proofs
Bound by John DeMerritt, Emeryville.
Copyright by Carla Trefethen Saunders
San Francisco, California 2000 $750.00
Zellig 2000
Limited edition of 20 with 4 artist’s proofs
Letterpress, iris prints, vellum UV Ultra 11 white, Somerset 175 gram soft white,
Rives heavyweight buff and Lamili Lokta paper
Images and poems by the artist
Original drawing
8 x 8 inches
This book is in the following collections:
Private Collections
Zellig is for sale on Amazon.com
Tags:Art, Artists' Book, Arts, collage, Letterpress printing, library special collections, Morocco, photography, poetry, Publishing and Printing, Travel, travel sketches
Posted in Abstract Painting, Artists' books, drawings, Morocco, Paintings, Photographs, Poems, Travel Drawings | 4 Comments »
May 14, 2012
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Snake charmers, food venders, jewelry sellers, a dentist and other people filled Djemma el Fna, a large open space in Marrakech. One night a man, someone said he was a fortune teller, was speaking to a large group of men. He cleared a space for me to join the circle. Someone threw a rug on the dusty ground. I sat and sketched by the light of a kerosene lamp. Drawings made that night were preliminary studies for five foot oil paintings I produced in my studio when I returned home.
Tags:Art, drawing, Fortune-telling, Marrakech, moleskine sketchbook, Morocco, Travel, travel sketches
Posted in Abstract Painting, drawings, Morocco, Sketchbooks, Travel Drawings | 5 Comments »
May 9, 2012
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McGouna Rose Petals Slowly Dried in the Shade 2000
Small book inside, Xerox, newspaper, candy wrapper, stamps, transfers
Wire, gold shoe polish, wax, paint, dried pigment from Morocco
Feather, rose petals
10 x 7 inches
Tags:Art, Artists' Book, color, Flowers, Morocco, Painting, Travel
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May 8, 2012
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Original sketches on arches 140wt. Rives BFK
Xerox and ink jet on vellum, watercolor
Caran d’ache crayons, pen and ink, gouache, dry pigment from Morocco,
Original poems by the artist
Accordion 8 x 8 inches opens up to 8 x 80 inches
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Tags:Art, Artists' Book, Jacques Majorelle, Marrakech, Morocco, Travel, Yves Saint Laurent
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April 30, 2012
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One of the pleasures of traveling is meeting people and being invited to visit their homes. In Egypt we were sailing down the Nile in a felucca when we were invited to stop by our guide’s home on an island. We shared a pot of tea and he showed us his neighborhood. In Bhutan I had an impromptu lunch prepared by my friend’s sister. Our hosts in Japan treated us to a traditional tea ceremony in a little tea house in their garden.
One evening we struck up a conversation with some travelers visiting our city. Wanting to continue our conversation we brought them home. In the kitchen we found walnuts, raisins and port. The evening was filled with stories and laughter. The next morning the table and the floor were covered with walnut shells, a few raisins and an empty bottle of port. We had a good time.
Tags:Bhutan, Egypt, hipstamatic photo, Interior design, Japan, photography, Travel
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April 16, 2012
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8″ x 6″ acrylic on paper
This one looks like they are having a conversation.
Drawings are from my moleskine sketchbook.
Tags:drawing, moleskine sketchbook, Painting, Paul Gauguin, Travel
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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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