tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62006574109443195512024-03-18T20:20:10.625-07:00Ruth LullRuth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-14729978171885617652014-10-26T06:23:00.000-07:002014-11-18T06:25:34.365-08:00New York Solo Show <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are snapshots from my 2014 solo exhibit at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pleiades Gallery 530 West 25th Street, New York. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">"Shorewashed Stones" (oil on canvas) 30"x40"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Survival of the Fittest" (pastel on Canson) 24"x30"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Pineapple" (oil on canvas) 42"x42"</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Vincent Van Gnome" greets a gallery viewer at the opening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Forest between Seasons" (graphite) 20"x16"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Morning after Heavy Snowfall" (graphite) 20"x16"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Twilight by the Bay" (oil on canvas) 30"x30"</span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoPageTagList"><span class="fcg"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Chequamegon Twilight" (pastel on Canson) 27"x33"</span></div>
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Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-5622095929453486152014-09-10T22:21:00.000-07:002014-09-10T22:21:00.020-07:00Preparing for the Exhibit<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that the paint is drying, I am facing that tacky art show task:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> summer beach </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">stones are now dry enough to frame</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lastly, this "vintage" pineapple painting will get a reprise.</span></div>
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Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-63312682930177892552014-09-07T16:00:00.000-07:002014-09-07T16:00:07.586-07:00Works in Progress for October Show<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hungry deer ate all our flowers this summer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I even cleaned up the basement work area for this snap!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After such a long delay in blogging, I actually forgot how to sign in and post here! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finally getting some snapshots together of work done in winter & spring. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll post more as I organize "works in progress" for an upcoming show at Pleiades Gallery in New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">O<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">n a visit last fall to the home of a couple of artist friends Paul and Lynn Digby, I enjoyed sitting in their garden on a cool evening and witnessed the practice of making charcoal on an open fire. The char is supposed to be good for harvest mulch... but it makes great drawing tools as well! </span></span></div>
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"Char Fire" Drawing with homemade charcoal</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some snaps from my solo show at Pleiades Gallery in the Chelsea Art District of Manhattan. The Gallery entrance on West 25th St was still full of summer tourists enjoying the art and walking the Chelsea Highline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's my youngest son Ethan and his new bride Amy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wish I had gotten snapshots at the opening reception. But we were all too busy having a good time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, a trip over to the Flat Iron Buiding to see the 3D Pop-up Installation of Edward Hopper's "Night Hawks". That's Amy out the front.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Long after all the crowds had gone home, a few hardy souls parted ways in front of the darkened galleries.</span></div>
