tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32011497597555857432024-03-13T15:45:46.081-07:00FiddleSong StudioA creative lifestyle that satisfies the soul...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-67779663796574632102015-02-05T22:23:00.000-08:002015-02-05T22:23:03.971-08:00...day twenty-three???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was an ambitious work for me. It is physically harder to paint this large-- it requires a lot of bending and it took many hours of solid work. My back is complaining! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I drive through this area every day. <b>Every. Single. Day.</b> How lucky am I?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These large cedars live at Daffodil Hill. The young walnuts are <i>absolutely</i> this beautiful in their fall splendor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This painting will be spending some quality time with my photographer, then will be entered into the Lodi Spring Show....Giclee prints will be available. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-52086259344245215162015-02-05T22:03:00.002-08:002015-02-05T22:03:44.178-08:00...day twenty-two?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a watercolor on Yupo. The more I work on Yupo, the more I like it :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This little painting took two sessions. I initially set it aside after the first session because I was frustrated with my results. Then I remembered that I have Viking blood. I still didn't like it until I laid in the foreground. Now I LOVE it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The conifers set off the warm spring colors of the deciduous foliage. I can<i> almost</i> hear the gentle breeze and smell the volunteer daffodils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think this one deserved two days of work. Yes, I know...I paint pine needles and leaves. It is somewhat of an addiction, but it makes me glow! This is watercolor, prismacolor and ink on a quarter sheet of Arches 140.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I called my good friend Lulu Kelly tonight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was good to hear her voice and to chat about our art. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-29146011355881930492015-01-20T23:21:00.004-08:002015-01-20T23:21:52.223-08:00...day twenty...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one doesn't have a name yet, and it needs more work. This morning on my way to work, I drove through a misty cloud. I don't call it fog up here, it is too rare and beautiful. So far I am liking how the trees on the left are so softly defined. I love the way the sunlight pierces the live oak branches, and I think the ponderosa pine on the right is coming along nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This small painting started out to be foggy and turned into something totally different. The reference is a smoky evening scene, with rosy gray hills in the background. I guess I just had too much colorful fun with this :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You probably know that I have had a close encounter with a mountain lion. In an effort to overcome my fear, I have read everything that I could about them. So now, instead of being afraid to get out of my car at night, I am constantly watching for them, hoping to catch a glimpse! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am committed to using only my own photo reference materials in my art work. So being able to photograph a lion has been on my radar for years. Today, I went to the Folsom Zoo. They have FOUR!!! I was so excited! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This graphite study is in preparation for a major piece...can't wait to start. This female was watching the keepers feed the bears, you talk about razor focus....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>...mountain lions avoid FiddleSong Farm....</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These two shaggy characters live in Fiddletown near the post office. When I saw them today I remembered my new friend in Scotland Fiona Haddow. She paints "coos". So I thought I would paint shaggy fur on Yupo...for fun. And it was :) I didn't know that Highland cattle came in black, but this little guy is adorable.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-36771790770082198272015-01-15T22:17:00.000-08:002015-01-15T22:17:35.196-08:00...day fifteen....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tonight's painting is a study of a sequoia grove that is on the hill behind the Morgan Ranch at Pt. Reyes. I painted this on Yupo paper. It is fun to paint on Yupo, you get lots of movement and the color is bright and vibrant. But I don't have the control that I am used to having. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I paint foliage, it really helps me to listen to classical guitar, and mostly Gordon Rowland. There is something magical about the way he plays, and I think it has a lot to do with the quality of my brushwork. Stick with what works, right?</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-86457800100595349872015-01-14T22:33:00.002-08:002015-01-14T22:33:54.307-08:00...day fourteen...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Yes, I skipped a night...so, I am a slacker :0) A gal's gotta have her beauty rest. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This prismacolor pencil study of a metal sculpture is a nod to my excellent friend Nancy Roberts. Nancy has a fun sense of humor that often spills over into her artwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love drawing from life. There is a sense of immediacy about it. It challenges the artist to use her eyes more than her brain, reinforcing years of study and refreshing that self-knowledge that <i>"yes, I can draw!" </i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314589160334508725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201149759755585743.post-24302545203814882542015-01-12T21:20:00.000-08:002015-01-12T21:20:32.552-08:00...day twelve...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Days ten and eleven I painted on the large landscape that I have been working on. The bad news is that I thought it would be finished after the weekend, and it is not. The good news is that it is going to be worth the work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tonight's challenge was inspired by nature. </i>As I was walking to my truck tonight in the parking garage, the sunset was glowing in the West. Brilliance that simply cannot be mastered by a mere artist--showed bright streaks of opera pink and cadmium yellow, mellow backlit hills, and inky indigo trees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last winter, Rachel and I took a daytrip to the beaches south of Half Moon Bay. This little plover is one of many shore birds that we enjoyed. He makes me long for the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tonight I experimented on Yupo. Yupo is plastic...very similar to vellum. It's hard to get my smooth washes for sky areas, but I like that the colors don't absorb into the surface-they dry very bright and pure. I may try this scene again on Arches. I LOVE the distant tree shapes, I don't love the trunks of the vines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So today, on the third day of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge, I decided to finish something rather than paint something new. I have been working on this prismacolor pencil piece for a while, and it deserved some of my time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love the soft folds and the light and shadow patterns on his velvety fur. But that look in his eye is pure mischief. "You want me to <i>what</i>? You're kidding, right?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems strange to me that I can have an idea in mind for a painting and carry it around with me for weeks or months or even years before I am ready to paint it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day two's subject is a raven that I photographed in Pt. Reyes. Ravens are fascinating birds. Clever and social, they are usually found in pairs. There is something mystical about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On January 1st I read about the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. I had seen it before and was intrigued, but this time I am inspired to try this. How important it is for me to be able to say "I paint every day!"</span></div>
