Dave with Janet and SkySeries Tryptich Paintings

Dear Art Lover,     

     Today’s August offerings are two… but one is actually a combination of three small paintings.  Both artworks are from various life drawing sessions I attended in Austin, Texas, with great models.

     In case you missed yesterday’s post:     I would like to offer, for the month of August 2015 only, selected paintings and drawings for about half the price as my going rate these days.  These are older works, but ones that for one reason or several others, I cannot stand the idea of destroying.  Please contact me directly if you see something you love and would like to add to your art collection.  Here goes the first one for today … 

 "Dave with Janet" AVAILABLE ORIGINAL ART
22" X 28" Oil on Canvas  [framed]
2001 by Kelly Borsheim
[juxtaposed from two different live model painting sessions]
http://www.borsheimarts.com/painting/room04.htm

August 2015 Price:  $400  [plus any Texas sales tax and/or shipping]

     Dave and Janet were/are very well-known and often hired models during many of my formative years in Austin, Texas.  It is likely that every figurative artist in the past 20 years has drawn or painted them at least once.  Dave always likes to push himself, in his running and in his modeling.  He worked to make his poses interesting from many angles.  Even at his older age (from most of my colleagues and me), he designed poses that were difficult to hold.  The pose you see here of Dave is one that I have painted many times, from many angles.  He said he was inspired by Michelangelo.

     Janet is a lovely person.  I have painted her less often, but always enjoyed the experience.  I think that I painted at her session first.  I was in a stage of my artistic journey in which I felt overwhelmed having only three hours with a model and was still doing body parts and using them to find interesting compositions.  I often compose  triangles in my work.

     These two wonderful models, real people and real friends, also posed together for me for the bronze sculpture titled, “I am You.”  They taught me so much during that project!

http://www.borsheimarts.com/sculpture/2004/I_Am_You.htm

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Now, here is some more of Dave:

Sky Series Triptych
EACH painting is 4 x 4 inches - 3 framed together
mixed media on boards
2006 by Kelly Borsheim
http://www.borsheimarts.com/painting.htm

I offer this set of three 4x4 inch original paintings [framed as shown here] to you for only $200 US.  Texas state sales tax (6.75%) may apply.  There is also a $9.50 packaging and shipping fee.

Please contact me for more information.    http://www.borsheimarts.com/contact.htm

Thank you and as always…

Peace,

Kelly

~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor and painter

http://BorsheimArts.com

Exploring Europe Original Painting of Young Couple Traveling

Dear Art Lover,     

     Hmmm, it is August already!  I hope that you received my latest art newsletter.  It contains Part II of the images I wanted to share with you of Genoa, Italy’s amazing sculpture museum (aka, the cemetery).  If you have not seen the images… please check out the page online:

http://www.borsheimarts.com/news/201508_ArtNews-StaglienoMarbleSculptureGenoaItaly-Part2.htm

    Other news is that I had a bit of a shock when I returned to Texas recently.  I left far more art here than I realized.  So, in order to help me move once I find a place to live and get back to carving stone, I thought that I would try something new. 

     I would like to offer, for the month of August 2015 only, selected paintings and drawings for about half the price as my going rate these days.  These are older works, but ones that for one reason or several others, I cannot stand the idea of destroying.  Please contact me directly if you see something you love and would like to add to your art collection.  Here goes the first one… 

Exploring Europe -- AVAILABLE NOW [original art]
24 x 18 cm [about 9.4 x 7 inches] Oil on wood
copyright 2007 Kelly Borsheim

     This painting was inspired by my trip around parts of Europe in 2006 as I traveled to see exhibitions of Eugene Carriere, my favorite painter.  At this writing, I cannot remember where exactly I was when I saw this young couple enjoying the lazy, care-free life, eating pizza and sitting next to a large water fountain that squirted the water UP. However, I believe that I was in Germany when I saw them.

I finished this painting after I settled into Florence, Italy, in 2007 [hence the board dimensions in centimeters], but now the work is with me in Austin, Texas.

I offer this original painting to you for only $50 US.  Texas state sales tax (6.75%) may apply.  There is also a $9.50 packaging and shipping fee.

Please contact me for more information.

Thank you and as always…

Peace,

Kelly

~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor and painter

http://BorsheimArts.com

Rancho Deluxe Junkyard Art Mason City Iowa

Dear Art Lover,      

     Mason City, Iowa, is known as the town for homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his students, as well as The Music Man, Meredith Willson. [Perhaps you recall the (musical) film with the famous tune “76 Trombones” or the lyrics spoken by Robert Preston, “Trouble, right here in River City” as I do].  Check it out:

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI   

Lyrics:  http://lyrics.wikia.com/Robert_Preston:Ya_Got_Trouble

     The great fringe benefit to Mason City for being River City is that they have never stopped teaching music at all levels in their schools! 

