Red Lettuce Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper 17 x 25" 41 x 63cm
Girl with leaf lips Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper 25 x 17" 63 x 41cm
Jolly Flowers Laurie Fox Pessemier 12 x 12" 30cm
Birthday Flowers Blair Pessemier Acrylic on panel 13 x 18" 33 x 41cm
We celebrated two birthdays this week: our friend Paul, here and Rocca Malatina and
my sister Nancy in Connecticut. We had
Spaghetti alla Scoglia at the Gigolo restaurant, across the street. There was another, much larger, teen-age birthday
party at the next table(s), so we camped onto to their singing and sparkly cake.
I see life as one big fabric: yours,
mine, ours.
Earlier in the week, I’d pledged to quit pasta and bread,
but in fact, it’s tough to do here in Italy.
I will just have to accept my chubby self the way I am. I am jolly.
So jolly, in fact, I was in a video from Montecorone di
Zocca today. Blair and I participated in
the festival there, showing our artwork.
Our friend Antonella was next door, offering an art “laboratory” for children. Chalk abounded, in all colors. There were the best cakes, and a kissing
area. I may go back at 5:30 for a poetry
reading.
Sell anything? My father would ask. No.
This is just a visiting event.
And even though our language is challenged, it’s fun to watch.
We have (officially) more than 200 paintings of People. It looks as though there
will be over 100 Florals and Trees.
Landscapes loom, along with miscellaneous.
The new camera-phone (Samsung S10) has proven its worth. It was rated #2
in camera/phones -- Huawei was #1, but seemed a controversial choice. We
each have a phone now.
I spent an inordinate amount of time this week assembling a
catalog of those people images -- I still have to make an index of sizes and
details, but you can take a look at: https://issuu.com/paintfox/docs/people_catalog
The new phone makes it easier for me to post to Instagram,
with pretty sophisticated editing tools. But all of these devices, tools,
make me feel lonely and frustrated. Which is why going to this
Montecorone fair, with ultimate in visiting, is so good. Honestly, I am still a little frustrated, but
being surrounded by people, all smiling at me, is wonderful.
Vittorio gave me this beautiful lettuce this week, I had to
paint it.
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