tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42868692858377769412024-03-05T18:06:16.766-08:00Art Notes 2015Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08162644317926554082noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286869285837776941.post-17789814411067047442015-06-13T18:31:00.001-07:002015-06-13T18:31:08.568-07:00Week 15 and the end: week 16 (we did it)!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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my summer camp for young students is starting on Monday, </div>
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so Libby and I finished the series just in time.</div>
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For week fifteen I loved the opportunity to paint another clothes pin, and in BLUE too!</div>
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Laundry Day, painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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Laundry Day, photograph by Libby Ellis</div>
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For the last week, Libby expressed some trepidation about coming up with a perfect last image.</div>
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I, of course, picked one of my more difficult subjects out of her five photographs, plants! </div>
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Each time I think this will go well! And then the painting doesn't live up to my expectations. </div>
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It's good to go through that experience—my students frequently complain that they never achieve their vision when working in art… I just tell them, try again! And I will.</div>
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Now it's time to put away the paint brushes and turn to teaching. </div>
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I'll be posting our summer projects and new paintings in the fall!</div>
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Seed Pod, painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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Seed Pod, Photograph by Libby Ellis</div>
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We are almost to the end of this project, only two more weeks to go.</div>
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I will miss the challenge of working with Libby's imagery.</div>
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Love this latest image of the boats on shore. I love the photograph and also the painting, but feel they are really two different things this week. Sometimes it feels as if the images are sisters, but these feel more like interesting distant cousins.</div>
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Boats on a Beach at Sunset</div>
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Painting by Kalen Meyer, 10" x 10", acrylic on canvas</div>
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Boats on a Beach at Sunset</div>
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Photograph by Libby Ellis, Martha's Vineyard</div>
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The flowers were challenging, as usual. </div>
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This week I did a flower painting with my young students and for the demonstration, </div>
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I really should do this one over!</div>
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Flowers in Vase</div>
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Painting by Kalen Meyer, 10" x 10", acrylic on canvas</div>
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These two paintings are similar in that the water in the backgrounds have a lot of details, and details are never easy. Since I have an affinity for painting birds, I had to do this one, but the cattails were a little crazy making. Am I just complaining here? </div>
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I am still so satisfied that each time I tackle these images from Libby Ellis, I start feeling doubtful I can do her images justice, and I end up satisfied with the final result. I can paint water. Who knew?</div>
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Black Bird on Cattails, Painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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Three Buoys, Painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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I confessed to Libby today that every week I can't wait to open the file from her with the five new images, and every week I say to myself, "You've got to be kidding!" when I see them. </div>
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The photographs are always great images, but even though Libby is sending them to me knowing my painting style and sensibility, some seem to me to want to stay photographs.</div>
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Then usually one image will become apparent it's the one.</div>
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I consider this a spring image along with the last two, I guess they could just as easily be summer images if I didn't know Martha's Vineyard is still thawing.</div>
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Loved this composition and relished the thought of painting clothespins (thought it was going to be easy, ha!), but wondered about the color all being so similar. On this painting, I feel as if I took some liberty with the image, blurring the tree texture to make the pins stand out more. I think the shadows are really the painting.</div>
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The tie-in to the other images is the rope, of course.</div>
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Really looking forward to seeing these all mounted and up with the photographs.</div>
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Often I really like the under drawing of a painting and am tempted to stop or use washes to preserve the pencil line, but when I do, I am never really satisfied.</div>
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Buoy on open water (no more ice)!</div>
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Loved this image Libby Ellis sent from Martha's Vineyard.</div>
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Felt as if I hit a new level for myself this week, this project is really stretching my painting muscles.</div>
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I know those of us on the West Coast don't fully understand how it feels when you see the first flowers poking up from bare dirt after a long winter, since our plum trees bloom in January, but I can try to imagine it.</div>
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In the past I've thought about doing a series of 36 flowers because they are SO HARD to make into interesting paintings.</div>
