tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89643071549836720722024-03-13T08:39:09.303-07:00Eileen Adele Hale: Painting a DayA Speed Painting every day, 1 1/2 hours at most, posted with comments here; about half figurative/realistic paintings, and half mixed abstract/figurative/dream/surreal/abstract expressionist paintings.<br>
Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reservedEileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-78727349367372530602023-08-12T21:38:00.001-07:002023-12-13T20:10:02.801-08:00No new PAD to show, just checking in<p> I just want to see if my old blogger theme, and the ability to change the layout, will restore themselves if I publish a new post...</p><p>Well - no... darn...<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-83491054636492238912010-11-21T18:13:00.001-08:002010-11-21T18:24:06.408-08:00Lukie - in progress<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3jMqJGzOB8aJ3HpyQ68OcI9k4NRhhMx3j594jlRhViAOz0YtIVzMZQU614TpsedUWaKq7eBJuCF3ZyA6-PKgx1ut-17ANk7keY7VDvQufnIau6nCjgh7emK2U6SXst-jw8E8kYpeVBbS/s1600/Lukie+IP+AL+Med.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3jMqJGzOB8aJ3HpyQ68OcI9k4NRhhMx3j594jlRhViAOz0YtIVzMZQU614TpsedUWaKq7eBJuCF3ZyA6-PKgx1ut-17ANk7keY7VDvQufnIau6nCjgh7emK2U6SXst-jw8E8kYpeVBbS/s400/Lukie+IP+AL+Med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542191608486056594" border="0" /></a>This is Lukie, another Belgian shepherd. This, like Shilo's portrait, is 8" x 10", oil on masonite. The photo of the painting is rather Q&D (quick & dirty), so the yellowed newsprint the painting is sitting on shows around the edges, and you can see that the painting isn't properly squared in the photo. I didn't want to crop it, as I want the full painting showing.<br /><br />This started out with a wild and fun underpainting in vivid blue and orange, lavender for the couch and green for the rug, cushion and wall. Lukie's bandana, which in reality is blue - and which will be blue when the painting is finished - has been underpainted in lavender as well. I enjoyed alluding to the floral print on the couch, in a vague and juicy impressionistic way.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-22010232018054219212010-11-21T18:06:00.000-08:002010-11-21T18:23:58.224-08:00Shilo's Portrait: Improved & Finished<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-3ZgG8YW2sRY47peWh7zpnKqY2WHPwYwYl85Np6g1Rhn03CViEcB-yHvWnidlk7iJjv5oeF1U6a-PhtMhUSx1SPVG8_Jcn8YvsXsl-AcYQmLyP2HztI_ytcp1wmSIjJGyDn7EQtVsUip/s1600/Shilo+2+AL+Med.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-3ZgG8YW2sRY47peWh7zpnKqY2WHPwYwYl85Np6g1Rhn03CViEcB-yHvWnidlk7iJjv5oeF1U6a-PhtMhUSx1SPVG8_Jcn8YvsXsl-AcYQmLyP2HztI_ytcp1wmSIjJGyDn7EQtVsUip/s400/Shilo+2+AL+Med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542190089606287970" border="0" /></a>I did some more work on Shilo's eyes, and on his right ear (left side, in the painting). This necessitated working the rock and the tree trunk in the background, a bit. I also darkened Shilo's back end; in the photo it was gleaming in the sun, but in the painting it needed to be darker in order for his coat to look black.<br /><br />I think that'll do it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-49636803474266354632010-10-28T19:02:00.001-07:002010-10-28T19:20:38.176-07:00Portrait of Shilo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIaydfRrq_ezNsVP9NIyS1yz5AL7DiLjiR0rl85mMKKz8UJWrDdwCMRYfhWaGUd-dv6ZLfY3saKVYJS43RJlA5bz9YgyBgl7peT99SHwwZjuSFHvW9Bysqj-8T6mh6c1Hc52qcjLo6jTdl/s1600/IMG_0744ALSm.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIaydfRrq_ezNsVP9NIyS1yz5AL7DiLjiR0rl85mMKKz8UJWrDdwCMRYfhWaGUd-dv6ZLfY3saKVYJS43RJlA5bz9YgyBgl7peT99SHwwZjuSFHvW9Bysqj-8T6mh6c1Hc52qcjLo6jTdl/s400/IMG_0744ALSm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533285659744148226" border="0" /></a><br />A new portrait - this is Shilo, a Belgian shepherd. This is 8" x 10", oil on masonite.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv94Ita12nHuVoaJ0hr0nmoA7I0KPPjU14eVfrtHcLfGLLMtVomXhIsqqgF5NBH-vmeKuJJfEvufWNNsPE7DdqdPp9OViLXU9ofh19BCIOxyMVMaxIYzln-3X7RC86BIR5kop7BDTR2LqE/s1600/IMG_0748CrSm.jpg"><span><span></span></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-69443555217457998212009-04-18T13:59:00.001-07:002010-11-21T18:27:04.730-08:00Path for Kaiya<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuIKu6SbLs0EO1SfQr7BVx1StL9aisO6r3GzgVO3SlN-sXLqRoY2z4vH2KQd6zmqfjm6YmaHjjYRdw-3w3DKjxNJ5aHUvMhoC-ZM9xqws8diW9ZF52uBjR-SXUT5ydIMA7bM7u9cg8p4i/s1600-h/IMG_9174+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuIKu6SbLs0EO1SfQr7BVx1StL9aisO6r3GzgVO3SlN-sXLqRoY2z4vH2KQd6zmqfjm6YmaHjjYRdw-3w3DKjxNJ5aHUvMhoC-ZM9xqws8diW9ZF52uBjR-SXUT5ydIMA7bM7u9cg8p4i/s400/IMG_9174+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326139393397808866" border="0" /></a><br />Path for Kaiya, 2009<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I wrote this post, oh, back in April - 2009!!! And forgot it was waiting for me to publish it - oy, vey.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on Strathmore textured paper, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />Wind blowing, mushroomy things, a roller-coaster feel - or more likely just one of those bumpy slides at a playground; rocking waves on a pond; and maybe a birthday party, bright with ribbons and balloons; these are things that might be evoked here. This is for my granddaughter Kaiya, who just turned 5 and is an Aries - the best! (The fact that I said that is how you know <span style="font-style: italic;">I'm</span> an Aries too. It doesn't prove Aries are the best - but it definitely points to Aries <span style="font-style: italic;">thinking</span> they're the best. <span style="font-style: italic;">I</span> do.)