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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:53 AM Post #7216844
| These are the newest since Sept and October 
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:53 AM Post #7216848
| Maples and birches 
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:54 AM Post #7216851
| . 
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:57 AM Post #7216859
| This just wont send 3rd try
OK
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:57 AM Post #7216864
| september birches 
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:58 AM Post #7216871
| just 2 more 
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 28, 2009
11:58 AM Post #7216875
| moonlight birches 
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Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
October 28, 2009
10:21 PM Post #7218863
| Lovely...and in one of the more difficult media.
I really enjoy looking at your work.
Thanks for showing it here. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
October 29, 2009
12:01 AM Post #7219236
| These are fantastic!
Janet |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 29, 2009
05:02 AM Post #7219563
| Thanks everyone.
I thought there were going to be more DG'ers posting threads of their work. |
dellrose
Conway, MO
(Zone 5b)
October 29, 2009
08:52 AM Post #7219925
| Your beautiful watercolors have inspired me to give it a try!! Haven't a clue on how to...but I bought a nice watercolor instruction book and masking fluid at Michaels!! I've had the paints and brushes for years and your art has given me the push I needed to get started!!
Thanks for posting your lovely artwork. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
October 29, 2009
10:11 AM Post #7220132
| When you feel moved to start ,thats the time to do it.
Good luck.
It's a pleasure for me in my retirement days. |
Kathleen
Panama, NY
(Zone 5a)
October 31, 2009
12:42 PM Post #7227366
| I love the first one, and the birch tree trunks. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 01, 2009
04:50 AM Post #7229303
| Still working on this
I need to rephoto in better light. Too much yellow.
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Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
November 01, 2009
10:36 AM Post #7229817
| Christmas cactus (?)...Great! They aren't the easiest plants to capture, you are doing a great job with them. And I love the pot, too. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 01, 2009
10:54 AM Post #7229870
| Bought it at a garage sale. Real porcelaine.
Looks a bit kookie with my contemporary artsy fartsy interiors but its quaint. |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
November 01, 2009
10:55 AM Post #7229873
| A great find! |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 06, 2009
05:47 AM Post #7246739
| I am trying to relaunch my website.
Its been a week of buying back my domaine name for $250.00
and lots of online teck support and phone teck support and I still cant publish to the hosting site.
Needless to say I am not a computer expert. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 09, 2009
02:48 PM Post #7256589
| Finally my website is up and running
joanngentle.com |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
07:13 PM Post #7257424
| What a lovely site you have. I enjoyed looking at all of your paintings and the whiteline art too. You are extremely talented!
Janet |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
November 09, 2009
11:22 PM Post #7258477
| Wonderful, JoAnn!
Just absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for the link. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 10, 2009
05:22 AM Post #7259106
| Thanks everyone.
I am in process of changing the background colors |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
November 17, 2009
10:46 AM Post #7282312
| Fuzed plastic garbage bags. Xmas decore 
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scarediecat
Ashland City, TN
December 02, 2009
11:54 AM Post #7328253
| ge1836,
I've just been looking through your works and I'm very impressed! Very beautiful watercolors! Do you have more paintings to post?
This past weekend I guided my 9 year old grand daughter through her first water color. I tried to work a painting with each of my two sons when they were around 9 so that I could keep them forever to remind myself that I at least gave them "an experience" in art somewhere along the way. My grand daughter's water color came out great and she was very proud of it. Hopefully she will keep the excitement of her work active in her heart and never let it escape. I forgot to take a photo so I'll have her mom take one and I'll post it.so I'll have her mom take one and I'll post it.
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 02, 2009
12:18 PM Post #7328350
| Thank you,
I have a website
http://www.joanngentle.com
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ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 14, 2009
12:51 PM Post #7367813
| Its gloomy and awful here.I have been painting since 8 this AM.
I still need to tweek this one.
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UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
12:56 PM Post #7367834
| That's beautiful! I'd be tickled to have that on my wall, just as it is.
Janet |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 14, 2009
01:24 PM Post #7367921
| Thank you.
I loved the film about the making of the dragon.
Do you haunt fleamarkets to fing components for your treasures?
You are very clever and talanted. |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
December 14, 2009
01:57 PM Post #7367988
| Beautiful, JoAnn, and yes, I love Janet's quirky wonderful designs, too. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
02:11 PM Post #7368023
| Thanks Joann. I had a lot of fun putting that show together. I'd left my camera at home that day we worked on him, but thankfully Connie had one we could use. Having our niece Cammie there to help with the picture taking left us with 4 hands to work with instead of just 2 (while I used the camera). My motto has always been, to get 10 good photos, take 100. Sometimes over 1000 photos will be taken on a sculpture. With these sculptures, we usually ship them off, so take a whole bunch of photos in case we ever need to refer back to a "procedure" in a different sculpture.
Connie and I hit up the Goodwill and other thrift stores constantly. We are always finding things that we might use in our sculptures. We store our goodies at Connie's shop. When we buy something, we might intend for it to be a head, etc. but we just never know what it will eventually become. We do run across the strangest things. If we are together, one of us will look at the other with "that look" that only we recognize. And into the buggy the object will go. Ordinarily whatever "it" is costs less than a dollar. So even if it's several years before we get to use it, we don't have a lot of money tied up in inventory.
