tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29471145532069809802024-03-21T13:03:19.423-06:00CAROL HOPPER -- A PAINTER'S JOURNALADVENTURES ON THE CREATIVE JOURNEYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-1049645066245328212018-09-19T06:55:00.001-06:002018-09-19T06:55:47.963-06:00The Art of Healing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Flowers, paintings, beauty, prayer, gratitude, friends, forgiveness </div>
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and much more are all part of the process of healing. </div>
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All of these work for me. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-46424244643484452142018-09-01T13:35:00.003-06:002018-09-02T12:43:02.666-06:00Three Years Gone!<div style="text-align: center;">
It has been three years since I posted here on Blogger. What have we missed? </div>
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Each other, I think. Please tell me you are still here.</div>
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I have been painting steadily for the past three years and have kept my <a href="https://carolhopper.com/">website</a>, </div>
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Each one of these paintings has a story. Click on them for more information.</div>
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I would love to hear from you so that I know who is still following me on Blogger. </div>
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I was out painting painting in Corrales yesterday for this week long paint out event. Thankfully the weather is cooling a bit. I will post a photos of my paintings on Thursday.</div>
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Take a look at some of the images of Corrales. I hope to get back to these locations during this week.</div>
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NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SITES AND SCENERY</div>
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with <a href="http://deesanchez.com/">Dee Sanchez</a>, Artist and Great Driver</div>
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Heading north toward the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Mountains">Sangre de Christo mountains</a>, the initial bluffs are dry and scrubby. Clouds are building.</div>
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The old Vigil store, now know as El Potrero Trading Post</div>
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In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimayo,_New_Mexico">Chimayo,</a> this small town is most famous for <a href="http://www.elsantuariodechimayo.us/Santuario/index.html">Sanctuario de Chimayo</a>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">This shrine, a National Historic Landmark, is famous for the story of its founding and as a contemporary pilgrimage site.</span></div>
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Wildflowers, intersting fence posts create angles worthy of paintings</div>
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Sunflowers in full bloom, Ponderosa Pines on hillside</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-81064266119971858642015-03-05T03:00:00.000-07:002015-03-05T03:00:09.270-07:00Don't miss the place to be....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wrote a long <a href="http://carolhopper.com/email-newsletter">newsletter</a> two days ago available on my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/http//:www.carolhopper.com">website</a>. There is more information/ideas there on inspiration though the main topic was on gilded paintings. You will there a "how to" and several new paintings gilded with gold, copper or metal leaf.</div>
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January 2015 unfolded in the nicest of ways. </div>
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I didn't see my 2015 direction which was quite unsettling. Sometimes we need to take a deep breathe and just allow the universe to provide direction. </div>
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SOLO ART SHOW</div>
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O'Hares Restaurant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, located at 4100 Southern Blvd. SE.</div>
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I have 24 pieces of art showcased there, many of them never before exhibited. Have breakfast, lunch or dinner with Mike as he is a huge supporter of the arts.</div>
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WALKING HOME IN FRANCE</div>
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"Walking Home in France"</div>
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12x12 oil on gessobord</div>
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I will be painting France for a long while. </div>
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I was totally charmed by the rolling hills, quaint villages, red tile roofs, and medieval buildings.</div>
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But now NEWS OF A CHANGE</div>
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It has been fully six weeks since my last blog post because I have not found the blog to reach a wide enough audience. Also I never want to overwhelm my followers with too many posts, to have a feeling of being spammed.</div>
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ONCE A MONTH</div>
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I will be sending a newsletter from my <a href="http://www. carolhopper.com">website</a> instead. Those of you who have signed up to receive my blog will now receive a once a month newsletter instead of a blog. You will have an opportunity to opt out of the newsletter should you choose.</div>
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HAPPY NEW YEAR with a "yay" for 2015!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-57365798652874204272014-11-16T03:00:00.000-07:002014-11-16T03:00:03.720-07:00INCREDIBLE $59 HOLIDAY SALE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">ENCAUSTIC MIXED MEDIA</span></div>
