GINGER WHELLOCK FINE ART
Winter Arrives Early 12 x 16 Oil
May the New Year bring US ALL
Joy and prosperity,
Peace and brotherhood
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 2 - NUMBER VI, December, 2009
2010 approaches rapidly - can you believe we are already a decade into the 21st century? We will be home for the New Year celebration, but first we are looking forward to two weeks of holiday celebrations in the along the south coast and midlands of England, my husband's home.
As of today, I've a couple of new and finished paintings to share with you and then I will clean the studio and close the door until our return. This "closing of the door" will be a symbolic gesture for me as I leave the frustrations of 2009 behind and return afresh to open the door to the New Year. The change has already begun, but actually physically closing the door will give me a time separation so that my return will be completely refreshing.
Scattered Showers 9 x 12 Oil
As you travel across the west in summer, you will find this scene everywhere. Sometimes rain actually hits the ground, but more often than not it evaporates in the dry air before landfall. The accompanying cloud formations are awesome.
Migration 8 x 16 Oil
I decided to paint in a couple of the deer in keeping with the title. I may still work on this one in the New Year.
The spirit of Christmas fills our house and I hope it does yours. Christmas music plays from my iPod - LED lights sparkle here and there, the candles are lit and friends just dropped by for a glass of holiday cheer. This year I have avoided the shops as our gift giving is well reduced because of our travel to England and instead, I've concentrated on my blog, Newsletters, Christmas cards and preparing for our trip.
Summer Escape 20 x 20 Oil
Driving along the Elk River in northern Colorado we came across this canoe pleasantly drifting along the riverbank tethered by an old rope. In reality, there was also a tipi set up between the two groups of trees. I just couldn't paint that in - no one would believe me or they would be looking for the Indian camp fire too. Expect to see some changes to this painting in the New Year too.
WEB SITE NEWS:
I've a new blog post up and maybe another before I depart for the Holidays so check it out here. I would love to have your make comments either directly to me or via the "comments" section. I love your feedback.
GALLERIES:
I am continuing to investigate various galleries for representation and appreciate any suggestions you may have. If you have a favorite gallery that might be a good fit for me, please give them my name and web site information in recommendation and let me know so that I might make contact. I appreciate all the networking you, my good friends, can provide. Thanks.
FOR SALE:
Don't forget, all these paintings are for sale and I would be very happy to ship them directly to you with thanks. You can check out pricing on my web site. Please do call me for an appointment to visit my studio and to have a private showing of all the work I have there. I love to share my paintings with you, paint in demonstration at your request, answer questions you have and sell you one of my original paintings.
PLEASE:
Don't forget to tell all your friends, family and associates about my work and invite them to visit my web site and blog. I certainly could use your help in spreading the word about my work and web site. Feel free to forward this Newsletter to anyone you wish. Just remember to keep the copyright notice attached (see below). Thank you.
THANKS:
I appreciate the time you take to read my Newsletter. Let me know your thoughts and comments at info@gingerwhellock.com. Remember, you can unsubscribe at any time and I promise to never share your email addresses with anyone!
Winter Settles In 14 x 18 Oil
Instead of just re-photographing this one, I set it back on the easel and changed nearly all the foreground. Now the sunlight streaks across the meadow dramatically, ice begins to form out beyond the shoreline and the river turns to translucent slush keeping us from clearly seeing through to the river bottom.
Happy New Year!
Ginger
Ginger Whellock
www.gingerwhellock.com
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Castle Rock, CO 80108
303-660-1458
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GINGER WHELLOCK FINE ART
Elk Afternoon 9 x 12 Oil Plein Air SOLD
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 2 - NUMBER V, November, 2009
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
First of all, let me wish you all a glorious Thanksgiving with family and friends - a day filled with thanksgiving for the gift of each other, the food on our tables and the love and laughter we share. My profound thanks go to all of you who collected my paintings over the years in a wonderful show of support for me and the arts in general. Our open house in October was a huge success and I have trouble finding words of thanks for those of you who attended and especially for all your purchases. For those of you abroad this Thanksgiving, I will propose a toast to you in thanks for your support, friendship, interest and connections to those of us celebrating happily in the US. Please feel free to join us in this Thanksgiving tradition. Cheers!
In the States, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season. The end of the year approaches rapidly, weekends bring us together for annual celebrations, we join the crowd for holiday shopping, twinkling lights brighten our spirits despite the early setting sun, warm fires in the fireplace make us feel connected and protected, family members come and go with rosy red cheeks, resolutions for the new year are made, spending budgets are difficult to keep and suddenly it is New Years Eve and we must adjust our calendars and learn to write 2010!
But before I get going on objectives for next year, let me share with you my last couple months of painting. Perhaps you recall, I was about to head off to a workshop with Scott Christensen - I was in the middle of some pretty profound changes in my life as an artist - and more than a couple of paintings were giving me headaches. I never said art was easy and believe me these last few months prove that, but without great effort, an artist stagnates and you, my lovely followers, would get tired of my work.
