BS: Project updates

Subject: BS: Project updates
From: Alice
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 09:28 AM

Progress report for my show that opens Aug 20. Here are some links to paintings ready for framing and taking over to the gallery:

http://my.montana.net/aliceflynn/moon.jpg
"Sunset Moonrise" In the summer, the sun is setting, the sky light, while the moon is rising in the east over the Bridger Mountain Range. The sunset turns the Bridgers a pink glowing color.

http://my.montana.net/aliceflynn/blackie2.jpg
"Blackie and Pete" In central Montana, there are rock formations called rimrocks. My family's history of homesteading was located there, among rock formations and cliffs of unusual shapes. I like the way the shape of the dog's head is echoed by the shape and color of the hat.

http://my.montana.net/aliceflynn/faithful.jpg
"Faithful Tourist" Old Faithful geyeser is the classic photo shot of tourists from all around the world.

How are the other Mudcat projects coming along?

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: MMario
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 09:33 AM

well - I have a shawl for the auction that I just need to finish the edging on - have another one 1/3 done for ny niece's wedding; and a couple of "super secket" prokjects in the work.

In the process of selecting songs for another CD - if I can make arrangements with a new studio -

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 09:34 AM

Beautiful Alice. Love the colours.

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Janie
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 09:59 AM

Wow, Alice.

Hurray, MMario.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Alice
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 11:53 AM

Here's another just scanned. "Harvey's Outfit". My uncle Harvey in his youth dressed in his authentic cowboy outfit.
Click here


How are the other projects coming along, cookbook? gardens?

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 01:21 AM

Love your artwork, Alice. It is beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: LilyFestre
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 07:48 AM

One of my summer projects was to improve my gardening situation. As it has been for a number of years, the garden sits not far from the house, but it is a hike up a hill and the field offers NO shade whatsoever. I hate the heat. Walking up that hill in the heat, humidity and full sun makes me sick....really. So...I thought about it and invested in about 15 pots. My husband filled them with dirt from the garden and they now line the edges of the deck. I have been able to tend to my part of the garden (he planted stuff in the regular garden...but those are his responsibilities) much more easily! I am enjoying it a great deal! I have tomato plants that are almost as tall as I am, a great abundance of lettuce, parsley, rosemary and lots of chives. It doesn't sound like much but I am very pleased with it as normally I have given up on trying to deal with the heat. The deck looks like a jungle and I am loving it! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 10:41 AM

I can relate, Michelle. 18 years ago when I bought this house, I wondered why the owners, who had built it themselves in 1951, had only lawn, shrubs and trees, no flowers, no garden beds. Well, now I know. All the flower beds I put in are filled with weeds this summer, as I have aches and pains now that keep me from gardening and my time is all taken up with working to make a living with no time for the yard and garden.

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 10:48 AM

Here's another. In the summer, thunderclouds build over the Bridger mountains, and especially in the late afternoon, colors of pink, purple, gold, blue tinge the storm clouds. Title is Storm Over the Bridgers. (The mountain range was named for Jim Bridger, an early explorer and guide in Montana.)

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: bobad
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 10:50 AM

Very nice paintings Alice.

They remind me a little of Jean Paul Lemieux with the figures in the foreground like that.

Are you familiar with/influenced by him at all ?

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: GUEST,Alice without cookie
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 11:05 AM

bobad, I was not aware of his work until your post. I just did a google search and was amazed to find his work during the period of the late 50's to 60's is described by himself and critics almost exactly the way critics and I have described my own work - the focus on solitude and singularity, the open landscape in which lone figures depict individualism. He is a Canadian... being in Montana, there is something about our expansive landscape that inspired Lemieux the same way it has influenced me.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 09:10 AM

Beautiful, Alice! I esp. love the one of your Uncle Harvey and the Bridger one. Shades of big sky "Wyomin'" in there, too. I love those kind of big storm clouds. Congratulations on the upcoming show!

I have a new project, but Rog has to do some of the heavy work first. I ahve been wanting a small trailer/caravan to fix up as a writing studio/retreat. Well, last weekend I got one for free from a fellow who advertised it for free. No suprise, he is a carpenter, blues guitarist, taking classical guitar lessons. Really nice guy. Rog is going to do some wiring for him in exchange.

It is about 13 feet, classic 60's "Shasta" and has LOTS of windows. I am excited about getting it fixed up. I need some private space; with our dau. and grandson living with us...it's tight quarters, at times.:-)

Lily...good for you and the pots! I hate the heat, too, and get sick from it, if out in it too much. Maybe next year, I will do pots, too!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 09:21 AM

I wish had had been able to do some that I'd planned. I had breathing problems earlier -- three months or more of them -- and got behind on several other things at work (decrease oxygen to the brain tends to slow you down!). And I'm awaiting my neice's work on the stock of the flintlock I'm building, so I can't do a lot there -- it was supposed to be last winter's project and maybe I'll be able to finish it this winter (there's no real hurry). She's carving the stock in Celtic knotwork themes (and working in a stylized dragon) and I'd rather it was done well than just done.

I'll have the only Germanic Jaeger-style flintlock made from an Italian kit that's carved in Celtic motifs when it's done. (No, I don't plan to inlay the metal parts.)

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: GUEST,sandra in sydney
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 09:41 AM

I'm on a week's holiday to catch up on stuff. I usually split my 4 weeks holidays to cover the 2 festivals I attend each year. I have a few days preparation, a long weekend with JennyO, then I normally waste the other few days by just pottering around.

So my plan is to sort out stuff, scan the rest of the pics I want to copy, find new spaces to put away some of the stuff that sits permanently on the floor (where?), work on a few crafty things, read a few books, including Harry Potter, throw out some useless stuff, take some stuff to the charity shop, get a selection of useful crafty stuff to a friend who can use them at work.

Gotta watch that throwing away thing, cos I tossed 3 good strong shoe boxes this morning & wanted a box this afternoon! It's always the way.

For a long time I've been complaining about dripping taps when I don't turn them off properly & sore hands when I do manage to turn them that final bit, so the plumber is coming tomrrow to replace my conventional taps with taps suitable for disabled folks. yah.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 09:59 AM

Project Gainful Employment has been successfully acheived but the maintenance of the end-state is taking up a lot of time.

Project Best-Seller is on the rocks and shoals at present. Can't really tell when it will be hauled off. It may have been hulled in the process.

Project "Record All Songs You Know" is going negative, as I am learning more songs than I am adding recordings.

Project "Hoke Springs Eternal", a CD of schmaltzy tunes, has a proposed list.

Project "Conscious Explorer", reworking an essay collection which has been on the web for ten years, is in the Maybe condition.

Project "Barky Goes to College" is progressing nicely following a brief period of squalls and dead-reckoning errors.

Project "Live Forever" seems to be succeeding, in that I am not dead yet! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 01:28 PM

Alice, I sure would like it if you got your subject's feet on the ground ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Project updates
From: Alice
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 01:42 PM

Donuel, they are, you just can't see 'em. ;-)