In the Tuileries Blair Pessemier Acrylic/panel 12 x 12" 30 x 30cm
Senat with Shrub Blair Pessmeier Acrylic/linen 14 x 20" 46 x 38cm
Senat Lauurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 11 x 14" 27 x 35 cm
House at the Bagatelle Blair Pessemier Acrylic/linen 9.5 x 13" 24 x 33 cm
Queen in the Shadows Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/panel 9.5 x 13" 24 x 33cm
Allee at Giverny Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 15 x 18" 38 x 46cm
Rose Garden Bagatelle Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 15 x 18" 38 x 46cm
Rose Arbor Giverny Blair Pessemier Acrylic/linen 18 x 15 " 36 x 48cm
Artnotes: Grass Stains
We’ve worked the last two weeks with nary a day to
ourselves. To be free today is such a
luxury – don’t tell anyone Mundane chores have never seemed so pleasant.
I’ve actually TIME to write
artnotes today.
I am getting better at appreciating the free time we
have. On Thursday afternoon we drove our
rental car (from a previous night at Giverny), out to the bois de Boulogne,
where I saw one of the best trees of my life.
We didn’t go out to paint, but to sit beneath that tree.
We’re were on TV in Chicago this week, thanks to Debi Lilly
and “off the registry-wedding-gift-ideas”.
Our paintings were prominently displayed, and our names mentioned, in
the proper French pronunciation. Who
knows, maybe we will be famous someday.
http://wgntv.com/2014/06/26/off-the-registry-wedding-gift-ideas/
The tree in the bois de Boulogne is located near the
Bagatelle and a little stand where we ate French fries and drank little bottles
of cold rose wine. The tree is more than
five hugs around – that is, if we put our arms around it, it would take five of us to enclose the
trunk. At about twelve feet the trunk
splits into five huge branches, which eventually branch again and dip clear down to about four feet
above the ground, providing comfortable seats for kids.
Blair is writing an introduction for our art Auction, taking
place on JULY 25TH 2014 from 6:30 -
8:00 PM at The MADISON VINEYARD 9640 W BROAD ST, WEST JEFFERSON, OH 43162. If our own auction purchases were to inspire others, we will have great success.
I am thrilled about this whole thing, orchestrated by Blair and one of our
painting workshop participants, Grant Zerkle, of Geoff Smith Auctioneers.
The tree looks out to other big trees and a large
field. Dark skinned men in working
clothes sleep in the shade; five girls taking selfies sit giggling on a big
green blanket in the sun. Couples
slather sun-tan lotion on one another, smoke cigarettes, and gesticulate wildly
with their hands, discussing modern music.
People undress; a flabby Englishman exercises his white legs, like a
windmill, in the sun. I hear the wind in the trees, distant
peacocks calling, a dog in a car (in the shade). There are hundreds (Blair says a thousand)
different bugs.
Our second renter has been unfortunately called back home
for the month of August, so our bohemian apartment with a big Paris view is
again available. We would entertain any
reasonable request to occupy the place, water the plants and leave a small
donation in the kitty. Let us know soon,
if you are interested.
Harika rolls in the grass, overcome with the joy of being
outside in nature. I look at my white
clothes and think of grass stains.
