It's hard to believe 2015 is coming to an end. So appreciate of clean air to breathe, woods to walk in, family and friends who care for me, being able to do what I love to do everyday, for the teachers I have had and for the students who come to me, for Eloise who breathes life into my days just by being who she is, for the abiltiy to walk and run and skip and swim and bike through this thing called life. Yes, I am blessed. And so are you.
Tomorrow there is a group show I am part of at Marquis art and Frame in WB. It is artists response to the Back Mountain Bloomers event in the summer. It will be a good night to be out and about - so please come and enjoy - colors, shapes, textures and or course there will be some gooooood foooood~!
Today I finished my first mural in Pittston - making it their SIXTH! The amount of ART in a few blocks in this fast growing city is astonishing and refreshing. Mike Lombardo and Rose Randazza have made a once depressed town into a destination point! The tree and figure were decided as a calming spot as the building is located in a grotto.The eagle which symbolizing freedom, healing and wisdom flew about me last week.... asking to be included - of course.
My friend Sean says this a lot ... Life is Easy Simple and Fun - it really kicks the 'Life is Good' out of the water! So, I decided to do some fun pillows. My student, Lola's grandma who brings her to art lessons saw them and thought to get one. She couldn't make up her mind... and ended up with.... well, let's just say... more then one! And after show and tell, Ms. Eloise was quite happy to have her couch back - and 'her' pillow given to her by Auntie Rame.
Steve Taren came with an idea to have a peloton speeding down, along and up the wall constrasted with a woman on an everyday bike slowly going on her merry way with baguette, wine and flowers. We worked to fine tune the design spanning over the 8' x 40' wall resulting to the final image. In his words: 'I painted a picture with words (that's all I got) and Leigh Pawling did the rest. Thank you, thank you, thank you...you listened to every word.The appreciation from the passerbys on foot, car, bike, motorcycle was so positive. Everyone was so glad to have some attention focused on ART! Thanks to Steve and all the employees at Wet Paint - it really was a group effort!
The sun was off the building at around 12 last week which made painting the second mural at Wet Paint bearable with perhaps the last 'heat wave' of the summer. Passersby seem delighted with the changes Steve Taren is making with the building which hereto before was run down, abandoned, and pilfered. Now it is breathing life and vibrancy. Here is what one described as "whimsical" - dog, cat, dove... doing what I like to do - PAINT! And next week I start an 8' x 40' mural on the same building. Stay tuned!
