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Deb Clarkes “The Shoes”

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Deb Clarkes “The Shoes” A WIP part 3

“The Light Changes everything”

For More of the “Shoe” Videos and more of Debs Life Cam Videos Visit her Site.

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

SHARPIE Drawings From Deb and Me. Or is it Deb and I?

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Here a couple of Sharpie Drawings from me and Deb Clarke.

I got addicted to the Sharpies From Debs videos and Drawings.

The thickness of the Sharpie point keeps your Drawings loose.

I’m Addicted!

Paper covers rock, Deb Wins!

Here’s one of Debs and One of Mine;

A Sharpie Video from Debbie Clarke;

Here’s a link to a few more of Debbie Clarkes SHARPIE Drawings;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46841138@N07/4857228196/in/photostream/

Deb Clarkes “BIZAAR DAZE”

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From Debbie Clarke;

Kerry and Mom with their Found "Art Rock"

Here’s Kerry McNally and her Mom in front of my work at the Bazaar. We were so busy I was lucky to get any pics at all. I thought the folk on goodmorning gloucester would enjoy seeing pics from a ‘sales person’s point of view’. There were so many peeps and every now and then, I got to see some of my friends (Loretta and Adara, my friends from Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church).

I would like to thank the readers of gmg that came down to the bazaar to see my artwork, and search for Paul’s ‘rock art’. I know of one other family ‘team’ that printed out directions to locate your rocks. Many folk thought they were supposed to find the rock, have a picture taken to document the event, then move onto the next clue. This might be a future development of your ‘rock art’ project Paul.

Deb Clarke's Art on display

also: I sold three paintings at the Bazaar! (thank you to Richard and Sabine for allowing me to use some of their bazaar ‘real estate’). This was the most financially succesful bazaar for me, as I have been putting my work on Bananas’ sidewalk for several years. Thanks to word of mouth and the shout out by goodmorninggloucester, lots of folk came to see bananas and my work! I generated sales inquiries, networked like crazy, sold a lot of vintage, and had a lot of fun! Thank you to the folk that volunteered on behalf of the Chamber to organize the event.

                                                                                                                                  Deb

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

BANANAS, ROCK!!!!! Breaking News Update!

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Drats! I’ve Been Out smarted again.

The clues I gave must’ve been too easy.

I think it was the Banana Splits TV Show Theme Song that Gave it away.

Here’s The  photo of Kerry, and Her Mom, Karen McNally After Winning the “Bazaar Art Rock Contest”.

They are the Winners of a ROCK! An “ART, ROCKS!” Rock.

They Figured out all the clues and Found their way to the Vintage Clothing Store “Bananas” to claim their Prize.

Here’s the Emails I received from Kerry and Her Mom Karen;

Hi Mr. Frontiero,

I would like to let you know that I found your awesome rock at Bananas!
My mom and I are very excited!!!!

I love painting, and I have been collecting art work from different states. I would love to add your rock to my art collection.
We walked around main street, this afternoon, telling your story of the painted rocks.

My mom had fun solving the riddle, and I couldn’t believe that I actually found one of your amazing rocks!

Thank you!

-Kerry McNally

From Karen; (Kerry’s Mom)

Your artwork, and how it was discovered, has been Kerry’s main topic of discussion with friends and family since Saturday.
The excitement of it’s find has not diminished, and I don’t think that it ever will!

Kerry says “Thank you for the great adventure”.

Thanks!
-Karen

I’m Humbled. Well Honored is probably a better word. 🙂

For my Rock to Be included in Kerrys Art Collection.

Thanks so much Kerry for the Inspiration!

　Big Thanks go to my Friends at BANANAS for hosting the contest.

Thank you Richard and Debbie!

　Can anyone name all 4 members of the Banana Splits?

 

ART for Sale! from Deb Clarke

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My Friend and “Mentor” Deb Clarke is making some room and Raising Funds to fix the “White Wind” Her Dodge Truck. She will be having some ArtWork Available for Purchase. Here is an example and one that is for Sale. It’s a great deal for such a Beautiful and Large Painting.

From Deb,

This painting was a demonstration for a painting class I held at the Magnolia landing a few summers ago. It is oil on canvas, 32×40″.  I turned the canvas over last night and scrawled on the back is my copyright and next to that $850.  I like numbers that add up to 13 and reduce to 4.   
 
