tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85392214603807390842024-02-21T11:13:14.410-07:00Sandra Kaplan art news etc.thoughts about art and painting, paintings, upcoming shows, painting workshops, art events, technical information, maybe moreSandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-19807812299663598042016-09-06T13:54:00.001-06:002016-09-06T13:55:54.802-06:00"Looking Back, Moving Forward", at the Arvada CenterOpening September 15, 6 to 9 PM, is a celebratory exhibit for the 40th anniversary of the <a href="http://arvadacenter.org/galleries/looking-back-40-years40-artists">Arvada Center.</a><br />
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Please come to see my two current pieces in this show.<br />
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My association with this local treasure has been long. In 1991, I had a one person exhibit, "Land-Escapes", which included a catalogue. In 2001, a room was devoted to my 45 canvas piece, "Some Thoughts About the Weather", part of the exhibit, "Honoring The Sky". I also served on the Gallery and Museum Committee for a number of years, and was part of an Art Selection Committee during one major renovation.<br />
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Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-57659564154071577382016-06-03T16:31:00.002-06:002016-06-03T16:31:57.641-06:00Recent Paintings, Further Out in Space<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Green Gravity", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 54", © 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Space Floaters", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 60", © 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Blue Gravity", Acrylic & metallic powder on canvas, 36" x 72", © 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Becoming Gemini", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 54" x 54", © 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Io, Callisto, Europa & Ganymede", Interference Acrylic on canvas, © 2016<br /><br /></td></tr>
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Here are my recent paintings. They are less dependent on Hubble or other telescopic images, and more on my play with ideas about "what could be out there"; weather conditions, other planetary bodies and physical realities we may have not yet dreamed of. <div>
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I must admit that the seductive qualities of paint are one of the factors that have encouraged this magnetic trance-like direction. But then, learning that Jupiter has 67 moons, and that Galileo only saw 4, has helped me along my path as well.<br /><br /></div>
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<span id="yiv1089328963yui_3_16_0_1_1452804131733_12741">This Saturday,<span id="yiv1089328963yui_3_16_0_1_1452804131733_13024" style="color: #9c005c;"> <span id="yiv1089328963yui_3_16_0_1_1452804131733_12953"><span id="yiv1089328963yui_3_16_0_1_1452804131733_13013">January 16, from 3 PM to 5 PM, </span></span></span></span></div>
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Finally, most of the pages on my website have been re-done.<br />
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Please visit <a href="http://www.sandrakaplan.com/">www.sandrakaplan.com</a> to see my latest work in the "Galactic Stories" and "Galactic Stories 2", and "Collage"gallery pages. Check out my latest commissions in the "In Addition" area.<br />
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My next Italian workshop is described under "Workshops". Watch my video interview and much more.<br />
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Please let me know what you think!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "Musica Universalis", acrylic on canvas, 54" x 54", has found a new home.</td></tr>
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-86872990593186797402015-12-03T15:36:00.000-07:002015-12-03T15:36:43.960-07:00Simon Zalkind and Sandra Kaplan Talk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Please come to hear Curator Simon Zalkind discuss this exhibit with me, </div>
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And view the rest of my joint exhibit with painter James Cook, </div>
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The exhibit continues through December 18, 2015</div>
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-72715150555426915322015-11-12T13:55:00.001-07:002015-11-12T13:59:01.309-07:00"Heaven and Earth" Exhibition Continues<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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"Heaven and Earth", an two person exhibit of paintings by Sandra Kaplan and James Cook, curated by Simon Zalkind and installed in the Singer Gallery of the JCC/Mizel Center for Art and Culture, at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver, continues through December 18, 2015. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 4 PM, Sunday, 1 PM - 4 PM, closed Saturday.</div>
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An artist's talk and closing party, with Sandra Kaplan and Simon Zalkind will be on Thursday, December 17. Please watch here for the details, to be announced later. </div>
