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"Urban landscape"

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"Urban Landscape" Acrylic on canvas 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 9.3 x 6.1 in
painted in Germany a couple of weeks ago....

Something flew directly from one of those visual-memory-boxes onto the little canvas...Remembering New York, it's incredible density and rush, it's colorful way....

Today, Tuesday, a warm September day here in Paris, a bit overcast.
I pick the following, somehow provocative quote :

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost

Have a great day,
love
Andrea

Suddenly: Landscapes...

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Yes, suddenly....: LANDSCAPES. It's because my dad asked me to paint this little lake, of which he had taken a photograph not long ago. He loves this lake, which is situated only a few km from their home.

So I painted it for him, which felt just great. Before that I was never quite attracted to landscape, but all of a sudden, two came out of my brush. The one I showed in my previous post and this one here.

Ahhhh, nature, country. I'm sitting here in busy, noisy, wonderful Paris, thinking of

yellow fields,

green grass, wet cow-muzzles,

soft horse-muzzles picking up little apples (and then slobbering all over my hand:),

juicy plums and the delicious damson jam my mom makes,

elegant red and white and yellow and pink roses,

naughty screeching magpies my dad shoos out of HIS garden cause he says they are bandits,

big heaps of Italian icecream,

the sun shining through leaves, giving the green a wonderful glow.

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I reckon I'll be back to landscape painting soon:)

I wish you all a wonderful week,

love

Andrea

Landscape

Acrylic on canvas 10 x 15 cm / 3.9 x 5.9 inches

This landscape is how I feel here.

Getting up at 7:30, walking in the fields, looking at my e-mails, practising the arpeggios on my guitare for half an hour until my neck gets sore, then to town (on bycicle) shop for groceries and eat icecream, pedaling back up the hill breathlessly, preparing lunch with my mom trying to accommodate very different tastes of 4 persons (which drives me a bit crazy:) , siesta with a good book, visiting friends in the afternoon or stay in the garden on a lawn chair looking up into the chestnut tree leaves, painting mini canvases while talking to my parents (and sometimes listening more or less amused to their typical old-married-couple-bickering) listening to husband, brother, sister in law (when they are visiting), watching Oscar the cat lying on the green grass or in the shade under the bushes or roses, listening to birdsong, visiting my dear old aunt at the hospital in the nearby town, watching geese and dear in the fields and many things more.

TIMEOUT:)

Painting Tango

This is a painting I painted in Germany a month ago, I call it Tango, Winter Tango.

Acrylic paint on canvas, 15x25cm - 6 x 8 "

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"THANKSGIVING"

I painted this landscape in Germany, in the big studio of my artist friend Tina, in the company of other artists who meet in her studio every Monday. While painting, we listened to an audio book "Poap Joan"; there was a lot of calm energy in this room, although the reading was fascinating and the story very dramatic. I thought about the sweet landscape around my hometown, too. Out came this painting here, which now hangs in our living room. "Thanksgiving" is a wonderful name for it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

I hope your turkey didn't burn :)

Acrylic paint on canvas, 70x50cm (28 x 20")

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EXHIBITION NOVEMBER and Angel - "Triptyques"

Some of you asked about the exhibition, in fact it will take place in November in Germany. The vernissage is on Nov. 13th, 2008, a Thursday afternoon. It will last a month, and show all my textile art, paintings on canvas, paintings on paper (original textile designs), drawings and watercolour paintings.

I prepared the pictures for the Flyer, it is almost ready, see above.

The following (and the one on top) was painted in Germany, and I left it there, sniff. An angel growing wings and then flying.

Acrylics on canvas, Angel Triptyques 12 x 12 inches (30x30 cm) and second (on top of the page) 20 x 20 inches (50x50cm)

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SNEAK PREVIEW - Seven Ancestorspirits

Monday, July 21st, 2008 - Today I give you a SNEAK PREVIEW on the exhibition I'll have in Germany in November 2008.

SEVEN ANCESTORSPIRITS, on 11.8x11.8 canvas, acrylic paint and paste, fabric collage and textile paint, with a final special varnish which protects and enhance the colours.

These paintings have "grown" with time, now they are finished, completed, after a very long gestation period, I may call this, the spirits are here, they look at us and we at them. Some are clearly visible, others aren't. Don't be afraid, these are friendly ghosts who timetravelled to be with us:)


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Cocoons I.

I have been tagged and will respond to it tomorrow with pleasure. In the meantime:

Acrylic paint on canvans, fabric, pigments, textile colours, feltpen.

30 x 30 cm - 11.8 x 11.8 in

This is a painting inspired by a sketch I did some time ago, the cocoon spirit and I guess I'd like to make a series of cocoon-paintings, something soft and patterned, in contrast to the textile masks.

I also finished this today, I think in reaction of what happened yesterday. Someone stole my purse on the marketplace! This is a mask of my angry self who tries to stay zen. I messed around with about every kind of paint and oil-pastels and crayons I had at hand and in the middle of the process took the piece to the sink to wash some ugly green off it.

Perhaps it is not finished...

She Remembers

Painting SHE REMEMBERS

Acrylic and textile paint on canvas, sand and fabric
30 x 30 cm - (11.8 x 11.8 in)