tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91788582368906729842024-03-14T10:54:32.701-03:00Corner Art Studio Elizabeth Day EdwardsElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-68672237969639102922015-12-15T12:51:00.003-04:002015-12-15T12:51:56.017-04:00New Work<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 14.2667px;">This is an oil painting that I did from a pencil sketch. I've been trying out oils (basically teaching myself) and now feeling somewhat comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is an old, very interesting cemetery near my studio where I sometimes take a walk. The drawing I made for this painting is along a path and the old tree with its roots coming out of the ground intrigued me.</span><br />
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-4282208866567393592015-09-17T09:30:00.000-03:002015-09-17T10:37:47.969-03:00Revised Pastel<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It has been a long time since I've blogged (a year? Yikes!). But now I'm back. I've been doing a lot of new things; working on some oil paintings as in learning-to-do as well as experimenting in wood block printing. I will be posting some of those finished products soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the meantime I am re-posting a pastel painting (March 18, 2014) which got a little revision. I just couldn't keep my sticks of pastels away from it (happens all the time).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17.2479991912842px; text-align: center;">Pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes Drawing Paper - 16 x 20 unframed $150/ 18.5 x 22.5 framed $250. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.2479991912842px; text-align: center;">If you are interested in buying this painting email me at my gmail address: lizdayedwards</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17.248px; text-indent: -16px;"><span style="line-height: 17.248px;">By the way, I found a blog the other day while looking at art work on Pinterest. I had discovered it while re-pinning a little sketch by Beatrix Potter that they had posted. It is a really fun blog. (</span></span><a href="http://ghpoetryplace.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-indent: -1em;">A Poem A Day From the George Hail Library - Selected by Maria Horvath</a><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; text-indent: -16px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">) </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.248px; text-indent: -16px;">It features art and poems and it reminded me how much I love poetry but don't read it often.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.248px; text-indent: -16px;"> </span><br />
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,</div>
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And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;</div>
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Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,</div>
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And live alone in the bee-loud glade.</div>
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And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,</div>
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Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;</div>
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,</div>
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And evening full of the linnet’s wings.</div>
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day</div>
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;</div>
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While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,</div>
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I hear it in the deep heart’s core.</div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-71919727806243879052014-09-05T13:29:00.000-03:002015-01-05T10:34:11.456-04:00Pears and Turner<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;">And then there has been the pre-crastinatation (a word my grandson, Joseph, made up - he says this is what you do before you before you procrastinate). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;"> Doing both because I've been t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;">rying out new techniques in painting. Jumping from one thing to another. I have at least four projects (maybe its five) in progress but they're going nowhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;">What </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;">has</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;"> happened though is that I have neglected this blog. Ugh! I need to get back to the drawing board ... and ... clean up my studio. I'd do better work and feel better, I'm thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px; vertical-align: super;">In the meantime I thought I'd post an old pastel painting that I did, I think, 10 years ago. </span></div>
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<sup><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I took time out to go to a Turner Exhibit at the
Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem. Awesome show. It was tremendously inspiring. He
is one of my favorites. It was an exhibit of his seascapes: oils, watercolors,
prints. There were a few other artists thrown in but the only one other than Turner I really liked was
<a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/john-constable">Constable</a>. There were two of his seascapes shown which I loved. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner">Turner</a> had
such a wonderful way of making his paintings come alive. The drama of rhythm
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-44735123037180209982014-07-27T14:18:00.000-03:002014-07-27T14:18:39.840-03:00Irises<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have lots of white and purple irises in our yard. I never know if they are called wild iris, Japanese iris, beardless iris, or Siberian iris. Anyway they don't have the decorative fan-like leaves. They multiply like crazy. Maybe they are called wild irises. My daughter found one random white iris at the edge of the property and I transplanted it near the house. It has now taken over a whole section of the garden and I've transplanted it in several other areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Found this perfect vintage frame at the Cider Mill where I have my studio. It may look a little blue on some computers but it is nice soft blue/green. The painting almost fit - only had to trim less than a quarter of inch on two sides.</span></div>
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-64246260283865236372014-06-22T21:35:00.000-03:002015-11-04T21:47:24.890-04:00Using Wallis Paper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had some geraniums overwintering in one of my south facing studio window. Six plants which I managed to save for spring. The two large windows are perfect for this and the geraniums are now in our garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ignoring the propane tanks that are outside and way below my windows, which I saw while painting this picture, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I just put in blue sky and a hint of green of the trees which are behind the tanks. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">standing close to the window </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">working at my easel. My studio is on the first floor but it is pretty high up and my usual view is trees and sky. Very cheerful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It would be ideal to have north light instead of light from the south. I guess. But I find that a room with only north light is depressing (I took a class years ago at the Art Students League in NY in a studio with only north light). There are a lot of good hints on the internet about fixing south windows to get a north light effect. Really it is only relevant for me when doing still life painting and I don't do portraits. Anyway, it is nice to have a cheerful place to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this painting I wanted to get the effect of the sun shining in the window. Still learning. Do we ever stop? No, never.</span></div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-25830599649348900122014-06-10T16:39:00.001-03:002014-06-10T17:51:16.867-03:00Here again after a long break!I'm finally posting after more than a month's break. I was determined not to let this happen but life gets very busy, time passes, and things (I won't mention anything in particular) interfere and other things don't work out the way one would expect. I'm one of those artists who is always agonizing and then accomplishing little. Sigh...<br />
