Friday, June 25, 2021

Post 149: Growing Up Blue Ridge Shores, Louisa, Virginia

A Story of Blue Ridge Shores…

We first heard of Blue Ridge Shores that I can think of was around 1965ish from my grandparents, Doug and Louise Jackson. They had purchased a home in the new community in Louisa County, Virginia and in the summers my mom and dad would pack up the car with 3 kids and all their stuff and we would drive from Alexandria to Louisa, Virginia down 95 South. 

You know the song, "Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go..." (sing along)


Friday, June 25, 2021 9:45 AM Arriving at BRS

We did that drive very often and I do remember the aunts and uncles and ALL the kids (AKA cousins) ALL landing at G'ma's house and everyone sleeping all over the place. Kids on the floor, and their parents were scattered about. Cousins EVERYWHERE. We loved playing at that house and Grandma ruled the kitchen with an iron rolling pin. There was always a lot of laughter. And giggling. That was from G'pa.

We kids played on the rocks between Grandma's house and the Pettit's house. And I got to go fishing with my Grandpa there. And I learned to love gardening from my Grandpa. Homegrown strawberry fields forever.


This was Grandma's House

Then my parents bought a small yellow summer house on Fairview Drive. So now my parents would pack up the 3 kids, the cat and the dog and all their stuff and do the 95 South drive and we had our own home to go to for the summers. (Try driving with kitty litter being used.) Eventually, other aunts and uncles bought homes too. Close enough to walk to easily, and we did. Often.

And we got to know the neighbors, remember the Breezes? Oh Pearl and Francis, and Willie and Lula, and of course, Stoney.

All the crazy things and stories over the years, so many - here are a few:
  • Family croquet in the yard.
  • My dad breaking a leg while playing football with the family.
  • All of the 4ths of July celebrations and fireworks lighting up the night sky. Say a lot of "Ewww and Ahhhs" here. Wide eyed kids mesmerized by all the colors and wonder.
  • And the awful bands at the 4th of July celebrations and dancing on the tennis courts while the adults congregated on the hill above.
  • My mom running and WINNING a race.at the 4th of July foot races.
  • The lady baseball player who lived up from us practicing her fastball and it zipping by my windows and the LOUD smack of it landing in her friend's mitt.
  • The skunk family deciding to come out and visit during a big croquet match. 
  • My cousin riding her bike singing at the top of her lungs, hitting gravel and biting the dust while her "crush" drove by and her underwear and pjs flying up in the air.
  • The hurricane that took out the dam and the most horrible summer of damn mosquitoes that followed. (by the way, this was Hurricane Camille)
  • Digging up worms, going fishing, cleaning the fish and then cooking and eating the fish.
  • Using a small blue plastic boat to catch fish in the kiddie pool area with my dad.
  • Wondering if you swallowed watermelon seeds, if you would grow a watermelon inside of you...
Eventually, on August 8, 1969, we moved from Alexandria, Virginia to Blue Ridge Shores for good. It was a GREAT childhood. The Louisa school system was culture shock coming from Alexandria at that time but summers were grand. My mom was known as "Momma G" and flipped burgers and sold fries and candy at the concession stand. I had unnumbered adopted brothers and sisters because EVERYONE called my mom, Momma G. 

The juke box blared over the speakers while we baked in the sun. The Beatles were IT! And the Rolling Stones. We spent the whole day at the beach and many evenings too. We swam to the big raft and dived off to swim back, rinse and repeat.

Somebody I know very well blew up frogs too with fire crackers. Poor amphibians. Several frogs had shortened lives after being repeatedly tossed out into the water and swimming back to the shore, ever more slowly after each toss and eventually sinking into obscurity or depending on their size, gulped down by a fish.

The memories of snow sledding down the hill above the beach and riding the bus to school were epic. My brother, Donnie bouncing over the back seat of the bus to the seat in front of him was hilarious. Of course, my other brother Dave, doing the Evil Knievel on his bicycle off the marina into the water is not to be forgotten either.