<br /><br />What else can I say about it? There it is. This is one of my favorites.<br /><br />P.S.: you can see the texture of the textured paper here.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD</span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-39112353646606001242009-04-18T13:47:00.000-07:002010-11-21T18:28:16.415-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3O39XkP04z-BKy68AIk-jcuDpHYGcq9TXE8okSWZjULMCuPyKwaB3Ih3s_DHUkCfMPBVPylww_fv-Yxv8RRotz_zDzEJXBy-0IqcZOZ7JpAJSFl0gndHmVK5AxM7ttdEJ_vqjcdiPS-k/s1600-h/IMG_9135+Cr2+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3O39XkP04z-BKy68AIk-jcuDpHYGcq9TXE8okSWZjULMCuPyKwaB3Ih3s_DHUkCfMPBVPylww_fv-Yxv8RRotz_zDzEJXBy-0IqcZOZ7JpAJSFl0gndHmVK5AxM7ttdEJ_vqjcdiPS-k/s400/IMG_9135+Cr2+Sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326138627074085090" border="0" /></a><br />Tender Tree, 2009<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Another one I wrote, and forgot to publish, from April 2009.<br /><br />Watercolor on illustration board, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />I think I'm having just about as much trouble writing about this, as with coming up with a name I like for it. I see this as being about energy, the invisible aliveness all around us - in the air, in the ground, shimmering in leaves and grass... Embracing, caressing, touching, connecting; I think of all these things when I look at this. I feel a bit shy writing about this. But there it is - maybe.<br /><br />If anyone has ideas for a title that might be better, I'd love to hear them. Feel free to include them with Comments.<br /></div></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-41967201868873584692009-04-10T13:46:00.000-07:002009-04-10T14:08:21.989-07:00Deep Journey<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqStxbArvye5mszpBhX0q9Hk_sJoLvQp__kUf5hboPE1IzuT7GUPBaEzIf16Yr4zkvfq0vjHFcKrhPcxp8iLmZl6w5UVnKlT2lOAggaaj3fT80E48oX08PSwoefScbM8xwC3OgXk3nzjl/s1600-h/IMG_9191_Cr_Sm2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqStxbArvye5mszpBhX0q9Hk_sJoLvQp__kUf5hboPE1IzuT7GUPBaEzIf16Yr4zkvfq0vjHFcKrhPcxp8iLmZl6w5UVnKlT2lOAggaaj3fT80E48oX08PSwoefScbM8xwC3OgXk3nzjl/s400/IMG_9191_Cr_Sm2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322906719640880770" border="0" /></a><br />Deep Journey, 2009<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on bristol stock, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />Okay - this is one I <span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span> like. So, I bet you're wondering why I post it - why don't I just add it to my collage supplies? Well, I think that sometimes some of my most interesting paintings are the ones I don't like. And sometimes I have to push myself way out of my comfort zone to get something I don't like; then again, sometimes they develop that way all on their own.<br /><br />Once when I gave a slide show talk to a Women Painters West meeting, I included a piece that I just hated. I said just that, as the slide came up. Afterwards several women told me they liked this painting. I was pleased about that; glad I had included it in my slides, glad to have acknowledged my antipathy for it, and glad it had found some friends and supporters.<br /><br />The fact that they liked it, where I didn't, strengthened a suspicion I already had: that there was something powerful about it that bothered me. I still don't like it, but I do respect it.<br /><br />Among several other people who like this one quite a lot is my mother. I find this very interesting, even surprising. I would expect her to dislike any risky, unconventional, unsettling painting more than I do, not less. But my mother is sometimes surprising.<br /><br />What bothers me about this painting? First, a combination of colors I'd call ugly and muddy (the upper ceiling area) with colors that seem insipidly sweet (the aqua and rose), and no good connection, rationale or reconciliation for why these are here together, to my thinking. Second, some awkward shapes and marks.<br /><br />Most of all, though, I get a very anxious feeling when I look at this, the stomach-dropping sense of being about to be swept into freefall. It looks and feels to me like an underground journey, full of unknown and strange things not yet seen, and some way-too-open space that's beyond the curtain and the narrow gap between ceiling and water. And that curve of the water - I can't help being sent sliding down it; there's no landing spot, and nothing to grab onto. All in all, this arouses a collection of primordial fears: fear of dark places and creepy things, fear of closed spaces, fear of open spaces, fear of falling....<br /><br />All in all, I get the feeling that this one is effective and rather powerful. I suspect this underground journey could be a valuable one. But I still don't like it.<br /><br />I hope you enjoy reading about my response and my process, and I'd love to hear about yours. Any comments are welcome - as you might guess, you won't hurt my feelings if you say you don't like it, and I'll respect you no less if you do like it. I'd love to hear your thoughts.