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http://www.studio18b.comLisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-26803002329390318602015-01-08T13:27:00.004-08:002015-01-08T13:27:52.090-08:00Should we all expect never to be offended?It has been a terrible year, and thank goodness it's finally over. No new year could equal that last, so I'm very happy to move on to 2015.<br />
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This new year is beginning with some very important issues that need to be discussed by all of us.<br />
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The shooting in Paris of the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Charlie Hebdo</i> staff due to their publication of satire that has offended some people raises the issue of free speech to one of urgency. We can all - at least all of us who believe in the rule of law and the need for peaceful societies - abhor the violence used by terrorists to impose their will.<br />
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But beyond that issue is the very real one of the boundaries of civilized discourse should lie.<br />
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Good manners are essential to a society of free citizens. But is self-censorship appropriate or even healthy?<br />
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Let's face it - we all fear offending anyone through ignorance or passionate debate. And that fear has obviously infected our entire society, from each one of us up to and including the so-called 'free' media.<br />
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Should offense be taken in an genuine debate over anything? Or should religions be off-limits for discussion? How about politics? We have seen the depths of ugly speech here in our own country during these last elections. Offense is given purposefully in order to arouse the passions of everyone on both sides of the issues.<br />
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But passions lead to actions.<br />
Is there any way to have a passionate debate without causing offense?<br />
Should the threat of causing offense keep us silent?<br />
Should the threat of violence silence us?<br />
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Weighty issues for a new year's debate.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-60894837981565894462014-06-04T04:59:00.001-07:002014-06-04T04:59:24.177-07:00I hate rejection!To renew or not to renew, that is the question.<br />
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This past year has been completely frustrating for me at The Art League in Alexandria. Month after month my best offers have been rejected. Most of the time, the final chosen show has been filled with very good art, and usually that is enough to make me swallow my pride and appreciate the show. But this past year has had a few other elements to it: no impressionism!; many, many white matts and framed pieces; and one theme after another. The themes have not been in subject matter. They have been for style.<br />
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So answer me this. As an artist who has spent years working to develop a particular style (even when that style changes occasionally it is still my own as much as I can make it) why and how should I be involved with an outfit that apparently doesn't want the expertise I have developed? I cannot make myself produce to their themed styles because that's not the way I paint!<br />
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In addition, although I term my style 'expressive', it has elements of impressionism to it. And for a long time now The Art League show has been virtually impressionism-free territory.<br />
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So has my style gone out of fashion? For those who think there is only 'good' art and 'not so good' art, I hate to disillusion you, but the art world is just as prone to fads and prejudice as any other field of human endeavor.<br />
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One last point: I really hate that I am such a sour grapes, sore loser person! Yet month after month, that is what I have to face up to here…<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-30221706713167406302014-03-27T13:34:00.002-07:002014-03-27T13:34:28.095-07:00How about some privacy?What ever happened to courtesy?<br />
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Just because it is now possible for us to know everything about each other, is that desirable or justified? It's so easy to judge others based upon one's own values, but if you had to live someone else's life, perhaps the judgments wouldn't be so easy.<br />
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How about giving each other the courtesy of privacy?<br />
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Let's not insist upon knowing just what medical procedure everyone is undergoing, or what books they are reading, or what movies they are downloading. Let's allow others the right to determine their own paths in life, as we pursue ours.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-88137286020275312502014-03-09T08:09:00.000-07:002014-03-09T08:10:24.115-07:00The Subjective Nature of TimeSo, it's theoretically counting down to Spring, and I am due to drive paintings down to the Outer Banks on the 21st of March which is - hold on - JUST ELEVEN DAYS AWAY!!!<br />
How did that happen?<br />
So I have 8 paintings ready to go for Duck, and must have 5 or 6 for Salvo.<br />
So what about the show I am hanging in Vienna on April 2nd?<br />
Can anyone spell organized?<br />
Obviously not I.<br />
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And I just noticed that half my paragraphs start with 'so'. Well, so what?<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-70581767238407061102014-01-31T06:11:00.002-08:002014-01-31T06:11:22.898-08:00So many topics it's hard to begin…but I'll start with Van GoghYes, in fact, there are so many things I would like to write about here - too many. Before I manage to sit down and begin, I find myself side-tracked by another good idea, which leads to something else. Before I know it, I am off on errands or going to the studio to paint, or have just plain forgotten what I had in mind.<div>
