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Green Hill Park


Green Hill Park
Originally uploaded by CindyWoehrle

Happy Monday! Today’s featured painting for the Holiday sale is “Green Hill Park” 7″x7″ oil on panel. This study for the larger “Sunset at green Hill Park” is framed in a replica renaissance frame.
List price $300
Available for $240 until Dec 18th 2009

Atmosphere #3

Todays Feature Studio Artwork is Atmosphere #3.
Heres the story behind the painting:
1995 ~ around this time I started working on a concept of landscapes from memory. I would take mental notes of differant places that I had seen and combine them into one scene based completely on my memory. The primary elements I based this on was:
Feelings, Atmosphere and Spacial relationships.
This is one of my favorites
Museum Quality Giclee Print viewable area 12″x 6.25″ listed price $60
Available for $48 through Dec 18th
email contact@cynthiawoehrle.com to make purchase arrangements

Holiday Studio Sale!

Cynthia Woehrle’s studio is hosting its first Holiday Sale! From Nov 27th through Dec 18th get 20% off all in studio artwork. Check out the website to see whats available, send the title and list price of the artwork to the studio email: contact@cynthiawoehrle.com 
Shipping, delivery, or pickup

Cirque Du Noir, Fire and Ice

I’m participating in TWO more fundraisers this month. 1st Cirque Du Noir and then Fire and Ice.

Cirque is happening this Sunday Oct 25th and proceeds benefit the Worcester County Food Bank. It’s a creative black costume party last year was a fabulous Halloween inspired event! so much fun! I will be participating in the LIVE ART FUSION with great local talents, Scott Boilard, Derek Ring, Payal Kripini, Jessica Burhans and more!
http://www.cirquedunoir.org/ Thank you to Michelle May, Andreea Waters and Bocado for hosting this creative, fun and inspired event.

Then on Oct 30th: Fire and Ice! It’s ArtsWorcester’s annual fund raising Gala and ALL the proceeds go towards the operations of the gallery so they in turn can continue to support over 400 artist members that live in Worcester County.
Event Info
It’s and Art sale and Auction and I am donating this brand new work:
Turning to Go Red (detail)

Drawing Master: Odilon Redon

While prepping for the Live Art Fusion at this years Cirque du Noir I am reminded of one of my absolute favorite artists: Symbolist painter Odilon Redon.
Check out his amazing work in charcoal and pastel. His artwork drops my jaw and my heart all the way to the floor! His technique with tone and color has always been something I’ve aspired to emulate. Its my opinion that he is one of the most over looked artists from the turn of the 20th century. So, if you are participating in Slow Art at the Worcester Art Museum be sure to take a look at the Odilon Redon in their permanent collection.
Until then enjoy these highlights I found online:




Art, Fun, Fundraising and Halloween

There’s a ton of artsy happenings around Worcester this month that will give you the chance to dress up, dress down, buy art, get creative, laugh, watch and enjoy!!

and if you’re looking for Halloween costume ideas, follow Festival Creative for lots of inspired imagery.

Mr Smartass Theatre Show Oct 7th at The Lucky Dog
Wodehouse Day Oct 15th 1920’s style cocktail party
Slow Art Oct 17th Worcester Art Museum
Arts in the Afternoon Oct 18th benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Worcester
Cirque Du Noir Oct 25th at Bocado benefits Worcester County Food Bank Art Auction and LIVE Art Fusion, Black Costume Party!
Fire and Ice Oct 30th annual ArtsWorcester Fund-raising Gala and Art Auction
Hybrid Movement Co McNally’s Fate Oct 31st at the Hanover Theater benefits the Massachusetts School Teachers Association- Aerial Acrobatics, Beauty and strength with breathtaking artistry.

Jeff Warmouth, J Stuart Esty and Ian Hickey, Pecha Kucha Presenters


{Image © Jeff Warmouth}

Presenter Jeff Warmouth

Bio:

Jeffu Warmouth is a photo-based contemporary artist who has managed to make a career out of playing with his food. His work incorporates photography, video, objects, and installations, and uses jokes and comic twists to subvert logic, language, identity, and culture.

Jeffu has exhibited in alternative spaces and museums, including the DeCordova Museum, the Boston Center for the Arts, and Art Interactive in Cambridge. His award-winning film/video work has screened in festivals internationally. He received his MFA from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and heads the Interactive Multimedia program at Fitchburg State College.

Presenter J. Stuart Esty

Owner of Dr Gonzo’s Uncommon Condiments, J Stuart Esty is passionate about community and jalepenos. His creative and “uncommon” ways of getting his message out through social media certainly attracts attention! Read on…

Bio:

What led this inventor of the (seen on TV) “Jiffy Home Lobotomy Kit”: just insert the stainless steel icepick behind your ear and stir in a circular motion until all your problems and worries disappear…, proud founder of Spruce Up Yours Landscaping International LLC, this high powered Washington lobbyist, tirelessly fighting for our rights to carry concealed Kazoos, this former lead accordion player of a Maraca Rock and Roll Revue (until he was exiled from Columbia after an alleged affair with Juan Valdez’s burro), to dabble in the world of spicy comestibles? Maybe we’ll never know the reason for his shift in focus. All we can hope for is that he will continue to weave delicate textures, tastes and heat profiles in an effort to liberate us all from a world burdened by Bland.

