Month: September 2014
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And One From Column Number Three…
“Connection Lost” is the message I get, explaining why I can’t upload pictures of the latest “column collage”. I fact, I have been able to upload a picture of the whole collage, but it is really so long and narrow that it is hard to take in all the details at once (hence the reference […]
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A Change in the Weather is Known to be Extreme
“A change in the weather is known to be extreme, and now I’m changing horses in midstream,” says Bob Dylan, almost. But with the wind and rain kicking up here on the Bodrum Peninsula, it is NOT the time to be doing oil paintings outside in the backyard. So, we are back to working on […]
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It’s from Kos, it’s Italian, it’s in New York
I just love this sketch! It is a drawing for a detail of an iron gate from the 1920s for (if I remember correctly) the entrance gate of a government building on Kos (Cos), the island that I see out my window. At the time, Kos belonged to Italy, having been occupied by the Italians […]
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October on the Hudson
It’s official – I’ll be in NY from October 8-25! For anyone around Hudson NY (north of NYC, south of Albany), I’ll be at Olana on October 11 for a lecture/workshop on architectural decoration. You can find the details of the program on the web site of the Olana State Historic Site (click here). If […]
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La Mer
Back we are, at Kissebükü. But are we on the shore under the umbrella, or are we on “La Mer”? I had a very hard time with this painting. It just did not know what it wanted to be. As a result, it went through several stages before it was finished (and silly me forgot […]