tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74537808957232262012024-03-13T09:34:51.633-07:00Art Before the HorseFor purchase information, contact Lucy Warlick at 803-222-5737 or at lucy warlick at hotmail.com.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-34016053681540922692014-12-11T12:32:00.001-08:002014-12-11T12:32:57.818-08:00"Waiting #5" Waits No More<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This watercolor painting won a merit award at the Southern Arts Society in Kings Mountain, NC recently. Just as it came home, I got a call from a volunteer for Safe Alliance, an organization that helps victims of domestic abuse. She asked me to donate to an art auction that will benefit Safe Alliance, so "Waiting #5" will be on its way to another adventure. I hope it finds a good home.<br />
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In case you're wondering what the #5 in "Waiting #5" is about, it's the 5th in a series of "Waiting" paintings I've done over the last few years. It's a theme close to my heart, because I feel I waited most of my life trying on different lives, occupations, interests before I found what I want to do the rest of my life. Although I loved to draw and was once an art major before I switched to English literature, I never painted a painting until 6 years ago. When I painted my first painting, it came out whole, and I've been painting ever since. Waiting no more.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-50242356393924358552014-10-07T07:27:00.000-07:002014-10-07T07:27:12.775-07:00Judgment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Entitled, "Judgment," this portrait is meant to remind you of that critical facility--both in other people, but especially, in yourself-- that judges your behavior, your talent, your values, your beliefs and finds them wanting.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-54570598351734903892014-09-18T09:06:00.000-07:002014-09-18T09:07:24.553-07:00Veiled<br />
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Here is another in the series of portraits I have painted from photo references taken from the online Library of Congress. Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-16370066275622209412014-08-23T06:48:00.000-07:002014-08-23T06:48:25.567-07:00Lovely Phone Visit I got a message the other day from a woman saying she was disappointed to learn that "A Cotton Bride" was sold. She resonated with the painting, she said. She'd picked cotton as a child. Did I have any prints of it?<br />
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I called her back and we must have talked for an hour. I hope we keep in touch. <br />
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I sold "A Cotton Bride" too early. I had just finished it and was planning on entering it into a local show in a month or so. I was having lunch with a group of women who all take Pilates at the same studio. Someone asked what I was working on. I happened to have a picture of "A Cotton Bride" on my cell phone, so I passed it around. When it got to the end of our semi-circle, the last woman said, "I want to buy it." She let me enter it into the show before she took it home.<br />
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I know "A Cotton Bride" is an "inspired" piece, and the feeling it evokes is strong in certain people. It's very gratifying to in turn inspire someone else through my painting. I live for that painting that comes out of nowhere and makes you realize you were just the vehicle, not the creator. Perhaps "A Cotton Bride' is the first of a series, but every time I attempt another cotton bride picture, I am disappointed in it because it is a merely a shade beside the original.<br />
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-53432049120447573252014-06-02T08:03:00.003-07:002014-06-02T08:03:59.133-07:00Portrait Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the first of my series of portraits done from old photographs as reference.<br />
I went on to add some very subtle color to this, but I must not have taken a photo.<br />
I found an new canvas size (24 x 30") that lends itself to these portraits. I bought<br />
a dozen of them and I have at present done 10 paintings. I'll be posting one a day.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-28082576058807263452014-04-02T05:55:00.000-07:002014-04-02T05:55:53.715-07:00Telling a Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I come from a long line of storytellers. My father was a hoot and my sister shares many of his storytelling characteristics. I took my storytelling to poetry, but found I didn't have words for some of the things I wanted to convey. I wanted to suggest. When I returned to art, it was to tell stories with images.<br />