<br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Available</span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:eileenmice@eileenadelehale.com">Email me</a> if you'd like to buy this painting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-22061811201231430512009-04-09T14:40:00.001-07:002009-04-10T14:07:48.327-07:00Bouquet Notes<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9GumHqtcuArM7WY2eteQPCofG-S4HSWHRxOjAuo2eXkeFZ5sW1VSwEIUhlPwPuRkhFETvrvYoHhITlGRzjCytS_3DBgTlIDO8l9R3BQ2q3kHIoxxDkZsylLWuQNyE2Pwx_IwHxZmFAc_H/s1600-h/IMG_9140+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9GumHqtcuArM7WY2eteQPCofG-S4HSWHRxOjAuo2eXkeFZ5sW1VSwEIUhlPwPuRkhFETvrvYoHhITlGRzjCytS_3DBgTlIDO8l9R3BQ2q3kHIoxxDkZsylLWuQNyE2Pwx_IwHxZmFAc_H/s400/IMG_9140+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322810257288496706" border="0" /></a><br />Bouquet Notes, 2008<br /></div><br />Watercolor on watercolor stock, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />I'm not sure what to call this. I don't want it to sound like a straightforward floral painting, much as I admire realistic paintings of flowers. I find them simply gorgeous, when well done. But this, on the other hand, has calligraphic bits almost like little ideograms, or pieces of ideograms; and the flow of it almost begins to create a little world, or landscape, that you could wander around in, picking up pebbles and twigs.<br /><br />For quite a while, as I was working on this, it felt too jangly and fragmented, and I wasn't happy with it. It seemed to divide itself, persistently, into four quadrants that weren't joining and talking to each other. Finally some marks I made (I think it was the dark bits in the Vee, and below that, and within the rose-colored sort of flower, that did it) brought it together and made sense of it.<br /><br />When I call it Bouquet Notes, I mean "notes" both as in "notes for a painting of a bouquet," which can be written notes, words or letters, or sketched notes and marks; and as in "musical notes related to a painting of a bouquet." Or something.<br /><br />I love marks. One of the reasons I love writing is not just to communicate thoughts, or even for the sound of words together, but also, simply, for the sake of seeing lines of little letters marching across paper like strings of ants. I feel rich when I accumulate quantities of these little marks; it's as if each one were worth a penny, and I have so many that lots and lots of money is coming to me all the time. I know this isn't true, but some part of me remains completely convinced of it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-4867708656467247052009-03-13T10:28:00.000-07:002009-04-10T14:07:09.611-07:00Curtained Nest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluQaASgj-bdHJiG7vwvoJV_K3KfMCde-jqKPqw_q9gjnp3I23-cY59j_zQ3REbsezma1xXwTWjbh6CQhaKKzxxr2BhmRmyY2lIPmg5C0EIrjhE-4OgKV6W3oRQAaKz8RqOtTpq1q1nFw3/s1600-h/IMG_9150+Cr2+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluQaASgj-bdHJiG7vwvoJV_K3KfMCde-jqKPqw_q9gjnp3I23-cY59j_zQ3REbsezma1xXwTWjbh6CQhaKKzxxr2BhmRmyY2lIPmg5C0EIrjhE-4OgKV6W3oRQAaKz8RqOtTpq1q1nFw3/s400/IMG_9150+Cr2+Sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312112148313673538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Curtained Nest, 2009<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on watercolor stock, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm often torn about whether to give names to these, or not. I could call all of them, or many of them, Untitled. But I love giving them titles.<br /><br />At the same time as I love the naming, though, I don't want to lead a viewer strongly in a particular direction, a particular way of seeing a piece, when that person could be seeing it with fresh eyes, seeing things that I didn't see in it. I hope, if you see cliffs, or forests, or underground streams, or - who knows? - planets in deep, dark outer space, that you'll stick with your way of seeing this.<br /><br />This is one of my favorites, somehow. It started out seeming rather unpromising, to me - rather impoverished colors; one shape I liked quite a bit with a bunch of boring parallel lines, and a couple of indifferent areas of color; some directional shapes and spaces that didn't seem to go anywhere. I still liked it, but couldn't see where it should go to come alive. I think the journey this one took shows the value in continuing when you can't see the road ahead - now I love it.<br /><br />For me, it has a kind of sweetness, while still feeling light - the delicate taste of maple sap before it's been boiled down to maple syrup, rather than the thicker, warmer sweetness of honey. And along with its warmth, there's a cool, breezy feeling about it.