tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66549583002249164472024-02-19T03:46:30.669-08:00Claire Lambe ArtistThis Blog supports my website - it explains projects, offers instruction to participants in projects, and features works-in-progress. And sometimes it just muses. Claire Lambe—Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864429674944557466noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6654958300224916447.post-57401847888157617762016-05-27T22:21:00.003-07:002016-06-04T20:44:05.860-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Currently the <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><a href="http://www.thewiredgallery.com/" target="_blank">Wired Gallery</a></b></span></span> in High Falls, NY, is hosting a portrait exhibition in which I am pleased to be included. My contribution is a portrait installation consisting of 42 portraits, the result of a six month residency at the Woodstock Public Library - a painted "snapshot" of Woodstock in 2015.</div>
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During the run of the exhibition I have offered to paint small portrait sketches onsite in the gallery for a special price of $100 + tax. The original dates are fully scheduled and, because of the interest the offer generated, I am adding another date: June 25. One slot is already booked but there are two slots available: 11:30am + 1:10pm. Here's the scoop: the works will be painted on canvases that are 8"x8"x 1.5" deep that can be hung unframed, or stand on a shelf. Each sketch will take 60 to 90 minutes, and it will be on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in being painted, or having a family member painted, please contact me via the comments box below - if no comment box is visible, email me direct to <b><a href="mailto:claire@clairelambe.net">claire@clairelambe.net</a>, </b>or message me on <b>Facebook </b><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClaireLambeArt/" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span> </b>(where you can also "Like" my page!)</div>
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If you don't have time to sit or can't (maybe you're two years old), I can paint you from a photograph that I can take at the Gallery. If you wish to surprise a friend or family member, I can also paint them from a photograph you provide, however, it must be a clear, sharp photograph and not too small. If Paintings from photos can be done in my studio and made available the following weekend or by arrangement with the artist. In all cases, works will need to be paid for in advance. </div>
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Please note, the works will be sketches, not finished to the degree the works are in the installation, each of which took between seven and nine hours to complete. Following are examples of what to expect. </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6654958300224916447" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6654958300224916447" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>While you're here, do visit my <a href="http://www.clairelambe.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Website</b></span> </a>where you can view my other artworks. Gallery 1 contains portfolios of recent work done in Costa Rica, and Gallery 2 has my portrait portfolios including the work currently on view at Wired Gallery (note the drop-down menus). </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So my trip to Ireland (England and Scotland) was a blast. But the main reason I went: my portrait exhibition "Home
Towns" in Clonmel, my original home town, was the bomb! It
took place in August at the South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC) to no small amount of enthusiasm. Click <a href="http://www.nationalist.ie/what-s-on/arts-culture-entertainment/artist-claire-returns-with-home-towns-exhibition-1-6862787" target="_blank">HERE</a></span> for a review piece about the show in the local newspaper. There was also a nice review/interview piece which isn't online, alas. </h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The opening on August 4th was packed - having left Clonmel <span style="font-size: x-small;">mumble mumble</span> years ago, I expecting and would have been happy with ten people and a dog (maybe two dogs). As it was, the exhibition broke the record for the most visited solo exhibition in the history of the venue. The exhibition
which consisted of 50% portraits from Woodstock and 50% from Clonmel,
was opened by Mayor Patrick English, on August 4th. Most of the paintings were in the 12 x 12 inch format but there were a few that were larger. The subjects of the Clonmel portraits remained a secret until the actual opening so that was a lot of fun. Above
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Portrait of Maureen Purcell, one of the founding members of the South
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Below are some of the subjects with their portraits.</div>
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Joe O'Sullivan (2014/15 President of the Clonmel branch of the Rotary Club)</div>
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Mrs. Peggy Kennedy</div>
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Michael Kieley (hall manager of Banna Chluain Meala - Clonmel Marching Band)</div>
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Tony Barry</div>
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Patrick (Paddy) Cashin</div>
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Above and below is portrait of Seamus Healy - oil on linen, 20 x 20." Mr. Healy is a TD (Teachta Dála, Irish equivalent of an MP or Member of Parliament) for the district of South Tipperary. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calling <span style="font-size: x-large;">Clonmel</span>, South Tipp, Ireland<br />I need you to be participants in my Portrait Project: Hometown </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>I am thrilled to be returning to Clonmel next August</b> (2015) <b>to exhibit paintings at the Arts Center</b>. I am working on a portrait project called "Home Towns" - one part is of people from my adopted town of Woodstock and one is of people from my original home town of Clonmel. For the Clonmel project, I am
