Friday, June 13, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 21:

"THE WALL"


"The Wall" has, from left to right, top to bottom:
     Marilyn Monroe
     Patsy Cline
     George Michael
     James Dean
     Rock Hudson
     Billie Holiday
     Andrea Bocelli
     Elizabeth Taylor
     River Phoenix
     Jake Gyllenhaal
     Liza Minnelli
     Judy Garland
     Heath Ledger
     "Night of the Living Dead"
     Barbra Streisand

Sunday, June 1, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 20:

"ART WALL"
JOHN BOA
Internet

I first bought the collage of Jake Gyllenhaal. Then I began getting more and more pieces of John Boa of New York City. Finally, I made a whole wall of his art.

Can you name them all?


Thursday, May 1, 2014

MONTH BREAK

BLOG RESPITE

I'll be back 6/1/14!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 19:

WOODEN ELEPHANT
DON VOTH
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

This is a piece I made in woodworking class in the First Grade. I was 7. My mother kept it all these years. After she died I brought it to Delaware.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 18:

ART GLASS VASE
MICHAEL BOYTON
Washington, D.C.

I got this beautiful vase at "The American Hand," an American arts-crafts store in Georgetown, D.C.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 17:

Another RAYMOND PETERSEN Painting!
CENTRAL AVENUE STREET BRIDGE
Albuquerque, New Mexico

I have been fascinated by this 2009 painting for years. I finally bought it!


It's enormous: 53 x 48 inches! I hung it between the two windows in the living room.


The actual Bridge

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 16:

RAYMOND PETERSEN PAINTINGS
Milton, DE

"My paintings are acrylics on wood panels. I am fascinated by organic form and color. My subjects are mostly plants, especially trees. In doing my art, I find that other organic forms, frequently suggestive of animals and people, subliminally appear in the paintings. I call this emergence of form, as others have, biomorphic art - literally “life-form” art." 

Ray is a dear, old friend. Since retirement four years ago, he has painted in acrylics. He was a botany professor at Howard University for many years. Thus his painting tend to reflect plants.

My first painting of his:
WINTER ROSE HIPS, CORAL SEA
"The vermillion rose hips of the multiflora rose in the field across the street from my studio in Milton, Delaware, are presented here like sea urchin eggs dispersed in a tropical sea."



This painting, though I loved it, I gave to Bill Murphy for his drab living room. He loves it. It's quite large:

ARROWLEAF - EARLY MORNING LIGHT
"Sunlight passes through the diaphanous expanding leaf blades of the arrowleaf plant. These are growing in the swamp across the street from my studio in Milton, Delaware."

This last painting I got at his art fair. I just couldn't resist:
SMARTWEED SUMMER

"Smartweed is a plant of late summer into the fall. This work is of smartweed and light along the Rio Grande River south of Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 15:

SMARTWEED SUMMER
Ray Petersen
Milton, DE
2011

I saw this painting on Ray's wall and fell in love with it.

When I saw it in person, I liked it even better. I bought it at the Milton Art League Outdoor Show in August.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

MONTH BREAK

CYBER RESPITE

I'll be back 3/6/13!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 14:

BUTTERFLIES
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1978

I was on vacation when I came across this place called "The Butterfly People." It was in an old house with a high courtyard filled with preserved butterflies. I was transfixed.


You could order a selection in any size and configuration. I called Ed and had him measure the space above the living room fireplace. While selecting the butterflies, I asked for an addition of a red one to the selection I had already picked out. "Oh, No," was the reaction. "That's a South American butterfly. You can't mix them with the African ones you've already picked!"

I got a wonderful, hermetically sealed 27" x 43" display.

Friday, January 24, 2014

FAVORITE DELAWARE COAST PLACES SAGA 6:

LEWES-CAPE MAY FERRY
Lewes, DE to Cape May, NJ

This ferry connecting the Delaware Peninsula with the NJ mainland is a marvel. It goes 17 miles in 85 minutes from coast to coast.

It takes foot traffic so it's also a great way to tour Cape May, a charming Victorian town.
While on board, there's excellent seating and a nice lunch area.

The terminal in Lewes also has a nice lunch spot—open air!


Sunday, January 12, 2014

ARTWORK SAGA 13:

AN UNUSUAL POT
Washington, D.C.
1971

This ceramic I bought at the American Hand in Georgetown, D.C. I was (and still am) intrigued by its unusualness. The artist's signage is CT.


It's what's called slabwork.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

FAVORITE DELAWARE COAST PLACES SAGA 5:

REHOBOTH BEACH
Delaware

Rehoboth Beach is one of the best beach towns in America—clean sand and water, small town, friendly, beautiful old houses, great restaurants.
It's a town of 1,000 people that swells to 100,000 on the Fourth of July!

One can always "get-away" to an uncrowded beach area.

As well as enjoy the crowds.

It's full of wonderful, old beach cottages from the 30s on.

Beautiful sunrises over the Atlantic.