tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49699817928121958112011-04-21T20:56:34.778-04:00Painting & WordingSuzanne Allyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04386307030909708522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969981792812195811.post-16856307705221322012009-03-29T16:46:00.003-04:002009-03-29T17:19:05.482-04:00

Time to put the "Moved" sign up here now. I have consolidated my blog and website into one site at http://suzanneally.com It is just the basic structure - I still have to add my bio & paintings - but the blog is fully operational complete with functioning comment buttons!If you subscribed to my Google email updates thru this site, you do not need to subscribe at the new site; your subscription

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Well, the new site has all its bones in place! I have a lot of meat to transfer over to the new website and then I'll open the doors & you guys can go punch my new comment buttons to your heart's content!For now I just want to say thanx for all the great advice you guys have given me. Kudos to Karelia Company's affordable & FUN Sandvox website app & JS-Kit for being easier than instant jello!

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Today feels like a personal beginning of spring for me. It is time to muster my gumption to get the wagon rolling for all our spring projects. So a bit of cyber housecleaning seems apropos.This is romance for 2 artists: I go out to studio in the afternoon to let myself miss Harry a bit. This morning I dropped him off at the airport to fly back to Ga. As he was pulling his bags out of the van, he

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Greetings on this fine springy day! Have been getting to know my new iMac & dissing myself for not converting sooner. I decided to test out a different website creator called Sandvox for Mac. Ohmygoodness. Sweet! & WAYYYY more affordable than Dreamweaver! I am considering using it to revamp not only my website, but my blog and all of Harry's web & blog as well.I'm ALSO in the midst of switching

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Today I'd like to pass on an exhibition opportunity for my fellow artist friends:CFA No. 3 – 2009 Public Art for Stephanie Tubbs Jones Transit StationThe Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) transmits herewith a Call For Artist (CFA) for the above referenced services. The procurement schedule for this project is noted below:Sealed proposals for this procurement will be received

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One of the jobs I did to support myself in art school was as museum guard for the Fort Worth Art Museum. The exhibitions usually lasted a month. Once there was a solo exhibition by some rising artist whose paintings were covered with writing. A solo exhibition meant the whole museum was full of this one artist's work, so no matter in which room I stood guard, there it was again. writing, writing

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WIPs ... Works in Progress...Took this shot as I left the studio late last night. Yes I took it with my cell phone. Yes you can't see detail. Yes, that's the best I can do for now. Take what you can. Don't you know it's humble time? [not hammer time]xosaucy soops. pls click title of post to leave a comment.

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I have been doing a lot of networking recently via Facebook and Twitter. I don't watch TV and rarely watch the news or read a newspaper because I believe most of it is someone[s] else[s]'[s] attempts to get me to do what they want me to do. The same does happen on Blogs & Twitter but it seems possible to weed out the ones with MLM type or propaganda type intentions. Anyway this is a side topic

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A few Chuck Close videos to enjoy..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkOyZQymJ2Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyeBeQrTs0&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzyuHcnj8uQ&feature=related

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Been working on Harry's web pages and doing gallery biz stuff. Also been Tweeting and reading a lot of articles suggested by art tweeps. Here is one I could not help but share from the New York Times entitled "The Boom is Over - Long Live the Art!"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/arts/design/15cott.html?_r=1Below are several of my favorite lines from the article. Each one presents a topic I

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Arts Stimulus - please help support it for the sake of all your starving artist friends....http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=12652716&type=taThanks so much with mustard on top!suzy

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I just received notice that Camille Olsen has passed on The Art Blog Award to me! Camile is a very gifted artist living in Austin, Texas. Please visit her blog @ http://imaramblingal.blogspot.com I take it to heart that such a gifted colorist would take note of me. Thank you, Camille.I am to list 7 things I love, and then tag 7 artists whose work I admire. 1. I love my mother who encouraged my

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by the Twiss FamilyCaleb, Ethan, Adam, & Abigail!hope they enjoy their prize!