inviting people from the town to be my subjects for the portraits. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The idea is that the project will be a snapshot of the Clonmel community in 2015, so it is important that that every age-group is
represented from the very young to the very old, female and male. </span></span><br />
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and/or a friend or relative</span> that I will paint from.<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The paintings will be a little over 30 x 30 cm, so the heads will be close to life-size. To keep it mixed up,</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> I'll use a different hat for each gender and age-group and take turns picking from them, so don't just send photos of the grandkids. </span><br />
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<b>The photos - </b>unfortunately, often great snap shots don't make
great sources for paintings, therefore I am going to ask people to take new photos with this project in mind. A fancy camera
is <b>not</b> a requirement - a mobile phone camera will be fine, and then
you can email me the pics from there.<br />
Best is if the person being photographed is standing next to a light source, for example, a window or a lamp - <b>best of all, is a reading lamp directed at the face from the left or right side</b> (see tips below). I just need head and shoulders only. Feel
free to wear whatever you like - if you usually wear a hat, then wear a
hat. There are a few additional tips below.<br />
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<b>Email the photos</b> <b>to: clairelambe@hotmail.com</b>, and please include the following info about the person in the photo(s): name and approx age + one particular thing that they like, that is 'them' - perhaps it's soccar, dancing, basket-weaving, or cats, for example: <i>Jack Jones, age 8 - dinosaurs</i>, <b>or</b> <i>Mrs Jill Jones, age 70s - flowers</i>. Also, please put the name(s) in the subject line like this: Clonmel Jack and Jill Jones. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Tips for the photos: </b><br />(<b>1</b>) Ideally <b>two or three pictures</b> for each person – one with a serious
expression and one in the same pose but smiling.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(<b>2</b>) Head and shoulders only. The whole head is best.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(<b>3</b>) <b>No flash</b> please as it tends to flattens
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this can be done with a reading lamp, or if the person being photographed is next to a window with strong sunlight coming in. Following are examples of photos taken with a lamp </span><br />
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These are photos of my young friend, Chloe - the light-source is a lamp.
But standing next to a sunny window will have a similar effect. I like the clearly defined shadows and that there are areas of light on the "dark side" of the face. And I can see the whole head, so this ideal. <br />
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In the photograph on the right, <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">see how there are light areas in the dark side of the face? This makes for a very interesting picture - often it is just a case of turning the head a little more towards the light.</span><br />
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Here are a couple of things to avoid.<br />
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This photo on the left is typical of a cell-phone format and part of the head is cropped so I am missing information, so better to move back a bit or get someone else to take the picture. <br />
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The photo on the right is almost great, but just a bit too close up. By being a few more inches back from the camera, both of these would be perfect. <br />
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Below, just for fun, are some examples of what are useful and not so useful expressions. If you were to send me three photos, the three I've marked are the ones I'd like best.<b> </b>If you can only send one, then send me a version that fits the photo I've made<b> #1. </b><br />
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<b>But</b> <b>don't let fussiness over the "perfect photo" put you off participating</b> - the photos are only source materials for paintings and I can work with what I've got, including deepening shadows, making stuff up, and performing plastic surgery. That's why they call it 'artist's license'. Seriously, I am not going to be painstakingly painting in wrinkles and liver-spots - like, who has the time... <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="Emoji" class="Emoji$1F609$AB8 RenderedEmoji" src="https://a.gfx.ms/Emoji_1F609.png" /></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Who will be painted? To begin with, it will be first come, first served</b>. If a lot of people respond, it will be a kind of lottery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I am aiming to complete 15 - could be more (or less). </span></span>Again, my personal email to send stuff to is: <a href="mailto:clairelambe@hotmail.com">clairelambe@hotmail.com</a> and sooner is better. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">M</span></span>aybe you, or someone you nominate, will be one of the people whose portrait is in the exhibition in August!<br /><br /><b>What happens to the portraits after the exhibition? </b>The portraits will be for sale for a nominal amount with the subjects getting first refusal. I am thinking in the region of 100 - 150 Euro. This is not a profit-making exercise and any funds made from sales will help allay costs - that's it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However, whether or not people eventually buy their portrait is irrelevant to the project and is not at all a factor in qualifying to participate. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><br /><b>To see examples of my work</b>, especially my portraits, please visit Gallery 1 on my <a href="http://www.clairelambe.net/portraits.html" target="_blank">Website</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For <b>Frequently Asked Questions</b> (FAQs) about the project, click <a href="http://www.clairelambe.net/library-project-faqs.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Small Print<strong></strong></span></span></span><strong>: </strong><br />