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Below is a <u><i>small sampling </i></u>of the Encaustic Mixed Media paintings available.</div>
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Are you familiar with Encaustic? </div>
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<b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">Encaustic painting</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">, also known as </span><b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">hot wax painting</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">, involves using heated archival beeswax</span>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">The liquid wax is applied as a final coat to my mixed media, collage stye paintings.</span></div>
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This sale runs through December 20. There are also wonderful gifts in the painting collection<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://carolhopper.com/collections/72119">PETITE PAINTINGS UNFRAMED</a></span><br />
All petite paintings come with a display table top easel!</td></tr>
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Let me know if you would like your purchase gift wrapped and shipped to your recipient.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-50117433856315063792014-11-13T06:07:00.000-07:002014-11-13T06:07:11.435-07:00PAINTING: WINE WITH CHEESE AND GRAPES headed to California Gallery Show<div style="text-align: center;">
WINE WITH CHEESE AND GRAPES</div>
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6" Squared Painting </div>
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I am very honored to have had my small painting</div>
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accepted into The Randy Higbee Gallery show in Costa Mesa, CA. </div>
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POTTED GERANIUM</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">For days I walked by this gorgeous pot of geraniums and knew it had to be painted. I waited until the sun was just where I wanted it to create a most pleasing shadow. The complementary colors of red and green always make for a vibrant, happy painting. I love to paint in the impressionistic style using color to enliven the subject while paint strokes in the background direct the eye.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-56863409736100267862014-10-29T02:00:00.000-06:002014-10-30T06:50:16.522-06:00EARLY LAVENDER, FRANCE<div style="text-align: center;">
EARLY LAVENDER, FRANCE</div>
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6x6 palette knife painting on gessobord<br />
Click <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-hopper/early-lavender-france/286601">here </a>to purchase<br />
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Lherm Lavender Field <br />
<a href="http://www.lavenderalot.com/">Lavande de Lherm</a><br />
in the Lot Region of France produces some of the finest quality of Lavender oil in France<br />
It is a small farm but truly a painter's paradise. <br />
Click on the link above to read about the farm and its owners.<br />
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Before lavender is ready for harvest, the color is more magenta than lavender.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-55852219184089444572014-10-23T02:00:00.000-06:002014-10-30T09:03:32.029-06:00VILLAGE FARM, FRANCE<div style="text-align: center;">
VILLAGE FARM, FRANCE</div>
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I have embarked on a fun project of painting from my photos taken while I was in France in June.</div>
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I wish I could have stayed there for a month of painting! </div>
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The countryside of France seems so unique</div>
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rolling hills </div>
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small quaint villages</div>
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private gardens and ditches for irrigation</div>
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I took photos of my painting steps which I thought you might enjoy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Village Farm, France<br />
12x12 oil on gessobord<br />
Click<a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-hopper/village-farm-france/275615"> here </a>to purchase</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Block in with think transparent colors</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding some opaque colors to buildings and trees</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More development of buildings </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting to develop the sky</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Progressing in covering much of the block in colors especially the sky</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working on foreground field and bale<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using palette knife to give the effect of straw left in the field<br />
FINISHED</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-83039142665760129892014-10-16T12:01:00.000-06:002014-10-19T17:31:06.824-06:00AROUND THE WORLD BLOG HOP<div style="text-align: center;">
HOW FUN IS THIS TO REACH AROUND THE WORLD</div>
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MEET NEW ARTISTS and get to know them through their BLOG! <br />
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At the end of the introductions I tell you a little more about myself in answer to the questions <b>blog hoppers</b> (pun intended) are asked.<br />
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I was introduced by</div>
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who lives half the year in France and the other half in England. She has become my friend. I am honored that Marion chose to include me in the Blog Hop. Here's one of Marion's awesome paintings. Click <a href="http://artbymarion.co.uk/">here </a>to see more.</div>