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A bit better photo of the floor drip paintings [WIPs]

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Both 30x30"Hard to photo these two, but if you click to enlarge you can see a bit better. People seem to like to touch my paintings. The first one in particular is very soft and hard at the same time. Like a smooth stone maybe. The second one is not quite finished. Both paintings make me feel like I am diving underwater for larimar. Larimar is a crystal gem found mostly in the ocean near

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WIP.For now I call it"Sanded Wall".40x40"This painting has been thru so much. [reminds me of me.] First it was a flower painting, then a dark tar non-objective, then all the colors all over the place, now sanded and the various layers show thru.The pink one is finished. I know because it told me some things. When a painting can talk and tell you things you didn't know before, it is done.Rose

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I think this one may be finished. Notice I say "may". I am learning about how to decide when a work is finished. Or rather how NOT to decide. The way to do it is to rarely declare a work finished. It will declare itself. No really it will. I think. Maybe.Sapphire Square30x30"And here is an interesting shape in progress.Ultramarine blue. 24x8"

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Some WIPS:First one here has been through many stages already and I think many to go.& a detail shot of my favorite corner.

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I always wanted to live where it snowed a lot and boy howdy, now I have my wish. I actually enjoy shoveling snow tho I have to do small areas at a time or my back gives out. This last snow was so bad I had to literally dig my car out to go to the store today.If you live in snow, you know the problem that snow plows cause. When the city plows do your street they make it harder to get your car

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More on the Snowman contest.Send digital snapshot of your Snowman Contest Entry to:snowmancontest@suzanneally.comIf you win, you will be notified by email and your teeniney wee prize will be snail-mailed to you.Advance Note: the snowman contest will be judged by Lilybell and Streudel, the totally biased and opinionated old elf sisters. In the meantime have any snow quotes to share? My favorite

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As you can tell from my Tweets it snowed here quite a bit more than usual. If I hadn't shoveled my porch before I went to bed at 2am, I would not have been able to open my door when I awoke [at 10].I love the snow because of the way it reflects light and plays with colors. I have been especially absorbed with painting the past week or so and come upon some realizations that have simplified and

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Just came across this site which at first appears to be just for goldsmiths, however it has a goldmine of helpful downloadable docs that I highly recommend for any artist who seriously wishes to exhibit and/or sell.http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/Publications/Professional_Guidelines/Study well, my artist friends!xosuzy

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This just in from Harry's Georgia Studio.The Painting wall Jan 2009...and a small drawing:

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A very nice zone...just painting my heart out...more WIPs...click to enlarge...

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Been very busy in studio. Building up many many layers before declaring a painting done. A few WIPs for you ....

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A satin bridal gown travels better than me, nevertheless I continue to find myself continuously traveling or just returned from traveling and recuperating. After the New Orleans trip I felt like fried cat po... oh nevermind... I had to rest up big time. Today I began sorting thru paperwork and stuff and yippee here are a couple of snaps from New Orleans...Here is Hare at his new gallery the

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Just returned from a last minute trek to New Orleans to deliver paintings for Harry's exhibition with his newly contracted gallery, the Soren Christensen. Arrived home, flipped on NPR, collapsed roadworn exhausted on couch doubting our sanity at driving a cargo van of paintings 2 days over and 2 days back to New Orleans, only to hear an hr-long interview with Dan Cameron telling about the

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I keep struggling with less is more. I put on more paint than I need to. Kind of like makeup. Makeup is because you think your cheeks need to be redder, your lashes longer, your face stronger. You are not enough as you are. I dont wear makeup on my face anymore but I still struggle with not blobbing it on my paintings.akkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!More ... or less... as progresses....xo

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Some quotes and thoughts on the topic of "pain": The state of pain is the best location in which to discover your true self. It is the best place to discover what things don't really matter to you, what things matter most, and what things have been getting in the way.Pain is the most valuable tool for getting the truth from yourself.Pain renders the fat from the beef. Pain is an integral part

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Cool! Check out the interview of one of Harry's old students, Craig Hawkins on MyArtSpace:http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/12/art-space-talk-craig-hawkins.html

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The more I paint, the more I love the paint.Here is my desk - you can see I am studying Cy Twombly. How does he get away with all that scribble scrabble?!!Sometimes I stop and look at what I have painted and am bummed cause I had much more fun painting than success with what it looks like. Maybe that is why some painters seem to refuse to say they are going to paint in the studio. Instead they

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Don't you hate it when blog authors apologize for not writing regularly? Me too!So Hi there! What in the world have I been doing? Some of you have been so caring to ask. Bizzy bizzy bizzy bee! I have been moving honey from hive to hive trying to find the sweetest selling spots! That is, I have been moving Harry's paintings into some new galleries. The Craighead-Green in Dallas and the Soren

