Remembrance -The Pink Chair Project #7 "Centered"

CENTERED

Oil on Canvas

11X14

Delayed Sale

$450

This Painting is Available, see below

When a friend and I took a trip to Cape Cod to paint, a great stop was Wellfleet. We found a perfect spot next to a building with shade and a great view! I found myself carefully positioning "Mom" exactly under the church steeple in the center of the picture. I didn't know why, but I felt it was essential for it to be "just so". It took almost 15 minutes until I was satisfied. My traveling companion asked me why I centered the chair, and I said I didn't know; I seldom use a centered composition. Later looking at it, I realized that this painting emphasizes Mom's central love in life besides her family: her church. The art I create is always zeroing in on the truth and I can usually only read it later.

PAINTING IN WELLFLEET

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. 

Cove and Dock

"Cove and Dock"

Oil on Panel

8x10

sold

Cape Porpoise in Kennebunkport Maine had a place with very interesting colors in the tide-exposed rocks and I loved the light glinting on the roof of the building and on the dock. I was painting it from the sweet spot I told you about yesterday when a few people stopped by to see what I was doing. They enjoyed the art, and we discussed some of the problems of painting. Later we maintained an on line conversation about the challenges we faced and how we did it. In the fall, they contacted me to buy the painting as a holiday gift. It was all pretty special and we still write!