tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60913806485141939992024-03-13T04:29:17.865-07:00Karen Wihbey's paintings and drawingsExploring art in oil, water media and pencil through landscape and still lifekarenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-67257456188668557702016-01-18T09:42:00.001-08:002016-01-18T09:42:21.032-08:00It's a new year! 2016!My daughter reminded me that I haven't posted in a very long time! Here are a few of the recent pieces I've done. Painting large was a goal reached this fall in the diptych. I'm working on smaller prints as I'm working on a photo project. <br />
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Remembering the Hill</div>
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karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-332106253202261242015-04-12T06:59:00.000-07:002015-04-12T06:59:23.860-07:00Opposite sides of the country!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been painting scenes from New Hampshire but took a trip to Joshua Tree National Park and couldn't resist switching to warmer scenes. The lower painting is the first in a series I'll be working on and then switch to NH to capture the spring scene. Nature is such a delight and today is absolutely gorgeous. Out for a mountain hike!</div>
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More watercolor sketches of views around my daughter's house in New Hampshire. Looking to continue with using these as a starting point for more paintings. </div>
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I could look at this scene forever! This painting has been worked on and changed since it was started 2 1/2 years ago and it's not quite done but close to what I'm going for. </div>
karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-5421555636297520542015-02-21T14:54:00.001-08:002015-02-21T14:54:36.869-08:00Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's another painting of a scene in Grantham, NH. They also have plenty of snow!</div>
karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-58738797426161210952015-01-27T11:19:00.001-08:002015-01-27T11:19:27.261-08:00The blizzard and 3 new paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I took this picture last weekend after we had a few inches of snow and there was no breeze. It was a beautiful and serene morning until the pups started to arrive. They had a blast!</div>
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We're socked in, locked down and travel banned today with the blizzard. I'm taking advantage of the time to post here, bake a no-knead whole wheat sour dough bread and some gingerbread for the pot luck tonight with my buddies on the first and second floor of my building. </div>
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Here are 3 paintings-2 from the sketches I posted in Nov. I'm thinking of going even bigger, maybe on paper.</div>
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Rocks and Eastman Pond</div>
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Grantham Field</div>
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karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-40680386895138113122015-01-01T07:29:00.001-08:002015-01-02T04:12:39.018-08:00Spy Pond showHappy New Year to all! I'm excited to be having a show of the project I undertook for a year of painting and blogging my explorations and experiences at Spy Pond in Arlington MA. I'll hang the show on Monday Jan 5 and the opening reception is Thursday Jan 8 5:30-7. Also I now have a studio at 6 Vernon St. in Somerville, MA. which I share with my friend and fellow artist Martha Slocum. We participated in Vernon St. Open Studios in December. It's wonderful to have a large space to both make art in and be able to view it properly. Of course there's also the benefit of being surrounded by other artists. Hope you can stop by the show or catch the open studios in the spring.<br />
Here's the front and back of the postcard for the Spy Pond show. <br />
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I'm dog-sitting for the weekend for my daughter and son-in-law's Great Dane named Oliver. My dog Cally and I "herd" Ollie on a walk by the lake near my daughter's house. It's a lovely place and I've taken to sketching some scenes from photos I snap while we walk on the round the lake trail, hitting roots and rocks and ups and downs but some mighty beautiful scenes. Here are 3 sketches done with Caran D'Ache and water.</div>
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The group, NewHAT, that I painted with this summer has a show in Hopkinton at the Art Center and it's up until November 18th. Here's the postcard:</div>
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I'm now sharing studio space at the Vernon St. Studios in Somerville, MA. It's very exciting to have a large well-lit space to work in--just have to stop taking these dog-sitting gigs! And they are having open studios Dec 6&7 12-6 so my studio-mate and friend Martha Slocum will be there and would love to have visitors. We're at building 6 studio #44. I'll have some new prints and some older paintings and prints. Here's the postcard for that as well as for the Somerville Museum show which I have a print in.</div>