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Here are two photos, the first an image of my newest commissioned piece, "Spinning Winds", created for the Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska. In the second photo, the installed piece is shown. One can see cumulous clouds, an interpretive sunset, lightning and a tornado, all common occurrences in the skies over Nebraska.Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-58382003777299040022015-08-16T18:05:00.000-06:002015-08-16T18:10:30.275-06:00New Paintings for "Heaven and Earth"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Musica Universalis". 54" x 54", acrylic on canvas, 2015<br />
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"Whirlpool Galaxy", 36" X 36", acrylic on canvas, 2015<br />
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My imagination continues to time travel into astronomical areas. Some paintings have been more scientifically based.<br />
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But here are my two most recent, both beginning where science has paused. The upper piece is an interpretation of the Pythagorean idea of Music of the Spheres, one explanation of how planets, the sun and the moon keep to their orbits. The second image is my color rendition of a small black and white photo found in an out of date astronomy textbook.<br />
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Come see these paintings and many more at the Singer Gallery, Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver, Co 80246. The exhibit, "Heaven and Earth", opens on October 8, 2015.<br />
<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-77590630600483853932014-10-27T17:51:00.002-06:002014-10-27T17:55:43.468-06:00Blurred Lines and Galactic Stories Interview<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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During my recent exhibit in the Art Gallery of the Fulginiti Center For Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz University of Colorado Medical Campus, I was interviewed by the Comcast/Aurora News Weekly.</div>
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My tech wiz, Keith West, with permission from the TV station Aurora News Weekly, was able to extract my interview from the balance of the newscast, put it on my <a href="http://sandrakaplan.com/video.htm">Website</a>, and also on <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=D1AJ38V_Nuk">YouTube</a>. So click on one of these links and travel with me to the Outer Limits. You might also find out a bit about my new paintings and collages.<br />
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And if you unfortunately missed my show, you have a bit of a second chance. I am now represented in Colorado by the <a href="http://www.thesandraphillipsgallery.com/artists/SandraKaplan/index.html">Sandra Phillips Gallery</a>. Several of my Galactic paintings will be in a show, "Blurred Lines", which opens at the Gallery, 420 W. 12th Ave., Denver, on Friday, November 7, from 6-8 PM. Come visit!</div>
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-38689840509386289692014-08-28T22:25:00.001-06:002014-08-28T22:25:36.945-06:00Galactic Stories ExtendedGood news today. <div>My exhibition, "Galactic Stories", in the art gallery of the Fulginiti Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz/U of CO Medical campus has been extended through next Thursdayj. So if you haven't seen it yet, here is another chance. The gallery is normally open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, but this Monday will be closed for Labor Day.</div>Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-91437909850809514192014-07-29T22:17:00.002-06:002014-07-29T22:28:21.002-06:00Wallace Stevens and Galactic Stories<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My dear friend, Alita Pirkopf, wrote me this email after seeing my show, "Galactic Stories", and I wanted, with her permission, to share it with you.<br />
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Subject: Everything and Nothing<br />
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What a pleasure.<br />
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I went to see your work three other times with three different friends. All of us were delighted and involved! I learned all sorts of things from hearing them express what they saw and thought! The talk you and the marvelous curator, Simon Zalkind, was deeply interesting! Such an honor for you to be asked to exhibit in such a meaningful setting. I am rereading your invitation which is absolutely beautiful and thought provoking.<br />
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I had been reading the last part of a biography about the later years of the poet Wallace Stevens. Online I read some critic's comment on Steven's Collected Poems which said, "In this work Stevens explored inside a profound philosophical framework the dualism between concrete reality and the human imagination. I am working on what the framework part means but I think that, similarly, you deal with the concrete reality of science and also with the human imagination.<br />
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"At the Edge of the Universe," reminds me of Stevens' words in The Snow Man, which, with your help, I just now think I understand. Though you seem more positive than Stevens when he wrote that poem, you too deal with whatever might or might not be.<br />
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Maybe you know the poem. The lines I am thinking of are:<br />
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<i>And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is</i><br />
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I don't think the "And, nothing himself," bit applies to you with your magic, and apparently, later, things didn't seem so grim to Stevens.<br />