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</span>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-15750933484891857722013-08-18T10:44:00.000-07:002013-08-18T10:44:47.335-07:00Finishing up <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the last two WIPs...again, painted mostly in this corner space in Minneapolis. They are mates to those Autumn leaves seen in my previous blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't usually paint posies...but these are more about showers than flowers! They are the spring versions to the rain soaked autumn leaves in a previous blog. As I said we've had lots of "wet" this year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In less than a week I'll be wrapping and loading the canvases for the drive to New York!</span> Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-33486649340374786832013-08-05T09:24:00.000-07:002013-08-05T09:24:23.394-07:00More works in progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During a recent weekend up north, I was able to get a new one started in my basement work space. This is a bit larger than the one from the previous blog. </div>
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I want to be able to see both shadows and highlights as I block in the painting... so rather than working on a pure white canvas, I prefer to gesso my canvas grey or tone it with a neutral oil paint wash in a cool or warm middle value. Below is the finished version.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BTW: below is the finished version of the WIP (work in progress) that I posted in the previous blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been unable to be in my studio up north recently. Luckily, our apartment complex in Minneapolis has a nice craft room. The Apartment Association allowed me a nifty corner in the communal space to set up an easel. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">For now, smaller space means smaller paintings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Th</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ese are </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>WIP</strong>s <strong>("works in progress") and t</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">hey are <u>far from finished</u>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, brought plenty of rain and I find myself viewing lots of nature covered in transparent droplets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always loved the play of water on objects in my natural environment, as seen from previous postings, tide washed stones from the ocean and Lake Superior's shore have long attracted my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A few will make it into the my upcoming New York exhibition called "Seasonal Details".</span></div>
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The publicity for the reception celebration was coordinated by Suzanne Flory (on right), Public and Legislative Affairs officer for the Forest Service.</div>
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I was too busy to take photos during the reception but below is a grouping of some borrowed shots taken just as the reception began.</div>
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I was also invited to do a slide presentation. It was attended by lots of interesting folk who have a sophisticated knowledge and appreciation of forest habitat.</div>
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I was particularly pleased that some work sold and now resides with people who love the imagery of the Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest just as I do! </div>
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Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0Rhinelander, WI 54501, USA45.6366228 -89.4120752999999745.547801299999996 -89.573436799999968 45.7254443 -89.250713799999971tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-41658582587867320802012-08-31T10:57:00.000-07:002012-08-31T13:11:27.740-07:00A Retrospective Exhibit <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always resisted the idea of mounting a <strong>"retrospective art exhibit".</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, a retrospective is a show for artists who are either very famous...or very <u>old</u>! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't achieved "fame". And call me vain, but I'm still resisting "old". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So why now?</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Well here's the story:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This "Retrospective Exhibit" allows me the opportunity to clear my studio for some newer work, and at the same time to make a contribution to the institution of my primary loyalty. P</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">roceeds from the sale of these works go to <strong>Northland College</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over recent years I was blessed with the use of this wonderful well lighted, semi permanent hanging space...and unlike commercial galleries, it's open on Mondays!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Now however, </strong>we in the art department have decided to resume our former program of rotating public art exhibitions and I need to move my work off these walls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Losing my free "parking place" is daunting. I can't possibly fit all those large paintings back into my studio storage bins. </span><br />
