Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #11 - "Conversation"

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #11 - "Conversation"

          

"CONVERSATION"

Oil on Canvas

20X20

Reserved for sale; Wait List available

In May, I exhibited my series of Coastal Sunrises at the Marblehead Art Association. Twenty five paintings grew out of a week at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine. I had this canvas started but not completed in time for that show. So I took the sky I had started, and added the foreground from two resources: a photo of the grass and rocks, and from the pink chair now sitting in my studio. Then I gave each chair a coffee cup. This painting has two chairs – one for me and one for Mom – so I can show her the show she missed because she was not able to come. This painting has been reserved for delayed sale. High quality giclee prints on canvas or paper and blank cards are available; please e-mail me if you are interested.

I am now sharing my current show with my readers and daily paintworks viewers. This show is currently traveling and will be available for purchase after the travel is completed, around mid-2014. Paintings may be held until then with a 10% down payment. E-mail me or see my pink chair project blog, for details

This exhibit tells the story about painting a pink plastic Adirondack chair. The chair represents my mother, Carolyn Elizabeth Pedersen Schulte, of Rochester, NY, who passed on June 5th, 2011. She was a wonderful woman, full of love for everyone around her, and she loved this bright color pink. She was proud of me as an artist and would love what I am doing. I take the chair to favorite places of hers and to places or situations I know she would have liked. It is a way for me to grieve and to celebrate her life. I talk to her as I paint and make sure that she would want to be where the chair has been placed. 

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #10 - "Remembr...

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #10 - "Remembr...: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #10 - "Remembrance" REMEMBRANCE Oil on Canvas 36X36 Avail...

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #10 - "Remembrance"

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #10 - "Remembrance"

REMEMBRANCE

Oil on Canvas

36X36

Available for delayed sale

$1900

I did this painting from a photo I took at Long Hill’s Sedgewick gardens, where I did "Meditation - First Lotus. Later this painting was used for the invitation to the exhibit. I worked hard to try to get a spot where I would not see the chair, but I would see its reflection in the water. This was the perfect image for that. It was my first large piece in the series and I learned a lot about greens! Many people do not see the chair at first glance, though children seem to pick it up quicker than adults because of the reflected image. Like in our memories and our reflections on our lives, the images are there, but altered by our perceptions, experiences, and by time. I find my memories of Mom are changed already. Qualities of my mom that were in the background are coming to the foreground as I appreciate them more. I start to see how they have altered and enriched my life and how I have been given the gift of looking, sometimes, in the same direction. The paintings tell me all I need to know.

I am now sharing my current show with my readers and daily paintworks viewers. This show is currently traveling and will be available for purchase after the travel is completed, around mid-2014. Art work may be held until then with a 10% down payment. E-mail me or see my pink chair project blog, for details

This exhibit tells the story about painting a pink plastic Adirondack chair. The chair represents my mother, Carolyn Elizabeth Pedersen Schulte, of Rochester, NY, who passed on June 5th, 2011. She was a wonderful woman, full of love for everyone around her, and she loved this bright color pink. She was proud of me as an artist and would love what I am doing. I take the chair to favorite places of hers and to places or situations I know she would have liked. It is a way for me to grieve and to celebrate her life. I talk to her as I paint and make sure that she would want to be where the chair has been placed. 

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Pink Chair Exhibit

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Pink Chair Exhibit: Pink Chair Installed at the Exhibit in Topsfield At the first of several exhibits of the pink chair paintings the chair sits under a ...

Pink Chair Exhibit

Pink Chair Installed at the Exhibit in Topsfield

At the first of several exhibits of the pink chair paintings the chair sits under a favorite piece and just beyond, "Daisy Love " that you saw yesterday. The stories are posted with each painting. With the chair itself is a board with post it notes where people write a love note to someone they miss. On the table is a journal with longer reminiscences.  

I leave you with this, because I am leaving in the morning on a 2 week painting trip to Maine where I probably won't have computer access so I can't post. It will also be good for me to be off line for a while. I will take it up again as soon as I return. 

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #9 - "Daisy Lo...

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #9 - "Daisy Lo...: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #9 - "Daisy Love" DAISY LOVE Oil on Canvas 18X24 Available ...