Lair of the Bear 6 x 8 plein air oil
This was painted at the plein air workshop given by Scott Christensen in Evergreen Colorado. Just for laughs, imagine this: Ginger hobbling along on crutches (after a foot injury) with the straps from many pieces of gear crisscrossing her chest while beside her, casually carrying her pochade paint box, was Scott patiently getting Ginger set up at a convenient picnic table. Embarrassing, but Scott acted as though this happens all the time. Thanks, Scott.
Here are a couple more from the workshop - all including the one above are unfinished. I don't intend to work on them anymore, but instead save them for reference for larger paintings. That way, I don't loose any of the important information about color I captured while painting on location (sometimes with frozen fingers!).
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On the Easel Evergreen Lake 2 9 x 12 plein air oil
On the Easel Mount Evans 1 9 x 12 plein air oil
On the Easel Evergreen Lake 1 6 x 8 plein air oil
Scott's workshop seriously refocused my thinking - absolutely just what I needed - and I think you will begin to see the results immediately. What I learned most profoundly is that I must engage my left brain when I am painting. I am a right brain painter - happily working in my own little world without a voice or obvious connection to my analytical, learned left brain. Scott calls this euphoria of painting in the right brain "that lovin' feeling" - and it can get you into trouble fast! Learning how to get both sides of my brain to communicate with each other takes time and slows my painting down considerably. But...the results show a subtle maturity in my work.
I decided right, away after returning to the studio, to dump any paintings I had been working on except for this one, and begin again with my fresh thoughts leading me forward.
Mid-Summer Water 14 x 18 Oil
Though I had begun this painting the night of the Studio Open House, I had painted very little before leaving on the workshop. I had finished the layout and worked briefly on the right top background. Certainly the layout would work and there were some interesting colors being presented in the background, so I carried on from there with my new ideas. As usual, I returned in my memory to the day we hiked along this river. The water level had lowered and the river moved quietly and slowly over these rocks, occasionally rippling. The heat of the sun brought the fragrance of full summer grass, birds busily moved about in the trees and once in a while a trout would leap up for a catch.
Wade in the Water 18 x 24 Oil
This painting began with some reference photos from the same area as the last painting, Mid-Simmer Water, but this time I made considerable changes from the references in order to make a better composition and bring more interest to the viewer.
On the Easel Migration 8 x 16 Oil
This is a very simple scene of fall scrub oak and the occasional cottonwood, dried grasses waving in the foreground and a few deer moving through. The deer may have moved on by the time I get to the grassy area, but I think I will keep the title of Migration anyway.
In-between these paintings I suddenly had the urge to get into some snow paintings. Maybe our weather stimulated this, or maybe with the holidays looming. Anyway, I felt something in a winter vernacular would be appropriate.
Winter Settles In 14 x 18 Oil
I really am having trouble photographing this one, but until I get it right I thought you might like to see this painting of Rock Creek in Montana. Imagine if you will, the large evergreens in more color and sunlight streaming across the open field of grass. The water, even at freezing temperature, still moves slowly and ice forms grow at the edges. Though it will never freeze over, the iced edges come close to joining together and most of the open water will turn to slush. I tried to imagine this in slow motion as I painted, knowing that the banks would soon be covered with accumulated snow and this view would become nearly a black and white study.
My second snow painting will be used as our Christmas card which I will share with you just before the holiday. Keep watching! You see, we will be traveling over the pond for the Holidays! We will spend about a week on the south coast celebrating with John's family for his mother's 90th birthday! Hopefully we will get a chance to share some cheer with good friends and spend Christmas day in the midlands. Jolly old England at Christmas time is delightful and not nearly as commercial as the US holiday - a welcome change for us.
WEB SITE NEWS:
If you follow my blog, you would have seen one or two of the paintings I shared with you today. Though I doubt I will get another Newsletter out before January, I hope to have one new blog posted - so check it out sometime after December 15, 2009!
GALLERIES:
I am seriously investigating gallery representation and appreciate any suggestions you may have. If you have a favorite gallery that might be a good fit for me, please give them my name and web site information in recommendation and let me know so that I might make contact. I appreciate all the networking you, my good friends, can provide. Thanks.
FOR SALE:
Don't forget, all these paintings are for sale and I would be very happy to ship them directly to you with thanks. You can check out pricing on my web site. Please do call me for an appointment to visit my studio and to have a private showing of all the work I have there. I love to share my paintings with you, paint in demonstration at your request, answer questions you have and sell you one of my original paintings.
PLEASE:
Don't forget to tell all your friends, family and associates about my work and invite them to visit my web site and blog. I certainly could use your help in spreading the word about my work and web site. Feel free to forward this Newsletter to anyone you wish. Just remember to keep the copyright notice attached (see below). Thank you.
THANKS:
I appreciate the time you take to read my Newsletter. Let me know your thoughts and comments at info@gingerwhellock.com. Remember, you can unsubscribe at any time and I promise to never share your email addresses with anyone!
Ciao, Ginger
Ginger Whellock
www.gingerwhellock.com
info@gingerwhellock.com
Castle Rock, CO 80108
303-660-1458
All images and text © by Ginger Whellock. I encourage you to forward this Newsletter as long as it includes the copyright notice. Please contact me if you would like to reproduce this Newsletter in any form
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