Got Moo? of “When The Curtain Parted”; Pastel

Did you notice? I have been busy updating pages which I had gotten behind during the festival season.

•) I updated my Exhibitions Page: I am preparing for my upcoming exhibit at Caffe Sportivo. August 1 – 27th, 2010: Selected limited-run prints. Caffe Sportivo (site) (blog) (facebook) • 965 Brewster Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94063 (Directions and map). Return on September 2, 2010 for more information and photos.

•) I’ve also added Burlingame Public Library. (info) November 1 – December 31, 2010. Two month exhibit. Woot! What a great way to wind up the year!

•) Five weeks remain to see “Sombrero Surprise” and “A Few Of My Favorite Things”; Pen & Ink stippling / pointillism prints at the Pacific Bank in Burlingame July 1 – September 1, 2010 on exhibit with other Burlingame Art Society artists(Directions and Map)

•) Only 1 week remains on my joint give-away continues over at ArtSnark’s blog – I am giving away two posters for free; See more on her “meet the artist Ascender” post and her “Ascender Studio Tour“. Also a mere 1 week also remains on my special pricing on my entire line of limited run prints listed here. Read more about my pricing for it here. And this is the limited run page to choose from.

•) My daughter convinced me to add the final photo at the end of maggie and milly and molly and may series of photos the other day. Ok – I am nervous about this one. When we took the photo we weren’t too worried about him standing, turning and chasing us down to take our camera.

Just Vitality; Collage, Pen & Ink, ©ascenderrisesabove

The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepared,
I will manage with the rest.

I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again. . .

But how. The hot summer rustles
Like a carnival outside my window;
I have long had this premonition
Of a bright day and a deserted house.

Anna Akhmatova

I’ve returned, at least for the day, to collage and pen and ink; “Just Vitality“.  I kind of like the direction it took; the feeling of a diving board and water splashing all around.

Detail of Chateau Thierry by William James Glackens; a U.S. realist painter known for his dark-hued paintings of street scenes and daily life in the city’s neighborhoods. (photo of Glackens)

Glackens co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement, a group of artists, dubbed by the press “the Eight Independent Painters” or The Eight, whom chose to exhibit their works without pre-approval by the juries of the existing art establishment. Other members included Robert Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, John French Sloan, and George Luks. (photos of The Eight; group photo)

Like Glackens, they were journalists, writers, or illustrators before becoming painters; artists who chose to continue with the style of illustration, which emphasized immediacy as well as community and interaction.

Working drawings show how Glackens made quick sketches on the street, then went through a painstaking process of compositional studies to arrive at a finished illustration, sometimes making several versions of the drawing before he was satisfied. The precision of the signage and architectural settings in these drawings suggests that Glackens may have used photographs for the background, but the variety, frenetic energy, and clever rendering that make the traders far more individualistic than they would appear to a camera are the artist’s invention.

Some of my personal favorites of Glackens

The Soda Fountain

Still Life with Three Glasses

Tänzerin in rosa Kleid

Artist Daughter in Chinese Costume

Chez Mouquin

“how to tell the wild animals”; my favorite incoming search engine words this month.

I feel a new series coming on. You know the Birds On A Wire series… and the Bees Knees series. This series will be called “Randomness“; random photos with random words and random links; general randomness.

Isn’t this a great chicken photo at webbnorriswebb

Couldn’t you look at babies expressions all day long at younghouselove

Lindsey Carr’s oil coated scarlet ibis at myloveforyou

also Mike Maxwells’ rocks at myloveforyou

These tile frames might work for my illuminated tiles(?) at apartmenttherapy

Frida sidewalk chalk image at papaya

mmmm purple doors at designsponge

shipping containers stacked high as art at inhabitat

cute cute cute at shuttersisters

Not enough randomness? Check out my previous random post:
ascender sitting (randomness 1)

✿•**•.¸¸♥¸¸.•**•✿ Have you entered the new random drawing? I have donated 2 of my 11″ x 17″ prints to this great giveaway. There will be 2 winners & each will get to choose one favorite print from this page of limited run prints. Click Here For Details & to enter this drawing which ends 7/29. Or find out more about my deal here!

Lastly; I want to share my self portrait from Pescadero last weekend. Shine on!

Her Deal!

I don’t normally do give-aways but am so appreciative to ArtSnark for the Studio Tour that I agreed to give away to two lucky winners limited run 11×17 prints. Your choice of print! If you’d like to be eligible to win (U.S. only) just leave a comment on this post or on ArtSnarks (here) with the title of the poster and why you’d like to win it by Thursday, July 29th at 1 a.m. EST. Stacey uses a random number generator and will announce the two (2) winners.

My Deal!

I couldn’t quite decide if I would do “Buy One, Get Half-Off the 2nd Poster”… or “Buy Two Posters, Get One Free”; so I thought I would leave the choice up to you. If either of these limited time prices sound good to you; send me an email at AscenderRisesAbove (at) gmail (dot) com or here with the poster titles of your choice and I will mail you a request for funds through PayPal.

Easy Peasy .

These posters are printed on 80 lb Dull Cover paper with HP Indigo Inks on an Indigo 5000 press (a commercial printer, not a home printer!)

Printed to the border, signed on the back and dated. Cropped as shown. Copyright notice is to protect the digital image. It will NOT appear on the actual print. I ship flat inside a sturdy non-bending envelope using First Class USPS mail to assure it arrives to you in newborn condition. Shipping: $4.95.

Buy One, Get Half-Off the 2nd Poster Price:
$17.00 (1st print) + $8.50 (2nd print) = $26.50 + $4.95 (shipping) = Total $31.45

Buy Two Posters, Get One Poster Free Price:
$17.00 (1st print) + $17.00 (2nd print) + $0.00 (third print) = $34.00 + $4.95 (shipping) = Total $38.95

Thanks again to Stacey for sharing my studio tour! It has been fun getting to know her and all her great fans!