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I call this new painting "Berets Instead of Perfume." Can anyone guess what story I wish to tell about these two girls? I'd love to hear your comments!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-69763813015270397552014-02-04T05:53:00.000-08:002014-02-04T05:54:41.807-08:00"Cotton Princess"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is another of my paintings about cotton picking in the south. Children worked in the fields with their parents doing as much as they were able (and probably more.) I abstracted the cotton plants to look like victorian wallpaper in stark contrast to the lives these cotton pickers supported. Thank you for visiting. (Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48")Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-61120552101066363332013-08-18T07:24:00.000-07:002013-08-18T07:24:30.948-07:00A Cotton Bride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While looking for pictures online, I found photos of slaves picking cotton. Many of them used a huge canvas bag that trailed behind them while they picked and from the back these gathering bags looked like wedding dress trains. Hence, my cotton bride was born. I am now researching more ideas for incorporating cotton and its history into my art. Throughout my art, I hope to show my respect for a people who were ripped from their land, their society, their people and who persevered with such overall dignity and forgiveness that I want to recognize them in my paintings.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-34443431353508957872013-07-27T05:28:00.000-07:002013-07-27T05:28:36.180-07:00"Heading Home"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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July 27, 2013<br />
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The above picture is new, taken from an old picture in an ancient photo album I bought off eBay some years ago. I had always liked the picture and felt I should let it remain a photograph, but it called out to me in a period of art-drought and the painting almost painted itself, for which I'm very grateful.<br />
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What do you do when you are in a period where you can't paint or whatever you paint is so bad you feel you'll never paint again?Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-67618339443661848482013-04-24T07:11:00.000-07:002013-04-24T07:11:26.839-07:00Birds Watching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, here is another painting containing birds. The man is cutting bait or cleaning a fish and the birds have learned that they might get dinner if they are patient.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-73088714060298171402013-04-19T07:39:00.000-07:002013-04-19T07:39:57.718-07:00"Baiting the Hook"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finished this painting just last week. Another of my pier fishing paintings. This one is 36" x 36."<br />
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I am pleased to announce that my painting "Portrait in Tennis Shoes" has been accepted into the 38th Annual Juried Show for the Anderson (SC) Arts Center.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-17541112515719907882013-04-10T07:20:00.000-07:002013-04-10T07:20:34.303-07:00 "Breakfast"My latest almost-finished painting is called "Breakfast." It is another in the large series of paintings I am making from photographs taken on a Myrtle Beach, SC pier. I should also post my "Birds Watching" so you can see my continued fascination with the birds and fishermen/<br />
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women who cut bait, eat their meals and fish on the pier everyday. The pier becomes a microcosm with its own food chain, its own mystery, its own dependency and relationships. I am fascinated and hope you'll find my paintings interesting as a result.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-41962300299356703682013-03-01T12:17:00.000-08:002013-03-01T12:17:31.963-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">"Mother and Child" Selected for Juried Art Show in South Carolina</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I am pleased to announce that my entry, "Mother and Child" has been selected for Artfields juried show in the city of Lake City, SC. If you'd like to learn more about Artfields, go here: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'bitstream vera sans', clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="url" id="yui_3_3_0_1_1362168886135343" style="color: green;">www.<b id="yui_3_3_0_1_1362168886135342">artfieldssc.org</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'bitstream vera sans', clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> --</span><span class="Apple-style-span">quite an ambitious project where vendors in the town have volunteered to host the 400 artworks selected. So while my entry will be displayed in the Hub, where people will go to register to vote for their favorite artwork, you can also find art professionally displayed in restaurants, barber shops, dress shop and a stable, to name a few. There will be 3 prizes totaling $100,000, an astronomical amount for an artist, to be sure. I'm excited to participate in a project that may help revitalize a rural community.</span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-89803637234073264672013-02-07T08:23:00.000-08:002013-02-07T08:23:51.761-08:00Mother and Child<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I attend the November Spring Maid Watermedia Workshops, I am drawn to the fishermen on the Spring Maid pier. I have done a series of paintings of the photographs I've taken. Whole families come out in their winter gear to fish, and I find it not unlike a play being performed for my benefit. I wanted to paint this little boy and his mother and call it "Mother and Child" so that my viewer can consider its implications of the nativity, the idea of fishermen, the whole layered possibilities of the premise of fishing--people's passion for pulling something unknown from the ocean. I'd love to hear your comments.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-21078353126453814412012-09-27T12:00:00.000-07:002012-09-27T12:00:05.284-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Hooked: Three Generations"Sells. Heading to Charleston.</span><br />
