Arch Female Nude Painting

Dear Art Lover,

     Half the fun of returning to one’s former studio and home is revisiting favorite artworks.  Austin, Texas, is one of the wonderful cities that offers many opportunities for artists to draw from live models.  I went through a stage in which I wanted to work large and fast and experiment with metallic paints.  And I was still fascinated with the idea of appreciating the design of the human form up close.  This 2-feet-by-4-feet painting “Arch” was a fun one and I tried to photograph the detail shot so that you may have an idea of the subtle metallic sheen in some areas of the female reclining torso.

Arch

2 x 4 feet

Acrylic on canvas

Framed

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Detail images:

  

     I will be leaving Texas in less than a week and traveling to Florida to help my baby sister celebrate her marriage.  After that, I will be traveling to see more family in North Carolina and Virginia before arriving at Don Elliott’s Franklin Barry Gallery on Monday, May 15.  I hope to see you there, or later in Austin, Texas, for a visit [see event information below].

Calendar:

Monday, May 15, 2017:  Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

The Franklin Barry Gallery aka The Frame Shop, Indianapolis [normal gallery hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.]; 617 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana  46204;  Tel.  317.822.8455

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Friday and Saturday, May 19-20, 2017:  Austin, Texas

Rue Artsier presents LiberArte event spettacolo!

Friday, May 19, 2017   from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, May 20  from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where:  615 W. 7th St., 8th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701

R.S.V.P.  Brenda@rueartsier.com

Lists of artists:

Luis Rico- Mexico

Adrian Moraru- Moldova

Leandro Klapputh- Buenos Aires

Maria Fotaki- Greece

Denis Chernov- Moscow

Kelly Borsheim. Austin & Italia

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I hope to see you!

Peace,

Kelly

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Burning, Trimming, and Mural Painting

Dear Art Lover,

      Lately, my neighbors have been making little fires all around these hills in Tuscany.  They are removing much of the grasses that have overgrown over the winter.  Today, my landlord and his brother will start trimming their olive trees.  I really hate to miss this!

     Tomorrow I leave for Firenze and will live there for one month as I work with a private student.  We will have fun on his new still life painting project (after his first project EVER was Leonardo da Vinci’s “Leda and the Swan” – a human figure, and animal, and a landscape!).  But, I love my new home and I want so much to see each season here as they unfold.  My landlord assured me that spring will not pass me by before I return, but … I love helping “my family” in Casignano each November with the olive harvest.  To be around for the trimming sounds interesting to me.  Here, it is dangerous work because the olive trees grow on the sides of the hills and they use ladders and saws.  It would be nice if I could be here even for added safety for them.  Oy yoy. 

     My mural project progresses slowly.  This is partially because there is so much detail work in creating a specific landscape, and I, sadly, get confused easily on which of my charcoal markings denotes the dark shape or the light one.  The other part, naturally, is that I have a fair amount to do before leaving tomorrow. 

     I took these close-up images last night.  It is weird to see them in this way.  I think the mural looks better in person.  However, I have not finished with these parts that I show you.  I just wanted to share how I am layering the acrylic paint and trying to get soft edges to create something of an atmosphere. Sadly, not much more will happen on  this for at least a month, in case you were thinking to hold your breath.  Hahaha…

Thank you.  And happy birthday to two very lovely ladies:  Giuliana and Dilya! 

Peace,

Kelly

http://BorsheimArts.com

Critter Watch Italy

Cari Amici (Dear Friends),

          My client wanted three buxomy babes in a pool setting with an Italian landscape and Roman ruins in the background. This evolved over time, as creative endeavors do. In late August or early September, I woke up with this idea that I did not want to create a voyeuristic situation as much as an inviting one. So, I decided to have the model try a pose that looked directly at the viewer and said, “Come on in; the water is fine.” Working in a visual language, sometimes it is difficult to communicate body language in text (e-mail). So, I shot a quick snapshot in my room while I struck the pose and sent it to the model to communicate what I wanted, time being of the essence by that point.

     I am struggling now with the acrylic paint. It seems so much more fun on landscapes, but seriously, for large areas and, thus far, skin, I am still wishing for my oils. Mostly it is the fact that acrylic dries fast (creating hard edges if I am not on top of it!) and that the color dries darker than applied. That latter makes it difficult for me to match areas that I have worked on earlier. Hmmm, practice and experience with this material could help that a bit.

     Today’s images are my “critter pics,” consisting of cinghiale (Italian for “boar”), a sunning lizard, and the swallows are back. Like the robins in central Texas, the swallows passing through here in Italia signify a season change. I wanted summer to last longer. I never got to swim enough and I like the warmth, as well as doing less laundry.

     Oh, yeah, and one image of my “Invitation” figure that greets one as he enters the room. This image just shows Notan design. I tend to build off of that and use it to check shapes before developing the figure.