     However, Mason City is also home to "Rancho Deluxe Z Garden" aka con affetto “The Junkyard.”  I was there visiting family and thus, my aunt thought this was a “must see.”  Perhaps you will agree.

     What I like about these sorts of places is that there is usually a person with a vision.  He has an overall concept, but the details are rather open, as are the choice of materials for his 3-d collage of “outsider art.”  Sometimes they are the work of one man, as with Solomon’s Castle in central Florida.  I was told that “The Junkyard” is led by the property owner, but that he invites kids and others to contribute their own voices to the overall composition.  Whether or not the neighbors appreciate this look, there is a lot of community expressed here in the shared effort.  I may not want to live in a place such as it, but I am very glad these spaces exist.

hmm? Really the voice of the people?  Glad it does not say, "SLOW Children / [image] / At Play."

Ah HA!  There appear to be plans for expanding the maze of cubes into the back section of the property.

This is the Vietnam Memorial.  Sadly, there was a helmet and rifle that have since been stolen.  My aunt remembered those more clearly than what is left there now.

Happy Birthday, Skye in Oz!

My apologies from the long vacation from my blog.  I have been visiting family, friends, my recent Kickstarter project supporters, and galleries around the southeast and Midwest US.  The amount of driving I had to do really cut into quality time with so many people, and caused me to miss too many others.  I am now getting a bit settled in Austin, Texas, and working here until early September. 

Peace,
Kelly

~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer, teacher

http://BorsheimArts.com

P.S.  Here is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home (I did not have time to note whether it was his or a student's actual design.)

     This is the Mason City home for Meredith Willson, the original Music Man in Iowa, USA. 

Santa Fortunata Sorrento Italia

Dear Art Lover,

     I left Florence, Italy, with a large wide, but narrow box containing nine paintings (three on wood panels), surrounded by clothes and black squid-ink spaghetti for my family.  My backpack had all of my electronic gadgets that I needed for work in the US and a big pad of paper with two boxes of pastels.  That was my idea of traveling light for my flight.  In addition, I had an extra bag with food and random things that I anticipated using up during my last couple of days in Italia for a while.  After a train ride to Napoli (Naples) and catching the Circumvesuviana train to Sorrento, I knew that I was not having a good time.

     A man running a luggage storage facility at the station in Sorrento saved me.  I delighted when he told me that there was indeed a Mailboxes, Etc. nearby.  He charged me only five euro to store my box of art at the station overnight.  Feeling much lighter, I walked around in the rain to buy bus tickets to go to the campground, Santa Fortunata.  This second image is right outside of the station just before a 30-minute thunder and lightning storm passed over us.

     The SantaFortunata is a campground that also has cabins supplied with linens.  Mine was in a lovely location up a dirt path with a good view of the distant volcano Vesuvius.  I was thrilled with myself for leaving that awkward and heavy box behind!  A nearby restaurant provided a light dinner for takeout as I settled in for some computer work, creating images and files for art shipping.  Soon, I was deep asleep in this lovely haven.

     The next morning the birds were singing.  I took the bus back into downtown Sorrento carrying an empty backpack.  The guys at Mailboxes Etc. went with me to pick up my art box and allowed me to remove most of the stuff that surrounded the art.  They had to repackage it all anyway and also verify that I was shipping what I claimed to be shipping.  They copied my new digital files for the Customs paperwork that allows art to leave Italia.  Everything went well.  I then met a man named Giovanni de Liso selling luggage who also created nice Italian scenic paintings.  We had a wonderful chat after I purchased a small suitcase and he gave me advice on good local places to eat. 

     Around town are several bronze sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro.  He is quite famous with a bronze sphere with similar geometric shapes emerging from it as one of the sculptures at the Vatican Museum.  They are all well cared for and the patina seems new to me.  This is impressive, especially for a coastal town.   

   

     In the afternoon I headed back to Santa Fortunata and brought my computer down to the beach at the bottom of their cliffs.  It was so relaxing to make “my office” at the edge of the sea.  It was so good to swim again and then work beside the music of the waves.

 

    It was the pattern during my visit for an evening storm to roll-in.  It was so exciting to be there with the wind whipping around and the rain hitting my metal roof.  The morning after was clear and gorgeous.  I would recommend this place as a great home base for visiting the areas around Vesuvius, such as Pompei (Pompeii in English) and Ercolano (Herculaneum in English).

http://www.santafortunata.com/en/

Tanti auguri di buon compleanno, carissima Susanna! 

Peace,

Kelly

~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer, teacher

http://BorsheimArts.com