tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-357813312024-03-14T07:50:41.038-07:00Sadie Valeri's Blog 2006-2010For a decade I recorded every aspect of my artistic development, almost every day. This original version of the blog records the first 4 years that I was introduced to Classical Realism. I consider these to be the most formative years of my art career.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-29775326763993765922010-12-22T10:00:00.000-08:002010-12-22T17:13:49.120-08:00FAQ: Winged Victory Cast and Studio Wall Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qfB18HED428/SzGrwtjahhI/AAAAAAAASnM/TIb_n9a73MA/s800/000%202009-12-22%20035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qfB18HED428/SzGrwtjahhI/AAAAAAAASnM/TIb_n9a73MA/s400/000%202009-12-22%20035.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><br />
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I often gets questions as to how I got my Winged Victory cast and where to get a good-quality version.<br />
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I bought mine after spotting it at a sidewalk sale in 2003. The owner had inherited it from his grandmother, and had had it in storage for many years. He wanted to sell it to someone who knew and loved the sculpture, and I was only to happy to tell him my story of falling in love with the statue when I first saw and drew her at the Louvre in Paris when I was 16. We struck a deal, and the statue was mine, to this day it is my prized possession. The original owner has visited the studio and was happy to see his grandmother's statue in a place of honor.<br />
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It's not easy to find good quality replicas, which are casts from the original. If you Google "Winged Victory" you will find a lot of cheap statues, but if you look closely the quality is very low and crude. The form of the figure and the folds of drapery look grotesque and amateurish. They are usually inferior copies by modern sculptors, not true casts from the original.<br />
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My understanding is that most museums no longer allow cast molds to be made from their works, so the only molds that exist are historic.<br />
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The only place online I know to order high-quality casts made directly from original historic molds is the Giust Gallery: <a href="http://www.giustgallery.com/">www.giustgallery.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.giustgallery.com/individual-pages/074-Victory_of_Samothrace.htm">They have several sizes of the Winged Victory here</a><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span>Studio Wall Color</b><br />
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</tbody></table>I am also often asked about the color of my studio walls. We often think of modern art studios as having white walls, which is great for throwing light around the room and getting lots of light onto the easel. However, white walls make it very difficult to control shadows, and when working from life you want a good balance of light and shadow.<br />
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I noticed Grand Central Academy and a lot of the contemporary ateliers have dark grey walls. Also, when I Google-image-searched "atelier" I found some <a href="http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/149622/1/My-Atelier.jpg">beautiful</a> <a href="http://www.gottliebstudios.com/content/images/0_rijckaert-atelier.jpg">images</a> of <a href="http://www.bd-aix.com/photosaix/images/Atelier-Cezanne6_jpg.jpg">restored historic studios</a> with dark walls.<br />
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The color I chose for my own studio walls is <b><i>Benjamin Moore "Sparrow AF-720." </i></b>Human fleshtones look lovely and glowing next to it, shadows look deep and rich, and it's easy to control the light bouncing around the room.<br />
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I used to think it had a touch of green in it, but after mixing the color for my paintings many times now, I find it can be matched accurately from mixing just from Cobalt Blue, Raw Umber, and a little white. Perhaps a tiny bit of the yellow cast of Raw Umber is reacting with the blue to make a tiny touch of green, but essentially it is just a neutral.<br />
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Click the slideshow below to see more photos of the studio:<br />
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6:30 - 9:30 pm, ongoing<br />
$70 for 4-session pose, 12 hours<br />
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<b>Thursday Evenings Starting February 10, 2011</b><br />
6:30 - 9:30 pm, ongoing <br />
$70 for 4-session pose, 12 hours<br />
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<b>Monday Afternoons Starting February 7, 2011</b><br />
11:30am - 4:30pm, ongoing <br />
$110 for 4-session pose, 20 hours<br />
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<a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/teaching.html">For more details and to register, please click here to visit my Teaching Page</a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Mondays, 10am-11am, ongoing</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Starting February 7, 2011<br />
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<b>Thursdays, 5pm-6pm, ongoing</b></div>Starting February 10, 2011<br />
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$20 per 1-hour lecture<br />
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The Lecture/Demo is offered one hour before the Monday and Thursday Figure Model Sessions.<br />
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Reserve your space by payment in advance with check or credit card.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/teaching.html">For more details and to register, please click here to visit my Teaching Page</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-30898598802242927772010-12-10T09:46:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:01:11.767-08:00Motivation and Discipline Don't Help<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJF1NR6DVt_G50XTuqxe2Gcyu985YxEPS4SgC6zugpfZqfNqztHBBBG0Apdnh_YInVtcze7REZ8qZP4eePwxv2-qvfGDWbEN5dGLG5wqAhspocAUuuaeow5epvaRaXQkMBtJitIA/s1600/sadie_kitchen-studio2004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJF1NR6DVt_G50XTuqxe2Gcyu985YxEPS4SgC6zugpfZqfNqztHBBBG0Apdnh_YInVtcze7REZ8qZP4eePwxv2-qvfGDWbEN5dGLG5wqAhspocAUuuaeow5epvaRaXQkMBtJitIA/s320/sadie_kitchen-studio2004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>My art studio, 2004</i></div><i></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>This was one half of my small kitchen in the 1-bedroom apartment I lived in. I did not have stable north light, so I hung a sheer white curtain to filter the direct sunlight.</i></span></i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></i>In 2004 I took a class that taught me the basic historic technique for creating a layered oil painting. To practice I set up this little studio in my kitchen and a did a painting using the method I was learning in the class. </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Study for Vase and Creamer</i></div><i></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>9 x 9 inches, pencil on paper</i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>2004</i></span></i></div><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">The still life was the first drawing and the first oil painting I had done on my own in about 10 years. I was exhilarated and thrilled, and mostly just so relieved when I made this little painting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Wg8mwaX4PFeiv7eB5GHnSQMB5dI4tu8IiH46nRbp5Z6fhqIqW3Q2yO1drS2RQY4Lhr_SA0EeKEN1iZ32Q9XJmXDvZwkF2OMo7Ets5sV60OWJrJzCtC6I2lowfCZgRCM6fDNO3g/s1600/sadie_still-life_2004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Wg8mwaX4PFeiv7eB5GHnSQMB5dI4tu8IiH46nRbp5Z6fhqIqW3Q2yO1drS2RQY4Lhr_SA0EeKEN1iZ32Q9XJmXDvZwkF2OMo7Ets5sV60OWJrJzCtC6I2lowfCZgRCM6fDNO3g/s320/sadie_still-life_2004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vase and Creamer</i></div><i></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>9 x 9 inches, oil on panel</i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>2004</i></span></i></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It had taken me years of "thawing out" a severe, crippling artists' block to get to the point where I could even attempt to make a painting.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">For many years after I graduated from art school at RISD I was very discouraged as an artist. I did not ever make any art on my own, outside the occasional life-drawing class. I felt like I was an artist. But a real artist paints, and I was not painting. I felt like I "should" be painting. </div><br />