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So I'm just going to jump right in. I will start by typing a couple of paragraphs I found in a 1979 book entitled "Van Gogh" by Rene Huyghe, translated by Helen C. Slonim.</div>
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To set the stage, I was at the dentist's, waiting for an appointment that turned out to be scheduled for a week later (sigh!) and found this book. With time on my hands, I took it up and began to read. The two opening paragraphs captured me instantly:</div>
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"We are awed before we even start writing about Van Gogh: it
is not of a painter, but of a soul, that we are about to speak. This is the
story of a soul fighting against the supreme problems of destiny. Van Gogh
lived these problems in the core of the tragedy which makes the modern world –
our tragedy – with its outbursts, its unlimited yearning, its failures, its
desperation. However present, however much a symbol of our times, his work
cannot only be considered, in its paroxysm, as an image of contemporary soul;
it also unveils, in its deepest expression, the soul of eternal man. Few
writers, few artists, have felt and expressed, as Van Gogh did, the pathetic
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"This tragedy, into which he threw himself until he could but
die, is the tragedy of going beyond, the tragedy of the absolute which burns
out the purest and most exacting souls. They all suffer from man’s duality; man
hanging, torn, between two poles: one still in contact with the beast, the
other already reaching up to God. This is man’s unsolvable paradox. Being of
the flesh, he is deeply etched in the physical world and its sorrows; he bears
the brand of all that is matter; he is an accident which happened in space and
time; accidentally appearing in a universe which he does not understand but
which he suffers, his fate is to disappear with the second which carries him;
decay is his only short reprieve from nothingness. But man is also a being of
the soul and, as such, has a yearning for absolute; if he can neither achieve
it nor live it, he can at least conceive it and be obsessed by it. He perceives
a conscience of which he is only the infinitely small and caricatural image,
which would break loose from the particular, from the transitory, from the
uncertain: he calls it God. There he lies, miserable and awed, hanging between
abjection and glory. Different from all other living creatures of this world,
he is conscious of this abjection and cannot stand it; he is conscious of this
glory and cannot reach it. He understands what he would like to be and cannot
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<sub><o:p>What a poetic statement of the conscious human's deepest angst!</o:p></sub></div>
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And yet I think we are all susceptible to these thoughts and this tragedy when we allow ourselves to plunge that deeply into our own thoughts about life and the world and even the universe. Our ability to survive these wrenching feelings is what separates us from Van Gogh. He must have been like one raw nerve constantly grating against that anguish.</div>
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But from that agony came the paintings we love and connect with on such a visceral level.</div>
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Can anyone who is not so exposed produce statements as compelling?</div>
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Below, inspired by Van Gogh, and especially the "Green Wheatfields" at the National Gallery.</div>
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Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-47472505347928976352014-01-17T07:10:00.000-08:002014-01-17T07:10:52.465-08:00Some old, old paintings and a new strategy...So this week I have been taking down my very oldest saved paintings from their perch just beneath the ceiling of my studio. I'm doing this because I plan to install an additional shelf that will act as a brace for the wooden rack I use to stack my paintings vertically. The rack has been leaning over at the top from the pressure those old paintings exert when they lean against the wall (get it? Sort of like a parallelogram.) and I've been getting very worried about a catastrophic collapse that would damage some of my newer paintings - the ones I still have hopes of selling.<br />
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These really old paintings have accumulated throughout the years I worked in oils, from the time I began to paint as a profession (and some even before that).<br />
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Since that time I have worked hard at learning my chosen métier. I've perfected a style and changed media to acrylics. I've shopped my work around to numerous galleries and have sold really hundreds (!) of paintings.<br />
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And when I look back at these really old paintings I am horrified to find that I still like them and think they are good paintings!<br />
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Why horrified? Because wouldn't you think that all those years of dedication would have resulted in some really significant progression of my style and technique? But here I find so many of those old paintings still appeal to me. And I would still be happy to be producing those works now.<br />
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Leading to the epiphany: perhaps an artist comes to the profession with a particular and individual vision. Then the best paintings of the beginning years are those that best display that vision - beginner's luck so to speak. And all the years spent thereafter are, if successful, spent learning how to reproduce that vision more consistently, so that perhaps the percentage of successful paintings becomes higher the longer the artist works.<br />
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Very old paintings:<br />