The church at the back gate was started with the help of my whole family. It actually did have its first meetings at the "concession stand" with Reverend Petty. Then a bunch of people all helped to build Blue Ridge Shores Baptist Church right at the back gate.

Summer was when all the families from Northern Virginia and Maryland (mostly) would come on the weekends and for vacations and many friendships were started. Learning to ski was a top priority. 


George Anderson and Nathan Bozarth at the Main Beach, early 70's. Unknown name for the girl and unsure if the guy on the swing is my older brother.

So we kids grew up, started high school and started -gasp- dating. If you had a boat, you were AWESOME. A great memory is of the Olsen brothers skiing behind our boat and the older bro would start off double skiing on 2 skis with his younger bro holding his waist then climbing up on his shoulders, then Chuck would drop one ski, and around the lake we would go. Pete and Arthur Olsen, the twins would take turns climbing up the skiing Chuck.


Getting Gas at the Marina, Warren Sutherland's Boat, early 70's

So life moves on and we grew up. Then we started getting married. And buying our own home(s) at BRS. And then life changes in its various ways sometimes included moving away. But I still love coming back to Blue Ridge Shores. I still have family there so visiting is a to-do list thing.

Recently, while visiting my mom this spring, my aunt and I went for a walk about. We did all the remembering of who lived in that house and what happened here and there. How she met her husband at the beach. How I met mine. We walked up the hill and around a couple of the streets and almost anywhere and everywhere there were things to remember and point out. And seeing -wow- all the new homes, renovations, and additions.


BRS Main Beach 2021

We talked of all the people we knew, many who are now gone, some of the bad stories of bad events too. Thankfully there are not as many of those. 

And just recently, my brother, my mom and sister in law and I went for a boat ride around the lake with the Becketts. It was a nice view of the lake from the water to see all the changes too.


The Main Beach water view June 25, 2021


Second Beach


Velina G, Tim B, Dave G, and Peter B


Peg-Leg Blue


My Mom, Kelly B and "Louie, Louie, Louie - Louieeee"


Louie wanted to say hi to the geese. They weren't agreeable

And wouldn't you know when we got back to the main beach, there was a group of kids at the marina on bicycles and my brother mentioned to them that he used to ride his bike off the pier. Well, we got a great laugh when one of them did it too.

So the kids that were kids when I was a kid, are all grown up now much like the trees that tower over us as our views have changed in the lots all around BRS. And their kids are looking at the lake with the wonder that we did.

It is quite the varied history of Blue Ridge Shores and the experiences of our life stories. Some people have come back to spend their summers much like they did with their parents, while some kids have taken ownership of their parents homes and carry on with their own family traditions. Others have moved on with their lives elsewhere. 

Nonetheless, BRS will always be a warm and fuzzy memory of my childhood as an awesome, safe and great place to grow up. And maybe for you too. And your kids.


Side note on my BRS Paintings: 

Painting of Blue Ridge Shores Main Beach painted in 2020 - see the post here.
Painting of Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores version 1 2021 - see the post here.
Painting of Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores version 2 2021 - see the post here.
Wood Plaque of Blue Ridge Shores Main Beach the Early Years (link coming soon)

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Post 148: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia V2, 10x20 Acrylic

Painting Name: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores, Louisa, Virginia Version 2

SKU: 06CD21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x20 Stretched Canvas SOLD
Edition Year: 2021
Framed?: No
Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

There was such a great response for the first Blue Heron painting (v1) that I just had to do a version 2!


Version 2 - "Blue" doesn't have feet in this one.


Sides of painting are painted as well, so it does not necessarily have to be framed.

Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores, Louisa, Virginia versions 1 and 2 are shown here. Version 1 on the left sold immediately (before I even completed it!). 


Maybe not so subtle variations in the versions. Version 1 is a little bit deeper colors and you see a little more of the pier and a pole in the water in the background. Version 2 on the right, "Blue" does not have his feet showing.


