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