I think I was stymied by my idea of what art and painting should be, by my idea of what was "Important Art." <br />
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Important Art was what was showing in the New York gallery scene of the 1990's, or in the New York MOMA. Important Art was what my art school friends who went on to do Masters of Fine Arts degrees were doing: very large, abstract or semi-abstract paintings. <br />
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I had never had an inclination to paint abstractly, and the semi-abstract <a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCiHlfilnJBXf47xR7JHsfWZS6mC1brzHwA4gVmsC5Fv5gIOk1DQ">figure-ish work</a> I was introduced to in art school looked to me like what an <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Woman3.jpg">insane person</a> might paint. <br />
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All that was interesting to me intellectually, and I liked to look at it and talk about it with my friends, and I admired many of them for their skill with painting abstractly, but I never felt a shred of desire to paint that way.<br />
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But the only other option for a painter, other than Abstract or Figurative (semi-abstract figure-ish), was to be a Bad Artist. A bad artist was a "sellout" who sold pictures of flowers or children or seascapes at tourist galleries. I was very afraid that if I made that kind of art I would be a Bad Artist.<br />
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I left art school believing that Important Art came entirely or mostly from your head, and that art done while looking at something in real life was just a "study". Landscape, Figure, Portrait, and Still Life were all ok to do as studies, but if you were to do that for your real Work, you would fall into the category of Bad Artist.<br />
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I had been accepted into the most prestigious art school in the country based on my high school portfolio of highly realistic drawings and paintings done from life. And then I was taught that that was not art.<br />
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So, feeling like I was never going to be a Real Artist much less an Important Artist, I just stopped making art. I described myself to acquaintances as a designer, never as an artist. <br />
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For years I let people people assume I'd majored in design at the Rhode Island School of <i>Design</i>, and did not reveal that I'd spent all of my 4 years there doing figure drawing and oil painting.<br />
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But over the years after art school I got very depressed. I put in hours at my graphic design job, and mostly just killed time between my working and sleeping hours. <br />
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But I always knew what my problem was, I always knew that I would feel better if I could start painting. So I tried very hard for a lot of years to start painting. In fact, in my head, I was trying very hard to get back to painting pretty much all of the time.These were the things I tried:<br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li>Trying to be "disciplined"</li>
<li>Trying to be "motivated"</li>
<li>Making plans to do x just 10 minutes a day</li>
<li>Being angry and disappointed at myself</li>
<li>Putting enormous pressure on myself</li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: left;">I did a LOT of that, all the time, for many years, and none of it was successful for helping me get back to making art. It just made me feel worse.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I began to realize that my idea that I might be a Bad Artist was stopping me from doing ANYTHING creative. So I decided to do the smallest, tiniest project that felt creative but that was NOT ART. As soon as I called it art, I could not make myself do it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So the smallest, easiest thing I could find to do, that was a tiny bit creative, was going to a fabric store and buying buttons. I spent a long time picking out the buttons. I did not make anything with them, I just bought them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It sounds so silly, and it's completely embarrassing to me that that was my creative project. It was embarrassing to me even then, when I did it. But I had gotten to such a low point of despair, that doing something so small and insignificant as buying buttons felt better than the way I felt most the time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">After I bought the buttons, and did some more equally small "creative projects", and after a while I felt inspired to play with collage. I had experimented with collage in art school, and so I started collecting materials again and making collages again. I did this on my living room floor, with the TV on. I made about 20 of these:</div><br />
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9 x 12, mixed media on paper</i><br />
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</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then, in 2003 I saw the movie "The Girl with the Pearl Earring", which is about Vermeer. The movie imagines that the subject of his famous painting is his young maid, whom he trains to mix his paints. The movie is beautifully shot, with gorgeous sequences showing Scarlet Johansson sifting pigments and mixing oils by soft Dutch light filtered through small windowpanes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I started wondering if anyone taught how to do Old Masters' painting techniques any more, and if I could learn any of that. A few months later I found <a href="http://kirstinereiner.com/">Kirstine Reiner</a>'s ad for art classes on Craigslist, offering lessons on mixing paint pigments and Old Master oil techniques. In early 2004 I signed up for 10 lessons.... and for the first time in many years, I picked up a paintbrush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So many of my students struggle with how to set up a consistent practice outside of class hours. I can see the pressure they are putting on themselves, and their frustration. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I tell them to remember learning to drive a car as a teenager: There is no way you could learn to drive if you only practiced an hour or two a week in Driver's Ed for a couple months. You had to put in dozens, maybe hundreds of hours behind the wheel for a few years before driving a car started to feel completely comfortable and natural. Learning to paint is exactly like that. As the instructor, I can give you some help and ideas and guidelines, but to get a feel for painting, you just have to do it on your own for a few hundred hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But I know it's hard to find a way to put in those hours. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you want to paint and you are not painting, then whatever you are currently doing to try to paint is not working, so try something completely different.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Instead, just do the smallest thing you can call "creative." Go for a walk and take some snapshots. But if you plan to do that and you find the weekend goes by and you didn't get around to it, do something smaller: just go browse in a flower shop or bicycle shop. And if that does not happen, just notice a crack in the pavement with some moss growing in it. Just stop and look at something that interests you for 5 seconds. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's it, you are being creative.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are all creative all the time, we just don't realize it. If you want to paint, you probably already notice things around you all the time you wish you could paint or draw. Our ideas about what is Art, or what is Real Art, or what is Good Art versus Bad Art , don't help us to actually be artists. Don't focus on being a good artist. Don't try to be motivated or disciplined, don't even try to be an Artist. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just focus your attention on what interests you in your normal, day-to-day life, starting with just a few seconds or minutes at a time. The rest takes care of itself.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-3608126716575912532010-12-01T10:19:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:02:07.983-08:00Friends of a Feather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN6kOMNC2vpoO8uSzafrfqMcxFk7xk4rmSoXTXwWzJ438XEARXirvTcjFelSkQGhDKd0YUVBDz5Biud3CEZ7e71QZXwBCC5YVPlpL5Rc386ZW_StNp-_Pr-chi0_AXSnwXYsYWQ/s1600/sadie-valeri_friends-of-a-feather_12x16_oil-on-p_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN6kOMNC2vpoO8uSzafrfqMcxFk7xk4rmSoXTXwWzJ438XEARXirvTcjFelSkQGhDKd0YUVBDz5Biud3CEZ7e71QZXwBCC5YVPlpL5Rc386ZW_StNp-_Pr-chi0_AXSnwXYsYWQ/s400/sadie-valeri_friends-of-a-feather_12x16_oil-on-p_sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Friends of a Feather</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>12 x 16 inches, oil on panel<br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am pleased to announce that my recently completed painting "Friends of a Feather" will be showing at the <a href="http://www.artnet.com/gallery/181897/susan-powell-fine-art.html">Susan Powell Fine Arts</a> holiday show:<br />
