June 12 2011

Sunday and it is a cold wet day. I started a fire in the woodstove. The heat feels good. The dog is lying close to the stove. She also enjoys the warmth. Today I can rest my back and do some painting.  Last night, Saturday, there was a great opening at Tidemark Gallery in Waldoboro. The guest artist Julian Sacks has been my friend for years.  All his friends and family were there plus others and the gallery was stuffed with people. I love to see what everyone wears. The artists members bring the food which is always great. After the event I went to Julian's home for more food and good conversation.

My favorite painting for today is January Moon, acrylic 18x24.  sold. The winter before last was very warm about 45 degrees daytime temperature. There was a little snow in December and no snow for the rest of the winter. I was able to walk with my dog down to the cove. I love to be out when the moon is full and this scene depicts the moon rising over the cove and reflecting in the low tide channel of water. Normal winters the snow is to deep to get to the cove. It is interesting that my neighbors who have a summer house on the cove were at the opening last night and bought a print of this painting.

June 9, 2011

This is a perfect June day. I will be working in the garden. The ground is wet from yesterdays thunder storms, so I will wait a few hours to let it dry out enough to dig in. My back is sore. To much exercise at once. Yesterday was hot so I went to the cove and had my first swim, actually I just floated on the top of the water where the water was warmer. It felt great and I cooled off fast. Walking the dog every day gives me the opportunity to observe my surroundings. The fields are covered with buttercups and the lupine are coming into blossom.

My favorite painting I will talk about is Cabbage and broccoli leaves. It was a cabbage growing in my garden. I love the way cabbages grow. When they are small the center reminds me of a rose. I plant my vegetables close together and as they grow they entwine with the other plants. In this painting the broccoli is covering the cabbage and also a few weeds are poking through. The painting was sold so I just have the image of it. Most of the time in the garden is spent weeding, so I get to watch the plants grow.

June 1, 2011

June 1st was a strange feeling day, windy, heavy, humid, just weird. I didn't even take the dog for a walk. It thundered in the morning and afternoon and was very dark. After a nap in the late afternoon I did paint for about 3 hours.

Painting is my passion and I have favorite paintings. Each blog will have a explanation of one of the paintings .

I am choosing them at random. I live my life randomly. I have always liked geometry. From time to time I study sacred geometry, numbers, the golden mean and fibonacci series. I have used this information when composing a painting. I have three different paintings that use these theories. Artist at the Easel uses the golden mean proportion. It was painted from a sketch of my friend in the Newburyport Art Assoc. This is not the best color photo. You can see the use of gradations from cool to warm, dark to light. It is spacious. Mary sits in front of a white blank canvas. Every day starts as a blank canvas. Everything we do can be interesting and enjoyable depending on our approach to life. It is all about attitude. My canvas may not have much in it, like the painting of Mary. She is precious, departed now, but she was a beautiful person, and a good friend.

Shapes 3,4,5 uses the triangle, the square and the pentagon. I did this small painting this winter. I never loose my interest in sacred geometry. I have read these shapes are the building blocks of matter. The last couple of years I have become interested in crop circles, which use the geometric shapes in there designs. I have several books of photos of them. They seem to become more complex each year. I am sure they hold energy and important information.

Red Triangles, an abstract of vertical lines, is based on the fibonacci series. I did it a while ago, so I don't' remember the sequence of divisions. The colors are pleasing and joyful.

May 30. The first hot day since last year. Today I bought 4 baby ducks.