See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-painting-in-progress-blue-heron-at.html


See the Version 1 Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/blue-heron-at-blue-ridge-shores.html


Again, many thanks to Peter Olsen for the use and permission to use his original photo taken on Memorial weekend 2021 of a Blue Heron as my "model".
See the original photo at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-painting-in-progress-blue-heron.html

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Monday, June 21, 2021

Post 147: Streams Never Stay the Same 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas Landscape

Painting Name: Streams Never Stay the Same

SKU: 06CE21ACG
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
Framed?: No
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Update: September 22, 2021

This painting was entered into a juried event called "Best of the Region 4" - wish me luck! Creative Brush is once again hosting the Best of the Region 4, which is sponsored by p-ART-ners and the Manassas Art Guild

What Brought About this Painting?

The title of this painting comes from a quote by Gary Snyder
"Streams and mountains never stay the same."

Always changing in every way. The light that day, the rain that falls, the creatures that visit, the time of year, the color of the leaves and where the leaves are. Everything changes, nothing remains the same.

Landscapes are, for me at least, very relaxing to paint. Maybe to look at too, what do you think? 

Kind of makes me want to take off my shoes and roll up my pants legs and step into the water and wiggle my toes. Then look for any of the crawfish or minnow - any of the stream's wild life.



A tad bit of glare on the right side of the image when I took the photo of the painting. UGH, still learning how to fix that in PhotoShop.

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-painting-in-progress-streams-never.html

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Friday, June 18, 2021

Post 146: A Painting in Progress: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores (v2)

Painting Name: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores (v2)

SKU: 06CD21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x20 Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
Framed?: No
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What Brought About this Painting?

I had a LOT of people ask me about version 1 of this painting so I started another one. I am very grateful for the interest in it! This one will be slightly different, they always are.

Painting in Progress Images…


Friday, June 18, 2021 10:45 AM Moving along on another big blue heron bird painting. Ooops, looks like I missed filling in the background between the legs and tail. I can fix that.

Monday, June 21, 2021 11/35 AM Version 2 (v2) of "Blue" - he is starting to look like a bird and the lake is starting to look brackish. (See, I fixed it.)


Monday, June 21, 2021 2:31 PM Starting to fill in the bird, but I must get the background leaves in too before it gets too far along.


Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:15 AM The floating Blue Heron with no legs


See the completed Painting at coming soon

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Post 145: A Painting In Progress: Streams Never Stay the Same

Painting in Progress: Streams Never Stay the Same

SKU: 06CE21ACG
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
Price: $Pending
Edition Year: 2021
Framed?: No
Commissioned? No

Painting in Progress Images…

To me and for me at least, all paintings start out pretty ugly getting the base layers in so occasionally I will get several layers in at first before I post. Apparently not this time though...



Friday, June 18, 2021 8:07 PM Starting to take shape


Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:53 PM Detailing, its all in the detailing to me.


What Brought About this Painting?

The title of this painting comes from a quote by Gary Snyder
"Streams and mountains never stay the same."

Always changing in every way. The light that day, the rain that falls, the creatures that visit, the time of year, the color of the leaves and where the leaves are. Everything changes, nothing remains the same.

See the completed Painting at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/streams-never-stay-same-11x14-gallery.html

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Post 144: Review of Society6.com - Artist Designed, They Print It

Artist Site: Society6.com Review

I recently joined Society6 today to give it a try. It is an artist site that touts 'the artist created the design and S6 does the work of printing it and shipping it to you' So the products list is extensive and can be anything from art prints - you pick the size and you can also select if you want it framed, to coffee or travel cups, to t-shirts, tote bags, aprons, etc. There's your Christmas list taken care of! It's an interesting concept. 

With that in mind, theoretically if you see an artwork of mine or (horrors!) someone else that you like, and your budget does not allow the purchase of the original painting, you have options to buy something else with a print of the artwork on it. Win-Win in my opinion. (hey that rhymes! 