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Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-12900234985589142792012-08-19T16:30:00.000-07:002012-08-20T08:28:14.894-07:00Minneapolis: Sunday in the Park<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With fall in the air we decided to take advantage of the nice weather for another Sunday afternoon stroll in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden across from the Walker Art Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Claes Oldenburg /Coosje van Bruggen ever popular installation "<span class="wac_title">Spoonbridge and Cherry" was surprisingly devoid of photo-op wedding parties today. <span class="wac_title">The early fall breeze and spraying mists may have kept some at bay.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, since I was alone in my studio without a tripod, I had to hold the "point and shoot" camera with my left hand while at the same time while drawing with my right hand! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not very professional way to go about video documenting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The saving grace here is accompaniment of two acoustic guitar compositions: "Wooden Kimono" and "Black Tides".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">These were written and played by <strong>Noah Parsonage</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By the way... I have been asked about the covering on my finger. Although it looks sort of "questionable", this protective finger covering is actually sold in art supply stores for this specific purpose.</span><br />
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<br />Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-41059068469510942352012-06-11T19:02:00.000-07:002012-06-12T14:50:38.543-07:00Scholar's Rock II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This charcoal is a second version of a <strong>"Scholar's Rock"</strong> formation. Such rocks served as objects of meditation for scholars and were admired for their abstract beauty and unusual convoluted shapes symbolizing mountainous landscapes of Buddhist and Taoist immortals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I started this one (like the last) by rubbing my fingers in charcoal dust and smudging the paper with it much like finger painting! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Highlighs are then brought back in by what is call "negative drawing"....or ERASING!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although it is messy and does not mix with finger food snacking, this method has the effect of creating soft gradations without the use of harsh lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">BTW: I actually documented this one with my little point and shoot set in video mode and hope to post it soon. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well...as soon as I teach myself how to edit video!</span><br />
<br />Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-50603907690780754552012-06-10T11:14:00.000-07:002012-06-11T12:59:07.598-07:00Scholar's Rock<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Scholar's Rock</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to unforeseen circumstances and lack of studio opportunity, my painting has recently been curtailed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime I turned instead to experimenting with drawing media and techniques that are less familiar to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the first stage of a charcoal...a <strong>WIP</strong> or work in progress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This image is loosely based on a rock formation called a <strong>"Scholar's Rock".</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">These formations are found mostly in China in areas such as Lake Taihu, and are greatly prized as objects of meditation and contemplation.</span><br />
