THE MARSH. THROUGH THE WINDOW.

Here are two pieces that I recently did for my show in Coeur d'Alene ...

'THE MARSH. THROUGH THE WINDOW.'

12 x 12 Acrylic on Textured wood panel

'SOMETHING BORROWED. SOMETHING BLUE.'

6 x 8" Acrylic on Textured wood panel.

Both more Impressionistic then I normally do.  Hopefully heading in the right direction!  :)

'THE AIM OF ART IS TO REPRESENT NOT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF THINGS, BUT THEIR INWARD SIGNIFICANCE.

                                                                                                  ~  Aristotle

Charleen

WWW.CHARLEENMARTIN.COM

WELL ... I'M ON MY THIRD CUP OF COFFEE ...

Which means it's still early in the day!  :)  By the end of the day it will be at least a few more than that.  And then I wonder why I have trouble sleeping! :/

My knee surgery (at least this first one!) is slowly fading into the background.  That's a good thing.  Got enough work done for my Show Opening last week.  Another good thing.  Working on new pieces for the Coeur d'Alene Artists Studio Tour in a few weeks ... another good thing.  Even though I don't live in Coeur d'Alene (and my Studio is too far out of town to be included) I was asked to participate.  I agreed ... before I realized it was the same weekend as my Step-Sons Wedding.  It's the coffee, I'm sure. :(  By the time I realized the two were colliding it was too late to try and bow out of the tour gracefully. The powers that be were nice enough to get someone to stand in for me on the day of the Wedding but it's going to be a very interesting week!

For those of you in the area the Studio Tour is Sept. 12th and 13th.  I will be at the Jacklin Center in Post Falls along with Artist Sheila Beldsoe.

AND THEY HELD THEIR BREATH IN ANTICIPATION

12 x 12" Acrylic on Textured wood panel.

I'm working on trying to get a little looser in my work.  Above is one of my newest pieces I did for the upcoming Studio Tour.  

EARLY OCTOBER.  LATE AFTERNOON.

18 x 18" Acrylic on Canvas

Early October. Late Afternoon. was done abut 2 weeks prior to And They Held Their Breath in Anticipation.  I feel like I'm on the edge of where I want to be but just can't ..... quite ..... jump ..... off ..... that ..... ledge.  

The two pieces from my last Blog were sold.  

Thank you both very much!

           Evening on the Dunes              Summer Afternoon in Blue

"As daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."

~  Gloria Swanson

til next time ...

Charleen

WWW.CHARLEENMARTIN.COM

AND SHE SAID "I KNOW ... IT'S ABOUT TIME!"

I wrote in my last months (well, actually June) Newsletter  that sometimes Life gets in the way of Life.  That was shortly after my husband suffered a stroke.  That being one of the several reasons you haven't heard from me.  (He was lucky. He is doing very well now, Thank you!  If you get a moment, and didn't receive my Newsletter, you just might want to click on the  above link and read last months letter.  His symptoms were not the norm but definitely something everyone should be aware of ) The Best of intentions can be railroaded so easily can't they?  This month (well, actually July ... I keep forgetting it's August 1st!) I decided he'd had enough of the attention so in for knee surgery I went.  :)   The first of two, and this one was suppose to be the simple one.  Not quite as simple as we thought so the knee has been up, the pain pills out and the brushes 'almost' dry.  I did get some work done but not nearly what I had expected.  There will be another knee surgery, but hopefully not for another couple of months. Time to catch up.

In between all of this I had a birthday.  A BIG BIRTHDAY.  In fact, a VERY BIG BIRTHDAY.  :/  I thought I'd share with you the card that my grandchildren made for me in case you have never seen one of these.  I had seen several smaller versions of this that they had done for their friends in the past, but this one was quite the surprise.  A lot of work, a lot of imagination and ... a lot of calories!  It may be a little hard to follow in some spots but I think you'll get the idea.

Art in Flavors!  Just fun and the idea could be used in so many other ways :)  I'm a pretty lucky Grandma. 

NOW ON TO MORE SERIOUS MATTERS!  :)

EVENING ON THE DUNES

This is a 6 x 8" Acrylic on Textured Wood Panel.

More information on this Piece can be found by clicking HERE

I've been doing a lot of my work lately on textured Panels.  And, when you have a lot going on, Painting is much easier to set up and do than trying to arrange a gazillion small pieces of paper for one of my Collages.  

Here's another ...

SUMMER AFTERNOON IN BLUE

8 x 10 Acrylic on Textured Wood Panel

More information on this piece can be found by clicking HERE

Blue is such an inviting color and I find, an easy color to work with.  

"I think I have something to wear tonight that is not quite correct for Evening wear.  

Blue suede shoes."

                                           ~  Elvis Presley

til next time ...

             Charleen