tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36707740419133779222024-03-12T16:20:45.410-07:00Gloria Freshley Art and DesignA studio blogGloria Freshley Art and Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155367143003193303noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670774041913377922.post-50743288380376600102016-01-05T00:08:00.001-08:002016-01-05T00:08:10.014-08:00One Year Later . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year!! I hope yours is off to a great start! We've been treated to a lovely display of treacherous ice in Portlandia. I just poked my head out the door into the black night and the ice is going "clickity, clickity, click" as the wind blows the branches against each other.</div>
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And how is it that I have not been in this blog space for an entire year? Well of course, I suppose there is Instagram. It sort of turned things on end. It's so very quick and easy. (And I hope you'll find me <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gloriafreshley/">there </a>so that I can also find you there.) And also, there is the fact that I created a <a href="http://www.gloriafreshley.com/">website</a> that includes a journal page. But truth be told, I have only posted there twice, and my daughter Catherine, the advertising strategist (and <a href="http://catherinefreshleyart.com/">painter</a>), has informed me at least twice (gently) that two blog/journals is one too many. And lastly, there is the fact that something is up with the Blogger widgets. I became challenged by them to the point of maximum frustration, so I walked away from here for awhile. . . a very long while. (And you'll notice that a few things are <i>still</i> amiss in my sidebar.) </div>
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Meanwhile, I did manage to hang a show of more than twenty paintings last February (not all of them were new, of course), and I completed nine scarves/runners/wall hangings in early December that were hand printed with hand stitching embellishment, and machine pieced. They're currently at <a href="http://imogengallery.com/december-2015-exhibition/hook-pulp-and-weave">Imogen Gallery</a>, on the coast in Astoria, Oregon. And, of course, there is the full-time job. . . </div>
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Still, there is the issue of blogging. . . . Following others on Instagram does take time. And I'm still also following others on Flickr, though I rarely post photos there anymore. But I recently turned my attention back to Blogger and discovered that many of you are managing to continue blogging. And it was truly a treat to get somewhat caught up with what has been happening in your lives and with your artistic pursuits. </div>
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I think I've been away from here too long. I think I'll resume posting here, and will direct my website viewers to this blog. I look forward to engaging with you here on a (semi) regular basis again. (And I promise my posts will typically be short!) :-)</div>
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Cheers!!</div>
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<br />Gloria Freshley Art and Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155367143003193303noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670774041913377922.post-57130004474206712872015-01-04T18:54:00.001-08:002015-01-04T18:54:39.791-08:00New Year's Greetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"> (I realize I'm rather late in extending my wishes, but trust me, they are no less sincere. :-) ) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">May your artistic efforts in 2015 bring you much joy and contentment, and if a goal for your work happens to be financial reward, may you enjoy that as well. Most importantly, may you enjoy the love of family and friends and may you experience good health in the year ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Thank you for putting your work out there for the world to see. I continue to be inspired by your writings and your art, and I truly value this online artistic community that we have developed. </span><br />
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We pause to gather and give thanks for all that was, and is, and will be</div>
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.</div>
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It's misting here in Portlandia. Perfect weather for easing into a three-day weekend after three rather intense weeks at work, but not so great for those who have been looking forward to their last camping adventure prior to the beginning of school. The weather is a welcome reprieve from the heat and it buys me a break from exterior maintenance work that demands to be done before the relentless rains arrive. I'm hoping to finish "Carnival" (which already has another oval appearing inside of the large white oval and a yellow band beneath the white rectangle), and perhaps one other painting. Maybe I'll break out a new canvas, too, and I'm also hoping to get some hand stitching and machine work done. <br />
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I've been spending more time in the vegetable garden this year. Turning the compost continues to be my favorite activity, but I've also been enjoying hand watering in the evening and visiting the garden in the early morning to watch the bees at work in the <a href="http://gloriafreshleyartanddesign.blogspot.com/2014/07/pinkish-purple-or-purplish-pink.html">dahlias</a> that, amazingly, are now towering over the vegetables and bringing merriment to the garden.<br />