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So if you have followed along here and are reading this sentence, I have also decided to use this blog primarily to record my own ideas on any subject, art included, and maybe even current affairs, if I can get over my fear of attracting the wrong kind of attention - from some of those people who think it's OK to name call and threaten those who hold opinions that differ from their own. So - maybe…</div>
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Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-9173726728510139052013-10-04T07:52:00.000-07:002013-10-04T07:52:27.382-07:00A Week in Paradise with an old friendHey everyone, Guess where I am!<br />
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I'm sitting by the pool in my friend's house in Miami and I'm here for five more days. ML has a great sense of style and an eye for color, and it sure shows in her house. She collects all kinds of art and carvings and knickknacks and puts them everywhere - <i>everywhere</i>!<br />
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I'll get back to that.<br />
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AND she runs a B&B through AirBnB.com! For $50 per night (shared bath) you can book a stay right in Miami, central to everything and on a bus/metro line! Check it out: <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/343840" target="_blank">The Library Room at Maria-Luisa's.</a><br />
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I'm in the room called <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/294368" target="_blank">Welcome to Paradise</a>. And you can't have that room until I'm gone!<br />
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AND she can serve the best coffee in the morning that I've ever had! (She's trying to teach me so I can take it home with me - more on that later, too.)<br />
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For now, just check this out:<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-37863247081694820272013-09-05T08:21:00.002-07:002013-09-05T08:21:35.288-07:00A Full LifeEvery self-employed person knows that you are never off-duty when you work for yourself. And if you have a family nearby, time must be found for them. School, other projects, all of these choices made in life demand time.<br />
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Priorities must shift to accommodate events, and it is always a test of endurance to balance these different parts of a full life.<br />
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This evening in Ashland for the opening of the Gallery Flux "Art of the Horse" show.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-83771216233334986412013-08-20T06:16:00.007-07:002013-08-20T06:16:41.179-07:00What to say?During the day, while I am working, or running errands or reading, I have so many ideas that would make for interesting reading here, but by the time I sit down to write, they have all fled, leaving not even shadows of what they had been. So, I sit in front of the screen, with nothing! Very frustrating.<br />
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This rivals the painting process. The flow of creativity works the same on canvas and on the keyboard, doesn't it? At least for me. When I am least expecting it, the painting surges ahead, taking wondrous new directions. When I am trying, sitting or standing, to produce something of interest, it seems as if I've hit a wall. They talk about 'runner's wall'. That's nothing to this kind of wall! Well, I suppose that's sort of inflated. They're probably just the same. A wall you fling yourself at over and over, until you break through or just give up. Yes. That sounds right.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-32523416928829484122013-07-18T17:25:00.001-07:002013-07-18T17:26:40.840-07:00Emergency pond repair!On the hottest day of the year, so far, my brother called: the great blue heron or a raccoon or some other misbegotten creature had punctured the new liner we'd installed in his fish pond just a couple of months ago - taking a full day's hard labor!<br />
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So, sun beating down, my brother began transferring the fish into kiddie wading pools at the break of dawn today, and I cam over with a harvest of thrift store comforters as soon as possible. Two hours of back-breaking labor later we were done. Experience pays. Along with some brilliant ideas from your truly which cut the fish return effort into just a few minutes from what had taken hours last time.<br />
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Yahoo! Looks great. And hopefully is now permanent.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-11246365513083642392013-07-06T14:52:00.005-07:002013-07-06T14:53:47.977-07:00Full strength SummerThe studio warms up as the morning progresses. I keep the windows closed so that the heated air from outside stays outside, and have all the fans running. Being on the north side of the building, I don't have the sun coming in the windows, so I can last until about 2 or 3 pm before I am too hot, too sweaty, to move at all.<br />
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These days of summer, I work my way through a palette worth of paint at most. Sometimes I even leave paint on the palette and cover it with plastic wrap for tomorrow. Using up paint and running out of iPod battery power - these are indications that it is time to leave.<br />
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Lately, I have once again been struggling with what to paint. I am not in a block, but am not red-hot either.<br />
I start my studio time by studying the photos I am interested in using as inspiration.<br />
Sometimes - rarely - one will leap out and onto the canvas almost despite me.<br />
Most of the time I shuffle through the sheets of paper, looking, feeling, trying to picture it. Then I settle on something and go to work.<br />
Once I've begun, if it is going to work, I will fall into my working mode - singing (under my breath fortunately for anyone nearby!) and moving back and forth between the canvas and the palette and the photo and the stream of air from the fan.<br />
