tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48956690903649662672024-03-05T02:00:37.231-05:00Kathryn FreemanPaintings, Portraits, MuralsKathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-77309613900140268842024-01-14T17:07:00.000-05:002024-01-14T17:07:12.501-05:00"Food is Love", oil on linen, 32" x 34"<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f40a5843-7fff-bf42-4591-e80e21416d2a"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoN3nOUfkbTp1EQDWuRc7x9r0K28D2rs0TdYlbLvCg4bSCO57wVA4bQ0e4w0TO1HvDuKEHLjlbfVKX_MG6ealFuAkxBLFlPX7kK5S2ldLvoERmckSxRoNMnBEh8uDhschB2xbN2QvG7mZY6V-nd3sJelCSMFzsiE57MQ7C_lcBWZTQgJG6od7vy5F7IDm/s3097/Food%20as%20Love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2900" data-original-width="3097" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoN3nOUfkbTp1EQDWuRc7x9r0K28D2rs0TdYlbLvCg4bSCO57wVA4bQ0e4w0TO1HvDuKEHLjlbfVKX_MG6ealFuAkxBLFlPX7kK5S2ldLvoERmckSxRoNMnBEh8uDhschB2xbN2QvG7mZY6V-nd3sJelCSMFzsiE57MQ7C_lcBWZTQgJG6od7vy5F7IDm/w400-h375/Food%20as%20Love.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Food is Love” is a narrative portrait about one person’s journey through a new chapter in her life. After a successful career in the corporate world she went through a process of self discovery and came to the conclusion that her passion was the soil, growing vegetables and gathering people together to share in the meals that were the product of hard work. She bought some land and along with her son began to farm it. The painting depicts moments and objects that have special meaning to her on this journey, from the goats, pigs and chickens that were part of her day-to-day existence to the produce they grew, and the dishes she made for the people she gathered around her table.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfMnJNQ6RE53siG7E0d_3oxqywh9Hqr3TMPXFtC_YrXl2ytkY1ztwsXtudkhQOpRWVvuxBEtLyECC4qwzGQPxIzj-HeDnA1fE5BowPrGCxiMsZWwxri59V5IEBfuBVvthcU1vW65g5wX1xDKpLTdywI8FUKEmub1aXI8DTYuddKwika3IbEhye7yVSYsu/s1600/Jan%20Johnson%20thumbnail.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1446" data-original-width="1600" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfMnJNQ6RE53siG7E0d_3oxqywh9Hqr3TMPXFtC_YrXl2ytkY1ztwsXtudkhQOpRWVvuxBEtLyECC4qwzGQPxIzj-HeDnA1fE5BowPrGCxiMsZWwxri59V5IEBfuBVvthcU1vW65g5wX1xDKpLTdywI8FUKEmub1aXI8DTYuddKwika3IbEhye7yVSYsu/s320/Jan%20Johnson%20thumbnail.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span> </span><span> </span>the </span>compositional sketch</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKmGp12wY5nWrXxUZTxneXJ84bw-2ypc-dR_VfXjzH86E22ElhBF1_D1KawqexvxNZ_zxD8Fq6zMWqHH58VQCizKh-oR6RjSZK9jG4RfYaP0vPHLdXic3KGaN2Sc8DmIlgyqfP3FOfVGmFIWCK9TEHCgKB9od-8c_8LypKn_hUiK8NtQOL-yd5qj6wbug/s2756/study%20for%20MRF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2005" data-original-width="2756" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKmGp12wY5nWrXxUZTxneXJ84bw-2ypc-dR_VfXjzH86E22ElhBF1_D1KawqexvxNZ_zxD8Fq6zMWqHH58VQCizKh-oR6RjSZK9jG4RfYaP0vPHLdXic3KGaN2Sc8DmIlgyqfP3FOfVGmFIWCK9TEHCgKB9od-8c_8LypKn_hUiK8NtQOL-yd5qj6wbug/s320/study%20for%20MRF.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">watercolor study for the landscape</span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-81325007482119537472023-10-23T11:08:00.001-05:002023-10-23T11:18:46.783-05:00"The Greeters', oil on linen, 36" x 48"<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6MOOrW2ohY5hkGhk_fW2nb5mfyLHnoirHrtPjLTZLGN99yji0wlcVcIwZZn_7RJ3_b02lj-i0aPFlKuni5FPGVsZ8WX6Dyy2ocdE0TUZcvLmLWJFy_1IOflUBsWL7gvdhQwQBDwRxhhJCPfR9xXkiguI4UorOqJmcT66GItIuOcPEYMbborpqWUD-uz2S" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2066" data-original-width="2744" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6MOOrW2ohY5hkGhk_fW2nb5mfyLHnoirHrtPjLTZLGN99yji0wlcVcIwZZn_7RJ3_b02lj-i0aPFlKuni5FPGVsZ8WX6Dyy2ocdE0TUZcvLmLWJFy_1IOflUBsWL7gvdhQwQBDwRxhhJCPfR9xXkiguI4UorOqJmcT66GItIuOcPEYMbborpqWUD-uz2S=w320-h241" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>My wish, and I assume everyone else's, is that the day we reach the other side, all the dogs we have loved in our lifetime will be there waiting to greet us.</p><p>This painting is the greeting line up of all the wonderful dogs that belonged to an individual in Bethesda, Maryland. She loved her dogs intensely and with all her heart and when she saw another "lifetime of dogs" painting that I did she knew she wanted a painting of her own. She is an amazing person and besides loving her own dogs, she loves all animals and was very involved with the Washington Animal Rescue Alliance for years. </p><p>When she started sending me photos of her dogs I fell in love with them as well. They were all so different and unique. There is Kiki, the black lab who was wonderful with children, and Senta the beautiful German Shepherd mix with the most soulful eyes. And Daisy the yellow lab who loved the water so much -- she was wading in every photo. And tiny Moose, (perfect name) the cheerful Yorkie, who could hold his own with the big dogs. Then Laila the white and caramel terrier mix who looks tough until she rolls over and her tongue flops out to show she is a total love. And the amazing and much loved Mango who has both incredibly expressive ears and a way of sitting on one hip that is totally endearing. And finally Wolf the big, beautiful Husky with a smile so wide you can't not smile back. </p><p>These dogs were so special on their own I decided to let them have center stage, sitting or standing in an open landscape with water and a big blue sky. I wanted their surroundings to feel like what a dog might imagine as heaven. Their owner has a house on an island in New England so she had the perfect setting for this. And just to add a little movement and color there are seven sailboats for the seven dogs, sailing behind them -- a touch of existentialism to symbolize that they live forever in their mom's heart.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bu18JeDR4Ko" width="320" youtube-src-id="Bu18JeDR4Ko"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-48116429065565426962023-02-06T12:16:00.003-05:002023-02-06T12:29:43.146-05:00Madame et Le Chien, oil on linen, 22" x 30"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKHyjP0ZbF-yXglyOMKLRuxv-ohfWT5gY1lmovwJdx3qTHnqmS53JabpG_hKjxD2ZG8sqx54QlaJd0VmCI66TenVG29YXALTj9P-lgK_Un-cFgI3zDM4nYI-1nvxBsPMmUEQzxcrrGBW6XqbeovPuDGkIR9GnQW0n38yAx-1QP55WWOqGEnxn4iC09w/s3620/Madame%20et%20Le%20Chien.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2618" data-original-width="3620" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKHyjP0ZbF-yXglyOMKLRuxv-ohfWT5gY1lmovwJdx3qTHnqmS53JabpG_hKjxD2ZG8sqx54QlaJd0VmCI66TenVG29YXALTj9P-lgK_Un-cFgI3zDM4nYI-1nvxBsPMmUEQzxcrrGBW6XqbeovPuDGkIR9GnQW0n38yAx-1QP55WWOqGEnxn4iC09w/w400-h289/Madame%20et%20Le%20Chien.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">I have a close friend who is naturally elegant. She is tall and graceful and has lovely refined features. She also has a beautiful and elegant Weimaraner named Greta. Whenever I see them out walking together I have a strong urge to paint them in a double portrait. But I had not figured out how to do it and elevate it beyond being a pedestrian likeness. Also my friend is modest and I couldn't imagine that she would enjoy the process of having her portrait painted. One day I was perusing a gorgeous book on John Singer Sargent with full color plates and I was mesmerized by the studies for and the the final painting titled "Madame X" which Sargent painted in 1883 <span style="background-color: white;">of the young socialite Virginia Amelie Avegno Gautreau, the wife of the French Banker Pierre Gautreau. It is a stunning and mysterious painting. As I was studying it the subject Madame Gautreau suddenly brought the image of my friend and her dog Greta to mind. There was something so familiar. So after doing a few sketches I decided to paint Greta and have Madame Gautreau stand in for my elegant friend. I composed the painting so that Greta's stance and profile mirror Madame X's, and in a setting that echoes the late 1800 period. The breeze lifting the sheer curtain and what the subjects are gazing at beyond the window- remain a mystery. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Here is more about the original Madame X, which caused quite a bit of controversy in its time.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-madame-scandalized-art">https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-madame-scandalized-art</a></span></span></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-59707473680216223252022-11-17T12:06:00.000-05:002022-11-17T12:06:16.107-05:00Two more "A Lifetime of Dogs"<p> Late summer and early fall of this year brought me two more commissions that involved painting the dogs from someone's lifetime. In my mind I equate this to painting a glimpse into what someone's heaven might be, because for me I would like to see the menagerie from my entire lifetime waiting at the gates for me to arrive. We would pick up just where we left off and they would all get along beautifully. Of course my vision would include cats and a few horses, and maybe a couple guinea pigs. </p><p>The painting I finished in August was for a gentleman on his 80th birthday. I was asked to paint it by his family and they gave it to him as a surprise. They wanted him present in the painting, quietly sitting in his yard enjoying the company of his current dog as well as the dogs from his past. He often had two at a time of a certain type- all beautiful. The family provided me with whatever photos they could come up with as well as descriptions of a few when a photo couldn't be found.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLCMpU2YKhVsiOI_CjgxlKdcaUKNu8ZCQ9YCaqtB7zZpNJhwjtKj5n_7SH--o0AqJ3t3JygRT0U_m21BouX3gnYI6fIOZHlezHLDJLDGioEXiYEweuI2TSWSUWSr6tZAeAmifc1G13psnpreJ7-HdvfF5ny13EXUO4QWSt2uEf0wUqi80fKrp-Ijcb3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="2759" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLCMpU2YKhVsiOI_CjgxlKdcaUKNu8ZCQ9YCaqtB7zZpNJhwjtKj5n_7SH--o0AqJ3t3JygRT0U_m21BouX3gnYI6fIOZHlezHLDJLDGioEXiYEweuI2TSWSUWSr6tZAeAmifc1G13psnpreJ7-HdvfF5ny13EXUO4QWSt2uEf0wUqi80fKrp-Ijcb3Q" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Dogs of a Lifetime", oil on linen, 24" x 30"</div><br /><p></p><p>The second painting was for a friend who was the owner of an architectural salvage shop in DC. She is a collector herself and has a beautiful home filled with interesting and exquisite objects. She also has a wonderful sense of color and has had a fantastic collection of dogs over her lifetime as well. She is a delightful individual and has a special charm and glow. Even though she didn't want to be present in the painting I wanted the painting to "feel" like her in spirit and mood. As we chatted about the painting she told me about each individual dog, how they came to be with her, and their unique personality and disposition. I got very attached to them as I painted them and wanted to do each one justice. On the day I delivered the painting, I finally got to meet the beautiful Tessa in person and I got the feeling she was quite content with her likeness...or it might have been the treats. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7COWTWVdd4p5AyFfovVCMhTZL6mdlU7VP9zxBEDLV6yYBqQm987urNhD7Qazfz_jpYro_Pxlf7UnvhAzFrkR75RFoZpEoVwAg1dZSd_--Nqp4ldgiIfchk7MgcZD-UNYwtN0Oj--vmbQd5SboSCLjqNjYFk8XQMb0brvEgZYrV9HE-OWNkh585Scupg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2846" data-original-width="2853" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7COWTWVdd4p5AyFfovVCMhTZL6mdlU7VP9zxBEDLV6yYBqQm987urNhD7Qazfz_jpYro_Pxlf7UnvhAzFrkR75RFoZpEoVwAg1dZSd_--Nqp4ldgiIfchk7MgcZD-UNYwtN0Oj--vmbQd5SboSCLjqNjYFk8XQMb0brvEgZYrV9HE-OWNkh585Scupg=w400-h398" width="400" /></a></p><p>"Donetta's Dogs", oil on linen, 32" x 32"</p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEillOTn1MIhv3pe1Qenb-J0vNN3D1zoE2eGKLIB1_aqqxlRcXBnqr4R9cimazHCOxpWrrSkhIqVs2X2Y_2nLYgbvVIHQs8ADXKh227QMVx2XTIpUcDAhVFyxtsEM7Lc6kgyQSoUHAfzKh4FK4yY_2h93Oxsu47dl7BjWwdn0nhI2AAdUjFTYzf-rP1fGQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEillOTn1MIhv3pe1Qenb-J0vNN3D1zoE2eGKLIB1_aqqxlRcXBnqr4R9cimazHCOxpWrrSkhIqVs2X2Y_2nLYgbvVIHQs8ADXKh227QMVx2XTIpUcDAhVFyxtsEM7Lc6kgyQSoUHAfzKh4FK4yY_2h93Oxsu47dl7BjWwdn0nhI2AAdUjFTYzf-rP1fGQ" width="180" /></a></div><br />Donetta and Tessa</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-22171790948013070832022-11-17T11:08:00.001-05:002023-02-06T12:36:39.102-05:00"Living with Goats", oil on linen, 30" x 40"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgGUd8zSXjyaA4JGPeAxvjGw-9e_mV3gWcolxGmtjYuAEqkrqeyhtAEeVl-RVcb-s1bVFYWhNul9j93nj6coG8QBhA9R2JjLwJdcDKNDiqWSA47AlzINJKI_aj_wlEOOdMKB0kzMv6nDTVMAilTZ1ZHYmVKX6AZHlRGBFusBtsJ6qZyCZAZzvQuyStBw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2707" data-original-width="3559" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgGUd8zSXjyaA4JGPeAxvjGw-9e_mV3gWcolxGmtjYuAEqkrqeyhtAEeVl-RVcb-s1bVFYWhNul9j93nj6coG8QBhA9R2JjLwJdcDKNDiqWSA47AlzINJKI_aj_wlEOOdMKB0kzMv6nDTVMAilTZ1ZHYmVKX6AZHlRGBFusBtsJ6qZyCZAZzvQuyStBw=w400-h304" width="400" /></a></div>I started this painting as a tiny gouache sketch sometime last summer. It was inspired by the goats we see every morning on our early morning walks up Hayes Hill Road in Mill River, Massachusetts. At the top of the hill there is a farm. A young farmer lives there with his family and every time I pass I wish I could tell him how much I admire him. Farming is hard there is no doubt about that. I always hope that the beautiful view from his hill makes up for his early and late hours, the search for enough land, hauling food and water for all the creatures he is raising... and never mind the weather being temperamental and uncertain. And then there are the goats. I really hope that their crazy antics and funny voices bring the young farmer some joy and that he is not too overwhelmed by the weight of his responsibilities to enjoy them. I started thinking that maybe I should add some goats to our menagerie of cats and dogs, but then I thought again about the reality of that... and did this painting instead. <p></p><p>Living with Goats </p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-70257577949456682622022-04-05T13:18:00.000-05:002022-04-05T13:18:51.331-05:00A Lifetime of Animals, oil on linen, 42" x 42"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6bSd49KwMuy5LzrloG7U2KhUbH5SpkpiBxu7IuS3YhWfP-9Q7fbtQiRc5pJq44Qgp1peo3FM0ItwM8O2u2N73lGt9gsfNxpH_2k_nb7fxJqh-g26J8hTxkNuv2pZcQCGnk2oqqgUFbzUy0sXvnHUbvOZvHvnK-NcY6IXNoTDAzI_lw8ocVxr3-oMlw/s2859/A%20Lifetime%20of%20Animals%20(best).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2859" data-original-width="2849" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6bSd49KwMuy5LzrloG7U2KhUbH5SpkpiBxu7IuS3YhWfP-9Q7fbtQiRc5pJq44Qgp1peo3FM0ItwM8O2u2N73lGt9gsfNxpH_2k_nb7fxJqh-g26J8hTxkNuv2pZcQCGnk2oqqgUFbzUy0sXvnHUbvOZvHvnK-NcY6IXNoTDAzI_lw8ocVxr3-oMlw/w399-h400/A%20Lifetime%20of%20Animals%20(best).jpg" width="399" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oil on linen, 42" x 42"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e61f410-7fff-2564-c6bf-d0fcad9e45ef"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The inspiration for “A Life with Animals” came last October from conversations with the individual who asked me to paint it. The concept for a painting like this is very organic. I listen to the individual tell me stories about their life, their passions and the animals they have loved, and slowly the idea emerges, followed by the seed of a visual portrayal of the idea. In this project there were so many inspiring stories, so many wonderful creatures, that the initial concept kept growing and expanding over time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">My first challenge was how to place all these creatures into the same space yet have it feel cohesive and somewhat natural – a very happy peaceable kingdom. I liked the idea of making the setting the large room of an English-style country house with various areas for seating, and opening to a landscape. Since many of the animals were rescued from dire situations and given a second chance for comfort and love, I thought that should be reflected in the painting – all the creatures living harmoniously together in a beautiful and cozy home. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-83f1f88b-7fff-26ef-11d2-77aa5cf1c907"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started by drawing a floor plan on grid paper as if I was figuring out where to put furniture in an empty room, then I slowly added the animals and moved them around until they each had their own spot. Then I did a perspective drawing on paper to create a deep space within which I could arrange the composition. Using photographs and descriptions of all the animals, I did a number of preliminary drawings so I felt like I knew them before starting on the canvas.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the linen canvas, I always begin with a reddish orange imprimatura, then grid it so I can scale up from the perspective drawing. First I draw the space in charcoal, then add the figures. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the drawing is complete, I do a grisaille (gray tones) underpainting. When that is dry, I start working over that in transparent color glazes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with the animals there are some objects depicted that are unique and personal to the owners of the painting, such as the scale of justice, the hats, the bluebird and robin, certain attributes of the interior and the landscape. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been times in my career when a painting sort of takes over and paints itself. This was definitely one of those. I think perhaps the spirits of all the lovely creatures had something to do with it. I am just grateful to be the person who got to hold the brush. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See a video of the painting here: </span><a class="style-scope ytcp-video-share-dialog" href="https://youtu.be/gGSfxtcfzE0" id="share-url" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ytcp-font-subheading_-_font-size,15px); line-height: 24px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gGSfxtcfzE0</a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dbf590bd-7fff-c998-47f8-bd469a9aa831"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p><br /> </p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-60880411049222890142021-11-03T14:10:00.005-05:002021-11-04T10:49:15.550-05:00 Sleeping Women <p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Sv9wQnOlyf19wmxzkumrdzI-mF4GURa_inlhn8_oWCyu7P5JCzzLhDKSGRaQh7zZt0Gd5ABVMlkM9pg6FZJMf4HLAWOtsJZDMuURuR2sf3inIZ68V6NLIdCq0x-YqjUYZglOAN1uueAt/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Sv9wQnOlyf19wmxzkumrdzI-mF4GURa_inlhn8_oWCyu7P5JCzzLhDKSGRaQh7zZt0Gd5ABVMlkM9pg6FZJMf4HLAWOtsJZDMuURuR2sf3inIZ68V6NLIdCq0x-YqjUYZglOAN1uueAt/" width="289" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>A theme I seem to return to again and again in my paintings is the image of a woman asleep. There is a long tradition in the history of art of a woman sleeping so I am not the first or last artist to be attracted to this subject. Perhaps it's because when you gaze upon someone asleep the potential for looking into their mind, their dreams, their virtual reality is so tempting and inspiring. Do they dream of the ocean, or the stars, or the face in the moon, of love, or perhaps of horses or herons? Hopefully all the dreams are beautiful with few nightmares. </p><p><i>Some of my recent Sleeping Women paintings:</i></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><i>The Dreaming of Horses theme grew from having frequent bad dreams or "nightmares" over the past few years. When I would wake up anxious and fearful, I would try to focus on what I would rather be dreaming of- And I decided I would always rather be dreaming of horses. </i></span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><i>I love the Richard Diebenkorn painting "Sleeping Woman" from 1961 so I decided to depict that painting on the wall and mirror it in the sleeping woman on the sofa in the painting below. </i></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1m7Fs2Q1ZuqGXDV1HVMU0KVYci_r_SQl6XasjSHdEs2MBeDtFzyYdQr1yDVV2E_6bTe6ILIkO_m0RPXZYHJQoNOVCEEz1JzC4T7LpNQQCsq6jy771YkSgLAMOBHjmcFOn8IuvpL9y86M/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2033" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1m7Fs2Q1ZuqGXDV1HVMU0KVYci_r_SQl6XasjSHdEs2MBeDtFzyYdQr1yDVV2E_6bTe6ILIkO_m0RPXZYHJQoNOVCEEz1JzC4T7LpNQQCsq6jy771YkSgLAMOBHjmcFOn8IuvpL9y86M/w400-h396/Dreaming+of+Horses.