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<br />karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-87900630325366846692014-09-06T08:10:00.002-07:002014-09-09T18:41:50.803-07:00Painting in New Hampshire and Concord juried showI was very excited to hear that my print, <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-45QHjkEqzos/U2gQUe7SVEI/AAAAAAAACGE/FW64W2Zje24/s1600/IMG_0218.JPG"> <u>Harris Cove</u> </a>, May 5th entry, has been accepted into the <a href="http://www.concordart.org/">15th Annual Roddy Open Competition</a>! The show is Sept. 9th to October 17th and the opening reception is Thursday Sept. 11 from 6-8. I'm eager to see the show as I got a peek at some of the other entries when I dropped mine off. Please come join us if you can!<br />
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In other news I painted again for 6 days in Jaffrey, New Hampshire with an awesome group of artists. I was fascinated with the scene right out the front door--dirt roads winding through beautiful bright green fields, past a stand of dark trees and a stone wall. My goal was to work with the same image but vary the expressions of it. Here are 3 of my 10 works:<br />
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<br />karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-27562266621170640172014-08-02T09:23:00.003-07:002014-08-02T09:23:26.515-07:00Painting in Bennington, VermontOh it was a wonderful week. Immersed in green, 3 students and myself painted the landscape of Bennington College under the tutelage of <a href="http://frankmeuschke.blogspot.com/">Frank Meuschke</a>, awesome Brooklyn landscape painter and teacher. It was the second week of Art New England's summer program through MassArt. The weather was great, we painted all day, ate very well, attended lectures and slide shows by the faculty in the evening and mostly did our homework reading which was on the meaning of landscape in the contemporary art world. I hadn't painted outdoors in almost a year and I had forgotten how many factors are involved with the process, but I had fun, mainly resorted to my old tricks but also and tried to pay attention to why I was painting. I'll admit it's the process foremost for now, though the collage assignment pushed us in a new direction which I found interesting and fun and the readings were very interesting and thought provoking. Neat to see what my classmates came up with too. Thanks Frank, for all your help and support. And special thanks to Melissa for personally delivering a cup of freshly brewed coffee to me every morning It was an unbelievably sweet thing to do and to which I attribute my meager successes!<br />
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Day 1. Painting near the mansion where the chamber musicians practiced. Looking across a huge expanse of grass at low buildings and mountains. "How about eliminating the sky?" said Frank. Done.<br />
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Day 2. Decided I loved this willow near the pond. Spent most of the day frustrated with the process of finding the right values, colors and composition to do justice to the poor tree. Melissa was using charcoal so I borrowed a piece and went at it, adding in lines and darkening the values..lots of fun.</div>
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Day 3. Determined to portray this willow I drew the composition in charcoal and then painted it, using the charcoal to enhance the values and leave some drawing elements. </div>
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Day 3 afternoon assignment. We had been told to bring images, commercial or photos, that we would use to create a landscape. I found some interesting ones courtesy of magazines from a friend Martha and used them to come up with this unintentionally wacky landscape. Frank even asked if this was my therapy session! Maybe :) The woman is either running from the green monster, or sad she only has half a house or.... </div>
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Day 4. BJ, a fellow student invited me to paint near her in the field where there was newly baled hay. A beautiful scene--we were at the top of a hill in a large field that had just been hayed. Thanks, BJ.</div>
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Day 4 continued. I returned to the studio with enough time to complete this painting at the suggestion of the teacher. The light was dramatic and the roof lines/angles were a fun challenge. All the building in this grouping had different color doors, hence the red door. </div>
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Day 5. Compelled to paint the big view of the "quad" I taped 3 10x10 canvases onto another long canvas and spent the morning looking at this incredible view. As almost always happens, the first go at the painting captured the scene and I should have stopped there. As time progressed it got hazier, the values diminished and I finished up. I'm not displeased with the results but glad I to a pic of the half-done image as a reminder of that fresh start that's so thrilling. One should follow the advice of the teacher, "You should paint this as if your only have an hour left." Next time :)</div>
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Yesterday I decided to enter the calendar contest for the Concord Art Association and snapped some photos in Concord. The theme is Light and Space and this scene grabbed me. The two gentlemen were conversing and were just the thing to give this painting a sense of scale and lightness. Keeping my fingers crossed!</div>
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I'd been struggling with feeling a little lost art-wise and then remembered my favorite spot at Magnolia Park where you can see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmites">phragmites</a> illuminated by the sun through the trees. It was fun to let loose with the palate knife on a Gelli plate. Not sure which I like better so I posted both. Any thoughts?</div>