<br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-18451900440269608882009-03-12T22:02:00.000-07:002009-04-10T14:06:28.217-07:00Black Lightning<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWiwlkSOPgjmi0OIxE25S0IGcKhvHmvxe8ejwH8znh1D8l8alC6a5UtzpPdiio7A7mYzrgWh1s8XcmeAG2yPX_BROEuuEO44W4qiUo4vHlflbxLsNTPS_wRpsylf3zKMpWKux5NcNi3cL/s1600-h/IMG_9163+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWiwlkSOPgjmi0OIxE25S0IGcKhvHmvxe8ejwH8znh1D8l8alC6a5UtzpPdiio7A7mYzrgWh1s8XcmeAG2yPX_BROEuuEO44W4qiUo4vHlflbxLsNTPS_wRpsylf3zKMpWKux5NcNi3cL/s400/IMG_9163+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="Black Lightning, miniature watercolor, black lightning bolt dancing with swirls and bubbles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312108773858505602" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Black Lightning, 2008<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on bristol stock, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />Now this one has more of that edgy energy, tangles and collisions, and elements dancing with each other. Earth colors framing a watery space, and that jagged black lightning bolt springing in from the left, and some bubbles peering at it.<br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-47929132378144456662009-03-11T19:06:00.000-07:002009-04-10T14:05:54.279-07:00Rooting House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWr3THAbEZ8-ZsR57exy2q11Yc2T31c5wgK_Qj-KlqvJW5s8yiUEU8JAiref7iwkP6xq0NAXMXF0MD8XUzKBAusbWgyKBQGPrOdnnmnysdFFpihOyKNi8MTHXj9476cVaTBiZg323793j/s1600-h/IMG_8768+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWr3THAbEZ8-ZsR57exy2q11Yc2T31c5wgK_Qj-KlqvJW5s8yiUEU8JAiref7iwkP6xq0NAXMXF0MD8XUzKBAusbWgyKBQGPrOdnnmnysdFFpihOyKNi8MTHXj9476cVaTBiZg323793j/s400/IMG_8768+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312117106312201714" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Rooting House, 2008<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on illustration board, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />This piece feels very rich to me, as if parts of it were gold leafed, decorated with filigree. The house seems to be extending its eaves out into the sky and the universe, the living air leaning up against it; and sending its roots down to infiltrate the earth.<br /><br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-51148661084799499432009-03-11T18:20:00.000-07:002009-04-10T14:05:14.328-07:00Haiku Sky<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUbfvIwurY46idTNlbY41BfG8NVEpAI9XBje_om5ly6oFUQxOuyWu7-QTNCLWF9w1cIIZgW90VHXch68-XNY7atQvIaPEK4wKURBMdmULGfP09SK2kDRFOGfTq5T2kh59Zp8N0qXCHGE_/s1600-h/IMG_9167+Cr+Sm2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUbfvIwurY46idTNlbY41BfG8NVEpAI9XBje_om5ly6oFUQxOuyWu7-QTNCLWF9w1cIIZgW90VHXch68-XNY7atQvIaPEK4wKURBMdmULGfP09SK2kDRFOGfTq5T2kh59Zp8N0qXCHGE_/s400/IMG_9167+Cr+Sm2.jpg" alt="Haiku Sky, miniature watercolor, yellow-gold sweep with blue swoops and spray crossing" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312108258181976258" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Haiku Sky, 2009<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on paper, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />It was really hard for me to leave this one as simple as it is. I always think more details, more work, more "bits" are needed. The gesture of this one feels very free, sweeping, swooping, soaring; with a little punctuation, a little spray, maybe, and the bare hint of green spring landscape below.<br /><br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Available</span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:eileenmice@eileenadelehale.com">Email me</a> if you'd like to buy this painting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-8283527050552324132009-03-05T12:46:00.000-08:002009-04-10T14:04:25.927-07:00Another Haiku Colors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhZw0z_pUSbncsIu-dtOB8AKhP0MpCcKKm8SMa6e9l7fD-yCg1YhH7VTtHb511PwUoTekY_UIlPn5GFqm-lgSLeFp5BjcXP8lnDO6LwtGyXoVEBsjh3qqbgD3OudnsAv1Yl-arFBkgyET/s1600-h/IMG_8766+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhZw0z_pUSbncsIu-dtOB8AKhP0MpCcKKm8SMa6e9l7fD-yCg1YhH7VTtHb511PwUoTekY_UIlPn5GFqm-lgSLeFp5BjcXP8lnDO6LwtGyXoVEBsjh3qqbgD3OudnsAv1Yl-arFBkgyET/s400/IMG_8766+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="Deep Moonrise, miniature watercolor, purple mountain shape and orange full moon" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309810625783542338" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Deep Moonrise, 2008<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Watercolor on illustration board (cold press), 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"<br /><br />I like the simplicity of this one. For me, it has a feeling of ease and expansion, and the orange gives it vitality. Deep breaths, now...<br /><br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-85038520025832199962009-03-04T18:28:00.001-08:002009-04-10T13:59:45.990-07:00A new thing: Haiku Colors, miniature watercolors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDEOEaNw8DgO8KqU8VDn37uPr4OR9hE7gdlaDGCd0PjHIJnk9pzALknzSV1YADddDnRw_rHqG5PMenQ3Zw3MHs0An8hHAoqIsqBr6z_PK12ow9KSxfc3oCo43ukMWA-e0jlzhGZ9SMjx2/s1600-h/IMG_8754+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDEOEaNw8DgO8KqU8VDn37uPr4OR9hE7gdlaDGCd0PjHIJnk9pzALknzSV1YADddDnRw_rHqG5PMenQ3Zw3MHs0An8hHAoqIsqBr6z_PK12ow9KSxfc3oCo43ukMWA-e0jlzhGZ9SMjx2/s400/IMG_8754+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="photo of three small paintings with a pencil and a bowl for size comparison" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309525867254460386" border="0" /></a>Here's a new thing I've been doing lately. These are very small watercolors, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", painted on either illustration board, bristol stock, watercolor paper or something Strathmore calls textured paper; I call them Haiku Colors. I have been enjoying painting them. I work on a number of them at the same time, keeping them going over many sessions, feeling for what they need for balance, energy, aliveness and depth.