They are considered to be <span style="font-family: Arial;">objects of great aesthetic value throughout the world. Many are found here in gardens and in major museums from Boston to San Francisco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is not done with charcoal pencils or sticks...but rather with charcoal dust directly drawn with my finger. Occasionally I use a blending stump or an eraser as a drawing tool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rather than producing the darks and lights with instruments or pencils, I prefer sinking in the dark areas with hands and fingers. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLw3RTxD2owqyxmPAo8_YH-4jMCWMuwGM0B3pDaEmNc92ItTKk1FAzBm8sLNVRIqO4dhyphenhyphenrJRxf2UtqnE9PARNx5NF9At_YXcEciuIuIeVZL8nkKrFziibafdxnSrYtUxHQ9HKr9_HlPk8/s1600/300199_283581641672360_140585835971942_920584_1211088152_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLw3RTxD2owqyxmPAo8_YH-4jMCWMuwGM0B3pDaEmNc92ItTKk1FAzBm8sLNVRIqO4dhyphenhyphenrJRxf2UtqnE9PARNx5NF9At_YXcEciuIuIeVZL8nkKrFziibafdxnSrYtUxHQ9HKr9_HlPk8/s320/300199_283581641672360_140585835971942_920584_1211088152_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">David Saetre (left) President Michael Miller (center) and his wife Mary Trettin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-ieZpnWL8caa2VmB3JNWCzJhbsfCwPsQfmDc0l1-6CxLtuecYuoUEQVuTAmJTDnNratpdQsSGtcRdLSI-XWx57T3Dd2J2n6Hnke01PfWwxJJEn0nCiuU1GhCnZZuPheQzN-tlYP29zg1/s1600/DSC06768-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-ieZpnWL8caa2VmB3JNWCzJhbsfCwPsQfmDc0l1-6CxLtuecYuoUEQVuTAmJTDnNratpdQsSGtcRdLSI-XWx57T3Dd2J2n6Hnke01PfWwxJJEn0nCiuU1GhCnZZuPheQzN-tlYP29zg1/s320/DSC06768-700.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnVHIJyQ0fU_YLWPQzIKEsGbBj3HzAgsncPzVB-CaT_sMF_a86namyjOUi1c-pJCp7ky0PeGRtNks3pzG7Uzm97_xf5fLG59dBCRSjtZLdfK90HzkfYpCHe-qGN_ESGn0TYy30PeZs5E0/s1600/389936_283947714969086_140585835971942_922674_509442807_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnVHIJyQ0fU_YLWPQzIKEsGbBj3HzAgsncPzVB-CaT_sMF_a86namyjOUi1c-pJCp7ky0PeGRtNks3pzG7Uzm97_xf5fLG59dBCRSjtZLdfK90HzkfYpCHe-qGN_ESGn0TYy30PeZs5E0/s320/389936_283947714969086_140585835971942_922674_509442807_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkdHfxzNitcIxaWyHlcT_kkyojpQUUpFR70dPMurDz8BigEHLa-cH0Z0C0CaZefZ6LfNernj3cDwQblPJZPrKfTWXKDgu-oRH0G8eMrk1FM4Y9nFq6pb1IH6CrqyhqsYVybAOqmAzbQZm/s1600/DSC06766-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkdHfxzNitcIxaWyHlcT_kkyojpQUUpFR70dPMurDz8BigEHLa-cH0Z0C0CaZefZ6LfNernj3cDwQblPJZPrKfTWXKDgu-oRH0G8eMrk1FM4Y9nFq6pb1IH6CrqyhqsYVybAOqmAzbQZm/s320/DSC06766-700.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(seated center) my hubby, retired 10th president of Northland College.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com2Ashland, WI, USA46.576963799999987 -90.86983020000002446.534555299999987 -90.923115700000025 46.619372299999988 -90.816544700000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-12998559841329554112011-10-22T10:01:00.000-07:002011-11-03T10:23:24.761-07:00"Superior Stones"In keeping with my current interest in shorewashed stones from the inland sea of Lake Superior, I start on two smaller canvases. <br />
Below are two WIPs (works in progress) ganged up into one snapshot <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpt_7d8HFxoMiDEh4n58J8lkt8rW_WQAKVAd87fukbnmblPUkctc2HPHnWnrBoFUPoTSrFFy4_l4hxnNy5xzVSEcVn4tWA1Rnk7ZIQi5AkrKUwnyarrh_DprZdCnN8Ro55-hj7zKVCFzD/s1600/Superior+Stones+WIPs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpt_7d8HFxoMiDEh4n58J8lkt8rW_WQAKVAd87fukbnmblPUkctc2HPHnWnrBoFUPoTSrFFy4_l4hxnNy5xzVSEcVn4tWA1Rnk7ZIQi5AkrKUwnyarrh_DprZdCnN8Ro55-hj7zKVCFzD/s320/Superior+Stones+WIPs.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Both shown here in the early tone washed stage. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU81VnZeFOsG8VRsrE7PuZaogk7TwX8EBCIu_B87kdlfAvkC0FUwQr_Yk5HpsicOE_bOvc5DR320uo7VlZdNnbKrYr5VxFRm4vhFK9qTWtez_Pt3CzoH2drc-Cn_vBnpesHeiP7ZCsSbj/s1600/DSC03670a_700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU81VnZeFOsG8VRsrE7PuZaogk7TwX8EBCIu_B87kdlfAvkC0FUwQr_Yk5HpsicOE_bOvc5DR320uo7VlZdNnbKrYr5VxFRm4vhFK9qTWtez_Pt3CzoH2drc-Cn_vBnpesHeiP7ZCsSbj/s320/DSC03670a_700.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div align="center">"Superior Stones I" oil (30"x30")</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAgCPznCwt2AtnIza-VdN4KkuKtsQDRFJKz6VTk54hOdnYeL4cFii6rttl6z9IuyDgBoht2gNHADxGa8PnPbAnpNdGDIKFb41qxYNqgvzcLaozFPFPEGC4I7RC57EcEdQmiFqHXjw6vJi/s1600/DSC06565aa_700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAgCPznCwt2AtnIza-VdN4KkuKtsQDRFJKz6VTk54hOdnYeL4cFii6rttl6z9IuyDgBoht2gNHADxGa8PnPbAnpNdGDIKFb41qxYNqgvzcLaozFPFPEGC4I7RC57EcEdQmiFqHXjw6vJi/s320/DSC06565aa_700.