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I am excited to introduce you to<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.deesanchez.com/">Dee</a> Sanchez</span></div>
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Dee is also a friend, but I met her right here in my community.</div>
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<span class="about-data-biotext"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Dee Sanchez lives and works in the village of Alameda, New Mexico.</span></span></div>
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<span class="about-data-biotext"><span style="color: #0c343d;">She is an intuitive colorist and paints in the alla prima style, completing every painting in one sitting, whether it be a small 6x8"canvas of sunflowers or a 60x60" large painting of a Santa Fe landscape.</span></span></div>
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<span class="about-data-biotext"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Her subjects include grand vistas, cloudscapes and skyscapes, huge, chaotic masses of native wildflowers, and the small villages and people of her state. She is most known for her paintings of sunflowers. </span></span></div>
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<span class="about-data-biotext"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Dee is also a plein air painter and a member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. As Dee likes to say<em>."I absolutely love painting in the studio but my greatest passion is traveling through New Mexico on short day trip adventures, painting luscious oils out of the back of my car."</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Dee is a juried member on DailyPainters.com, one of the largest daily painting websites in the world, and also a member of DailyPaintworks, a fantastic website showcasing artists from all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Dee was the poster artist for the 2012 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and has just finished a huge project called RETRO CHALLENGE. Dee painted 150 paintings in 150 days for 150 dollars each. They flew out the gallery door, <a href="http://www.weemsgallery.com/">Weems </a>Gallery, yet some are still available. Contact the gallery or<a href="http://www.deesanchez.com/"> Dee</a>. Follow Dee's <a href="http://www.deesanchezpaints.com/">blog</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Sunset by Dee Sanchez<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duet by Dee Sanchez<br />
18x36 SOLD</td></tr>
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I found Linda on our blogger website and follow her regularly. She posts interesting sharing of information type of b<a href="http://www.lindasmarinoart.com/blog">logs</a>. Linda lives in Connecticut with her culinary artist husband and their three beautiful children. She is opening a new gallery and studio. Wow!</div>
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At a very young age Linda loved to draw and create with pencil and magic marker. In third grade she began drawing dog portraits. By high school, she had completed both beginning art and business classes. With a few months of training from a local professional artist, Linda began designing, painting and selling t-shirts to her friends, family and campers during the summer months.</div>
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During Linda's college years, when she studied Business Administration, she signed up for as many art electives as she could and from that point on creating ART would play a big part in her life. <span style="line-height: 1.5;">For the next 10 years Linda continued to weave together both her love for creating art with a business mindset to forge a career in the marketing, advertising and graphic design world. Linda’s business, Image Express, worked with both local and nationally known clients such as the Screen Actors Guild of New York, CRN International and Masonic Charity Foundation.</span></div>
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An “al a carte” art education from various universities and local art schools led Linda to a position in the education department at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT where her love for art history, the study of contemporary artists and teaching art blossomed. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;"> who has been compared to Dr. Seuss, Gustav Klimt, and the Gumby animator Art Coakey. Susan and I met on-line when she started following my <a href="http://www.carolhopper.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. Her work was so </span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">unusual and fun we have remained blog friends. Follow Susan's <a href="http://www.susanmedyn.com/">blog</a>.</span></span><br />
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She has been making fantastical watercolors for over 35 years. She is inspired by her love of color, a sense of playfulness and whimsy and a passion for painting. She creates one page stories that take place in imaginary worlds. <br />
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“Medyn is gifted with a color sense as savory as fresh fruit and an imagination capable of setting genetics soundly on its ear. She gives life to an astonishing wonderland of beasties, plants and totemic trees, part vegetable, part animal and part apartment house for a diminutive universe of creatures. At times her work superficially recalls such diverse artists as Paul Klee and Dr. Seuss. Yet her work is decidedly her own; it has remarkable ability to appeal to virtually every level of sophistication.” – Noel Suter, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Metroland</em></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> 2014 included more than the usual amount of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">travel, all of it for art: painting, workshops and photography. I took four paintings trips this year; two were MAJOR and included sightseeing and photography, and plein air painting. Now I am in the process of creating a series of paintings of France based upon my time there. Additionally I spend a lot of time marketing my art on-line through my </span><a href="http://www.carolhopper.com/" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">website</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">, my </span><a href="http://www.carolhopper.