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679 Boston Post Road<br />
Madison, Connecticut 06443 USA<br />
Tel: 203 - 318 - 0616<br />
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Below are the in-process shots of the stages of the drawing, the under painting, and the final painting. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">However, it is also uncomfortable, frustrating, full of distractions, and when your umbrella topples your easel over in a breeze, exceptionally maddening.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have finally assembled a setup I find to be ideal - a good balance of lightweight, sturdy, and flexible:</div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVe9sxhLBqxiSehRt4KZKAHx1UuZo9bf9OP1WF-GxryBCLYWzcRVa70C3Iz8XTNAABQYF9aPlfX_oI5NsXliQ0UJ1rekKm2OAgfjMUHjdBQAf6uyQSAMwyodwe3xned7dQSUxQg/s1600/SANY0106.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVe9sxhLBqxiSehRt4KZKAHx1UuZo9bf9OP1WF-GxryBCLYWzcRVa70C3Iz8XTNAABQYF9aPlfX_oI5NsXliQ0UJ1rekKm2OAgfjMUHjdBQAf6uyQSAMwyodwe3xned7dQSUxQg/s200/SANY0106.JPG" width="112" /> </a></div><ul><li><a href="http://www.openboxm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OBMIPAPS&Product_Code=480&Category_Code=PPHp">Open Box M pochade box 10x12</a><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/jullian-easel-umbrella/">Julienne painter's umbrella</a><br />
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<li>Manfrotto tripod with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-322RC2-Joystick-Head-Short/dp/B000184N22/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1290012463&sr=1-2">joystick head</a><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.openboxm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=OBMIPAPS&Category_Code=OA">Manfrotto jointed arm</a> that clamps directly to the tripod and holds the umbrella securely at any angle, with clamps at either end for grasping the easel and the umbrella handle. NOTE: Amazon sells the arm, but not the clamps, so <a href="http://www.openboxm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=OBMIPAPS&Category_Code=OA">call Open Box M</a> to order through them.<br />
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<li>I also have a lightweight walking cane that folds open into a small stool, which I got <a href="http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=14682805">here at Bed Bath and Beyond</a><br />
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<li>I also find these small things essential:<br />
Seal-able solvent can<br />
<a href="http://www.openboxm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=OBMIPAPS&Category_Code=VC">Viewfinder</a><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.openboxm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OBMIPAPS&Product_Code=551&Category_Code=WCH">This accessory I have not bought yet, but I see how it could come in handy</a></li>
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>This is how I pack it:</b><br />
Instead of carrying around tubes of oil paint, I load up my Open M pallete with fresh nuggets of paint before I leave for the day. Sometimes I pack a small tube of white, if it's going to be a long day out.<br />
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I can fit my Open M pochade box, brushes, and solvent can in a backpack or shoulder bag, along with paper towels, lunch, etc.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The tripod, cane, Manfrotto arm, and umbrella I lash together with 2 short bungee cords. All those things combined are not very heavy, and I can carry it by the cane handle, or under my arm easily. For a long hike I might get a strap for it so I can carry it on my back.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Travelling with oil paints</b><br />
I have traveled now many times with oil paint, and despite the horror stories we have all heard about having oil paints confiscated, I have never had a problem with this procedure:<br />
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Here is what I do:</div></div><br />
<ul><li>Download and print a couple "material safety data sheets" (MSDS) which describe the contents of the paint - there's a different sheet for every color, but I just choose 2 or 3 and print those. Each manfacturer writes up and makes data sheets available online as PDF for all their colors, just google search one your paint brands and a color name with the phrase "material safety data sheets" and you'll find it.<br />
<a href="http://www.theartistsdepot.com/MSDS.htm">Here is a list of links to of many of the of MSDS paint brands</a><br />
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<li>Print out a sign with big font that says:<br />
<b>These are vegetable oil based artists materials. <br />
They are not flammable. <br />
Data sheets enclosed.<br />
</b>DO NOT USE THE WORD "PAINT". The word paint is a big problem.<br />
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<li>Fold the MSDS sheets and the sign together so the big message shows up on top.<br />
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<li>Put all the tubes of oil paint in a gallon-sized heavy duty ziplock, and put in the folded packet of sheets so the sign is visible through the plastic bag. Make sure every tube is tightly-capped and there are not any holes in any of the tubes, the pressure changes during the flight will make a mess of any leaky tubes.<br />
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<li>Place the bag near the top of your suitcase with the sign-side up so it's immediately accessible if security searches my bag. (I always get that little note saying they searched my bag, but my paint has never been confiscated.)<br />
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<li>Check the bag. I wouldn't try to bring paints on board.<br />
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<li>I also packed a tiny tin of the "natural turpenoid" (in the GREEN can) along with my painting supplies in my checked bag, to use as my medium. It says non-flammable very clearly right on the tin. I wouldn't use it as a medium in major paintings, but for sketches and all prima work while travelling it's probably fine.<br />
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<li>I wouldn't bring any solvents, oils, mediums, or any kind of mysterious liquids in bottles. I usually buy those or borrow them when I arrive<br />
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<li>Finally: Don't forget your palette knife! :)</li>
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Hope that helps! It would be terrible if the paints got confiscated and that's always a risk, so I can't guarantee it will be fine, but it's worked for me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-13641924896356434542010-11-13T23:14:00.000-08:002010-11-17T21:15:02.023-08:00WPW on Expedition: Final Recap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDK-1Aii_OaTYXkQ9WzGT1pxHue6h2ePkYPjayqbMcVOFl1Kp8t9PLS7IwoGiWi30hGqYtOuyNwO_odeetskyRfX8jkxwXNOKu5qQ5xEwlF5x7wmoLp9puTXfx0PcKruItsR4zA/s1600/Sullys_11-7a-2010+282.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDK-1Aii_OaTYXkQ9WzGT1pxHue6h2ePkYPjayqbMcVOFl1Kp8t9PLS7IwoGiWi30hGqYtOuyNwO_odeetskyRfX8jkxwXNOKu5qQ5xEwlF5x7wmoLp9puTXfx0PcKruItsR4zA/s200/Sullys_11-7a-2010+282.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Sitting at the airport gate, I realize that out of our <a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/p/on-expedition.html">group of 12 artists</a>, I am the last to leave Charleston, SC, if only by a mere 30 minutes. Starting on Thursday, members of our little group started to reluctantly peel away, each of us returning to our studios, family, and the demands of daily life. Enormous duffels of painting equipment were trundled down the porch steps and loaded into cars, the furniture was returned to its original positions, and as the last of us closed the door on the beach-front house, there was no sign of the easels, tripods, drop cloths and rows of drying paintings that had made their temporary invasion.<br />