Now, contrary to popular opinion, this iteration of Dr. GONZO is not (and never has been) a 300lb Samoan attorney. He is (and will continue to be) the traveling professor of Advanced Mixology and Arcane Aviation Physics at Hardknock University. Home of the Fighting Black and Blue Humping Lumper Marching Band; that not only carries the instruments in tight formation across the rugby pitch, they also carry the people that play the instruments in tight formation across the rugby pitch, and the (oh, so hard to get on) Intramural Cross Country Pruning Shear Relay Team, where we take running with scissors to the next level…

Stay tuned to YouTube’s DrGonzosCondiments channel for behind the scenes footage of Dr. GONZO’s ‘Secret’ Underground lab, Xtreme Grilling Team and early failed high volume production experiments of our “World Famous” Peppermash. Yes, sometimes the best humor involves the failings of another so, have a giggle at our expense.

J. Stuart Esty can be found loitering in and or around Dr. GONZO’s All Natural MEGA Spicy Comestible EMPORIUM at 122 Main St. (located in the heart of the hysterical courthouse district) in Worcester, MA (the cultural Mecca of Central Mass).

Presenter Ian Hickey

Chef Ian Hickey is presenting on Creative Processes of Cooking, He continually challenges himself to create a tilt on modern American Cuisine. I recently had the opportunity to hear his thoughts on this topic and was fascinated by the process behind building a menu and the challenges in balancing innovation with accessibility. I can’t wait to hear more about the art that goes into cooking!

Join us on Sept 13th 2009 at 55 Pearl Worcester Ma doors open at 7:20.
Featuring presentations by:
Jeff Baker
Trisha Barry
Keith Cross
J Stu Esty
Michael Gennert
Ian Hickey
Lennie Peterson
Jeff Warmouth
read more information about all these creative minds at:
http://pechakucha-worcester.blogspot.com/

Making Music and Art

Musician and Artist Lennie Peterson is passionate about the marriage of Music and Visual Art. He’s agreed to present at Pecha Kucha Night Worcester Vol. 2 to share his passion and insight about the spontaneous, improvised creation within the relationship of Music and Visual Art.
He also shared this concept recently with friend Kaki King, wow-ing her with the idea of painting a guitar with her music….using the action of strumming to mark the guitar. This idea took seed and grew into Kaki King “The Exhibition”. Ovation donated 12 guitars to be turned into art by 12 artists with a 13th guitar painted live at the exhibit and auctioned off to benefit VH1’s Save The Music.

Using the same guitar that she played “Pink Noise” on The David Letterman Show, she dipped her hands into pink acrylic paint and strummed out Pink Noise on stage at the exhibit (admitting that she would have to play Karaoke style because the sound will change as soon as the paint hits the guitar strings)
Thus creating Pink Noise The Guitar. This guitar hasn’t gone up for auction yet so stay tuned for where and when to bid. Until then check out these photos from the show.

A note about Sushi

The Zen of Fish is on my summer reading list, me being a sushi lover (and former sushi slinger) am finding the book very informative. Most Americans find sushi etiquette confusing ( and intimidating!) and think that most sushi they eat is the same as in Japan. Here’s a passage from The Zen of Fish by Trevor Corson that offers some insight

“Jay was American, but his ancestors were Japanese. As he’d learned more about sushi, he’d become worried about the state of sushi in the United States. He would sit at a sushi bar and see people stirring globs of green wasabi paste into their soy sauce to make a thick gray goo. They’d slather their fish with the goo, eat it and exclaim “Oh, that’s such good fish!’ Jay himself used to do the same thing.
But now Jay knew that this behavior was distressing to the chef. Wasabi is a type of horseradish, and in the quantities required to make that thick gray goo, the spiciness of wasabi overwhelms the human capacity for taste and smell. The chef might have risen at 4:30 that morning to go to the fish market and haggle over the best fish, only to see his customers slather it with wasabi so they couldn’t even taste it. Jay believed chefs were becoming disillusioned and customers were missing out. Americans liked food that was hot and spicy, but there was so much more to sushi than that.
Jay learned that in Japan, sushi chefs might put a touch of wasabi inside nigiri, using a larger dab of wasabi with fatty fish, and a smaller one with lean. But they never served extra wasabi on the side. They would serve a pinch on the side with sashimi-plain raw fish, without rice. But diners certainly weren’t supposed to mix the wasabi into their soy sauce and apply it indiscriminately.
Another thing Jay noticed was people gobbing up the pickled ginger as an appetizer. But the point of the ginger was to cleanse the palate between servings of different kinds of fish. Not eating a slice of ginger between each type of fish, jay felt, was like mixing 5 different wines and trying to taste the Chardonnay.
He’d also see diners dunk the rice side of their nigiri in the soy sauce, instead of the fish side. Or they would eat the nigiri in two bites instead of one. Or they would force themselves to use chopsticks, when in fact most Japanese people just use their fingers to eat sushi.
Jay noticed too,that people automatically assumed sushi was good for them. But in the United States, the most popular form of sushi was big sushi rolls, loaded with carbs, sugar, fat and sodium. A sushi take out box in an American supermarket could easily contain as many calories as two slices f pizza, and the rolls served in restaurants are often worse.”

Keep that in mind next time you order that deep fried roll served in peanut sauce!