http://www.contemporaryfineartinternational.com//Juried_Show_files/widget2_markup.html.
A few of my works are in this online juried show.
Happy New Year!
Kitty Arthur...maybe...not sure on the nameHappy New Year
Happy New Year
I want to wish everyone a wonderful 2012 filled with small gifts and love. I have had quite a journey in 2011 and am looking forward to working a tad less, painting more and enjoying my family. We have had so many changes as a family this year…our daughter getting married, our son going to college, moving to a new house, losing loved ones, David finding a new job, me gaining better health, and my office mate getting ready to move to Alaska. I will miss her terribly, but know she needs to move forward and she is excited about relocating to the west coast. My sister is also taking me on a trip to Hawaii in less than 2 weeks and I am so excited for that.
Thanks to all of you who have kept up with my blog. I really appreciate your support and comments.
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Hydra Symdra
HYDRA SYMDRA,Original sold at open studios. But I do have 5" by 7" Cards and 11" to 14" matted Gicleés for sale with same image. I have added a gicleé and card shop section to my blog as I find I get very attached to certain paintings and then they are sold. I never posted this very cool Ink and Watercolor painting in my fish series and realized it deserves to be seen. Check out my new section and I'd love to get some feedback on it.
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So he has no name as yet but he is a he and for sale...
I am really happy with the outcome of this wooly emu as my friend Peri said or some sort of cross between an elephant and a medynological creature. I have been having a great time making this sole paintings and feel that this direction is a good one for me. I am still working on several multi-character paintings but have been concentrating on these. My Hyrda Symdra and If You Love Him Slug Him individual creature paintings are sold and that is great! they have good homes to be happy in.
Feeling the September cool and missing summer warmth. Swam and fished yesterday and then went down to Warren’s Point for the sunset. It is a lovely beach with huge granite bedrock offshore, one with carved in steps to climb up and around and jump into the ocean. Ah, Rhode Island, a very calm place for me.
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Hurricane of ’38
- SINCE WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE BIG HURRICANE, I THOUGHT I WOULD POST SOME PHOTOS I WAS ABLE TO BUY OF PICTURES TAKEN THE DAY AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1938 HURRICANE THAT CAUSED SUCH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION. WE WILL GO DOWN TO RHODE ISLAND TO BTON DOWN THE HATCHES TOMORROW. I HAVE MORE PHOTOS OF THE HURRICANE BUT THOUGHT THESE WERE A GOOD SAMPLE. I HAVE A FEW MORE POSTED ON THE HURRICANE PAGE OF THIS BLOG.
DON’T YOU LOVE MOTHER NATURE!
TUG BOAT IN PROVIDENCE HARBOR, RI HURRICANE OF '38
- LOOK AT THE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND IN THIS PICTURE
- RAILROAD TRACKS AND DESTROYED BUILDING, HURRICANE OF ’38
- HURRICANE OF ’38 BARBER SHOP IN DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE, RI
LOVE THIS PHOTO OF A BUILDING ON THE EDGE OF THE DOCK THAT SAYS "PAINTING".HURRICANE OF '38, FOREGROUND WRECKAGE, BRIDGE, PROVIDENCE, RI
BEACH EROSION, HURRICANE OF '38
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Love is wonderful.
Elin and Anthony Kiwi celebrate their anniversary!
- I was commissioned to make a kiwi bird painting for a lovely woman celebrating her first anniversary with her husband who is from Australia. She asked for a kiwi bird. Thus this new painting. I am so happy with the outcome. It is wonderful to create something celebrating love. A gift in itself to me. As it happened when I dropped off the painting to her mom as Elin was at work, her mother recognized me as the person who had come with David into this wonderful church in Tiverton, RI on Highland Rd. It unfortunately was sold due to declining congregation and her parents were there cleaning things out. She and her husband were nice enough to let us take pictures of the church which had some wonderful features,curved pews, and of course, lovely stained glass. The new owner has never done anything with it, possibly because of the market downturn. I think as an artist one of the greatest gifts is to make something out of love and Elin was so delightful in her emails that I knew that I was making a very special painting for a very special couple.