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Thank you so much!!!<br />
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Alita
Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-6004496693643860702014-07-02T18:55:00.001-06:002014-07-02T18:59:16.111-06:00Colorado Public Radio Story<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Listen to Colorado Public Radio this Thursday during the 10 AM hour. My Show, "Galactic Stories", will be featured.</span><br />
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above is "The Moon and the Milky Way", 36" X 36".Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-50323395051971778612014-06-25T22:44:00.000-06:002014-06-25T22:44:11.975-06:00Please join me at the opening reception of "Galactic Stories", an exhibition of my past several years of work, to be held in the Art Gallery of the Fulginiti Center for Bioethics and Humanities, address below. If you can't make the reception, the show will continue until August 28.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opening Reception - July 10, 2014, 5-7 PM</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My “Galactic Stories’’ began when my daughter, an electrical engineer, sent me several photographs taken by the Hubble telescope. Intrigued, I began combing through as many astronomy books as I could find, collecting historical astronomical images and scientific charts and maps.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As friends learned about my interest, they began sending me additional books and drawings. I started using their material in collages. Not only were images and ideas juxtaposed in those collages, so were the contributions of the different people who had provided me a trove of astronomical bric-a-brac.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These “Galactic Stories” are about the interaction of ideas and materials with no clear way to separate one from the other. I might begin with a “big” idea gleaned from whatever I understand about the amazing Hubble images and other “scientific’’ matters. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But once I begin working with paint and materials, my process takes on a life of its own as I explore the nature of paint and materials and how they interact with one another. What began as idea-oriented work becomes a process-oriented exploration.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In “Galactic Stories,’’ history, science, philosophy and art collide. Tales of gods and goddesses merge with images of nebulae many light years away. The images may not always seem like they belong together, but they’re part of an encompassing continuum.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In “Sam and Streilka,” for example, a Russian dog who traveled in space is only brush strokes away from The Big Bang. It is my hope that the painting is thematically expansive — as well as visually unified.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These paintings and their use of mixed media are not an attempt to illustrate scientific ideas and theories, but to use those ideas and theories as a springboard from which to launch my paintings and collages.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maps chart what we think we know, yet, to me, they always suggest that there’s more to discover. In this case, that discovery involves removing what is linear and time-specific in a chart (the information) and exposing its underlying skeleton (the structure), which can become a kind of abstract expression.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The paintings and collages also may be a metaphor for the always tenuous state of what we know, the way knowledge begins, morphs and transforms into something else as we learn more.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes, a mistake can be fruitful. One day in my studio, I decided to try an experiment. I would make a painting of a black hole. I later found an image in an astronomy book that looked as if I’d copied my experimental painting from it. I’d never seen the image in that book before nor was it an image of a black hole. It was the debris disk that’s now a part of “Sam and Streilka.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m not entirely sure where the line between reality and imagination begins and ends. The best I can say is that the skies are full of astonishments that can expand the field of artistic play, and those are the fields in which I’m currently working.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398788263720_5766" style="font-size: 16pt;">Collage works well for those of you who haven't drawn or painted, but want to dip your fingers into the image-creation arena. And it's fun. This is where I go when I'm stuck, creatively speaking. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398788263720_5777" style="font-size: 16pt;">I have discovered a hidden gem of a location for a one-day Plein Air workshop just an hour and a half south of Denver, guaranteed to inspire.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398788263720_5769" style="font-size: 16pt;">And excited by the Denver Art Museum's "Modern Masters" exhibition of paintings and sculpture from the Albright Knox Gallery, I'm offering a one day class titled,"Abstraction For (Mostly) Realists", a bit of history, discussion, and painting. </span></div>
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There are still a few remaining spots left in my North Fork Valley Plein Air workshop, September 18 to 23, 2014. We will visit numerous locations in which any Plein Air painter should want to paint, including the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. </div>
