Basil and I have just returned from our first ever artist retreat!
Lots of new works on progress to share, but we have to get down to business first. The chalet that we stayed at was supposed to have WIFI so we could continue to post on FB daily… alas, there were some technical difficulties so we are a little behind now.
Please check out Basil teasing one of the new pictures and please check out all that we had meant to share while we were away below:
Wednesday, August 21st: Happy Birthday, Asher Brown Durand!!
Happy Birthday, Aubrey Beardsley!!!
Happy Birthday, Christian Schad!!
Happy Birthday, Jean-Baptiste Greuze!!
Happy Birthday, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pena!!
Thursday, August 22nd: Happy Birthday, Archibald Willard!!
Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson!!
Happy Birthday, Jacques Lipchitz!!!
Throwback Thursday: All three of my White Women pictures #TBT #WhiteWomenSeries:
Friday, August 23rd: Happy Birthday, Alexander Mile Calder!!!
Happy Birthday, Hannah Frank!!!
Saturday, August 24th: Happy Birthday, Alex Colville!!
Happy Birthday, Lavinia Fontana!!! LOVE this self-portrait!
Sunday, August 25th: Happy Birthday, Charles-Amedee-Philippe van Loo!!
Happy Birthday, Dorothea Tanning!!!
Happy Birthday, George Stubbs!!
Happy Birthday, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato!!
Happy Birthday, Jacob Maris!!
Also, WRS is continuing to celebrate Artist of the Month: Hedda Sterne!!!
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August 13th is “Left-Hander’s Day.” Launched in 1996, this yearly event celebrates left-handedness and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers. experience every day in a world designed for right-handers.
To help celebrate, I thought it would be a good idea to showcase some left-handed artists… in no particular order:
Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec:
Vincent van Gogh
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein the Younger:
Karel Appel and Leonardo da Vinci:
MC Escher and Michelangelo Bounarroti:
Paul Klee and Raoul Dufy:
Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens:
… and Raphael di Santi:
I am sure you are all wondering about any female left-handed artists… well, I looked… and looked… and came up with a self-portrait of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun using her left-hand to paint:
Of course, this doesn’t 100% prove that she was left-handed and I couldn’t find anything stating that defiitively, which was frustrating.
There has to be more female left-handed artists out there. If you know of any, I would be very happy to learn of them so they can be celebrated. Please comment or email WRS!
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The third artist that will be highlighted is: HEDDA STERNE:
Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism.
The Hedda Sterne Foundation is headquartered at 16 East 71st Street 3A New York, NY, 10021 United States, and, unfortuanately, does not appear to be open to the public. There are a lot of resouces to learn more about Hedda on this site.
A biography of Hedda has just been published, the book is only ~144 pages and focuses on her life PRIOR to arriving in New York in 194. It’s a start, but unfortunately, I have not been able to come across anything else that looks like a biography, just cataglogs:
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I am very happy to announce that I have added a new item to the WRS Etsy Shop: White Rooster Studio Coffee Mug:
The 11oz ceramic coffee mugs are dishwasher and microwave safe. There are currently six in stock and they hve been added to the Etsy Shop and will be selling for $15.00 and will ship FREE.
These mugs are a featured item in the Etsy Shop. To order, please check out:
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We have just returned from an amazing week at Harvey’s Lake in Barnet, VT and have a LOT of new art to share!!
First off, the cabin we rented was incredible: located on 150 feet of waterfront on Harvey’s Lake, we enjoyed early mornings and late evenings reading on the screened in porch (by far, the BEST invention – we practically LIVED on that porch!), kayaking, floating in the lake with inner tubes, and several evening camp fires:
There is spotty cell service, no WIFI, and no TV at the cabin… which was exactly what we were looking for. I cannot even begin to tell you how much art and reading can be accomplished without these distractions!
I spent the first two days prepping six new pictures for the Pismo Series: B, E, F, I, T, and W. Four of these are re-dos: you all know that I have been having issues with the B & W, so they were inevitable. I was on the fence about the E, but decided to re-do it anyway and I really didn’t like the direction the T was going in, so that was re-done also. Check out Basil posing with the first round of pictures:
I had brought a 500+ page biography on Arshile Gorky, “Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky” by Nouritza Mattossian (2000) expecting to finish it once I returned home… but I completed it… in three days. I have to say, the biography was amazing and I became totally engrossed with Gorky’s world (I seriously could NOT put this book down) – which, in essence, was an extension of the one I had entered with “Ninth Street Women”: the New York School / Abstract Expressionism of the 1940’s.
We had decided to spend the majority of our time at the lake, so our only real excursion away was on Wednesday as it was raining. We headed into St Johnsbury and hit the diner for breakfast. While we were there, we were checking out the ads on the coffee mugs and noticed one for The Frame Dames, located just up the street. So, naturally, we just had to check them out. And we walked out there with new toys!! Check out Basil posing with our booty: Aquash Water Brushes!!
I cannot even begin to tell you how many ideas instantly came to my mind when I saw these! I had a great conversation with one of the Frame Dames (these ladies are incredibly helpful, so if you are in the area, please check them out… if not, they are online at: theframedames.com) about how I could uses these brushes and walked out the store wondering how I hadn’t heard of these before. It pays to check out these art stores and check out all of the new toys!
We stopped at the Welcome Center and decided to go the St Johnsbury Athenaeum to view Albert Bierstadt’s The Domes of the Yosemite. If you find yourself in the area, I highly recommend that you check out this magnificent painting… and if not, you can view it online at http://www.stjathenaeum.org/the-domes-of-the-yosemite:
Because we simply cannot resist a used book store, we checked out two while in the area and I found “Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage” – which, I managed to complete on our last morning at the lake:
Elaine de Kooning was one of the ladies featured in “Ninth Street Women” and Willem de Kooning was one of Gorky’s best friends, so essentially, I managed to remain in the New York School world… right now, I can’t seem to resist it! (Full confession: just before I started writing this post, I purchased a Willem de Kooning biography online… I am wondering if this is becoming an addiction…)
I spent another couple of days adding in the rest of the designs for my Pismo pictures:
All of them are now on the studio wall, waiting to be worked on this week:
I can honestly say that it has been a little bit of an adjustment now that we are home. I absolutely loved the chance to work on my art and read up on artists all day. Tomorrow it’s back to work and reality… until the next escape!!
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It’s impossible to mention Hedda without mentioning one of the the most famous photographs of that error: The Irascibles: Photo taken January 15, 1951, photograph by 
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