Until the paint is gone or the painting is done or the heat has become too much to bear.<br />
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In any case, some new results from the past month's worth of work since my last entry:<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-71867926247166009062013-06-03T17:44:00.002-07:002013-06-03T17:44:27.986-07:00All revved up and cranking them out!Once again, each day seems only marginally productive, but then I turn around and look at the last month's worth of paintings and there's a lot there. Now for places to show them!<br />
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I'm doing something else different now, too.<br />
When I am having trouble finding an image to paint, I turn and take a look at my older paintings. Sometimes I want to revisit a particular scene, sometimes an older painting spurs me to try something very different.<br />
One of these (actually several of these) are from old and very old family photos (you'll know who you are!).<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-39384797430610437792013-05-24T07:04:00.001-07:002013-05-24T07:04:14.362-07:00Absent, but with an excuse!This past week has been lacking in the painting department, but I do have a very good excuse!<br />
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I have been helping my brother expand his fishpond. The fish have been targeted recently by a beautiful but deadly great blue heron. So we decided to expand the pond and incorporate lots of underwater ledges and hiding places to give the fish a fighting chance.<br />
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Jim's estimate of fish population before this pond excavation began was about 40 - 50 fish.<br />
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When we got down to transferring them into the wading pools in order to reline the expanded pond, we found no more than 10, with only two larger than 5" long!<br />
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That heron is a superbly engineered fishing entity!<br />
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So, days later, and many hours of back-breaking work, and all that remains is cosmetic - for next week.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-17734281204234482132013-05-18T14:38:00.004-07:002013-05-18T14:38:50.377-07:00Life and Death (and the hereafter of paintings)So, the scythe of destruction has swept through my paintings and has transformed them into new, reincarnated canvases, with heavier textures and more complex histories.<br />
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Here are two, with old and new versions.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-87926429902015593732013-05-13T12:44:00.002-07:002013-05-13T12:44:49.844-07:00Danger Will Robinson, Danger!OK, I am giving notice: I am in a genuinely dangerous mood. Paintings beware!<br />
I am restless and bored with the same old, same old. This means it's time to recycle canvases.<br />
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New works:<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-69407708821135617242013-04-23T05:47:00.001-07:002013-04-29T13:24:44.949-07:00Crazy springLove the fact that more people have stepped forward to help with the Open Studios.<br />
But with each succeeding year, I get more burnt out. Would really like to be able to hand over the chairmanship of this event to someone else.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-86760680828708206822013-03-29T13:15:00.001-07:002013-03-29T13:15:40.244-07:00And again, apologies...It's not such an easy matter to remember to update this blog.<br />
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Also, when I don't have any new paintings to show, it's kind of defeating the purpose to make any entry. After all, how many ways can you say "Rats, nothing happening"?<br />
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But then I turn around and the couple of weeks (OK maybe a bit more than that) has resulted in quite a few fun paintings. Of course, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the last entry and that so-called epiphany of understanding and conceptual meaning (blah, blah, blah...).<br />
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No, as usual, these are all about what looks right to me at the moment - nothing more. Hope they look right to you, too...<br />
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(P.S. Open Studios at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jackson-Art-Center/109786215703948?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Jackson Art Center in DC</a> on April 28th. See you then.)<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-46038111318954166562013-03-11T06:22:00.001-07:002013-03-11T06:22:04.746-07:00ThoughtsParkinson's law is alive and well. As I recall, its main message could be boiled down to: "paper begets paper".<br />
How true this remains.<br />
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In this great nation, whose purpose is to give individuals the wherewithal and space to pursue their dreams (thereby enriching the entire human race), the same tendency holds sway - every perceived wrong must be addressed with a law or legal ruling that will apply in all circumstances that remotely approximate the original wrong.<br />
We allow for no common sense approaches to judging individual events. And yet, <i>every</i> event is individual.<br />
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Consider the homeowner's association that went heavily into debt fighting to impose ludicrously minor rules. Consider the homeowners who brought that association to its knees by being unwilling to mediate their differences.<br />
All have lost. The association must sell what was the community's central green space in order to pay its legal fees. The homeowners - not only the litigants - will lose their open space. I expect their community spirit is already destroyed.<br />