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Where the Fleogan24x24x1.5"mm/panel"Fleogan" means fly, or flee in middle English. I picked it of course because it is what the birds, or brids do.xoPS. Check out the new painting page: http://suzanneally.com/suzysv081101/suzanneally/index.html

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Where the Rome #430x30"mm/woodI finished this painting yesterday and it is my favorite so far. The second photo is how it looked the day before. I wanted to show you how it progressed. I continued rubbing & buffing until the underneath seemed to trade places with the upper layers & it took out some of the pods or whatever that is roaming. You can see where they disappeared - there appears to

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BOO! Happy Hallowiow!Ron Hart introduced me to Simple Viewer and WIOW! it is great. I made a page of my latest paintings HERE! Go check em out. I'm going to singers' practice. See you later, tater!xosuzy

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This morning I had a Texture Workshop for 5 fantastic ladies from the Country Workshop Artists. I always seem to learn something from my "students"! And I love the energy that happened as they took delight in smooshing the texture around and the surprises that happened.I'll be doing another workshop in November for them and a second workshop also in November for anyone else interested. Email or

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Guerrilla Garage Art / Children's Art Gallery!These are photos of the garage Smilin' Bill's grand- daughters painted. Man I love this! The scale is so grand and their brush strokes so free and full of heartfelt pure spirit! They haven't yet been taught to worry about the shoulds; kids just paint from their heart!Lots of people have been telling me about these little pink notices they have been

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Had my first Texture Workshop last night. I hope my peeps enjoyed it as much as I did. In photos are left to right, Jordan, & Alex, & Luke & Dana. They gave me some very good feedback to make the next one even better. The next workshop is Saturday morning.I tried to keep a balance between showing them the new technique and then giving them the freedom to create their own paintings. We were

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This has nothing to do with painting. Or maybe it does but I will leave it to you to tell me. Smilin' Bill gave me more cookies today, only this time he used Raisinettes instead of chocolate chips. Ohmygoodness!PS. Hurt my shoulder moving things around in my kitchen after the fridge broke. Had to rest up for a few days & finished up two delightful books... Marley and Me and A Girl Named Zippy.

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The Same Old Story in Periwinkles24 x 24 x 1.5mixed media on wood panelEnjoy. Talk later. Going to church now.xo

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It's the Same Old Story in Light Greens22 x 22 x 1.5"mixed media on wood panel[click to see enlarged image]My grandmother was the picture-taker in our family. We made fun of her incessantly. Surely there is not one of us that does not now feel guilty as we enjoy the plethora of family films she left behind. Nanny used to always spend so much time documenting our lives that we joked that she

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I am so very totally jazzed. Two things came together. maybe more than two things. I don't know. I just love this painting. Because.... I got the realish cats and the abstract texture together. I am waiting to see if it is done. Oh guess what I am calling it... "The Cats Came Back or No Canaries on Stick". Haha poor canaries. But isn't it fun? I know, I know, cool artists aren't supposed to

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My brother and I went trooping around our old stomping grounds while in Dallas. We had lunch at the Highland Park Pharmacy on Knox St. Grilled cheese sandwiches and cherry coke. The Pharmacy is about the only thing I can recognize on Knox St. anymore.My grandmother founded, owned & operated the Highland Park Weave Shoppe on Knox Street and when I was a little redheaded girl she would take my hand

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What a gift of a week with my family in Texas. I got to do something I enjoy tremendously - cook, laugh, eat, everyone in the kitchen.Visited our mother and grandmother's graves with my brother and cried together. Something very special about sharing sorrow with your brother.My family is so fun, so high energy. I am so lucky. I miss them. I wish they lived in my town so I could see them

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A photo of my lovey niece, Kimmie. I am here in Texas taking care of my sister after her operation. Which was thankfully very successful.OOOPS gotta go the Queen is calling. She wants her lunch......Yes mamm coming.............

