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Maine winter….

I mentioned in my last post that Kathy, fellow Frayed Edge and blogger, had painted a wonderful winter scene on three panels currently hanging over her fireplace. I LOVED them, and especially loved the night sky, which was shades of aqua and blue (she and I share this love of the sea colors and plums and yummy stuff). So I promptly asked if I could copy her…. I have had these three canvas/boards (you know those things that are a canvas on heavy-duty cardboard, primed and ready to paint) bought at least 3-4 years ago sitting waiting for me in the cupboard. So this past week I pulled them out and here is the result:

I LOVE the sky, and want to dye-paint some fabric just like that (despite the fact that I think it should be darker in the painting to set off the stars and read as “night”)! I used what I had on hand–FolkArt brand craft acrylics (some are their “artists'” version, but they aren’t really that quality). And I used some Delta Ceramcoat silver and gold for the dots of stars in the sky….

I also used, surprisingly enough, ArtGlitter! I had bought some in Houston about 3 years ago at Festival, and used two colors of teal / turquoise on the sky, and some ultrafine white on the snow, and some other glitter I had on the snow (white). It is perfect, and not tacky looking! I had only the fabric glue from them that dries clear, but it worked fine on the canvas / paint. Because the glitter is almost powdery it is so fine, it doesn’t look cheezy (at least I don’t think it looks cheezy….sure hope not!).

Here’s a close up of part of the center panel, which may show better:

Anyway, THANK YOU Kathy for letting me be a copy cat….

plus, I had fun while painting. I dug out a tape (from TV, eons ago) of All the Rivers Run, an Australian mini-series that we first watched on BOP-TV when we lived in Gabon! Yes, we first got “cable” / satellite TV while living in central Africa, since D.C. (where we lived in the states at the time) didn’t have it (as usual, DC was a decade or so behind the third world).

Here’s a link to the series and another. At the time, Bophutatswana was one of the so-called “independent homelands” in South Africa (it is apparently now a province within the country), and they had the most wonderful, bush league, lovable TV station which came in on our satellite dish called BOP-TV. One of the anchors was preggers, and I still remember them taking the wobbly video-cam to visit her and the baby in hospital. The quality of the reporting and camerawork was comparable to a VERY small, rural US TV station, and endearing. They had the worst old US movies…sometimes C and D grade! But they also got some US TV shows on about two weeks after airing in the US, plus they had some wonderful mini-series from Australia, including this one. There was another about a woman doctor in the 1920s-30s in Tasmania, but it began shortly before we left Gabon. If anyone in Oz knows what it is…please write! I’d love to track it down and watch it. Believe it or not, culture migrates both ways (and not just US tv running amok and rampant the world over).

OK…that’s enough prattling on. If anyone knows what Aussie TV show that was, let me know, and I’ll try to finish the totebag and post pics. Merry Eggnog to you all!

4 Responses to “Maine winter….”

  1. DubiQuilts - Debbi Says:

    Way to cool! I love the sparkle in the snow and sky.

  2. sueeeus Says:

    Very pretty!

  3. Vicki Says:

    Nice job – these are really “cool”!

  4. Anonymous Says:

    Sarah, is the mini series “Shadows of the Heart”? Here is a link to a review: http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=287490