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Anyway, here is a painting that I had done when we lived in Dedham (as in Massachusetts). Am not sure this building and surroundings still look like this since I haven't seen the site in years so I hope those who know it will forgive me.<br />
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It is the back of the Endicott Branch library. The building was an old stable on the original estate. All the buildings, which include a beautiful mansion, and grounds were willed to the Town of Dedham by Katherine Endicott. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Estate#Today">Endicott Estate</a> is an awesome city park. Besides the public and private activities that go on there it is a wonderful place for children and adults to play. My grandchildren have many fond memories of it. Every year Leila and I would rent out a small space in the wonderful greenhouse to plant seeds for our garden. I do hope the greenhouse is still there.<br />
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Rosie, asked for this painting. It started out as a charcoal sketch but I quickly decided to add some color with a few pastels. It was done on a type of paper that I would not ordinarily use for pastel so that alone is iffy. Before sending it off to Oklahoma I had decided that it needed a little re-touching with another layer of pastel which I've done. Typical me.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-53140206293513308482014-05-07T13:00:00.000-03:002014-05-07T13:00:07.874-03:00Flowers, Peaches, and WineA pastel still life painting.<br />
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I did this on <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/ampersand-pastelbord/" target="_blank">Ampersand Pastelbord</a> with <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/rembrandt-soft-pastels/#photos" target="_blank">Rembrandt Pastels</a>. It was a different experience. The board has some tooth but the pastel builds up pretty quickly and then it is necessary to make it all smooth. I do like working this way. Very different from pastel paper or Wallis sanded paper. I've tried working on Wallis paper but don't have the knack. I'm doing a still life today on Wallis paper. Hope it works.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was wonderful. Sargent's watercolors are so spontaneous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I certainly learned a lot from seeing his work up close. I have a couple of books of Sargent's work, including some of his watercolors, but it is a different experience to see the pieces in all their glory. For one thing, the colors can never be reproduced truly in a book. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were a lot of paintings in this exhibit. Almost too much if you are studying every painting very carefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seeing great art up close is important. One can examine a piece closely, see how the artist worked; the nuances of color and brush strokes, and the surprises. And then, you can step back and see the whole. See how it all comes together. As an artist I like to contemplate a work and imagine the steps taken to complete it. Makes </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you realize how important it is to step back from your own work. Paintings are meant to be viewed at a distance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've read (<a href="http://www.goodbrush.com/" target="_blank">Notes on Sargent</a>) that he would tell his students to "S</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tand back -- get well away -- and you will realize the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">great danger there is over overstating a tone. Keep the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thing as a whole in your mind. Tones so subtle as not to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">be detected on close acquaintance can only be adjusted </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by this means."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After seeing the Sargent exhibit </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was very inspired to start using watercolors again. I had given it up a few years ago because nothing ever turned out the way I wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also, I need to remember to make more trips to museums. Boston isn't far and Worcester is very close with their fine arts museum: <a href="http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/collections.html">Worcester Art Museum</a>. The WAM does have excellent collections.</span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-88134102989576661902014-04-14T20:00:00.001-03:002014-04-15T10:44:21.536-03:00DaisiesI love to garden: mostly flowers and herbs. For some reason I have not had success with daises which is pitiful because they are really wild flowers and should grow like weeds. This year will try again and hope for the best.<br />
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I remember as a child seeing fields of wild flowers including daisies. What a beautiful sight.<br />
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Here is a painting I did of daisies. They were store bought! Sigh...<br />
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Finally, spring is here. After this long, hard winter we see green! I planted some daffodils and tulips last fall and just can't wait for them to come up.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-66799545643082271982014-04-08T16:32:00.001-03:002014-04-08T16:33:52.920-03:00Fallen Tree<br />
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I love going out on a beautiful day and making myself comfortable to spend a couple of hours sketching or painting. Pastels or pastel pencils are easy mediums to take along on such a trek.<br />
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I'm looking forward to some nice weather (after this long, cold winter) to get out to sketch and paint. I know that there are hardy artists who will paint outdoors in the cold weather and snow but, alas, I'm not one of them. I do wish I could.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-88208743484880110682014-03-18T07:30:00.000-03:002015-11-04T21:46:42.473-04:00Pastel Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a pastel painting that I just finished. I started it last summer while on the Rail Trail in Sterling and completed it in my studio. I very often work like that. </span></div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497150816599065666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178858236890672984.post-85121983878497482392014-03-11T07:00:00.000-03:002014-09-05T19:24:13.134-03:00Hello<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm an artist living near Worcester, Massachusetts and recently decided to start a blog about my art and art in general: thoughts, insights, inspirations, master artists, etc. Whatever works.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My studio is located in the <a href="http://shop.antiquecommon.com/shoplisting/261/">The Cider Mill</a> which is in Sterling. The mill is a great place to shop if you like vintage and antiques. I'm tucked back in a corner of the mill (Corner Art Studio) painting, teaching, and puttering away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am part of the </span><a href="http://www.likemotherlikedaughter.org/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Like Mother Like Daughter</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> blog and occasionally post but my daughter and granddaughters do most of the work. LMLD is about babies and children, keeping a comfortable and beautiful
home, homeschooling, our faith, the way we live and so on. It will be very worth
your while to check it out. Leila, my daughter, and my granddaughters (Rosie, Sukie, Deirdre, and Bridget) are super intense about posting faithfully and they do a wonderful job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have made <a href="http://www.gicleeprint.net/abtGclee.shtm">giclée prints</a> of some of my pieces. Prints are a great way to go, and can be reasonably priced to sell. Original work </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has to be priced high. To produce a piece of art (even a simple drawing) is the result of a lot of study, struggle, and work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here are a couple of my prints. One is a copy of a pastel and the other a copy of a charcoal drawing with white pastel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Signed and numbered for sale on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/194592401/giclee-print-of-flowers-original">Etsy</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm so happy you are reading my blog and hope you will continue to visit. My goal is to post at least once a week.</span><br />
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