<br /><br />I will add a sidebar explanation of these pieces, soon. Above you see the first three I finished, with some other objects to give a sense of their size.<br /><br />Here's a closer look at the first one:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzU2DUxoWAx34U6_g30wgAzEVA4MjtSfENh_qQl6HziFxo24UPt364pvF5lf1cu9YXKy3voMmgYbTrtOkf3qLLIRqUNb9bctY7IDe3YNQo37PHJPFehRWCeZkvGpJ2lUhlsVeUoPLOTHn/s1600-h/IMG_8756+Cr+Sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzU2DUxoWAx34U6_g30wgAzEVA4MjtSfENh_qQl6HziFxo24UPt364pvF5lf1cu9YXKy3voMmgYbTrtOkf3qLLIRqUNb9bctY7IDe3YNQo37PHJPFehRWCeZkvGpJ2lUhlsVeUoPLOTHn/s400/IMG_8756+Cr+Sm.jpg" alt="Sky Dance, a miniature watercolor, aqua and orange-gold with circles and flowing squiggles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309527650604645890" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Sky Dance, 2008<br /></div><br />Again, this is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", watercolor on bristol stock. For me, this gives a feeling of lush abundance, liveliness and excitement, and stretching.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-34157986817280921882008-10-01T17:46:00.000-07:002009-04-10T13:58:42.135-07:00White Pumpkins: a challenge from Karin Jurick<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCynNN6GhU4WOMKQ4f25TAjanAmWbaQaxEoBWjviXRFCiYi4hudN27AgNv4UNC7NAtcyrlAV_2YJu4y-vut3tvKztw5_gxvUbgCxrujzHSxknS-f3vxR6Q7RZhxtNXSblBIStjFty40bE/s1600-h/Pumpkins+Cr+W+Med.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCynNN6GhU4WOMKQ4f25TAjanAmWbaQaxEoBWjviXRFCiYi4hudN27AgNv4UNC7NAtcyrlAV_2YJu4y-vut3tvKztw5_gxvUbgCxrujzHSxknS-f3vxR6Q7RZhxtNXSblBIStjFty40bE/s400/Pumpkins+Cr+W+Med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252352988943885186" border="0" /></a><br />Oil on masonite, 6" x 8"<br /><br />This is a very neat thing I found out about from Dean H. of <a href="http://deanos-den.blogspot.com/">Deano's Den</a>. <a href="http://karinjurick.blogspot.com/">Karin Jurick</a> started a weekly challenge to any artist who wants to participate, by posting a photo image and inviting artists to do their own interpretation of it. Her weekly challenge blog is called <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes From Different Folks</a>. She posts the new image every Wednesday, and through the following week all the various versions of it pile up above the photo. I especially love seeing what <a href="http://artpaintingweekly.blogspot.com/">Karel Tuinart</a> does with these photos, and <a href="http://www.kimratigan.blogspot.com/">Kim Ratigan</a> did a neat thing with one of these white pumpkins starting to get painted orange! (Is <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> how it happens???) Along with everyone else, I appreciate all Karin's hard work. Karin, I hope you're enjoying this as much as we are.<br /><br />My painting and posting have been sporadic here, though I've been posting in-progress photos of some longer-range paintings on my new <a href="http://eileenadelehaleartblog.blogspot.com/">Art Blog</a>. Getting going painting on anything approaching a daily frequency has been slow, and having a community project helps. I think sometimes us self-directed artists need a deadline or two, and a deadline that's just for fun is something I find both energizing and relaxing.<br /><br />Like many of us, I wanted more color than this photo had. It's still a bit low-key, but I had fun playing with some nearly-neutral colors. I also liked the graphic presence of the skewed rectangle, and I loved some of the shadows, especially the one cast by the right-hand pumpkin stem.<br /><br />Here's to many more weekly challenges - thanks again, Karin!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Available</span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:eileenmice@eileenadelehale.com">Email me</a> if you'd like to buy this painting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-50775785046466932092007-08-25T17:30:00.000-07:002008-06-05T12:43:55.734-07:00Another one - just a speed painting sketch - the Clydesdale again<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZi5oHKHbVqRYpanBSCOfd2P2eCEuFyT-TRTxJ8EIv59TZwe_qIyIu0X9DesfQAvGtmklDAXCtkSvvMfVNA3z3wfzJ10uiLaERci_MBR4TKsh87wmiRRulxFlbK_kdqy9P7D5UNmLvu5bQ/s1600-h/Clydesdale_Speed_Painting_Eileen_Hale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZi5oHKHbVqRYpanBSCOfd2P2eCEuFyT-TRTxJ8EIv59TZwe_qIyIu0X9DesfQAvGtmklDAXCtkSvvMfVNA3z3wfzJ10uiLaERci_MBR4TKsh87wmiRRulxFlbK_kdqy9P7D5UNmLvu5bQ/s400/Clydesdale_Speed_Painting_Eileen_Hale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102805491465973346" border="0" /></a><br />Before I worked on the cyclamen, I did a 15-minute watercolor sketch in my sketchbook of the Clydesdale colt. You may be able to see how the paper's buckled, but I enjoy this paint-sketch. I love the way the green shapes his belly and legs, and I love the pattern of the white inroads into the red-brown. The area of green below the belly has edges in the wash that look kind of like pressure ridges, or concussion-wave lines - I'm not sure what to call them - echo lines? Compression waves - that's it!