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I had a great time painting with other local artists at Charlie Shurcliff's house in Ipswich. What a gorgeous day and views. It didn't hurt that we had a lovely pot luck afterwards. Thank you, Charlie!</div>
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Also I was captivated by the new greens emerging in Grantham, New Hampshire and took some photos last weekend while visiting my daughter and her husband. I don't think this painting is finished and I have two more views in mind for paintings so better get busy! </div>
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I've been busy getting my prints and paintings ready for 3 local shows-very exciting! Work our class members did in Greece is at the <a href="http://www.oldschwambmill.org/Bluestone.html">Old Schwamb Mill</a> in Arlington, work by members of my class with Adria Arch is at the <a href="http://www.northhill.org/needham-wellesley-art-gallery">North Hill Gallery</a> in Wellesley, and I have a solo show in the entryway of a condominium building in Somerville. Also the painting I donated to the Concord Art Association's fundraiser, Paint the Town, Revisited, sold so I was glad to be able to support the organization. It was lots of work getting my work framed and ready but the shows look wonderful and it's great to be a part of these groups of talented artists and to have a solo show. I will have another solo show of about 20 paintings at Newbury Court, a retirement community in Concord from July 10-September 10, and the <a href="http://52spypond.blogspot.com/">Spy Pond</a> series will be at Arlington Town Hall in January.<br />
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Meanwhile I'm still painting and printmaking. Here are the latest prints I did while in New Hampshire. I worked on two at once and though they are similar subjects my goal was to complete each individually after the initial print was made. Both scenes are in Eastport, Maine.<br />
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Can't resist posting a picture of the purple trillium I spotted on a walk near Eastman Lake where I spent 4 days last week. There's just a hint of spring in the reddish hue of the maple trees and I was thrilled to find this little gem! karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-69908728712293705042014-02-05T07:55:00.000-08:002014-02-05T07:55:32.780-08:00Snow dayThe northeast is getting it's share of snow today and I'm loving it! Good chance to post some paintings I've been working on in hopes of having them a part of a group show this spring with fellow students of Adria Arch. Two are images I've painted before but am trying them out in a square 16x16 format in oil. By the way Adria just got back from a residency in India and has posted some wonderful pics on her <a href="http://adriaarch.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. <br />
It's a good thing it'll snow hard all day or I wouldn't get anything done-skis are calling loudly!<br />
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Since being back from Greece I've been playing with using leaves and ferns in monoprints. Of course the fig leaf had such a wonderful shape, but this is New England, the land of maples and oaks, and of course a Boston fern, so I had to use what was at hand. The printed images were intriguing as they had such texture and detail that I thought they might be nice just by themselves. They were printed with Golden Open paint-a slow drying acrylic. Though making more of a decorative effect, I enjoyed their beauty and simplicity.</div>
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Meanwhile I have two pieces ready for the <a href="http://www.concordart.org/">Concord Art Association</a> Holiday Show in December, and am working on some small studies for larger more abstract pieces. </div>
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Last Saturday afternoon I painted with a group of plein air painters at the Mystic River Festival in Medford. I had done this before and had a great time-good food, music and the young man operating the farm stand provided me with apple cider and donuts! And the sun came out. Jenn DesAutels, painter and illustrator (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jennifer Cheng DesAutels </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Illustrations: <a href="http://www.studiojcd.com/" id="yui_3_13_0_rc_1_1_1381586355259_2268" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #196ad4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">StudioJCD.com</a>), did a great job of organizing us and also arranged for the paintings to be shown at </span>Mystic Coffee Roaster in Medford, 30 Riverside Ave., Medford. The opening is tomorrow and the paintings will be on display for a month.</div>
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Well that's a good question. I'd say it did. I painted this a week ago an placed it on the front passenger seat of my car. The next week I let my grand daughter out of her car seat and she hopped in front and sat right on the wet canvas! We were both surprised and able to laugh about how she helped me paint. This inspired an attempt to capture the image again by print making with a Gelli plate. Here are three versions, none of which I love but thought I'd share them. I'll continue to work with this image as I find it captivating and it brings back the memory of standing at the foot of the hill which overlooks the harbor in Skopelos, Greece. There had been a wedding at the church and there were 3 inch strips of mylar littering the ground, thus adding a magical quality. When I climbed up for a look inside there was a service going on, complete with chanting, incense, a priest and a small group of worshipers. A solemn moment so rich with history. And the rocks were beautiful-a sheer wall of them below the church which was built onto them.</div>
