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dibly evocative about images of the west perhaps i feel that way because i grew up in california and for a brief time in alaska with childhood road trips throughout the southwestern united states for a solo show where i was painting places that stuck with me and stayed in my memory in a deep and lasting way i had much to choose from when it came to my early years i had been around arizona utah nevada and did an acting job many years ago in albuquerque but had never made it to parts of the southwest that one of my favorite painters called home in december 2015 i finally made my o keeffe pilgrimage to new mexico i fell in love with the blue sky red earth and adobe architecture i could have painted all 32 paintings of santa fe and taos with so much incredible beauty it wasn t the easiest decision to narrow down but for my solo show i chose to paint part of the taos pueblo detail of taos 2015 taos new mexico 2015 8 x 10 oil on wood panel with gold metal leafing 425 00 this next painting symbolizes the early 70s when my family lived in alaska i love the 1970s patchwork fabric my sister and i wore in the reference photo it also shows me in my petticoat which i wore over everything including my red snowsuit in my previous solo show i had only used metal leafing in gold for this series of paintings i introduced silver metal leafing which i felt worked really well for some of the cooler landscapes by cooler i mean in color and feeling and in some instances the weather as well i used the silver tone for the scottish landscapes and california seascapes as well as these next two landscapes below anchorage alaska 1971 8 x 8 sold my paternal grandparents moved up to mariposa in the mid 70s to build a home i loved being up in that part of california visiting yosemite only about 45 minutes away and seeing the deer everywhere we ate raspberries and blackberries out of my grandma s garden and collected more for her homemade jam well that is if we got to the berries before the deer did we used to play on the property behind their house pretending to live off the land while getting our hair caught on the manzanetta branches in the summer it would get so hot we d head out in our striped tube tops and terry cloth short shorts to fish swim and jump off the wooden island in the middle of the lake my favorite thing was walking with our older teenage cousins to the only pizza joint in town to drink root beer and play pinball on captain fantastic as i grew older and would go visit i was mostly on a mission to visit my grandparents and the beauty of the natural world in the middle of california in early spring the deer would walk through the fog and would seem to float by the trees appeared like mystics with stories to tell mariposa california 1977 8 x 10 sold we must protect the forests for our children grandchildren and children yet to be born we must protect the forests for those who can t speak for themselves such as the birds animals fish and trees qwatsinas hereditary chief edward moody nuxalk nation growing up in ventura where it was often foggy and cool we d take day trips up to ojai which was only twenty minutes up highway 33 and usually about 10 degrees warmer my favorite place in the small downtown area was a tiny and narrow native american shop i absolutely loved it being in there transported me to another time and place i remember a suede and fur papoose hanging in the window dolls in native dress on the shelves and all sorts of unique silver and turquoise jewelry and best of all old beaded moccasins i always thought that wearing them would be the most magical feeling in the world these beautiful moccasins below belong to my grandmother who was gifted them many decades ago by her aunt dorothy they are very fragile but a wonderful representation of old leather beaded moccasins while they were not from ojai they were the perfect still life to represent that magical shop from my childhood as you can see in the next photo i had gotten pretty far along with the leather and had added the gold metal leafing but no beads yet i had to use a 000 brush basically the smallest brush i could find at blick it looked ok close up but the important thing is to be able to stand back a couple of feet and have them look effective when you are taking in the painting as a whole taadaaa the painting where it should be in ojai its new home ojai california 1979 10 x 8 sold each of us is put here in this time and place to decide the future of humankind did you think you were put here for something less chief arvol looking horse blessings and light posted by cobalt violet at sunday november 24 2019 1 comment labels anchorage painting artist lucinda keller lucinda keller mariposa memory creating the self moccasin painting oil paintings solo show taos pueblo painting through time and place tree painting sunday november 10 2019 monarch butterflies painting and conservation monarch butterflies growing up in ventura our street was a stop off for monarch butterflies on their migration speaking of their migration they have they longest of any butterfly the eastern migration starts in canada and ends up down in mexico the trees at the end of my street vista del mar would be covered in thousands of these orange and black beauties every year some time after i left someone cut the trees down and the monarchs never came back i just knew i had to paint these beautiful butterflies to represent where i grew up they were specifically painted for my solo show in december of 2018 if you missed my last post here is my artists statement for that show this exhibition is a reflection upon five decades and many places the cities in which i have lived countries where i have traveled and destinations that became pilgrimages all have affected me in ways that are personal powerful and life changing these works are varied as are the memories and connections i have with these places from my five decades i hope you ll enjoy the journey my usual way of starting on the wood panels is to first use a clear gesso or medium to seal the wood it doesn t completely keep the paint from absorbing into the panel but it definitely helps then i sketch the composition with a sanguine or burnt siena colored pencil or pastel if i was painting on canvas and not using gold leaf i would just paint the composition in with a brush you can see the reddish brown sketching above and the first layers of orange paint on the butterflies this next photo i m much farther along i ve added more variations to to orangy gold in the wings along with the black at this point i was hesitating in adding the white spots i thought the painting might feel to chaotic but i decided to go for it i made the spots a bit grey to soften them and then added the gold leaf after the gold leaf i always go back into the edges where the paint meets the gold and voilà ventura 6 x 12 oil on wood panel 2018 gold metal leafing the butterflies sold to my dear friend shea who i met during high school in our hometown of ventura this photo was at the reception a week before i turned 50 last year we lose a million to two million acres of habitat a year but we can help by planting milkweed like swamp milkweed and butterfly milkweed for the larva and other flowering plants like zinnias and even chives for the adults which they need to nectar on this all helps to create backyard habitats for these beautiful butterflies they also love various