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And don't forget that I do private critique and artistic coaching sessions by appointment.</div>
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Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-18055871094891574062014-04-11T12:11:00.000-06:002014-04-11T12:11:06.738-06:00Bluebird Bird Mansion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A number of years ago, I met Toni Saiber, the now director of <a href="http://www.eatingdisorderfoundation.org/">The Eating Disorder Foundation</a> (EDF). She had recently been through a life and death struggle with her eating disorer, and on her road to recovery, had enrolled in a class I taught at the <a href="http://www.asld.org/">Art Students League of Denver. </a><br />
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We became friends, and I have been a supporter of the foundation she started (with several others). I have remained committed to helping the Foundation in its efforts to educate the public about the ravages of eating disorders and the many pathways to recovery.<br />
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As a symbol of EDF's mission to become a stop on each individual's journey of recovery, EDF members and volunteers paint birdhouses to be given in exchange for specified contributions. The birdhouses are small replicas of the EDF center.<br />
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This year, a larger version of the birdhouse was built by architect <a href="http://www.saibersaiber.com/">Jonathan Saiber</a>, and I was asked to paint it. It was then auctioned at the foundation's fund-raising Gala. <br />
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Above is my finished, multi media piece.<br />
<br />Below, I am pictured with the birdhouse, mid way to completion.<br /><br />
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-90000654101908754122014-01-27T11:09:00.002-07:002014-01-27T11:15:20.858-07:00Star Gazing and My Totally Updated Web Site<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Star Gazing", 18" X 18"on canvas, mixed media<br />
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Please check out my totally up-dated and re-organized web site at <a href="http://www.sandrakaplan.com/">www.sandrakaplan.com</a>. </div>
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The two images above, "Star Gazing" and "R = KPC" are from my latest project, "Space Stories", which was initially inspired by some Hubble images that my daughter, Sacha Wolff sent. Sacha is an aerospace engineer, and our discussions, which often consist of her trying to explain some aspect of her interests to me, or telling me that she can't, have pointed my work in unexpected directions a number of times.</div>
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I found historical astronomical images, and many intriguing scientific charts in astronomy books. My initial plan was to playfully do a chronological survey of cosmological concepts. But as I became more immersed in Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Arabic and European images of day and night, or our cosmos, constellations, and comets, I began to think that chronology should have nothing to do with my plans. Yesterday's "proven" scientific ideas about the nature of our world constantly are replaced by new discoveries, and become today's folklore. </div>
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In my extremely liberal misinterpretation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, I would almost randomly organize my multi-panel paintings. And give myself the liberty to come up with my own "Space Stories".</div>
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"Space Stories", 54" X 54" on 6 canvases, multi mediaSandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-66117150535630514902013-06-30T21:12:00.000-06:002013-06-30T21:12:34.541-06:00Regeneration: Aspen (this painting completes the series)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After doing a line drawing of my Aspen Tree, the background <br />was painted in gradations of blue. Shadow areas were painted in purple, and I experimented with color.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lower right leaves were defined by color. I decided that<br />because the sapling was painted in spring greens, the cycle<br />would be more complete by making this a fall tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The leaves are now filled in, but the composition looks too <br />chaotic, with very little massing of color. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More orange and yellow-green is added to the upper left, <br />and the lower left is darkened.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I continued to add orange to warm up the bottom of the <br />painting, and to visually connect it to the top.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To complete this painting, I wanted a feeling of leaf canopy <br />above. I feel that this gives a secure and protective quality<br /> to the tree. I needed to eliminate some bits of sky on the <br />upper left to accomplish this.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">These four oil paintings, each 32" X 32", (please read my past three posts) will be permanently displayed outside the chapel at the Castle Rock Adventist Hospital in Castle Rock, Colorado. I appreciate the opportunity to paint this Regeneration Cycle, and to have it presented in such a meaningful location.</span></div>
