Artnotes: Just a Spec

 

Year of the Horse   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/paper 20 x 26” 50 x 65cm   290.00 Another week in Roccamalatina.  Blair and I are thinking of far flung trips; moves, even. Are we too old for the latter?  Possibly, but living someplace without a car and a city with walkable art shows would be nice.  We no longer know so many people living abroad; it’s been our policy to live where we know at least one person. Primrose from the Grocery Store  Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  17 x 12”    42 x 30cm  190.00 We’ve been working in our yard this (75%) sunny week.  The roses are snipped back and our first wild daffodils bloomed.  I saw a mammoth bush of forsythia in flower today, on the way to coffee. Yellow bursts out first. Wild yellow primrose line on our morning walk route.  I saw a honeybee and got a mosquito bite. Just a Guy (ater Harry Marinsky)  Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  39.5 x 28”    100 x 70cm  290.00 Berlino had two training lessons this week, the first most successful.  He walked with Stefania and her dog Benjy, for an hour.  Stefania thinks some of his comportment issues are because we don’t give him enough exercise – she’s committed for an hour, two days a week.  I am good for a daily thirty minute walk, possibly a little more.  Blair is stronger in that department, but neither of us have ever been big walkers.  Berlino seemed to share our sentiments, as we found him, whimpering near the gate, on his second foray with the trainer. I did an indoor project in the house this week – I painted our white chimney in a mossy green Venetian finish.  Really, I just watered down acrylic paint of the chosen color and slapped it on.  It looks expensive.  The wall will hold my big Venus drawing.

Venus  Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  39.5 x 20”    100 x 50cm  290.00 Coincidentally, we ended up at the “Venus” museum in Savignano (about 20 minutes away­) today.  We saw a Venus (of the Willendorf style) from the high Paleolithic period, 25,000 to 35,000 years ago.  It was dug up in 1925 when someone in Savignano was excavating for a barn.  It was really quite suprising and beautiful.   The most beautiful was a lapis lazuli Venus found in Lazio.  She was only the size of my thumbnail:  charming.   We were actually there to see the museum of the Elephant – a mammoth skeleton 2 million years old.   It is mind boggling to consider.  It was likewise unearthed nearby, around 1980.  It has provided information about elephant tusks, and other pachyderm phenomenon.  I had actually painted a picture of it many years ago, from a newspaper story, and it was so wonderful to see in person. All this made me feel small, a spec in the age of the earth.  That’s a relief. Mammoth   Laurie Pessemier   acrylic/paper   17 x 25”   x 41x 63cm    290.00 HOUSEKEEPING:  We make art to order, including portraits by Blair Pessemier.    Follow us on Instagram @lauriepessemier or Blair's @poeticfences See all of our painting at https://paintfox.com Most of our work is available as reproductions, custom sized and frames Support our art with a donation at:  https://donate.stripe.com/4gMaEW1XwfT041t1BCcEw00   sign up for Artnotes, our weekly art missive, by contacting me at lfpessemier@gmail.com or https://mailchi.mp/341f508cecf8/artnotes 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, no sales pitches, please. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88093708954?pwd=M04zNHB4dFZkREp3bThweUd1YnVDZz09 Meeting ID: 880 9370 8954 Passcode: 886402 Rome 8PM; NY 2 PM; LosAngeles 11AM