tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184079442024-03-18T21:12:37.133-07:00Anne Jenkins ArtMy ramblings on art and life - I'm a self-taught primitive fine art artist, traveller and foodie. I've been a full time artist 12+ years now, a journey of learning, fun and lots of short periods of high anxiety!!Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-78140372894896772782019-01-08T11:32:00.003-08:002019-01-08T11:32:34.730-08:00Art in the snow....<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In case you thought Park City, Utah was purely for snow bunnies, think again - there's art a plenty in the area, including a Banksy... check out my latest article on <a href="http://americanroads.net/art_trails_12112018.htm" target="_blank">Park City</a> in the ezine American Roads and Global Highways.</span><br />
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-8032226532353513322018-11-11T09:00:00.000-08:002018-11-11T09:00:10.531-08:00Remembrance DayLest we forget....<br />
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-81234618394474636992018-06-30T13:13:00.001-07:002018-06-30T13:13:48.619-07:00Latest article in travel ezinecheck out (and please click on the advertisers links!!) my latest<a href="http://americanroads.net/art_trails_summer2018.htm" target="_blank"> art travel article</a> on <a href="http://americanroads.net/art_trails_summer2018.htm" target="_blank">American Roads</a> & Global Highways ... share if you can. Thanks!!<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-3694581355528125092018-02-20T10:19:00.001-08:002018-02-20T10:19:25.065-08:00Unity in Columbus, New MexicoDon't be fooled by the comments from Washington about the border... this is the real border, and it's uplifting. Be there... in <a href="http://www.artstrolls.com/unity-in-columbus-new-mexico.html" target="_blank">New Mexico</a><br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-61902096326188281502016-12-22T10:53:00.001-08:002016-12-22T10:53:30.063-08:00The art of sculptureMy latest <a href="http://americanroads.net/art_winter2017.htm" target="_blank">article</a> in the travel ezine American Roads - enjoy and share! Thank you<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-25415343342728393102016-06-30T07:01:00.001-07:002016-06-30T07:02:38.875-07:00The Art of American Craft WeekMy latest art trails column in the travel ezine American Roads & Global Highways in online. This time it's all about <a href="http://americancraftweek.com/" target="_blank">American Craft Week</a> - a great celebration of all things hand made in America held every October. This year it is 1-16, so mark your calendars! Here's the <a href="http://americanroads.net/art_trails_summer2016.htm" target="_blank">link </a>for a taste of what to expect.<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-41043173343483868022016-05-05T08:01:00.000-07:002016-05-05T08:01:19.817-07:00The Art of CommitteesThank you to the online news source, Milford Live, for the<a href="https://milfordlive.com/2016/05/03/jenkins-joins-national-craft-committee/" target="_blank"> article </a>on my joining the steering committee of <a href="http://americancraftweek.com/" target="_blank">American Craft Week</a>. It is an honour and a great experience.<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-43090511904427090162016-04-27T07:28:00.002-07:002016-04-27T07:31:43.546-07:00Morning sketches<div data-configid="15221115/34711395" style="width:400px; height:300px;" class="issuuembed"></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is an emotional installation - it was emotional to create, and it had an emotional affect on visitors during it's 3-month exhibit at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Del. And it is an important part of history which must not be forgotten or hidden.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Learn from history. Click <a href="https://steller.co/s/5PZBhXAzum4" target="_blank">here </a> to experience the journey</span>.<br />
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-35262788780184593842015-12-25T09:04:00.000-08:002015-12-25T09:04:02.383-08:00The Art of FamilyMy family around the world light a candle at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve and toast family and friends. It's a moment that brings us all together across the continents. It's a joy to see all the photos on our family circular email on Christmas Day. Makes us feel closer together instead of spread over 5 continents! My seasonal wish is for peace in 2016 to you all<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-56996603125256193642015-12-16T07:07:00.002-08:002015-12-16T07:14:51.233-08:00The Art of Simple Things<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #eeeeee;">I
wrote the piece I have wanted to write for a few weeks but am holding
back on posting it while I wait for my emotions to settle. It is not
good to publish a rant. SO I sat with a blank mind this morning and
couldn't even decide what to sketch while I had my morning cuppa.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #eeeeee;">I
decided to follow some way better sketchers than me and sketch my
travel kit. The kit is fascinating to me ... it has changed but
remained the same over the couple of years since I got in to this
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started with just a medium sized travel palette. Then I got a really
small palette which I love. I've had some watercolour pencils for a
long time but never warmed to them. Then a friend gave me a couple of
watercolour crayons and mentioned they had a richer colour tone to
them. They didn't grab my imagination.</span></span></span></span></div>
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the pencils and the crayons languished in a drawer in the mess that
is my studio for a year or more. I took them out a couple of months
ago for some reason and thought, "hmmm, why not give them
another go?" </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #eeeeee;">So
I did and then I noticed how it changes a sketch. There's a different