The set up is very easy for the artist and very straightforward. Connect to your Paypal account so you can get paid if something sells (or so you can pay for something you buy) and go down the short check list to get up and running. A short bio is important, an image, things like that and you can start uploading your art images. 

Images

Good quality images are always vitally important and should be either PNG, JPG or RBG. Make sure their edges are clean and the quality is crisp and the maximum file size should be 150MB not exceed 400,000,000 pixels.

Check this link on the required sizes of images based on the merchandise that your image can be printed on https://help.society6.com/hc/en-us/articles/228101307-Pixel-Dimension-Requirements-and-Templates-For-All-Society6-Products. Depending on merch selected, you will need to adjust the image.


Some of my art designs uploaded in my Artist Studio

Keywords and Tags

On the internet, keywords are so very, very important. Your tags are your keywords as well as the words in your art title. If you were on Google and trying to find something for your mom for Mother's Day let's say, and you type in a few words to find her a great gift. 

If you typed "Mother's Day Gifts" you get 370 million results. Ew, bad, too much like work...

If you know mom would LOVE a tote bag with a "Sunrise at Nags Head North Carolina Tote Bag" printed on it, that tremendously cuts the Google results to 251 thousand results. Still large but look if we do that on the search on Society6.com with a few adjustments...

Using the filters, we can search for specifically tote bags, and use the keywords "Sunrise" or "Nags Head" or "North Carolina" and we can shop the artist made totes available there. Kind of nice to cut out Amazon for a change, right?

As with anything like this, read the help they provide and have a look at the "competition". Don't undersell yourself but see what other people are doing. I'm not convinced fine art should be here as yet, but an artist needs to make a living right? The internet SHOULD be a great resource to connect with art lovers anywhere.

Pricing Merchandise 

Society6 has a BASE PRICE - that's their cut. The artist adjusts the percentage to charge on top of that for each or all of his/her products. This is where it gets pretty easy for the artist to adjust. All at once adjustments and/or customize how you want your prices to go on top of their base price. The adjustments auto-adjust so you can see them real-time.

Generally, very easy and decently quick to set up. I already had a PayPal account set up which helped. Editing and adjustments are an easy task too. After that, it is up to you on spreading the word on your S6 shop, but there is plenty of help and suggestions for that too.

My affiliate link is http://society6.com?curator=[donnaliguriaart] which means I get a piece of the pie. Like I said, I am new on the site, so we shall see how it goes. I can update this post if I have additional commentary to add and -I hope- sales to review in my dashboard. 

Finally, I should say thank you for your support for small businesses. We appreciate it.

Question for you: What art sites do you use and has it worked well for you as an artist?

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Post 143: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores, Virginia, 10x20 Acrylic on Canvas (v1)

Painting Name: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores, Virginia (v1)

SKU: 06CC21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x20 Stretched Canvas
Price: SOLD
Edition Year: 2021
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What Brought About this Painting?
There are a lot of birds I have been wanting to paint and a blue heron is one of them. Recently, an old friend of mine, Peter Olsen, visited Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia. He is known for taking some GREAT pictures especially when he comes up to BRS from North Carolina.

After this past Memorial weekend (May 28 - May 31, 2021) he posted a bunch of photos on Facebook. I spotted his blue heron photo and asked his permission to use it for a painting. Permission granted, the painting began.


As I usually do, I will look at it for a bit to see if it needs any more tweaking before I varnish it but I think its about there. What do you think? This picture may show the colors a bit better.



By the way, see the original photo at the "Painting in Progress" post.


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Monday, June 14, 2021

Post 142: A Painting in Progress: Blue Heron

Painting Name: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores, Virginia

SKU: 06CC21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x20 Stretched Canvas
Price: SOLD
Edition Year: 2021
Commissioned? No

The Image for Reference:


Photo Credit and Permission Granted from Peter Olsen, May 2021 at Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia

Painting in Progress Images…
What would you name this Painting? Blue Heron just does not seem quite enough. Maybe a name suggestion will happen as the painting develops. Follow "the painting in progress" here and leave your comments!

