tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55505069832443473582024-03-05T14:52:00.826-05:00Samantha KellyA place for me to document the story of my artwork and travelSamantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-63904197747800472282019-09-02T17:45:00.003-04:002019-11-03T16:52:22.772-05:00Summer WaterScapes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this year,</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have found that working in watercolor is more relaxing than oils. They are easy to set up for a work area, and it's much easier to be able to finish a painting in a single day or weekend. I love being able to take small breaks while the paper dries before I put on a new layer of color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These lake scenes are en plein air paintings while vacationing in northern Michigan. It feels good to get out of the studio and sit outside all day, and still be productive. If not painting, I can sit outside all day lounging under a tree looking at the water and waves, feeling the cool breezes. Summer is a short season up there, but its short life is balanced by the abundance of beauty it displays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last Spring I worked on a few paintings using photographs from past trips to the sea. I started to become tired of my typical "blues" and as the weather became warmer, I started to experiment with orange and yellows. I found an inspiring photograph on Instagram by one of my friends, and used it as my guide for a sunset on the sea. I am looking forward to returning to this color palette this autumn and winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I would like to do more painting en plein air this year. It feels awkward for me to be out of my studio but I think it might help me grow. I am hoping to make this a new challenge that will take me out of my routine, and to find inspiring landscapes in Indiana.</span><br />
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<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-77423591827404303772019-02-16T16:16:00.005-05:002019-02-17T17:38:30.014-05:00Winter WaterScapes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been continuing to work with watercolors. I like them. They are easy for me to set up, finish a painting, and easy clean my work area. I can work in watercolor paint without dedicating too much time to the process. I have set up some new lighting in my studio. This helps me to have more flexible work hours and to be able to work at night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been out of my studio for a while. I had a visitor who needed a bedroom for a few months, and I gladly gave her my studio/office to set up a room. I needed to change the energy in my place, and having her here helped me see what I was missing from life. During her stay, I stopped being creative and threw myself into my career. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that I have my studio back, I've reorganized, and found a new desire to get back to work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hung a large oil painting in my studio. It had been stored the past five years so haven't really been able to look at it. The canvas</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fills most of the wall. It is the painting in the post titled "<b>Green Blues</b>" from 2012. Looking at this painting everyday has inspired me to go back to this style in composition. Calm waters in the background, with textured water or land in the foreground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> These watercolors include using my gold pen. A fond memory from my days working in my atelier in Nice, France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I had a little time to travel in June up to great northern Michigan. I have Oil paintings that I have posted of this small, calm lake. For this vacation, I wanted to do some sketching, and I chose to bring along my water colors as a way to quickly bring some color to my thoughts and sketches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whenever I am at the lake, I can feel the history of the area. The summer travelers since the early 1900's have come up here to escape the heat of the summers. Ernest Hemingway had a cottage on a lake near by. I always feel inspired, as maybe he did, to express the peace and calm of the surrounding nature and the lake. It's a peaceful retreat to be able to calm my thoughts, release tensions, and fill my senses with nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel privileged to be able to continue to enjoy this home away from home that I have known all my life. I can feel much love permeating from the walls when I walk around the cottage. Every room and hallway are filled with the love of my grandparents, and the continuing care of everyone in my family who enjoy the cottage. The rooms still have all the same comforts that I remember from my childhood. It is a place to escape that is familiar,and not changing too fast. I am able to easily slip into a routine that I have know all my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the finished painting of Facing my Fears. I still have this new creative focus in life and art to challenge my fears and not put them behind me, but make them a part of me to help me move forward. Defining my fears has been difficult, since through the years I have covered them with new ways of thinking to get around them. I thought I was facing my fears then, but really I was only changing the routes to go around them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see myself at a transition point in my life, and feeling stagnate. Although I am passionate about new/old ideas that I want to pursue, I have been procrastinating to take the steps that I need to make these ideas move forward. I believe spiritually, psychologically, and physically, that challenging the fears in my life, and moving past them will give me the new energy that I need to progress. The energy field that surrounds me will be able to open up and allow new nuances to enter and influence my direction. If I want to keep moving forward in life, I need to cross over the fence, or jump to the other side of the creek bed, and not be afraid of what's on the other side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I call this painting tableau de Yannis. While I was in Nice 2010, I asked Yannis for his advice several times for the direction I should