 
I will be posting work that is available for purchase. what would you like to see?  oils? landscapes? figures? mixed media?  reverse glass?  
For More Information on Available Paintings you can contact me at the Links below;
email;

deb Clarke Sunday Morning Painting Class

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The Sunday Morning Painting Class
From deb Clarke;
Sunday morning we held our painting class in my backyard.  we reviewed some work, then the students painted. i drew with my new sharpies.  this is the view toward the State Fish Pier with the towers of Our Lady of Good Vogaye on the upper right and the Marchant Street “Tower House” on the upper left.  I have since added aluminum leaf to the drawing to help define some of the shapes.  will post follow-up.  gorgeous day here on the cove, on shore breeze and the air is dry!  YES!
 
later,
deb.
 
 For more information On the Sunday Morning Painting Class Contact Deb Clarke at:

ART ROCKS! Again?

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“ART ROCKS”

Went down to Cressy’s Beach to cool off Sunday. While I was there The mood hit me to sketch and leave a couple of “Art Rocks” If someone finds them they can keep’em, toss’em or pass them on. As Debbie Clarke’s  saying  Goes, “Art or not Art” That is the question. Or just Graffiti? Debbie is my Inspiration for these Rocks.

If I get Feedback from the Finders I’ll post them  here on GMG.

#1 "Ten Pound Island" Art Rocks
"Art Rocks" Contact Info
#1 "Art Rocks" "Ten Pound Island" Location
#2 "Art Rocks" "Gloucester Harbor"
#2 "Art Rocks" Location Left at Cressy's Beach "Gloucester Harbor"

 http://www.frontierogallery.com

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“AHHT” It’s what I Do! by deb Clarke

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From deb Clarke;
Most of my work these past few weeks has been focused on the view in Cripple Cove.  Today and yesterday I stretched and triple primed this 38×42″ canvas.  I planned to draw on the gessoed surface with a sharpie marker, but I’m having a hard time making that first irreversible mark.  My plan was to base a painting on favorite drawings of looking down on Capt Joe’s docks .  pics of my recent drawings, the ‘white angst’, and source material follow.
Sharpie Sketch
Photo Reference, View from my House
Primed and Ready

Check out more on “Ahht” at:

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

Celebrate Gloucester Video Documentary

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This is the documentary we made to Celebrate Gloucester at Latitude 43.  It features interviews with Mark McDonough , Fisherman Peter Libro , Nicole Duckworth- from Duckworth Bistrot, Debbie Clarke- artist, Dave Anderson from The Black Swan, Ashley From Lat 43, Lobsterman Joe Mondello, Joe and Mary Ellen Borge from The Lone Gull, Lobsterman Mark Ring, Chef Zach Sears, Cape Ann Community Cinema’s Rob Newton, Stephanie From Lat 43, Lobsterwoman Renee, Real Estate Tycoon Ruth Pino, Ryan and Wood Distiller Bobby Ryan.

I hope you enjoy it.  there are some pretty touching moments in here.

Click the Picture For The Video Page

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Cripple Cove Bouy

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From Deb Clarke;

I received a request from a reader of gmg to my email for info on the plaques attached to the Cripple Cove buoy.  Here are pics of the four sides

Cripple Cove Bouy Plaque

 

Bouy Plaque of Area Map
Bouy Plaque What you don't see
Paul's 20 minute painting Sunday mornings painting class

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“To Paint Is To Love Again” Henry Miller

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From Deb Clarke;

I dedicate this Video to my

Sunday Morning Painting Class.

                                                                                 Deb Clarke

I never knew Henry Miller painted.  How did this escape me?

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Sunday Morning Painting Class With Debbie Clarke At Cripple Cove

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I’m not sure if they are making it a regular thing every Sunday morning but perhaps Debbie will give us the details.  You may recognize the goofy looking guy in the picture directly below as our very own Cape Ann Painter- Paulie Walnuts.

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Beginning Painting 1 by Deb Clarke

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 “Painters who are not colorists produce illumination and not painting….color gives the appearance of life.”

Monday, February 23, 1852 from the Journals of Eugene Delacroix,  French Painter

Beginning Painting

The Equipment

a portable easel

for beginners I recommend 3 colors:  cad yellow medium, grumbacher red, cobalt blue and white, a small jar of oil painting medium and some gessoed boards, a few brushes (boar bristle is fine)

if you try painting and want to continue, you will want to invest in more colors, brushes, medium and an easel for outdoor painting

Here is My Paint Box and supplies;

French Easel Draw with supplies

Here’s my french easel set-up for painting:

  a few big brushes, a few rounds, maybe a filbert, a small brayer.