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What a fantastic turnout for our event this weekend! We made some great sales AND some GREAT new friends! We are SO JAZZED! THANK YOU to everyone who came out to support us. It meant so much to have you there. I am tickled to say we added some bloggees to our list. A lot of friends and artists were excited about the concept of networking, making use of the internet and THE EVENT! Lori's shop

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Let Your Neck be FreeorJade with Reclining Stick12 x 12 x 1.5"mixed media on woodI really like this one. Lots to look at and touch. Some areas look like little pools of water and others like translucent porcelain. But it is the best translation in paint of what I feel when I am doing my Alexander lie downs.Hope to see you tomorrow night at the opening! Lots of paintings under $100. Annette is

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OK OK OK here are all the new ones...www.suzanneally.com

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Carnelian Lithostone with Stick12 x 12 x 1.5"mixed media on woodYou have to touch these. No I mean you have to. They are touchable. I have glazed each one of them with polyacrylic so they are protected. In some places the glaze is really thick and you just HAVE to touch it to see what happens. In other places it is smooth and velvety. Other places it is translucent like fired white porcelain. I

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Oh sheesh it's already tomorrow. Been busy getting ready for upcoming show. OK I'll give you one little appetizer [get it, Taste of Troy... appetizer, heh, heh] This one is:Amulet Page8x8x1.5"mixed media on woodg'nite!

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WHEW! How nervous! Just finished helping Harry with his application to the Guggenheim Fellowship Grant for 2008. Very exciting! Can you hear my knees knocking? It feels so good to seal the envelope & say ok that's all I can do. Zip 'er off in the mail tomorrow morning. Whew whew whew!Tomorrow Annie & Meggan & I set up our show at Lori Middleton's Interiors in downtown Troy. If you are in Troy

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Mi's Story 1991mixed media on woodThe emotion paintings seem to be a bit more than just a fleeting emotion. They seem to be snapshots of a potent emotion from the past. Like a dream that floats up to remind me of something I need to resolve in real life, something I forgot or was trying to forget.This is definitely something I want to always remember. Our son Mischa telling us his dreams. He has

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E From V October '06mixed media on woodAnother hatchling from feelie territory. Curious to know the feelings this one evokes in my bloggees??xo

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Diary Page July '0612 x 12 x 1.5"mixed media on canvas & wood[name changed to Rose Lithostone]Click image to enlarge!These little duckies are giving me a new blog issue to deal with. I work with several at a time bringing them up thru the process and they hatch each in their own time yet usually within a day or two of each other. So several days may go by as I bring a batch up thru the

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Been busy in the painting hatchery. By the time I had a batch hatched and ready to photo - the sun was gone and too dark to photo today! So let's take a relax and watch a little video from my nay bore, Smilin' Bill and his Rum River Blend Band....http://www.whiotv.com/video/17417660/index.html

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Jade Tablet5 x 6"gemstones & mixed media on woodLapis Lazuli Tablet5 x 6"gemstones & mixed media on woodRose Quartz Tablet4.5 x 6"gemstones & mixed media on wood3 Lazulis Tablet7 x 6"gemstones & mixed media on woodPaint & texture & feelings & WORDS tumbling thru my head. Books-related words. Word-related words.  Chapter, papyrus, scroll, tablet, Moses, yeah, I said "Moses". Sallie always says "

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CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE!The hammering noises have stopped and now just tickled laffing. What's up? I got the first few coats of texture on a big batch of canvases and beginning to add little finds, dry pigment, wet pigment, photo transfers, and other little deliciouses that carry a beat and hint at rhythms of language. I am building up the thickness a lot more than I ever have before and

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Canary Yellow with Stick6 x 7"mixed media on wood panelJust posted the first hatchling from the new white rock basement experiments. Az usual I have to say that you have to see these in person, dang it. Have eyehooks with wire to hang and more at bottom edge so the painting appears to float out from the wall. Cool.Going to see if I can get any more to hatch today...Buy.

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I am really excited about Ron Hart's post for Saturday Aug 30. He uses the word "remarkable" and he is talking about purple cows. Check it out. http://photobyhart.blogspot.comBANG BANG BANG ... SPLOOCH!

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What interesting conversations today. A little train of email exchanges: Annette wrote: OK, I am back on Dieb.......I was looking at the books I have and I started noticing that all his compositions or most of them are divided up horizontally into 3 or 4 areas primarily.......ask Harry about that......do you think we each have a composition we keep working in various ways...????? I

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Somebody stole my comment button! Alas, I ambusy getting ready for Family Camp. [WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!] I will fix the Comment button when I return to real life on Tuesday Sep 2. Until then if you have a comment, make it sweet and email it to me. I'll post it somehow, dearies!xo!