take with this painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I met with Yannis and Paulin again in September. It has been the first time to see them in five years. It was good to see the gallery again. It was time to go back, no regrets. They have shared with me a significant part of my life that will not be forgotten, and for their friendship, I am grateful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was always laughter between the three of us. We were the three artists. The best moments were spent filling my sketch book with characters and scenes while drinking vin chaude or beer in the afternoon. We spent hours in bars sitting at a table, telling our stories conveyed in small caricature drawings. There was once a day we spent a few too many hours at one of our favorite bars. Our laughter and behavior started to become a little too disruptive, and eventually we were asked to leave. There was much joy between the three of us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It felt good to be back again, like a second home, seeing them, and knowing that there could still be a small part of me in them as well. </span>Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-19755645131334355522017-07-16T17:36:00.000-04:002017-08-13T17:02:35.577-04:00Something New<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something new, but back to something old also. This is a painting for a concept to look at my fears. As a result, it has influenced a lot of decisions in my daily life, and evaluating my anxieties and fears to determine their validity. Instead of holding back, doing it anyway without "fear" of the impression that I may give out or of the consequences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've spent the day in my studio today listening to Beethoven, evaluating my next step with this painting, intending to take my brush into hand. But today and lately, I have been too distracted. I am overwhelmed by my thoughts and planning for my next trip to France, Villefranche-sur-mer. It's been a long time since I have made this journey, and I hope to be able to make peace with the sea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A progression from inspiration and motivation to a product of my thoughts and emotions and aspirations. I am still not sure where I am going with this phase. I am still experimenting in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">painting with no planning or design and using intuition. My subconscious is revealing what it believes needs to happen, even when I consciously try not to be predictable. </span><br />
<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-21995782793128045742016-11-06T17:00:00.001-05:002016-11-06T17:20:13.257-05:00Autumn<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't want to paint another waterscape, but this came out so quickly and easily, I did not let it go. I let it flow, and I am not disappointed. The colors show my transition into less blue and more sepia tones. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feeling a little blue lately. My birthday is arriving soon, and much reflection about my past, present, and future, the unknown future. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just finished a new painting. A painting with no forethought, planning, design, or reason, only intuition and desire. It gave me a lot of new energy and inspiration to start another. Hopefully this new productive energy can carry me through the winter, and into a new season. </span></span></span><br />
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<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-8730504430587166742016-08-06T15:10:00.004-04:002016-08-10T16:44:15.357-04:00Transitions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Transitioning and acquainting myself with my past, and finding its bearings on my current path of Life Journey. Transitioning away from the daily routines that do not provide me growth, and cause me to question my place in the broader scheme of life. Living and searching for more joys in life, and cutting out the persons and activities that feel like there is a weight wrapped around my ankles. </span></span><br />
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<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-14097875999278743832016-04-15T00:15:00.003-04:002016-04-23T22:35:27.762-04:00My Blank Canvas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 22px; line-height: 30.8px;">but I know that this phase of living will have an end. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 22px; line-height: 30.8px;">I'm already planning travels and filling my thoughts with day dreams along the Cote d'A</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 30.8px;">zur</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 30.8px;"> with sunshine, blue sky, wine and the Sea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago a friend and I were talking about vacations. We discussed what the perfect vacation meant to each of us. The perfect vacation to me is time away from my routine life, and painting...Spending a little time each day painting on a canvas or in other types of creative endeavors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have traveled twice this summer to two separate inspiring locations... but since the logements were not my own, my creative time was limited by participating only as an observer. I have a dream to find a space one day that I can make my own, and set up "shop". Somewhere to escape for productive and frequent times away; regenerating my energy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A place where I can explore the landscapes around me and feel the energy of my neighbors and life on the street. A place that I don't have to feel isolated, but a place where I can be productive and focused with mes oeuvres and still have an opportunity to step out and interact in the world around me. This dream is very familiar to me because this dream was once a part of my life. And now I seek this dream again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These words come to my mind "Seek and you will find", but I know also that "when you dream, you are already there." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-44481896435701658102015-01-02T18:40:00.002-05:002015-01-02T18:42:53.812-05:00Painting Inspired<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I completed this painting after my trip to Italy. I was a little hesitant to believe that this painting could be completed because the architect in me wanted to see a little more depth and realism for the architectural symbolism. I was eager to start work on another idea, and I wanted to move forward. I came to the conclusion that this painting represents a vision of a memory, like recalling a dream that is not so vivid after you awake. I am working on another painting with the same theme and colors, and feel very inspired by the colors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I originally wanted this painting to be full of all my thoughts for Florence and of the architecture in Florence. But from my perspective, it is apparent that I could not escape the beauty that I saw in Venice. I am merging together all my thoughts and feelings into one painting, a dream and a memory. </span></div>
Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-91493273803154802792014-10-19T18:44:00.005-04:002014-10-20T23:44:52.872-04:00Going back to Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been too long since I have seen my blog and written in it. Once this was a place for my personal therapy and for personal reflection, but then it became a place where I could only see what was missing in my life. While feeling severely uninspired, this blog became a reminder of who I had been, and the parts of me that I felt were lost. But finally, I was able to take a long awaited and much needed vacation for myself. My dream for the last two years has been to return to Italy, Firenze. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a much needed break from my professional work ; work that seemed to never want to stop. I literally was about to collapse under all the stress of other peoples daily requests and problems for me to solve. But having 10 days away from the office has transformed my health and attitude. I only peeked at my work emails a couple times, and that was enough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose Florence and Venice for my travels. I carefully laid out the course of my journey for these two destinations and the number of days spent in each. I am spontaneous in my traveling that I don't plan too many visits to places that I "must see". I always give myself the leisure of strolling the city to explore, and only 1 or 2 must see places. After all, it is my vacation. I do not want the added stress of a day filled with sites and a time schedule too constrained. That would be work. I tell myself, I can return on another trip, and see what I missed on the last trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My pilgrimage to Florence that I have been anticipating for the last two years, was more of a trip of reconciliation with the past than exploration. I had traveled to Florence before, but there were many memories of confusion, sadness, and dismay that I have associated with this city. My heart knew it was a beautiful wonderful place to visit, but the past several years, I have not been able to enjoy looking back or seeing the old photos from my previous journey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am still continuing my Waterscape paintings, and more ideas are coming to me, especially an idea for a larger painting. Not too large, but large enough to express new ideas and thoughts. </span></span>Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-62236765044313537682014-01-26T15:23:00.002-05:002014-01-26T15:23:47.226-05:00Another Chapter <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-13292305345902978392013-09-22T23:54:00.002-04:002017-02-24T12:10:30.723-05:00Calm Lake- Verison 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the second version of the Calm Lake painting that I posted earlier. There were many tears shed, much anxiety, and confusion felt while I labored on this canvas. When it was finally completed I felt relief that I still know that I can move forward. I may be slow to move, but at least there is advancement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have been planning a trip over seas again, to Italy and Nice. It has been almost 1 1/2 years since my last trip. I am ready for a new adventure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are things happening in my personal social, work, love life that have me reflecting back to other times, comparing my life now to then. All of it has been wearing down on my spirit. A feeling of being overwhelmed by life, and not enough stregnth in my dreams to carry me forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The painting above is a water color that I worked on in 2003, another time in my life that I was without oil painting. I did this water color as quick attempt to explore other medium in my own style. When I worked on this, it too was an emotionally trying time in my life. I was feeling out of sync with life, and continuing on the daily path. I was not expressing myself enough then, and now, I feel maybe in some ways, I have felt my expression stifled? </span></div>
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<br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-60599654056361076202013-05-11T13:28:00.003-04:002013-05-19T21:06:42.953-04:00Calm Lake<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the oil painting version of a charcoal referenced as "Calm Lake Scene". I am working on a second version of this that appears to be more of a "Stormy" lake scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This painting references a trip that I made to Northern Michigan, staying in a cottage on a small secluded lake late August 2012. In some respects, this lake was and is still a part of my home. I made my first understanding with water and the peace that it gives me today at a very young age in this location. