Tableaux III Spring 2019

 

Happy Spring!

 

Saturday, March 23rd, 2019

A discussion started a pet-project….
visit www.aliciasurveyer.camera

 

Aquamarines

I went crystal shopping, and ended up buying these two blue aquamarines. Then I hear some underground rumor that they had been missing from an India~Museum for almost five years. Luckily, I’d already been in touch with them….

Aquamarines

 

Two different shades of blue~

 

Odd shapes… & slightly uneven!
(Maybe my line drawings are straighter? Just kidding!)

 

Baby~Bubs!

There I am, Miss Alicia Christine Surveyer, on my 1st birthday!!!!

 

 

More about the Aquamarines

Sunday, March 24th, 2019

I just took more photographs of the aquamarines; you can see the effect of the crystals, like water.

I say the cuts are odd because the shapes are not traditional. The oval has more octagon-type facets, and the pear (tear drop shape) is very round and fat in its proportions.

Nowadays, diamonds and gemstones can be “lab-created”, or many stones are referred to as “cubic zirconias” (or “zircons”), or there is something called “Swarovski crystals”. (Or “crystals with Swarovski elements”.)

Other keywords: gemstones, semi-precious gems, birthstones, crystals, geodes (crystal geodes), crystal points, tumbled stones, crystal types, mineralogy, gemology, geology

Here the aquamarines are face up

 

Its hard to see, but here the aquamarines are face down!

 

face down

 

face down~ and you can see the brown table through them

 

face up

 

Monday March 25th 2019

This song was out in Spring 1998, on the airwaves, and on Music TV.
I was 17, and on vacation, in Europe, (for the first time…) in Holland!

Mya & Wyclef Jean – Ghetto Superstar

 

 

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Ma belle tigresse

 

 

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

I asked my friend to photograph me with this tree, and posed in a meaningful way. It was decorated with lights, even though it was not Christmastime. This was many many years ago, when I actually had a friend that I went out at night with, or to go out at night with, rather, riding around for fun and interesting things. I posed as if I was lookng into the tree; like it was a magic tree.

The Magic Tree

 

 

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Ian’s Art Portfolio Sticker Project

I made Nin (Ian) a portfolio for storing sheets of paper; like writings or drawings (or whatever he wants!!!!) It has stickers, drawing, collage… It was a cardboard envelope, that came by mail, with my art print orders! Now its recycled…. lol

Willy nilly front cover
Every part has a story

 

Back, insert paper!!!!!
Ян
снежинка
ии

 

 

Thursday, March 28th, 2019

Madelaine our Persian got a haircut at the groomer! Sometimes Persian-cats need a haircut like a poodle!!! Its very cute!!!!

Big Hairy Paw!

 

She looks like Jaq with her short look…. but its Madelaine the Lioness!

 

Sweetie… she didn’t mind her trip to the groomers, and she even seems proud of her new look!
Some pets get too nervous or scared at the groomers, or they are even shy after because of their haircut.

 

Crazy eye~
Good girl, Madelaine!

 

 

Friday, March 29th, 2019

More photos of Madelaine, and the other pets, (namely Fils and Woof-wooly), from yesterday afternoon.


 

 

Friday, March 29th, 2019

Nikki’s Art Portfolio Sticker-Marker Project

Special for NIkki-itian… this is the second one I finished (the first was for Ian)… and… Did you know…? There’s two more that aren’t complete.

Monumenti Scambi

 

 

Sunday, March 31st, 2019

This is a photo presentation of variants of the crystal called Serpentine

This is my serpentine scepter.
I imagine it was made by water; under a waterfall~ where footpaths cross in the Amazon rainforest, in South America

 

You could just call the piece a rough crystal, or part of a geode (a broken geode)… but really, by shape, it would be called the gemology word “scepter”.


 

 

Sunday, March 31st, 2019

I finished my work on Cero’s art portfolio yesterday. I made a beautiful howling wolf!

 

There’s the back… with the wolf!

 

I like this part~ so I zoomed in

 

 

Sunday, March 31st, 2019

Yesterday, I made 2 drawings, in black, while having lunch with my father at Première Moisson. It was a visit, plus lunch, plus art~

…… Easter is coming, so they had all the fancy chocolate sculptures out!!!!