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">blog</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">, and even Facebook</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">. Beginning in January 2015, my art will be represented by</span><a href="http://www.weemsgallery.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> Weems</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> Gallery in Albuquerque.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> <u>How does my work differ from others in its genre?</u></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> I am working very hard to paint with more intense and lively colors, yet still be a representational artist. The use of pure colors brings more excitement to me and my paintings. Even when painting in plein air, I like to <i>push </i>color a bit and widen the value range.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><u> Why do I create what I do?</u></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> I can't</span><u style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> not </u><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">paint. Like an addict, I can't stop because I absolutely love to paint and to push myself to constantly improve. I create and surround myself with beauty: in my home, my yard, and my wall art. I believe when my paintings find a new home, they provide beauty and lift up all who view my work. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> <u> How does my creative process work?</u></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> Beauty again...it is everywhere. When I see it, I want to paint it. The challenge for me is to narrow down my subject into an actual painting. I don't know how painters of the Grand Canyon do it. I have to zero into a smaller area, one that doesn't include a 30x60 inch canvas. I use my creative process as an excuse (a very good excuse) to travel to interesting locations not only near me, but in various other states and even abroad. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 25px; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-align: start;">Beginning in the mid-30's she lived and worked at her home at Ghost Ranch. In 1945 she purchased a second home down the road in Abiquiu. She walked in the desert and painted the New Mexico landscapes until her failing eyesight forced her to stop in 1984. She died, in Santa Fe, in 1986.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-align: start;">Abiquiu is believed to have been settled by Indians from Mesa Verde who abandoned the area in 1500. By the mid-1700's, Spain colonized the region by deeding land grants to the Christianized Indians who were affiliated with the Spanish. It is believed that parts of Georgia O'Keeffe's home may date back to this period, perhaps 1760.</span></div>
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I just spent more than a week rebuilding my website with FASO </div>
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a company I always loved but left. </div>
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Many artists don't need as much tech help as me so going it alone, or nearly so, works well for them.</div>
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Now that heavy work week is behind me and I am happy. </div>
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Please check it out at</div>
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Here are a four paintings with which I was not happy.</div>
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Let me know what you think about the do-overs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Painting of Rural Life in France<br />
Played too much with color<br />
12x12</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second Painting of Rural Life in France<br />
More accurate color representation as field wasn't ready for harvest<br />
Cut off 3 inches; <br />
Now a 9x12</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Painting of In the Garden<br />
Direct sun coming through trees with no sky in view<br />
caused light to blow out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reworked Painting of "In the Garden"<br />
Invented a sky and minimized tree with white blossoms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Painting of "Renaissance Flowers"<br />
Bottom right didn't please me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reworked Painting of "Renaissance Flowers"<br />
Now bottom right more clearly shows container edge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First painting of Natchez Poppies<br />
Paint strokes seemed choppy</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is always so much to learn with painting, technology, marketing </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">How do you keep up with all the change and learning?</span><br />
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MARRYING INTO THE HOPPER FAMILY<br />
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Who is Edward Hopper?<br />
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Who is Carol Hopper?<br />
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Carol (that's me) married into the famous Hopper family. I didn't even have to bribe anyone for entrance. They needed me, because I am an artist.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How are Edward and Carol linked?</span><br />