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Superior Stones II" oil (30"x30")</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center"></div>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-12201715690024302152011-10-05T09:41:00.000-07:002011-11-03T09:59:49.999-07:00"Fantasy Monument"I'm a beachcomber and currently interested in shorewashed Lake Superior stones...but this time I decided to try a "no reference fantasy version". <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKO4cnOuTU2cHsTRw6bvxSWrO7lSCryiB7KVgH0U0Tfx1vnWZdB8BEgZ8vCPeSk-wXKx30z446EPOfjYkGRf5FIGsTrsIMpPMxkOVudTsNFNZwRc_-vpoGr4rfECLIDpkTWwo-4p6gtPB/s1600/File8213_550.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKO4cnOuTU2cHsTRw6bvxSWrO7lSCryiB7KVgH0U0Tfx1vnWZdB8BEgZ8vCPeSk-wXKx30z446EPOfjYkGRf5FIGsTrsIMpPMxkOVudTsNFNZwRc_-vpoGr4rfECLIDpkTWwo-4p6gtPB/s320/File8213_550.jpg" width="214px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is the pencil sketch for 36"x22" for a canvas I just started. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsysoZhKoxvPdeMIxvKsNdKIIrZUEHkp0MNwiz-IjHGvE0jWANwOiBAmC8VWvmo3hSAnqdfm1YcqBmjOOdQRPIcl2F80sYuO2ZVMIXGWNewK8jbhL-9mA4IeO-fFD6vTISgj3Ifu4HqWy1/s1600/DSC06022a_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsysoZhKoxvPdeMIxvKsNdKIIrZUEHkp0MNwiz-IjHGvE0jWANwOiBAmC8VWvmo3hSAnqdfm1YcqBmjOOdQRPIcl2F80sYuO2ZVMIXGWNewK8jbhL-9mA4IeO-fFD6vTISgj3Ifu4HqWy1/s320/DSC06022a_600.jpg" width="240px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finishing up the small fantasy painting in my small studio area off the living room.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMPJ8f5aBq9aXam6sJVqv5R16nsQxbFfZRMTbFn92hOIyj-QhDrwg0TsoONNjPA5D3WsUcMvIVuYpzaZ-o2eSQgSuXQOIKHMk6HJG-FwOamFaIDyoF9xP2B3O9PeDpnaE4OKveNMsvXhV/s1600/DSC05866a_550.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMPJ8f5aBq9aXam6sJVqv5R16nsQxbFfZRMTbFn92hOIyj-QhDrwg0TsoONNjPA5D3WsUcMvIVuYpzaZ-o2eSQgSuXQOIKHMk6HJG-FwOamFaIDyoF9xP2B3O9PeDpnaE4OKveNMsvXhV/s320/DSC05866a_550.jpg" width="195px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fantasy Monument (oil 36x22)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-85076507169665221392011-09-14T08:22:00.000-07:002011-11-03T09:40:33.459-07:00Studio "House Work"I opened this blog account many months ago and then failed to follow through! So many exhibits I've viewed and so much nature I've enjoyed and I never caught up with archiving it with photos.<br />
Time to catch up... I'm a whole season behind!<br />
Here a bit of the works in progress and happenings in my own studio.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJPa5W9wUmgE_b_EGNdVHuS7gQuEQoDoTpZ_z-4G1sBp5p7F2XWkNK2H1xRTzJYYkp6ubceZKLDJMrYbL0u5eO4b7mxMrUZNcoM3uve1G4XlUyGsWq3BB8n2uIo9YsOZPI45ginGM_avRZ/s1600/DSC05818-750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJPa5W9wUmgE_b_EGNdVHuS7gQuEQoDoTpZ_z-4G1sBp5p7F2XWkNK2H1xRTzJYYkp6ubceZKLDJMrYbL0u5eO4b7mxMrUZNcoM3uve1G4XlUyGsWq3BB8n2uIo9YsOZPI45ginGM_avRZ/s320/DSC05818-750.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div>Stretching and sizing with gesso. I hate painting on white canvas...so I color my gesso grey.<br />
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<strong><u>Finally </u></strong>... below, an actual "WIP" or work in progress<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNhSLuy9W07bWeZgM12qu0CmE6x7qQdJJB7YEcTTJJ2RsQC4sRypK3ZU2-CF85xlfPZn3j2N4rU0H2Ok69cIffXNDeEHSDcTgyKrdArvBlhs8pqtZtE8nm47y9MUqkG4bMzNBMlZoom87p/s1600/DSC03656+WIP_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNhSLuy9W07bWeZgM12qu0CmE6x7qQdJJB7YEcTTJJ2RsQC4sRypK3ZU2-CF85xlfPZn3j2N4rU0H2Ok69cIffXNDeEHSDcTgyKrdArvBlhs8pqtZtE8nm47y9MUqkG4bMzNBMlZoom87p/s320/DSC03656+WIP_800.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div>Left: stage one. Drawing it in a composition in keeping with the tondo shape. <br />
Right: stage two. I began to give some shape to the stones ..<br />
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Sadly it is here that I stopped as I'm a bit unsatified with this start. <br />
I am going to work on some other small painting and return to finish it ...<strong>or maybe paint over it!</strong>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-87611130740871918832011-07-31T21:01:00.000-07:002011-08-01T12:33:01.459-07:00CHIHULY:THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my last trip east, I had decided it was time to revisit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts which I had not been to in years. I went to check out the newly expanded Americas wing but while there I chanced upon the special exhibition of the world reknown artist of blown glass, Dale Chihuly. The title of the installation is </span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Chihuly: <em>Through the Looking Glass</em></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFbxOOSSpcUqpJC3LxolEy8dUSp58acinkEkPzEvYykccxCKjaa-iK7UrgX1fpGbPLoPZ_G5FNHmjGDqtbOCsdcpiDZ-TCa38gdIXCKjCXar75hy-iTEwdwxWyFPefquYdNhLEU3jryXv/s1600/DSC03080-650.