<br /><br />I don't plan to offer my sketches or speed paintings for sale, but if you love the look of this one, let me know; I might do a bigger watercolor from it. Who knows?<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-7872758088836431572007-08-25T17:15:00.000-07:002007-08-25T17:56:52.639-07:00A Cyclamen - not there yet...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX1TjD-5bIILbxWSODcjtgP2zxfGE3OHjzAYtWdmH68X_2Xs0uGyYITDC7nNiaSzEHi8k6lQKb9ruiS0oKBFbZ0BDe9EVthyyMH00lfj45pWuKlBb8p-JnYmwIyz4k5trjhNCbwjY_9dq/s1600-h/Cyclamen_Unfinished_Eileen_Hale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX1TjD-5bIILbxWSODcjtgP2zxfGE3OHjzAYtWdmH68X_2Xs0uGyYITDC7nNiaSzEHi8k6lQKb9ruiS0oKBFbZ0BDe9EVthyyMH00lfj45pWuKlBb8p-JnYmwIyz4k5trjhNCbwjY_9dq/s400/Cyclamen_Unfinished_Eileen_Hale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102799955253128786" border="0" /></a><br />So here's what I painted on Thursday: a cyclamen. Or, part of a group of cyclamens in the corner of our dining room. While I was working on it, I thought it was kind of pitiful - crude shapes, garish, unsubtle colors; so I only worked on it for an hour & a quarter, planning to save some of my painting time on it for some future day, when maybe I've gotten a bit more experience with plants and foliage. Getting any variation and life into the green of the leaves was a challenge I didn't think I was making any progress on, and working with light colors over the wet green paint, to try to get the details of the pattern on the leaves, was also difficult. I enjoyed it, all the same, even though I rather despised the results, and I'm very glad my judgements didn't interfere with my pleasure in the process.<br /><br />About an hour later, when I looked at it again, it didn't look nearly as hopeless as I'd thought earlier. It's still unfinished, of course, and I don't know if I'll finish it; and if I work more on it, I don't know how much closer it will get to the beauty of these cyclamen leaves, and their flowers. But, hmmm.<br /><br />At this point, I don't expect to sell this. But if it catches your enthusiasm, and you'd especially like me to finish it, let me know!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-62302171377922676372007-08-23T11:42:00.000-07:002008-10-01T22:11:36.011-07:00Two in a row! Clydesdale Colt<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6TBd0LGx8kggBgX6RokgimKEsEAa_pF-s9LIrOjnVjYdJPdKsEMFP05ITBJhg7j-QyAPxcf1TH-vlO12jSX7wVaaMxTGNahbXLFqy-kPNBh5YMr4RI8eMxDXLvbOW9cIr11f99IPiQZL/s1600-h/Clydesdale_Colt_2_Eileen_Hale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6TBd0LGx8kggBgX6RokgimKEsEAa_pF-s9LIrOjnVjYdJPdKsEMFP05ITBJhg7j-QyAPxcf1TH-vlO12jSX7wVaaMxTGNahbXLFqy-kPNBh5YMr4RI8eMxDXLvbOW9cIr11f99IPiQZL/s400/Clydesdale_Colt_2_Eileen_Hale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102805963912375922" border="0" /></a><br />Oil on masonite,<br /><br />Hey, hey! I did another painting yesterday. This one looks more unfinished, but I still like it. I think I wimped out a bit on the colt's face. I was painting from 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. I really really want to get to my painting earlier in the day, but I'm glad I'm doing it, anyway. I photographed it this morning; morning seems to be a good time to photograph the paintings, good light, not direct. I left my tripod set up on my studio balcony (not the same balcony I photographed the buck from), which makes things a bit easier.<br /><br />This is a Clydesdale colt who was tethered in a open shed at the Draft Horse Classic. He was so gorgeous... I love the markings, not quite like a paint horse, but the white making inroads on his red.<br /><br />I don't know what else I want to say....<br /><br />The official size of this is 6" x 8"; exact size is 5 5/16" x 7 15/16". If you're interested in buying this one, please email me. It's $115 plus shipping - probably between $5 and 10, including insurance. This will need about one month's drying time.<br /><br />Thanks for looking! I hope you enjoy these.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Available</span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:eileenmice@eileenadelehale.com">Email me</a> if you'd like to buy this painting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-14631385144464478772007-08-22T13:41:00.000-07:002008-10-01T22:17:21.115-07:00Finally, a new one: First Young Buck<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-sCmpmxkjn5cYxi6NhbdnzQtOTshAquEWGKFqgVxapW2w1-URl_ANzykAsYimfnxT2ZCYww9jjxI2UlFu8oo6ZiDNIpUX7Xz-CI_h_NmFEFRSvw_WcWcMABOVKz9_9Y07C2lCI64tMrOq/s1600-h/First_Young_Buck_Eileen_Hale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-sCmpmxkjn5cYxi6NhbdnzQtOTshAquEWGKFqgVxapW2w1-URl_ANzykAsYimfnxT2ZCYww9jjxI2UlFu8oo6ZiDNIpUX7Xz-CI_h_NmFEFRSvw_WcWcMABOVKz9_9Y07C2lCI64tMrOq/s400/First_Young_Buck_Eileen_Hale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101638054930411010" border="0" /></a>Oil on masonite, 8" x 6"<br /><br />Well. I think I'll just blurt and ramble till I start to feel happy with what I'm writing. I started out censoring.<br /><br />So this is my second "daily" painting, and at this rate it comes out to "Painting a Twice a Year." Or I could just say I'm starting over. Or I could just say I'm back, though I don't know if that means I'll do my third, fourth, fifth "daily" paintings soon, or after a long while. I am trying just walking forward with my eyes closed, not looking forward and speculating, not looking back and judging. I hope I'm ready to make this a habit. I want to be ready.