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The impact of the week on each of the 12 artists, however, will be more permanent.<br />
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</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom0SiiVUccL_Gm7J2GFKq39XUDV9xlbIoUVi6miEf70a2LGfrul8yAi4BGXRg_rWWRsHVkPkdGd9jAeu5To7SCohGPxRXY19NaTY63EvVyrV1CmucRqTD8iR3q10zrrMoz7qOOg/s1600/Sullys_11-9-2010+023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom0SiiVUccL_Gm7J2GFKq39XUDV9xlbIoUVi6miEf70a2LGfrul8yAi4BGXRg_rWWRsHVkPkdGd9jAeu5To7SCohGPxRXY19NaTY63EvVyrV1CmucRqTD8iR3q10zrrMoz7qOOg/s200/Sullys_11-9-2010+023.JPG" width="112" /></a>In the beginning, we were all a bit apprehensive. A dozen women in a house for a week? But after the first couple days, a sense of relief seemed to fall over the group as we realized it was actually working: We were painting for most the hours of every day, talking art every minute we were not painting, and quickly becoming attached to one another. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3if3_umt_NW2KOOUpYz1NJNN_DT0TTNFpUkVPNvP5Zfq4esCqEv3-bOUQoz15c1bWHzFArTNLuSF9IADrRjLxvkSgXkX_CXmOXuk9U1vZ3LtEQ-XGRQxjfLenbMsfBmPg8NsGA/s1600/Sullys_11-7a-2010+314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3if3_umt_NW2KOOUpYz1NJNN_DT0TTNFpUkVPNvP5Zfq4esCqEv3-bOUQoz15c1bWHzFArTNLuSF9IADrRjLxvkSgXkX_CXmOXuk9U1vZ3LtEQ-XGRQxjfLenbMsfBmPg8NsGA/s200/Sullys_11-7a-2010+314.jpg" width="200" /></a>Many of us were sleeping 2 to a bed, the rest on inflatable mattresses and couches, all 12 of us negotiating just 3 1/2 bathrooms. But despite the tight quarters, the trip was nothing if not organized, mainly through the efforts of Alia, and with help from Diane, who between the two of them had anticipated every conceivable need over the months leading up to the trip. Cooking and cleaning duties had been assigned in advance, massive grocery runs were organized the first days, an improvised but elegant method for reimbursing shared expenses was soon devised by tacking envelopes to the bulletin board. Locations for plein air painting had been scouted, models had been scheduled. Everything was set up for us to work!<br />
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Before the trip, most of us only knew 1 or 2 of the others. The idea had started among the three of us who founded the <a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/">WPW blog</a>, <a href="http://alia-fineart.com/">Alia</a>, <a href="http://www.dianefeissel.blogspot.com/">Diane</a> and myself, and the two artist bloggers <a href="http://www.cindyprocious.com/">Cindy</a> and <a href="http://lisagloria.com/">Lisa</a> of <a href="http://artstudiosecrets.com/">ArtStudioSecrets.com</a>. The five of us then each nominated other artists we knew and admired, and the group quickly took shape. However at the last minute we were all disappointed when life events conspired to prevent Lisa’s attendance. (In the end, we were an even dozen, and next year we are determined that Lisa will make us a baker’s dozen!)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_eSnjwd_ApSzJazm50PW8H3SaExyJZ9H0GKq_qrEg7mhk2LyphyphenhyphenNfhZopJADAydBeCB0X1AVcUmGcFlMuvICPKuwesCaAYDFGzzxmW15oxs102FPpRHtrarWZiZTpJL5dqHqWQ/s1600/73891_10150104838080761_558580760_7618446_5467363_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_eSnjwd_ApSzJazm50PW8H3SaExyJZ9H0GKq_qrEg7mhk2LyphyphenhyphenNfhZopJADAydBeCB0X1AVcUmGcFlMuvICPKuwesCaAYDFGzzxmW15oxs102FPpRHtrarWZiZTpJL5dqHqWQ/s200/73891_10150104838080761_558580760_7618446_5467363_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rq156m368FqL-CG8_6Qd8fcnER9nGymlkesRQYTbSvGdMHoNmx4uAPi_E-lJwNMPGDJzjbxuFhUkfiX8luYf2ZNRpXJMSPRFnRSrOpK0NguI8F_An5JK5-lBUkKBg4ZAI6_yew/s1600/74117_1620774433483_1060081775_1715360_7563973_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rq156m368FqL-CG8_6Qd8fcnER9nGymlkesRQYTbSvGdMHoNmx4uAPi_E-lJwNMPGDJzjbxuFhUkfiX8luYf2ZNRpXJMSPRFnRSrOpK0NguI8F_An5JK5-lBUkKBg4ZAI6_yew/s200/74117_1620774433483_1060081775_1715360_7563973_n.jpg" width="200" /></a>Despite the daunting prospects of travelling with plein air gear, navigating a <a href="http://www.robertlangestudios.com/">high-profile opening at Robert Lange</a>, and then embarking on a “Real World” -style living situation, we set a single goal: To make painting the number one priority of the week, putting aside all distractions. And as soon as we started working with a model at 9am our first morning at the house, the collective energy began to carry us all.<br />
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<a href="http://www.miabergeron.com/">Mia</a> was the first one out painting on the beach, and banged out an oil sketch that set the bar high for the rest of us. For the rest of the week, day trips to surrounding marshes, parks, historic cemeteries, botanical gardens, Charleston’s French Quarter, and the lovely home of artist <a href="http://web.me.com/runquist/Shannon_Runquist/Home.html">Shannon Runquist</a>, kept us more than busy during the day. We then hired models in most the evenings, so we were often painting until 10pm. Several of us tried our hand at cooking for 12, and we did a good job of feasting in addition to painting.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDUeRxVY4UVI7y09kU5LklpqU5PQ1pIL4yUPyvlQiP63GsagVY4wZth_UwLi1dqQK_xEnvzXM_SmVX5BMuAibGbeDwsJ7AgEPqoJfmASauZZ4fbEbxKOZaCOS7t4jVgAr_Q_8tA/s1600/SANY0109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDUeRxVY4UVI7y09kU5LklpqU5PQ1pIL4yUPyvlQiP63GsagVY4wZth_UwLi1dqQK_xEnvzXM_SmVX5BMuAibGbeDwsJ7AgEPqoJfmASauZZ4fbEbxKOZaCOS7t4jVgAr_Q_8tA/s200/SANY0109.JPG" width="200" /></a>But the most amazing part of all was how our conversations penetrated to deeper issues during the week. Discussions that began with the best way to prepare a plein air canvas, or about what colors to use in a sky, began to evolve into interviewing each other about how we each address our personal struggles with studio life: Managing time, finances, commissions, galleries, and family; combating isolation and depression; sacrificing other goals and interests for the undivided pursuit of painting. Over and over were heard exclamations of “me too!” when these struggles were confessed. I know for myself, and I am sure for each of us, issues I thought were only my problem turned out to be shared by every artist in the house. <br />
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</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5K4SktHTKWJ9PafOgVei7P6yJhDkRcc3Gq5lpfcU0plQN1RJ5EU28f2U3qsATP9RTQaNmx9DgfRGnm9Ui-1unx6aD-kO9ojC45ZM9a7iITcex7pWKD125GxFPrP7jpjE75SV00w/s1600/Sullys_11-8-2010+014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5K4SktHTKWJ9PafOgVei7P6yJhDkRcc3Gq5lpfcU0plQN1RJ5EU28f2U3qsATP9RTQaNmx9DgfRGnm9Ui-1unx6aD-kO9ojC45ZM9a7iITcex7pWKD125GxFPrP7jpjE75SV00w/s200/Sullys_11-8-2010+014.jpg" width="200" /></a>As artists, we work alone most the day, and our solitude is necessary and closely guarded. But peaceful, fortifying solitude can easily slip into lonely isolation. As women, there are both evolutionary and spiritual reasons it is necessary to our survival to connect with other women, to find common ground and form deep bonds of understanding, to navigate conflicts and find abundance where we thought there was only scarcity. To cheer for our competition and feel true joy in their successes.<br />
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I do know that this week for me was so deeply satisfying, so soul-nourishing, that I am sure in my bones that this kind of connection with sister artists is essential.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZqemaicvihPwUFXLnZRLyvsL15yt5glXTWt3LFFD9YYVwAsxkAgSrvoVpj1Ejlt2JG8PzmNjI7IUcmMOn2IOPzroNb3dpPlpNvtDYd_ntIvOIw7gzjA3fTLiSJRzhNYJYDaIfw/s1600/74124_452368055484_756155484_5451048_3979759_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZqemaicvihPwUFXLnZRLyvsL15yt5glXTWt3LFFD9YYVwAsxkAgSrvoVpj1Ejlt2JG8PzmNjI7IUcmMOn2IOPzroNb3dpPlpNvtDYd_ntIvOIw7gzjA3fTLiSJRzhNYJYDaIfw/s200/74124_452368055484_756155484_5451048_3979759_n.jpg" width="200" /></a>To <a href="http://www.alia-fineart.com/">Alia</a>, <a href="http://www.dianeandjohn.com/">Diane</a>, <a href="http://www.cindyprocious.com/">Cindy</a>, <a href="http://www.miabergeron.com/">Mia</a>, <a href="http://alexandratyng.com/">Alex</a>, <a href="http://prescottpaintings.com/">Cathy</a>, <a href="http://www.lindatraceybrandon.com/">Linda</a>, <a href="http://www.katestoneart.com/">Kate</a>, <a href="http://stefanitewes.com/">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://www.terrystricklandart.com/">Terry</a>, and <a href="http://www.rachelconstantine.com/">Rachel</a> (and to <a href="http://lisagloria.com/">Lisa</a> who could not come but whom we thought of often):<br />
