December 2014

feeling colorful

first the Dominquez Adobe in Compton and the bottom one Paramount Movie Ranch

both beautiful days with a horrific rainstorm in between

Book Recommendation!!!

I highly recommend this book by my friend and the amazing artist George Gallo

It is available on amazon.com

Here is another article about it 

http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/inspiration-creativity/oil-painting-advice-learn-paint-like?lid=CHarnsm120414

Enjoy!!!

Trip to Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy November 2014

 Corner of 140 and 120 inside Yosemite in the rain from the car

 Entering Yosemite at Inspiration Point

 Dogwood 2 at Evergreen Lodge, Yosemite

 Barn in field, outside Yosemite, from the car

Hetch Hetchy

On October 14 my beloved mother, Katherine Schumann-Heink died holding my hand while listening to Brahm's lullaby. 

Her favorite poem was "I wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by Wordsworth. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790 

I did this painting for her memorial as daffodils are not in season now so I couldn't get any live ones.  The house I painted for her for last Christmas.  It is where she lived with her mother when she went to high school and college. 745 N. Brighton, Burbank.  She loved it and would stare at it and tell me her memories of what happened while she lived there, the neighbors etc.  How her father showing a neighbor, Mr. Blanco his gun almost accidentally shot her mother who had just gotten up to go to the kitchen and the bullet went through the back of the chair.  Mr. Blanco ran out of the house.  

Mom kept saying she couldn't understand how I got the house so perfectly as she remembered.  It was easy, it is still exactly the same and I just sat across the street and painted it. 

She felt my dad's presence for the last 5 years of her life ( he died in 1994) She had a recurring dream of him and her mother on the other side of a river beckoning to her and she couldn't get to them no matter how hard she tried.  I think she made it on October 14, 2014.

We had a beautiful memorial for her on what would have been her 92nd birthday November 13 and Henry came home from Vienna to play piano, her favorites including Yellow Bird, Nearer My God to Thee and of course Brahm's lullaby.  That night Henry heard her  voice as he fell asleep say "Thank you for playing for me today"

Our Local Malibu Paper

October 22, 2014



Such a lovely article in the Malibu Surfside News
This has been a very difficult month, with the passing of my mother and then a fall down the stairs.
It was nice seeing this well written terrific article about me and my work.

October 9, 2014

Mission San Luis Rey in the Malibu Times

Now if I could just get a gallery that wanted to exhibit all of them.

This mission was painted at dusk as a service was going on and the music was gorgeous.

There is a park in front where I sat at a picnic table under a tree and painted as the sun set.

Los Angeles Times

October 2, 2014

Today one of my Mission Paintings, The San Francisco Mission (Mission Delores) was published on the Los Angeles Times website.  Not my favorite of the paintings, we had to do it from the middle of the road but at least they put my website address in, carolyncarradine.com

Oxnard Pumpkin Patch, the last day of September 2014

nard Pumpkin Patch

This Week's Experiments

Shark carved out of cuddle bone and silver poured in

about 2"X3"

Path in the Huntington 

very quick study

Mausoleum

in Huntington Gardens. shady side 

More September

This is a real Potpourri!

This is my Halloween "Full Moon on the Bayou" oil painting

12"X16"

8 ghosts, 6 Zombies, 2 witches and a bat

also a man and an alligator just for good measure

"Cathedral of Palms"

Huntington Gardens Watercolor

9"X12"

                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                     "Wild Water"
                                                                 Leo Carrillo Beach
                              beautiful day no wind and the water was wild and a gorgeous blue

September 2014

I had the opportunity to paint "Broadview" Sandy and Bill Mitchell's beautiful home in Malibu

It was great fun sitting in front of Don Henley's (The Eagles) house on his brick tree well in the shade on a very hot day to paint the first picture. There was a lovely breeze and it was delightful.  At one point Sandy came out to visit.

Maliblu 2014

I have meant to paint this view for years but just never got around to it.  Labor Day seemed perfect.  Staying home and not fighting the beach traffic on the last big rush to the sea for all the Valley people and those going back to school.  It was a beautiful weekend and perfect.  I sat in the grass on the hill across the canyon and no rattle snakes bothered me.  It was a lovely and very peaceful day.

I received an email asking for submissions for a Steinbeck Country exhibition.  Each piece of art needed to be accompanied by a Steinbeck quote.  I took "The Monterey Wharf" from my mission collection and painted the other two for submission.  Doing this project I realized how very happy I am when I am painting.

                                                             The Joads on the Road

"How can we live without our lives?  How will we know it's us without our past"

The Grapes of Wrath

©Carolyn Carradine Art

                                                                  Monterey Wharf

"In the hour of pearl - the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself"

The Grapes of Wrath

©Carolyn Carradine Art

                                                                         Ploughed

                             "And the tractors turning the multiple furrows in the vacant land"

                                                                The Grapes of Wrath
                                                             ©Carolyn Carradine Art

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 August 2014

Caitlyn's 32nd birthday, wow how is that possible??

We went out to do our best in 2 hours to give Monet a run for his money fueled with Mateus  Rose ( who remembers that?  ...hint, the bottle becomes a candle stick after drained) and cheese, with acrylic paint.  I have to give B. Collins Studio on Pico a big shout out.  It was great fun and Beverly is the best.  We are waiting for her Halloween Bayou painting for another evening out.  "Like" her on Facebook, she is starting out and doing a wonderful job!!




Chris and I spent a glorious day driving to Morro Bay, had a great seafood lunch (well I had seafood and he had steak as usual) We painted the rock from the pier and then drove home.
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As an experiment with black canvas I did two small (8"X10") paintings copied from a couple friend's © photos

"The Farmer has left the Barn"
This photo was taken the morning after my friend's father, a lifelong farmer had passed away.

This was a wonderful photo taken in Africa by another friend.  I love giraffes and found this photograph magical

King Gillette Ranch with Chris

Franklin Canyon

End of June 2014

Painted all weekend  absolutely gorgeous weather and beautiful parks

Carolyn Carradine Art ©

 As summer begins the girl in the red hat rides her unicorn through Malibu Creek State Park,
Carolyn Carradine Art ©

June, 2014

This month I learned all about my rights to my work
I now have a lawyer and an  agent to protect my artistic property


Boston
© Carolyn Carradine Art

Inspired by the Christmas Carol
"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
If you read the words listed below the painting, it will make more sense.



                    © Carolyn Carradine Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_Upon_the_Midnight_Clear

Asquith, SOK-OJO --Acrylic, first in a long time, not crazy about the medium

The above two paintings were done on 6/11, a bad day and my mood definitely shows through in the paintings

Carolyn Carradine Art  ©

Barn Leonis Adobe

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Leonis Adobe

These two paintings done 6/12 were done on a very happy day and there seems to be quite a difference

Carolyn Carradine Art ©

My book is done and now must have final editing to be offered with my Mission Project when exhibited.  I am very happy with it!

Memorial Day 2014

The Portal of the Folded Wind, Valhalla cemetery
Thank you dad for everything.

My tribute and Chris's on this beautiful Memorial Day.  I painted mine on gold leaf.

Carolyn Carradine Art ©

Christopher Carradine Art ©

leaving Vienna May 2014

Leaving Vienna

Hate to go but mom is ill and had to get back to LA as quickly as possible.  These are the last things I did before we got the phone call

the end of the building on Badgasse

ghost building

Secession on gold leaf

Carolyn Carradine Art ©