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Willem Hopper is our genealogy link. This great man was born in the Netherlands in 1596 and died in 1626. It is really difficult for me to comprehend how long ago that was. That was prior to the Pilgrims, prior to New York even being called New Amsterdam when it was a Dutch Trading Post. Willem was born 208 years <u>before</u> Lewis and Clark departed on the first expedition to explore the western portion of the United States! Willem came before many explorers came to the United States and unfortunately I don't know when he arrived nor why. I can only guess that he probably signed on to an expedition to the "new country" as a teenager as Holland was a major explorer of the New World, hoping to gain new land. It is possible Willem died in the New York area but I don't know that either. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Willem was the First Generation of Hoppers</span>.<br />
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Fast forward past the second generation to the Third generation and Hendrick Hopper was born January 9 of 1655 or 1656 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Hendrick is the great, great, great, great grandfather of artist, <span style="font-size: large;">Edward Garrett Hopper, Ninth Generation of Hoppers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward Hopper</span> is one of the best known painters of the 20th century American genre and landscape. He was born in Nyack, New York on July 22, 1922 one of two children. His family was solidly middle class; his father, Garrett Henry Hopper owned a dry goods store where young Edward sometimes worked after school.<br />
Perhaps you already know Edward was especially known for his paintings of interiors with isolated figures, for rural landscapes and marine scenes. During much of his career, he lived half of the year in Greenwich Village, New York in a row house facing Washington Square and the other half of the year near Truo, MA on water with a view toward Provincetown.<br />
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I married into the <span style="font-size: large;">12th generation of Hoppers.</span></div>
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Our great, great, great....you count the number of greats...grandfather is indeed one and the same</div>
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Willem Hopper. My husband's grandfather James Calhoun Hopper had a general store, just as Edward's father had a dry goods store.</div>
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Edward first came to Maine in 1914. Around 1914 Monhegan Island began to firmly establish itself as an Artist Colony. Beginning in 1916 Edward Hopper painted Monhegan Island, Maine for four consecutive summers, concentrating primarily on distinctive rock formations such as Blackhead and Gull Rock.</div>
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I too love Maine and this summer painted Monhegan Island.</div>
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Edward and I both love the work of Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth and Edward were contemporaries and were fond of one another's work.</div>
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Andrew Wyeth spent summers in Maine for most of his life.</div>
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Christina Olson had a disability and is painted crawling home from the Olson family cemetery.</td></tr>
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My pen and ink sketch of the Olson House<br />
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I am nowhere near the painter Edward was and I am not famous, not even a little. Edward made his living as a painter. I only WISH I made a living as a painter. Edward lived near the water. I live near cactus and sage. Edward was formally trained as artist. I have informally studied with many wonderful artists.<br />
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"Portland Head Light"<br />
by Carol Hopper after Edward Hopper<br />
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MAPLE JUICE COVE, MAINE</div>
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I think about my July/August trip to Maine a lot as it was a lifetime event. I want to go back and often think about buying a little cottage in the mid-coast region. If only.</div>
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I found it difficult to paint en plein air there because the colors seemed flat, the light key very high and the water vistas vast. Can you see what I mean by comparing and contrasting the photographs below with my completed painting?</div>
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It took many days of plein air paintings and corrected paintings to see how important it was to zero in on a smaller area. Paintings can't capture the vastness the eyes see. But translating the view to a painting takes practice. It is so important to sketch before painting.<br />
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On my last day on the mainland of Maine I wandered looking for a coastal painting opportunity. Way too often what I wanted to paint was on private property so it occurred to me to look for vacant "For Sale" waterfront property. When I drove to this beautiful For Sale site, a handsome man was working in the yard giving me an opportunity to ask for permission. He assured me it was ok to paint there. </div>
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The gorgeous house on Maple Juice Cove is still for sale and you might like to buy it at <a href="http://www.maplejuicecove.com/">www.maplejuicecove.com</a>. The owner told me even more than I had previously learned about the Olson House which is located directly across the water to the left, out of my photograph. If you are a lover of history and famous paintings and painters you might like to visit the Olson house<a href="http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/olson-house"> website</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.edwardhopper.net/">Edward Hopper </a>is a <span style="font-size: large;">very</span> famous painter too, who painted this area. I have thought about telling you how he is a relative of mine...through marriage. Would you be interested in hearing that story?</div>
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PORTRAIT OF A TREE</div>
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I participated in a weeklong plus three days</div>