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"I'd rather be Dreaming of Horses" 24" x 24", oil on linen</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><i>The next Dreaming of Horses was done for a friend who loves horses. That is her horse Piper peering in the door at her and gently touching her hair with his soft muzzle. And her beagle Riley sleeping near by. Have you ever noticed that you sleep more deeply with your dog or cat in the room? </i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi80E1rpQjl7qI_7oBvsDEb-Tt-XxhTiPHYhnjFvBVOqevQtPyxPzRCTl8EynSCSoH7oywmVEb8LURF0KnqEvN101xz8xkebd2c5O25zVlojJPb-AQB4O5qjDwHLhWMvQDQUNnXCianVj5s/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2048" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi80E1rpQjl7qI_7oBvsDEb-Tt-XxhTiPHYhnjFvBVOqevQtPyxPzRCTl8EynSCSoH7oywmVEb8LURF0KnqEvN101xz8xkebd2c5O25zVlojJPb-AQB4O5qjDwHLhWMvQDQUNnXCianVj5s/w400-h317/Dreaming+of+Horses+II.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">I'd rather be Dreaming of Horses II, 24" x 30" oil on linen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>A painting I did a couple years ago- A woman has come home from work, had a sip of wine and dozed off on her sofa exhausted. She had waited all day for the moment when she could feel</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>safe and unthreatened in the company of her cats. In her dreams her cats have become her guardians and stand over her like protective angels while she sleeps deeply and peacefully. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ev784RUqVsOCoUdBMWK7fdqmrQX4nAsB4sJq-0gpS9GmQ_ECbmpU1XE-7yN1xqAjjMHADyvEa8T2pirKtn-MSk_U3-q-ojqt8gUAdf2ErmnXT6iTEkJbaOmh4I3hed45f9OvJSlWynWP/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2040" data-original-width="2048" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ev784RUqVsOCoUdBMWK7fdqmrQX4nAsB4sJq-0gpS9GmQ_ECbmpU1XE-7yN1xqAjjMHADyvEa8T2pirKtn-MSk_U3-q-ojqt8gUAdf2ErmnXT6iTEkJbaOmh4I3hed45f9OvJSlWynWP/w400-h398/Shine+Theory.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>"Shine Theory", oil on linen, 50" x 50" </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>And another woman asleep is Henrietta. It was the middle of winter, cold and bleak. Henrietta was looking at a photo of her favorite painting by Matisse called "Still Life with Sleeping Woman" and started dreaming about a warm climate, the sea, a breeze, when two beautiful great blue herons materialized and flew through the open window. Henrietta kept on dreaming...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGE0uyUvgytwBKab8_Deg74lm03FucTI8lABpdcaOpg8vispEl3KNhWMBKzfJ1pBj7-c43dmv5MRu-s-XNfFmLP61pqFtitFWP5GTsZwsVBXVhVu0AEiJCP-okINzeiv-s_yP5GVxcD-6N/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1631" data-original-width="2048" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGE0uyUvgytwBKab8_Deg74lm03FucTI8lABpdcaOpg8vispEl3KNhWMBKzfJ1pBj7-c43dmv5MRu-s-XNfFmLP61pqFtitFWP5GTsZwsVBXVhVu0AEiJCP-okINzeiv-s_yP5GVxcD-6N/w400-h319/Henrietta+and+the+Herons.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />"Henrietta and the Herons", oil on linen, 24" x 30" </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>And my most recent sleeping woman painting... She wondered why she always felt a little fuzzy </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>when she woke up from an afternoon nap.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYtU_WTbtbDRp5wPU6qblN65ZfNEen8kDUm2Xvkk7lzc5_-SOl7FWa97iwIurFB5NG1b9WvjHx_RmwlEwTroZtk0GMC4NyjXOVdH2teIYpuU6qpRKBVcurcDtRO4KG5bJujMh1rCCjFoN/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYtU_WTbtbDRp5wPU6qblN65ZfNEen8kDUm2Xvkk7lzc5_-SOl7FWa97iwIurFB5NG1b9WvjHx_RmwlEwTroZtk0GMC4NyjXOVdH2teIYpuU6qpRKBVcurcDtRO4KG5bJujMh1rCCjFoN/w400-h299/Afternoon+Nap.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />"Afternoon Nap", oil on linen, 30" x 40"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>And one more that has a lot of meaning for me personally and which has a poem that accompanies it.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvu1QIkcU4cCZm3X1NeB5A_gbaHjzdOMcvvflVZLF7gYvQKV-bQIwfCma2PlWLerfvH_u6RyT0lJ6Ce97ve9FBOGYf68sIAL1Of4cQ7zkQNZyGAcPEyDq1JyhzlMA7BkUGSy8EfV6Ju4m/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvu1QIkcU4cCZm3X1NeB5A_gbaHjzdOMcvvflVZLF7gYvQKV-bQIwfCma2PlWLerfvH_u6RyT0lJ6Ce97ve9FBOGYf68sIAL1Of4cQ7zkQNZyGAcPEyDq1JyhzlMA7BkUGSy8EfV6Ju4m/w400-h299/We+are+just+passing+through+like+the+river.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"We are just passing through like the river..." oil on linen, 36" x 48"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>He came to me in the night<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>two weeks after he departed this earth<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I heard him climbing the stairs<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>which he had not done for years<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I awoke and could see his silhouette on the landing<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>back lit by the hall light<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>his big strong head and shoulders monumental<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I got out of bed and tiptoed to him<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>and sat down<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>He leaned against me and spoke in a deep baritone<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>which I always imagined he would have<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I am sorry I left without explaining<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But you shouldn’t grieve for me<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We all know we will be leaving and moving to our next life<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Who is We? I asked, pressing my forehead against his<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Animals, he said.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We exist before we come to earth and we exist after we depart<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We learn while we are there-<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>about human frailties and strengths<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>about cruelty and kindness<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>and we give selfless love to those who care for us, to those who need us<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Then we get our next assignment<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>and we depart<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>So please don’t grieve for me, you see<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We are all just passing through like the river.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>If you look through my website you will see more sleeping women. <a href="http://www.kathrynfreeman.com">www.kathrynfreeman.com</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Hope you enjoy them.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here are some of the images of the wonderful paintings referenced in this post and others that inspire me.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAGqqVxOO5cbWrGAqW7sq9GlC9ZeeBCxz-wPU_HQRRi9pRHUyVgGweo_umsUpgfHIPM5kF72h03ex97pXV9tqX3tTbCnNn7U4Nn1rsANF4gVaCZNyCoGxYENONhGhYlAk7xCTY-sNeXrp/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="600" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAGqqVxOO5cbWrGAqW7sq9GlC9ZeeBCxz-wPU_HQRRi9pRHUyVgGweo_umsUpgfHIPM5kF72h03ex97pXV9tqX3tTbCnNn7U4Nn1rsANF4gVaCZNyCoGxYENONhGhYlAk7xCTY-sNeXrp/w200-h161/matisse+still+life+with+Sleeping+Woman.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Matisse "Still life and Sleeping woman"<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dSiFChlMP13Bx4QVm7IscgCkplbTzdhf3bEmYPj7qfFTRTbV6k0d-5E-DeJ6yKTBhC_9CPL35YzkMKzZjBg8LgTdx3QpKr6w_j9Oc5taFYCY9OYcNl64ZNvr9oOMFt8bhdNsNc-UrmIU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dSiFChlMP13Bx4QVm7IscgCkplbTzdhf3bEmYPj7qfFTRTbV6k0d-5E-DeJ6yKTBhC_9CPL35YzkMKzZjBg8LgTdx3QpKr6w_j9Oc5taFYCY9OYcNl64ZNvr9oOMFt8bhdNsNc-UrmIU/" width="202" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Diebenkorn "Sleeping Woman"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkBV_CwKNX9vu4u3RiVMl4iN6dyh2EL7iUNeOlBVRqu-CVUcV2S6YoGSH69dQLq8YBcxO7h99mDXnbFOvo9o6JMn_3BoDtY3qvM_B0O1Zyk_Zb7cDhZAapv8ea0RvowyNsYqdGq_rnWlYa/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="744" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkBV_CwKNX9vu4u3RiVMl4iN6dyh2EL7iUNeOlBVRqu-CVUcV2S6YoGSH69dQLq8YBcxO7h99mDXnbFOvo9o6JMn_3BoDtY3qvM_B0O1Zyk_Zb7cDhZAapv8ea0RvowyNsYqdGq_rnWlYa/" width="298" /></a></div>Balthus "The Dream"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh301PCnRLBMmj0ZpwJsJ8PejZeSsqAmfhv6ZI6WOBkXulaWQw9ZBax_IxvCS1K8DX4zLOggPRwLp0ly1GvuliFCXKeKUje__Fhkv3X5nrUSkcH6_7WYFcsaGbsCirTbUWZjQxk6q-UTD_Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1200" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh301PCnRLBMmj0ZpwJsJ8PejZeSsqAmfhv6ZI6WOBkXulaWQw9ZBax_IxvCS1K8DX4zLOggPRwLp0ly1GvuliFCXKeKUje__Fhkv3X5nrUSkcH6_7WYFcsaGbsCirTbUWZjQxk6q-UTD_Q/" width="320" /></a></div> Rousseau "Sleeping Gypsy"<br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9cDlicvTUqyU6DML-jaYyKm91hkCtP4My0Rg2uN6enieIIqlhLH0fiVd22nLdYWp83qn64b_O_5QiEo53RTuk5OsfkHX0HT7xvznH_KeKarqvZZ6_zXyROn8ilYmVv1VKzJiOB8q2gyM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1046" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9cDlicvTUqyU6DML-jaYyKm91hkCtP4My0Rg2uN6enieIIqlhLH0fiVd22nLdYWp83qn64b_O_5QiEo53RTuk5OsfkHX0HT7xvznH_KeKarqvZZ6_zXyROn8ilYmVv1VKzJiOB8q2gyM/w174-h200/Vermeer+A+Maid+Asleep.jpeg" width="174" /></a></div>Vermeer "A Maid Asleep"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3q60p-6ZmTRt52NRWNOhojWoo78hFligAKbzsVZfjHvIvrRY2zbIpJPNiICLtpE1jbVQMzhOI4qZI9i6e9D6tP_NrOO2pu4mSBqCf2KFTg6LQjT8r7w2IJAN68cJmfu4nmoOTWGG2BIj/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3q60p-6ZmTRt52NRWNOhojWoo78hFligAKbzsVZfjHvIvrRY2zbIpJPNiICLtpE1jbVQMzhOI4qZI9i6e9D6tP_NrOO2pu4mSBqCf2KFTg6LQjT8r7w2IJAN68cJmfu4nmoOTWGG2BIj/" width="320" /></a></div>Girogione "Sleeping Venus"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-54617939973677848352021-02-22T10:15:00.001-05:002021-02-22T10:18:26.889-05:00High Tea with Friends, oil on linen, 36" x 36"<p> This painting was a particularly enjoyable and successful collaboration between the client and myself because she is a designer and we speak the same visual language. The first time we chatted on the phone we hit it off and it was clear she had studied my paintings closely and really understood the formal elements- composition, geometry, perspective and color. She had a wall in her dining room picked out so that determined the size. She also wanted a deep space so that it felt like another window. She liked the painting I did a few years ago titled "Rabbit Summer" so that helped us with the narrative and structure. She also had some wonderful palette ideas that would work with her dining room. Springer Spaniels have always had a place in her life as well as a beautiful garden behind her home in West Virginia... and she is known for her baking talents. The outcome is "High Tea with Friends".