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Thank you!!!<br />
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Thank you all, for catching the spirit of the trip and bringing your energy and enthusiasm, for being flexible with your needs and generous with your help and advice, and most of all for being so willing to trust us and to reveal yourselves.<br />
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<b>UPDATE:</b><br />
<a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/p/on-expedition.html">Several of the WPW Expedition group have now blogged about the trip, you can read their posts here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-4740458877878936152010-11-11T21:04:00.000-08:002010-11-17T08:01:48.553-08:00WPW on Expedition: Wed and Thurs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWSlXH6s3jeMh62H0Ekjpi2g9-vKocDsqP_iDTVoVW75sOt0FPpDJqDXsOI1yoDnlVK2BuovPuocEjSIX-YXpjYselGlDgi-SphnxHNh020uQZXj9qklz7DZ9zAtyQOLHCUWBboA/s1600/Sullys_11-10-2010+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWSlXH6s3jeMh62H0Ekjpi2g9-vKocDsqP_iDTVoVW75sOt0FPpDJqDXsOI1yoDnlVK2BuovPuocEjSIX-YXpjYselGlDgi-SphnxHNh020uQZXj9qklz7DZ9zAtyQOLHCUWBboA/s320/Sullys_11-10-2010+002.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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9 x 12 inches, oil on panel</i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Color study of Lauren</i></div><i></i><br />
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Today (Thursday) I returned to Magnolia Gardens and decided to do pencil sketches of an amazing tableau of 3 live oaks which I'd spotted on our previous trip to the gardens.</div><br />
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Tree study at the Isle of Hope, SC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today Shannon Runquist invited us to paint at her home, which backs up to to marshland where I set up. We also hired a model, and some painters worked with her on Shannon's veranda.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Blocked in the sky to help define edges</div><br />
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Smaller brushes to define details and edges of leaves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm hoping to get another session on this painting when we return Thursday.</div><br />
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This was my lovely painting location, on a dock over the marsh</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am loving my plein air setup with the umbrella and a new double-jointed elbow clamp to attach it to the tripod. I am also really happy with my Open Box M easel. I'll be writing a full description of my setup soon!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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A friend kept me company at the end of the dock.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-35390022791031239612010-11-08T20:47:00.000-08:002010-11-09T14:42:11.869-08:00WPW on Expedition: Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSD-JmFUhbHps7mXXWloVACuiey06Wo-08JoctzcMuQ9btYcBbav-AjFrERZ1eP1x9GFunvpUDIXOHywxFs1znSLHn7FopTUppZquhx1sJtE-yXwp6PpChkK6KDt7pHvT8gdNr4g/s1600/Sullys_11-8-2010+011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSD-JmFUhbHps7mXXWloVACuiey06Wo-08JoctzcMuQ9btYcBbav-AjFrERZ1eP1x9GFunvpUDIXOHywxFs1znSLHn7FopTUppZquhx1sJtE-yXwp6PpChkK6KDt7pHvT8gdNr4g/s320/Sullys_11-8-2010+011.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<i>Pond Study, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens<br />
5 x 7, oil on panel</i><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Today we visited a beautiful botanical garden, it has 500 square acres but we were all ready to set up our easels after walking just a few feet into the grounds. There were so many amazing scenes to paint I wish I could spend a month there!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The photo of the painting was taken with my phone, better quality coming soon!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-12924058108221524382010-11-07T21:45:00.000-08:002010-11-12T05:55:24.568-08:00WPW on Expedition: Charleston, SC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY0jUaOb70PfFTsfJxMoT4C6hchYj_N_rP7PUMwOES3jKTyrD7v8kcGsvCShOZkyoaq2xgAUhaMklL3o6A94JG-161nSrP_BWpBAFe8KtphKTVw4DUyvVdfl8rdxte1N1Wog_AA/s1600/Sullys_11-7-2010+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY0jUaOb70PfFTsfJxMoT4C6hchYj_N_rP7PUMwOES3jKTyrD7v8kcGsvCShOZkyoaq2xgAUhaMklL3o6A94JG-161nSrP_BWpBAFe8KtphKTVw4DUyvVdfl8rdxte1N1Wog_AA/s320/Sullys_11-7-2010+019.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sullivan's Island Marsh Study, </i><i>5 x 7, oil on panel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>3 hour Study of Lucy</i></div><i></i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">A quick recap of the art taking place!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition to the exciting show opening events, we have actually been getting real work done! The first day we worked from a live model. I was not ready to paint yet and did the above line drawing of the 3-hour pose.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The next morning some people painted in downtown Charleston, but Catherine Prescott and I stayed behind to work at the marsh:</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sunday afternoon we went to Magnolia Cemetery, a beautiful 19th century park-like setting with spanish moss-draped oaks and ornate statuary overlooking ponds and marshes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tonight we were treated to a dose of true Southern hospitality by artist<a href="http://web.me.com/runquist/Shannon_Runquist/Home.html"> Shannon Runquist</a> and her husband Lars when they invited us to her home for an amazing oyster roast. She stuffed us with oysters, grits-and-shrimp, and banana merengue pie, what a fabulous evening!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-49359775558996225432010-11-05T07:21:00.000-07:002010-11-17T09:40:00.179-08:00Women Painting Women On Expedition<i>Twelve of the brightest rising female painters from across the country will be convening <b> November 4-12 2010</b> for a week of painting the figure, the city and the beautiful marshes and beaches surrounding Charleston, South Carolina.</i><br />
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We have arrived in Charleston! Amazingly I woke up at 7am here this morning just in time to see the dawn, despite still being on West Coast time after a day of flying yesterday. I arrived into a small cyclone of artists, it feels like a reunion even though many of us had never met in person before last night.<br />
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9am the first day and we are already all set up and painting and drawing a live model Alia hired for us:<br />
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<i>The living room of the Sullivan's Island house</i></div><br />
This morning we are already set up to paint and draw with a live model in the living room of our beach house.<br />
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The following are the <b>On Expedition 2010</b> participating artists (click the name for links):<br />
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This inaugural painting retreat and exhibition represents the first effort by Women Painting Women to encourage women artists, advance art education, and showcase some of the best painting happening today. Women Painting Women founder Sadie Valeri states the following:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>“The quality, professionalism, and high level of training and vision being expressed by</i> <i>women artists have the potential to alter all of our ideas about who is making art and</i> <i>what they are saying. The paintings we have displayed on the Women Painting Women</i> <i>website express the wide-ranging and constantly shifting issues of identity and self-</i><i>expression women face as they navigate their lives – including choices about how,</i> <i>whether and when to raise families. We have noticed that many women feel they are</i> <i>struggling with these issues alone, but seeing all the artwork together is developing a</i> <i>sense of community among us.”</i></div><br />
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Figure Study: Bilge Standing<br />
Red/brown pencil and white chalk on buff toned paper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">18 x 24 inches</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An update on the current painting and drawing classes I am offering - classes are filling very quickly so please email me ASAP if you want to be on the list for a future class:<br />
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<b><i>10-Day Drawing and Painting Workshop</i></b><br />