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Libby was a little disappointed in this one, I think. This is the first week I didn't choose the image she was secretly hoping I would. I felt this was the hardest image to work with so far—and that's good! </div>
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I really enjoy pushing myself. I feel that has been the greatest reward of this project so far—I am painting images I never would choose on my own!</div>
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Flowers (you can tell I don't know what they are, crocuses? snow drops?)</div>
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Libby sent a couple of images by accident before the Wednesday deadline. I looked at them, of course, and LOVED this one. Since it was in an odd format, I didn't know what they were but was HOPING she was going to send this as part of the five. I got a text a few hours later saying to please not look at the images, she hadn't meant to send them. I didn't tell her I'd already looked at them. She ended up leaving the island for a break from the winter, and called from St. John's wondering if she should send photos from there for this week, since she hadn't taken any on Martha's Vineyard… I said, "Oh, but you did!" and confessed to looking at them. Turns out she had texted me right after she had sent them, but due to a texting delay, I got her message so much later. She couldn't remember what she had sent—I assured her they were good.</div>
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So that was a long note just to say I got to paint this this week, it was fun knowing Libby didn't know what it was going to be. </div>
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After I sent this to her, she remarked that this was the longest view we had done so far and that she has been sending me close shots because she thought they would be easier to paint. </div>
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Ice Breaking with Buoy, painting by Kalen Meyer, acrylic on canvas, 10" x 10"</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08162644317926554082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286869285837776941.post-73621568278821933162015-04-09T10:40:00.000-07:002015-04-09T10:40:01.428-07:00Bicoastal, Week Six<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We still have not come up with a good name for this project!</div>
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I noted on Instagram this week that I could most definitely see the Marine influence in all of these images (except the first and fifth), of course it is Martha's Vineyard!</div>
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Again, knew right away which of the five photographs I was going to paint, and Libby said she thought this was the one also. As usual, my first hit was this wasn't going to work as a painting, but I ended up really enjoying painting this one and liked the way it turned out. Abstract boat. </div>
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I took it to a fellow artist's studio to talk about the images and the process, and she said as she was looking at this one, "Don't tell me what this is, I want to look closely at it first." I told her what she sees is all I see, I have no other information from Libby as to what these are photographs of.</div>
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Boat, painting by Kalen Meyer, acrylic on canvas, 10" x 10"</div>
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Week five. Libby sent five photographs of closely cropped type from a sign at a llama farm.</div>
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When I first saw them I had a few doubts about how this was going to work as a painting.</div>
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I looked a each photo by itself, and this one, with its subtle fold in the sign, ended up being the one.</div>
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Only three colors on my palette. I knew since it was a simple an image, the painting had to be about the paint quality and I loaded my brushes for this one.</div>
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On week four the photographs came a little late. I had been thinking it was easier to take five photos than it is to paint one, but when Libby was late this week, I realized it's not so simple to take five compelling photographs on demand.</div>
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We talked on the phone, she apologized and then soon sent a batch she was calling second rate (or some such distinction). They were great! Some I knew had to stay photographs, but this one jumped out. The rope was so much fun to paint. Libby had called out the hint of blue in the rope, I might have not added it, but realized it was the bridge to the last image.</div>
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Rope and 36, painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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Week Three: Libby sent me five photos of buoys hanging on fences and walls. A few had snow visible near the bottom of the frame. </div>
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I knew I was going to use this one as soon as I saw it. There was something odd about seeing objects I associate with summer next to a bank of snow, and I also liked the fence these were hanging on. Libby said she was craving color and so responded to the blue in this image.</div>
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Libby Ellis sent me a great batch of photos, it was hard to choose which one I was going to paint. I found myself thinking which image would go with the first painting, but decided I had to let go of that and go with my gut decision. I love this image of the chair on ice (what is it doing there?) with the futuristic sleds in the background. I enjoyed the process of painting, even though it had been a rough day and I ended up painting very late. Libby and I haven't talked about these (other than she texted she was hoping I'd choose this one), we've both been very busy… will add a note after we do!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08162644317926554082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286869285837776941.post-36227284587321856512015-02-17T08:03:00.000-08:002015-02-17T08:07:06.632-08:00Bi-coastal Art!<div style="text-align: center;">
My friend, <a href="http://www.libbyellisdesign.com/#!portfolio/c10g1" target="_blank">Libby Ellis</a>, and I are starting a new collaborative art project.</div>
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Libby lives on Martha's Vineyard (currently under 4 or 5 feet of snow) and <a href="http://kalenmeyer.com/" target="_blank">I</a> <a href="http://kalenmeyer.com/" target="_blank">am in California</a>. We had been talking about doing a project together for a while and on a recent trip to L.A. we came up with this!</div>