<br /><br />I did this painting yesterday in what felt like a very neutral state - not excited or pleased, not disappointed, frustrated or unhappy. I'm kind of pleased with the painting, and kind of mystified - I don't know where it came from, in a way. I mean that although, literally, it came from a photo I took of a buck deer on our driveway, standing less than six feet away from the little balcony I came out on to take pictures of him, it looks way more mysterious and moody and evocative, and kind of dramatic, than I expected, and a sort of classical lighting developed that is a surprise to me. From the mood, I almost think it could be deep in the forest.<br /><br />I like the light, and I really like this buck's cocked-back ear. I think his eye could be larger and more liquid, but I think it works. I really like the angles and direction of the composition. It seems like I've made him look like a youngster, a fawn, but though his sprouting antlers are hard to see, they're there. He stayed for me for a long minute or so, before slowly moving on down the hill.<br /><br />The official size of this is 8"x6"; exact size 7 15/16" x 5 5/16". It's $115 plus shipping - still haven't checked that out, but I think it will probably be between $5 and 10, including insurance. This will need about one month's drying time.<br /><br />I might write more about the buck or the painting later, but I think I'll leave it at that for now.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Available</span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:eileenmice@eileenadelehale.com">Email me</a> if you'd like to buy this painting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-24784985015790688192007-02-01T18:55:00.000-08:002008-10-01T22:23:26.679-07:00Yesterday's new painting: Head-Scratching Heifer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QxIhdhK1cI6t51a5VwsAAWmlkfALTvrdEDbTYSCM6LW_ePWO2ANi7sdQGEH_mH5qg2F1IAKieeZSZOQR07uHYG4m4oFXIM0ATBGVj0eopg8RcjOAbRegNiF8GmI64mP_MU8b2rG3ofzw/s1600-h/Head-Scratching_Heifer_Eileen_Hale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 402px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QxIhdhK1cI6t51a5VwsAAWmlkfALTvrdEDbTYSCM6LW_ePWO2ANi7sdQGEH_mH5qg2F1IAKieeZSZOQR07uHYG4m4oFXIM0ATBGVj0eopg8RcjOAbRegNiF8GmI64mP_MU8b2rG3ofzw/s320/Head-Scratching_Heifer_Eileen_Hale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026769627673046578" border="0" /></a><br />Oil on masonite, 6" x 8"<br /><br />So, here she is. This is oil on masonite. The official size is 6"x8"; if you want to know the exact size, it's 5 5/16" x 7 13/16". One of my next tasks will be to figure out how to handle sales through my Blog. This piece has been sold, but if you're interested in a similar painting, the price would be $115 plus shipping and insurance.<br /><br />I think I have figured out how to set up my email link: see the link below my profile.<br /><br />There are things I'd love to improve about this, but I am pretty pleased, and I'm trying to leave my paintings as they are when the day's time is done, by and large. I think she looks solid and meaty (not as in "beef"), I enjoy the colors, and I feel like scratching her head myself.<br /><br />I hope you enjoy her.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">SOLD</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-28874959746692926132007-01-31T22:30:00.000-08:002007-02-01T14:42:29.564-08:00Finally - my first Painting a Day paintingBut you won't see it till tomorrow... I hope tomorrow. Last Saturday I gessoed 25 pieces of masonite; Sunday I cleaned my palette; Monday I bought a 4'x15' canvas painter's tarp, and cut it into three pieces: one long one to put on my couch and a 4' square piece to cover the dining room table, to protect the couch & table when I'm setting down gessoed masonite pieces to dry, and a piece about 3'x4' to cover my drafting table.<br /><br />This afternoon, late, I spent about 1 1/2 hours painting a calf scratching her head, from a photo I took of some heifers I've hung out with. An hour and a half is about how long I plan to spend, usually, and I've refined my plan: the first 15 minutes is kind of a speed painting, roughing in the painting, and the remaining hour and a quarter is filling in and refining. I didn't get as much done as I wanted, and maybe sometimes I'll take longer, with a more detailed subject (like this heifer - or are they <span style="font-weight: bold;">all</span> "more detailed"? I guess I'll find out), but I don't want to take too much more time than that. The last 15 minutes was kind of a sprint to the finish line. I still like it, quite a lot. The colors and the feel of it make me happy inside.<br /><br />Tomorrow I'll try out photographing it, hoping to figure out a lighting angle that minimizes the shine of wet paint (I've noticed quite a few other artists commenting on the lack of fidelity of their photos, caused by that shine). If all goes well, and I have the time, I'll try uploading the photo and exploring other capabilities of the blog.<br /><br />Here's the title, I think: Head-scratching Heifer. Hope it's not too cute. I welcome any other ideas... I love titling my paintings. Even so, sometimes they're just straightforward, factual, kind of boring. But sometimes they sing.