Saville Gallery Reception

The Reception for the Member's Show at the Saville Gallery in Cumberland Maryland was held Saturday night.    I was thrilled to be able to take my grandson, Erik, to it.   We had a wonderful evening looking at the art, visiting with art friends and snacking .   Here we are in with "Copper Beech"

Saville Gallery

The Allegany Arts Council hosts an annual member's show.   This is a juried show which had over 190 entries and took in 50.   I was fortunate to have a monotype of mine accepted into the show.  I always consider it an honor and privilege to hang my work at the Saville.  

Winter Corn

When the storm (Sandy) hit, most of the local farmers had not yet harvested their feed corn.   I was struck by the color of the drying corn against the snowy landscape.    It isn't a scene we usually see around here.     The corn is usually harvested before the first big snowfall.   Not this year.   We got 36 inches of snow to serve as a background for the corn.   I had to paint it.

Back to the Studio

We have spent most of the last 12 days coping with and recovering from the storm.   Today some friends came to help chain saw and clear the yard a so we can get around.   We are grateful to them for their kindness and help.
Life is beginning to be "normal" for us which means that I have actually been able to get into the studio to do some painting.  It seems like forever since I have had the time to actually execute a piece.    I so enjoy the process of getting an idea, doing the drawing, transfering the idea to the watercolor paper and finally getting to actually paint.  
I did this one the other day. It is certainly a "suearnson" landscape.

And so it goes. . . . .

Weather comes, we deal with what it brings and life goes on. . . . .thankfully.    The storm hit Monday evening, the 29th of Oct.    At one point it was snowing 3 inches an hour and then the thunder snow started.   We could hear trees falling and branches popping.  When dawn came we had 29 inches of snow, 15 trees down in our yard but we still had power.    That went out Tuesday evening as a branch came tumbling down tearing the wire out of the house.   
We are very lucky because we have water (the spring in our basement), heat (coal furnace) and can cook on the grill on the deck.   AND  there was power in the guest house , but no water.    We kept the home fires burning in our house during the day, cooked dinner and ate here and then went up to the guest house to read in the light and sleep in the warm.   
They were able to hook up our power Saturday night.    We are 'back to normal". 
We have a lot of snow, getting to fallen trees isn't happening.   Alan and I have been working on clearing up the huge hemlock that fell across the driveway.  
And life goes on.      I am back in the studio painting, Alan is at work and we are really grateful to the friends (from all over the country) who kept in touch with us.    Thank you.

View across our yard Tuesday Oct. 30

 

View from house to studio Tues. Oct. 30.

Artist Studio Tours

This past weekend was a terrific weekend of studio tours.    The people that came to visit our studios seemed to be interested in art and how we make it.    We love to explain how we make art, especially to children.  We look forward to next weekend,  October 27 and 28 from 11a.m. to 5 p.m. when we will continue to show our studios to the public.   Please come by and mention our blog when you get your free sample of a monotype.

It was a beautiful Fall weekend.   Most of the leaves have fallen but the colors are still wonderful

                      I recently took this photo of our pond.

Mountain Maryland Sale and Art Tour

 

Tour books can be picked up at The Gallery on Alder Street or the Visitor's Center

 

The Mountain Maryland Sale and Art Tour is this coming weekend (October 20 & 21) from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and October 27 and 28 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. 

There are seven Garrett County artists on the tour: Kenny Braitman(metal work),  Caroline Blizzard( photographer), Neal Blizzard(photographer), Julie Turrentine(fused glass) , Robert Yonke(watercolors), Alan Arnson(woodwork)  and Sue Arnson (watercolors, monotypes, scarves).    If you are interested in art and how it is made it would be worth your while to hit a few of these studios.   Both Alan and I will be demonstrating in our work places.   I will be demonstrating monotypes that are taken off a gelatin plate.   I will give free samples to my visitors.

Come on by and see us, it will be a fun couple of weeks.