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Each week for 16 weeks, Libby will send me 5 photographs.</div>
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I will choose one and paint it. After Libby sees the image, she sends me a new batch of 5.</div>
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After some debate, we decided I can't crop her image.</div>
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This is our week one. When Libby sent her images, I knew immediately the one I would paint, however the image was so much more abstract than anything I usually work with, I was a little daunted!</div>
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I sent the image to Libby while she was on a call, and when she called back she said, </div>
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After digesting the fact this was my painting, we both got fairly excited about going on.</div>
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Leslie found me a few years ago through my website and ordered my book <i>36 views of Mt. Tamalpais</i>. She asked if I would speak to her class and I gladly accepted. Not knowing if I could speak for an hour on my Mt. Tam paintings alone, Leslie said it would be great if I talked about my life as an artist. This will be the third time she has invited me to speak. That first time, many years ago, I had to go back to the beginning and piece together how I ended up as an artist.</div>
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It began with my early years at a "free school" in the 60s where we had the choice of attending any class we desired…I went to all the art classes and none of the academic classes, which left me woefully unprepared for the world after elementary school.</div>
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An Early Painting by Kalen Meyer</div>
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After reveling in art as a child I abandoned the idea of being an artist, until my interest was revived in my 20s by a rock climbing partner who was involved in the artist book and calligraphy communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stepping back into art through books and calligraphy felt safe, and I spent a few years taking classes in calligraphy from various masters and book making classes at Mills College. I went back to S.F. State to strengthen my design skills to be a professional calligrapher and designer, but while there I discovered painting and printmaking and reignited my love of creating art.</div>
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The idea for the series of Mt. Tam painting paintings came early in life from viewing a book of my mother's on Hokusai's 36 views of Mt. Fuji. I remember the day I realized that Mt. Fuji was in every print (not having read the title or any of the text), viewed from different angles, with people from daily life in the foreground, usually oblivious the mountain in the background.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Having grown up on Tamalpais Road, I was always aware of the mountain and one day was struck by how similar Mt. Tam was to Mt. Fuji—surrounded by pockets of urban communities. I started photographing the mountain any time I saw it from an unusual angle. A familiar refrain in the car from the children was "Why are we stopping? Oh. It's Mt. Tam. Again!" After photographing and talking about the project for years, one day I figured I'd better just do it and so set myself the task of painting an image a day for 36 days. Having honed my painting skills during those earlier nap times, I very nearly pulled it off, finishing in around 42 days, not quite meeting my goal of 36.</span></div>
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However, I found I enjoyed the challenge and learned so much about myself and painting during that time, that I have continued to set myself similar goals. One year it was 36 birds in 36 days (<a href="http://kalenmeyer.tumblr.com/">http://kalenmeyer.tumblr.com</a>) and then One Portrait, One Landscape and One Object a week </div>
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Lately I have been painting a set of 12 birds and 12 dogs for calendars for a Pop-up I am doing with friends in early December. My now high-school aged son asked me, "Are you doing a bird a day?" and I assured him no, no, I'm not that crazy this time…. and then the next day found myself remarking, "I have to paint two birds today!" He just looked at me sideways and didn't say a thing. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I realize somewhat in retrospect that this is why I haven't been able to paint for a while. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">My mother was an artist and it was when I discovered that she hadn't been painting in over a year that I first realized that she had the beginnings of Alzheimers. She had been collecting empty canvases for a while, way too many, and after trying and failing to get her to paint again, I moved all the canvases into my basement where they are today.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">She had been working on a series of icebergs that were beautiful. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This week we made ceramic chickens that most definitely cheered me up.</span></div>
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Painting is still not flowing off my brushes, but I've been photographing.</div>
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Sunday Morning, China Camp, California.</div>
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Fan II, acrylic on canvas, 20"x 20"</div>
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Went back to the image of my grandfather's fan. </div>
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Started with the idea of making a black and white painting but some warm tones snuck in. </div>
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I might have another go at this next week.</div>
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Scissors II, acrylic on paper</div>
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Also worked with an old image of scissors.</div>
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First repainted a canvas version I did years ago that was a little still, it stayed a little stiff, </div>
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I think it'll be a bag soon... and then did this version on paper, which I like better.</div>
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Twin Peaks bag, front and back. I like what's happening in the back!</div>
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I spend a lot of time teaching photography to young students, mostly 3rd through 5th graders.</div>
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I don't tell them what to photograph, I figure it's their world, they can show me what they see. </div>
