Plein Air Painting with David Curtis

 

Plein Air Painting with Artist David Curtis

Last week I noticed about twelve people out in my neighbors yard painting a scene of a beautiful model dressed in white set against their Garden. I asked David if I could take some photos for the blog, he thought that woud be great. and explained how this was a 5 day intensive workshop of “Painting Figures in the Garden”.

David has more workshops planned and he also has a class every Saturday at The Cox Resevation in Essex that is a great deal. Check them out by clicking this link below.

http://www.davidpcurtis.com/news

Here are a few photos from that Workshop;

David giving tips to one of his students

 

http://www.davidpcurtis.com/news

Not CSI… CMI Comedy Mystery Interactive Where Comedy and Mystery Interacts

For Tickets: Call 978-879-9293

OR   Email: japepayette@hotmail.com

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2011 Schedule Summer

CMI… Murder I Predict MURDER MYSTERY BOAT CRUISE

Onboard Gloucester’s The Privateer

Saturday July 30th SOLD OUT!!!

Saturday August 27th   7-10 pm

The Privateer – Gloucester Harbor

63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

$49.95 plus tax…includes dinner, show, and boat ride.

Bar and Dancing Available!

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Fall

CMI… MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR
At historic Gloucester House Restaurant

Saturday September 24th   7-10pm

Saturday November 19th   7-10pm

The Gloucester House Restaurant

63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

$39.95 includes dinner & show*Tax & Tip not included
Bar and Dancing Available!

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ü Bachelor/Bachelorette parties

ü Halloween/Christmas
…or your company outing!

***Group Rates Available***

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Daniel B. Stepenuck Railroad Crossing and Leader of the Band

Founder and Lead Singer for “Hush” he also had a passion for beautification.

Read the story below by Elaine Persons, and view slide_show of the Daniel B. Stepenuck Railroad Crossing.

 

Hi Joey,    I am resending the short story we talked about.  I would like you to take a picture of the place I am referring to.  It is the Railroad Tracks at Cedar Street .My house is 112 Pleasant Street and the train runs very close to my fence. My husband and I bought this property seven years ago and it was in bad of need of repair inside and out. He passed away three years ago. I came close to loosing this property and was not able to finish the work he started along the tracks. The MBTA put up a sign in his name for the work he did complete he loved the train.Our intent was to clean this area of all the trash and debris and place flowers there. He even had the neighbors helping to pick up the trash (tons) we disposed of it at our expense. A year ago I meet a woman who not only became a very dear friend she had given me lessons on gardening. She has asked me to help her scale down her beautiful garden and in return has given me many beautiful flowers, trees, shrubs, bulbs.I have planted them along the tracks my husband started to beautify. Because of her knowledge and generosity I have been able to completed what he started.It the most sorrowful time of my life I found someone who was willing to share knowledge, generosity and friendship with someone she had just met and barley knew.We now share gardening, music witch is something my husband and I shared, she is teaching me to play his guitar, and we share music as a business as well as personal entertainment.It is so wonderful to know there are people out there who care and share their whole being.I could never thank Sheila Jones Schrank enough for all she has given me.But you can be sure I do thank her every chance I get.

Elaine C Persons

Click on photo for slide_show

Note: Elaine continues with love and song in her heart by singing with the “Honky Tonk Women” and as one of the “The Everly Sisters”

Did You Know? (Paint Factory)

Photo by E.J.

That the old Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory was purchased by Ocean Alliance, an ocean environmental group, to use as their headquarters?  Ocean Alliance, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1971 by biologist Roger Payne. Led by Dr. Payne and CEO, Iain Kerr, Ocean Alliance collects a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life relating particularly to toxicology, behavior, bioacoustics, and genetics. From that data they work with their scientific partners to advise educators and policy makers on wise stewardship of the oceans to: reduce pollution, prevent the collapse of marine mammal populations, maintain human access to fish and other sea life, and promote ocean and human health.  To learn more about Ocean Alliance and their restoration of the Paint Factory, visit their website at http://www.oceanalliance.org/ and don’t miss watching the fascinating and beautifully done video on the history of the Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory at http://www.oceanalliance.org/?page_id=354.  I think it is so great that this historic and iconic structure is being restored and preserved for future generations to enjoy; and especially for such an area appropriate re-use purpose.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Photographs by Devera Enhrenberg Opening Reception August 20th

Please join us

     opening reception

       Saturday, August 20th

3-5 PM

Photographs by

  Devera Enhrenberg

                                                               The Art Room Boutique

     3 Center St. Downtown, Gloucester

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Yvonne Scott Has Some Nice Things To Say and a Question

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I love your blog; subscribed just to smell the air laced with salt spray and salted down fish. Left Albuquerque on 5/29 heading N/NE. That part of the coast has been calling me even though the Great Smokey Mtns. DID slow me down a bit.

If you had a dime for every time someone asks this, I know you’d not be out lobstering (or maybe you still would!) but I have to ask: what’s the prospects for an amazing woman with gobs of experience from teaching gardening, landscaping and running a business to working with domestic violence programs, tutoring and a former cop finding meaningful work and love in Gloucester?