</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3s4vyMlNmsHTZz61JvF9MG-MJxQcxlVYr9jRdwFyVTzZ6i9Wj60o-rrwU2-GYqhNByhyphenhyphen0rKMRsOGbt1564OKBF_2DqXpft1Rn6BTx6R2xxGgYfqTeuxcwO2N_zjTP837-WBFmdGCknmd/s2048/High+Tea+with+Friends+8.6+mp.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2042" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3s4vyMlNmsHTZz61JvF9MG-MJxQcxlVYr9jRdwFyVTzZ6i9Wj60o-rrwU2-GYqhNByhyphenhyphen0rKMRsOGbt1564OKBF_2DqXpft1Rn6BTx6R2xxGgYfqTeuxcwO2N_zjTP837-WBFmdGCknmd/s320/High+Tea+with+Friends+8.6+mp.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"High Tea with Friends"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPBSYwK176-7bDMr7uV-svWDEwC7zaBschPWtbd08poVyw01i-dLdLv5VMq9bXUJw0T1pPQWNi_tv_Nde-9sWYCQYm6e8dwvV8KGHKbggcKc92DW9GLRXenJWD27sT3Xl24QdfU2DN37z/s2048/IMG-4064.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPBSYwK176-7bDMr7uV-svWDEwC7zaBschPWtbd08poVyw01i-dLdLv5VMq9bXUJw0T1pPQWNi_tv_Nde-9sWYCQYm6e8dwvV8KGHKbggcKc92DW9GLRXenJWD27sT3Xl24QdfU2DN37z/s320/IMG-4064.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">color samples for the palette </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfxvKcp_l6wNMH_PAeJwzvkwx9lYAmphKPrK5umByTYemjKR2K-JI3AsOvFfhK2dBOpMiDDwg6RmxcA_nx7mov8Pzggov-jfH6jKHLyNuvdTzVhHxy7enRw1QpttCr44gLNPsQsMMLzyh/s2048/IMG-4061.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1973" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfxvKcp_l6wNMH_PAeJwzvkwx9lYAmphKPrK5umByTYemjKR2K-JI3AsOvFfhK2dBOpMiDDwg6RmxcA_nx7mov8Pzggov-jfH6jKHLyNuvdTzVhHxy7enRw1QpttCr44gLNPsQsMMLzyh/s320/IMG-4061.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thumbnail sketch</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-72405573828669387162021-01-11T11:59:00.000-05:002021-01-11T11:59:16.114-05:00Alfred and Friends on the Farm, oil on linen, 20" x 24"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoPUN-h6Igw2b9AoCT5vtqvoXZSQ5qk3IeTII-Q7oxtzyFyb5zJB64v5cFUNlYgLLnmO1Tl55qVaqlDS7BFAzNu8VwV07j2s37hetT2CyAlXUE0-394RIfxHIEJBewNgC6OyFeFIIyTVN/s2048/Alfred+on+his+Farm+with+Friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1724" data-original-width="2048" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoPUN-h6Igw2b9AoCT5vtqvoXZSQ5qk3IeTII-Q7oxtzyFyb5zJB64v5cFUNlYgLLnmO1Tl55qVaqlDS7BFAzNu8VwV07j2s37hetT2CyAlXUE0-394RIfxHIEJBewNgC6OyFeFIIyTVN/w400-h336/Alfred+on+his+Farm+with+Friends.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Alfred is the fellow sitting right in the center foreground of the painting looking out at you and he is a very lucky guy. He was adopted by a wonderful family who had recently lost their beloved Spaniel so in a mutual arrangement he filled their hearts with joy again, and they are giving him a life any dog would envy.<p></p><p>Next to Alfred is his buddy Lily. Lily is a demure city girl living in a nice building on the upper east side of Manhattan. She goes to the beauty parlor regularly and lives a posh life with her mum. But when Lily goes to visit Alfred on his farm, she becomes quite another beast completely, and has been known to get appropriately muddy for a farm dog. </p><p>Behind the pups in this pastoral setting are Mason and Jake, Alfred's very curious donkey friends. Whenever Alfred is near they watch him closely and appear to be amused by his antics. </p><p>And back in the field are the beautiful farm cows grazing peacefully. </p><p>This painting was a surprise for Alfred's family from his grandmother who is also the former director of the Tatistcheff Gallery NYC where I exhibited by work for many years and my close friend. She stealthily collected photos of the farm from her son and sent them to me one my one. As a writer, she had an amazing ability to describe all the subjects' personalities in great detail so that I could get them on canvas. It was a cheerful project to work on together and now I look forward to meeting all the characters in person one day! </p><p><br /></p>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-17447918112402194242020-11-12T12:46:00.001-05:002020-11-12T12:51:00.593-05:00"Citizen of the World" <p>This painting was a surprise for the recipient. I am always a little wary of doing paintings as surprises because art is so personal. But in this case I knew that the fellow commissioning it for his wife would have great insight into what she would like. AND she is a dear, long time friend of mine- which made the experience especially wonderful. </p><p>She grew up in Malta and from a very early age she knew she wanted to make her life about travel. She went to school in Switzerland and ultimately became a leader in the travel industry. So her husband wished to make the painting about that and call it "Citizen of the World" because that is how she has always felt, and lived her life. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJRQijY0CKL50ajirFKWdyzcOSJ1mZjns-SdJcoqRcrNATqoeDdAsWZixVg7_4Mn3NXAjTr0eBjJhV5_xxsscva7m5kuj_k24_AOKvwmTMQetWq7MigZ0wda8nOPUdZ4J0mB38URv9bSF/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2048" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJRQijY0CKL50ajirFKWdyzcOSJ1mZjns-SdJcoqRcrNATqoeDdAsWZixVg7_4Mn3NXAjTr0eBjJhV5_xxsscva7m5kuj_k24_AOKvwmTMQetWq7MigZ0wda8nOPUdZ4J0mB38URv9bSF/w400-h265/Citizen+of+the+World+large+file.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Citizen of the World", oil on linen, 24" x 36"</div><br />The painting shows a young girl, looking at a globe and writing in a journal- perhaps planning future itinerary or writing about the journeys she has already taken. Some of her favorite books as well as books about travel and an atlas are in the bookcase below. Golden Retrievers have always been their family dog. In the distance between the arches I melded together New York, Paris and Malta, all places where she spent time and which are dear to her heart, as if they were one landscape. <p></p><p>In the middle distance, there are two luzzo, traditional maltese fishing boats, which visually help make the transition from foreground to distance. In the foreground architecture, on either side of the arch are a Maltese Cross, and the emblem from the Rosey School in Rolle Switzerland, which she attended. The school emphasizes an international atmosphere which obviously had a big influence. A family of swans floats near the steps, symbols of her family life. I based the color scheme for the painting on Maltese tiles. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the watercolor study for the painting </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52fsyyf3sU8QjpFMdwkKJpLH_RyWXwPG0zwOQ2sDuK9YxjH_yEjOdh37SLWCaGnUhAho_UCIvBrCg819edzOPmPJJBU87JQxt9IV8OU2mTM8k-GPHTmyz0rnfiSa1DyF0Ee4RdzwDFg1P/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52fsyyf3sU8QjpFMdwkKJpLH_RyWXwPG0zwOQ2sDuK9YxjH_yEjOdh37SLWCaGnUhAho_UCIvBrCg819edzOPmPJJBU87JQxt9IV8OU2mTM8k-GPHTmyz0rnfiSa1DyF0Ee4RdzwDFg1P/" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the painting in two stages- the underpainting in progress, and then with the first glazes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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One of these is the concept of "Staying Home" in order to "flatten the curve" and slow the spread of the COVID 19 virus. Besides sometimes being challenging- staying home had some silver linings mainly because people slowed down and had time to try things and do things they didn't have time for in their normal full and busy lives. Many people were sheltering alone which reminded me of the Edward Hopper paintings of single figures isolated in a room. Other people saw this relationship and many Hopper paintings were shared on social media. <div><br /></div><div>One of the last little trips I made before the pandemic hit, was a road trip with two friends to see the Hopper Hotel show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. I have always been a Hopper devotee. My uncle, an art historian and painter, was a lecturer on Hopper at Washington University in St. Louis, and since I learned to paint from him, I looked at a lot of Hopper paintings over many years. I even named one of our dogs after him... The show in Richmond was fantastic and I fell in love all over again with the painting "11 am" which I have depicted on the left hand wall in this painting. I also stole the wonderful figure from Hopper, reversed her pose and made her the woman isolating alone in "Staying Home".<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOGEKOj4Lh6BOYBEPfN_06ZPG0u6T3zIyER64DNz03ea4jSjZ1vUNIS2ekWpypa9BTeB6rOvy_qs52NDqwFrAXceXQm2MbzTUM3wwTsMow3aiLecBqZYy-ZGXWnh2SK5djUWOIPcdYOJp/s2858/+07_freeman.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2858" data-original-width="2856" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOGEKOj4Lh6BOYBEPfN_06ZPG0u6T3zIyER64DNz03ea4jSjZ1vUNIS2ekWpypa9BTeB6rOvy_qs52NDqwFrAXceXQm2MbzTUM3wwTsMow3aiLecBqZYy-ZGXWnh2SK5djUWOIPcdYOJp/s320/+07_freeman.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Staying Home" oil on linen 36" x 36"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But she is not alone at all. Another silver lining to the pandemic was that many people realized that it was the perfect time to bring a dog or cat into their lives. Pets are companionship and comfort and that is what we all needed. A record number of animals were pulled from shelters and placed into loving forever homes. So the woman in this painting is surrounded by her dogs and cats in the warmth of a cozy interior. The other painting on the wall is Bonnard's "Woman with Dog" -another favorite painting of mine. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Other activities that people were doing while staying home are represented in the painting; such as learning chess, (I think the cat is winning), making sourdough bread, and doing hours of handicrafts such as knitting and needlepoint. My daughter was staying home in Brooklyn. She described her experience being in the city and sometimes called us to let us hear the nightly 7 pm ritual of people coming to their windows, shouting and beating on pots to thank the healthcare workers for their hard work, devotion and personal sacrifice. So that is what is going on in the buildings outside. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I titled the painting "7 pm with Hopper and Bonnard" to echo the Hopper painting titled "11 am".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></blockquote></div></div></div>Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-52920447537180949462020-06-09T12:50:00.001-05:002020-06-09T12:56:20.357-05:00"Sanctuary" oil on linen 36" x 48"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Formally the painting is a play on the Matisse painting “The Piano Lesson” which is on the wall. The real painting hangs at MOMA and I visit it whenever I am there. It is a mystifying work of art. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In "Sanctuary" the boy at the piano is the reverse image of the boy in the Matisse. Other elements I have pulled into this painting are the arabesques of the wrought iron balcony, the angles, horizontals and verticals which are either opposing or aligning with those in "The Piano Lesson". The colors also relate to Matisse’s palette. The owls have found the sanctuary to their liking and the head of the boy in "The Piano Lesson" has always looked quite owl-like to me. </span></span><br />