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Thank you to those of you who continue to blog and/or post to Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr or Facebook. Your work inspires me on a daily basis. And as always, thank you for your interest in <i>my </i>slow but steady artistic journey.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Perhaps you've had the amazing experience of coming upon these beautiful "By-the-Wind-Sailors" quite unexpectedly at the beach, but I never had until this weekend while at the Washington coast. Their scientific name is Valella valella and they spend their days skimming the surface of the ocean by means of a small blue float (deflated in the photos here) made of concentric circles of gas-filled tubes</span>.<span style="color: #666666;"> Their short tentacles hang just below the surface, feeding on plankton, and with no active means of propelling themselves, they sail along at the whim of the winds. Occasionally, (or more aptly "seasonally") they are beached by the hundreds of thousands. This phenomenon is occurring right now, up and down the west coast of North America, as evidenced by photos from two people I follow on Instagram; one who lives in Northern California, and the other in Southern California. I must say, this sight was spectacular, and even more so because the day was clear and the water was a gorgeous blue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Oh -- and if you're interested, come join me on <a href="http://instagram.com/gloriafreshley">Instagram</a>. </span></div>
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Last week seemed to be all about pinkish-purple (purplish-pink?). It began with me adding pink stitches to a piece I had painted years ago, and it culminated yesterday when this dahlia began to open. Well, of course there's a story: The bloom is the first from six or seven tubers that I had pretty much written off. I found them in a plastic FedEx envelope sitting on my west-facing porch on a sunny afternoon in April. Our oldest daughter had shipped them to me as one of her last tasks before moving from Spokane. I was impressed. But when I opened the package, it was like a little greenhouse inside, and the tubers were all damp, shriveled, soft and powdery. I thought to myself, "There's no way these are going to be viable." Not that I have any experience with dahlias. I don't. But as expected, when I researched "dahlia care" online, my suspicions were confirmed: these tubers didn't look like any of the photos of healthy tubers I saw.<br />
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But these were tubers from special dahlias, having been purchased by our youngest daughter to replace the dahlias she had ordered and grown for her sister's August wedding two years ago. Unfortunately, the responsibility of digging up the original tubers that autumn and fallen on me, since our youngest had moved to Hawaii for nine months, and our eldest lived in Spokane. Well, since the tubers were not exactly right here in our backyard, and since I had forgotten about them, they remained in the ground and had not survived the wet, soggy winter. <br />
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So . . . not wanting to be carrying around a double dose of guilt, I jumped into preparing a new place for these new tubers right here IN our backyard, and stuck them in the ground right away with lots of compost. I marked the spot of each tuber with a cedar stake, let both daughters know they were in the ground but that they shouldn't hold their breath, and then I waited. And waited. And watered. And waited. And . . . much to our mutual delight, the tubers performed their magic! And really, for someone who hasn't grown dahlias before, they're quite amazing -- almost Jack-in-the-Beanstalkish with thick stems and a multitude of buds ready to burst open. And now, of course, I must remember to dig them up in the fall, and figure out how to store them, and then remember to replant them, as I believe I will be their designated caretaker for the next few years. :)<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">A recently completed painting -- minimalist for sure, with its orange on orange ovoids and rectangles. Today, I began two smaller paintings and continued to take small steps toward completing "Twisted Strands". Working on more than one painting concurrently is something new for me. Not sure why it's taken me so long to adopt this approach, as it makes <i>so</i> much sense: Stuck on one? Move to another. Waiting for paint to dry? Work on another. And so it goes. </span></div>
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Gloria Freshley Art and Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155367143003193303noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670774041913377922.post-82830783341513557122014-04-05T13:20:00.001-07:002014-04-05T15:03:26.992-07:00Twisted Strands . . .Still In Progress<br />
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Funny how a painting develops. Or should I say, "Funny how <i>my </i>paintings develop." <i>Twisted Strands </i>began as a colored pencil thumbnail sketch of the very simple composition depicted above, sans the succession of rectangles on the top. The sketch was done in a saturated color palette of orange, cerise, teal and yellow, ala the Chinese export bowls that I love; and my first session on the painting took it in that direction. But as the days passed, I gradually lightened the painting up, save for the large rectangles on the bottom that remained in saturated hues of orange. </div>
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Meanwhile, I alternately hung the painting in portrait and landscape views, struggling with the composition as I continued to struggle with the palette. (If you missed it, you can see an earlier state of the painting <a href="http://gloriafreshleyartanddesign.blogspot.com/2014/02/twisted-strands-in-progress.html">here</a>.) Late the other night, I decided the orange rectangles had to go, and the strands, which had recently gone very dark, needed to be lightened up. So, here we are. And today, I am contemplating how I will wrap this painting up, and whether I'm brave enough to "pierce" one or both of the large, now white rectangles. And therein lies the intrigue and joy of painting! </div>
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Oh, and the lovely bowls with the Oriental feel? Well, you can read about them <a href="http://gloriafreshleyartanddesign.blogspot.com/2010/05/lessons-in-editing-and-salmon.html">here</a>. When the painting's palette shifted, the bowls immediately came out of the cupboard. :)</div>
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- Salvaged fabric, waiting to be patched together with some rhyme or reason: A larger concept is unfolding, but first, a trip to a sewing machine repair shop is in order. </div>
