Getting Ready to really paint!

So, I have spent this summer painting the house,

but now as autumn finishes it's colors, and my camera is full of photos I am gearing up to finally paint.

 

Autumn 2012

I've tried to get some photos of autumn...to paint from....but it has been raining a lot since the leaves turned, and of course I am still working a lot of hours.

 

I worry that the leaves will all be gone by the time I get a chance to see them in daylight when I have time off.

For example, when I woke up this morning, it looked like someone threw a party last night, and used leaves as confetti!

They were all over the ground.

I am not participating in Fall OPEN Studio this year, but we have the state maps at the store, (Artists Mediums) and I hope that if you are not participating, that you will at least go out and visit and support your local Vermont artists who are participating!

here's a link for maps if you can't stop by the store:

http://www.vermontcrafts.com/OSW/maps-directions.html

 

I sure like having so much paint

When I have so many colors at my disposal, I can paint multiple pieces...
Here is one that I suppose has a bit of a cliche in it, but I like it anyway.

I called it the heart of the forest

I am scraping down  to find wet paint, but I am still painting with the same pallete that I mixed during the Fall Foliage Open Studio.

A record of the paintings...

Autumn in my Backyard

Morning Sky

I figured I would post photos of the other major pieces of art that I sold during the Open Studio Tour, and maybe this time I can get the photos to come out alright!?
:)
I think it's a bonus when the art that sells is the art you really like.

In a way it is sad, because I can't keep them anymore, but like a child who is grown and flown: that was the idea to begin with, you can't regret it...

Aftermath

Well, the Open Studio Tour is over.
The weather was discouraging at best.
It was of course fine for me, since I got to sit by the woodstove all day, and the house was quite cozy...
But not the best day for a drive in the mountains.
THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who took the long haul all the way out to my isolated environs, to see my work! I am so grateful...this kept me sane, during two fairly long days of waiting.

 And A HUGE THANK YOU to all the Folks who supported my creative endeavors by purchasing paintings, prints, and cards....without you, I would have probably decided art is just not my gig anymore...it was one of those weekends.

These two photos are pictures of twop of the painting that sold during the weekend:

(though for the life of me, I cannot get them to load vertically!!! So turn your head to the right>>>  ;)



after-MATH:
This year, despite the economy, and the poor weather, I still did manage to do a bit better than break even!


Still sort of recovering from all that sick I had going on...
this seems to be taking longer than usual... but I am definately making real progress!

Now I am ready to paint, since I did mix a huge batch of oil paints this past weekend...I also finally finished the painting that was on the easxle during the Open Studio Tour... and I have just started a new Canvas...


I also have plans to make some holiday ornaments for he store's Gift Show!

Leaves are NEAR Peak..

Or maybe perfectly at peak...where I live.
Someone at my work didn't believe me since everything in town is all green..

but there's the proof! The color up in my neck of the woods is Phenominal!!!
Just in time for Open Studio!
(I've been sick for several days..but I am much better now, and ready for a bout of ART!)

I looked around the house...
It seems I have - prepared for Open Studio:

Framed artwork:
40 Oil Paintings
4 Acrylics
5 Watercolors
10 Monoprints
2 Blockprints
1 Collage
 As well as 6 Sculptures

13 unframed monoprints and multiple prints and Cards.

Here I sit, the signs are up, and I'm going to mix some OIL Paint!
YAY!

Over 250 Maps distributed!

Over 250 Maps distributed!
A busy weekend.
I finished all 3 bears with multiple clear coats,
I finished off 3 painted flower pots, and put mums in them for those who are looking for
a decorative piece of art with a bit of fall life.
...and I disdtributed the rest of my big box of maps from Eden to Stowe!
I know there is still more to do...
but I'm getting there!
chels

What is the Old Belvidere Schoolhouse Studio?

 

Belvidere Vermont Autumn

 Well, ultimately it's my home.
For this weekend only I am opening the groundfloor to the public to take a look at all of my art in one place, and to get to see some of the processes used to creat it.

But why drive this far North?

The road to get there in the Autumn is IDEAL!



 This is it! The Old Belvidere Schoolhouse
North past Tallman's ABC store in Autumn



 Someone at work said it must be lovely...

and, yes,

 in a word it is lovely.