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I just got back from a fabulous trip to Greece! Lucky lady am I! My teacher, Adria Arch, taught an 8 day class on the island of Skopelos in Greece. This was through the Island Center for the Arts <a href="http://www.islandcenter.org/">http://www.islandcenter.org/</a> We spent two nights in Athens touring around the old section and had a fabulous tour of the Acropolis our second night. Our tour guide was Isabel, from the Island Center and she did a wonderful job of bringing the site to life. Of course the main focus was intuitive painting and Adria led us into interesting (and sometimes new for me) ways to approach art. We were able to work outdoors all the time-either on site or at the veranda of an unused restaurant. Below are some prints made with a Gelli plate, torn paper collages, paintings using Caran d'Ache, and an acrylic painting.</div>
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I had the honor of painting out in Jaffrey with a group of wonderful artists this past week. This is their 8th year of gathering together for a week of making art. It couldn't have gone better--great people making wonderful art and food and good weather to boot! Many thanks to Carolyn Letvin for inviting me, Carolyn Kimloch-Winkler for organizing the week, and to all the other artists for being so welcoming and helpful. I hope to be able to join you again next year!</div>
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I realized I've been neglecting to post on this blog so thought I'd catch up with two new paintings. The lower was started outdoors last summer and tucked away after I started the Spy Pond project. It's a scene I pass almost every day and just love the lighting, which tends to be the same late morning, but the color changes with the seasons. I painted this scene in the fall and hope to this winter also. </div>
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It's been quite a week in Boston and I'm hoping all that were injured can heal and that we can spread a peaceful message. Go Red Sox! My goal is to see them this summer. I also hope to shift to plein air painting again soon and will post more. Also check out my other blog, 52spypond.blogspot.com., which I usually update weekly.</div>
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So I've decided on a goal of painting weekly at Spy Pond, Arlington MA, for a year and blogging about the experience. I plan to post the art on this blog. The pond is a 20 minute walk from my house and has a lovely park and shorefront that I've enjoyed since moving here 2 years ago. Here are the two done so far. The weather's been good and it's just getting into color change at the pond. I'm very excited, and I head out to Concord for a day of plein air painting!karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-76379724510997885992012-09-09T18:01:00.001-07:002012-09-09T18:01:20.112-07:00A week on North Haven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few weeks ago I took a plein air workshop on North Haven, which is an island off mid-coast Maine. Colin Page was the instructor. I'm in awe of his paintings and energy and came away from the week very excited to try out some new ways of painting and painting at night. Some of us went down to the dock a few evenings both to watch him paint and try it out ourselves. Mine turned out quite abstract and as one person put it, "What are those, bookshelves?" The first three here were done on site and the fourth in the studio from a photo, though the memories are lingering! What a wonderful week. The inn was delightful as were the other participants. </div>
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I'm happy to say I'm a part of an effort to bring public art into Arlington. As part of a fund-raising effort to print a banner of high school art, a group of us have been painting chairs. The banner will hang on the Spy Pond side of the Boys and Girls Club in Arlington. The chairs will be on display August 5-12 at the intersection of Lake Street and the Minuteman Bike Path. The chairs are for sale and proceeds will go towards printing the banner. Please check out the blog: chairful.blogspot.com, like us on facebook, and come see the pop-up installation! <br />
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Here's the painting I did of the Shepherd Brooks estate in Medford during the picnic held on the grounds last Saturday. A painting buddy, Jenn Desaultes invited me along with several other artists. We had a great day and got to see a beautiful old mansion which is being restored to provide a space for the community. Thanks to the picnic committee for the grub and to Jenn for inviting me-it's always fun to paint with you!karenwihbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13853919303652337227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091380648514193999.post-70111238235148990222012-07-09T08:52:00.002-07:002012-07-09T08:52:58.739-07:00Group Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'll be a part of a group show in Arlington, Mass. this summer. The Mary Street Group is the title of the show at the Old Schwamb Mill which is open Tuesdays and Saturdays 10a-4p. You're all invited to the opening on Friday, July 13 6p-8p!</div>
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