teri's art blogiversary & GiveAway!

Hello dear blog readers!

Central Park Zoom-In  oil on canvas   8 x 8 inches

In honor of my 11th ( ! ) year of blogging, I am giving away 

my little Zoom-In painting from Hugo Robus'

Central Park from 1919 - that he painted 100 years ago!

(to see a photo of that painting, please click HERE (1/24/19)

to go to my blog post about Hugo.

All you have to do for your chance to win

 is leave me a comment here on this post at the blog, please, 

and not on my email 

(for those who get this in an email, you must go to the actual blog address).

Your comment can even be ONE word!

I will put the names of the people who comment into a hat and pick a winner 

at the end of this month 

I will send or deliver the painting to the winner - no strings attached 😃

... 

and that is it!

Best of luck, and thank you so much for following this

"dear to my heart" art journal.

🎨

Winner update: I forgot to update this post and let you know that Shirley Baldwin's name was drawn to be the winner of my Zoom-In!
(Thank you for subscribing, Shirley!)

My portrait of Hugo

My grandfather-in-law, or, my husband's paternal Grandad
was Hugo Robus. 
That link will take you to the Smithsonian American Art Museum
and
a brief biography of Hugo.

And here is another link for a blog post on
this blog about Hugo ... from August 2012.

As you see, I have been thinking about 
this for a long time.

Notably, Hugo Robus was first a 2D artist who became
interested in "pure form" and 
in particular,
the human body.


The photos below lead through my process
of making this painting that I have thought about 
for years.

We have this black & white photo of him
and I keep it in my studio (with permission from my husband).

I used some bits of Hugo's artworks in my painting to showcase
his styles and range ...

Hugo's painting of "After Rain" Noank, Conn 1916

"After Rain" Noank   by Hugo Robus     oil on board    8 x 10.5 inches

The little bronze sculpture, Paean

Paean   bronze reduction cast by Hugo Robus  10 inches

His sculpture Girl Washing Her Hair (cast stone)

Girl Washing Her Hair   by Hugo Robus   
1959 cast stone reproduction from half-scale
plaster reduction of the 1933 original

And, the last bit of a painting I include here is
a painting I did, called a "Zoom-In" of Hugo's painting
Central Park.

Below are also links in the blog about my
#8 Zoom-In of Hugo's painting Central Park
from June 2012.

Zoom-In Central Park - Start

Zoom-In Central Park - Day 2

Zoom-In Central Park - Fini

And finally, below is a photo of the original Central Park by Hugo Robus.

Central Park  by Hugo Robus   oil on canvas      26 x 32 inches

So if you look closely at my painting below, 
 you will see bits and pieces of those creations by 
Hugo Robus. 

Hugo      oil on Arches Huile paper     16 x 12 inches

I am fairly pleased with this painting to honor
this amazing artist who my husband remembers
as a serious artist, both austere and kind.



Thank you for checking in!
In two days it will be my blog's 11th birthday. 
I actually missed the big 10th one.
I started this thing on January 26, 2008.

I believe "they" call that a blogiversary.

In honor of that date,
I am gonna do a special thing so please
stay tuned!

Happy Painting!

😊

A pop-up Art Exhibit happened

For those in Juneau who may be perusing this blog, or anyone else for that matter ...

and perhaps didn't get to see my little pop-up art exhibit at our local distillery, 

I am posting about it today. This is how it looked on the wall.

Amalga Distillery wall, hung like a January 2016 calendar page! (Jan 31st is a collage.)

Opening night of my show was First Friday, January 4, 2019. 

It hung for that night and Saturday the 5th and ended at 7pm on Sunday, the 6th.

It was really fun to talk to everyone about my purpose for doing the paintings, 

which was to challenge myself to painting every day in January. 

It was a good thing, and if you have never done

anything like it, you should. It gets you painting 

whether you feel like 

it or not! Or you could do the drawing challenge to wet your feet so to speak.

THIS is a link to the day in this blog when I began the challenge and 

it is explained as the days went by ... I am pretty sure I posted each day,
but the main interesting fact was that I didn't move around.
I painted from the same vantage point in my living room each day.

This is a public thank you to everyone who bought paintings (18 sold) 

and who came by to take a look ... I loved seeing you!

Thank you so much! 💓

Happy New Year!

Fireweed & Shadows (Morning on Eagle Beach) 
12 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas

I was so happy to see the first Plein Rein Calendar page

 - January 2019 - 

is my own painting!

Of course I had forgotten,

so when I opened the calendar for today

1 January 2019

This painting popped up and surprised me.

Juneau people who have not gotten the calendar yet,

there are still a few available at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum!

(I think maybe at the JAHC, as well??)

... anyway, thank you so much for 

following this blog. I wish everyone a prolific painting year!

Be sure to show your work!

Happppppy Painnnnnting!

🎨