I photographed the two new cards today. Also, I had made the wolf at the café too.
(From the previous post)

 

This was a design I used to repeat when I was younger & in school. The crescent moon, with a balancing star & orb. As well, moving rainbow-colored waves. A cloud.
I used to draw in class because I was so quick to learn~ and finish my work! I was well-behaved.

 

I made a sketch of a design for a church~ a stained glass window behind the altar.
It started with a four-square cardinal-pointe rosette flower.
I would have to make the plan of the design more intricate, delicately, with the correct geometries, etc. The leaf parts would be planned out more.
I imagined the window recessed, and shaded around it, in dark, on my drawing.

 

The left is different. Maybe an oak? There is a lot of symbolism here.

 

 

MOnday, April 1st, 2019

Uh~oh… new artcard!

Féelyne’s Call Of The Wild

 

 

Monday, April 1st, 2019

Chocolate Squirrel For Easter~

…from my visit to Premiëre Moisson

L’écureuil

 

 

 

Monday, April 1st, 2019

New Stationary~

Notepad (with 50 sheets)
Each sheet is printed like this~ there is just a small space for writing~

 

 

Monday, April 1st, 2019

….more from the Heartbox~

This is called an amethyst

 

Its an amethyst because of the edges

 

with daylight casting through


 

 

Monday, April 1st, 2019

These are photographs of two works on some type of canvas. I wonder if its the same artist. They look like they had the same art supply salesman, lol! One is attributed to Munch, and is a very famous painting. The other is a Monet. But by size, & materials… could it have been the same artist?

What also is interesting in this photoset is the hole in the Monet. Its intentional! I took pictures of that up close. (And of the back of the paintings!) I think it tells a story about being an artist in of itself~ (Maybe fame, and home, house and family.)

 

 

This painting is so well-done
There’s luminosity, but make that paint even a touch thinner and the quality of the piece would have been gone!

 

Oh, scream at the Fauve horror!

 

Hmmmm…

Sorry guys, the Munch is a scratched piece of shit that even an experienced art dealer would consider a piece of toilet paper.

 

 

TUES./APRIL/2nd/2019

Première Moisson Chocolate Box… with a crystal wand & a giant crystal egg!

Are they cayenne? (lol)
Rose Quartz Wand & Celestite Egg

 

yumyum

What is this mysterious fuchsia pen for?
Jerry picked the color~
**Something nice coming in about two weeks**

 

 

Mercoledì 3 aprile 2019

Look at the hand!
The Angel is saying; “this is on me”
or, he could be saying; “This is my burden to bear”
His wings are white, but to me, they are made of glaise..

 

glaise is the french word for clay earth

 

 

Dipinto di Alicia della Cappella Pazzi a Firenze, Italia
L’ho fatto in duemila

 

Questo è uno dei miei dipinti ~ ☆☆☆☆☆☆. L’ho fotografato oggi, proprio ora, con lo sfondo della stanza. Ho scattato una foto della mia firma da vicino (Alicia 2000!) Quando ho visitato l’Italia, ho scattato foto della Cappella dei Pazzi. Ho realizzato un dipinto dalle mie foto quando sono tornato in Canada, a Kirkland, nel mio studio d’arte, forse circa 2 anni dopo.

 

 

THURS./APRIL/4TH/2019

aNOTHER SONG FROM THE HITS THAT WERE AIRING when I was in Holland, Spring 1998

 

 

THURS./APRIL/4TH/2019

Jaquard so pretty again~

Jaq has a special touch about posing in the sunlight for her cat mommy, the mad photographer (lol)

 

 

Jaq is nuts over the little egg bowl I made for her… in the spirit of Easter!

Little glass cat bowl of coated chocolate Easter eggs
(they look like spotted wild bird eggs, tho….)

 

I finished Keanu’s Art Portfolio today… at Starbucks, of all places… Anyways… Then I just took artful photos of it… in a setting
23:34

 

 

Detail

 

 

TUES./APRIL/9TH/2019

008′s
Things for my gentlemen…

Pick up the sticks!!!!

Tall Drink~

 

 

TUES./APRIL/9TH/2019

I made an art~charm bracelet for Frédéric
…il est Jean-Honoré!