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We work a lot on how to take photographs in focus, </div>
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Is it really week four? I don't even know anymore. </div>
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For the past few weeks I have had to pull back and regroup. Painting has not been going very well, painful in fact, and repainting wasn't working either. Both of which put me in a funk. </div>
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This was a new painting.... after trying to figure out what I really would paint if I could paint anything, I thought BIG black and white paintings... went to the basement and pulled out a large gessoed piece of un-stretched canvas and painted a crow. It was terrible.</div>
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The next morning it was still terrible.</div>
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So I made into this bag. </div>
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It works as a bag! </div>
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I started to pull old work off stretcher bars and sew. </div>
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A couple I thought needed repainting to make a better bag, </div>
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I'll have to live with them for a while before I decide what they'll end up as.</div>
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Can't let go of the process of painting, so I am limping along for now. </div>
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This is a transistor radio I bought at a flea market just to paint:</div>
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From the Smithsonian's 100 Objects that Changed America.</div>
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I have to confess, painting is starting very slowly this year. </div>
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I thought about making these creatures some day with some class and since I don't have access to a kiln at the second school I teach in, it was time to do these as horses, in honor of the Year of the Horse. Once they were made, they reminded me of <a href="http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/calder-and-abstraction-avant-garde-iconic" target="_blank">Alexander Calder sculptures</a>, </div>
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Which was fabulous, by the way, if you're in Los Angeles, go see it!</div>
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This painting of Gram was never right. It looks much more like him now and I am pleased with the looseness of the paint. I left the eyes alone and now they are a little too tight, but that's okay.</div>
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The question, why paint and not just photograph? comes up a lot for me, especially since I usually paint from photographs. I have decided it comes down to the quality of the paint on the surface, if done right, it adds so much depth, it becomes something more than just the image. </div>
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Repainted bowl, the under painting was of a fish bowl, never really liked it.... now it's better!</div>
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We now have over 65 of these around the school, herds of good luck for the new year!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each winter I start a new series of paintings. I find it helpful to give myself an assignment as a way to get work done amidst a very busy life. Previous series have been <i><a href="http://kalenmeyer.com/km_gallery/bk_tambookcover.html">36 Views of Mt. Tamalpais,</a> <a href="http://kalenmeyer.tumblr.com/">36 Birds in 36 Days</a>,</i> and <i>18 Landscapes, 18 Portraits and 18 Objects in 18 Weeks (see below). </i>Posting the work online keeps me honest.</span></div>
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Welcome to the new year and a new series! In mulling over what the work was going to be, I was feeling the weight of old work that didn't succeed slowly stacking up in my studio. Every old painting that did not show or get thrown away holds back a small piece of my creative self and in the past it has been liberating to repaint an uncomfortable image and turn it into something that works. Some of my favorite paintings have come out of reworked images. </div>
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However I don't want to just repaint, I also want to create new work, and it feels like time to allow myself to paint each week without the constraints of a single subject. </div>
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While cataloging my student's work early this year, I realized how much we have done together over the years. A friend suggested I post my student's work with my own to see connections woven between the two. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> • cleaning house by repainting one painting that feels unfinished,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> • posting a student's work from my vast archives, curious to see connections between their work and my own and also perhaps to give inspiration to other teachers, since I have been inspired and learned so much from others myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of my excuses to collect them, such a beautiful form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prints of wood: <a href="http://www.bryannashgill.com/gallery.html&gid=6">http://www.bryannashgill.com/gallery.html&gid=6</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I played around with his printing techniques one summer with the kids but we never came close to his brilliant images. We settled for painting the wood grain on plywood before painting still lives of teapots. The image at the top is mine, a sample painting in tempera, </span></div>
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Did not care how this turned out. Stopped before I felt finished. Am happy.</div>
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Realizing time was getting short I did a big push last weekend to get ahead on these paintings. It was thoroughly enjoyable to paint so much (I did 5 paintings in two days). I wish I could paint that much all the time. I still learn something new every painting.</div>
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When I was taking the photo for this painting, a man whipped open the door and said, "Can I help you?" Somewhat aggressively. I said in my most non-threatening voice, "Is it okay to take a photograph of your chair?"... He answered, "Yes.... what's this for, 'Berkeley Porch'?" </div>
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From a photograph by a young photography student of her mother. </div>
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