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<br />Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-58914211762301706442020-04-27T11:08:00.091-05:002022-04-25T09:34:51.214-05:00Commissioning a Painting<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I thought I would take this moment in time to write a little bit about how I do a commissioned painting whether it is a poetic realism composition, a simple portrait of a person or a pet, a complex narrative portrait, or something in between. </span><span face="calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Toby with Jed and Bizzy"<br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="normaltextrun">I love painting for an individual or family. It is a collaboration and most of my clients seem to enjoy the creative process. It can be a painting similar to my "Interior Dreams", "Animal Dreams" or a "Story from the Woods" series or it can be simply a landscape or a depiction of certain place that has meaning to the individual. It can also be a narrative portrait telling the story of an individual or family. This concept is based on portraits from the Renaissance in which the artist depicted aspects about the life of the subject as well as a painted likeness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The process can be completely virtual without me ever meeting with the subjects in person and when it is finished the painting will be shipped to the client. It starts with an email exchange in which I send a series of questions to get to know what the client is looking for in terms of the painting size, who or what is to be the subject of the painting, where the painting will be hung etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Once I have this information, we set up a phone call which could also be a facetime or a zoom meeting. And at this point I ask for a few photographs to be emailed or texted to me as beginning resource material. After that I start working up a composition. This is a small sketch on grid paper with written notations. I email the sketch to my client for changes or approval. When the composition is set, I often ask the client to take specific photos and email them to me, if necessary. Then I build the canvas using all archival materials and start drawing, then painting. If the client is interested in seeing the process, I am always happy to send photos as the painting develops.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary Sketch for "Shadow's Woods"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final Painting "Shadow's Woods"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary Sketch for "Come for Drinks"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final Painting "Come for Drinks"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary Drawing for "Sunday Morning with Shelties"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final Painting "Sunday Morning with Shelties"</td></tr>
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Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-71896756395721517392020-01-29T16:40:00.001-05:002020-01-29T19:18:02.794-05:00Dance an Ode to Matisse<br />
In recent years I have been looking back at various artists who have influenced my work in one way or another during my career, and studying their paintings by incorporating one into one of my own compositions. It is now time for Matisse. I first starting looking seriously at the paintings of Matisse on a trip to Russia in 1987. I was with my husband, who was a foreign correspondent. He was reporting on stories in Moscow and Leningrad, so I took the opportunity to go along and visit the Hermitage Museum. To my amazement, among the incredible collection there were a large number of Matisses -- none of which I had ever seen, even in books. You have to remember, back then St. Petersburg was still called Leningrad, the Communist Party still ran the Soviet Union, and the number of Western visitors to the Hermitage and exchanges of paintings between Russia and the West paled compared with today. One of the paintings was The Dance, which was commissioned by the Russian collector Shchukin, who asked Matisse to paint a second version of the one that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The panel that Matisse did for Shchukin depicted the figures more robust and muscular, less graceful and in a strong orange-red color, whereas the figures in the painting in MOMA (which is the version I loosely copied in my painting), are lithe, simply drawn and lighter in hue, and the entire painting is imbibed with an airiness and lyricism. The Dance was deceptively hard to copy, which says a lot about the simple shapes and elegant line which is the beauty and magic of Matisse.<br />
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My painting "Dance" is another in my ongoing series called Animal Dreams, in which I am creating dreamlike sanctuaries for creatures that are threatened in the real world. In my Dance, a cellist is performing in the foreground with his loyal Foxhound and a hat set out on a chair for donations. There is a forest outside and a supernatural light pours through the window, casting a swathe of light across the Matisse. The music and the warm light attract a family of foxes who, inspired by the dancers on the wall, form a dance circle of their own. I chose the musician to play a cello because the shape of the cello and the case echo the shapes of Matisse's dancers, and because I love cello music and often listen to it while I work. I recently read <i>Fox 8</i> an exquisite and powerful little book by George Saunders about a fox who is the daydreamer in his pack and teaches himself how to understand "Yuman" by hiding in the bushes outside a home and listening to children's bedtime stories. The power of this knowledge leads him to learn that the habitat of his pack is in impending doom from developers who are clearcutting the forest and building a shopping mall. This book in a microcosm shows the way urban sprawl is affecting wildlife and even causing the extinction of some species. In my own neighborhood I see foxes on a daily basis and strangely, since I have been working on Dance a large, beautiful red fox has been keeping a close eye on me and my dogs. I make a point of nodding to him in appreciation that he is there.<br />
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He came to me in the night<o:p></o:p></div>
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two weeks after he departed this earth<o:p></o:p></div>
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I heard him climbing the stairs <o:p></o:p></div>
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which he had not done for years<o:p></o:p></div>
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I awoke and could see his silhouette on the landing <o:p></o:p></div>
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back lit by the hall light<o:p></o:p></div>
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his big strong head and shoulders monumental<o:p></o:p></div>
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I got out of bed and tiptoed to him<o:p></o:p></div>
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He leaned against me and spoke in a deep baritone<o:p></o:p></div>
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which I always imagined he would have<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am sorry I left without explaining<o:p></o:p></div>
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But you shouldn’t grieve for me<o:p></o:p></div>
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We all know we will be leaving and moving to our next life<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who is We? I asked, pressing my forehead against his<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Animals, he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We exist before we come to earth and we exist after we
depart<o:p></o:p></div>
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We learn while we are there- <o:p></o:p></div>
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about human frailties and strengths<o:p></o:p></div>
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about cruelty and kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
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and we give selfless love to those who care for us, to those
who need us<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then we get our next assignment <o:p></o:p></div>
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and we depart<o:p></o:p></div>
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So please don’t grieve for me, you see<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are all just passing through like the river.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-83690542654321979902019-10-04T09:55:00.000-05:002019-10-04T10:42:26.652-05:00Rembrandt, fka Remy, RemDog <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Dear Rembrandt, aka Remy, RemDog,<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is only a day and a half since you left us and our hearts