Jan 17-28, 2011<br />
ONE spot left<br />
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<b><i>Figure Drawing</i></b><br />
6 Sundays beginning January 16, 2011<br />
ONE spot left<br />
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<b><i>Oil Painting I (Beginners)</i></b><br />
6 Sundays beginning March 27, 2011<br />
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<b><i>Oil Painting II (Advanced)</i></b><br />
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For more information about these classes and to register, please visit my <a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/teaching.html">Classes page</a><br />
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Also, I have updated my <a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/work.html">gallery page on my website so it is easier to see currently available paintings</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-39372067572921565252010-10-07T14:27:00.000-07:002010-10-07T14:27:06.260-07:00Drawing Lecture Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a recent clip of me teaching a drawing class in my studio.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">I have just posted new drawing and painting classes to be held at my San Francisco Mission District Studio:<br />
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Figure Drawing<br />
Oil Painting I<br />
Oil Painting II<br />
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<a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/teaching.html">Click here for information about my upcoming classes</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-23673800088647751822010-09-30T22:28:00.000-07:002010-10-19T14:09:03.513-07:00Arcadia Small Works Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6qMAPnpRs83ZVawzM8_borwaNHKkUOpo5qh2xrjyRghLCz1VnDL7xqtEL6yW5jMpgIV4evkwXrh-11aPFl_X9KFaaM_2tYg_WW3vkRSNIhimuz7cn0L9jaVu7nlM3HlIazx-PQ/s1600/IMAG0722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6qMAPnpRs83ZVawzM8_borwaNHKkUOpo5qh2xrjyRghLCz1VnDL7xqtEL6yW5jMpgIV4evkwXrh-11aPFl_X9KFaaM_2tYg_WW3vkRSNIhimuz7cn0L9jaVu7nlM3HlIazx-PQ/s320/IMAG0722.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Last week I flew to NYC to attend the <a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/08/wave.html">Arcadia Small Works</a> show. It was a whirlwind 2 days, wedged between my teaching and studio commitments here in SF, and even though New York managed to be sweltering and steamy even in late September this year, I'm so glad I went!</div><br />
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I can't find a list of all the artists represented on the show, but here are several of them: <a href="http://www.danielsprick.com/">Daniel Sprick</a>, <a href="http://www.bradkunkle.com/">Brad Kunkle</a>, <a href="http://www.lipking.com/">Jeremy Lipking</a>, <a href="http://www.depewstudio.com/still%20life/stilllife_th.html">Nancy Depew</a>, <a href="http://www.figurativedrawing.com/figurative_artists_liepke.htm">Malcom Liepke</a>, <a href="http://www.atelierruebasse.com/DANIEL_ADEL/Home/Pages/O_I_L_S.html">Daniel Adel</a>, <a href="http://www.michaelkleinpaintings.com/">Michael Kline</a>, <a href="http://www.julio-reyes.com/index.html">Julio Reyes</a>, <a href="http://www.nataliefeatherston.com/">Natalie Featherston</a>, <a href="http://www.robertliberace.com/figurePaintings/gallery.htm">Robert Liberace</a>, <a href="http://www.onejoseph.com/">Joseph Todorovich</a>, <a href="http://kerrybrooks.com/">Kerry Brooks</a>, <a href="http://www.cesarsantander.com/">Cesar Santader</a>, and many more I'm missing I am sure....<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/p/on-expedition.html">12 of us have rented a house and are painting for a week in Charleston, SC</a>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and 4 of the 12 of us were at the show:</div><br />
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</div><a href="http://alia-fineart.com/">Alia El-Bermani</a>, <a href="http://alexandratyng.com/Home.htm">Alexandra Tyng</a>, me, and <a href="http://www.dianeandjohn.com/indexdf.htm">Diane Feissel</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">I feel so amazed and blessed that my impulse last year to create the <a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/">WPW blog</a> has connected me to such an amazing network of women artists. I look forward to meeting even more of them in person next month in <a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/women-painting-women-show-at-robert.html">Charleston, SC at Robert Lange's Women Painting Women show</a>!<br />
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And thank you <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=78622&id=1397391602&page=2">Garth Herrick for taking so many great photos and documenting the evening</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-2684419434936242532010-09-30T21:38:00.000-07:002010-09-30T21:38:12.226-07:00Hispanic Society Sarollas, NYC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlNLOmBExa_wUXhYaiJurHOuwRuw6v2NIo9iy2hSPlfHeVn-uq0yjm7kLJRoORR8JNOeRj4FvVfq1nMEh04aIRbpbGMsXVWL9gnbzVWcp3N7Cdv4zbPCNLjNaB1KQqG3_Or5kuw/s1600/IMAG0647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlNLOmBExa_wUXhYaiJurHOuwRuw6v2NIo9iy2hSPlfHeVn-uq0yjm7kLJRoORR8JNOeRj4FvVfq1nMEh04aIRbpbGMsXVWL9gnbzVWcp3N7Cdv4zbPCNLjNaB1KQqG3_Or5kuw/s320/IMAG0647.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Last week I flew to New York for a very fast trip to attend the opening of the <a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/08/wave.html">Small Works show at Arcadia Gallery</a>. My dear friends <a href="http://dianefeissel.blogspot.com/2010/09/sorolla-sadie.html">Diane Feissel</a> and <a href="http://aliafineart.blogspot.com/2010/09/twenty-four-hours.html">Alia El-Bermani</a> made a daytrip of it by trekking all the way from Philadelphia and Raleigh, NC, respectively, to enjoy the day with me in Manhattan. We decided to take a quick subway trip up to the <a href="http://www.hispanicsociety.org/hispanic/main.htm">Hispanic Society</a> to see the Sarolla murals, and what a treat!</div><br />
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The museum is a gem, built expressly to showcase the collection, and best of all it's completely free! Walking into the enormous room of Sarolla murals was jaw-dropping: A panorama of luscious brush strokes expertly capturing the blazing sunlight and dappled shade of the Spanish countryside and traditional festivals. Sarolla was commissioned by the Society to create these murals expressly for this location.<br />
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Diane and Alia have both written wonderful blog posts about our day together, they both have more photos of the paintings, check them out here:<br />
<a href="http://dianefeissel.blogspot.com/2010/09/sorolla-sadie.html">Diane's Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://aliafineart.blogspot.com/2010/09/twenty-four-hours.html">Alia's Blog</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/black-jug-session-6-beginning-color.html">Click here to see the previous post</a></div><br />
This is the final stage of the painting I have been documenting step-by step.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Saturday October 9:</b> 3-6pm</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Sunday October 10:</b> 4-6pm<br />
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<b>Location:</b><br />
3265 17th St, cross street Mission<br />
San Francisco</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://artspan.org/bio/sadie-valeri">Map to my studio address is here</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-28171703346127446492010-09-30T21:07:00.000-07:002010-11-28T19:15:54.881-08:00"Message in a Bottle" Sessions 8-12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMrY-CYRd01rzxi4E67B7auoW1RD5D_cNEY0nHOLOnhS3l92OxrWT7m_hWfb4da-yW4_bdQYFT21QcuhfXIirIoDkw_7wmuAhbzUf4Q92O0XO5mZhmI0jA3RoON35z2aY4sOF1w/s1600/message-bottle_session07-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMrY-CYRd01rzxi4E67B7auoW1RD5D_cNEY0nHOLOnhS3l92OxrWT7m_hWfb4da-yW4_bdQYFT21QcuhfXIirIoDkw_7wmuAhbzUf4Q92O0XO5mZhmI0jA3RoON35z2aY4sOF1w/s320/message-bottle_session07-12.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"Message in a Bottle"</div><div style="text-align: center;">oil on panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">8 x 10 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-7.html">See the previous post here</a></div><br />
A tiny bottle wrapped in cream-colored tissue, a larger bottle carrying a message but with no cork to protect it, and finally a fragile shell, so thin a breeze could lift it... water, air, travel, mystery, and adventure are all woven into this simple design of three objects lined up on a shelf. <br />
