"Nicole Caulfield Art Journal" - 5 new articles
Traditional Lemons
I've been spending a lot of mental energy on trying to figure out what to do as a sequel to my Zen piece. Search my blog for the word Zen if you are not familiar with it. I've come up with some good ideas I think... but will not know for sure until I sit down with the model - hopefully this weekend I can do that. I did get some really bad ideas pop into my head too... like having her lean over in the same pose but instead of a stack of rocks in front of her, place a very tall sandwich or scoops of leaning icecream. See I said it was bad! I did have a couple of good ones however and hopefully I can work with my model soon.
 MOCO Faculty Art Exhibit & Benefit Sale
Yes, the flu has been gone now... and although I haven't been away from my blog all this time from the flu - it did last way longer than I thought it would. I highly recommend getting the swine flu vaccine if you can.
Anyway I've been busy teaching and doing commissions. I've gotten two more still-life commissions finished exactly since we last met here, but I haven't any photographs. I took this week off from the commissions to get ready for a benefit Art Sale/ Faculty Show at MOCO Arts were I teach community art classes. The faculty has put together a show to benefit the School of Art at MOCO. I am going to have the pieces above for sale along with a couple I have posted here before. The small ones are 5 x 7 and 6 x 6; the larger is 11 x 14. The show will be at MOCO's Wellness Center, 9 Elm Street, Keene. The Opening Reception is Saturday December 12th from 5-7 pm . The show will also be open 12/13, 19, and 20th. Other artist exhibiting are Susa Christiansen, Alicia Drakiotes, Sienna Griffin, Peter Granucci, Ashley Mc Allister, Karena Ness, Kim Peterson, Marylise Reilly-Fajal, Char Russell, Craig Stockwell, Georgia Tasoulas and Jeanne Thieme. O 
Well my little flu case is feeling prett...Well my little flu case is feeling pretty good today... but the school doesn't allow kids to come back to school the day after they get sent home with a fever. With all the flu going around it is a good rule, but bored little 6 year olds who are missing their Halloween party at school are not that fun to be around!
& I wanted to talk a little more about the composition. It had a little problem from the start since the chinese lanterns are so tall and the other objects are so much lower. At first actually I had some artificial lanterns from the client... but those proved to be way too tall when I got back to the studio and looked at the photos I took at the client's house, so I went out and got some real ones. Much better fit then... and I just had to move a couple lanterns when I drew it and delete one and it was a good arrangement... nature somehow usually works! The lanterns are still pretty tall though... and the other objects pretty short. So to fit it all and stick around the size the client originally asked for, I had to put the whole arrangement lower on the board than I usually do. It doesn't look great, until you put on a faux frame which visually lengthens the bottom of the composition. :-)
  Back to Autumn and portrait commission finished
Anyway, the client lent me her majolica pitcher for the chinese lanterns and here is where I'm at. Actually I got a little further than this today but didn't take another photo.
& I have some good newsand some bad news... I am going to be able to work on this tomorrow and tentatively finish it... the bad news - I have the time towork on it tomorrow because my six year old has the flu and I can't go to work because I will be home with her. So I brought home my supplies and while she's vegging on the couch, I'll hopefully have this finished. Below is my portrait tromp l'oeil comission. Its finished except for the okay from the client. Enjoy!   No update... just a pic of me working o...
& I wanted to show you the piece I had commissioned from Paula Pertile... all framed up! You saw it last year... but it has taken me a year to finally have it framed. I wish I could find the post I made about it last year so you can see it better, but blogger search function is not working!
I went alllll out with the frame with the help of Creative Encounters in Keene. They do such a good job interpreting what you want and then making that vision look good.
I commissioned Paula to make a drawing of a fantasy art studio - like it was in a Harry Potter book. Paula went all out too and made such an amazing illustration. I have it hung right above where I work at my studio so I can see it while working. :-)
 
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