are aching. Your absence leaves a literal and figurative giant hole in our
lives and in our living space. I just thought I would write down some memories
and message them to heaven, where I am sure you are now, reunited with your
right front leg, enjoying a peanut butter kong and relaxing on a sofa, (as you
were the all-time couch connoisseur), without a worry in the world and pain
free. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We brought you home from a shelter in western Virginia on
December 30</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 2007. We looked at the adoption form for the first
time when we were almost home and noticed it said Mastiff Mix.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Haha</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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You were a bit of a hard luck Harry from the beginning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were such a mellow puppy … and then
suddenly too mellow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You came down with
Parvo Virus on New Year’s Eve and spent two days at Friendship Animal Hospital
in Intensive Care. This would be the beginning of your love for that place,
with many more visits in your future. Miraculously you survived and this time
when we brought you home you were no longer mellow -- but a wild guy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were big and strong even as a puppy and
you could do some real damage in an astoundingly short period of time. I guess
we didn’t really understand crating back then but here is a list of some of
your achievements:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lion foot leg on the oak dining room table – yes, oak --
gone in minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The toes of two cleats and a custom-made mouthguard right
before a big high school game. I made the excuse you were just excited for your
boy, who was playing wide receiver in those days, but you are very lucky he
didn’t tear his ACL that night, playing with plumber’s tape wrapped around his
toes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every single toilet brush and dustpan in the house chewed to
a nub. Some of those nubs still exist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two sixty-pound potted water lily plants, pulled out of the
pond, shredded and strewn about the yard. I caught you red handed (pawed) and
you stood there with your big goofy grin and your slow tail wag looking so
proud.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And that is just to name a few. We were happy when your
focus turned to bully sticks and marrow bones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your adolescent years were spent trying to get you to
conform to societal norms. You loved everyone and everything, but we sometimes
had to modify your 70 pounds of enthusiasm. When you hit the front door at a run
(your unique form of greeting the mailman), I worried it wouldn’t stand the
impact. Several training classes, some private tutoring, and a lot of treats
did the trick. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Do you remember how much cats loved you? We’ll never forget
when Jordan adopted a tiny sick kitten who we named Otis. He came into the
house and started purring wildly the moment he laid eyes on you, and from that
day on he thought you were his mother. Even when Otis grew into a very large
snowshoe Siamese he still buried his face in your armpit and kneaded his paws
into your fur until sometimes you couldn’t tolerate it anymore and you would
stand up and send him flying. But he always came back for more love. Everyone
did. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was something about your hulk and kind demeanor that
attracted people. I will always remember the day you were with me in a bookstore
and a tall woman, elegantly dressed in business attire, came up to us. She
stood there gazing at you while she stated that she didn’t like dogs. Then she
got a little closer, looking at you even more intently and said, “He is very
handsome.” Then she touched your soft ear and bent down to rub your head.
Before I knew it, she was sitting on the floor with you between her legs,
giving you a total body massage and you had rolled over into her lap. You
convinced her that a dog might be a good alternative to a boyfriend. You had
that effect on lots of souls through the course of your beautiful
lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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One of my most “body contact” memories was during high
school football preseason and Augustin and some of his buddies would come home
from practice for lunch and to cool down from the summer heat. They would
stretch their sweaty selves out on the sofa and watch TV and you would be right
in the middle of them with their legs draped across your hulk and your big head
resting in their laps. I wish I had pictures of that now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You were a pro traveler and liked nothing better than a road
trip. We sussed out the dog-friendly hotels up and down the East Coast. We
would walk you up to the check-in desk, having already made a reservation for a
dog “under 40 pounds” and hope that no one looked down. I’m sure they did but
saw your sweet brown eyes and big smile. No one ever asked you to get on a
scale. You knew to tip toe down the halls to our room as quickly as possible so
as not to cause a distraction. You always enjoyed a king size bed and a good
night’s sleep on nice linens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You liked a vacation as much as anybody and loved taking the
ferry over to Block Island or a trip to the Berkshires. One year I decided that
I wanted you to learn to kayak with me. We practiced first on dry ground. You
learned to “wait” while I got in, then slowly squeeze into the small space in
front of me. When we got to the lake, all went well even with the kayak heavily
listing toward the front. Then we got a little too close to the shore and you
decided to disembark and do some exploring -- through poison ivy -- then came
back to the kayak and settled back in between my legs. Enough said. It was a
very itchy remainder of the summer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then there was the relationship you had with my teenage
art students. This part really brings tears because it was so meaningful to me.
You knew the days that I had classes and you seemed to know who was coming. You
knew the ones that were stressed, the ones who had had a rough day at school,
or whose parents were going through a divorce, or the ones who had just had a
break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, or the one who had no friends at all.
You would greet them as they entered the studio and flop down on the floor at
their feet and they would flop down with you and bury their face in your broad
back and stroke your fur. Then after a little while they would gather
themselves and go to their easels and start to draw, calmed and renewed. Anyone
who ever doubts the concept of a therapy dog should have born witness to the
effect you had on these kids. And sometimes they drew you. There were some
wonderful drawings of RemDog over the years. All we had to do was pose you in
front of a donut and say “leave it” and you were the perfect model. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You were also a champion foster brother to many puppies and
fearful dogs. You could make a rambunctious litter of five sit at attention
with a soft but firm “ruff”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We called
you “The Sheriff”. You also knew intrinsically how strong or gentle you needed
to be from a chihuahua puppy to a big 14-week-old pit mix who needed some
exercise. One of your most touching charges was the special needs puppy from Lucky
Dog we fostered for four months. All four of her legs were malformed from birth
and Lucky Dog had provided her surgery on her front legs to try to give her
some mobility. She was terribly fragile, and her bones broke easily, so you
couldn’t play with her. But boy she adored you and you knew that. You would lie
by the puppy pen and she would wiggle up to you and give you kisses through the
bars. You were the braveheart to our shy fosters. Just your presence made them
feel safe and more confident, and your enthusiasm for everyone who entered the
house gave them a new attitude toward life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a long list of funny stories but I just want to
remind you of a few. We don’t want people thinking you are a saint, right? Did
I mention that you were very food focused?! There was the Washington Post
Sports department holiday party each year that you enjoyed thoroughly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One year someone brought a platter of
beautifully decorated cupcakes. At the end of the party, a little girl came up
to me, tugged on my skirt and said “you know what? I just saw your dog eat 19
cupcakes and I counted.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were fine
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A year ago July when you were limping I feared the worst. An
x-ray at Friendship Hospital showed that you had bone cancer at the top of your
humerous and there was no alternative to amputating your front leg. Everyone
was worried because you were a big guy with a giant head and already had an
iffy back leg (from a prior run in with a Hummer on Connecticut Avenue that led
to FHO surgery at Friendship. This is another story for another day). But we
were not ready to part with you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the
surgeon took off your leg and stitched you up with the most elegant strip of
stitches I have ever laid eyes on. And you know what? You did great. Within 24
hours you were up on three legs and learning to maneuver. There are times when
having a huge food drive really pays off -- anything for a cheese stick! With
the help of a big stroller/bike trailer thingy you could do anything and never
missed a walk in the neighborhood, a stroll to Bethesda for a Sunday morning
bagel, a trip to see friends at Strosniders Hardware, a vacation, or a party.