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Consider our larger community. We debate and argue and battle ideas to death. Then we vote. The vote should bring some sense of accomplishment or compromise. At least we are supposed to honor the vote.<br />
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So what the _______________ is going on now?<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-6890494038352999372013-03-11T06:16:00.004-07:002013-03-11T06:16:49.115-07:00Almost a month since my last post.The last time I posted, I was in a production slump (as is often the case) but the one painting that was worthwhile was interesting.<br />
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Not only has that painting survived the cut, but it has made me consider what I am trying to communicate when I paint. I can't remember if I've mentioned my original artist's statement in previous posts, but this painting brought me full circle back to it.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My original thinking was that it was the sun bursting through from behind the clouds. But rapidly I added interpretations: it is the reality underlying the material universe, it is a tear in the celluloid of an old-fashioned film, it is enlightenment breaking through the confusion of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everyday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div>
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Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-67106684153285326502013-02-17T08:22:00.003-08:002013-02-17T08:22:26.678-08:00Paint is expensive!Haven't made it to the knees yet, and still in the end-of-winter slump. That is not to say that I haven't been painting. I have been. It's just mostly a waste of very expensive materials at the moment.<br />
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Here's one, however, that is a surprise, and may survive the cut:<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-80159101049358338962013-02-11T06:48:00.000-08:002013-02-11T06:48:00.274-08:00Slow Going...A slow, minimally productive couple of weeks. I get in to the studio and just don't feel it. When I try, I end up wasting as much paint as I use productively.<br />
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Even a trip to the Phillips didn't help. Much of the third floor was closed off for installation of their next big show. And while their permanent collection is spectacular, sometimes I need the new and different to spur my own creativity.<br />
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Working on paper is appealing, but I find myself going round and round about the paper size and showing it later and presentation and on and on.<br />
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I think I just need to get going - hands and knees - scrubbing paint into paper on the floor, with oil sticks and acrylics and what all, maybe even collage.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-23212263228478548582013-01-29T14:07:00.000-08:002013-01-29T14:07:15.791-08:00My best efforts have not succeeded!I can't avoid the truth: I have fallen into painter's block once again.<br />
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Despite my increasingly vain attempts to maintain momentum, over the past ten days I have become less able to produce paintings I like. I go in to the studio and put paint on canvas and putter around and finally go home with nothing new to show, and only minor tweakings accomplished.<br />
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Getting into a routine again is very hard. The disruption posed by the holidays slid into obligations here and gatherings there, and finally I'm free to work, but incapable to producing anything good.<br />
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On the plus side, today I was able to pet Paws. Turns out he really likes being stroked.<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-14724567911396345072013-01-25T13:50:00.002-08:002013-01-25T13:50:32.724-08:00Through the Looking Glass...Okay, remember my last post with all those English Gardens? Below you can find the "English Garden Through the Looking Glass" series.<br />
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The little bit of snow on the ground and the very cold weather kept us all inside for the day yesterday, so today I was ready for action - in to the studio and put out the paint and plugged in the ipod and went to town...</div>
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To me, they all look sort of like landscapes with water running through them - the first obviously a river, perhaps with a waterfall, and the last (at least to me) more like a sea rushing up on a shore.<br />
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Happy Friday!<br />
<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-601806045470453512013-01-23T18:50:00.003-08:002013-01-23T18:51:19.966-08:00Very productive day!Some days, everything just falls into place - not that all of these will survive as is, but still...<br />
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The English Garden series, 2013:<br />
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<br />Lisa Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107998632162613403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146641394539352564.post-13081170807981979012013-01-17T13:50:00.000-08:002013-01-17T13:50:07.867-08:00Sometimes, the process...Usually, my paintings are swiftly completed, leaping from brush and knife onto the canvas. Done in one sitting, and photographed while still wet, for the record.<br />
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But sometimes, a painting stalls, doesn't work out, leaves me dissatisfied. I still, generally, take a picture at the end of the day if I think it might be done. Looking at the photo on the computer is a great way to determine if the paintings should stand as is or if it needs minor or major work the next day.<br />
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Occasionally, one canvas will go through many major changes, sometimes retaining elements of the previous, sometimes retaining only the texture of the underlying dried paint.<br />
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