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Paintings and Works-in-Progress by Susan Carlin. Portraits, figures, still life, the occasional landscape, and abstractsSusan Carlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110529181768705593noreply@blogger.comBlogger707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18183797.post-81758507627683058442018-05-01T13:38:00.000-05:002018-05-01T13:39:00.945-05:00Company’s Coming<div><br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Xg3LuYc9nxvIXdBY_QDjYEzB3GST4FVAHN4sM99mNMbmM_0ZIhDiAdVxaVa_smhpJSsb7oIpdyR5GilfuDkS4slo0k-JjJnZ35c7JJrTBBgdzWiFGRABrwpyFgs1pBJEK50G_Q/s1600/IMG_7546-740951.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Xg3LuYc9nxvIXdBY_QDjYEzB3GST4FVAHN4sM99mNMbmM_0ZIhDiAdVxaVa_smhpJSsb7oIpdyR5GilfuDkS4slo0k-JjJnZ35c7JJrTBBgdzWiFGRABrwpyFgs1pBJEK50G_Q/s320/IMG_7546-740951.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6550683869004566050" /></a></div><br><br><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Company's Coming, 14"x11" oil on stretched canvas</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">susan@susancarlin.com
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Time Out Bench, 14"x11" oil on stretched canvas<br />
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In The Studio, 24”x6”, oil on deep cradled painting panel.<br />
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I visited the conservationist John Muir's homestead while in California two weeks ago, and found this jug and glasses on a shelf in the kitchen there.I loved the carved detail on the shelf front and the corrosion on the white enamel jug. It's always a pleasurable puzzle to paint white objects with white only on the highlights. This painting pleases me very much, and I'm tickled for it to be my very first in Daily Paintworks. Thank you David and Carol!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met this woman Monday when I was going to the Post Office to mail a package. She had a walker and was approaching the entrance, so I held the door for her. By the time we got into the long line, we’d already laughed together twice and knew each other’s names. I asked if I might take her photo for a possible portrait painting and she was perfect- agreed, didn’t show me all her teeth and held still while I took the shot. Heaven. I loved her beret and her glasses on the chain and how ‘graphic’ she looked. I’ve only painted one or two portraits in acrylic years ago and I uttered lots of bad words the whole time. This one went better.</div>
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The title for this painting is from a poem by Rumi, It goes, "Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse this joy to anyone? Fish do not hold the sacred liquid in cups. They swim the huge fluid freedom."<br />
I take it to mean that the world holds much to enjoy and nothing holds us back from its experience and its beauty and the freedom offered, but ourselves. And even more... don't resent others who dive right in!<div class="blogger-post-footer">susan@susancarlin.com
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