Tag: Deborah Semel Demirtaş
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Thanks, Nancy! (How has your summer been?)
SO yes, I’ve been out of touch; but now I’m back in touch. In fact, the past month has done wonders for letting me “get in touch” with the state of my nation, Turkey. So (thanks, Nancy), as I started to explain to a friend of mine in NY when she wrote and asked, “How […]
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Prognostication
If you’ve read some of my earlier blog posts, then you may know that I decided to take 52 of these postcard-size collages and turn them into a deck of fortunetelling cards. It seemed the logical thing to do, since the number of people really interested in looking at artwork seemed infinitessimely smaller than the number of people […]
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Back to the Drawing(CUTTING) Board
Yes, we are back to the cutting board! The reason for that is simple: my precious French oil pastels are feeling just as overwhelmed from the heat as I am. They’re not quite butter, but they’re not quite up to form, either. So, rather than put the in the fridge and see what happens, I […]
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Oleanders
The oleanders by the side of our house/apt have just started to bloom! It’s late, I know, but we don’ get so much sun on us (a Good Thing for an Aegean summer), and our oleanders are probably not looked after as well as they should be. We only have a few – just enough for some color […]
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A Photographic Interlude
It was when Mel was in Istanbul being a poet that we were able to take over the house in Foça. In addition to some watercolors of the coastline, I managed to take some photos of some beautiful waterfalls inland, up towards Manisa. Getting there was an adventure in itself (let’s just say that anytime […]
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Big! Bigger!! Biggest!!!
What a misleading title. But then again, I think these photos are misleading, too. When I look at them, it makes me want to make BIG paintings. Which is kind of interesting, because I NEVER want to make big paintings. But I could see making these big. At least as big as a couch painting. A […]
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Heads Above Water
I think that’s going to be the title for my most recent oil pastel drawing in my series of water drawings. When I was finishing this drawing, part of me wanted to paint out the white ‘waves’ so that the drawing would be just 2 disembodied heads in a field of blue. But I kind of like […]
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Drawing in /on Milas
So lately, I have been working on a presentation on “Color in Space” that I will use in a workshop I’ll be giving at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (!) at Gediz University, which is a private university in Turkey just a 20-minute drive from where I hope to be moving (eventually), Foça. One […]
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Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Well, not the river but the sea, and I am feeling immersed in it, even though I am presently sitting well above the high-water mark inside a cafe overlooking the sea and Kos. The waves appear to be coming from the west – a reverse-migration? You might not believe me, but the lit-up waves are looking to […]
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Valentine’s Day Open Studio
So, a friend of mine mentioned an artist she read about who was trying to survive on donations she was soliciting as a means of support for her art-making. I’m guessing that if she’s doing this through a crowdfunding web site, she’s “giving away” pieces of artwork as “gifts” to the folks making these donations. I suppose that […]
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