Personification~

 

~glimmer

 

~~caught!

 

 

TUES./APRIL/9TH/2019

This is the new Vistaprint stuff that arrived yesterday…

A wolfy art~card, notepads sets, with pens~, an extra Golden Eagle Sketchbook with the magenta pens to work with
Catch the bird’s attention while you work!!!~’!!”

echo

 

 

notepad set~

 

~Pages

 

~second style

 

p’tit Sapristi~~

 

 

Is he.. awake..?

 

Nno…

I designed these. I made drawings, I took pictures, I took pictures of my drawings… I then made the digital design, then they get printed. But all the work is from me. I plan how the notepad or the business card (or the pen, or the postcard…) is going to get printed… (etc.)


 

 

TUES./APRIL/9TH/2019

I drew a swan

 

 

 

 

 

 

–Golden Eagle says…

 

 

THURS./APRIL/11TH/2019

Nin’s Serpentine Ring

It looks somewhat like a Moss Agate, because of the mottling in this particular Serpentine crystal… it also looks like the Stewart Hall tulips! If you look carefully, there they are, growing.

(Find a picture in the stone~) (or in the clouds..) (maybe some birds…?)

Because this serpentine crystal has a smooth surface, and an equal, even shape, its set in silver, созданный (created) into a beautiful ring.

Nin, my forest green troika taigo, I love you~

 

 

SAT./APRIL/13TH/2019

I drew a cute little drawing today… its warm and sunny in Montreal on this Saturday…

…its the weekend

Vintage Mermaid purse, wolf card, marker~art..

 

Very close view… its a drawing on a card the size of a standard business card~
My marker is in the photo, and looks way oversized, by odd illusion
There’s a spotted mushroom, grass, a swirl, and a daisy
可以在腳本中讀取此圖形
(This drawing can be read in script~)

 

 

SAT./APRIL/13TH/2019

I wore this bracelet today. Its in one of my black & white drawings, but I’m not sure if I had ever taken a picture of it

My green corsage cuff-style bracelet
I’ve actually had this one a long time now
The bracelet is metal, with enameling, and has stones on it too. It has a hinge!

 

 

SAT./APRIL/13TH/2019

I like this Ashanti song; I remembered it & looked it up (don’t ask me about the interludes; no idea if its a movie or not) (hmph… maybe just a short film)

Other songs;

Have a good weekend!

 

 

SUN./APRIL/14TH/2019

The Easter Bunny was hard at work last night, prepping her bundles.
She only managed to make two.

Pretty Easter Treats
(Do yoouuuu have a wife & mother that makes these….?)

 

Have a gander

Candy!~coated chocolate Easter eggs

 

 

SUN./APRIL/14TH/2019

Good morning, Luv..
**more songs

Alicia*s~Art

 

 

MON./APRIL/15TH/2019

Buon pomeriggio
**more songs
**altri canti

Its Cleopatra! Its an angel! Its the queen of the jungle~

 

 

MON./APRIL/15TH/2019

The Louvre called….

They want their she-wolf back~
(Just kidding)
They sponsored my printer- by math, it works out to two sets of 500 artstyle business cards!
But I have to design them!

~En français:
La Louvre (de Paris) a appellé… ils reveulent la leure! (C’est juste une farce…)
Ils ont donné de l’argent à ceux qui impriment mes trucs; et, par mathématiques, cela revient à deux jeux de 500 cartes subventionées! …mais il faut que j’en fais des nouvelles!!

 

 

MON./APRIL/15TH/2019

Buona sera
**another song
** altra canta

 

 

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019

I’ve been busy…
I designed!! Crédi for my housemates!
…at price~point “what a steal”!!!

These are all the images I had to make for the design process… its the sequence in the gallery below. I even had a design date! Who sat on my right while I worked? Hmmm…

 

Crédi, men…
(La Vôtre)

 

Shade of Yellow called “Marigold”
(I like Kelly green, you?)

Its two sets of plastic art~cards!
Deux jeux de cartes d’art… en plastique!
Voilà, Louvre!