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They seem to tell a story together, of secrets and memories, but we are not sure what it is. These objects seemed to arrange themselves on my shelf, and demand their story be told. <br />
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But what I did not realize when I set out to paint this, was what a challenge the glass bottle would turn out to be! What our mind tells us is a solid glass vessel with weight and symmetry, is actually only an arrangement of reflections superimposed on the background. One small mis-step of the brush or the eye, and the reflection wavers and the integrity of the bottle is lost. <br />
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Making this ephemeral illusion stand straight and symmetrical was a challenge, it only wanted to lean and warp! But I finally managed to nudge it into a position of solid grandeur, bravely holding its fragment of a note.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-51774128021204775582010-09-30T20:56:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:31:34.436-07:00Tuesday Model Session: Study of Bilge, Session 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt-ppZmR-iO1d4-2v3mtK1I-72n4EW-c86A6cVIGNQvc5lOUb_6vo9B_wg8fAjwg_5IsQyzGdCAV0xs0vZnW5PifjYTIXr4fqcSH3UHuSC_6GPwnI6gp-jxJzLb3cdx-_wHj1bw/s1600/2010_10-bilge-model-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt-ppZmR-iO1d4-2v3mtK1I-72n4EW-c86A6cVIGNQvc5lOUb_6vo9B_wg8fAjwg_5IsQyzGdCAV0xs0vZnW5PifjYTIXr4fqcSH3UHuSC_6GPwnI6gp-jxJzLb3cdx-_wHj1bw/s320/2010_10-bilge-model-02.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><br />
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</div>This is the first 3-hour session of my drawing of Bilge. The lower drawing is my initial block-in stage, and the top drawing is the more refined stage of the same drawing. This will be a 4-session drawing. The original is about 18x24 inches.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-82259061918318763372010-09-30T20:53:00.000-07:002010-09-30T20:53:33.315-07:00Tuesday Model Session: Study of Terry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxSlCkrpM8KTMMfq_2H6m3qngvHn8Z4RWuIaJ1FxTie8KvYG19tIf1uUAOJZEgq14T2Aphl2bgMblsr72_Bz8D6r_CcPBUKayztz3gB2hKfJ1tsZpstiK4-osrBe50rcwtO0yJeQ/s1600/2009-09-30+040_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxSlCkrpM8KTMMfq_2H6m3qngvHn8Z4RWuIaJ1FxTie8KvYG19tIf1uUAOJZEgq14T2Aphl2bgMblsr72_Bz8D6r_CcPBUKayztz3gB2hKfJ1tsZpstiK4-osrBe50rcwtO0yJeQ/s320/2009-09-30+040_sm.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><br />
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</div>This is the final drawing and also the earlier block-in stage of my 4-session drawing of Terry. The drawing is done in General's charcoal pencil and General's "white charcoal" on toned paper. The original is about 16 x 20 inches.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-16715862892363206072010-09-14T11:07:00.000-07:002010-10-19T14:19:00.585-07:00Women Painting Women SHOW at Robert Lang<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpGHVY3Y54ssqPTe8P31zSqtMC0NSpkfOmnA6ow3koOAcsAGgW_75GPYZ27JM85ZQSZ5tNmzBxhMAZ7ZuRx9LFkKjyjzvFFMbNGdxwmz4eMisG8DD0KCfpLy0eysraRzjbuWuyaw/s1600/sadie-valeri_mary-silver-dish_16x20-oil-on-panel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpGHVY3Y54ssqPTe8P31zSqtMC0NSpkfOmnA6ow3koOAcsAGgW_75GPYZ27JM85ZQSZ5tNmzBxhMAZ7ZuRx9LFkKjyjzvFFMbNGdxwmz4eMisG8DD0KCfpLy0eysraRzjbuWuyaw/s200/sadie-valeri_mary-silver-dish_16x20-oil-on-panel.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><i><a href="http://paintdifferent.blogspot.com/2010/10/here-come-ladies.html">Women Painting Women</a></i><br />
<i></i>Robert Lange Studios<br />
<a href="http://www.robertlangestudios.com/">http://www.robertlangestudios.com/</a><br />
November 2010<br />
2 Queen Street<br />
Charleston, SC 29401<br />
Opening Nov 5, 5:30-8:30 pm<br />
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Last year I started a blog called <a href="http://womenpaintingwomen.com/">WomenPaintingWomen.com</a> where I highlight the work of living, realist women painters who use the female subject in their paintings. <br />
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Amazingly the blog became much more than I had ever imagined, and I soon invited my artist friends <a href="http://dianefeissel.blogspot.com/">Diane Feissel</a> and <a href="http://aliafineart.blogspot.com/">Alia El-Bermani</a> to help me manage the flood of incredible artists who were being nominated for the site. <br />
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We now have almost 300 artists represented, we have started a FaceBook page for fans of WPW, and we are planning ways to expand the concept to find new ways to support and highlight the work of contemporary women artists.<br />
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Earlier this year I was contacted by the <a href="http://www.robertlangestudios.com/">Robert Lange Gallery</a> in Charleston, SC, who decided to organize a juried exhibition inspired by the theme of my blog. As you can imagine I was thrilled, and even more so when my piece <i>"Mary with Silver Dish"</i> was accepted into the show.<br />
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The exhibition will showcase the work of almost 50 women artists. I will be at the November 5th opening at Robert Lange, I hope you can join us, 5:30-8:30pm.<br />
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<a href="http://paintdifferent.blogspot.com/2010/08/women-painting-women.html">The list of all participants is on the gallery's blog.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/women-painting-women/Event?oid=2249319">There is also a writeup on the show in the Charleston City Paper</a><br />
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In addition, Alia, Diane and I have organized with several artist friends to rent a beach house together on Sullivan's Island, just off of Charleston, to coincide with the show. A dozen of us will be painting together in the beautiful landscape for the week of November 5-12. I'll be blogging the trip near-daily I am sure, so you can follow along with our adventures. These are the 12 women who will be painting at Sullivan's Island:<br />
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<a href="http://www.alexandratyng.com/" target="blank">Alexandra Tyng</a> - Narberth, PA<br />
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<a href="http://www.prescottpaintings.com/" target="blank">Catherine Prescott</a> - Harrisburg, PA<br />
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<a href="http://www.cindyprocious.com/" target="blank">Cindy Procious</a> - Chattanooga, TN<br />
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<a href="http://www.dianeandjohn.com/" target="blank">Diane Feissel</a> - Philadelphia, PA<br />
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<a href="http://www.lindatraceybrandon.com/" target="blank">Linda Tracey Brandon</a> - Phoenix, AZ<br />
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<a href="http://lisagloria.com/" target="blank">Lisa Gloria</a> - Aurora, IL<br />
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<a href="http://www.miabergeron.com/" target="blank">Mia Bergeron</a> - Chattanooga, TN<br />
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<a href="http://www.rachelconstantine.com/" target="blank">Rachel Constantine</a> - Philadelphia, PA<br />
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<a href="http://www.sadievaleri.com/" target="blank">Sadie Valeri</a> - San Francisco, CA<br />
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<a href="http://stefanitewes.com/" target="blank">Stefani Tewes</a> - Laguna Beach, CA<br />
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<a href="http://www.katestoneart.com/" target="blank">Katherine Stone</a> - Toronto, Ontario<br />
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<a href="http://www.alia-fineart.com/" target="blank">Alia El-Bermani</a> - Cary, NC<br />
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It's an incredible group of artists and I am sure we will all be inspired by one another!<br />
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I am amazed and touched by how my initial idea has sparked a growing movement, and I'm looking forward to seeing how Women Painting Women will continue to evolve.<br />
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Finally, in a serendipitous twist, M Gallery where I show my work in Florida has recently moved to Charleston, and my ARC award-winning painting "Bottle Collection" will be on display, including others soon. I'm excited I'll be able to visit M Gallery's new location in person when I visit Charleston in November!<br />
