June 24, 2022 Weekly Musings
Posted on June 24 2022
Announcements:
I'm honored to have my work, "Blue Dress," has been accepted into the 2022 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition.
September 23 – October 29, 2022
Center for the Arts Evergreen
31880 Rocky Village Drive
Evergreen, CO 80439
For this event, Juror, Soon Warren chose 65 pieces from the 493 submissions, being scrupulous in her decisions.
Blue Dress has also been exhibited in the" "The Perfect Moment Exhibition" Cape Cod Cultural Center. Online gallery and in the "First Store Bought Dress" Illinois Watercolor Society 38th National Exhibition 2022.
Muse 5 Exhibition
NOW OPEN!
The artwork, This Chair is Taken, by Sandra Cashman and poem, by Linda Aschbrenner is being displayed as part of Christine Alfery's new gallery called Christine's Gallery. Its first exhibition is called "Artist Muse 5." For this event, poets and artists teamed up to be each other's muses. There will be approximately 40 artist and poet pairs. It is a wonderful opportunity for Wisconsin Artists and Poets to share their works to the public online - especially with all the art gallery closings since COVID.
-by Linda Aschbrenner
but my day was even more intense.
Did you chase a rabbit in the yard? I bet not.
And then that red squirrel. That squirrel kept taunting me, racing up a maple tree, gloating and chattering.
That was not only physically, but mentally draining.
Shortly after that, the neighbor kids trotted over, eager to play ball. To humor them, I chased and retrieved an old yellow tennis ball for a good hour. They just stood in one place, while I ran miles. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration,
but it seemed like miles.
Finally, when I settled down to take a much needed nap in the shade of the apple tree, you said it was time for me to get some exercise. And off we went on that long trek.
So, I don’t care where you sit. Right now, this is my chair. By the way, I still love you.
Musings:
Iris Garden
Featured image: Purple Iris
I think this little blue purple iris that grows in a circle is my favorite iris. It is just beginning to bloom in the garden. It adds a wonderful blue that makes a contrast with the yellows, pinks, oranges and reds. It is a delicate little plant, graceful and hardy.
I think the iris is just about one of my favorite garden flowers. A friend gave me some bulbs from her garden last year and I planted about 25 more. It will be fun to watch what comes up in the iris section of my garden.
Jitterbug Iris
Featured image: Jitterbug Iris
I just love watching the gardens come alive with different greens, dark, light, lime and other different colors. I always cherish when my mom’s iris pops up. It is called a Jitterbug. Great name. It is a tall, bearded Iris with sunflower yellow, goldenrod yellow and a wonderful bronze yellow beard, the caterpillar in the middle.
Direction
Featured image: Direction
Does your art have direction? Does your life have direction? Do you have direction? If you are missing directions to the latter two questions, there is no way you can give direction to your art.
Several years ago my art gained direction. Instead of just hoping things would happen to my work, I took reflection on my work and found that if I wanted my work to represent something to have direction.
I began to incorporate things that I believe in, things I feel strongly about such as the unique individual.
Things aren’t always as easy as saying, “I am going to give direction to my work.” So, I began to call myself a conceptual abstract artist. I defined myself and my work as being abstract but with an idea within the work. What I found out was that the concept in the work took over the work and the visual language of the actual work got lost. And the uniqueness of the work itself faded.
What was missing? Freedom. It took a long time to give the concept direction and allow the image to also have direction. Both had to be from me, not someone else. Most recently I looked up the concept/ definition of the word, paradox, online. Then as I begin to think and write about it, uniqueness returned to my work, to me and to the concept in the work.
Eyes Closed
Featured image: Study of the Rose Breasted Woodpecker
eyes closed
hearing a woodpecker
rat a tat tat.
the gentle voice of
approaching
wind.
the far off
Blue jay calling.
glowing from the sun
I start my day.