 

 

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019
The story if Nimh

Nin

 

Alicia

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019

Songs!!!!
♪♪Catch a tiger by its toe♪0

 

 

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019

Back inside the red heart box
Also other special crystals with inclusions

These were identified as “pigeon blood rubies”
I call them red sapphires that catch a pink reflection

 

This is the oddest Aqua Aura Quartz that I’ve ever seen
Its a quartz irradiated with gold, yet it has an organic, fluid shape….
..just like the way the minerals & spotting are inclusions in it!

 

2 Phantom Quartz

 

These are my favorite


 

 

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019

All lined up

Groomsmen, lol

Bff’s

Studs!

Is one set for girls?

Special lilac shade

 

 

WED./APRIL/17TH/2019

Cero

~You design well

Thanks for wanting to learn, & for always being there. You’re my best friend. I give you this super~special piece of jewelry as a prize for your hard work & commitment. Babe, you’re really good now…. already!!!!

 

 

FRI./APRIL/19TH/2019

Bubblegum Tape for Steve
My dad likes bubblegum!
We are visiting this weekend… so I bought a surprise treat for him!!!
Cero wants me to say its from him too, lol

 

 

FRI./APRIL/19TH/2019
I take myself seriously, & this is what I was doing today~
…making beautiful drawings, with markers, on the pallette cards

 

 

 

 

I like my work~
I love the art I do~
I am proud of it~
I am proud of myself, when I can do it properly, the way that I like~

 

 

FRI./APRIL/19TH/2019
Songs… Happy Saturday! (Its 12:20AM, lol)

 

 

MON./APRIL/22nd/2019
Victorian Style Hairclips….
…presented in a nice photo~set, by me, Alicia☆☆☆
VOCABULARY:
Victorian Art, Art Nouveau, Gilded Age
RELEVANCE:
The Frick Collection, Art Museum in NYC (New York City, New York, USA)

 

 

I actually bought these a long time ago already… at the pharmacy… on cards…

Victorian~style barrettes…….. just for my housemates to look at!

 

Note from Alicia:
The word “baba” is Hungarian for doll
(My maternal grandparents were Hungarian)
I’ve had that nickname since I was a baby~

 

MON./APRIL/22nd/2019
I made cards yesterday, on Easter Sunday. I was on a visit with my father, Steve Surveyer. I am preseting them, but als presenting pics of the four of them that are a series together. I did that on purpose!
There’s Keanu, then me… LEAF TATS~ !!!!


I hope I marker~draw again soon

 

MON./APRIL/22nd/2019
The Sanctuary
I took these photographs about a year ago… they were private. I was planning a walk down the aisle; With Eddie!!!!!



I had decided to take refuge there, that day, from the people, the crowds, & the heat…. to cut the puzzle~drawing that I was making

 

MON./APRIL/22nd/2019
Pop Princess Songs

 

 

TUES./APRIL/23rd/2019
City of Montreal Police Force Dodge Charger
“The intrepid hero…”

There’s a dream~
☆☆☆☆☆ !!!!!!

Mine~
☆☆☆☆☆ !!!!!!

 

 

WED./APRIL/24th/2019
I made a blue cake last night!!!☆
It’s a cherry chip (pink) cake, with cream cheese whipped frosting, plus some maraschino cherries~ ♡♡♡◇◇◇♤
“The intrepid hero…”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just forget about it!!!!☆☆☆☆☆

 

 

THURS./APRIL/25th/2019
SONGS! ~ ☆

 

 

THURS./APRIL/25th/2019

Crédit Suisse ~ Louvre

I just photographed my art “credit cards”
Je viens juste de photographier mes “cartes de crédit”

Il n’y a même pas de numéros dessus! C’est pour tenir dans la main et regarder!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRI./APRIL/26th/2019

Crédit Suisse ~ Louvre

Voilà mon petit suisse! Il a sa petite boîte… (en haut)

This is the Suisse from the Ecomuseum. He plays “Where’s Waldo” when I visit. The “museum” (its actually an environmentally-proactive zoo with a holistic practice) is outdoors in a natural setting. The Suisse follows me around on the whole walking trail… super funny. Then I hear a bristle in the grass and leaves, or he makes a mad dash across the path… He even goes into the black bear pen to punk me that he’s sitting on their rock escarpment!

