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A live version of Loreena McKennitt's Huron "Beltane" Fire Dance from her Parallel Dreams album. In the liner notes she says: In the “Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance”, I have tried to recall the reverence for dreams of the North American first peoples and the early Celts. If there is a recurrent thread that runs through these dreams, it is one of yearning toward love, liberty and integration. Of all the variations of dreams we may have, these surely are our parallel dreams.”
Happy May!
0 Comments on Music Monday - Happy Beltane as of 1/1/1900
After an amazing weekend with Greg Spalenka's Artist as Brand workshop (you can see my report on it here), we had one final afternoon before I had to return him to the airport which I spent helping him out with a fantabulous photoshoot. It ended up feeling a bit fairy-ethnic as we listened to Loreena McKennitt in the background, so you get to as well, as you peruse the following pictures:
Greg connected with a local model, Jessica Lough. She and I both brought boxes and bags of fabrics, accouterments and costuming elements to choose from.
Greg was very inventive with our limited resources.
Many variations of costume and lighting were attempted.
(Is this not the best profile *ever*?!!!)
Jessica's fabulous significant other was put to work right and left -
- from light-holding, to fan-holding -
-to photographer holding!
Fun shoot. Great weekend overall!
0 Comments on Music Monday - Marrakesh Night Market (plus photoshoot!) as of 3/26/2013 5:39:00 AM
We're back from our 11th annual fall retreat. Autumn retreat reports seem to need Loreena McKennitt to properly document. This time, appropriately, I'm choosing Ancient Pines:
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It is a stunning, remote location, somewhere in the midst of Mount Rainier National Forest...
....along a lovely man-made lake....
The weather was idyllically perfect all weekend...
Sun, mountains, water and trees...
...some art happened too. :-) To be continued...
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Isn't it interesting how much wild beauty is accompanied by the bones of dead things? It reminds me of some of the old illustrations of Sleeping Beauty, with the briars and thorns surrounding the castle, all in bloom, only partially concealing the rusting armor and bleaching bones of long-dead knights.
To continue to celebrate the beginning of May, I give you yet another applicable Loreena McKennitt (live perfomance, with seasonal photos) -
and here is one last batch of May Day/Beltane photos from Camlann -
Participants and performers alike enjoying the day, from big -
- to small....
...although even the small -
- could particpate (much to their delight)....
I certainly enjoyed the anachronisms - gown and cell phones. Robes and tennis shoes....
And here's hoping for spring in earnestness! (we could certainly use a fire tonight. It's be dismal and frigid today. Rain, wind, hail, thunder, lightening!)
1 Comments on Music Monday - Beltane Fire Dance, last added: 5/5/2010
Due to book-illustration-deadline-craziness, I know I haven't really given a report on the incredible Waterhouse show I saw in Montreal -
- but the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a terrific website covering many aspects of it here (the only downside, is that it only covers a smattering of the actual art included in the show).
(and you really should listen to Loreena McKennitt sing "The Lady of Shalott" to you as you look. This is an abbreviated, live version. You can also hear the full poem sung here. This show marks the first time all of Waterhouse's 'Lady of Shalott' paintings have been together in one place.)
It was amazing seeing so many of his paintings (and studies and sketches) in person. I was surprised at how much the finished sizes varied. From the ginormous Mariamne to the surprisingly small 'mermaid' paintings, and the teensy Miranda (which is nearly identical to it's larger version painted the same year: Miranda - the Tempest). It was also very interesting to see the progression and changes in his style and subject matter throughout his career.
The painting I enjoyed most in person was Circe Invidiosa - which I've yet to see any reproduction do justice to. The color and detail in this deceptively simple composition and limited-palette piece were just breath-taking. The green stream of poison was nearly iridescent in its vividness. (And I'd never really picked up that she was standing on a fish before.) The choices of which items were finished sharply with detail and which were left much more impressionistically were perfect. The warm and cool choices were perfectly balanced - nearly forming a yin/yang symbol. I am stumped for a better descriptor of this painting than all around *perfect* (not a reaction I had previously had to seeing small reproductions of this piece).
Thank you for this post. I love Waterhouse and Loreena. This was a wonderful way to begin my day. The links are also very informative. Hope you are holding up with all your workload.
I had some art school training that brainwashed me against Waterhouse, and the Pre-Raphaelites because it was too sentimental and romantic. Glad I'm over that. How can anyone NOT love these? they're just soooo beautiful. Love the Loreena soundtrack, really did increase my viewing pleasure.
I had the enormous pleasure of staring at this Waterhouse masterpiece at London's Tate Gallery.
One of the most fascinating things in this painting are the quilting fabrics with Celtic designs. Seeing this huge painting in its real dimension is breathtaking! I´m glad that people have the chance in the U.S.
Anonymous said, on 11/24/2009 6:04:00 PM
Thanks. I loved the Waterhouse postcard you sent. I don't care of its in or out of fashion---its just my style. Elena
The mermaid painting by him is my all time favourite. I have a small print of it by my drawing table and a large framed poster downstairs in the main family room. His girls are so beautiful, I always wanted hair like that!x
'Had a very enjoyable St. Patrick's Day evening with some of my fellow POBLites who were having an arty evening.
A few of us went to dinner at a very atmospheric, old and renovated firehouse-turned-restaurant. In one of the dining rooms, Jo Gershman is having a mini-solo-show of her lovely still lifes (is that the plural of still life? lives? life's?) this month.
- followed by Irish step dancers, gold and green treats and a shamrock hunt.
Then she got to sign books for her admirers (which include all of us. Way to go Kathleen!). * And since it is St. Paddy's day, I will end here with my absolute favorite Celtic musician for your viewing and listening pleasure. Enjoy! *
(and a patched together Bonny Swans - I don't know if a complete version of this exists? I adore the visuals on this though:)
5 Comments on Happy St. Pat's Day!, last added: 4/6/2009
wow, now that was a series of st. pat's events that actually sounds fun! I'm afraid most of the parties /events I've done in the past have just given the event a bad name for me.
(and thanks for posting clips of music that we can control. I like listening, but HATE loading a blog and finding the music I'm listening to already being overwhelmed by a crashing collision of competing sounds from the music someone else has decided I should hear..)
Luscious painting. I adore his work!!!
Oh me too! Am *so* looking forward to his workshop in September!