types of daisies purple coneflower goldenrods butterfly bush cosmos some species of salvia viburnum mexican sunflower and then tithonia mexican torch for when they come through in the fall check out this video on monarch butterflies you can also make a butterfly puddle and leave out fruit for your butterflies this one from the university of minnesota and while it s very informational it also kind of cracks me up in its down home local tv vibe links university of minnesota monarch lab u s fish and wildlife monarch page how to build a monarch garden in 7 steps happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you nathaniel hawthorne blessings and light posted by cobalt violet at sunday november 10 2019 7 comments labels butterflies endangered species environmental art gold leafing memory creating the self monarch butterflies monarch butterfly conservation oil paintings solo show through time and place sunday november 3 2019 ojai birds and bats my 2018 solo show not every winged creature is considered a bird or a bat some wings are made of magic raani york 2013 one year ago i was painting like mad to finish 32 paintings for my solo show in december the show was called through time and place five decades and it was my way of celebrating my 50th birthday i wanted to honor the places that i love and that have influenced me while also feeling very productive as my birthday rolled around they dip and dance like barn swallows at dusk glancing wingtip to wingtip against a lavender sky barely touching yet each creating thermals for the other to catch and ride higher and yet higher towards a pale star kate mullane robertson i used the money from the painting sales to go on my saint francis walk last spring it was another way of marking my 50th getting in shape and also being in touch with the gratitude i feel for surviving a life challenging illness 10 ago when i turned 40 it was quite a full circle moment the following was my artist s statement for the show this exhibition is a reflection upon five decades and many places the cities in which i have lived countries where i have traveled and destinations that became pilgrimages all have affected me in ways that are personal powerful and life changing these works are varied as are the memories and connections i have with these places from my five decades i hope you ll enjoy the journey ojai california 2017 the swallow oil on wood panel 2018 8 x 8 500 00 the painting of the bird in my mom s hand above and the one below of the bat both represent ojai california i have spent so much time in that little town not only is it 20 minutes up the hill from my childhood home of ventura but my sister parents and many friends have moved up there over the last 10 to 20 years true hope is swift and flies with swallow s wings william shakespeare the baby swallow had flown out of its nest under my parents tile roof a bit too soon it hadn t been quite ready and we were worried it would become hawk food we spent half the day encouraging it to fly but before that happened i managed to capture a photo with my mom s outstretched hand it was so cute and yes it finally took flight we were very proud little brown bat not long after my parents moved to ojai in 2007 we had a little visitor in the guest room it was a little brown bat and when i say little its tiny furry body could have fit in the palm of my hand it was so adorable fortunately that bedroom has a door to the courtyard and we were able to encourage his swift exit without too much drama ok there might have been a little drama it s not every day you expect to see a bat hanging from the shade next to your bed there are currently 77 endangered and critically endangered bats on the iucn red list of threatened species and we anticipate this number to increase as a new assessment is currently underway bat conservation international trish wimberley looks after hundreds of orphaned baby bats and rears them until they can be released into the wild it s a tireless never ending job which keeps her awake all hours she apparently went 3 nights without sleeping once there are 50 bat species in the united states but there are 1 300 in the world which make up a quarter of mammal species the little brown guy i painted that was hanging out in the guest room was a micro bat there are a lot of large tropical bats which are called flying foxes the largest is the malayan bat and it has a 6 foot wing span the smallest is the bumblebee bat which has a 6 inch wingspan some can fly up to 50 miles an hour they can live between 10 to 20 years isn t that crazy i never knew until i researched information on bats for this post check out the bat watch in austin texas very cool leonardo da vinci was absolutely fascinated by bats and the phenomenon of flight he produced a famous drawing of a glider with bat wings i know these little mammals freak people out mostly based on age old myths and lore but they are amazing animals who are also eco friendly pesticides they are an important part of ecosystems around the world ojai california 2017 oil on wood panel 2018 6 x 6 sold this is an incredible video which shows high speed video of bats in flight at brown university at 10 45 you can see how amazing they are in flight by observing their skeletal structure in action speaking of bats and art here s one of my favorite munchkins natalie from the art studio where i teach i love how proud she is holding her charcoal bat tone drawing links 10 ways to be a friend to bats u s fish and wildlife bat conservation international hope you enjoyed seeing two more of my paintings from my last show i ve already posted several of my oil paintings from the 2018 show in my posts from hawaii and scotland lots more to come blessings and light twinkle twinkle little bat how i wonder what you re at up above the world you fly like a tea tray in the sky lewis carroll posted by cobalt violet at sunday november 03 2019 4 comments labels barn swallow bat conservation gold leafing little brown bat memory creating the self oil paintings solo show through time and place sunday october 13 2019 art inspiration velzyland and turtle bay the last of hawaii nature always wears the colors of the spirit ralph waldo emerson kevin surfing big sunset beach pastel on sanded paper 9 x 12 i can t believe this was a year and a half ago both the pastel above and my time in hawaii here s some hawaiian music to enjoy while visiting this post velzyland north shore o ahu the last year and a half has flown by as time does but really it is hard to believe it was such a special time being with kevin shannon and makena on o ahu velzyland was the first place kevin took makena to surf and it was beautiful as always kevin and makena putting her fins on her surf board the next photo is of my sarong drying in a tree it was designed by my aunt cheri and handmade by batik artisans in bali i love the bamboo design waiting on the beach watching makena and kevin surf some fun waves at v land come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher william wordsworth turtle bay north shore o ahu turtle bay wasn t too far up the road from kevin s old place at sunset beach and maybe a couple of miles north of velzyland it s really the only big resort in the area and it is in a prime location as you can see they also make a great poolside mai tai but i suggest limiting it to one they are tasty but they do pack quite a punch i 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