Saturday, March 19, 2016

Artnotes: Only a RUMOR

Blossoms on a Green Ground  Blair Pessemier   Acrylic/panel   18 x 12"  45 x 30cm
Tree with Blue Sky   Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/linen   14 x 10.5"  35 x 27cm
Monte Corone in Snow  Blair Pessemier   Acrylic/panel  12 x 18"  30 x 45cm
 Luna 1  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page   12.5 x 9"   32 x 23 cm
  Luna 2  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page   12.5 x 9"   32 x 23 cm
  Luna 3  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page   12.5 x 9"   32 x 23 cm
  Blue 1  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page  9 x 12.5 "   23 x 32 cm
 Burgundy Butterfly  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page  9 x 12.5 "   23 x 32 cm
 Pink/Purple Butterfly  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page  9 x 12.5 "   23 x 32 cm
 Raja Brook      Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on antique music page  9 x 12.5 "   23 x 32 cm
Dragonfly  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/antique music page 6.25  x 4.5   16 x 12

On FRIDAY the weather finally turned warm and sunny, so I could go outside to work on my project:  Your Painting Minute.  Each week (or maybe twice a week), I will make a youtube film, just about a minute long, pertaining to painting.   I hope it will make people want to paint with Blair and me.  Or even to pick up a paintbrush, or look around, say BEAUTIFUL SKY. 

My painting has been mostly indoors this week, making butterflies for the “butterfly” room at our show next weekend.   Blair managed to “plein air” a picture of a blossoming apple tree.   We lunched in Guiglia this week to drop off a poster at the Locanda Sbrigati – and ate homemade tortelloni followed up with pig cheeks, and a half dozen vegetable choices (eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, cabbage just to name a few):  12 euros. 

On Friday, someone stopped by here to get the telephone number of our landlady to arrange to rent the house of our gardener.  Later that day, I heard someone else was moving in there, but they didn’t have chickens, nor vicious dogs, which the other inquirer had, which gave me some relief.  I asked another neighbor if this could be true.  This neighbor wondered who would do all the little jobs around Rocca Malatina if Ludovico left?

And I started to think, even though he never does TOO much, he does make sure nobody breaks into our house.  Just the other day he ran a crabby old man with a Mercedes Benz off the property because he had no business here.   Today he and Fabbio are planting the trees we bought.

Recovering from the shock, I started thinking how maybe WE could rent his house and barn, and have a regular painting school here.  A friend has a friend who would live on that property making coffee and breakfast, and keeping things neat and clean.   It could be a real school, with students much of the year.   Our very own artists’ colony, right here in Italy 41052.   Dreamy.

It was with mixed emotions I received the news this morning from Ludovico that he was NOT leaving.  He isn’t easy to understand; at first I thought he was talking about trees.   He did buy a house, but the subsequent stories were only RUMORS.   

So, I have gone back to cursing the chickens (they are indiscriminant with their sanitary habits), and thinking how to tell his son to keep his car off the grass.   


I have had to scale back my plans for an art school.  Instead, I am working on installing a croquet lawn and bench.  I am toying with the idea of having a greenhouse where we can sit on sunny winter days.  We won’t be serving coffee in the morning.   THAT was only a rumor.

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