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The more I process this, the more sense it makes. I have ALWAYS felt very low spirits this time of the year. I try to plow through with my normal good humor, but it is more usual for me to dissolve into tears at the sounds of traditional seasonal songs. I always thought it was Christmas that depressed me. But if the full moon can affect me as strongly as it does, it's only logical that the long nights of the solstice can too...If I feel a darkness of the soul during the darkest days of winter, it could be simply the way I react to the seasonal change. OK, I can deal with that.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...I feel a sea change coming. It is an unsettled feeling. A wary and uncertain feeling. I am out of balance, low in spirit, off the path, and adrift. I sense the turning of the giant gear, teeth catching in endless cycles, relentlessly obeying the laws of Universe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have always had a happy soul. I am cheerful in my work. I am energized by change, and my strength lies in my ability to evolve. I love helping people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I <b>know</b> there is a light</i>...</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can't see it just now.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am praying for my friend Ruth tonight. She has lost her son Doug to cancer. Words are not enough to heal that kind of loss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently I was approached via email by a woman from New York City. She was a marketing coordinator for a gallery in Chelsea. She told me that she had viewed my art work on my website and wanted me to consider presenting my portfolio if I was interested in gallery representation. She asked if I was interested in more information, of course I said yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The information that she sent me was beautiful. It was professional, glossy, contemporary-- in short-everything I would expect from a NYC gallery. Artists dream (<i>in full blown color, exaggerated details and even scents)</i> of such an opportunity. The ultimate goal is to reach <i>that level </i>of gallery representation. If I could find gallery representation in some major cities, then I could possibly, <i>just </i><i>possibly </i>achieve that ultimate goal. To be able to paint full time, <i>to make a living with my art.</i><b style="font-style: italic;">.</b>.that one thing that I have been told my entire life that could not be done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"<i>Wow, Wendy</i>," it says to me. "<i>I told you your work was good enough!</i>" it sings. My extraordinary imagination begins to see myself greeting people in NYC, with my paintings hanging on perfectly lit pristine wall spaces. Of course the paintings glow with rich colors and textures, causing masses of New Yorkers to stop and stare in rapture....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It says in fine print "That which appears too good to be true, usually is..." (this common sense comes to me in my mother's voice and refers to everything from interesting men, to low fat ice cream.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was about 6:30 and still very bright. It was obviously very difficult for her to overcome her fears, she must have been so thirsty. I first noticed her coming downhill as she was still 50 feet away. I heard her snort twice. She may have smelled the dogs in the front yard, or she may have sensed me watching her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She took three nervous steps and froze. She lifted her feet high and placed them quietly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then her long ears twitched front, back, side to side. A vulture settled to roost in one of the tallest pines making a feathery flapping racket. This sound was expected. Familiar. No worry there. Then she turned back and looked hard at the windows off the deck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She took two high steps. Standing for several tense moments, she listened and taste the air. Closer she crept and closer. She needed the water badly. I could almost feel her thirst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I left the window then, knowing that it would be calming if I was not standing watching her, and I wanted her to drink her water. I have been thirsty, even knowing that it was a simple thing for me to find water. How challenging for the woodland beings who struggle through the hot dry season. Ponds and nearby creek-beds are long dry, driving them to travel long thirsty distances along known game trails, crossing well travelled roads until the intoxicating scent of water entices them to risk goat-cleared hillsides, forcing them to brave the dangers of dogs and hunter-humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many evenings I hear the deer drinking from the water bucket. They walk so quietly, that I would never know they were there, except the cats alert me. Then I hear their soft sipping noises as they quench their thirst. Their drinking sounds just the same as my goats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many mornings when I do my early chores, I notice that leftover alfalfa from the previous day is gone like magic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know better than to purposely feed them. This leads predators in to wait. This leads to hunters shooting between buildings to poach, and it leads to dangerous confrontations between farm folk and deer who have lost respect for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't help but be glad that they find the water here that they so badly need for their survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It has been a LONG time since I demonstrated for a group. I am truly looking forward to my visit to the Stockton Art League tonight. They are an awesome group of art enthusiasts, and I feel a connection to them, even though I have only met them recently. How nice for me to be invited to share! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are going to talk about trees. LOTS of trees. Such a simple thing really, but very important to my art and what makes me tick. My goal is to share my respect and passion for my subject matter, inspire some to try, and sprinkle everything with fun!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's time for Amador County fair entries again and I am entering five paintings this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>...<i>no, ladies, I do not know him. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a lot of fun to show in our local fair. I know many of the artists and enjoy seeing what everyone has entered. Our county has done such an excellent job of preserving that small country fair feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two of my most recent paintings "Sunlit Vines and "Jackson Butte" will not be in the fair this year. They have the honor of hanging in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>I'm so excited to see that show!!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For now, I am working to finish three paintings before the fair. Yes, I can do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>...feeling special ;)</i></span></div>
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