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Look out Charleston. One of my "Hooked" Series is heading your way! <br />
I am so excited to know that "Hooked: Three Generations" has been<br />
sold and will hang in a home in Charleston, South Carolina. The buyer<br />
has promised to send a picture when it's installed over a credenza in her<br />
dining room. This painting was also selected to be in this year's York<br />
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</tbody></table>These latest paintings (out of a series of five)<br />
were from photos I took of people fishing off<br />
a pier in South Carolina. I inadvertently lost<br />
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and shade that morning and the colors I saw.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-83278013061122503962011-12-24T08:07:00.000-08:002011-12-24T08:07:11.639-08:00"The Present"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BqmQwFxia7g/TvX3sGGjOkI/AAAAAAAAATc/NzL2Nei88Pc/s1600/The-Present.web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BqmQwFxia7g/TvX3sGGjOkI/AAAAAAAAATc/NzL2Nei88Pc/s320/The-Present.web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> In keeping with the holidays, here's a painting I got as a bonus--one that painted itself. Don't you love it when that happens? I am increasingly using the process to guide me rather than having a photographic reference, using random marks to find the image which I coax out of what's there. In this case, I tried to paint a nonobjective abstract, but this young woman intervened. Thanks for looking and may you have a wonderful Christmas!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-1064982732670238622011-12-20T08:55:00.000-08:002011-12-24T08:01:53.525-08:00Gift Bearers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--pKiz-7v9kk/TvC9DETWT3I/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZNEw8unLSlc/s1600/DSC_0063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--pKiz-7v9kk/TvC9DETWT3I/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZNEw8unLSlc/s320/DSC_0063.jpg" width="234" /></a></div>I recently submitted this painting to the online contest sponsored by University of Georgia. Their "Kress Project" (Google it for information) is a collection of Renaissance religious paintings and altar pieces which they asked artists to respond to in any medium. I was inspired by the three Madonna pieces and chose a revisionist view of wise women bearing gifts. I hope you like it!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-75583612821402431332011-08-31T07:03:00.000-07:002011-08-31T07:03:24.659-07:00New Painting Provokes Comments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yuHCpwm0zIQ/Tl49i_JyUmI/AAAAAAAAAS8/SXCXFlCM58k/s1600/Miss+Mamie+Waiting+for+the+Church+Bus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yuHCpwm0zIQ/Tl49i_JyUmI/AAAAAAAAAS8/SXCXFlCM58k/s320/Miss+Mamie+Waiting+for+the+Church+Bus.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br />
I found the original photo online of a woman dressed to the nines but with tennis shoes on. What intrigued me was the orange stucco of the background and the crocheted skirt. In the original picture the woman had the butt of a cigar stuck in her mouth! She had a fan but it was at a different angle. She was in a different chair. Her face was totally different. When I sent this painting out to a group of friends I got some very different reactions. Most were bothered by the tennis shoes. Some wanted more in the background.<br />
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I have not finished this painting, but I had to stop and re-evaluate it. I think the shadows need work (especially on the right side of the chair.) I would appreciate any helpful comments. Thanks!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-62519660815757820142011-08-13T09:08:00.000-07:002011-08-13T09:08:35.344-07:00"Laundry" Makes the Cut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gZ66hlA0x3I/TkafjmdUtRI/AAAAAAAAAS0/kDJgIUtxNBU/s1600/Laundry.1web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gZ66hlA0x3I/TkafjmdUtRI/AAAAAAAAAS0/kDJgIUtxNBU/s320/Laundry.1web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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My painting "Laundry" was selected to be in the 22nd Annual Juried Competition of the Arts Council of York County (Rock Hill, SC). I feel honored to be included in the show for the fourth straight year with a different judge each year. Especially so, since I've only been painting that long! Of course, I was always waiting to be an artist, but I copped out again and again--quitting art in college for literature, teaching English for years, taking an occasional drawing class. Always saying when looking at art, "I could do that!" Well, one day I had a "sit-down" with myself and said, "How many years do you think you've got?" <br />
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Please take a look at my older posts as well.<br />