texture to all three, so you can complete a sketch with a multitude
of lines, blends, thickness or depth. I am still learning how to use
them. It's always a trial and error process with me. I never took
instruction well. </span></span></span></span>
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that to me is one of the great joys of art. New ideas or methods
continually present themselves. It is intriguing to learn about them,
to try them - perhaps reject them, put them away and then for no
apparent reason, return to them.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-24997630254181782802015-10-30T11:20:00.000-07:002015-10-30T12:32:21.271-07:00The Art of RecipesOkay sports fans - another change in direction... well, this is me and I do this quite regularly as I am sure you, dear reader, are quite used to by now. I did the "what I ate Today" illustrations for 3 whole weeks. A long time in my attention span orbit. And then I thought why not give recipes a try out. I have been following a few illustrators who mostly do recipes and some of the styles are charming or fun or downright yummy looking.<br />
Here's a couple I tried my hand at and am rather enjoying the process... you actually have to think about it before doing it. Novel thought.<br />
So- what do you like, not like, hate, couldn't care less or love about any of these? Let the critique commence....<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-52798975325611172122015-10-08T07:05:00.003-07:002015-10-08T07:05:47.650-07:00The Art of StormsSo, we had another storm this past weekend...nothing too bad just lots of wet and windy weather. We stayed put and cooked and talked and enjoyed each other's company. It was a peaceful time. I continued journaling what I eat every day...it's turning in to an interesting and fun experiment. I think it is an excellent way to control what you eat on a regular basis. I just lack a lot of self control ..here's our meals for Saturday and Sunday because I really don't have anything profound to say right now.<br />
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<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-76193547919529450892015-09-29T12:49:00.004-07:002015-09-29T12:49:33.429-07:00The Art of Struggle<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've
been struggling lately, too many balls to keep in the air and not
enough incoming funds! Okay, all avenues seem to hit a brick wall
these days. Can't seem to lose the weight I need to lose. No
inspiration to sketch or create...just trying to make a buck and
mostly failing. Bah! HUMBUG. What the hell, I just hate a pity party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...
I decided to follow the advice of a wonderfully cheerful Dutch
artist, Koosjekoene, and true to Dutch character, is straight forward
and takes a simple approach. She says when you have no inspiration to
draw, draw what your meals and all you eat on a daily basis. Why not?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
started yesterday and you know what? It is also an excellent way to
see what you are eating or perhaps eating too much of... and it is
fun! For the few minutes I sketch I don't think about anything else,
my mind relaxes and it helps the soul. And this after just one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
certainly doesn't cure my ills but every little victory counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now,
if I could just win the lottery...</span></div>
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-13148518067500343722015-08-26T13:10:00.000-07:002015-09-03T12:15:19.697-07:00The Therapy Art<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
coming Saturday, 29 August, it will be 10 years since Hurricane
Katrina arrived and sent our lives in to turmoil and fear. You might
find it strange to "fear" since we were safely in our dear
friends home in Houston. But the fear wasn't for us ... not only were
we safe, but we had friends and family calling from South Africa and
around the world to offer help and comfort. When we got to Houston,
my friends kindly let me phone my sister in South Africa and she
alerted people we were safe and gave the number to a special few.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What
we feared was what happened to friends we couldn't find for a few
days. Fear while watching the drowned Gulf Coast and thinking where
are they? Our phones weren't working well but our text messages got
through. I must put a plug in here for Virgin Mobile USA... a day or
so after the storm hit, we got a text saying something like, "You
are probably going to need more than usual, so here is an extra bunch
of minutes free for a month. Be safe." not all carriers were
that friendly or helpful.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally
- locating some took weeks and weeks - but we all found each other
again. I remember one day I got a text from friends we thought for
sure were lost, I started screaming "they're alive, they're
alive" to no one in particular. The day I was in the Museum of
Art and got another text saying "I'm okay" and burst in to
tears.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
houses and stuff/possessions lost weren't top of my list, it was the
lives that mattered. And then just as we were getting our breath and
starting to think straight, along came Hurricane Rita. But that is
another story.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am
interacting more with friends from our time in New Orleans this week
since we're sharing our individual Katrina therapeutic art and
memories. But I am finding it hard to cope with the constant reports
about Katrina on the media. Some reports have me in tears, so I often
just turn the radio off. But still, the memories are crowding out
just about everything else at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've
moved often in our lives, singly and as a couple. Some one asked me
how many times, and I lost count while trying to work it out! But I
have always moved on my own terms, when I want to and why I want to.