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-48418765739504761262013-06-27T20:49:00.001-06:002013-06-27T20:59:51.534-06:00Regeneration: Sapling, The Third Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRLyVGcZXTLUO2w3a0TpmsDPgmrv8D2VEVRUVso6nMBdWKMhadEuc71TFpTHEeQQyjehGWRIUSxkABKa0YI0evWe9mY2Nu9c13EaUqOO1qnpmR164yspkNPQ5uLmya-CHhUe5O0OlQvs/s1600/Sapling-drawing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRLyVGcZXTLUO2w3a0TpmsDPgmrv8D2VEVRUVso6nMBdWKMhadEuc71TFpTHEeQQyjehGWRIUSxkABKa0YI0evWe9mY2Nu9c13EaUqOO1qnpmR164yspkNPQ5uLmya-CHhUe5O0OlQvs/s320/Sapling-drawing.jpg" height="320" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My drawing for "Regeneration:Sapling", with a grid used <br />
to enlarge my small sketch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This canvas was first painted a light blue-purple. The overall <br />
tone of the rocks was close to that color. Once the drawing <br />
was traced onto this colored canvas, I re-painted the foliage <br />
with white. This clarified my composition, and made my <br />
color choices for the greens easier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCDG18rye5B_7oDHIB6gCuH3ULFiKJJA2QV3jmqrrKo4rBFxTtJ7w0g43nwN6KFmmJoVRHlsuZ1hBhqSirlNDSmJCU40e07vVBXRl49Df_ks2aUU4fdq7W-IohjNDtqyFwkzGMPvqxfk/s749/RegenerationSapling2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCDG18rye5B_7oDHIB6gCuH3ULFiKJJA2QV3jmqrrKo4rBFxTtJ7w0g43nwN6KFmmJoVRHlsuZ1hBhqSirlNDSmJCU40e07vVBXRl49Df_ks2aUU4fdq7W-IohjNDtqyFwkzGMPvqxfk/s320/RegenerationSapling2.jpg" height="319" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I painted a line image of the rock details, and began to choose<br />
some variations of rock colors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVy5w79nseGz2PH41L703KWtc83TEUYzkhVV6fLI8E-07ga_LGT70GxpJ6s9jcjiCfNMPvgZzzTlVLUHPSgH1J8eVmmys3WjWjPY-nSY03viKxdYQxV1OtOPDmkQCATMiRkthemheaYak/s1600/RegenerationSapling3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVy5w79nseGz2PH41L703KWtc83TEUYzkhVV6fLI8E-07ga_LGT70GxpJ6s9jcjiCfNMPvgZzzTlVLUHPSgH1J8eVmmys3WjWjPY-nSY03viKxdYQxV1OtOPDmkQCATMiRkthemheaYak/s320/RegenerationSapling3.jpg" height="316" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark areas were defined, establishing depth in the com-<br />
position's shallow space.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95qYvZf0mOJeh6YagWzWBIJdNsfaT1DODzYkH5_uSs-kIS5p1N46B2P2pWplzFSis-1VWf5fzqf8TjP32fGM03CBbMUmGMLUY9SG28Y0Sk4DeD5X0PGYzc6Uc6kgAjwH8mBqN3bh1jkk/s1600/RegenerationSapling4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95qYvZf0mOJeh6YagWzWBIJdNsfaT1DODzYkH5_uSs-kIS5p1N46B2P2pWplzFSis-1VWf5fzqf8TjP32fGM03CBbMUmGMLUY9SG28Y0Sk4DeD5X0PGYzc6Uc6kgAjwH8mBqN3bh1jkk/s320/RegenerationSapling4.jpg" height="318" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basic color of the foliage is established.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rocks are modeled and defined, and detail is added to the<br />
leaves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minor tweaks in the rocks. Most importantly, the orange leaves, <br />
which I had really liked for the color contrast they added, were <br />
distracting, so I eliminated them. I did leave a bit of the orange <br />
behind the green leaves as a compliment to the blue.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This new tree represents the regeneration after the fire, my symbol of hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This painting is an oil on canvas, 32" X 32", the third painting of "Regeneration", a four part painting commissioned by Noyes Art Designs for a new hospital.</span></div>
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-18014447961898364942013-06-20T13:23:00.000-06:002013-06-27T20:15:29.162-06:00"Regeneration: Scarred", The Second Painting <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning stage of my oil painting,"Regeneration: Scarred".<br />
The composition and color established.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Further definition of areas of burn and texture in the landscape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Areas in the distance are desaturated and softened. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Texture is integrated, and color palette broadened.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed painting, "Regeneration: Scarred", an oil painting, <br />
32" X 32". This is the second in this series, painted for a hospital, <br />
and commissioned by Noyes Art Designs</td></tr>
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I enjoy looking at a subject from many different vantage points. In this painting, our point of view shifts from the close up involvement in the fire shown in the first piece of this series to a view of the larger landscape, with its implications of the inter-connectedness in nature.<br />
<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-8646455760113070052013-06-20T12:52:00.000-06:002013-06-20T13:00:53.767-06:00Regeneration: Aspen, A Hospital Commission <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first stage of my painting, "Regeneration:Fire"<br />
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A challenging commission was offered to me some months ago by Noyes Art Designs: to paint an image of aspen trees for a new hospital. I had seen so many cliched and formulaic paintings of aspens, with no emotional or intellectual slant of the subject. A vow had been taken never to paint that subject. So my choice was to say,"No", or to find a way to connect to this subject.</div>