This guy is so funny… he looks like a chipmunk, but he’s got the allure of a squirrel (???)

 

 

I think I visited the Ecomuseum way too often, lol

 

 

FRIDAY/APRIL/26th/2019

4-by-6 Postcard designs from last night

The design speaks~

 

These are designed for the way someone would hold them (and look at them) in their left hand

 

Possibly chuck them after…? Lol…

 

 

MONDAY/APRIL/29th/2019

With my Diana the Huntress attitude…. came these.

 

 

MONDAY/APRIL/29th/2019

A for Alicia~ Alicia gets an A in everything she does☆ (Sorry guys, I’m lauding myself… I’m just way too smart)

In my laurels, there’s a banana, music, a book, leaves, plant sprigs, grasses, a flower…

Go into the drawing…. into Lachine…



 

 

WEDNESDAY/May/1st/2019

A for Alicia~

S for strong~

Songs!!

 

 

THURSDAY/May/2nd/2019
Long Silvertone Stick Earrings, with Ruby & Tanzanite

Here you can see the size of the earrings,, compared to a pen

 

 

THURSDAY/May/2nd/2019
These are drawings that I made yesterday. They are unfinished. I was going to give them to my friend (that I think is good in art) to color in. I thought it would be really cool for him for many reasons. He could do good drawing more than he realizes, that its the fancy markers on color pallette paper cards, so its a gift in of itself to try, and of course its beautiful starts from miss famous artist Alicia.

Its an apple thats kind of balancing on a bunch of bananas

 

Sailboat
One card has a red outline, the other orange
The sketch to start from is in color; as opposed to just in black

 

 

THURSDAY/May/2nd/2019
I collaborated with the very nice jeweller Chris from Bijouterie Larente to make this custom ring. It has a very large gemstone. It is a “round”. Its a Padparadscha Saphhire. I design custom projects, bring Chris the pieces to work with, discuss it with him… then Chris makes them. Mettalurgy in jewelry is something that I am not in full practice of.
I photographed the ring today! For this piece, Chris had artistic reign for the designing. I had explained what I wanted, and showed different examples, but told him he could decide how to do it exactly. This is an art thing where you let the other put their skill into it; like leaving it in the hands of the other artist, in a trusting way. (I think I brought this up before; about tattooing.) He did a beautiful job. I am very happy with it.
**note: what makes this collaboration extra special is that this is the first time the jewelry piece was a totally unbuilt ring!!!!

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY/May/3rd/2019

There are going to be more original jewelry projects… its ongoing! Ongoing as I can budget paying for the work, & get back and forth safely by car to the bijouterie!
***I have a plan for a lotus-flower ring for Ed… in green amethyst!*** I love you my Ké!

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY/May/3rd/2019

 

 

SATURDAY/May/4th/2019

 

 

SATURDAY/May/4th/2019

 

 

Wednesday, May 8th 2019

A few days ago, I sent an envelope to the Louvre, with some art in it. Its an artistic enveloppe!

I had already sent all the card~art (to the Louvre), but that didn’t include the 3 newest art~postcards, because they weren’t made yet! They went off, in this homemade parcel~envelope that has an Alicia~Art daisy sticker on it!

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 8th 2019

On Monday, I wrapped up my work on my NYC~style portfolio, (& with all the art~cards in it) and sent it off to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (But not before I photographed the thing!!)

This project took a lot of work, and I felt an urgency; so I had to get it done ASAP!

The portfolio is NYC~themed, but of course with my Alicia~style touch. Then, inside, were all the styles of my art~business cards & art~postcards. I included stickers with my horse photos on them, beause they are my favorite.

I drew a really nice horse on the outside too!

 

 

 



 

 

Wednesday, May 8th 2019… SONGS (for today)

Its the “Canadian Bed”….. from The Bachelor in Paradise, lol…

 

 

Friday, May 10th 2019

Finally!!! I had to make big plans to be able to do this project…

Photographs of the 40 clay pots that I made last fall.

Also, certain parties made a pair each.