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFbxOOSSpcUqpJC3LxolEy8dUSp58acinkEkPzEvYykccxCKjaa-iK7UrgX1fpGbPLoPZ_G5FNHmjGDqtbOCsdcpiDZ-TCa38gdIXCKjCXar75hy-iTEwdwxWyFPefquYdNhLEU3jryXv/s320/DSC03080-650.jpg" t$="true" width="239px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was extended by popular demand until August 8th. It's almost a shame to tempt you with these snapshots I took from this dazzling installation since it only has a week left to run! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXHh88vLBEh7qQUfFTKJZlHKayRQmao60-XGETR8rWNAOZBo_BOBuMZ6w-6_H_JVETcoJmNmuWDc_vMaK-s17I6trl7mohbk0AeZGnK0C1XlzoHqpt8pusqfrztRnWip3Cx98zZYywinS/s1600/DSC03085-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXHh88vLBEh7qQUfFTKJZlHKayRQmao60-XGETR8rWNAOZBo_BOBuMZ6w-6_H_JVETcoJmNmuWDc_vMaK-s17I6trl7mohbk0AeZGnK0C1XlzoHqpt8pusqfrztRnWip3Cx98zZYywinS/s320/DSC03085-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjF5drNGQuntj2DPZARwnKf77nqt2FOKWJeYjT3c45GqcoQuJVfy1_W4VbPopYYDSxTCO2jJcKDyyoVAqw3moco7NmDRlxF1cKq7L_YBiq_tr_a37eD_8yII0M8lZFa_XpBybh0pqY98O/s1600/DSC03088-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjF5drNGQuntj2DPZARwnKf77nqt2FOKWJeYjT3c45GqcoQuJVfy1_W4VbPopYYDSxTCO2jJcKDyyoVAqw3moco7NmDRlxF1cKq7L_YBiq_tr_a37eD_8yII0M8lZFa_XpBybh0pqY98O/s320/DSC03088-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some rooms featured the familiar Chihuly hanging works consisting of thousands of blown glass pieces massing to produce a single hued chandalier hanging from above. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rA_BGQkczgP4CQZkX6xdYC4GCfKgG-MX9fe3J-C3A8G6g4sr5ONnfIivXiuuRXqSzYJnBNMKiaxa02GCiPukl2z2toox4rL_CEkUpuUKPKEOL5VnhoyKB2PN8U3-gstzRJU5U9-OMXkp/s1600/chandaliers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rA_BGQkczgP4CQZkX6xdYC4GCfKgG-MX9fe3J-C3A8G6g4sr5ONnfIivXiuuRXqSzYJnBNMKiaxa02GCiPukl2z2toox4rL_CEkUpuUKPKEOL5VnhoyKB2PN8U3-gstzRJU5U9-OMXkp/s320/chandaliers.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other rooms featured works on the floor such as this one below, titled "The Ikebana Boat"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhll-A_DzwliEc_j4dPIvPR9cUVcOWCPuwE2jmb-ifCFgKU2huOOytrVT_dGEJGKwRT4kZoTMbtc2dp0uRDK3vqQ2mwhx3dzMeOpD45N0DNannOwiPFZ-_NWOo_NCYIGjAmVmV6bUeToelE/s1600/DSC03096-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhll-A_DzwliEc_j4dPIvPR9cUVcOWCPuwE2jmb-ifCFgKU2huOOytrVT_dGEJGKwRT4kZoTMbtc2dp0uRDK3vqQ2mwhx3dzMeOpD45N0DNannOwiPFZ-_NWOo_NCYIGjAmVmV6bUeToelE/s320/DSC03096-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFHxWLpDaoVXyM05ozQm9qHltPAhyphenhyphenWwUgpjrjfT7Y-yQ_FAW3OPsfFIHeOIi3iGxZKITWplqEtnW6etOwd5579Bf_YREmUEbETJ5Nducczc3MCLMx2mPYDqi741BTiX0wCO_u6PeLD0B7/s1600/DSC03093-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFHxWLpDaoVXyM05ozQm9qHltPAhyphenhyphenWwUgpjrjfT7Y-yQ_FAW3OPsfFIHeOIi3iGxZKITWplqEtnW6etOwd5579Bf_YREmUEbETJ5Nducczc3MCLMx2mPYDqi741BTiX0wCO_u6PeLD0B7/s320/DSC03093-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each ambitious installation consisted of many elements of blown glass creating an environment that was almost magical. Each theme had its own room and each room was filled with families and children viewing and exclaiming excitedly over the fantasy.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvPb82Z5FZUzbK3XJ16bLXJkmIGJE5ngNZM1y22CUZapIo4L2FnFK-Q8DKVOQhyT0k-XDd7KJpupgWQGXFnh7boOxRvHs1QM6w0rr9B54aCad99YIvd_0OJ4bgqBBCbZJSJkbOGvUKBOr/s1600/DSC03126-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvPb82Z5FZUzbK3XJ16bLXJkmIGJE5ngNZM1y22CUZapIo4L2FnFK-Q8DKVOQhyT0k-XDd7KJpupgWQGXFnh7boOxRvHs1QM6w0rr9B54aCad99YIvd_0OJ4bgqBBCbZJSJkbOGvUKBOr/s320/DSC03126-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSU0Ua7YFDKqb4AnhQkvIQHZ_gqj8dRERnA2pVeXZJFXdAU4vSKLMAKG3r7zM2PGkPLSNt-HfBaOdpLgrkG8KQRO2uIoSodX4ej-UX32b3BprHctkhPe7nCSLO_niG8-AWHesXpQdFyZ2/s1600/DSC03136-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSU0Ua7YFDKqb4AnhQkvIQHZ_gqj8dRERnA2pVeXZJFXdAU4vSKLMAKG3r7zM2PGkPLSNt-HfBaOdpLgrkG8KQRO2uIoSodX4ej-UX32b3BprHctkhPe7nCSLO_niG8-AWHesXpQdFyZ2/s320/DSC03136-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My personal favorite was the room below titled "Persian Ceiling"...a sort of horror vacuii of riotous color created by light filtered through a g;lass ceiling. Above the ceiling were piles of blown glass shapes, vessels and vases and the light cast its glow of color from those elements onto the walls. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_IkY9fIrjiKn38EogKuMwQBGmcoZv70BzNA0wYFitEcUFteR1BduGg2dywFItX4K5NCAH_TeiWGUDY4eCwM1L9p0erPIBPRmnUqDWi1gHHPqqYfqpm_jt4cZE9bB6HpvQWgBlPc38-TpQ/s1600/DSC03139-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_IkY9fIrjiKn38EogKuMwQBGmcoZv70BzNA0wYFitEcUFteR1BduGg2dywFItX4K5NCAH_TeiWGUDY4eCwM1L9p0erPIBPRmnUqDWi1gHHPqqYfqpm_jt4cZE9bB6HpvQWgBlPc38-TpQ/s320/DSC03139-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTbU2gHQ_shUinSIGxCt2nH0mAA6-6E29zitPaN2hJ5DcR2cq1ka8xvePwP3MdTdtiR5vlgHI7drPgVy67LGPP3B2BF5ubM_3P5EhGzTEBPtX6RhLNWmx2PaZj4XlSHODitWHaLR9BBDM/s1600/DSC03160-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTbU2gHQ_shUinSIGxCt2nH0mAA6-6E29zitPaN2hJ5DcR2cq1ka8xvePwP3MdTdtiR5vlgHI7drPgVy67LGPP3B2BF5ubM_3P5EhGzTEBPtX6RhLNWmx2PaZj4XlSHODitWHaLR9BBDM/s320/DSC03160-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-9PrLFAI_6Mw5sbITM5DkXQ6By4iAODfgTOKYovm5mFApgOTurcMH495tbhHhkHFO2w-QdF_W5XNE7RiJDYJ4ZO0VLesBLr6KOwa2oxM9Pp-mgMtgqLF76kwBW7wgSO3JArcCnqqEy52/s1600/DSC03146-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-9PrLFAI_6Mw5sbITM5DkXQ6By4iAODfgTOKYovm5mFApgOTurcMH495tbhHhkHFO2w-QdF_W5XNE7RiJDYJ4ZO0VLesBLr6KOwa2oxM9Pp-mgMtgqLF76kwBW7wgSO3JArcCnqqEy52/s320/DSC03146-700.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since many of the colorful glass elements suggested marine creatures, I almost felt like I was inside a fantasy aquarium. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It only has a week to go...But if you live in the Boston area, this exhibit is well worth bringing the family! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to know more about this world reknown glass artist, the website is: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.chihuly.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>www.chihuly.com</strong></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-35616671617405968612011-07-24T08:57:00.000-07:002011-08-01T11:46:42.023-07:00A VERMONT LEGACY<div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Maxfield Parrish (Premier painter of the Golden Age of Illustration) was a friend of my grandfather Col. Thomas Lull. They lived on opposite sides of the covered bridge that connected Windsor</city>, <state w:st="on">Vermont</state> with the area of <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">New Hampshire</state></place> where Parrish lived and worked. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Parrish often came into <city w:st="on">Windsor</city> for coffee and to gather material for his landscapes of <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">Vermont</state></place> countryside for the annual calendars printed from his paintings. </span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7uHq6XADatBbIj161Z57XlB4XV1j3u20wKbnlaDgnav0vS3BCXUUW4uy5IT_g_1vUi2M386rw8wsvpeM8nAQxmmFckggldNRhnBjTeJmM-fsOISrGe6UWTVnoqrDokt1mbqTBTkbsgBq/s1600/LullBrookwinter460.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7uHq6XADatBbIj161Z57XlB4XV1j3u20wKbnlaDgnav0vS3BCXUUW4uy5IT_g_1vUi2M386rw8wsvpeM8nAQxmmFckggldNRhnBjTeJmM-fsOISrGe6UWTVnoqrDokt1mbqTBTkbsgBq/s400/LullBrookwinter460.jpg" t$="true" width="290px" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"></span> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Lull Brook Winter<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1945</span></span></span></span></span></div></div></span><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">"Lull Brook Winter" takes its inspiration from the brook named after the Lull Family who settled that area. The brook still traverses the bucolic Vermont countryside and I often revisit Lull Brook when I'm back east and </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">It is my hope to do my own (updated) verion of Lull Brook sometime in the near future. Meanwhile I have a lot of other painting to do in anticipation for my next exhibit. </span></div><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"> </div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span>Ruth Lullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458769212435359376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200657410944319551.post-31310516830730656472011-07-01T14:50:00.000-07:002011-07-24T07:13:24.573-07:00MY BARCELONA LEGACY<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">A number of years back, while I was in <state w:st="on">New York</state> to arrange for my solo show, I went to the <placename u2:st="on">Metropolitan</placename> <placetype u2:st="on">Museum</placetype> of Art to view the closing days of an exhibition titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"<place w:st="on"><city w:st="on"><city u2:st="on"><place u2:st="on">Barcelona</place></city> and Modernity"</city></place></b>.