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Work In ProgressTime On Mars18 x 18 x 2"mixed media on wood boxWhat an awesome today today! Played in the white mud with Annie all afternoon. we scooped and blopped and blobbed, rubbed and buffed and stuck things in it.I recently subscribed to a feed from the explorer on Mars. They have a widget you can get that tells you the time on Mars. While I was making this painting, I kept thinking about

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Finally something to show, still a Work In Progress:PO's Paris Trip12 x 12 x 2mixed media on canvas on boardAnd a Good morning to my dear friends and fans! Did you have good coffee this morning? I am trying Starbuck's Gazebo Blend. Good but not quite as good as last month's Hawaiian Kona or something like that. Now can't find it anywhere. Flowery tropical blues on the bag. darn. It was

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Oh I forgot to tell you about the typing typing typing part...I am switching to a new site feeder. I think this one is more user friendly.Notice the new FEEDBURNER subscription box there on the left.If you are still using the FEEDBLITZ subscriber, please switch over to FEEDBURNER by simply filling out the wee form.Also please let me know how FEEDBURNER works for you. Feedback from YOO helps me

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More banging. Then typing. More coffee. ThenPAINTING! Ahhhh, painting! Well, texture paint anyway.What a transition time. The canvas boards and backing stretchers take some time to build because they will have to support more weight than the previous oil paintings. This is a clue as to things to come.Maybe you can get more clues from these photos. I thought it only fair to give my dear loyal

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More Office work. Google AdWords. zzz. Google Analytics. I miss paint. Checking out Webshots for images. Going to Night Sky to discuss art. Man their coffee is great! Back to office. cheese sandwich. I miss paint. Proof Grant for Harry.Oh hey read this part of his grant:Over the last few months I have become increasingly fascinated with how the human brain can process and organize incomplete

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BANG BANG BANG... clunk... tink... plop... squirggle... step step step step step step step step step step step... walk walk walk walk walk walk... click double click... type type type... WHOA! Who are these sleepy peeps on the doorstep of my Blog this morning?!Why I do believe it's my loyal Bloggees! Good morning, dearies! Have some homemade breakfast tamales and Mexican cocoa coffee. Little

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BANG BANG BANG!"What's that noise?""It's in the basement of the turquoise hobbit house. It's been going on for days! Do you think she's ok?"Yeah, I see her bustling in & out of the house now & then with cans of paint and bags from the hardware store.""And groceries of course.""Yes, and cat food."Bang, bang, bang!"There it goes again.""What's she up to?""I dunno, she hasn't been writing much in

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I have a question for my dear Bloggees, "Without looking it up, what does the word 'avatar' mean to you?" I hope you will post a comment because I am really curious the different words and references that may pop into your mind at first. Don't worry, this isn't a test. You won't be demoted to sub-par-bloggee status, or anything! Haha. Just wanting to throw some words and ideas onto the table

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Man that was dumb. No not the cardz... staying up til 2:30 am. Today I finished loading the card set variations on Etsy. Still got no painting done. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Gonna try something here. And, no, that is NOT a typo in the title. Yes, I've been cramming all day & it's almost 2AM but that is NOT a typo! Anyway as I was saying...I read a great article on Etsy Storque about keys to success with your Etsy Storefront. A good way to get the word out about your art is to make small giclee cards of your artwork and sell in the same price range as quality

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QUIZ FOR THE DAY:What has canaries, ferns, black cats, & black eyed peas AND is cheaper than one of my teeniniest paintings?Ha! You really think I am going to tell you the answer now? You have to guess and by the time everyone has guessed, maybe it will be ready for its unveiling! Oh I know you can't wait... hopefully tomorrow!xoSuzanneally.com

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The Hokey Pokey... what if that IS what it's all about?This is my quote for today. I happened to meet one of my favorite neighbors at the grocery store this afternoon and he is to thank for this quote. Actually I think his band mate, Linda made it up and printed it on band t-shirts! So today my plug is for my neighbor Smilin' Bill and his band Rum River Blend. WooHoo - go see em & have a rompin

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Still working on my secret new paintings so here is an installation shot from Night Sky! If you click on it you get a much bigger view and you can see where I rubbed out some poor guy who was eating his dinner right in the middle of the shot. [How dare people eat in the presence of my art!!!!]In the meantime, I feel like we just had the art talk equivalent of The Last Supper with Annette tonight