Herein… there is the light and shadow of the forms, with the sandy glow of the bisque~grey curves of the pots. They are just clay; not permanent; but they did dry, and they cured~ like a rich porcelain. The natural lighting and lamp lighting of the room reflect off the smoothness I made with my fingers, and wrists and arms. Each pot is unique. I explored different ways of pulling and pressing the clay into a shape. You can see the fine fingertraces, the water marks, the imperfections, the sculpting… and the marks I etched into some of the pots as I cleaned and perfected them.

My clay pots

Cero’s 2 are in this picture~
He used additional different techniques than mine, including woodworking

















 

 

Friday, May 10th 2019

I took two photographs out the back window… its so pretty…

Everything green is coming out, or getting greener… its blooming Spring now, here where I live!

 

 

Saturday, May 11th 2019

This was an extra bowl that had not been photographed. Oddly enough…. I found it today!

Its from 2002. It was fired in the kiln, and glazed.

I sculpted leaves and vines on it. Part of that edge was later broken, too.
(Just like dishes sometimes break….)

 

 

Sunday, May 12th 2019

 

Monday, May 13th 2019

 

 

Monday, May 13th 2019

This is sweet pretty Eevee. Eevee is my sister’s cat. Her nickname is “Beebs”. Stephanie had to take her in, in the dead of winter. She was a stray. She was sure she was a stray before taking her in though!

Beebs loves her auntie. (Me.) I always say hi to her and give her some special attention when I vist my sister and her husband at their house. Cats are possessive of their home, their owner, their things… When I say hi to Eevee, I show her my hand, and my rings, and she says, “ah yes, my jewels”. That cat knows I’m the blanket-giver!!!!

So there’s another one of our family cats that got her introduction… I took Eevee’s picture with my hoodie, and the nice light from the window… she was asleep on the blue cloud blanket I had given for Christmas a few years ago, on the livingroom sofa. Her fur is very thick and very pretty, and her eyes are green & very intense! Stephanie named her after a Pokemon. (Thats an asian cartoon character, I think, lol)

Eevee

 

 

WED/MAY/15TH/2019

Gallery : The Frick Collection Enveloppe Braille Letter Love Project

“…museum victories, everyday… we wanted everything, we wanted everything”

Presenting a project in the making; I not only make my art, I document it myself, as well…

But this within the realm of artistic photography- also presentation & self-publishing.

Stickers~ Stamps~ Prints~ Original Marker Art~ …objects~ making~



 

 

 

 

 

I brought the Ralph Lauren, kind of just because…
I had put it on on my way out, & I think the color of the bottle was just too tempting!

 

 

 

WED/MAY/15TH/2019

Gustav Klimt GiftCard Purple~Mandala

 

 

FRI/MAY/17TH/2019
Papyrus Gift Bag Art and Rose Girlie Card

Canova GiftCard & Papyrus Giftbags, photographed on cool BluePurple~

The Canova GiftCard is a Mother’s Day wish~ but it looks so much like the pink floral wallpaper, that was in my bedroom, when I was a little girl!

It makes me very happy

The art on this card is a dream~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

MON/MAY/20TH/2019

Some of my key things broke…

I fixed up my set; some are gone; some are fixed; some are new!~

{♡@Car~Art}
Making art in the car…

 

Refurbished set~
(no pun intended)

 

 

 

MON/MAY/20TH/2019

☆Drawing faces~ like abstract~

Did you know I was really good at making faces & figures? I have a long history with that… in my work! Its not really my favorite,,,, anymore tho!!!!

2 B/W FaceCards

Dreamscapes

 

 


 

 

MON/MAY/20TH/2019

Gallery : Long Vertical Vistaprint FaceCard~POSTCARD plus Princess, Flowers, & Birds

 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/22nd/2019

Parcel off to Venice, Italy! For the modern art museum that’s there~ With beautiful postage~art!!!!

Off to Venezia~ Titian will (finally) finish the drawing~

{Tsi; fianciato; … aspettiamo la tua lavora..}
{Tsi… nota bene..}
{Tsi.. ♤♤♤♤.. ♡♤♤}

 

For Titian to complete, in black and white only

 

Look at that parcel!
Look at the stamps!!!


