Bay Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Trees Blair Pessemier Oil/canvas 21 x 26 inches
Darse Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Clouds over Cap Ferrat Blair Pessemier Oil/canvas 12 x 12
View Citadelle Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Orange Boat Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Ventimiglia Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas16.5 x 11 inches
Mandarins Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Boats under cover Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 12 inches
Umbrella Pines Park Ventimiglia Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 11 inches
Artnotes: More Sunshine Please
Clouds are NOT something one usually associates with the
French Riviera. Turquoise, pink, palm trees: no clouds.
But at 7 AM I see the outlines of
clouds as the sun emerges from
Italy. This is not at all what we planned, but it is
what we got. We adjust.
Maybe it is better that we have some rain. I stay indoors, read, think, work on the
Artnotes book/portfolio. I paint still life. I write to you.
I am thinking about my life quite differently than I was in
Paris. I am seeking MORE INVOLVEMENT,
not less. It is clear to me that I need
to interact with people, and not just on the Internet. With less to do, I dwell on things past --never
good.
Many people think you learn from the past, but I feel just
the opposite (thank you, Artemis). I
want to reach into the future. I need
face-to-face conversation with people to thrive.
I feel resolutions
coming on. One will be NEVER TRAVEL
WITHOUT A RAINCOAT. How about: TALK face-to-face with someone new and/or
conflicting at least three times a week
(come to my house to argue?) .
I tried on a raincoat at the market in Italy yesterday – the
arms terminated below my fingers and I have very long arms; and the rest of the coat was too short, too
narrow. What kind of person could wear
that? Ichabod Crane? It
was a terrific material – a mesh covered with clear plastic, in a trench coat
style. The vendor asked me, “why not the
black one?” I told him it wasn’t happy.
He had to concede.
Harika is hunkered down as only a dog can do in the rain. Playing possum is the concept. We drag her to coffee in the morning, often
her only foray if rain ensues. Today
there were five dogs at the café: a
vicious large black model, relegated to the out-of-doors; a long haired
dachshund; a dirty Westie who has obviously spent many a Sunday with his
junk-dealer family; a naturally
congenial Havanese; and Harika. Normally
a boxer is there, but maybe we were too early.
I have been reading John
Ruskin. He was a 19th century
art historian who taught working men to draw, just so they would learn to
SEE. He had ideas about society and
mostly about art and how it affected people.
He said: The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love
colour the most.
More sunshine please!