</span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">The exhibition was of interest to me because (despite my 'waspy' name), I am 50% Hispanic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">My Grandfather was from Puerto Rico but my grandmother was born in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><city u2:st="on"><place u2:st="on">Barcelona</place></city> and it is through her that I have familial connections to the artist named <strong>Alejandro de Riquer</strong> who worked in the Art Nouveau circle of <strong>Antonio Gaudi</strong>.</place></city></span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;">Alejandro de Riquer </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">(1856-1920)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLM94WZXkIxxTqgL80o2sIlz1Bgp2cowXTgJyoLRleaz52RDoq2AyJ6xw6u5FfGr-uVShcarWYvkC4vuJaAOHKO_eBQeeUoEJ8feAEP8uClavCZuo53600Qz4bgLORnj0IyGPRvf6zLgy/s1600/Riquer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLM94WZXkIxxTqgL80o2sIlz1Bgp2cowXTgJyoLRleaz52RDoq2AyJ6xw6u5FfGr-uVShcarWYvkC4vuJaAOHKO_eBQeeUoEJ8feAEP8uClavCZuo53600Qz4bgLORnj0IyGPRvf6zLgy/s640/Riquer.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">What a thrill it was to encounter 4 of his works as I walked through the galleries.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">The show traced his and other late 19<sup>th</sup> century Barcelona artist's Art Nouveau roots on up through the 20<sup>th</sup> century modernist work of Picasso, Miro, & Dali whose intellectual center was the Cafe Quatre Gats.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl479qbeUN2YCp0DA1x129oWRsblpd8NZyFJPZ_DBf9ohGTDIut3b7Cv4mTW-GGDhkCXe0D1Q2-1hyphenhyphenbHV_KOcu81V5J1g7Ez5wjl7hwiUvSOxz6j7lJNOAnjKsUX9gcMtSN0egk0-1s6m/s1600/Riquer+Quatre+Gats+cover_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl479qbeUN2YCp0DA1x129oWRsblpd8NZyFJPZ_DBf9ohGTDIut3b7Cv4mTW-GGDhkCXe0D1Q2-1hyphenhyphenbHV_KOcu81V5J1g7Ez5wjl7hwiUvSOxz6j7lJNOAnjKsUX9gcMtSN0egk0-1s6m/s400/Riquer+Quatre+Gats+cover_edited-1.jpg" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><strong>(left) Riquer: Cover illustration for the Quatre Gats Art Journal 1899</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><strong>(right) Picasso: Drawing to publize the 4 Gats Cafe 1900</strong></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 39pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">I'm so glad I hung on to my little collection of his prints and drawings that have been passed down to me and I cherish them all the more having seen his work in the context of his generation of artists. Most of the print engravings are "exlibris" commissioned by wealthy families to personalize their books. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">This one below however is so large I framed it up to be admired on a wall. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Engraving: exlibris "Casa Davalos" </span></strong></div><div align="center"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN99s6GWKXMltzmuVeWzNMBNzBoSt5Ge6-D26Kpe2lhNycGz0_-daj7EF9buSrfm2mSfkZ77muHcg_bepS9eqoahqWDK5IU9PoKVUz0IEc097t4ZyGaUDKpLixtuLs2YWSgLPtSCA7nmLN/s1600/Riquer+%2527Casa+Davalos%2527+exlibris+1903+400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN99s6GWKXMltzmuVeWzNMBNzBoSt5Ge6-D26Kpe2lhNycGz0_-daj7EF9buSrfm2mSfkZ77muHcg_bepS9eqoahqWDK5IU9PoKVUz0IEc097t4ZyGaUDKpLixtuLs2YWSgLPtSCA7nmLN/s320/Riquer+%2527Casa+Davalos%2527+exlibris+1903+400.jpg" t$="true" width="159px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">detail below</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgp6gxRdeMmdRT3cniD64Ghpd7TaUnGtHjUH84aZcMHKopZw-sduPh9EaZJbL2Qgn49Nvhct-hE3yUFdH63D9eKLegZSe5c7bHluRNWAiDwxhEHLRKLKDfvrYQXVXBrPXrcHcaqnRuv5rr/s1600/Riquer+%2527Casa+Davalos%2527+exlibris+det+650.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgp6gxRdeMmdRT3cniD64Ghpd7TaUnGtHjUH84aZcMHKopZw-sduPh9EaZJbL2Qgn49Nvhct-hE3yUFdH63D9eKLegZSe5c7bHluRNWAiDwxhEHLRKLKDfvrYQXVXBrPXrcHcaqnRuv5rr/s400/Riquer+%2527Casa+Davalos%2527+exlibris+det+650.jpg" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">As I am able to remove the glass to photograph them, I hope to continue posting some more images of his work in this blog at a future time.</span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 39pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">With Art Nouveau interests on both sides of my family, I guess it is not surprising that my vision remains steadfastly planted in "organic" imagery.</span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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