Blair's Prize Winning City Park Trees 16 x 16" 40 x 40 cm
Waterlilies in Rain Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 10.5 x 16" 27 x 41 cm
Lilypads after the rain Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 10.5 x 16" 27 x 41 cm
Carousel with Grandparents Blair Pessemier Acrylic/linen 13 x 22" 33 x 54 cm
Carousel Friday Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 10.5 x 16" 27 x 41 cm
Couples Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 10.5 x 14 27 x 36 cm
Boy on a Carousel Blair Pessemier Acrylic/linen 14 x 10.5 " 36 x 27 cm
White Elephant Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 16 x 10.5 41 x 27 cm
Artnotes: Extreme Amusement
A week of extremes:
Blair returned to Paris after taking second prize in the Piedmont Paint
Out. Hip Hip Hooray. My website disappeared from view on Monday
because the “webmaster” didn’t renew my domain name and she is nowhere to be
found. I immediately found the hosting
source, paid them 75.00 to get me back on line, and am learning how to make a “form”
and am reconstructing the site myself.
We went to Giverny on Wednesday (how could Blair snap back
so soon?) and enjoyed the flowers in the sunshine. When we were about to paint, the sky became
cloudy and we were drenched in a downpour.
“Don’t worry,” I told our painter from Hong Kong, “this will all work
out”. Miraculously, it did. We didn’t feel the damp freezing cold until 8
PM, as we hopped into the car for home.
We had a group of three painters on Friday afternoon, to
paint the carousel in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Although it seems like it would be a fun and easy painting, it is very
difficult: round, three lines of ponies
and other animals, six deep if you count the other side. Plus it is moving. A
fourth painter, our same Giverny veteran, painted nearby, and a Russian couple
passing by bought her painting. Bravo
for her.
On Saturday, the Paris Painting Workshop was the featured
event at a birthday party, once more at the carousel. Blair roughed in a carousel animal on each of
the seven same-size canvases, and the seven ladies painted them. It was great fun, kids and adults in the park
found us nearly as amusing as the
carousel ride itself. Blair and I
painted more carousel pictures.
Amidst all this, Blair has three commissions, and I have two
– he’s painting and I am writing to you.
The dog-in-a-convertible painting must wait.
Even though we have a terrific time painting with others, it
is an exhausting business. When I was a
child, the two things I didn’t want to be were:
a nun, for obvious reasons, and a teacher – because I am so “present”
whenever I am with people, I can never shut off my “machine”. Harika is the exception – I can relax with
her. It is why I like be an artist: there is nobody else to be “on” for, except
my muse, who entertains me, and I “amuse” her, to the fullest.