I loved living in New Orleans. I fit in there so well. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes,
it is a self-absorbed place where they believe they are the best of
everything in the world. Who cares if they are or not? So what? You
don't always agree, you just need to go with the flow and live it. We
did. We made life long friends and enjoyed it all. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we
weren't ready to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So,
that is the reason why even 10 years after the traumatic event, I
still in a funny way grieve for it. Have I moved on? Yes. I don't
dwell on it. It often pops in to my head but I'm not obsessed with
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it
feels like unfinished business in a way. I knew we would leave New
Orleans one day. It's a given. We move on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
not that way. It is not an experience I would wish on my worst enemy.</span></div>
Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-39508101110922245272015-08-05T12:57:00.002-07:002015-08-05T12:57:46.003-07:00The Art of Reality<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've
just been away on holiday in West Virginia and I am having trouble
getting back to reality. Okay - I am having an awful lot of trouble
achieving this reality crap. We enjoyed a blissful 8 day stay in a
isolated cabin in the hills, pure silence and peace. The cats were
with us and loved it too. Yep, they told us, this is a good spot and
settled down as though they'd been their all their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We ate
excellent meals in the cabin or at quaint restaurants...visited
farmer's markets...explored old towns enjoying a renewed energy. We
also toured Civil War battle fields. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spent
an entire day at Antietam. Okay - that's not so peaceful when you
start reading the gruesome numbers of the carnage... how do you get
your head around 23,000 deaths in 12 hours? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lee
enjoys exploring battlefields. I grow weary of the stupid destruction
man reigns on each other. So he wanders off and reads all the plaques
and things. I sit and sketch. Then we move on to the next area and
repeat. It works well. He doesn't feel rushed and I am not bored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At
Antietam, one of the worst attacks and counter attacks took place in
a cornfield. Now looking at cornfields take on a whole new meaning.
Just next to this cornfield is an old farmhouse with barns and out
buildings. I sat on a stone wall to sketched the house because it was
so atmospheric. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It had
a row of white towels on the line to dry. It made me think perhaps
this is what it would have looked like when taken over as a field
hospital. But, in reality, it probably would have been over run with
wounded and dying men, thick smoke from the guns swirling around and
noisy as all get out with cries of pain and shouts for help. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
seemed so incongruent sitting there in this now peaceful park on a
hot summer's day with birds flitting about. The battle was held
around this time of year and those young men wore woollen gear and
slogged through hell. The thought of the discomfort and the whole
slaughter aspect seem impossible. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
saddest thing of all - men have been killing each other in some form
or other in war since time immemorial. And it has gotten us no where.