You loved your weekly visit to your favorite, lamb treat generous physical
therapists and your best friend Matt at Friendship. Fourteen months of a full
life. But then that big C raised its ugly head again in your lung and spleen.
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Rembrandt, aka Remy, RemDog, we are going to miss you buddy
-- your big warm calming presence, your goofy smile, your gorgeous brown eyes
and soft ears. But we know you are up there in dog heaven seeing old friends
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I completed Shine Theory a few weeks ago. Sometimes the idea for a painting evolves as I compose. Images appear and disappear. The music I am listening to changes. The mood swings and swings back. This is one of those paintings. It is lots of things to me. It is about a safe and quiet space. It is about vulnerability. It is about allowing the light that glows from others fall onto you and glisten. It is about illumination. It is about the meaning of beauty. So just gaze at it and let it be whatever it means to you. </div>
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I recently had the great opportunity to do a mural for the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda, Maryland. It is 40' long and 5' tall. I painted it in my studio on a giant scroll contraption, rolling out 8 feet of canvas at a time. It is painted in Golden Matte Fluid Acrylics on primed canvas. It took me 5 weeks working 6 days a week and on the seventh day we rolled up one section and rolled out the next blank 8 feet of canvas. Rolling it took four people because of the weight. It was installed April 12th by Jim Lackford of Paper and Paint in Silver Spring. Thank goodness for his expertise!</div>
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<br />Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-43016288025449434142019-04-30T12:03:00.002-05:002019-04-30T15:45:08.197-05:00Portrait through Still Life<b>A few years ago </b>a mother of three daughters asked me to do a little still life for the middle daughter as a high school graduation gift. She brought me various objects and photos to include that represented her daughter's childhood. There are two of her favorite stuffed animals, a favorite pink perfume bottle, her rosary beads, a special box, a bracelet, and a photograph of the Australian Shepherd she grew up with. There is also a swimming medal (she is a great swimmer!), and an envelope with the Sacred Heart logo on it, representing her education. The background is a William Morris design with lilies for her name.<br />
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A few years later the youngest daughter was graduating from the same school and I was honored to do a portrait for her as well. This daughter was quite an outdoorsman and an artist well as a swimmer. She liked a different color palette. Her well worn hiking boots anchor the composition posed with her very much loved stuffed rabbit. Also from her outdoor life are a couple knives, one for whittling and one for everything else. Her school team swim cap is in the painting as well as her blue goggles. Some of her creative projects -an amazing duct tape cap, a cup and a few other items complete the composition. (She made a lot of beautiful pottery while in high school which I had the pleasure of seeing when I helped her assemble her portfolio). And not to be forgotten is her favorite book "The Hobbit" and a little photo of herself with her sisters. In this painting the Sacred Heart logo is pinned to the wall. </div>
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The oldest daughter graduated in 2018 with an MBA from University of Chicago and her mom asked me to do a still life portrait for her on this very important occasion. (We didn't do a portrait for her when she graduated from high school because her parents had given her a study from the Jacksonville Murals that I had painted during the time she was growing up. She was a huge Harry Potter fan and the study was of Hedwig.) </div>
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So this daughter's portrait became an amalgam of objects from her childhood as well as her current life as a young woman living and working in Chicago. Raggedy Ann and Andy were made for her by her grandmother. The mirror, perfume bottle and tray sat on her childhood dresser. Other favorite objects in the painting are the pearls, a silver bracelet and her class ring which bears the logo of the Sacred Heart. The shared experience of being educated at a Sacred Heart school was important to the three sisters. They are very close to each other even though they live spread out across the country. </div>
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The two books depicted are "book ends" to her love of literature. "Chronicles of Narnia" was read to her by her father when she was a child, and she read Anna Karenina while an undergrad at Northwestern. Another nod to her time at Northwestern is the purple lanyard draped across the mirror. Also on the mirror is a small photo of the three girls when the youngest was a tiny baby. The two older sisters hold her between them in their arms. A crucifix that hung on her childhood bedroom wall is reflected in the mirror. The envelope that rests on top of the books displays the University of Chicago graduate school logo, emphasizing the transition of time/stages of life that are present in the painting. The Chicago skyline, her current home, defines the landscape behind the objects and reflects the foreground composition. </div>
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This is Adrienne, mother of four, cherished and adored wife, talented and much traveled cook, and animal lover. Adrienne saw my painting "Lake House after the Storm" and related to it having experienced the flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas where she lives. She had a birthday coming up and her husband Jody contacted me. After some discussion, and learning that Lake House was no longer available, Jody asked me to create a painting specifically for his wife, including things that were dear to her. Jody was wonderful to work with as he had studied a number of my paintings and had a good idea of what I needed. He also liked the composition in Lake House-a series of arches that structure the rectangle so we decided to do something similar for Adrienne's painting. He sent me family photos and pictures of their home and their dogs and cats (a wonderful menagerie!). He told me some great stories and family legends including the phenomenon of the Christ figure statuette from Rio de Janeiro that continuously turns to face them no matter how many times they straighten him to face forward. The figure is included in the painting on a pedestal...facing Adrienne. Adrienne's three sons are grown men now but in the painting they are young boys playing ball, visible through the arch on the left. Adrienne lost a baby girl but the child lives on in her heart so Jody asked that I include a little girl in the painting. She is in the arch to the right, in a translucent pink dress, releasing white doves into the sky, where images of Adriennes's mother and father and brother Michael, are subtly represented in the cloud formations. The bookshelves are lined with Adrienne's collection of cookbooks that she formed during many international trips. Adrienne is wearing a formal blue gown that she wore as mother of the groom in her son's wedding. Some other small things are another painting of mine, called White Stockings, which they have in their collection as well as a few images of creatures that come and go on their property in Houston including deer, a white heron, and the hen that is watching Adrienne closely while she prepares a feast. Note- a favorite book and film of Adrienne's and Jody's is Babette's Feast, and Jody decided that Adrienne's Feast would be a perfect title because of the way she instills love into all aspects of her life. </div>
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<br />Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-85771378714459380782018-05-03T12:56:00.002-05:002018-05-03T12:56:45.910-05:00View from the Terrace-a Narrative Portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"View from the Terrace", oil on linen, 34" x 40"</div>
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Sometimes the resources my narrative portrait clients give me to work with allow me to take a virtual vacation in a beautiful location. This was definitely the scenario with John and Lee Stough. John is in real estate and Lee is an interior designer. They love dogs, travel, food, family and history and their lives revolve around those things. They bought and restored a medieval village house in Umbria, Italy and they moved a circa 1800 log meeting house from Kentucky to Sewanee Tennessee and built a house around it. So these were the rich and visually wonderful things I could incorporate into the composition. </div>
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Since their Italian homes are in Umbria, I decided to structure the painting around the architecture from a painting by one of my favorite Umbrian painters- Perugino. I have always loved the geometry of the arches in <i>Delivery of the Keys.</i> I wanted the arches to open to an expansive landscape that would evoke the views they enjoy in both Sewanee and Ficulle so I settled the log home on a rolling hill, visible through the left side arch. A medieval village, inspired by another Early Renaissance fresco, is in the center and an Italian village, inspired by their village in Umbria, sits beyond the terrace on the right side above the grape arbor. John and Lee provided me with a photo of themselves dining al fresco and the two dogs are their beloved Brittany Spaniels Gracie and Tyler- one is on the trail of a clever rabbit (their daughter's nickname is "Bunny" and the other is contemplating disturbing a hungry Bear (their son's nickname). There are chairs at the table for both their children when they visit and a tool box in the foreground to represent their self-confessed "addiction to sawdust". </div>
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<br />Kathryn Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705035809074063642noreply@blogger.com0Louisville, KY, USA38.2526647 -85.75845570000001337.853296699999994 -86.403902700000017 38.6520327 -85.113008700000009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895669090364966267.post-62942600661949357312018-01-25T14:49:00.001-05:002018-05-03T12:02:53.536-05:00End of an Era- a quarter century- Private SaleI am moving my studio for the first time in 25 years. It has been a lovely studio at the top of my house, full of light and space. I am going to miss it but I am ready for a change and with change will come more ideas and more paintings. So before I leave it I want to clear out my painting racks to make room for the next stage both mentally and physically. I decided to have a little sale of these items for my dearest friends and patrons. There are small paintings and drawings. Have a look and if there is something you would like to have let me know right away. These are all from different stages of my career-different themes and different series dating all the way back to when we lived in Brooklyn. Sizes are approximate. Some of the photos are not that great because I have been packing my studio and decided to do this at the last minute. Some things never change!<br />
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"After School", egg tempera and oil emulsion on panel, Brooklyn New York, $500</div>
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"Girl with Green Cowboy Boots and Cat", oil on panel, 10" x 11" framed $350 <span style="color: red;">sold</span><br />
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Education of the other Senses-Touch, oil on panel, 20" x 24", this painting was in a solo show called "Sense and Sensibility" shown at the Tatistcheff Gallery, 57th Street, NYC. $400 framed <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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"Angel and Bear", 9" x 12", oil on panel, unframed-from the Toward a Peaceable Kingdom series $100<br />
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"Girl Catching a Ball", 5" x 8", oil on panel-from my Brooklyn days $100 <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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Liberation of the Tigers, oil on panel, 16" x 20", Study for the Peaceable Kingdom painting of the same name that is in the Cleveland Clinic, Naples FL, $350 <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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Lovers, oil on panel, 9" x 12"-from my Brooklyn days- $150</div>
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Sisters, 11" x 14", oil on panel, Brooklyn days, $150</div>