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3 in-progress paintings stand in the corner neglected as I continue the business end of my summer venture. Don't you feel sorry for me?Oh well anyway, I have some interesting data for you. I found that Google Analytics will track what countries my visitors are from. Since beginning my blog in May I have:Over a thousand visits from 18 countries including 32 states. That is almost as many states

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How exciting! My next painting project will be Taste of Troy on September 20! Annette, Meggan and I are planning our "100 Paintings for less than $100" booth. A generous interior designer, Lori Klipstine, has agreed to let us use her store as our booth for the day. WIOW!! How cool is that?! Mark your calendars now! You don't want to miss this:September 20 - Taste of Troy100 $100 Paintings @

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Good Morning my devoted Bloggees!I hope you are all having a nice sunny summer! Now that the Night Sky show is all set up, I am working like a pollen-laden bee propagating painting publicity!All alliteration aside I'd like to ask for your help spreading the word about my paintings. I am asking that you would write an email to all your friends and relatives, excluding only the ones who might

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Mister Black, Ferns, And Comma Fish REPAINTED!16 x 16"oil on woodContinuing to change a few paintings... here is the revised Mister Black, Ferns And Comma Fish.I won't do a big page showing the diffs like I did yesterday but now that the images are higher res you should be able to click on them and get a much larger image to pop up on a new page.Comments welcome. Do you like the new Mister Black

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I am so jazzed! There have been all these discussions going on for some time and I have felt at a loss to express them in words, much less on our little blog here.Since hanging the show at Night Sky, I have been redoing some of the paintings I have left here at home. It was hard to taking a chance at ruining them, but I am so glad I did.Harry gives his input but I have to understand why before

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In May of this year, I began painting for myself again. After many years of making custom art for other people and helping them find their favorite colors in their homes, it was finally time to rediscover my own art.I began by painting a small painting every day. I began with the subjects that were around me and the colors that were in my paint tubes. I set up an easel in my home office next

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Dear Bloggees,I missed you! I have been traveling to New Jersey for a family reunion the past few days!I photoed the house before we left because Harry wanted to show his finished paint job to his family. So here it is.While I was away I worked on my artist's statement & thought I'd post it for you. Tomorrow I will be hanging my show at Night Sky so be sure to stop by anytime beginning

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WIOW I love praise, don't you? Can't help it. When you do something you are nervous about and care so much about but worry it might be silly and no one will understand.... and then someone GETS IT!!! oh my! So I am sharing a letter I just received from a dear fan-customer-become-friend. She did what I hope others will do, which is find the secrets & the stories & the colors, and most of all

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Two Green Keets8 x 8"oil on canvas panelAs I'm trying to get looser, [not trying to be a looser, but trying to loose tightness, Luke! haha!] these two green keeties seem to be having a tight little tiff. So I guess if the loving canaries don't peg you, maybe the tiffing green keets will be more realistic.Enjoy and don't forget to come visit all my animals @ Night Sky in Aug!or as usual...Shop @

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Petey & Pockey 8 x 8" oil on canvas panelOngoing conversations with Annette about illustration vs painting, building a history of paint, overworking paintings, scumbling, and the difference between a morgue, a museum, and a studio. You shoulda' been there is all I can say.Been doing some birds. I start with the fluttery gesture of birds. I am fascinated with the bars of the cage like I am the

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Canary Yellow 8 x 8"oil on canvas panelSOLDI continue to paint loose, trying to stop before everything is clearly defined. Still I think you can figure out this is two canaries in a cage. Actually there is a story behind these two canaries.They are from a box that over thirty years ago contained a bottle of Winsor Newton canary yellow pen ink.This little box has moved with me from Texas to Ohio

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Black Eyes with Ferns12 x 12"oil on canvas boardA big change from the last painting. An attempt to loosen up, take chances. I love the energy in this one. Love how the fern sort of shakes. Ferns are one of my favorite plants. They are so delicate and do seem to sort of tremble nervously when you get near them. My friend Sallie tells me to quit touching the ferns when we go plant shopping, but

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Black Eyed Peas and The Blue Chair 20 x 20" oil on canvasThe third chair painting turned out more muted as you can see. In all three paintings I worked on layering and scumbling colors to try to create a richness and depth.I kept struggling in this painting between subtlety and just plain paleness.If you notice, in this story no one ever broke the chairs, but maybe in the next story you might