Have we learned nothing? I often wonder how we got designated the
most intelligent of the species?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See...
reality is a difficult thing to deal with at any time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now,
where shall I go on holiday next? Definitely not near a battlefield
thanks.</span></div>
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-50079494474057814142015-07-09T12:24:00.000-07:002015-07-09T12:24:09.687-07:00The art of sketching<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last
time I wrote about my green quiet place. So this time I'll write
about one of the things I thought about while there. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sketching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
thing is I have become a devotee of sketching. Most artists start
their careers learning to draw, then sketch and then paint and move
on to big canvases etc etc. Well, not me. I started with watercolour
house portraits and then moved straight on to large canvases. I never
did learn to draw or sketch. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I
met my friend Rosemary, a journaler par excellence. Check out her
<a href="http://livecheapmakeart.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. I hadn't thought of painting like this before since I
couldn't see a way to make money out of it. As a professional artist,
when I paint I want to make money....I don't paint for fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
took a trip up to Maine in 2013 and I bought a journal on a whim...
and promptly fell in love with chronicling our travels in my new
little watercolour journal and now I do it all the time. I traded up
to Moleskin watercolour journals and pretty much use them all the
time, unless it's my own homemade ones. I use left over strips of
300lb paper which is glorious to paint on. I tie it together with
string and it looks super cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once I
started really getting in to it I had to think of ways to make some
income from it. So I started using a mix of my sketches in with my
photographs when I do my travel writing. Then I used quite a few
sketches when I produced the Art Strolls in Delaware online <a href="http://issuu.com/artstrolls/docs/art_strolls_delaware" target="_blank">magazine</a>.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as
I sat contemplating my navel, I thought well, it's working a bit. I
am making some money from my sketches. So for fun, I decided I'd share
some of my sketches and travels in a magazine form. Not for money but
for the sheer joy of sketching and travelling. A couple of my
favourite things. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another
of my favourite things is food. But I have never had much success
with painting food. So this year I made it a mission. Paint some
foodie things every week, daily if possible, til I got the hang of
it. I'm still working on it. Who knows where it will lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
here for you dear readers... is my <a href="http://issuu.com/artstrolls/docs/art_strolls_with_a_sketchbook" target="_blank">magazine</a>. Get yourself a glass of
wine and enjoy your trip with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon
voyage!</span></div>
Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-20558814758391403112015-06-17T13:13:00.002-07:002015-06-17T13:13:33.639-07:00The Art of New LinesI've been busy the past couple of weeks trying out new things... always good for the soul and it keeps life fresh.<br />
First off, take a look at my <a href="http://annejenkinsart.com/" target="_blank">website</a> please. I have added a store - with a check out cart and all. So smart am I!! I have a few giclees left over from popular series. I've had them tucked away when I got the idea to have a summer sale on my website ... the first three are up. I am so glad Weebly makes life so easy for web building and even I can do my own store!! I will add more giclees and small originals over the summer when I get them photographed and sorted out.<br />
I wanted to make a little book on my travel sketches for my family but it morphed in to a magazine. I figured, so why not make one and use it for a little shameless self-promotion. Someone has to do it. I launched it today... voila, here it is ... <a href="http://issuu.com/artstrolls/docs/art_strolls_with_a_sketchbook" target="_blank">my latest magazine</a><br />
<br />Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-15426223332436228122015-05-29T12:18:00.004-07:002015-05-29T12:18:44.774-07:00The Art of a Special Place<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's
been a while ... I know, I know. Life got in the way. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seem
to be writing this with monotonous regularity on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So - I
have decided, I obviously cannot keep up a weekly blog. I shall
attempt twice a month. Is that a deal, dear readers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've
been pondering now for 2 days, since I received a gentle reminder I
hadn't written anything for quite some time, over what to write
about. I have had an awful lot on my mind lately. I guess in an
effort to deal with it, I have taken on a lot of chores or projects,
etc. It doesn't help I have a half baked approach to most things
coupled with a short attention span... you get the drift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then
last night Lee had to go to a business mixer thing downtown, so I got
out some nice cheese - a touch of Gambazola, herbed goats cheese, a
tart Havarti with 2 slices of homemade bread, a proper Dijon mustard
and a handful of sherry toms. I poured myself a glass of deep red
Cabernet and settled down. I gazed out the window in comfortable
solitude and looked at our canopy of trees. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
have two very large trees - an oak and a maple tree - in our backyard
with a very bushy lush hedge around the porch. All was quiet. The
cats lay next to me in quiet companionship and we were swallowed in
to the dense, peaceful green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time
in this house has not always been kind to us but I do love the back
garden. It's a <i>jardin savage</i> but it's our private shield of
green with lots of birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
birds on the suet feeder provide daily joy and entertainment. The
starlings are the terrible hooligans we love. The dazzling blue jays
are raucous. The bright crimson cardinals don't have a care in the
world The red breasts are huge. I still, after all this time in the
U.S., can't get over how big they are compared to our dainty plump
English robins. The delicate wee nuthatches and chickadees look tiny
and sweet. One of my favourites is the woodpecker who lives in the
oak. He taps away on the tree and every so often, partakes of the
suet. Apparently they have a fondness for suet. He is beautiful...
