Waterbug

Press release for July Art Show at the Reston Community Center by Coulter

Water Forms Art Show by Coulter at RCC in July Arts & Living, by pamcoulter, on 06/28/07 at 07:50 AM

July 2007 at Reston Community Center Lake Anne: A retrospective of over 60 paintings spanning 42 years on the theme “Water Forms” by Pam Coulter opens July 3 at the Reston Community Center, Lake Anne Plaza. The artist will hold a reception on July 8, 2-4 PM. The show will run until August 6. The Community Center is open 10 AM to 10 PM, Tuesday thru Sunday. The artist says: “In this show, the journey starts in Greece, where I spent a year paintings after graduating from Antioch College and teaching art for a year in Florida. Water has always fascinated me because of its ability to change — to reflect, to refract, to obscure, to vanish into sky, reappearing as clouds only to rain or snow down on us.” The show, spanning 42 years, contains images from Greece, the Caribbean, Montana, Herndon, Reston, the Potomac River at Great Falls. Coulter is a 3-time winner of Best in Show at the Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory and has won many awards in League of Reston Artists shows. She is currently a member of MAX_21 group in Reston (at ArtWorks Studio) and the Riverbend Plein Air group. She has been published in American Artist magazine (Feb 1995) and included in a book of 20 acrylic painters called the North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques (http://www.amazon.com/North-Light-Acryli....     She has participated in regional juried shows and had a number of one-person shows. Until it closed in 1997, She was represented by Venable-Neslage Galleries in Washington, D.C. In 1998, she had a painting accepted for display in the National Art Club in New York City. She participates regularly in Art League shows at the Torpedo Factory as well as League of Reston Artists shows. More information is available at: http://www.blehert.com/info/biospam.html    She currently teaches Oil and Acrylic Painting on Wednesday Evenings at the Reston Community Center at Lake Anne.

Raggle taggle Gypsy O

Raggle taggle calico Gypsy
comes to me in the night
to snuggle, like a hairy tumor,
next to my head.

Pam

 

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Angel Landing

Angel landing
soft, insoucient,
joyful.

Andy's dog Pancho

This is Pancho. The drawing was done by hand as a cartoon, then scanned into PhotoShop and "colored" using some of Photoshop's tools. We thought you'd like to see it.

Quotidienne

The Saturday tasks
have branched into Sunday:
laundry, vacuuming, sorting old clothes,
bills, and retirement planning, eating
and washing the dishes, talking with
the neighbor who has just
sold her house.
So I have not drawn anything new.
Here is an old drawing, into which
I have added some color!

Pam

I promise

If I get the mundane things
that need to be done today, done,
I will do a NEW drawing for the blog!

Pam

More just for fun...

Recently, I've been coloring the illustrations I did years ago for a longish poem by dean and adding them to a web page. I've been doing this entirely with electronic media. As a visual artist of the old school, I find this somewhat tedious at times. It seems a lot easier to me to pick up a paintbrush. However, they are "a thing unto themselves" and of interest. I took the original B&W ink drawings and scanned into the computer. Then I converted to vector art and exported as Photoshop native file. THEN I opened in Photoshop and began coloring, using layers so that I could work around the line drawing and not destroy it. Oh oh, I hear the sound of zzzzzz's all around. Here's an example to cheer you up with a link to the poem. I think it's kind of nice!

Pam

Fast Food

Just for fun...
Pam

I am floored

Floored ... and speechless
and nothing to say!
So with no time at all
(what I mean to convey)
I'll give you a picture
I've been working on.
Such a cute little creature,
She'll string you along.

That's just what I mean