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The CD Of The Day

Trip back to the very early eighties and embark on a punk experience with Wendy Orleans Williams, (the sex starlet), and the Plasmatics. New Hope For The Wretched was technically the Plasmatics second album, although it was their first full length LP.
You can get The Plasmatics, New Hope For The Wretched here!

It’s mini oil painting night again. Before I get into the introduction for tonight’s painting, I guess I need to clarify something. Last week I had painted my dog. A friend asked me in skeptical amazement, “How did you get him to sit all week”? Well, I didn’t.

I will spend days on a full portrait where a single brush stroke can make or break a resemblance to a subject. However, all of my mini oil paintings are done more as an oil sketch to exercise my skill. In other words, I only allow myself a maximum of an hour and a half to paint a mini painting.

I usually like to paint from the actual subject/object when possible. I need the practice at the hand to eye coordination. My dog will sit on command for about 5 minutes at a time. The first sit command allowed me to sketch him in pencil. The second sit command allowed me to block in the colors of his fur. The third sit command allowed me to capture some highlights. The rest of the time he lay on the floor watching me, which gave me a good opportunity to do some finer detail work of his face.

I went shopping today for some cherries. Apparently I’ll need to start going into town to do my shopping. Our little country supermarket didn’t have cherries in stock. So I started out today’s painting as an abstract. No cherries needed for that! This painting didn’t turn out at all as I expected. As I lay a line of red color down over the blue, it occurred to me that it would make a great post. From there, the rest flowed from my subconscious.

When I finished, my husband looked at it, and exclaimed, “It looks menacing!”
A second later later he added, “It looks sad, too.”

This is what no cherries in the grocery store can do to an artist!

This small oil painting of a barbed wire fence on a blue hued background is painted on canvas covered art board. It is 7 inches by 5 inches in size. It should be dry enough to ship around October 6, 2006. Purchase price: $19.95.

If interested, please email me, Cindy.

If you don’t know Dougie, but enjoy James Taylor, you are in for a major treat.

Well known as the Scottish Folk singer/songwriter, Dougie MacLean has also enjoyed success in creating music for television dramas, stage productions and major motion pictures on both sides of the pond. He’s such a big name in Europe that he even has an event named after him, “The Dougie MacLean Weekend“. (Tickets to that event, which runs Thursday 26th – Sunday 29th October 2006, are said to be selling fast.)

If you can’t make that event, then here’s his wonderful CD, The Dougie MacLean Collection presented by Putumayo. On this CD are the best of his folk songs, which are described as “contemporary, yet timeless”.
Offered for your consideration, The Dougie MacLean Collection CD at Media Medley on Ebay.