<br /><br />I hope you, my new audience - whoever you are - friends, strangers, friends of friends, clients, friends of clients, fellow singers, and all - enjoy this as much as I think I will.<br /><br />Welcome, paintings!<br />Welcome, viewers!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-63586488770250778962007-01-01T17:56:00.000-08:002007-01-01T18:30:59.598-08:00New Year's DayEvening of a day that has been a very nice start to the new year. A few days ago Paul set me up and helped me cut a first big batch of masonite pieces that will become the "canvases" of my (still hoping) painting-a-day paintings. That is exciting, though it was VERY dusty (despite the under-the-sawblade vacuum dust control), and next time I think I'll substitute a respirator for my dust mask.<br /><br />Next I need to cut the rest, use up the gesso I have priming my new canvases, and order more gesso from Roark (one of my favorite art supply stores, in downtown Los Angeles).<br /><br />One of my stepdaughters has a really nice picture of a giraffe that may find its way into a painting, and there were several dogs at the shelter today, when I walked, that I really liked and hope I get to photograph and paint (I didn't have my camera along today). Hudson and Pretzel, who are unrelated but look like kindred canines; and Daisy, Wenda, and Mr. Wonderful, who did all come from the same household. Hudson is a dark mahogany brindle hound, leggy with those hound hipbones, and Pretzel - I don't know what he is - some ruddy-blond young dog, medium-sized and shapely, wrinkled forehead, very mouthy and irrepressible. Hudson's not much older, and has been one of the worst barkers, and a jumper-up-on dog, but he is learning to sit and pay attention and be obedient, and has relinquished his worst-barker status to a newer dog, Jasmine.<br /><br />I took Hudson and Pretzel out to the side yard to play together, also hoping that Hudson would pee and poop so he could keep his kennel clean till getting walked tomorrow morning. In the afternoon we start walking them about 2:30, which is really quite a bit too early to be ideal, but it's what we have to do... I watched Hudson and Pretzel play and challenge each other to sort out who was dominant. They clearly both wanted to be. Hudson rolled Pretzel repeatedly, grabbed his throat, stepped on him when he'd gotten Pretzel on his back, and humped him - and still that irrepressible mouthy Pretzel kept biting Hudson's ears, jowls, hocks and legs... Oh, my.<br /><br />Daisy and Wenda are kind of pit bull types, but very refined-looking with very soft fine coats. One - I think it's Daisy - is a soft grey-tan with white chest and nose; the other is a beautiful smoothly shaded soft grey with those white areas, shading into charcoal on hocks and lower legs. And her ears stand up so beautifully... They have lovely manners, and are only in quarantine because the main area got so full at the shelter.<br /><br />Must take my camera along next walking day. Or maybe go over there, with my camera, before that.<br /><br />So there it is, for today. I am getting excited and eager, and I hope I really do carry my plan through.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964307154983672072.post-54792716849573328972006-12-07T10:17:00.000-08:002006-12-07T11:11:32.014-08:00First PostWell, I have taken what feels like my first real step for my new painting a day project: yesterday I bought masonite: three sheets, cut into four 20" pieces, four 2' pieces, and four 28" pieces; and brought it home. Once we have the studio/workshop done and set up, we can bring the sheets home uncut, and do all the cutting ourselves. Right now our workshop is crammed onto our screen porch in the back.<br /><br />These three sheets' worth amount to about 3/4 of a year's supply, assuming I really paint EVERY day, but Paul also wants to use some. I'll need to get more anyway. But I do feel excited about having my materials set for plenty of work. That phrase, "You've got your work cut out for you," has always seemed to have a kind of threatening, or challenging, connotation attached to it, the way most people say it, but as a quilter who doesn't much enjoy cutting out the pieces but loves the sewing (by hand), I've long seen "having your work cut out for you" as an enjoyable and exciting place to be. Finished with the drudgery of cutting out a lot of pieces, and just needing to pick up some pieces and a needle and thread, and start sewing them together. Ready to go, with no more preparation.<br /><br />I got 1/4" masonite, and though it's tempered it's only smooth on one side; 1/8" would actually be better, and I think I'd prefer it smooth on two sides. I think. So that's another reason to want to get more masonite...<br /><br />Work's proceeding on the studio/shop: yesterday the slab was poured, and today they're starting the framing. Heyhey!<br /><br />Next I need to order more gesso, and start cutting the masonite to final sizes.<br /><br />My aim is to start painting one a day at New Year's. I don't know what will happen on trips, but there's my starting direction... And yet to be sorted out is the question of whether "every day" means seven days a week, five days a week, or three to five days a week. I'm aiming and hoping for seven.<br /><br />More will be revealed.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved</div>Eileen Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06456840500786203717noreply@blogger.com0