A simple GREAT/GOOD/MEDIOCRE/JUST DON’T will suffice.

Love this blog. I just love it!!! (Did I say that I loved this blog?)

Many blessings,

Yvonne Scott (a former a desert rat dragging herself toward water, water, water……)

Where the Ocean Meets the Shore

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

Did You Know? (First Annual GMG Deviled Egg Competition)

That people love deviled eggs?  Having made deviled eggs a bunch of weeks now for Mug Up, I have come to realize that people really love deviled eggs, and it seems everyone has their own special recipe.  So during August 21st Mug Up, we will be sponsoring the First Annual Good Morning Gloucester Deviled Egg Competition.  We will assemble a panel of distinguished judges, including Ed “I’ve never met a food I didn’t like” Collard and Paul “R. Duck and I love deviled eggs” Morrison.  The judges’ decision will be final and the entrant with the winning deviled eggs recipe will receive a 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar or a Good Morning Gloucester T-shirt (if there is one available in your size) and a ribbon.  If you are a deviled egg aficionado and would like to be considered for a position on the judge’s panel, please post a brief description of your deviled egg experience and credentials.  Those who would like to have their special deviled eggs included in the competition and featured on the blog, just bring ‘em on next Sunday.  This is way bigger than Topsfield Fair competition and doesn’t cost anything to enter.  People who don’t like deviled eggs feel free to bring along something non-egg related to share.  Not to sway the judges, but I hear Mark Ring from the fishing vessel Stanley Thomas is a possible shoein for the winning deviled egg recipe.

This week’s Mug Up was great fun and the food was incredible.  Schooner Adventure’s Peter and Joanne Souza came and brought Peter’s special Portuguese chili (hearty, spicy and yummy), Charity and Laine Ciaramitaro came bearing warm bagels and cream cheese and some new artwork to share, ever lovely Brenda Malloy from Imagine Gallery came by with a bowl of healthy, plump, sweet blueberries.  Art Rocks Paul Frontiero and ever helpful Ed Collard were in the house, as was Ed’s daughter, Amy, and neighbor artists Wendie Demuth and Jeff Cluitt came by, as did guest artist Caroline Stella with a nice fruit salad, and Pete and Joyce Chamberlain were also here.  FOB’s Ozie and Mary Beth Osborn stopped in, as did Adam Bolonsky bearing watermelon.  Then Paul Morrison, R. Duck and Sue (Leavitt) came with a batch of the best homemade carrot cake muffins, made from carrots out of their garden, that I’ve ever tasted.  Artist neighbor Stevie Black popped in with a box of awesome scones; Gigi was sleeping in and didn’t make it.  Richard and Brennan Fitzpatrick came in with Eva Marin, exchange student from Barcelona, Spain to get a GMG sticker for Eva to take back to Barcelona to represent.  Thanks to everyone for coming, bringing your delicious contributions and making Mug Up such a wonderful weekly GMG family gathering on beautiful Madfish Wharf in the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony.   Rocky Neck and GMG Rocks!

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Grace Parisi McArdle Has Some Nice Things To Say

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I want to thank you for your Good Morning Gloucester Blog.  An old friend told me about your blog and now I’m addicted.  I was born in Gloucester and grew up down the Fort.  I try to visit at least once a year.  It’s a place you never forget no matter how far you move or where you live.  I loved the video you filmed of the ride to Capt Joe’s.  I worked for Wally on that wharf cutting fish when I was a kid.  Spent my spring vacation with my hands in ice.  Thanks again

Grace Parisi McArdle

Did You Know? (No Frozen Fishcakes Here)

That it’s not frozen processed fishcakes or lobster rolls with jalapenos (although there are definitely some hots in there), but strictly the real Gloucester’s Finest Kind?  The 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar presents 12 of Gloucester’s working and one retired gillnetter, dragger and lobster boats and their crews as they really are – hardworking, hardy, fun loving, good looking men (and one lovely young woman) who make their livelihood from the sea, provide us with fresh fish and lobsters (whether previously liberated by Buddhist monks or not), and are part of that beautiful industry that made Gloucester great.  January features the crew of the Degelyse, and Captain Tuffy with two large unliberated lobsters.  Zach Jewell on the Lady J so naturally struck the perfect pose and was just too cute not to be on the cover.

The historic and beautiful small commercial fishing industry is in decline, drowning in the myriad state and federal regulations governing the industry.  A portion of the proceeds of this calendar will go to the Northeast Seafood Coalition, a 501(c)(6) organization dedicated to working with government regulators and environmental concerns to preserve the long-term health of fishery resources, fishing communities and the fishing industry.  The calendar will be available at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck, or if you are out of area, you can order your’s at http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/gloucester%20fisherman%20calendar.htm.  Celebrate Gloucester’s beautiful industry every day of 2012, and be a part of the solution. 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com