| Baseball Players Laurie Pessemier acrylic/pen/paper 8 x 11.5" 21 x 29cm 90.00 each or 4 for 200.00 |
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Baseball is one of the things I miss about summer in America, and I am writing this on opening day 2025. I enjoy live baseball of all sorts – young people, local teams, farm teams, college ball. I imagine finding my place in the stands, sitting in the setting sun, watching the warm up. I can smell popcorn and hot dogs as I write; cheap beer. I listen to fellow fan chatter. Maybe we’ll go to a game in Bologna this summer. Blair and I followed a college league team one summer (https://baseballpainting.blogspot.com/) – it was an early foray into figure painting, which occupies me right now. |
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 | Eurospin Ranunculas Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 18 x 15" 43 x 38 cm 475.00 |
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 | Orange Ranunculas Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper 17 x 24" 43 x 61 cm 275.00 |
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Our yard and the adjoining fields look like Ireland, they are so green. The yard is full of some rather creepy puff balls which turned out to be (according to google lens) pine tree truffles. We did not eat; mice did. The wild flowers are coming on, and I’ve made a planter of wild primroses and pinky/purple flowers (lungwort). Our ranunculas from the Eurospin are outstanding.
The week has been taken up with sending out painting files for potential shows. I am always a bit skeptical when they want me to talk about the painting – why did you paint this, and what are you saying. In fact, I am sitting at my easel letting my muse work through my own hand. I think most artists, visual, literary or musical are doing the same. Take that, AI. Magic is involved. |
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| We just got back after 4 weeks in Stimigliano, the potatoes I left in a cool, dark place had sprouted enormous eyes (why can I never stop that?). I thought about planting them, but potatoes aren’t pretty in the yard. I decided I could toss the potatoes, baseball style, out into the field beyond our house: like spring training, and later I’d see if they grew. One potato, two potato, and on the windup for the third, Berlino stood in the path of my 95 mile-per-hour fast potato. I clocked him in the snout, and he cried out in pain. I immediately got down to his level (after chasing him -- he was scared of me!) and took a look. No blood, but I did find some nasty tooth decay, which had nothing to do with the clobber. |
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 | Lungwort Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper 8 x 11.5 21 x 29cm 90.00 |
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| A trip to the vet ensued, and a cleaning/extraction. In fact, it turned out the tooth which looked so poorly was a baby tooth that had never fallen out. With sparkly white teeth and minus a milk tooth, the bill was the cost of a family of four in the bleachers at Fenway. |
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INVITING All Artists to present their Work: Paint, Literature, Crafts, Food....
Pessemier's Sunday Salon
Weekly on Sunday No Reservation Necessary
How it works: Bring a piece of your ART: that could be visual, like painting or printmaking; or literary, as in poetry or prose; or crafts, like metalwork or knitting; or food, or music. Something you made, or feel particularly inspired by. You have about 5 minutes to present, and we'll ooh, ahh, or answer questions you have. You can also come and see how we work before diving in. Just show up on Zoom at a minute or two before the hour.
No selling, no networking until after everyone has presented. NO POLITICS please. |
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