<pre style="font-family: inherit;"><em>The images may be used for promotional and publicity purposes, and they will be published on my </em></pre>
<pre style="font-family: inherit;"><em>website, social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, etc), and possibly in a book. By agreeing to
participate in the Project, it is taken as read that people agree to such usages of the images produced. </em></pre>
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I've been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to update the blog, including even to blog about the exhibition I had in Kingston that just closed, so posting some installation shots here + images from the opening and also a discussion on the Place of <i>Portraiture in the age of the Selfie</i> with introduction by Carey Harrison - photos were taken by the galllery curator Gloria Waslyn (GW), Charlotte Mandell (CM), and Carey Harrison (CH) or me, Claire.<br />
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Also included below are some press pieces from the Kingston Times and the Woodstock Times.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Above is an extract from a review by Paul Smart - see also <br />at the bottom of this post for more press.<br />Left is the Exhibition Flyer</span></td></tr>
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Above, my daughter Chiara at the opening (CM)<br />
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<br />Claire Lambe—Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864429674944557466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6654958300224916447.post-34458428709339516832014-08-13T17:58:00.003-07:002014-10-04T12:41:33.856-07:00Finished Zoe - Yay! <span style="font-size: large;">[Remember to like my page on facebook (<span style="font-size: small;">dammit</span>) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClaireLambeArt?ref=hl" target="_blank">Click Here</a>]</span><br />
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<i>Here is a piece in Roll by Jon Parrish that mentions my piece at the Road Kill show in Athens, NY - yes I </i><b>know</b><i> I write for Roll too - spoil sport - but I don't know JP from Adam. Aside from "moi" the article is good on the exhibition in general: <a href="http://www.rollmagazine.com/road-kill-in-athens/">http://www.rollmagazine.com/road-kill-in-athens/</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So, I finished my painting of Zoe</span> - <span style="font-size: large;">Yay!</span> <br />
Scroll down to the previous post to see the work in progress. I am very happy with it as it is one of the few pieces I have that was begun from life and finished from a photo. My worry is that most portraits that I've seen that are done from photos suck - sorry! They are lifeless and even more so when the subject is smiling or laughing. In this case, my concern was to keep the sense of immediacy that I caught in that first sitting - approx 2.5 hours - through the process to completion and, I think anyway, that I've been successful. This is very good from the practical POV that people are often not available to sit for up to 14 hours - yes, crazy huh!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3naCXC9AKM_bnk_G75M60RydR02vh1a4ornh85jAbrX19xcAG2IbNeYrrCRd3aPlkrUpX_WitksJ9C6F04LYfUGhPvstekLm_9-aL7zL7G5u4LdMbElHzlalXd80OILjvUE9wGNa106k/s1600/IMG_1664.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><br />
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Zoe, oil on canvas, August 2014</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">So now am in a new quandary</span> - I have this painting of Lief Grund that my husband, Carey Harrison, insists is finished - the head is finished - and I ought to just leave it as is (Carey has, at times, been known to run away with my paintings and hide them). But I am not convinced: <br />
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Lief - Oil on canvas - July/August 2014</div>
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Lief - Oil on canvas - detail<br />
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This is my latest writing effort for Roll - an article highlighting art shows in the Hudson Valley:<br />
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So I've <i>finally</i> gotten back to Zoe's portrait - started it in April 2014 when my daughter Zoe was visiting from London, and am finishing it from photos. I am making headway on it - following is the progress so far. (BTW, I just discovered that if you click on an image you get an enlargement, but then you can further enlarge any section of the picture by moving the curser to what ever area interests you, and click again - this is pretty cool feature for looking at paintings.)<br />
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In my portrait painting class, I have been talking to the students a lot about the planes of the face and I borrowed an Asaro head to use as a reference. So I thought it'd be fun to apply the Asaro model to a real portrait as a visual aid. Usually I work from life, or at least partially. This was done entirely from a photograph. Not a great photo it's true. So here is the result:<br />
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<br />Claire Lambe—Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864429674944557466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6654958300224916447.post-74507030551155999272014-01-30T10:03:00.000-08:002014-02-03T19:55:28.636-08:00So, what about the Mixed Media portfolio?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow">The mixed media pieces are about the ephemerality of life; the nebulousness of memory and of dreams. Their starting point is always the figure or, in the case of the paintings I am going to discuss here, a number of figures. To begin with, I gather, or invent, evidence of a life: drawings, photographs, letters, snippets from newspapers, lists from the phone book, maps, etc. The
process of making the artwork is a process of losing, reclaiming and,
again, losing the evidence and, in so doing, a fleetingness occurs and, perhaps, new meanings too. I try to
hold on to details as you would on waking from a dream that is
dissolving even as you try to grasp it and hold on to it. Yet even as
the meaning of the dream recedes beyond reach, it leaves a residue: the
ghost of a feeling; a mood; an atmosphere.
