"Delma's Corner"
(During The Age Of Aquarius!)
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| Some of my East Boston friends requested a painting of"our street corner!" When I write "our street corner" I mean it was our place as teenagers to hang out and be teenagers! I let myself go with this one and lo and behold it morphed into this "hippy" late sixties work! The other day I started three versions of this scene. I am hoping or maybe not hoping that at least one turns out a bit more realistic! (Interesting that while I was painting I was listening to Andrea Bocelli!) I hope this little piece brings some visual joy! Peace! (Seriously.) Keep painting and making art! |
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| Snow from our very little first snowfall of the season. I eagerly await more! |
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| Just a bit of snow on my the cranberry bog near by! Bring on winter! |
I love the carefree way you painted this! It looks like a fun place to hang out as a teenager. I'm sure your friends will enjoy seeing this. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Joan! I love being carefree when I paint! It was a fantastic place to meet and be with so many,many wonderful friends! I posted this painting on a local Facebook page and got rave reviews from so many of my East Boston buddies! Thanks again Joan! Have a great holiday! Michael
DeleteThis brings me back to my childhood (the 60's)...I love the feel to it! Beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Linda! I am thrilled that my painting was able to bring you back to some childhood memories! Isn't it grand when the power of art does wondrous things! Thank you for your wonderful comment!
DeletePeace! Right on! Groovy! And so much more!
Michael
OMG I LOVE this painting! It could NOT be better! Maybe it resonates with the Hippy in me!
ReplyDeleteHi Celeste! I am glad you love this work. You are partly responsible for it! Your little nudge got me going on this one! Thank you!
DeleteLove the fact that there is some "Hippy" in you! Hard to believe the "Age Of Aquarius" was so long ago! Our generation was so idealistic. I think we did some good for the world! I hope so!
Happy Thanksgiving Celeste!
Michael
This has to be one of my favorite of your works, Michael.. such a loose and beautiful painting! I love this one!! Let yourself go more often!!!
ReplyDeleteWow! Hilda! You are the best! I am thrilled that you like my work! You having a "favorite" makes me so very happy! Thank you so much for your wonderful comments! Happy Thanksgiving Hilda!
DeleteMichael
This is glorious Michael! You can really see your emotional ties shining through in this painting! I LOVE the colours and brush work - such beautiful swirls of colour in the sky and a great buttery texture to the paint. Very original and very Michael Perchard! I bet your friends will be very impressed with this.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to have your first dusting of snow. It must be very special. One of my daughters is soon to be visiting Japan and is hoping for her first ever glimpse of snow (she is 19).
I am intrigued - what exactly is a cranberry bog?
Your snow challenged art buddy
Wendy
Wow! Wow! Hi Wendy! I love you "glorious" compliment! Makes me ever so happy! I am glad you noticed the emotion I put into this one. I am so aware of emotion in my art! This painting was of a very, very special place for me and so many wonderful East Boston friends. We spent many a day and many a night there. Funny how a little street corner in a very small part of a city can be of so much importance to so many people! I am so glad you liked and noticed my swirls. I tried to slow them down in the street but it was so much fun making them! Very "Michael Perchard!" I like the sound of that! You are too good to me! (But don't stop!) My friends loved it! I posted a photo of it on a local East Boston Face Book page. My commented how this work brought back many wonderful memories! Some said it made them cry!
DeleteI am thrilled your daughter is going to witness snow! Also Japan! I so love snow! (When I taught school I was so fortunate to have so many immigrant children experience snow for the first time in my presence! One child literally ran out of the classroom and out to the snow. He was so excited! So much fun when I "allowed" the rest of the thirty or so eight year olds join him!
Cranberry bogs are fantastic! I love them. They are home to Massachusetts' biggest crop, the cranberry. They are usually in wetlands! Mainly in the northern hemisphere. Northeast USA and Eastern Canada. Also Northwest USA! We in Massachusetts take great pride in our state berry, the cranberry. Use it for so many things...drinks, muffins, jams, cereals, breads, cranberry jelly! Bogs are plentiful in my area. Ocean Spray Cranberry Company has it's International headquarters in my town!
The cranberry is bitter! Maybe tart. Most people like to add plenty of sugar to most recipes. I like them a bit tart. They are usually harvested in the fall! They can be harvested wet or dry. Dry harvesting can be tedious and hard work. Much of the berries have to taking off the bog brush by hand that way using small hand "rakes!" Wet harvesting is much easier and I think very beautiful. For wet harvesting the bogs have to be flooded. The very red berries float to the top and then the cranberry growers use large hoses to literally suck them into waiting trucks. The bogs cover acres and acres of land in southeastern coastal Massachusetts. Anyway there is so much more and better information on cranberry bogs. I hope I was somewhat helpful. ( I may have a photo of wet cranberry harvest somewhere to post soon!) I am thrilled you are interested in my little corner of the planet. Our areas are so very different "Eh Mate?"
Thank you Wendy for being my Australian Art Buddy!
Michael
( I wish I could send you some snow!)
Thanks for the very detailed reply Michael. I never would have dreamed that cranberries grew in bogs! I have tasted cranberry juice, in fact, I sometimes buy cranberry juice made by the Ocean Spray company but I didn't realise it came all the way from Massachusetts! I love it too how different our own corners of the world are. It is so nice to learn about other places through on-line friends - it makes the information even more interesting!
DeleteEnjoy your cranberry products this season!
Wendy
Hi Michael!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Delmas Corner!! Love the age of aquarius take on it, and I can see how fun it is because as you say "you let yourself go"..I find the best art happens when we do that. I dont know why you'd want a realistic version of it...this one is fab! Nice to hear that you had a great holiday too. all the best.
Hello My Canadian Art Buddy Sally!
ReplyDeleteAlways great to hear from you!
I am so happy you like "Delma's Corner!" I am not sure how the "hippy' style came to be with this one! It just happened! I am glad it did!
I think you are right about me letting myself go! Thanks for bringing that up Sally! I am not sure why I plan on doing a more "realistic" version! Might be good discipline for me? Always eager to do one subject different ways! (How is your weather going so far! Today we are having tremendous winds and very bitter cold! Kind of early for us!
Thanks again Sally!
Michael
This is a very special painting, I can feel all the memories it holds for you! Beautiful style, it's energetic and colorful, I love the many details! Your friends will go crazy for it!!
ReplyDeleteMichael, as Linda said... very 60's!
ReplyDeleteBut I also like the way you painted it. It (the brushstrokes) undulates like a recalled memory, and of course a happy one. The building seems to push forward as the pole on the right leans out of its way, then it pulls back. It is that quality that gives it life, as it breathes. The whole thing vibrates with life.
Painted as only a Perchard could do!
Keep painting!....
Your warmer Southwestern Art Buddy
I love your painting. I also paint.
ReplyDeleteI painted this painting also, thank you.
But can i make a suggestion: draw a mercedes sign instead of peace!