 There is a river,

Oil Painting: River in My Backyard
This painting resides in Colorado
(normal summer water levels depicted)

(Which is an incredible solace, and so very nice ...when it's not angry.)



The North Branch of The Lamoille, spring 2011
at this point the water is a little higher than during
Hrricane Irene.
Behind my house





Yes, I Know she needs paint,
I have scraped and primed
below the windows of the first floor.



I guess it depends on your point of view.

Some would call it a money pit, my Father calls it my albatross....

I've been working at the store a lot lately,

 & I've been very inspired by my customers, with no time to act on it.

I've even managed to have a 24 hour flu, or food poisoning (one or the other)

during one of my precious few Sunday's off, so it was spent trying to burn off a fever.

There is still so much to do for Open Studio!

100 Maps are distributed...

I have somehow managed to nearly finish 3 separate bear sculptures, although admittedly, they were half done already. I just need to do some retouch & clear coating.

I have promised myself

that by the time the signs are out, and the doors are open,

 for Vermont Crafts Council's Foliage Open Studio

I will have mixed a big and brand new batch of oil paint, and I'll be painting during the show.

But until then I will try to update more about the ongoing art projects...

Map Distribution..

I have Maps at 6 locations now, 10 per location, so 60 (of my over 200) maps are out there!
:)

What's in the Map?

 If you did go to the Vermont Crafts Council's website showing the Foliage Open Studio Map link in my previous post, you will have seen that Chittenden county has tons of artists, but my county, Lamoille, is grouped together with three others, because there are only 4 artists listed here.

I know there are more artists in this area, and I thought of inviting some of them, but decided to try it by myself first - and start learning how to do it right, before I complicate it further.
I am lucky to have heard many stories of Open Studio expiriences, because of my work at Artists' Mediums Inc., but there is still an awful lot I need to do.

Difficult, because I am working open to close Fri., Sat., & Mon.then normal hours Tues through Saturday.
So sunday is my big day to get alot done.

 I am getting one thing done...
Perhaps showing images of my art could be the best way to find folks who'd like it.
For this reason, I am Making inserts / invites to put in the copies of Foliage Open Studio Maps that I now need to distribute all over. (and Lamolle is a BIG AREA.) I guess my work is cut out for me!



Here is what it says:
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You are invited to the Old Belvidere Schoolhouse Foliage Open studio,

Oct. 1st and 2nd, 10-5 and see how this kind of art is made.

*(photos)

Chelsea Lindner Belvidere VT. Studio 109
Artist: Oils, Acrylics, Watercolors, Prints, & Sculptures.

http://www.gypsiesgesso.blogspot.com/ or Chelsea@artistsmediums.com

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Since I can't arrange the photos the way I did in Word, here are the (photos) I inserted in one row in order.

(on the flier, they are smaller, and similar in size)

 

By the way, and just for the record: My word program tired to change my spelling for the flier,
the suggestion : "see how this kind of art are made."
(Another reason I am still being draggged, kicking and screaming, into the technological age.)
I'd better get back to stuffing maps...
chels

Foliage Open Studio Maps!

We have the Vermont Crafts Council Foliage Open Studio Map at the Store- at Artists' Mediums Inc. in Williston Vermont now too!!!

So please feel free to stop by and pick up your copy, so you can take the tour!
Meet your nieghbors, who might just be creative people...find the artists in YOUR area, even if you can't visit mine.
But just in case:
http://www.vermontcrafts.com/OSW/maps-directions.html

(My Old Belvidere Schoolhouse is Studio 109.)

Here is the actual Listing

109. Old Belvidere Schoolhouse Studio - Chelsea Lindner - Oil, watercolor, landscapes, prints, sculpture. 3721 Vt Rte 109, Belvidere Center, VT 05442. (802) 644-8061. From Rte 15 in Jeffersonville, turn onto 108, travel 0.4 mile and turn right onto Rte 109 N. Follow Rte 109 for 11.1 miles. Find us at the corner of Bog Rd and Rte 109 in the old Belvidere Schoolhouse.

I've been getting ready,
There are over 50 oils, several Watercolors (they are mostly, but not all landscapes)
I only said prints, even though I do Blockprints and Monoprints...
I have some sculptures in progress that I'm going to try to finish this month...