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Black eyed Peas and The Yellow Chair 20 x 20" oil on canvasMy favorite thing in this painting is the bowl of black eyed peas.And I love the individual peas.So black and white and simple. So fat and full of them- selves. So confident in their individual pea-ness and yet such group unity. Well, ah-hemm, these two seem to be having a bit of a tiff.The shadows in this one were sort of wandery. They

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Black Eyed Peas and The Red Chair20 x 20"oil on canvasBoy do I have some blogging to do today! It will take three posts to get everything! So I'll wait here while you go get your reading glasses & a nice big cup of coffee!OK, first I'll give you news of Black Eyed Peas and the Three Chairs Triptych. Of course they turned out to be too individual to be called a triptych. Would be very nice all

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Two Peas with Tumbler8 x 8"oil on canvasI never seem to loose the feeling for black-eyed peas. But the glass tumblers and reflective water were needing some study. And the Three Chairs Triptych was getting stiff-feeling so I took an inhibition pause and painted this one. A fresh pick of peas. Two on an 8 x 8" canvas. Just enough to free up the brush and get the paint like icing again.You can

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OK real quick I promise.Harry's Dark Rule:If the darkest dark of the background is not repeated in the foreground,the painting will appear flat.That's it for today. Now I'm going to paint and you're going to shop @Etsy.

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I think just a small post for today about shadows. You may have noticed I have been paying more attention to shadows in my paintings. I must confess that when I began this series in May I avoided a composition that had shadows because it was overwhelming to think of dealing with them. Now as I am cozying into my little painting life, I am ready to begin to think about them.And Harry is of

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Black-Eyed Peas & the Three Chairs Triptych WIP 24 x 24" eachoil on canvasHere is an update on progress on the B-E Ps & 3 Chairs Triptych. I have been focusing on this one panel. I just hope I can make the other two relate enough that it will still be a triptych when it is done.Doesn't the table look like Wayne Thiebaud iced the whole thing himself! Haha!Someone asked recently if there is

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My dear Bloggees I am sorry I have not been blogging or painting much either the past few days. I have been working on several things here at home, the most exciting is that Harry is having a Solo Exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany Georgia from Feb thru May of 2009.Here is one of his latest paintings:It will be a very large show and we are both already sort of nervous about it. [

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Black-Eyed Peas and the Three Chairs, Triptych, WIP20 x 20"oil on canvasDid you ever wonder why the term "lady in waiting"? Or "waiter"? I never saw a waiter wait. They're always running around. Maybe they stand in the back and wait when I'm not looking.But me, oh poor suffering artist me, I am wasting away waiting. On what? Oh, on this canvas to dry before I can paint the second coat of paint

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Black Eyed Peas & Orchid with Red Lamp20 x 20" oil on canvasSOLDMister Black is having a hard week. Now the black eyed peas have taken over! The humiliation of having your job taken by vegetables for heaven's sake! What's a cat to do?Sit in a painting in the corner and pout, looks like to me.Get your Black Eyes @ Etsy!PS. Check out Annette's new paintings in progress - WIOW! Painting is alive

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Mister Black with Lilies12 x 12"oil on canvas panelOK I know this is really not wild at all, I am just being dramatic.I actually worked on these three paintings over the past week. Something was being released, not sure what. Still thinking about it all. Still feeling very rebellious.Tired now. While I take a nap you may...Go buy my painting @ Etsy!

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Ferns & Lemon with Red Dots12 x 12"oil on canvas panelMister Black was so mad after that little revisit to Giverny, he didn't show up for painting time so I had to use a lemon instead. He was so mad when he finally did show up, all I could get was the edge of his buttox in the painting after this. But I think the lemon did quite well, don't you?I carried over the nervous sort of brush strokes

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Monsieur Noir avec Yarrow12 x 12"oil on canvas panelSOLDOK now you will really think I'm crazy. Look at all these different styles. Or maybe it is just a case of the cat's away. The cat being the shoulds. I went straight from doing Holly Hobby cutsey drawings in high school to art school where angst and intellectualism reigned. Maybe what I am going thru now is a sort of retroactive growing

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Mister Black with Black Buds20 x 20"oil on canvasBeen working on this painting awhile. Several things different even tho I used what are beginning to seem like all the regulars, Mister Black, the buds, the blue vase, the round table, the magical violet window. When I sit really still I can feel what it is I am trying to get at, but when I start writing, it gets farther away. And it never has

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