simple coloring, black and white with a brilliant dash of red. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
joining the crowd of entertainers is the large squirrel who also
lives in the oak. He can't get to the feeder, or doesn't try to, and
he doesn't bother with the birds but he knows he drives the cats
crazy. So he runs stomping his feet on the roof and then leaps along
the branches of the oak before wiggling his butt at the cats who
crouch down low in the attack position and chatter at him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
always feel better after I've spent some quiet time in our green
canopy. So I thought I'd tell you about it. And here's a photo I took
of part of it to post on Instagram last night as it soothed me. I
hope you all have a happy solitude place to go to when needed.</span></div>
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-86865265069971789932015-04-22T06:57:00.001-07:002015-04-22T06:59:15.608-07:00The Art of the Magazine<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am super excited to announce the launch of my new project, Art Strolls, an interactive online magazine on the arts in all it's glorious forms. I hope to do these for regions, counties, towns, around the country. These magazine will have limited, appropriate advertising, I am taking this approach because I think most magazines have way too much advertising and it overshadows the content. The first issue is on the arts in Delaware...small state, big arts. How to work the links? It's easy, hover over the name (if it's linked it will be underlined), a trio of symbols will pop up, click on the RIGHT hand symbol that looks like a chain and voila, you are taken over to the artist/gallery/organization's website or facebook page but you don't go off the magazine. Enjoy and let me know what you think</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-56474888820704015982015-04-09T15:44:00.003-07:002015-04-09T15:44:49.135-07:00The Art of Letter Writing<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's
been a while ... I know, I know. Life got in the way. New Projects
and ucky colds zapped my strength. Not really making excuses... it
just was so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On my
art page on Facebook a while back I wrote about a wonderful book I'd
seen, "More than Words" - a collection of artists
illustrated letters. It looked beautiful and I had to have it - so I
said I was saving my pennies to buy it. Well, a couple of weeks later
a wonderful friend showed up and gave me the book saying, "I
didn't think you should have to wait!"</span></div>
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could hardly believe my eyes. What a treasure my friend in and what a
treasure the book is. I love illustrated letters. I like letters of
all kinds and I still do actually write thank you notes and letters.
It is fast becoming a lost art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I
dug around and found a letter written to me when I was 8 years old
and got mumps at Christmas! My friend who wrote the letter, lived on
a mission station in a remote forgotten valley in the wilds of South
Africa. I lived not too far way in another remote location and was
shortly about to head to boarding school for the first time. </span>
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letter is precious and a joy... so I thought I'd share it. It really
speaks volumes about the person who wrote it and the care she took to
pen it.<br />I still pick up the new book and look through it with awe .. it will be a joy to read for a long long time. Thank you my kind and thoughtful friend.</span></div>
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Anne Jenkins Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317656480624628993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407944.post-57703660880401827902015-02-25T14:10:00.004-08:002015-02-26T07:15:05.064-08:00The Art of Treasure<br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">As I sipped my tea this morning - earlier than usual because there was a very early delivery scheduled at the office - I thought of how lucky I am in life...and it made me think of some of my "peace & security" nic-nacs... so I sketched them quickly. My Turkish "Nazar Boncugu" - the evil eye bead... they have to be given to you, not bought by you and a precious friend gave me this... and my rough welcome sign a folk artist friend made for me just because...and my Indian candle holder has given me the comfort of soft light when disaster struck in the past. Nothing is expensive or elaborate but they are all priceless</span></span><br />
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