It’s gone from the Flood to Dante’s Inferno this past week. We are over 90 degrees in Rocca Malatina, and 100 in Stimigliano. I take Berlino for a walk well before 7, when the oven turns on and the wildlife runs for shade – we were just a few feet away from a deer the other day. His friend was in the bushes, harrumphing – it was the first time I heard deer talk. I am desperately seeking lodging in the much cooler Munich area for the month of July, where we will paint and study the Blaue Reiter group of painters (and drink beers and eat wurst with Berlino in the beer garden). |
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 | Remember Rain? Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 12" 30 x 30 490.00 |
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| I have been trying to get my chapel in the back yard finished before it’s too hot. Sadly, it’s in the sun from about 11 AM until 4 in the afternoon. I am not mentioning the two scorpions I found there, one as large as a shrew or small mouse. Were these factors not bad enough: the building is too short for me to stand up in. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. |
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 | About Bavaria Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 16 x 16" 40 x 40 550.00 |
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| I recall Alice as a true Wonderland experience. I was given a ViewMaster picture viewer as a child, and the story of Alice in Wonderland was one of my first reels. I could look through the oculars and there she was, wearing a blue dress with white pinafore, and the rabbit was standing next to her. It was a super-clear, extraordinary photograph, and I would sit for long periods, studying the details: the bench, the garden, a gazebo. I also had a reel of world cities, equally mesmerizing, with castles and mountains. What’s the big deal, you ask? Because I was near sighted as a child, I could never see the details of anything – who knew? I could stand on the bridge in the center of town and not be able to make out the ripples in the river below. I could never read a license plate. To see the 3-dimensional Golden Gate bridge in the ViewMaster was a MIRACLE. Finally, after extreme humiliation at the blackboard in school (my class of 48 students laughing at me uproariously) I got my first pair of glasses, age 10. |
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Four Faces Laurie Fox Pessemier 8.5 x 11 (approx)" 21 x 29cm 120 each 2 for 200.00 |
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| Seeing is a big deal as an artist. We tailor our work according to our eyes. I had a workshop painter (we were at Giverny) who was furious that her doctor corrected her eyesight while fixing her cataract. She used to remove her glasses to see those fuzzy bright colors we enjoy painting so much. Monet’s eyesight played a role in his waterlilies – and we artists paint similarly. Both Blair and I remove our glasses from time to time to not focus on the details, but to see the big bright picture. We both do enjoy seeing properly with our glasses on, but we’re not sure we’ll let the doctor “fix” our eyes if we need cataract repair. I might. I can always buy cheap clear glasses and smear them up a bit. |
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 | In the Good Fortune Pitcher Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper 17 x 11. 42 x 29cm 210.00 |
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| I try hard to capture unseeing, as well as a childlike attitude, in my paintings. Forgetting what is learned is harder than learning it. |
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 | Dancing Wild Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/vintage paper 11 x 8.5" 27 x 21cm 120.00 |
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HOUSEKEEPING: We make art to order, include Portraits by Blair Pessemier. Follow us on Instagram @lauriepessemier If you’d like to visit/take a painting workshop: https://www.pessemierworkshops.comSee all of our work at https://paintfox.comMost of our work is available as reproductions, custom sized and framed (made in USA). |
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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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