<i>The Wedding Portrait</i> above (+ detail below) is an imagined painting of my grandmother</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></span></span>I never knew my grandparents or saw their wedding photographs, so they are mysterious to me. The figures in the background are based on an old family photograph, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow">a copy of which is also embedded in the painting. This </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow">photograph includes an aunt and uncle who both died young and so also are out of my ken. Also included </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow">are many more recent photographs and other objects, materials etc, in the fabric of the painting that hint at the posterity that will result from this wedding day. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow">Besides the bride,</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"> the only figure who is clearly defined,</span> there are other painted figures: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow">wedding
guests, aunts and uncles, perhaps the groom. All of these are shadowy</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>their features are lost in the mists of time as those on the periphery of our lives tend to be. The flowers were taken from a magazine of flower arrangements for Valentine's Day, but they are faded and have a funeral aspect to them<span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">; </span></span></span></span></span>they are both her wedding bouquet and her memorial bouquet as the painting is a wedding and a memorial portrait. <span class="textexposedshow"><br /><br />This same experience of trying to grasp onto receding memories often also applies to those who are no longer
alive. </span><span class="textexposedshow">Over time, slippage occurs in that their corporeality, their very
aliveness, diminishes in our memories and becomes increasingly
difficult to grasp; a consequence of letting go, and perhaps a blessing. But losing hold can also be a source of distress and bring about feelings of betrayal to the lost loved one </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow"><br />The basis of the painting, above, entitled <i>Lost Time</i> was a photograph of a lot of children on the back of a donkey</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;">these were my siblings and cousins. I once showed this photograph to a friend while describing the story of the photo which was that, immediately after the photo was taken, my uncle poked the donkey which then bucked and we all tumbled off. I described in detail the fear, the grabbing onto the child in front, the falling, the crying, etc. But when she asked which child was I, I saw that I was not on the donkey at all, but on the ground next to it. The photograph completely contradicted my memory of the event - a memory so strong that, despite having looked at the physical photograph many times over the years<span class="textexposedshow">, I had failed to see the evidence before my eyes that, although a witness, the</span><span class="textexposedshow"> memory of the experience was not mine, perhaps it was my sister's who</span><span class="textexposedshow"> was among the kids on the donkey</span><span class="textexposedshow">. This painting is actually about this sister. She died in 1999, just missing the millennium. The painting includes many items from her life including her passport, letters, maps, a contact sheet of "selfie" images she made, etc. Proof that she existed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lost Time - detail</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="textexposedshow">These are
common experiences</span><span class="textexposedshow"> to all of us, we all</span><span class="textexposedshow"> dream, have memories real and imagined</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">some are other people's stories that we have incorporated into our cache, as I clearly did with the donkey story<span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">. E</span></span></span></span></span></span>ventually, who can tell what is real, dreamed, or stolen? The memory selects what to keep and what not to keep, and its choices can be quite selective and arbitrary; the memory is a novelist<span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—if it comes across a good story or anecdote, it will appropriate it</span></span></span></span></span>. These are the ideas I am exploring
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Belated Happy New Year 2014. I have been preoccupied with preparing and planning my new portrait drawing & painting course at the WSA (Woodstock School of Art) and am happy to report that it is going well - we have had two classes so far, first one on the "planes of the head" with a diagrammatic model (as above), and last week the emphasis was on proportion - this time with a live model. I am very pleased with the students and their progress so far, and they seem to be pleased with me so that's all good. I will document their progress and post a few examples here anon.<br />