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it couldn't be counted as plein air</div>
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as this crazy tree had a mind and limbs of its own </div>
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that didn't compute to any tree I knew</div>
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So tree and I fought</div>
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and I had to paint more than the maximum of the allowable 20% in the studio</div>
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Plein air paintings must be 80% done in fresh air.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At 8 AM, I couldn't see the tree's shape<br />What was behind the tree and what was the tree?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two days later I came back and took a photo of this apple tree from a kneeling position<br />Ah...I see the limbs...<br />Who trimmed this tree like this anyway?????<br />Does it produce more apples if it is a caricature?<br /><br />Webster Dictionary: caricature<br /> "1. exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics"<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to edit out the entire orchard back in my studio<br />and paint sky behind the tree in order for the tree to be<br />seen as a portrait<br /><br />Lesson learned from this:<br />Draw first<br />Paint later</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-39945368157349258252014-09-08T07:00:00.000-06:002014-09-08T07:00:04.744-06:00CORRALES WINERY BLUE<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gate to No Where<br />
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I started painting this gate by 8:15 AM, on a typical <u>intensely bright sunny</u> New Mexican day. <br />
All week I painted in Corrales, NM en plein air for the<br />
Corrales Plein Air Event.<br />
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It was intense....<br />
daily hauling equipment<br />
dealing with an umbrella that had a mind of its own<br />
Yet I promise you....<br />
in NM you either use an umbrella or find a shady place in which to paint.<br />
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Yet it was a fun week filled with meeting other artists<br />
working with Sue Winstead, a most talented coordinator<br />
attending meetings and events</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blocking in the underpainting with transparent colors</td></tr>
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12x12, framed, oil on gessobord<br />
SOLD</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-66744270144129889412014-09-01T02:00:00.000-06:002014-09-01T02:00:00.749-06:00FRANCE IN COLORFUL BLOOM<div style="text-align: center;">
FRANCE IN COLORFUL BLOOM</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FRANCE IN COLORFUL BLOOM<br />12x12 unframed oil on gessobord<br />Click <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-hopper/france-in-colorful-bloom/253749">here </a>to purchase<br /><br />For ten colorful painting days I stayed in this magical place.<br />In this courtyard alone at<br />Le Vieux Couvent in the Lot Region of France<br /><br />there were painting opportunities to last for weeks.<br /><br />I love the color of the flowers, medieval stone building, and the shade umbrella.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947114553206980980.post-68049671639111800472014-08-17T15:02:00.000-06:002014-08-17T15:09:50.587-06:00 Cove's Edge, Maine<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">COVE'S EDGE, MAINE<br />
8x8, unframed oil on gessobord<br />
plein air painting<br />
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For two glorious weeks I rented a cottage in Cushing, Maine.<br />
This was my view from the lawn of the cottage<br />
I found it glorious and painted on the property several times.<br />
Floating in the water is Rockweed<br />
which<br />
at low tide<br />
one can clearly see is attached to the rocks.<br />
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Cushing Peninsula is the peninsula on which the Olson House is located<br />
that very site of Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina's_World">CHRISTINA'S WORLD</a><br />
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Across this cove from my cottage and this painting <br />
is the home of Andrew Wyeth...one of his homes<br />
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Andrew died in 2009 <br />
and is buried in the Olson family cemetery. <br />
Why did he choose this spot?<br />
No one knows for sure but we can say for sure<br />
he loved and painted the Olson House<br />
and its occupants<br />
for many many summers.</td></tr>
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The two siblings died within mere weeks of one another<br />
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Cushing, Maine</td></tr>
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Wyeth House, Monhegan Island</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wyeth House, Monhegan Island<br />8x8, unframed, oil on gessobord<br />Click h<a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-hopper/wyeth-house-monhegan-island/249800">ere </a>to purchase<br /><br />This house was built in 1906 for famous painter Rockwell Kent. Following Kent's death, Jamie Wyeth bought this beautiful coastal home. It overlooks Lobster Cove in the Gulf of Maine. The beginnings of the art colony on Monhegan Island, located 12 miles off the mainland, date to the mid 19th century and was firmly established by 1890.<br /><br />I felt honored to carry a very heavy load of painting gear to this site, not knowing at the time I was painting a famed artist's home. It just appealed to me. <br /><br />Maine light is very high key. Often the value of the sky is almost the same as that of the water. Imagine the difference for me as compared to my home in NM where one almost never sees the effect of humidity in the air.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockwell Kent, Jamie Wyeth house on Monhegan Island</td></tr>
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