Connie has a lot of contacts and friends through her window tinting business (over 25 years). She has a friend that was working on a house at the beach that was pretty much demolished in Hurricane Ike. He remembered her saying she used old copper pipe and wire for the sculptures and brought her a whole bunch of rigid copper tubing (which we have very little of) and a waybigo box of electrical wiring that was cut out of the house during the remodeling. The wire was in many different gauges so that was great! We don't mind stripping the plastic coating off the wire to use it. Who cares if it the ocean has coated it for a time. Not us. With the plastic coating to protect it, we can recycle so much stuff that would just be garbage to anyone else. Of course, there's the "where the heck do I store this stuff?" dilemma. Connie has a really huge shop that she works out of that is right behind her house. It's big enough for a big dually truck to fit into for tinting, so as long as no vehicles are in it, there is plenty of room for us to work without catching the place on fire! HAHAHA We've priced buying some of the supplies new and could never afford to do what we do if we had to buy new stuff.
Most times though, it's not until a sculpture idea has begun that we actually choose what components we are going to use. We'll be in the middle of making it and need something and one of us will say, What about ______? or Ooooohhh Remember that such and such I picked up a few months ago. Would that work?
Connie is really a genius with her creativity. She has learned just what to do to maneuver the copper, etc. to work for us really well. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
02:13 PM Post #7368031
| Thanks Sharon. I must say I get all excited when I see that one of the articles is written by you. The first thing I do is go get myself a new cup of coffee to enjoy it with. :-) |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
December 14, 2009
02:26 PM Post #7368078
| Thank you, nice to know.
I told somebody recently that I spent the first half of my life painting and playing with art, and now the last half playing with and writing about plants, somehow it all goes together, I think. If only I had time to do both...and at the same time. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 14, 2009
02:34 PM Post #7368109
| Do you have a website?
Or albums of your sculptures?
I'd love to see more. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
02:43 PM Post #7368139
| Joann, I have a website that I use for storing all of my photos ... family, gardens, hunting, and sculptures too. http://www.uniquetreasures.phanfare.com I use this also for storing my ancestry photos so my kids will always have access to them.
This will take you to the rest of the sculptures. http://www.uniquetreasures.phanfare.com/2147844
It's not a typical website, in that you can't BUY stuff there. It's just a place for us to show the sculptures that we've done.
Sharon, you've managed to combine your loves beautifully. Keep up the great work! |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 14, 2009
02:56 PM Post #7368169
| I LOVE all of them.
Especially the women and the Mosquitoes.They are wonderful. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
02:57 PM Post #7368173
| Thanks Joann. You can click on each of those photos to see the photos (slide show) for that particular sculpture. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 14, 2009
03:02 PM Post #7368185
| I checked it all.
Dont you love making something from nothing?
I love the chalanges the materials hand you when you want to have an end piece that resembles what you imagined. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 14, 2009
03:54 PM Post #7368322
| I think the ones that surprised us the most were the praying mantis. It was awesome seeing the dolphins turn into the mantis heads. :-) It was quite frightening (to me, anyhow) watching Connie break off the tails though. HAHAHA |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 15, 2009
06:51 AM Post #7370261
| ya gotta do what ya gotta do. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 15, 2009
09:07 AM Post #7370408
| Better Connie than me. She's one brave soul! |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 15, 2009
01:01 PM Post #7371164
| Finished the painting.
Picasa loused up the color balance and its a tadd yellow, not much but a tadd.
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Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
December 15, 2009
01:04 PM Post #7371171
| Beautiful!
Soft and beautiful.
And watercolors are so difficult to do, but I think you have mastered them. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 15, 2009
02:23 PM Post #7371373
| That is really pretty Joann. Are you painting them for Christmas gifts? |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 15, 2009
02:44 PM Post #7371422
| Naaaaaaa
I have been ordering seeds and planning where to plant them.
There was so much visualization while doing that I decided to paint some.
This painting will measure 22x39 framed and is boku bucks.
I will keep it for a group show I will be doing this summer 2010.
We are not doing anything really impressive this Chrismis.Spending 60% less on gifts etc. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 16, 2009
05:40 AM Post #7373428
| Is anyone dropping everything to watch the Tomas Kinkaide movie on TV?
I gotta be honest, I think his paintings are awfull and he doesnt even paint but the original. The ones in his galleries are repros ,someone has touched with a bit of whit with a fine brush. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 16, 2009
11:38 AM Post #7374007
| new painting
6x16 The weather is terrible,I just go to the studio and forget doing anything else.
Ratibida
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UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
December 16, 2009
12:54 PM Post #7374199
| What a great way to avoid nasty weather. That is gorgeous! Love the colors! |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 16, 2009
01:07 PM Post #7374236
| its a great plant |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
December 16, 2009
09:13 PM Post #7375556
| There is nothing good about T.Kinkade's work, JoAnn, not from an artistic viewpoint. He is however a master of mass production and has a ton of business sense. I agree with you...I think his paintings are awful and they all look exactly alike.
My own opinion, of course. |
ge1836
Pittsford, NY
(Zone 6a)
December 17, 2009
06:13 AM Post #7376348
| Dont worship his business sence, he only has to agree with the marketers from Disney that found him and turned him into a bhuuuuzillionaire.
He is managed by a corperation now,I doubt he paints very much.
They have built housing tracts i California that have homes that look like his little cottages. |
