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Month: March 2010
Let’s Paint Herring!
My former Teacher Shows us how to paint Herring and do it all!
He Takes Phone Calls While he Paints too.
You Gotta love him!
Http://www.FrontieroGallery.com
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Rockport Art Association March 14th thru March 26th
I thought this would be of interest to Good Morning Gloucester since the Birdseye Building, the Paint Factory, Fort Square, and the Marine Railways are frequent subjects here:
Judy Robinson-Cox Solo Show
Endangered Spaces
The RAA is pleased to announce a Solo Show by award winning photographer Judy Robinson-Cox (judy.robinson-cox.com). Judy will exhibit a collection of photographic images and constructions called “Endangered Spaces” at the Rockport Art Association March 14th through March 26th.
This exhibition is about locations, buildings and moments in time that no longer exist, or are in danger of extinction. The majority of the photographs were taken in Cape Ann including the Birdseye Building, Fort Square, the Marine Railways and the Paint Factory. Judy employs a variety of photographic techniques to try and capture the essence of a place including traditional photography, digital photographic montages, photo books, cut-out three dimensional photographs, and montage collages.
Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, March 14th 2-4pm. All are welcome!
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Walker Creek Mirage
It took me several minutes to figure out how I got this image. There’s no Photoshop involved or any other manipulation. It’s right out of the camera. Any guesses? I’ll give a hint later.
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The Bean Captures This Picture For Mammaw
Yesterday I gave the camera to the Bean to take pictures much like Sharon did with grandaughter Kylie last week.
To say that I’ve created a monster would be an understatement. She is going to need her own camera.
Click the picture below to see the slide show of pictures entirely taken by the Bean. These were the best 33 out of about 120 she took.
The Bean Captures This Picture For Mammaw, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Need some votes to finish strong–and you get a decadent chocolate recipe!
Three more days to vote for my recipe if you are a Facebook member. Thank you so much–Lil and I could win $2500.00 if I end up with the most votes by midnight Friday………..click the link and click on “vote for this recipe” on the lower right of the page.
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Dark Chocolate Sunset Orange Torte
*if you want to make the recipe and can’t find the Ferrara chocolate, there are other companies that make chocolate with orange essence or you can add a little orange zest to the melted chocolate. Please let me know how it comes out if you make the recipe.
4 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 sticks butter
5 eggs, divided
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons orange extract
1-6.17 oz Ferrara Dark Chocolate Orange Ball, finely chopped, divided
8 oz cream cheese, softened
4 oz white chocolate
½ cup heavy cream
5 tablespoons confectioners sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two 8\” round cake pans with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside
In a medium microwave safe bowl, melt unsweetened chocolate and butter. Stir until smooth and set aside to cool slightly.
In another medium bowl stir together by hand 4 eggs and 2 cups granulated sugar. Stir in flour, salt and orange extract.
Mix in chocolate and butter mixture and stir in half of the chopped Ferrera Dark Chocolate Orange Ball. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans and set aside.
In a medium bowl beat together cream cheese, egg, remaining 2 tablespoons sugar until lighter in texture and completely mixed. Drop cream cheese mixture by tablespoonfuls on to chocolate batters and swirl with knife. Bake for 25 minutes or until center is set.
Remove from oven and cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. When cool, place one layer on serving plate.
While cakes are cooling, prepare filling. Bring to a simmer 4 oz white chocolate and ½ cup heavy cream in a saucepan. Remove from heat and stir until smooth. Pour into a mixing bowl and refrigerate until cool. When cool, add confectioners sugar to mixture, beat and spread half of the mixture over first layer of cake. Top with remaining layer and spread remaining white chocolate mixture over top layer.
Melt remaining chopped Ferrera Dark Chocolate Orange ball in microwave and stir until smooth. Drizzle on top of white chocolate layer
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JUSTICE!
LNG Support Tugboat Justice leaves its Dock.
For more great Photos and New York Harbor Tugboat info click the link below:
http://tugster.wordpress.com/
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Sunny Sunday!
Anyone know who this is?