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Also all painting sessions are back in full swing - those are the independent painting group on Wednesday mornings and the Open Studio (both at WSA) on Thursday mornings - the sketch below is from the latter. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phillis Kelly aka The Reggae Singer, 24x24", 2014 - Right: photo of Phillis - note, the photo was only used at the very end stage of the painting when Phillis was no longer available.</td></tr>
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And I completed my painting of Phillis - the above photo is actually one or two steps before the finalization of the painting - edges have been softened and the dress color pushed back. And the colors in the painting higher key that reality. Plus the color in the photo is off compared to the colors in the studio. The portrait was painted 90% from life but I had to complete it from photos which was a drag as photographs flatten so much - the cheekbone are not at all prominent in the photo, but I decided to stick with what I saw with my own eye-balls in the studio and not modify it according to the photo. I very much hope I can make a stop-motion video of the making of this painting - it has been the most challenging so far. Well, that's enough for now - goodnight Phan. <br />
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<br />Claire Lambe—Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864429674944557466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6654958300224916447.post-91239046155672664752013-12-23T22:15:00.001-08:002013-12-24T08:02:45.515-08:00December 24, 2013 - Update<br />
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First off, I am excited about my upcoming portrait painting class at the Woodstock School of Art starting on January 8th, 2014 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. So will be refining plans for that in the next few weeks. Click <a href="http://woodstockschoolofart.org/lambe-contemporary_portrait2014.html">HERE</a> for info.<br />
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I am also pleased with my latest 12x12 - the model is Naoko, who is also a painter.<br />
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My other plan for the hols is to finish my unfinished paintings. One painting done and ensconsed in its new home is "Trey" - a full length portrait of my good friend and radio documentary-maker extraordinaire, Trey Kay. The painting + detail images are now added to my Portraits Portfolio on the website but am including one here too and a photo of the portrait with Trey - not a very good quality photo alas.<br />
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My biggest bugbear right now is a profile portrait I am working of the beautiful Phillis Kelly. This is where it is right now. The thing with profiles is that there is no room for fudging. It is what it is. I hope to make an animated slide show of the various morphings that this piece will have gone through before it is finished. Well, that's it for now, dear Phan. <br />
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Okay, for that (phantom) reader out there who feels that the work in the portfolios in my website is
very diverse, let me say that you are not mistaken. After many years
working in a semi-abstract vernacular, while not abandoning my mixed-media explorations, I have returned to my first love
which is the figure and, in particular, the face. How can one resist the
human face - that pattern that is imprinted on us from the first moment
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Yet I cannot tell you, dear reader (are you there?),
how often I have heard people dismiss the ability to draw and paint from observation - most of mine are from life - as being a mere "facility" that, with a little
effort, anyone can pick up, like tracing a dot-to-dot in a child's
coloring book, presumably. Mostly those people - artists working in non-rep modes - have not, so far, "picked
it up" themselves. In the meantime others that I know, accomplished
artists, have spent half a lifetime trying to chase down that elusive
thing, the human face and, despite sharply honing their skills of
observation and deepening their technical knowledge, continue to be
eluded by that will o' the wisp: the life force within. Being able to see deeply and transform that knowledge into an image is not a facility, it is a gift - quite a rare gift and I am fortunate to possess it to some reasonable extent. <br />
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I am no hater of
non-representational art - see my own Mixed Media portfolio on this website - and much of the art I write about is
installation, assemblage, conceptual, and abstract. But all art is
abstract, certainly in its execution. A case in point is Ellsworth
Kelly, one of the most abstract artists of our time, still with us at
age 90. His most well-known paintings tend to be vibrant monochromes on
shaped canvases - no Rotho-esque romantic washes or soft edges. But
Kelly is a superb draftsman who draws every day from nature and takes
what he discovers there into his painting. When I read what Kelly says
about his most abstract work, I think "but that is what I am thinking
when I am painting a face." The difference is that he takes those shapes
he sees in nature, separates them from their context, unifies the
color, and reproduces them on a monumental scale. Here are some of his
