JO REIMER: Flowers and Fountains

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Flowers and Fountains

Flowers

Watching the fireworks Sunday night ,with one eye on my camera's viewfinder and the other on the awesome display, I was quickly propelled into my right brain, mesmerized by the colors and forms that appeared, slowly faded, and disappeared, to be quickly replaced by another bit of amazement.

Not knowing a thing about fireworks I found myself referring to the images as Flowers and Fountains. Then on my morning walk I found a cache of spent fireworks clearly labeled Fountains and Blossoms. Now I know.

I shot 156 images, thanks to the minor miracle of digital photography, and while none are worthy of publishing or even printing they are giving me some ideas for paintings which I'll start on as soon as I bring order to my studio.

Fountains and Flowers

Daily Collage

5x7

5 comments:

Rita A.7:34 AM PDT
What totally amazing photographs. Watching through a lens could bring the wonder and awe back to a few of us. I just got tired of fireworks.
You collage is perfect. What great work.
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Manon10:20 AM PDT
Wow!! Awesome pics of the fireworks, Jo!! Love the collage.
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jgr11:41 AM PDT
Excellent photos! I love your collage, too - great colors and composition.
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Anonymous12:09 PM PDT
I just love the way our artist minds work and "see" one thing in another thing! I agree with your fountains and flowers! And you might think of Electricity also in formation. :) You did a great job!
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layers6:46 PM PDT
what a great way to bring what you viewed and experienced with the fireworks back into your studio and into your wonderful daily collage
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.