{"id":3618,"date":"2013-02-28T00:46:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2013-02-28T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:46:01","slug":"new-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/new-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"New paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘My Work Here is Done’ • oil on panel • 10in x 8in (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Showing this Friday at Artisan Gallery’s Painting Invitational<\/a>….<\/p>\n

(Opening this Friday, March 1, 5-9pm, Artisan Gallery<\/a> in Paoli, WI) <\/p>\n

\nIf this big white dog–the Great Pyrenees–looks at all familiar, it’s because she’s Betty, our neighbor dog who guards her herd of alpacas. I photographed her in action helping with the birth of that baby alpaca (cria). You can see the photo sequence of ‘Alpaca gives birth’ here<\/a>. The Mama alpaca is Maggie, and the cria is T-cup. This scene is from Galpaca farm<\/a>, the place just down the road, to the southeast of us.<\/p>\n

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‘Getting Close’ • oil on paper • 4in x 6in<\/p><\/div>\n

\nYep, I finally picked up the brushes and started painting with oils again, after a 4-year hiatus, while I went to grad school and learned how to do relief printmaking, then spent last year perfecting the print extravaganza that was the Tunnel of Mortality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nLast month I was invited to take part in Artisan’s Painting invitational, and just figured it’s time to get back to it. It was a little slow going at first, but sort of a relief–just color, you know? And not having to think too much about it–just mixing up hues and values that work immediately. No planning out layers of colors for print.<\/p>\n

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‘Constant Companion’ • oil on panel • 5in x 7in<\/p><\/div>\n

\nRoughed out 4 paintings to work on simultaneously, so I could keep working without stopping and waiting for something to dry…. I started out really small with 3 little oils (before finishing Betty and the gang, at top). Here are 2 of them… above, one of our hogs from last year, ‘getting close’ to that time. And a portrait of Oreo, this great, faithful companion of a farmer on hwy 78. Oreo could often be seen patiently waiting beside the driveway entrance whenever his master went away. And here, in this shot, he lay with a very watchful eye, in the closest spot of shade, while his master worked on one of the farm vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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