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Could I find a path into this subject which respected to hospital's criteria, yet made aspens exciting to me? Perhaps I had been too quick to reject this subject, responding too reactively to how other artists had depicted it? I needed to do some research, and thanks to the internet, I quickly found a wealth of information. For example, aspens, which look so fragile and delicate, are the largest plant on our planet, with many of the trees which grow around one another being connected by their roots, all part of the same plant. My reading led me process of regeneration, of destruction by fire, and re-growth.</div>
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I proposed a series of four canvases, beginning with "Fire", and my proposal was accepted. Here is the first of the series.</div>
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Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-40298753266569275582013-04-18T22:46:00.001-06:002013-04-18T22:53:58.582-06:00"One Teacher, Many Voices"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8mSOuX8gT1gC6ccGb6xA6MbySwirxTvYDuUMsUAa3rH0S2X_P6sNxPS50ig0nVPjdZYwhaSBoLVvRM1OMEx81rP54DObyj1ROBMMNiAPeGOYpobZKK0YdW6_zN3Z7nOjbtcFttUBKBE/s1600/IMG_0448.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8mSOuX8gT1gC6ccGb6xA6MbySwirxTvYDuUMsUAa3rH0S2X_P6sNxPS50ig0nVPjdZYwhaSBoLVvRM1OMEx81rP54DObyj1ROBMMNiAPeGOYpobZKK0YdW6_zN3Z7nOjbtcFttUBKBE/s320/IMG_0448.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8DEAURGCgjZEDfP8idbsUIbGasSPLRueeWs4ExiESuoDV1BRDdayxtmXPChj7HLF90QOkbi9K08THS3k_MLlOPZzhf01F49V7M2q4bYbHENhuQ28nPCRaMs9RuuyXexp_d7XkcMIWha0/s1600/PC+student+show3.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8DEAURGCgjZEDfP8idbsUIbGasSPLRueeWs4ExiESuoDV1BRDdayxtmXPChj7HLF90QOkbi9K08THS3k_MLlOPZzhf01F49V7M2q4bYbHENhuQ28nPCRaMs9RuuyXexp_d7XkcMIWha0/s320/PC+student+show3.jpg" /></a><p>
Some teachers are flattered when students imitate their styles. Not me. Nothing makes me happier than seeing my students develop their own voices. In our new show “Sandra Kaplan And Friends,” you’ll see accomplished work that more than makes my point. And don’t be put off by the fact that you’ll be looking at student work. A number of these artists are represented by commercial galleries. I’ve selected works that I’m proud to curate, and which I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest that you add to your collection. Yes, the art will be for sale, and you’ll find paintings that should appeal to a variety of tastes. But if you just want to browse, join us anyway. I think you’ll be as intrigued as I was when I assembled this impressive sampling of work by current and former students.<p>
In my classes at the Art Students League of Denver and other workshops, artists are encouraged to develop a personal, individualized approach to the world through their painting. Technical expertise is used in the service of vision. I believe that the stronger the exploration of a personal perspective becomes, the more interesting the resultant paintings will be.<p>
<b>“Sandra Kaplan And Friends” </b><p>
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Theodore Schultz Architectural Offices, 863 Santa Fe Drive, 2nd Floor, Denver<p>
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May 3, 2013 through June 30, 2013<p>
Artists will be present during the following times:
First Friday, May 3, 2013, 5 to 9 PM
Opening Celebration, Saturday, May 11, 2 to 5 PM
First Friday, June 7, 5 to 9 PM
Closing Party, Friday, June 21, 5 to 9 PM
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Please visit us on one or more of the above listed dates. The exhibition will also be on view during normal Monday through Friday business hours, or by appointment with one of the artists.<p>
<b>Participating artists:</b><p>
Tim Alcock, Acrylic<p>
Courtney Ahn, Mixed Media<p>
Young Hee Back, Oil<P>
Rob Davenport, Acrylic<p>
Pricilla Garrett, Watercolor<p>
Matt Hardwick, Acrylic<p>
Sandra Kaplan, Collage and Acrylic<p>
Nancy Kembel, Watercolor<p>
Suzanne Mills Kramer, Mixed Media<p>
Gwen Marie, Watercolor<p>
Elke McGuire, Acrylic<p>
Patty Ramey, Oil<p>
Dale Smith, Acrylic<p>
Patti Spranger, Acrylic<p>
Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-57334935868245700342013-02-12T23:32:00.000-07:002013-02-13T00:02:36.881-07:00First Peek At "Space Stories"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 canvas multi media painting, "Space Stories", part of Sandra Kaplan's newest series<br />
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There is still time to catch an exhibit celebrating the first 25 years of the <a href="http://www.asld.org">Art Students League of Denver,</a> at the <a href="http://redline art.org">Redline</a> Denver Art Center, 2350 Arapahoe Street, in the RINO Art District north of downtown. League Faculty members were invited to include a piece of their own, with work from three of their students.<br />
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<a href="http://suzannemillskramer.com">Suzanne Mills Kramer</a>, Young Hee Back, and Tim Alcock; three artists who have been working intensely on their craft for a number of years, and have studied extensively with me at the ASLD. Their paintings range from abstract to very representational, but each artist's painting makes a very strong case for their unique vision.<br />
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I am showing, for the first time, part of my newest series, "Space Stories". <br />
