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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Hudson Valley painter Jamie Williams Grossman

Long Winter Shadows

2010

"I was out walking my dog through the snow-covered meadow when I spotted these long shadows leading toward the house. Fortunately, I rarely go out without my camera! Long shadows in the middle of the day are one of the benefits of winter. Although I’ve used many compositional elements to lead into my paintings, I don’t think I’ve ever used winter shadows like this. Now that I’ve given it a try, I want to do more!"

"Jamie Williams Grossman is a Signature Member of New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP). She serves on the NYPAP Advisory Board and also as the head of their Lower Hudson Valley Chapter. Jamie has taught oil and acrylic painting at Putnam Arts Council, and has served as a member of their Gallery Committee. Her paintings have been featured in USA Weekend, The Journal News, Plein Air Magazine, Putnam County News and Recorder, the Catskill Region Guide, Poughkeepsie Journal, and Bedford Record Review."

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http://www.hudsonvalleypainter.com/
http://hudsonvalleysketches.blogspot.com/
http://www.hudsonvalleypainter.com/category/winter-and-snow-scenes/
http://www.hudsonvalleypainter.com/about-me/

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840

The Abbey in the Oakwood

1809

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

Dream about a little girl

I dreamed last night that I went out to adopt a doggie and came home with an 8-year-old girl. I thought she was a dog until I realized I had to take care of her and raise her, so I adopted her. We lived in a two bedroom apartment, and people kept cutting through our apartment doors to get to the other side of the building. I picked out a school for the little girl, and we even combed the neighborhood for fast food restaurants. I was glad I got her.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Reflections on New Year's Eve

“New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”

~ Hamilton Wright Mabie, American writer 1845-1916

Friday, December 23, 2011

Email from me to a friend

Since I am hitting the road on Monday I thought I'd get my tires checked at Valvoline, and then I decided it was time for an oil change and did that, too. But the young man who waited on me had a nice face and a great smile, so I said to him, “You’re a very nice looking young man.” I made him blush. If I was 20 I would have asked him out. He flashed his smile and said "Merry Christmas" as I pulled out. Four hours later I am still thinking about him. What a rush.

Christmas gift book 1900

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Season's Greetings from Scotland

My Scottish penpal Michael "Bogman" Murphy sent me one of his photographs for Christmas. Now I am sure it doesn't say "Merry Christmas," as we are both atheists, but in his own Scottish Gaelic idiom he wishes me a nice holiday season. Michael is a landscape photographer and doesn't use any tricks to develop his photos. He climbs mountains just to get the perfect shot. Quite a billygoat is he. If you like Scottish castles and ruins, Michael is also a passionate historian. His photos are too good for travel journals.

You can find more of Michael's photography, all of it for sale at incredible prices, at this link:
http://www.scotcolour.com

Happy Holidays to you, dear friend.

Email from a friend

"As I was mindlessly going through the TV channels the other day -- as I am wont to do -- I happened upon one of those community cable productions of someone with a shaky camera and next to no audio quality who recorded a church service. The preacher, amen, was preachin', amen, that when he and two of the elders were out the day before, they could feel it startin' to rain, amen, and the roof of the car was up, amen, and he said he rebuked, he said he REBUKED, amen, he REBUKED the rain to stop in the name of Jesus, amen, hallelujah, cuz he had the roof of the car up and he had the brothers with him, amen, and he REBUKED!!! the rain to stop, amen, in the name of Jesus, amen, and they didn't feel another drop of rain the whole rest of the day. Amen! Hallelujah."
~DPV