 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/22nd/2019

The nicest plate design in the world…
~The burberry faiesance

 

Why does Alicia like cats?
I had this all-the-wild-cats encyclopedia nature book before I was 10!
(& housecats were in the home even before I was born.. always had at least one~ all my life~)

 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/22nd/2019
& THURSDAY/MAY/23rd/2019
Special series of photos of a blue~horse silver artwork
These are by my grandpa, Frances Csendes! I say “these”, because they are silver & paint artworks in a box~ a series. The box is specially made, and each tablet is in an acetate glass case. Each silver tablet has a book it sits in. It is very well made. He reproduced some very famous artworks perfectly, and some are his own originals! But thats only the picture part~

 

This was what I presented at a painting critique~ at Concordia University~ at the beginning of the semester, in January 2006.
(Christmas break homework alert….)

I painted this! Its a reproduction of a very famous Van Gogh panting, that I made, in acrylics
The size of the canvas was about 30 x 24 inches, but the digital file I have to present it here, now, is, unfortunately,,,, small.

Here are more of the silver paintings…





 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/22nd/2019

I designed a new Canada Post stamp sheet~
It has this photo I took

 

 

THURSDAY/MAY/23rd/2019

Personal anthem~

 

 

FRIDAY/MAY/24th/2019
Lush spring green, out the window, at dusk

You can see the trees at the park in the distance~

 

 

MONDAY/MAY/27th/2019
Circle Marker~Art from Saturday

 

 

 

 

MONDAY/MAY/27th/2019
My new puffy MVP CFL football!!!
You should see me throw this thing~

 

 

MONDAY/MAY/27th/2019
After throwing the football on Saturday, I took these photos… Its spring, it was cloudy, there had been some rain again that day, & the neighborhood around the park looked like La Vie en Rose. I shot these with a panorama effect… (numbers 1 thru 6)

 

 

 

MONDAY/MAY/27th/2019
Here’s a treat; an art history lesson about the painting seen below.
by Alicia

The Union of Earth and Water

This painting is called The Union of Earth and Water, and it is very big. It depicts a romance – perhaps mythical – story, through the figures and what surrounds them. The woman is Earth, so earth is female. The man is Water, so water is male. That’s the premise for the story in this painting.

The woman in the painting has no clothes, and the man is wearing just some drapery. This is because it was the normal pictorial methods of classical painting: the human form, and drapery forms with shading. Now that they are represented as poetic figures, they can hold the utopian pretence.

The artist was the owner (and builder) of the Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, Russia, and the piece is now on show at The Louvre, in Paris, France. It was previously unknown, because it was in the office of the museum. The Louvre just bought it.

The utopian pretence in this picture is the artist’s own love story~ its not traditional mythology necessarily. It’s a romance story between woman and man, told as an allegory, with the artist’s own creative interpretation of a unique mythology. An allegory is when several people in the painting show the story of the primary figures only. There are another woman, another man, and children in the painting. But they are not necessarily there; if they are, perhaps only as guiding angels. That is what they represent; they are trying to help the woman and the man come together. And again, each has their own characteristics; based on symbolism of land and water.

There is another figure of a woman over the protagonist, Earth; she has slate blue and grey wings. She is pointing downward at Earth; but this is not for Water (the man) to notice; she seems to be saying, “Its time to be a woman”. Or, “be yourself”; or “go for love”; or even “give this a try”. The winged angel is saying this to the woman, Earth. But the symbolism around, and in the other allegorical figures, give this message an urgency. The sea of man is trumpeting from a conch; there could be children, like the cherubs in the water. Their meeting seems to be a vessel, for a flowing waterfall. There is a large tipped vase between Earth and Water, pouring, as an abundance, and it is placed very central in the painting, right between the meeting of them. The waterfall is very symbolic because the flow would only last an instant. It brings the painting’s story back into the realm of fairy-tale dreams.

Perhaps the children will take after the father; they have shells near them, on the edge of the water, on the sand. Perhaps after their mother; the red drapery on the angel figure hangs over Earth too; implying that she is the angel. Even though Water has a white beard, and a fork like Triton, he has mortality. He is not Triton, and his fork is a butterfly, with the leaves around him that flitter, and then his leaf crown. He is wise, by his grey beard, and leaf crown – but so is Earth. She is perhaps not impressed, because of the ways of men, and because it takes a lot to hold her attention. But what will she do in this moment? Her pose is classical contrapposto.