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M Gallery<br />
<a href="http://www.mgalleryoffineart.com/">http://www.mgalleryoffineart.com/</a><br />
11 Broad Street<br />
Charleston, SC<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><a href="http://paintdifferent.blogspot.com/2010/10/here-come-ladies.html">Women Painting Women</a></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i></i>Robert Lange Studios</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.robertlangestudios.com/">http://www.robertlangestudios.com/</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">November 2010</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2 Queen Street</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Charleston, SC 29401</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Opening Nov 5, 5:30-8:30 pm</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-8581272034609948342010-09-14T10:19:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:32:12.073-07:00"Message in a Bottle" Session 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvhAOdnU8Ug13rPJDcWQIHlq1DPkP6cMUgb5WjHUxtWWw4jbwlmGIocVkxQWMH0Un5rd9uLSSYVPSo3_6HjzW1WYF6xSXxbDsJh2EPUw9g1h_42sDhp_gRU9B4cqALpc_lQ3QiTg/s1600/message-bottle_session07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvhAOdnU8Ug13rPJDcWQIHlq1DPkP6cMUgb5WjHUxtWWw4jbwlmGIocVkxQWMH0Un5rd9uLSSYVPSo3_6HjzW1WYF6xSXxbDsJh2EPUw9g1h_42sDhp_gRU9B4cqALpc_lQ3QiTg/s320/message-bottle_session07.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>8 x 10 inches</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>oil on panel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>work in progress</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-6-beginning.html">see the previous post here</a></i></div><br />
You'll have to compare this very closely to <a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-6-beginning.html">the previous version</a> to see the changes, but this step represents several more hours of work.<br />
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From here on out, the steps between stages will be incremental, hardly even noticeable in the photos posted here. But I'll try to post close-ups and describe what I am doing as much as possible.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-23748000085138549082010-09-14T10:13:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:32:12.074-07:00"Message in a Bottle" Session 6: Beginning Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2aywushHHIXsJwXvB8349JRX6aRDfmhwvlTAWHVZNBFaRyqrf0-8HNVi4-d6Pn523PrbxOo3DBDkURUjvYxyOHx0RoHuu-5UxpxKyFVnmaC_7Flta4LvMBtyBpZHFrYJr8h_ew/s1600/message-bottle_session06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2aywushHHIXsJwXvB8349JRX6aRDfmhwvlTAWHVZNBFaRyqrf0-8HNVi4-d6Pn523PrbxOo3DBDkURUjvYxyOHx0RoHuu-5UxpxKyFVnmaC_7Flta4LvMBtyBpZHFrYJr8h_ew/s320/message-bottle_session06.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>8 x 10 inches</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>oil on panel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>work in progress</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-5.html"><i>See the previous post here</i></a></div><br />
Even though I have begun color at this stage, I am still thinking of it as under-painting. In fact, the more I develop as a painter, the more I find that most of my time spent on a painting is "underpainting" - preparing the bed of values and hues the final painting will lay over.<br />
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So here I am mixing my values with colored pigment instead of just grey. I'm also just starting to warm up the colors of the shell, message paper and tissue.<br />
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Finally, I am adding a new level of refinement and detail as I make my first pass of color.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-34732806922782591332010-09-14T10:06:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:32:12.075-07:00"Black Jug" Session 6: Beginning Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0m_AMjUOOEDrm46sPBfGO7dA0Unt97H5fP7A73c_WK4E0D541duFixuPzLAAJLwAV_eItXZEhiJZ1qpQ0S8mHXv_wgguWyuFsyN5Io43oH5-5imktG1VyOjVUAKwMPeVOkVU-Dg/s1600/black-jug_session06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0m_AMjUOOEDrm46sPBfGO7dA0Unt97H5fP7A73c_WK4E0D541duFixuPzLAAJLwAV_eItXZEhiJZ1qpQ0S8mHXv_wgguWyuFsyN5Io43oH5-5imktG1VyOjVUAKwMPeVOkVU-Dg/s320/black-jug_session06.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>8 x 10 inches</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>oil on panel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>work in progress</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/black-jug-session-5-monochromatic.html"><i>see previous post</i></a></div><br />
You might not be able to see much "color" in this stage of the painting versus the <a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/black-jug-session-5-monochromatic.html">previous monochromatic underpainting stage</a>. But now I am mixing my neutrals values with a palette of color, instead of just grays.<br />
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The main difference between painting with monochromatic values and painting is color is in the <i>transitions between light and shadow</i>. In monochrome, you can just mix a bit of the 'light" puddle with a bit of the "shadow" puddle to make the halftone between.<br />
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When painting in color, the "halftones" is where all the most saturated color is. So each step between the light and shadow must be analyzed and mixed to match a hue/color, in addition to the value. This is very subtle when painting a monochromatic subject in color, because all the hues are relatively desaturated. But it's what makes even a monochromatic subject look like it is "in color".<br />
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Also, even in sharp edges, like where the edges of the white seashell touch the black background of the pot, the paint will look chalky and clunky. The tiny seam where the white meets the black must be knit together with a deeply saturated, dark orange or red. Otherwise the white seashell will look like a cookie-cutter shape pasted over the background, instead of a believable object sharing the same reality as the jug.<br />
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To do this, I use a small brush to push rich, saturated mixtures into the edges of the shell, and then back-fill the seashell with white, leaving a tiny thread of color between the light edge and the black background.<br />
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Since this technique is subtle and microscopic, it's impossible to see the effect in this photo. But careful attention to the reality of the edges will make the painting look believable in person.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-511026523349020012010-09-01T11:46:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:32:12.076-07:00"Message in a Bottle" Session 5: Monochromatic Underpainting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoyFLGSBR3fVNPA9Dh0LvkPcCp6RVObC2B4LmK-QA0RSYCh6xhnG2UG1AIRFyJvI5M9KJPI7y6-no-klPMdzHOY8Mf0f1ULAabns69lkpPcLQqZwlkTdEdYnzXEuzUwBtJbE-Wg/s1600/IMAG0542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoyFLGSBR3fVNPA9Dh0LvkPcCp6RVObC2B4LmK-QA0RSYCh6xhnG2UG1AIRFyJvI5M9KJPI7y6-no-klPMdzHOY8Mf0f1ULAabns69lkpPcLQqZwlkTdEdYnzXEuzUwBtJbE-Wg/s320/IMAG0542.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>8 x 10 inches</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>oil on panel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>work in progress</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-4-umber_01.html">see the previous post here</a></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35781331.post-31969851939466819482010-09-01T11:44:00.001-07:002010-10-24T19:32:12.076-07:00"Black Jug" Session 5: Monochromatic Underpainting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwN5SaNoi-qybGty0tAXvPA6FRurXj_zics57vNDKPfElghJbN-fGcQCNc7uzIZq8hmE4P_sqHA3Tmf_WXEv7Dy2QZktHtHAnl__F5VqP6xpEckZ-CK8XhIzqJ-ODvNP3RZn8gg/s1600/IMAG0541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwN5SaNoi-qybGty0tAXvPA6FRurXj_zics57vNDKPfElghJbN-fGcQCNc7uzIZq8hmE4P_sqHA3Tmf_WXEv7Dy2QZktHtHAnl__F5VqP6xpEckZ-CK8XhIzqJ-ODvNP3RZn8gg/s320/IMAG0541.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i>8 x 10 inches</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i>oil on panel</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i>work in progress</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sadievaleri.blogspot.com/2010/09/message-in-bottle-session-4-umber.html"><i>see previous post</i></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com