My colors:
cad yellow light
lemon yellow
cad yellow medium
yellow ochre
raw sienna
burnt sienna
grumbacher red (napthol red)
alizarin crimson
pthalo green
winsor blue (pthalo blue)
cobalt blue
ultramarine blue
grumbacher pre-test white, original formula (titanium white)

medium:  1 part stand oil, 1 part damar, 1 part turp

thinner for cleaning brushes

If you need more info on Painting supplies and where you can purchase them, or how to join the Sunday Morning Painting Class (7am Cripple Cove Parking Lot, weather permitting) contact me at: elli01930@yahoo.com

http://www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

“Karen” by Deb Clarke

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From:  Deb Clarke

“Karen”

This is Karen, the completed work documented in my earlier ‘wip’  in the series “Faces I Remember”.  It is finished.  During the process that brought the work to this point I was continually critiquing the work.  I kept trying to get the eyes above the one third, but my inclination was to keep cutting the ‘shape’ down.  This morning I finally decided to find the center of my canvas.  Wouldn’t you know it?  French painter Pierre Bonnard’s words critiqued the work, he said:  “There should be nothing in the center of a painting.”  Then portrait artist Helen Van Wyck words critiqued the work:  “In a portrait the eyes should be around the one third point.”  then I said:  The Hell you say!  I’m still in training!  This is Karen and this is the way I do it.  I broke the rules, yet it works.  why?  because it is didactic and self referential. so, there.

ps:  this is drawn from memory of a friend from Banana’s.

 

Karen

For Purchasing Info go to:  http://www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com

GMG= Great Media Gurus!

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               From Deb Clarke;

GMG=Great Media Gurus!

Thank you GoodMorningGloucester!
  
One of Paul Frontiero’s posts and the gloucester media gurus found on this site, kept me awake-in-Gloucester last night.
 
Capeannpainter Paul Frontiero recently posted a pic of his work, with an inquiry about how to make the photo less ‘blue’.  I’ve had the same problem and was pleased to read the media ‘gurus’ comments..  I used the white balance suggestion.  click the link to see my efforts, the result of being sleepless in Gloucester.
 
questions, responses, critiques always welcomed either here or at my ‘nest’..           Another Magpie Nest
 
"Faces I Remember" a Work in Progress by Deb Clarke
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Kenny MacCarthy Submits His Refrigerator Bio

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Debbie Clarke submitted her refrigerator bio and asked GMG readers to create theiiir own refrigerator bios by turning their cameras on their refrigerators and telling the story through what you may have stuck to it.

Here’s Kenny MacCarthy’s-

Kenny runs Blynman Watch, also now known as thecutbridge.com Chickity Check It!

Criticism, Can YOU Take It?!

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From Debbie Clarke;

  
Criticism can be a scarey thing for an artist to take, yet this is the way we learn our trade, our craft. 
 
Just a few days ago an artist friend responded to the demonstrations that appeared here on GMG.  “What bothers me,”  she said, “is the Sharpie.”  I laughed and said:  “The erased sharpie?”  she said  “no, leaving the sharpie, it is not permanent.”  I smiled and said:  “Oh, that. it doesn’t bother me.  if the sharpie pigment detaches, so what? I don’t care if it is permanent.  (is anything ever permanent? no. truly, truly archival? no. why? time. change. impermanence says the buddha.)
 
“No statue has ever been put up to a critic.”
    Jean Sibelius, composer 
 
He got his fare share of criticism, yet the Finns put up a monument to his musical genius! and now they critique the sculpture, some even call it ugly!

 

 
Read Debbie’s Additional Thoughts on Art Criticism by clicking the link Below;

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-criticism.html

Refrigerator Bio (kinda) For Deb Clarke

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Debbie Clarke requested people take pictures and explain stories about their lives through what they have on their refrigerators.  Well my fridge at home is just as plain as can be but we have a freezer down the dock on which we place stickers and magnets as they come into our lives.  So I guess the freezer down the dock is much more interesting.

If you would like to send in a sticker for me to add feel free to send it along to me Joey at Captain Joe and Sons in Gloucester.  I’ll be sure to take a picture of it and add it to the collection and post it up here on these pages.

Danger! Will Robinson, Danger!

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From Deb Clarke,

“Whoa!  good thing i passed on the coffee, i washed my paintbrush in it and didn’t even notice.  there is quite a universe in there!  Any coffee?”

Debbie's "Coffee Cup Nebula"
The Horsehead Nebula B33 Orion Nebula (A real Nebula)

HOW MUCH FOR THAT COFFEE CUP DEB?

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What’s on Your Fridge? Challenge

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From Debbie Clarke;

“Our refrigerators tell a lot about us. Here’s what I’m willing to share for now. you can be assured there will be more!”

Whats on your Fridge? Challenge from Debbie Clarke.

What does your fridge door say about you?

Send in a Picture or Video of your fridge door like Debbies, and it may be shown here on GMG.

http://www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com/