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Pinfish on the Naples Pier
A fisherman caught this pinfish on the Naples Pier. The first time Id ever come to Naples I was about 11 years old. My sister Felicia and I came down to visit my grandpartents Captain Joe and Grandma Felicia. My grandfather would walk down to the pier each morning and fish with his buddies where they would catch snook and Spanish mackerel and whatever else was there to be caught.
He got me up at 5am to go fishing with him and although I have a terrible memory I remember that morning well. We met up with some of his fishing buddies, many of them also retired and had the same routines of walking down and fishing each morning off the pier
Every year I take the girls down to the Naples pier to walk down to the end, see what the old-timers are catching, get the girls some ice cream and reflect a little about what an incredible man Captain Joe was. How strong he was, how hard he worked, how much he loved his family, how generous he was, how respected he was. His shoes are impossible to fill but he set a great example for us to try to follow.
When walking down the pier there were a few benches and plaques with some of the names of the old timers who had gone to that pier to fish day after day and had now passed.
I wish my grandfather had a plaque there as well but I know his spirit as a fisherman is still present down there plaque or not- for me anyway as I’ll never forget that morning strolling down those wooden planks that made up the pier way back when I was just a kid.
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Pictures Taken By The Bean
Taken by The Bean
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Jeff Weaver 2010 Spring Exhibits
The Marblehead Arts Association
has invited Jeff, as guest artist,
to have an exhibit of his paintings
in the Parlor Gallery
at the King Hooper Mansion
8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
has invited Jeff, as guest artist,
to have an exhibit of his paintings
in the Parlor Gallery
at the King Hooper Mansion
8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
Jeff’s exhibit will run concurrent with the April Member Exhibit:
The Blue Show – All Things Water
from Saturday, April 3 through Sunday, April 25
Opening reception for both exhibits is Sunday, April 11, 2-4 pm.
For more information call: 978-590-2979, or 781-631-2608.
Jeff will be exhibiting at the Modern Marine Masters show
at The Maritime Gallery
at Mystic Seaport, 47 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355.
The show runs from Saturday, April 24 through Friday, June 11.
For more information call: 978-590-2979, or 860-572-5388.
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Pic submitted by ciabat to the GMG Flickr Group Pool
Good Harbor –Winter Nor’east Storm Submitted to The GMG Flickr Group By photoholic1
That’s one of Thatcher’s Island’s twin lighthouses, East of the town of Rockport, MA.
Good Harbor Beach is in Gloucester.
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This Week’s Music Schedule Mar.8 – Mar.14
Check out the week’s listings at blueslvr’s blog. Thanks Joanne!
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Trixies On Cambier Park Steak and Cheese
Trixies On Cambier Park Steak and Cheese, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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How to Paint a Chair and Thoughts on Painting
“How to Paint a Chair, a Work in Progress and My Thoughts on Painting.”
By Debbie Clarke
“Art is really a battlefield. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.”
Edgar Degas, French Impressionist
Some music that I want for my studio archive: Sade. have always loved her work, and ’soldiers of art’ are ’soldiers of love’, in that if you are called to make art, you will make art for a very demanding mistress. a lover that will have no one between, that will wake you when you want sleep, that will delay you when you have appointments, that will make you not feel ‘well’ when you are not dancing with the muse. and muse seems too nice a word. dancing with a muse is neither romantic nor poetic. it is a hungry ghost in need of a door into this realm of reality. and when she truly decides to dance with, then through you, it is better than an orgasm.
the muse doesn’t dance every day, she is fickle in her love, and never obediant. i spend most of my days in the practice of seeing and drawing, so my hands, eyes, and heart are ready, whenever she decides to come, because that is her nature.
Here’s Debbies Interesting Video on How to Paint a Chair.
She filmed it with camera in one hand and brush in the other.
For more of Debbie Thoughts and Works check out her link below
http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/
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Beautiful Industry – State Fish Pier
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Mom has been spoiling the girls
Ice cream every day, stuffed animals, cooking incredible meals. Mom is a saint.
Mom has been spoiling the girls, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Shrimp and Lobster Tails At The Naples Farmer Market
I’m no fan of the Carribean lobster tails. They don’t have the same texture or taste as our North Atlantic lobster
Shrimp and Lobster Tails At The Naples Farmer Market, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 