plant drawings: <a href="http://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces.com/Ellsworth+Kelly">http://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces.com/Ellsworth+Kelly</a>
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That is enough waffle out of me for now, so I shall leave you, Phantom Reader
(may I call you Phan for short?), to draw your own conclusions.<br />
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Oh wait - while I have your attention. Do check out my commentaries about art on <a href="http://www.rollmagazine.com/category/art/">Roll Magazine</a> online. Latest is about the new, massive show going on right now (until Dec 15, 2013) at Industry City in the Sunset Park area of Brooklyn: <i>Come Together: Surviving Sandy</i>. The show is a fund-raiser for artists affected by Hurricane Sandy last year and includes both artist victims and those wanted to support the cause, 300 in all. Artists include a number of "Bold Face" names: Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Shirin Neshat and very interesting works by Shojo Azari, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Dustin Yellin, Diana Cooper, Corban Walker (from my old alma mater) among many others and also under-recognized and emerging artists. A good read, if I say so myself. <br />
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Also check out my article immediately before the <i>Surviving Sandy</i> piece - this is about a very different kind of art show: <i>The Woodstock Landscape, Then and Now</i>, and is worthy of note if you are interested in how <span style="font-size: x-small;">Woodstock</span> became <span style="font-size: large;">"Woodstock"</span> and why it all happened in New York State instead of, oh, North Carolina...<br />
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I just started this new blog - annoyingly I wasn't able to upload my
already existing <a href="http://clairehl.livejournal.com/tag/theatre%20design">Live Journal blog</a> - and have decided to make this one about work-in-progress, news for what's going on in the Open Studio that I monitor at
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<b>First Item of Note: check out my commentaries about art on <a href="http://www.rollmagazine.com/category/art/">Roll Magazine</a>
online. </b>Latest is about the new, massive show going on right now (until
Dec 15, 2013) at Industry City in the Sunset Park area of Brooklyn: <i>Come Together: Surviving Sandy</i>.
Artists include a number of "Bold Face" names: Alex
Katz, Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Shirin Neshat and very interesting works
by Shojo Azari, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Dustin Yellin, Diana
Cooper, Corban Walker (from my old alma mater) among many others and
also under-recognized and emerging artists. A good read, if I say so
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<b>Also Worthy of Note: I am scheduled to teach a class at the Woodstock School of Art</b> (WSA) entitled "The Contemporary Portrait" - this will begin on January 8th just to coincide with all those New Year's resolutions so, Phantom, take note*. The class will run for 8 weeks - usually at WSA people pay for each set of four classes in advance and that works out at $140 or $35 per class. If there is an appetite for more, we shall continue for another four weeks. We will begin with drawing and, fairly soon, work up to painting. For more info and *to sign up, go to the <a href="http://woodstockschoolofart.org/classes.html">WSA website</a> (at this point, they still haven't put the new 2014 schedule up).<br />
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<b>Life Drawing & Painting Open Studio </b>- it is every Thursday morning at the beautiful Woodstock School of Art and only costs $20 including the model fee, or $50 for four sessions if paid in advance (no make-ups though). We have long poses that often continue for three weeks so many of us paint. Starting this Thursday (November 7th) we have a three week pose with Ann. And then, hopefully, a three-week pose (model TBA), thereby bring us up to the holidays. </div>
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<b>WEDNESDAY GROUP: </b>from November 6, four of us are starting an independent painting group also at WSA. Unlike the Thursday Open Studio which is open to all comers, we want this group to consist of seven artists, six committed to being regular participants + one guest or floating artist so that we always have good access to the model. At the time of writing we are still looking for our sixth. Like the Thursday group it will be a long pose - up to three or possibly four weeks per pose. </div>
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<b>WORK-IN-PROGRESS</b>: first is a mock up of the 12"x 12" profile photo project that I am working on with a mix of some finished 12 x 12s, and some cropped photos of larger paintings. I like the idea that it would be huge. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Below are two pieces I am in need of completing, first is a 20 x 20. Second is approx 65" x 24" full length portrait. The subject mostly needs facial hair at this point. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I cropped the face for the 12 x 12 mock-up above. <br /><br />Below are some
images that show my process - this painting I just finished yesterday (Nov, 2013)</span><br />
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