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- Patchworks in the "back forty": My husband cleared five new patches of ground, planted five young apples trees, and sank large alder posts at the corners of the patches. We pulled heavy wire mesh around the posts to keep the deer from dining on the young trees. <br />
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- Nearby blueberry bushes in the glorious state of pink leaf buds with lichen and collected raindrops: Winter, spring and fall are my favorite seasons to view the bushes.</div>
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I like simple, graphic compositions and industrial imagery. So I
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Gloria Freshley Art and Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155367143003193303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670774041913377922.post-48357631901053718102014-02-01T21:58:00.001-08:002014-02-02T10:17:07.161-08:00When Great Artists Come Together<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Hello everyone! I've been rather absent from here lately, but I've been making the rounds of the blogosphere on a daily basis. The creative energy on display from around the globe is so stimulating and inspiring. It keeps me in a perpetual state that reminds me of horses behind the starting gates, or runners on their marks, or . . . the <a href="http://gloriafreshleyartanddesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/jill-maybergs-art-dose-of-good-cheer.html">beagle</a> we once had, as he waited (not so patiently) just inside the door while we frantically scrambled to put his leash on. It all boils down to pent up creative energy waiting to be released. If you're like me, trying to squeeze your artistic pursuits in between a full time job and the rest of life's demands, you can probably relate. :) Anyway, aside from not having created much art, I've been very busy around here, and am getting close to a point where I will be able to devote more time to painting. A little more on that later; for now, here is the fifth speed painting from my sketchbook. Speed paintings, after all, don't take much time. :)</span></div>
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I've been more than a little preoccupied the past couple of months, planning for and now in the midst of a small remodeling project that has impacted several areas of our house in successive stages. We currently have all of the furnishings from our living/dining/kitchen areas crammed into other areas of the house while our hardwood floors are being refinished. The stove is not operational, the refrigerator is not in the kitchen, the dishwasher is taped shut, the kitchen cabinets are taped shut and covered with plastic, and wispy sheaths of plastic drape the doorways between rooms. There is a foggy quality of light in these rooms, and with everything out of them, it is only too apparent that they are in much need of fresh paint and that this would be an opportune time to address the situation. Except that. . . . it is December 10th and guess who would be doing the painting? Hmm. . . Do people really take on these types of projects so close to the holidays? Needless to say, my art practice (and blogging) came to a screeching halt. </div>
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Meanwhile, my daughter <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CatherineFreshleyArt">Catherine</a>, has been very busy at her easel, preparing for her current show at South Perry Pizza in Spokane. If you're in the vicinity, stop in to take a peek at these works and Catherine's other paintings, and while you're there, do partake of some of <a href="http://www.southperrypizzaspokane.com/about-spp/">South Perry's </a>artisan pizza. The show's up through December 18th.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I've had some ideas floating around in my head about painting over stripes. I need to begin some new canvases for a show, so I turned to my sketchbook to explore the stripe idea in a speed painting. I'm glad I did -- I learned a thing or two. I gessoed the pages first, blew them dry, and jumped right in by quickly painting one bright stripe after another. And then . . . I painted over them. </span><br />
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All in all, it's been a great weekend. Spent some time becoming familiar with textile guru <a href="http://indiaflint.com/">India Flint's</a> book, <a href="http://indiaflint.com/page4.htm"><i>Eco Colour</i></a><i>. </i>Spent some time yesterday with artist friends, <a href="http://penfelt.com/">LeBrie Rich</a> and <a href="http://www.joanmcguire.com/index.html">Joan McGuire</a>, testing fabric swatches in conventional dye baths. Back at the house, I rolled up some eco leaf bundles per the instructions in India's book and steam-tested them for dye effectiveness. Today, I over-dyed some of Saturday's test swatches in mashed blueberries, and also took the paintbrush to the pulp (some of which is still adhered to the linen in the first photo). To top the weekend off, I went to see an awesome retrospective exhibit of Portlander <a href="http://www.stephenhayes.net/Paintings.html">Stephen Hayes</a>' prints and paintings and was truly inspired. Indeed, it was a great weekend!</div>
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Several months ago, it dawned on me that my "sketchbooks" aren't really sketchbooks at all, but rather they are more like "idea books". I use them to do thumbnail sketches (as in one to two inches square) of possible resolutions to current paintings or ideas for possible future paintings; and also to jot down notes about various techniques and products, as well as ideas for possible future projects. Meanwhile, I continue to be inspired by other artists' sketchbooks. (<a href="http://sophiemunns.weebly.com/journal-2010.html">Sophie Munns'</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lariwashburn/sets/72157613344759049/">Lari Washburn's</a> come to mind at the moment.) </div>