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #9 - "Daisy Love"

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #9 - "Daisy Love"

DAISY LOVE

Oil on Canvas

18X24

Available for delayed sale

$780

Mom loved daisies - and she also wrote poetry. Daisies were on the cover of the program for her funeral service, and little girls wove them into garlands for their hair at the celebration of her life. She said she wanted a party! I just had to honor her with this painting. Here is one of her poems:

The Daisy

I remember in my childhood,

I was walking one nice day

With my mother, in a garden,

Where the flowers bloomed so gay!

I bent down to pick a rosebud,

(‘twas a very lovely hue)

but my mother said "Don't pick it,

for it's not the thing to do."

As we were heading homeward through a field of daisies fair -

I was filled with joy and pleasure

at the great profusion there.

And my mother smiled and told me

that since these were only weeds

I could pick as many "flowers"

as would fill my every need...

by Carolyn Schulte

This image is available as a 5x7 blank greeting card for $3.75 each plus shipping; send an e-mail to me. Also available as a giclee in a range of sizes, on paper or canvas. Click here for information.

I am now sharing my current show with my readers and daily paintworks viewers. This show is currently traveling and will be available for purchase after the travel is completed, around mid-2014. Art work may be held until then with a 10% down payment. E-mail me or see my pink chair project blog, for details

This exhibit tells the story about painting a pink plastic Adirondack chair. The chair represents my mother, Carolyn Elizabeth Pedersen Schulte, of Rochester, NY, who passed on June 5th, 2011. She was a wonderful woman, full of love for everyone around her, and she loved this bright color pink. She was proud of me as an artist and would love what I am doing. I take the chair to favorite places of hers and to places or situations I know she would have liked. It is a way for me to grieve and to celebrate her life. I talk to her as I paint and make sure that she would want to be where the chair has been placed. 

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #8 "Sailing Ho...

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #8 "Sailing Ho...: SAILING HOME Oil on Canvas 16x16 Now Reserved for Sale at end of show Can Wait List  ...

Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #8 "Sailing Home"

SAILING HOME

Oil on Canvas

16x16

Now Reserved for Sale at end of show

Can Wait List 

Rockport, MA is a special place for me and has always nourished my art. I used to say my car went there all by itself!  So it naturally came to pass that I had to take "Mom" there too. I set up right on the T wharf but instead of doing "Motif #1" (below), the building that has inspired so many artists, I placed the chair on the pier high over the water, looking out to sea, through the jetties on either side. It was a gray day, cloudy, but comfortable. It was a 4 hour session, longer than usual because of the interruptions. The sky was pretty boring, all grey and kind of flat and I said in a kidding manner, "Mom, can you do something about that?" Within 15 minutes, the sky took on a interesting pattern of clouds with tiny bits of blue, which I gladly painted in. I left the water empty until almost the last minute, when a children's sailing school with small sailboats came tacking back home after their lesson. Without thinking, I quickly painted them into the piece, and it was done. Later, after packing up the car, an extreme tiredness came over me. I could barely make it to the bench, where I laid down for a while. Ravenous, I finally got up, and still tired, barely made it to the restaurant. I ate quietly and again, barely made it back to the car. I have never been so tired after painting, and had no fatigue during the painting process. Later, showing the painting to my friend Teresa, a therapist, I told her the story. She said: Lynne, you are doing grief work. You need to plan a nap after every painting. I said I didn't feel sad or grief; I had just been painting. She said "Lynne, look at it! That is grief work if I ever saw it!" Then I saw the powerful message of that small (16x16) piece. I instantly knew the title.

Motif #1   Rockport, MA

I am now sharing my current show with my readers and daily paintworks viewers. This show is currently traveling and will be available for purchase after the travel is completed, around mid-2014. Art work may be held until then with a 10% down payment. E-mail me or see my pink chair project blog, for details

This exhibit tells the story about painting a pink plastic Adirondack chair. The chair represents my mother, Carolyn Elizabeth Pedersen Schulte, of Rochester, NY, who passed on June 5th, 2011. She was a wonderful woman, full of love for everyone around her, and she loved this bright color pink. She was proud of me as an artist and would love what I am doing. I take the chair to favorite places of hers and to places or situations I know she would have liked. It is a way for me to grieve and to celebrate her life. I talk to her as I paint and make sure that she would want to be where the chair has been placed. 

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #7 "Centered"

Lynne Schulte's Painting a Day: Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #7 "Centered": CENTERED Oil on Canvas 11X14 Delayed Sale $450 This Painting is Available, see below ...