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The Guardian, 11" x 14", oil on panel, Block Island, $350 framed <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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The Rescue, 28" x 32", oil on wood- I am and will always be in awe of Italian predella painting and for a period when I was living in London, I did several multiple panel narrative paintings inspired by them. I have always loved telling stories. $500 <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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Three Graces, 10" x 12", oil on panel- from my Girls and Ravens series. A painting from this series is in the Polk Museum in Naples, Florida.This was a study for the large version, which resides in DC $350 framed <span style="color: red;">sold</span><br />
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"Arbor Day", sepia ink on paper, study for painting of the same name which was shown at Tatistcheff Gallery, 57th street NYC </div>
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"Black Bird Fly", charcoal on paper, study for a big painting called Black Bird Fly that I did in London which was shown at Tatistcheff Gallery 57th street</div>
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"Cello in the Woods", graphite on paper, study for a painting in the Stories from the Woods series</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> "Counting Sheep", charcoal on paper, study for a painting I did in London and was shown at Tatistcheff Gallery, in Chelsea <span style="color: red;">sold</span></span></div>
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"Let the Poet Sleep", sepia ink on paper, -a theme I have done several times and will return to. The first "Let the Poet Sleep was done in Warsaw, Poland and shown at Tatistcheff Gallery, 57th Street</div>
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London Mounted Policeman, charcoal on paper, a study for the painting "Black Bird Fly", which was done in London, and shown at Tatistcheff Gallery 57th street <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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Rowboat, Hyde Park, charcoal and white chalk on paper, study for a huge painting I did in London called Sirens of the Crescent Moon which is in a large corporate collection. </div>
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"She Heard the Midwives Whisper", charcoal on paper, study for a painting inspired by the Isabel Allende book "House of Spirits" </div>
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"The Conversation", charcoal on paper, study for a large interior, which is in Boston </div>
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"The Queen of Hearts", sepia ink on paper, study for a large painting that was auctioned to raise money for the Clown Care Unit of the Big Apple Circus. The man and head clown who started the Clown Care unit, owns the painting. The story is in the archives on this blog. </div>
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"The Virtues of Air", charcoal on paper, study for a painting from the Painted Stories series, London</div>
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"The Weather Channel", charcoal on paper, study for a painting that is in an environmental law firm in DC</div>
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"Trained Garden Rabbits", charcoal on paper, study for a painting in my Enchanted Garden series that was shown at Tatischeff Gallery in Chelsea <span style="color: red;">sold</span></div>
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"Woods Angel", charcoal on paper, study for a painting of the same title from the Stories from the Woods</div>
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"On the Walk Home" Highgate Cemetery, London, print on paper, framed </div>
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When I paint a narrative portrait for someone I always think
of myself as the weaver and my client as the provider of the yarn. With my recent project my client provided some truly beautiful and rich threads to work
with! The painting is a gift to his wife to celebrate their marriage and their
family. Right from the beginning I was moved by his love and
admiration for her. He took so much time thinking about the project and carefully
choosing photos and memories from their many years together, that he thought she
would enjoy, for me to incorporate into the painting. It was truly a labor of
complete adoration by him and thus very inspiring for me to create it. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The concept of the painting was to represent their life together and their travels, as well as personal talents, interests and occupations of the parents and their
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He thought that his wife would like a deep space that would
feel like a window into another world. I looked to several Dutch street scenes as inspiration for the composition and
architectural elements (Both of them like Dutch paintings.)- One by Willem Koekkoek and one by Joods Dommersen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the upper level of the house a young man stands with a
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daughter as a little girl dribbling a soccer ball through the street and a young version of their two boys, about to launch a model
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cake to include in the painting. Also in this interior are a trumpet their daughter plays, a
typewriter and an apple with a bite out of it. The younger son is a
screenwriter and also works for Apple. On the back wall is a map of Indonesia -a frequent destination for the husband and wife before they had children. In the
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Now for the landscapes. There were so many to choose from
and making the transition from one to the next to create a deep space was one
of the many enjoyable challenges in this project. At the end of the street are
a number of warriors from the tomb of a Vietnamese emperor in Hue, which make way for a bridge in Nara, Japan. The couple,
in their early years together, are about to cross the bridge to visit The
Golden Temple in Amritsar India. Behind the temple the landscape changes rapidly to Morocco and
five camels just visible on the horizon, before your eye makes a leap to the
vanishing point for the entire painting - which lies somewhere beyond Machu
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Come for Drinks! oil on linen, 30" x 40"</div>
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I was so excited when my art dealer Jaynie Spector, owner of Dog & Horse Fine Art in Charleston South Carolina asked me to do a family portrait of her with her husband Joe, their son Sean and all their dogs past and present. First of all I adore Jaynie as all her artists do. She is a lovely person with all that southern charm mixed in seamlessly with a great business mind and a love for great art (and dogs). Jaynie and I first met many years ago when I was a young artist in NYC and she was a young art dealer working at a gallery in Soho. We met through a mutual friend, Dorian Rogers Winslow, also a great lover of art (and dogs) and owner of Womanswork <a href="https://womanswork.com/">https://womanswork.com/</a>. </div>
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To make a long story short, I moved overseas, lived in several countries, exhibited my paintings in galleries in New York and abroad, finally settling in DC. Jaynie moved up in the art world, ran several galleries before settling in beautiful Charleston -and we lost touch. One day another mutual friend walked into the gallery, told Jaynie I was living in DC, gave her my number and the rest is recent history. </div>
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If you ever go to Charleston you must go visit Dog & Horse at 102 Church Street. It is an intimate space filled with work by some of the best dog and horse painters in the world. This is not an exaggeration. A few whose work I especially love are Lese Corrigan, Robert Clarke, Beth Carlson, Ian Mason, and David Terry, but they are all incredible. See for yourself! <a href="http://www.dogandhorsefineart.com/">http://www.dogandhorsefineart.com</a>/ And going to Dog & Horse Fine Art is not your typical stuck up gallery experience. On any day you will be greeted warmly by a person, an English Cocker, or maybe a rabbit or...</div>
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So a little bit about Jaynie's portrait. I guess the big things I wanted to portray was the charm and hospitality she exudes as well as the very appealing "controlled chaos" that sort of whirls around her and those who love her. The Spector family loves to entertain and cook and Joe publishes the most beautiful food magazine about the food culture of the south, called The Local Palate <a href="http://thelocalpalate.com/">http://thelocalpalate.com/</a>. You can see a copy on the chair in the left foreground. </div>
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The interior is a composite of several rooms in their home in Charleston and yes the ceilings are that high. The art on the walls and the books on the tables all have significance to their family or professional lives. And if you look closely- that is a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. :) And the dogs-oh yes the dogs. On the right with Sean is Tommy, the current greeter in the gallery. In the center is Jaynie's dog love of her life, Lucy. On the left is Joe's beautiful and devoted boxer Natasha, from an earlier time, who he adored. And the dog racing across the foreground, knocking over chairs, spilling the chardonnay and carrying the red high heel? That is "Crazy Zed" about whom many tales/tails are told in the Spector Family history book. </div>
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but it has been in my mind for a long time. The first kernel of an idea
happened on July 1, 2015 when I heard on the radio that Cecil the Lion had been
shot after being lured from the sanctuary by an illegal party of big game
hunters. I was in my car and I remember thinking thank god I wasn’t at
that stage of my life when I was ferrying small children around in my minivan.
One of them would certainly have heard the report, as children have finely
tuned ears for things like that. And I would have had to come up with some
explanation of why a man would want to shoot and kill a beautiful, magnificent,
unsuspecting living creature. And I would not have had an explanation that
would not destroy a child’s vision of humanity for the rest of their lives- at
least not at that moment. I think I would have said something like "well as a good
human being it is our responsibility to guard and protect beauty, creatures at
risk, and things more vulnerable than ourselves". And then I envisioned a child’s
answer, a salve to soften the horrid, nightmarish image of poor Cecil dead on
the ground with a poor excuse for a human standing over him, grinning
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safe place, a sanctuary where he could read them stories and sing them
lullabies and let them sleep peacefully…not a worry in their lion hearts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I started doing sketches and research for the actual
painting, I was drawn again to Rousseau. Studying his paintings over the past few
years I have been attracted to them in a different way than ever before. I am
in awe of his inventiveness and unencumbered capacity to create form and
narrative without any responsibility to realism or naturalism. I have fallen in
love with his tigers and lions and fantastic botanical forms. I borrowed
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statue that was given to me as a gift. It sat like a muse on my painting table
while I worked...a</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">nd then there were my own cats who wander in and out of the studio and conveniently curl up at just the right moment.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otis and tiny lion sculpture</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also fell in love with the paintings of lions by the French painter </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aime Nicholas Morot (1850-1913) whose work I didn’t know until I started looking at lions. He could really paint lions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And many thanks to the young boy next door who modeled for
the little boy in the painting. At the time his hair had grown beautifully long and unruly like a lion's mane. When I told him he was to be reading to lions, he took that pose like he had read to lions everyday of his life. Perhaps he has. I
know for sure he will never, ever shoot one.</span></span></div>
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