- I am thinking of using this little guy as my inspiration for the next painting. Had 2 lovely long swims in Tiverton, RI Saturday. We are renting it out the next two weeks to a lovely family from Pittsburgh. Their son is marrying a woman form Portsmouth, RI. He also did Teach For America, like Anthea’s husband Shamus did and will be working for the New Orleans School System helping to improve their educational system. It is so nice to rent to people who are celebrating the marriage of their son, and they are very lovely as well. They have a younger son who is a pilot studying aviation to be come employed as a pilot. Very cool. And her son to wed worked right in Anthea and Shamus’s neighborhood. The world is small. Alex and their sons were chatting away as we were ready to leave so they could get settled after their 12 hours on the road. Cograts to the soon to be newlyweds.
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Open Studios and the fish were a big hit!
Wonderful swim at the end of the day. Some nice bouncy waves.
A little seaweed. Think it is healthful to swim among the leaves.
Lickety Split
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The Day Before The Wedding!
Come and Get Me! , 9" by 12", Just finished yesterday!
Wedding Rehearsal, very fitting for the rehearsal day!
SO we are all a twitter with excitement for this wonderful weekend. We have the rehearsal for Anthea and Shamus’s wedding at 11:00AM today and then we drive down to Rhode Island for a rehearsal dinner party. The weather should be perfect for tomorrow’s wedding and we are so excited. Anthea looks amazing!
- Island Near Christmas Cove. Just posting this as my friend Kelley MacDonald is in Maine painting and just finished a picture of Christmas Cove.http://kelleymacdonalddailypaint.blogspot.com/
So we are all atwitter getting ready for the rehearsal and then the rehearsal dinner. Tomorrow should be a fabulous day. The weather will be perfect.
The Borman Six Has Got to Have Sole, 2011, $500.00, Also limited edition gicleés available for $60.00 inclusive of shipping within the continental US.
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Recent Work and Work In Progress
Lickety Split, Ink and Watercolor, 9" x 12", 2011, $400 SOLD
- She’s So Fine, Ink and Watercolor, 9″ x 12″, 2011, $400
- Images for Place cards for Anthea and Shamus’s wedding
Bird Of Paradise, Ink nd Watercolor, 9" x 12" 2011, $400
A new drawing I am working on.
I loved making my drawing of a sole so much that I am making some fish drawings. Here is one I started yesterday.
I haven’t posted in a bit as we have been busy getting our Arlington house ready for sale. It is coming along great but we are thinking we will put it on the market in the fall as we have too much going on right now. While we prepare for a wedding and Alex going off to college, we won’t have to be at the ready to clean and evacuate the house for prospective buyers.
I loved the sole fish I painted recently and have made another one that I will post soon. I am enjoying the idea of making large sea creatures and will play with that for a bit.
Drawing and painting are such a source of satisfaction for me. I will have several new works for open studios this summer. I need to take a class in order to really get better photos of my work. I also need a new camera and that is on my wish list.
A Little Bit of Fun!
The Cat and the Fiddle, 2011, 9" by 9", $250
This is a painting I made for the brochure of South Coast Artists www.southcoastartists.org for this summers open studios. I normally don’t make square paintings but I think my friends in the painting are anything but square.
Stone Sole Picnic, Ink and Watercolor, 9" by 12", 2011, Sold! but I have limited edition gicleés of this work for sale for $60.00 matted to 11' by 14" and beautifully framed in a silver bamboo frame for $125.00 inclusive of shipping and handling within the continental US.
I was having fun with this years theme of “Heart and Soul” for South Coasts Artists. I had to take things literally and put a little sole into my work. I originally thought I would title it “Eat Your Heart Out”, as my sole has his mouth open ready to eat some hearty seaweed, but since this sole was up against a wall, I had fun with the pun. And this just sold to a dear dear friend who I had worked with many years ago. Thank you Sue!
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