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Of course, the idea behind sketchbooks, and sketching in general, is that they offer freedom to loosen up and mess up while capturing scenes or ideas and simultaneously developing techniques and skill. So with that in mind, I broke-in a new sketchbook last weekend that will be dedicated to "speed paintings". The phrase came to me as I was opening the book to begin my first painting. Now, by "speed", I don't necessarily mean works that are completed in fifteen to twenty minutes or less, although they might be; but my intent<i><b> is </b></i>that the works will be completed in one sitting. And my concept is slightly different than the Painting a Day (PAD) concept, that <a href="http://annamariaart.blogspot.com/">Annamaria Potamiti</a> and others are currently adhering to with wonderful results. For one, I will not be doing these paintings daily. Secondly, they will frequently not be representational. And lastly, they will remain in my sketchbooks. But . . .my speed painting goals will surely be similar: improve observational skills; expand my repertoire of techniques; develop confidence in color, composition, and mark making; gain speed; and develop images worth pursuing on canvas. Sounds like a plan! (Hoping I stick with it.) I'll post the results regularly on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GloriaFreshleyStudio?ref=tn_tnmn">Facebook</a> and/or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gloriafreshley/sets/">Flickr</a>. Anyone care to follow suit?</div>
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Spokane boasts a wonderful park called <a href="http://spokaneparks.org/index.php/Parks/page/88/">Manito</a>, loosely translated from the dialect of the indigenous tribes to mean "spirit of nature". Designed in the early 1900s, it now features a Japanese garden, a formal annuals garden, a perennial garden, lilac gardens, a conservatory filled with cacti and succulents, and Mirror Pond. Such an ambitious project for a young city that was so remote; and still, today, an ambitious project by the City and 100 volunteers to keep it so well maintained. </div>
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My sister and daughter and I took a leisurely stroll through the park on Saturday afternoon in perfect weather and book-ended it with some productive art-making time. I christened a new "speed painting" sketchbook. Perhaps I will share some images from it on another day. And now, the work week calls.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Well yes, I said I would be picking up the paint brushes this week. And actually, I was referring to painting on a canvas; but so far, all I've done is experiment with mark making on fabric in combination with relief printing. </span></div>
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Wishing you a creative, productive week -- whatever your work and/or activities may be!</div>
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A little harvesting.</div>
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Next up? A little painting. :)</div>
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Two months have passed since my last post! This constitutes a record in my four years of keeping this blog. But the hiatus has been semi-intentional, as I allowed myself an "art and blogging sabbatical" of an unspecified duration. Aside from changing the palette of my <a href="http://gloriafreshleyartanddesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-flower-doodle-in-process.html">doodle painting </a>shortly after my last post, and doing a little block printing, I haven't produced any art whatsoever since the beginning of June. Outside of my nearly full-time job, I have been concentrating on the ongoing process of getting rid of things around the house and have also painted two rooms. Beyond that, I've been enjoying time with visiting family members, and have spent time watering and harvesting the vegetable garden and turning the compost (my current favorite garden task.) </div>
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The middle three photos were taken on a recent walk, and the last photo is of one of the clover patches that have gone rampant in our lawns. This situation, too, is semi-intentional and is a decided departure from the well-watered, well-groomed lawns that one typically finds at our house. After all, my husband is a landscape architect and he greatly appreciates a well-maintained design. But here's the rub: lawns in the Pacific Northwest require extensive watering to remain green during the summer; but clover thrives in drought conditions and furthermore, binds nitrogen to the soil, which serves to fertilize both the clover and the turf grasses. Equally important, if not more so, the clover attracts honeybees. And goodness knows, we all need to do everything possible to support the honeybees, our lifeline to a vast array of our foods. Oh, and by the way, bunnies like clover, too. :) After having all but given up hope of seeing the presumably lone bunny that visited our yard for a few weeks this past spring, it made an appearance a couple of days ago and enjoyed its breakfast of clover! Sure, the look of the clover takes a little getting used to, and we do have the neighbors to consider, but all in all, it seems like the time is right to return to lawns reminiscent of those we remember prior to the advent of widely available broadleaf herbicides. </div>
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<br />Gloria Freshley Art and Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155367143003193303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670774041913377922.post-19298441823924762652013-06-01T20:03:00.001-07:002013-06-01T20:12:31.813-07:00A Flower Doodle in Process<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">Happy June! Who can believe it is already here?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Hoping to spend a little more time on this 12 x 12 painting on a panel that I started last weekend. I approached it as nothing more than a doodle. Beyond this, I'm contemplating doing some paintings on paper again. It's been a long time since I've painted on paper and I'm thinking some quick, loose works would be good for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Thank you for stopping by!</span></div>
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