She has a lot to offer, such as the fruits grown on the land of the earth. Her hands are buried in them, but it also looks coy. Her face looks playful, but open. Its hard to see, but there is a tiger that seems to be begging for their marriage. He is on the lower left, growling and scratching. This goes back to something else to notice in the painting; that the angel wings carry over into vines, and the clouds. The blue cloud shapes mimic the shape of the wings, and then there are more leaves, more butterflies….

The shells on the lower left corner represent, by my eye, strength, grace, honour, and marriage. Possibly possession, and more. Always more.

The man and the woman are holding hands. Water’s white cloth wraps onto Earth too. This meets at the center.

 

 

TUESDAY/MAY/28th/2019
Yesterday, I made a half-sheet of MarkerArt~

 

 

“I made a half sheet~

I just finished ~

The rest of the day is calling….

Aux ailleux!!!!~~~~”

 

TUESDAY/MAY/28th/2019
Song time!!!

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/29th/2019
This upbeat song… is… for… Its for the animals!!!!!

 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/29th/2019
Marker circles… another half~sheet… Another done sheet!

 

 

WEDNESDAY/MAY/29th/2019
Presenting…

Lambo Stamp sheet, by Alicia
New Postcard, by me, Alicia
Nin’s “chess” table (he sits beside it with his laptop)

 

 


 

 

FRIDAY/MAY/31st/2019
11:02PM
Song time.

 

SATURDAY/JUNE/1st/2019
Someone had a little crush on Nin, lol… (ME!)
The story if Nimh

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

Beautiful art things, in fresh luminous photography

porcelain tile

 

 

This creamer is so pretty; its shaped like a pumpkin, and the art on it is so delicately beautiful! There’s also a key… with olive martinis on it! [tee-hee]

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

A gift for Eevee & Stephanie!

Its a whimsical wallet.. there’s also special canadian quarters that I collected with birds on them inside!

Its yellow, it has a zipper, and is painted with a neato cat in a hat! Kitty has light green eyes like Beebs… (Well, one eye lol!)

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

Yesterday was Saturday night… dinner! And art~time! Trust me, I ate all my pizza again, and took to pen and paper in art and writing.

“Però se porte i colori nella chiesa, ha la piu grandà sensitività e brava devante Dio abbastanza. I tui colori stano forze.”

My poem~prayer, in English: “If you wear your colors in church, you have the biggest sensitivity and bravery and strength in yourself in front of God. Your colors are the life force in your soul.”

My poem is written on a sheet of my own stationary, too, lol, in case you’re wondering!

The photographs go through the work in progess. Its exciting… the drawing appears! Its just black marker on white cardstock.

Low light only in the restaurant

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

I have some photos to take! But Fils is asleep…. and its too tempting

Monsieur Le Royaume

 

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

Presenting… my horsey card

Horse in Water Card
With Magnolias

 

 

SUNDAY/JUNE/2nd/2019

This is a crystal jewelry set, made with moonstones; spotted moonstones. You might call them brecciated jasper, also. Its like jewelry with set cabochons… but they are rectangular ones.

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY/JUNE/4th/2019


 


**Sometimes, you should listen (like, carefully) to the song lyrics! ….that would make me, Alicia, Seal! (Above)

 

WEDNESDAY/JUNE/5th/2019
I made this vase… its a flower picking vase

 

THURSDAY/JUNE/6th/2019

Sun~ray Fils nap~

 

Sleepy Cat~

 

 

 

SATURDAY/JUNE/8th/2019

 

MONDAY/JUNE/10th/2019

 


 

Picasso is at it again…

 

 

I’m making cards… The inside, the outside, maybe Jacks, Queens, Kings… (maybe like Major Arcana Tarot…)
My cards did start as cards; you can shuffle them around on the table to look at them, have (and hold) a deck of them…

 

I’m making a new chapter; my “Summer” tab; on June 20th,,,, (with what new art I make,,,, that I can get posted on it!)

& Thats a month from my birthday!

 

 

 

 

  3 Responses to “Tableaux III Spring 2019”

  1. Bubba they are beautiful. You have so many of them ! dad

  2. Once again some nice photos Alicia.

    Good Work !!

    Good cat pictures with her new haircut.

    Steve

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