Artnotes: Immortalize a Tree

 

My Apple Tree   Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/paper  17 x 25"  41 x 63cm  290.00  (tree photo at end) I can do what AI can’t .   I can sit in my backyard and paint the apple tree, almost indistinguishable from its surroundings.  I make it yellow and red, green and blue.  In real life, it looks very little like what I painted, but it is clearly my apple tree.  Blair paints nearby cherries – it’s going to be a banner fruit year. Cherry Tree on the Walk    Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 12 x 12"  30 x 30 cm  390.00 Our yard is completely out of control.  We just got a truckload of marginal quality dirt to fill the enormous holes Berlino has dug.  Bernie wants to join the badger in his den, but won’t enter through the entry hall – he digs from the top.   The fruit trees really need trimming, but then they wouldn’t have that wild natural look we so love. We are eating our meals outdoors.   At least the whole family is in agreement. Lilacs  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  17 x 12"   41 x 30cm  290.00 It’s been a lovely week here in Roccamalatina:  we drove back on Monday, and by Tuesday afternoon were settled in.  Berlino went on his walk with Stefania, his trainer, of sorts.  What is really happening is that he gets the big wonderful walk he needs, bonds with another dog, and comes home and treats us like the hired help.  He digs a hole, eats, and waits for a delivery person that might rescue him or at least bring him a treat.  So far no luck. Small Lilacs   Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  8.5 x 12"  20 x 30cm  150.00 I was out painting the apple tree to get back into the plein air painting groove.  I am proposing Plein Air Painting Italy as a group on Facebook.  People can come and join us wherever we are painting.  They can just paint alongside, or we provide materials and instruction (for a small fee).   We aren’t up to the day long event it used to be, but a couple of hours is do-able.   We are bracing ourselves for when the fuel runs out – several gas stations are closed up here near Roccamalatina.   I think I probably ought to be doing something to prepare, but not sure just what.   See everything possible before we are stranded, I guess. Wild Flowers:  Detailed and Loose   Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper   15 x 11"   38 x 28 cm  190 each I interviewed for an AI job involving art.  AI itself interviewed me (Zara was “her” name).  She responded faster than I did and reiterated all my responses immediately, in proper terminology.  I “flunked” when she asked what I would do if the focal point turned out to be in the wrong place.  I suggested adding lines which led the eye in that direction, or adding a secondary point.  In fact, the correct answer was to just pick it up and move it – such an alien suggestion to a real painter, I knew the job was not for me. I am trying to get my painting practice back to a daily task (more fun than exercise).  I won’t be painting the Sistine chapel, but can get out there and immortalize a tree.

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