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Painting-A-Day: June 22, 2013

6/22/2013

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Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" Birch Sides, 12x12", Ready to hang!

Arromanches, Lower Normandy, France, known as Gold Beach. I sit here trying to think of what to say about this...what comes to mind is that healing comes over time, like the steady beat of waves hitting the shore. A washing, a cleansing. Nature has its own way of working through life cycles, death and rebirth. The soothing sound of waves is somehow reassuring and steady. I think it reminds us of the sounds we hear in the womb. But that's just me, wondering why it is so soothing to sit on the beach listening to the waves come in.  It's the light, though. Contrasting light against dark creates the drama. In contrast the muted colors serve to soothe the soul. Take a deep breath and exhale. Can't you smell the salty air?

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Painting-A-Day: June 21, 2013

6/21/2013

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Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" birch sides, 12x12", Ready-to-hang!
*This painting has been changed and a new version will be posted the week of July 8th.

Today as I paint, I am not sure where I am going. But as the painting progresses, I start to feel the sorrow I felt as I walked on Omaha beach and through the American and German cemeteries in Normandy last week. When I was there, I didn't have time to deeply reflect on it all, I could only experience it, take it in, feel it, see it. I have been reading Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day". I am beginning to  understand the costs of this war, the human cost. The chaos, the carnage, the reality of war. To stand on that beautiful, peaceful beach and look out to the calm sea and think of what happened there is so incongruous that your mind can't accept it as true. So today the colors of beach sand and water pulled at me. And it caused me to think of those days in 1944, of those young boys on both sides of the conflict, of the men and women who were part of the resistance. It brings tears to my eyes. Oh the beauty, oh the sorrow, oh the things we humans do. It breaks the heart that we squander the gifts we have been given, this world and each other.

Light in the darkness. The natural beauty of sea and sky, beach and stone and the human condition. I started with the pure beauty of the blue. Over that the colors of sand and stone. I added heavy, imposing darkness. At the end I used the movement of pure white light on top of the darkness. I hold out hope....that Goodness will win the day.

This painting has sold in its final version posted August 6, 2013.

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Painting-A-Day: June 20, 2013

6/20/2013

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Back to reality. Back home from France, a trip to see art at Musee D'Orsay, the Louvre, and other Impressionist Museums in the Normandy area. It's hard to explain how it feels to an artist to stand in the presence of the Masters I studied in my art history classes. There is a feeling of kinship, a connectness of caring about the same things. Light, color, form, meaning. My heart was full. I never tired of it in the many hours I spent looking closely at their brushstrokes, the smoothness of the marble chiseled into human form.

I am studying a Vermeer at top left. One of my favorite artists. His use of light and ordinary human interiors draw you into that scene. There were two of Michelangelo's sculptures there. I feel weirdly close to him after reading The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biography based on 400 some personal letters he wrote. Really. It is stunning what he saw in that block of marble and was able to pull from its depths. Yes. I did see the Mona Lisa. But the painting on the right was also painted by Leonardo DaVinci and I find this woman even more intriguing. She doesn't warrant being protected by glass and roped off. She is in the hall with all the others. But her eyes. They pull you in.

What a privilege it was to be able to go there! I never, ever dreamed I would. I traveled with my youngest daughter, who studied in Grenoble for the semester, a requirement of her French major. We also traveled to the Normandy area so that I could study the D-Day monuments and museums. The most powerful experience there was the Peace Museum in Caen. It was one of the best museums I have experienced. It covered WWI, WWII in Europe and the Pacific and the Holocaust in photos, text, quotes and film. We spent 3-1/2 hours there. I was overwhelmed. The contrast of the beauty of art juxtaposed with the horror of what humanity is capable of is something that I will be building my next exhibit around.

Back to the studio. I can't wait to get my hands in the paint! I love my life and am so grateful.

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Painting-A-Day: June 4, 2013

6/4/2013

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Acrylic on 140# Cold Press Fabriano Artistico Paper, Archival Acid-Free White Mat, Non-glare glass, and 1-1/2" Black Metal Frame.  Actual art 30x22", Framed 40x32"   $1200.00 (Please email if interested: robynsandanderson@gmail.com)

This is one of my favorite paintings. I wanted to portray a sense of the holiness that is life. I hope you feel it. This painting was part of the exhibit I did for the Nina Bliese Gallery in Minneapolis.

Tomorrow I take off for France to visit my daughter who studied there this semester. We will spend some time in Paris (art museums!) and the take the train (love trains!) up to the Normandy area where we will remember those who fought and died on this  69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of the Allied Forces. I've been reading Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day", stats and stats of weapons used, strategies formulated, young men sacrificed. As a young girl I never leaned into reading about war, but now I am going to lean into it in preparation for an exhibit next spring on war, suffering, peace and hope. It made me think of this painting...of the sacredness of life.

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