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was young I would look out over the water of Lake Michigan and imagine the vastness and history of the storms, the waves, and the travelers who in perilous journeys crossed the icy deep lake waters . Even though it is not visible to the eye, I knew somewhere there was land on the other side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When looking out at the Sea, I feel the same feelings of the immensity of its water and the dangerous journeys that many explorers must have made. They were seeking land and civilizations they could not see just on the other side of the horizon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-70611623195612665482013-04-07T19:54:00.002-04:002013-04-07T20:03:53.019-04:00Blues by the Sea<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are pastel drawings that I did in Nice France, December 2011. When I arrived in Nice during this voyage, I had discovered that my studio/gallery 6 Place Vieille had been closed for me to use. I was not going to be able to have the long awaited retreat spending 7-10 days relaxing and painting, and being an artist in Vieux-Nice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Desperately needing a creative outlet for myself, I went to an art store and purchased a small sketch book, pastels, and a few brushes. I had an idea that inspired me to try a different technique that I had not used before. I was able to use the brushes with the pastels to get the same feeling as if I was painting. It was not the same, but it was something new... and I was completely mobile to "paint" in any location without a lot of equipment to carry with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I "painted" these "au bord le mer", on the beach by the sea. It was very peaceful and healing despite the disappointments of when I had arrived. A few days later, I was offered the use of the gallery for me to use to oil paint, but the magic had already departed from the dream of the gallery. I was content with the new rhythm I had found, and I wanted to stay the rest of my voyage in my quiet comfort, leaving the drama from the past behind me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my friends commented to me that these drawings had the character of stormy seas. I think she was right. While I did the work, I was calm and relaxed and did not see it. But some of the stormy waters that I tried to hide were there on the paper revealing themselves to me. As the Spring approaches for 2013, I see that this period in my life was truly the end of a Winter and the beginning of a new Spring. </span></div>
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Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-26203039548877372282013-02-28T00:06:00.000-05:002017-10-15T16:47:35.267-04:00Hyperbola of Nice<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I completed this painting in spring of 2009, after my first trip to Nice, France. I only stayed for a long weekend. I call this painting the Hyperbola of Nice because after I returned, I felt worlds had collided, and something new had opened up inside of me. A new energy in my life, an awakening of the spirit. I did not know then the adventure and future that would unfold and develop for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It has been almost a year since my last trip to Nice, returning with the remainder of my paintings. I made a new years resolution to not dream or reflect back too much on the past; to not live in the past and compare the past with the present. In doing so, I have been able to feel a new sense of belonging in my home in Indiana, and l have not felt the restlessness that used to call me to a life far away. I have truly found calm. One of my friends noted that I am very "centered". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My life here does not have all the architecture, culture, and food that I still love and miss. Sometimes when I am walking I can feel in my world around me a dullness, and the environment (the city) is wrapped in a cold rainy grey. But inside of me I feel a Light. A joy inside of me that makes everything worthwhile. A feeling of home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I am working on a new painting. I want it to reflect all the centeredness that I am feeling. I am hoping to produce several of the same subject to study different textures, colors, and techniques of overlay. It's been a slow process, but a bright spot in my life for grey winter days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the last week, I found myself reflecting again to all I miss overseas. Indiana has had a few sunny days that felt like the Spring that I remembered in France and Italy. I remembered my New Year's resolution. I'm not ready to return yet. I will return when I no longer anticipate how I am going to navigate through drama. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />Samantha Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15476859575950049868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550506983244347358.post-48114016125141386042013-01-06T15:03:00.002-05:002013-01-12T13:52:28.634-05:00Mixed Media<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This drawing is a combination of watercolor, charcoal, and pastels I am waiting for the arrival of my new roll of canvas so that I can start a new oil painting. I thought I would explore an unrestricted use of texture and technique. I am feeling a new and liberated creative energy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone brought to my attention once that my work always moves from Left to Right. For this drawing, I did the work vertically, so when it is rotated to horizontal, it would move Right to Left. I tried working Right to Left in my last painting, but I was continually rotating it to get the right "Feel". I was never able to get comfortable with the "flow". I finished the painting knowing that the result reflected the confusion, impatience, and unrest I feel in my personal life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In these two drawings, I had the confidence to work with the grid again. In the drawing above I gave more attention to the grid in "taking away" color instead of adding color. Although you can't see it very well in this image, this effect is predominately used in the upper right "sky" area of the drawing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not sure I will bring the grid back into my next painting. I received my new roll of canvas so I am able to begin work immediately. I have visions of painting something more calm and serene, similar to my previous painting in the post "VilleFranche"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (which included the grid in it's composition) and "Calm Lake"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe the grid appears as an attempt to cover up what I think is unsuccessful? or only to add interest where I see unresolved ideas? While I am working with the grid, I feel as if I am covering the composition with a translucent fabric. Or sometimes it feels like I am creating the appearance that everything is under water. </span><br />
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