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These multimedia paintings have been inspired by the Hubble Telescope images, and my gentle research into the history of astronomy. When doing research for my series "Some Thoughts About The Weather" a few years ago, I also collected many images from space, and I have been eagerly anticipating using them in another series for quite some time. History, science, philosophy and art soon collided, merging tales of gods and goddesses with scientific images of galaxies many light years away. I realized how swiftly changing our human view of our universe is, and how today's science will be tomorrow's folk tale.<br />
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<br />Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-90499853465029652642012-12-17T22:01:00.000-07:002012-12-17T22:02:51.925-07:00January 2013 Workshops<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We will discuss a bit of the history of collage as an artists’ medium, and experiment with a number of collage techniques. Understanding the difference between collage as a craft medium versus collage as a medium for artistic expression will be included in our conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A prerequisite to this class is my Josef Albers’ based color class, either at the ASLD or in my studio. In those classes, we worked with colored papers to understand visual color phenomena. Now, we will discuss color mixing, and do a structured series of painting exercises, in your preferred medium, to develop mastery of color and color mixing. Exercises will enhance your understanding of Hue, Value, and Saturation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">And don't forget to register for one of the remaining spots in my Provence, France, workshop, October 2-12, 2013!</span></div>
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My work is scattered around town, and beyond, this month.<br />
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I was the juror of the "Own An Original" show at the Littleton Museum, 6028 South Gallup Street, Littleton, Colorado, 303-795-3950. The show will be on display through January 13. A large number of very talented, if conservative, artists applied for the desirable honor of a one person show at the Museum. The top prize went to Rogers Naylor.<br />
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Three of my Plein Air paintings are on display in this exhibit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.aumgallery.com/events.html">Aum Gallery and Framing</a>, 2227 East Colfax, 303-394-3362, is displaying its 2012 Miniature Show through December 29, 2012, 303-394-3362. Three of my small collages are included in this Lilliputian exhibit. The collage pictured above is one of the three.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.asld.org/events_exhibitions/Exhibition-Schedule.php">Art Students League of Denver</a> has an incredibly amusing show titled,"The Joy Of Toys". A small watercolor of our dog, Elgee, using one of his favorite toys as a pillow, is at the ASLD, 200 Grant Street, 303-778-6990, through January 23.<br />
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If you plan on a trip to the mountains, until about December 28, my Plein Air Vail Valley Workshop students from this past summer have some beautiful paintings remaining in <a href="http://www.themile.fm/">The Mile Radio Station </a>lobby, Main Street in Minturn, 970-827-9400.<br />
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And of course, many more works of art are available in<a href="http://www.sandrakaplan.com/"> my studio</a>, which is open by appointment.Sandra Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186117089972316045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539221460380739084.post-78378339443972878522012-11-11T14:56:00.000-07:002012-11-11T15:04:04.787-07:00Provence - Sign Up Tomorrow<br />
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<span id="yiv882742940yui_3_7_2_18_1352595941363_83">A number of artists have expressed an interest in my workshop in Provence, October 2 - 12, 2013. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_18_1352668852090_90">The cost includes the workshop, accommodations, food and wine, admission fees - most everything except airfare. You will be picked up and returned to the airport in Nice.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv882742940yui_3_7_2_18_1352595941363_94">I can promise a spectacular time. I have been in constant co</span><span id="yiv882742940yui_3_7_2_18_1352595941363_106">nsultation with Paula Sullivan, from the <a href="http://www.abbondanzatoscana.com/courses.htm">Abbondanza Toscana</a>, who will insure that our time along the Cote d'Azur is spent touring and painting instead of worrying about accommodations, admission fees, wonderful food, transportation to our sites, etc. Paula has all of that under control. And some of our options for locations are so exciting, I can hardly wait to set up my easel.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_18_1352668852090_74">Paula has found a fabulous house in Draguignan (12 bedrooms, a garden, and a walk to town) which we hope to call home for 10 days next October. A necessary deposit for this house is our reason for offering an early booking reward - a discount of 50 Euros, plus an hour's consultation with me, by Skype or in person, (a $95 value).</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_18_1352668852090_82">The deadline for this reward is November 12, a few days away. Please, if you have any questions, email me. But don't miss this opportunity.</span></div>
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