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-42546260006020183232011-02-28T06:55:00.000-08:002011-02-28T06:55:12.204-08:00"Composition in Shape and Shade"I have the windows open and the birds are giddy. We should all be giddy after the winter we had. I know we're lucky to live in the mid-Atlantic, but still, compared to most years...<br />
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I'm posting my new painting "Composition in Shape and Shade." (Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48"). I'd love some feedback. For instance, my mom wants to know the little boy's name, what he's looking at, what he's reaching for. I tell her it's not my intention to tell those things. I'm just asking the questions!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8t_1jOltHu8/TWu2_NUg-VI/AAAAAAAAASo/F6tJwZ8Dj60/s1600/Contemplation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8t_1jOltHu8/TWu2_NUg-VI/AAAAAAAAASo/F6tJwZ8Dj60/s320/Contemplation.jpg" width="237" /></a></div>I hope my (awkward?) title tells you that the subject matter is not important for me but that I'm exploring light, shade and shadow. This painting is from a photograph I took on Spring Maid's pier in Myrtle Beach a couple of years ago. I was fascinated by the light patterns on that November morning.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-91628567576073185762010-11-16T08:06:00.000-08:002010-11-16T08:06:01.761-08:00"Pointer" Sells<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/SDrF2vbmSAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/KUcmwgg4FVk/s1600/DSC_0696.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/SDrF2vbmSAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/KUcmwgg4FVk/s320/DSC_0696.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> My painting "Pointer" whose story is below, recently sold. This painting is the first that went to complete strangers, and my husband and I had mixed feelings about its sale. I knew some details about the couple, but Larry Elder of Elder Galleries, in Charlotte, did not give me their names. <br />
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My sister is a professor at U of Florida, and one day when she was walking with a fellow professor, she told the woman about the painting, describing the couple as I had described them to her and as Larry Elder had described them to me. My sister's friend said, "I know them. They're friends of mine." She told me about the couple, and now I feel like I have "placed" the painting with friends. My goal is to get invited to dinner at their house so I can see my painting hanging in their dining room!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-73776342513036002522010-10-27T06:14:00.000-07:002010-10-27T06:35:07.866-07:00"Pointer" Set to Travel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/SDrF2vbmSAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/KUcmwgg4FVk/s1600/DSC_0696.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/SDrF2vbmSAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/KUcmwgg4FVk/s400/DSC_0696.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My painting "Pointer"has been included in the Elder Gallery's traveling version of "Carolinas' Got Art," traveling for a year in both North and South Carolina. I am honored to be included, as 39 pictures were chosen from 1800 entries. "Pointer" is 48 x 36"acrylic on canvas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I should tell you the miracle of "Pointer," I guess. More than two years ago, I found a photo on the internet on which this painting is based, and in transferring it to my files, I lost the source. I thought it came from The National Archives, but after trying unsuccessfully to locate it again, I basically gave up. When it was accepted into the recent show in Charlotte and they asked us to write where our inspiration came from, I tried again to verify my source, going through some 4000 photos on line, to no avail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Imagine my surprise when two days later I was browsing eBay's antique photos, the very photo I had downloaded more than two years ago popped up for sale. The owner had indeed put it up for sale before and it had not sold. She was offering it as an "Buy it Now" option. She and her husband travel the US buying stuff to resell, and she could not give me any details. The photo was included on a torn- out photo album page and included some other characters and some children playing on what may be a porch of the antebellum house in the background of the photo. So now I own the photo on which my painting is based, and I feel more at ease about it.</div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453780895723226201.post-18412599933233608042010-10-20T07:20:00.000-07:002010-10-20T07:20:32.565-07:00"Meet Me on the Moon"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/TL75kR17UhI/AAAAAAAAASM/F9E06M2RfTk/s1600/Meet-Me-on-the-Moon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7HJA9gxlQE/TL75kR17UhI/AAAAAAAAASM/F9E06M2RfTk/s320/Meet-Me-on-the-Moon.jpg" width="236" /></a></div>This painting is dedicated to a friend who died suddenly, but who has become a patron saint for many of us. We miss you, Cynthia. And thanks.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11237250590371767412noreply@blogger.com1