I have painted some canvas!

This one still seems a bit pale but not as foggy as intended.

In progress on the easel.

The Great Vermont Plein Air Paint out 2013

I enjoyed the day in Waitsfield.
Here is what I painted:

For more photos of the event go to:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200701279164340&set=p.10200701279164340&type=1&theater

After a soggy spring

Which I spent mostly trying to save what I had unwisely already planted in my garden...

Good thing I mounded my garden for a raised bed effect, it has a moat!

Storm clouds

Williston, late June

Dahlia

I have done a couple of watercolors, which I will post soon.
I wish I could send this rain to my family in Colorado where fires burn out of control.

Mural

The very first post I made on this blog was about an area in my house that I was wanting to paint a mural onto.
Well, I have finally gotten around to it.

This is what the process looked like:

 Now I am just having fun with the details in some of the birches!

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

 

Watercolors

Getting the hang of it- I think.

Watercolors starting over

Everytime I switch from Oils back to Watercolors, I have some trouble.
Evidence  shows that I tend to cover all the paper with paint at first, as if painting with oils, then later I figure it out. Finally, I start to remember to leave some of the white of the paper.

I am going to post several watercolors that I have completed lately, and I will post chronologically, so you can see how I attempt to progress out of my over-use of paint.

These are the first:

There's the photo of the other garden collage!

Finally found it..still haven't named it yet...

(too much?) painting...

I think I finished this one,

although I wanted it to be soft,

like the original photo

...not sure what happened.

Funny thing is,

I found this photo that I took of this painting before I put the leaves in and I like it MUCH better!!!

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.

Starting another Oil Painting

Painting a sky first.

I really wish I had taken a photo of this when it was just sky.

I always seem to like the skies best for some strange reason.

I actually left it as sky only- on the canvas - for several days...I didn't want to mess up the sky.

Finally I got up my courage and have been adding muddy 'ol earth ever since...
It's ok.
Maybe I should paint a whole series of just skies?
Look at all the scrumptious PAINT!!!
:)

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:
 *********************************************************
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

**************************************************************

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.)

Fall Foliage Open Studio Maps!

Fall Open Studio Maps are available now!
(click here to see a copy!)
My studio Number should be easy to remember, since it is 109, and I live on route 109!
Here's the page I am actually on:
http://www.vermontcrafts.com/OSW/franklin.html

Two more framed works

Raspberry Leaf

3 Grape Leaves on White

Two of the monoprints were good enough to frame for the Open Studio Exhibit.
This brings the total number of pieces of art for display and sale at this show up to 64!!
...getting there.

Monoprints Everywhere!

This week I have printed over 60 monoprints.

This means I will have approximately 6-12 that are good enough to frame or sell if I am lucky...

and a bunch of scraps I can recycle into business cards I think...

Just didn't want to let the week go by without posting that I AM working on art!
..more soon!

Monoprints

Well, I know I haven't written for a bit, but I have done some art since the Plein air Fest...


Grape leaf



mostly monoprints. Here's a sneak peek at one of them...

I have several more to do tonight.
It looks easy, but for every 12-20 I print, there are only (usually) about 2 or 3 worth framing...
(That uses a lot of really nice paper, and so my note paper pile is looking really cool!)

One from my last session was really nice, and I have already framed it.
The catalog of art is coming along as well... up to 50 peices of art so far for the Open Studio show.

We pick up the maps for Open Studio Thurs Aug 18th, so I should be able to provide a link to the maps soon.