Monday, June 14, 2021 5:10 PM - Roughed in the heron and the background

Monday, June 14, 2021 5:43 PM - He looks kind of ghostly doesn't he?


Monday, June 14, 2021 6:47 PM - bird has a bit of a hunchback. Blue Heron of Notre Dame. I'll have to smooth that out. 


Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:32 AM - Still no legs but he has an eye. I like painting birds, and other critters. (That's the southern influence on me.) Feathers are such intricate delicate things. Our God and Creator really let His imagination soar (<- get that?) when it came to birds if you think about it. Their colors, how they are so exotic and different from each other, eh? (Eh? - That's the Canadian influence of friends and family there.)


Blue Ridge Shores is a lake in Louisa County, Virginia. The lake is man-made lake that began in 1960 as a resort community. The water has a lot of sediment in it, therefore the "color of water" has a green look to it. 

Coloring water also depends on other things like its bottom (or substrate), what's in it (even as recently as a good rainfall), the surface - refraction and reflection, and a biggie is the light which is directly influenced by the surface.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:11 AM - Still no knobby knees or those long luxurious "strings" of feathers. Coming along but a long way to go yet. Detailing feathers takes awhile. 

What NOT to paint opposed to what to include

Also, from the real picture at the start, I am assuming that the lumpy stuff on the dock are things I do not want to paint. When you blow up the photo, the nails on the dock are actually quite raised. Much for bare feet to be aware of.

I also did not include the stick on the pier as there wasn't really enough room to do it justice. So far I did not include the red reflector on the side of the pier. I'm thinking it over. Attention should be on the bird not the pier one might think.

I was just wondering what these guys sound like? Anyone know?


Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:15 PM - Pause in the painting for a bit. My neighbor had commissioned a painting for me to do for her daughter, Alison's birthday. Alison is visiting a couple of days and we "sprung" the surprise on her. See the entries listed under the keyword "Richmond VA". Warms your heart when someone sees the work for the first time.

Face details on the heron coming together...


Tuesday, June 15, 2021 3:30 PM - She's got legs, and he knows how to use them. ZZ Top, right? At least these little rinky-dinky things will become legs. HOW do they hold themselves up with those stick legs? Baffling. Like bumble bees. How DO they fly with those big bodies and rinky-dink wings?

I am reminded of the famous painter that painted geese, ducks, etc and she never painted feet. The birds were ALWAYS in the water or sitting down. She had a thing about feet. If you don't know who she is, she's P. Buckly Moss, of Waynesboro, Virginia. http://www.pbuckleymoss.com/

I am currently really liking the idea of no feet. Guess I cannot get away with having the heron standing in a bucket of water.



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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Post 141: An Apple a Day, 10x10 Canvas in Acrylic

Painting Name: An Apple a Day

Does an apple a day actually keep the doctor away?

SKU: 06CB21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x10 Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
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Painting in Progress Images…
Started this painting this evening, Saturday, June 12, 2021 and this is what I have so far...


Doesn't look like much yet but it will get better. It's 10:05 on a Saturday night. I think I'm hanging up the paintbrush for the evening.

Sunday, June 13, 2021 8:30 AM Are they starting to look like apples yet? What a difference in the lighting from the picture last night and the one this morning! That's not the painting colors - that's the lighting!


Monday, June 14, 2021 6:52 AM - I volunteered at Clearbrook Center of the Arts both Saturday and Sunday. It was so nice to get to know other members of PWAS and be able to ask more experienced artists questions about various art business and art techniques and how their experiences shaped how they conquered those challenges. 

Back to "An Apple a Day" today...

Monday, June 14, 2021 9:53 AM - Now, do they look like apples? I hope so because - completed painting...



What Brought About this Painting?
Sometimes you need a theme painting for art galleries, shows, certain months, etc so for a collection of "Fall / Autumn" pieces, this will add to that collection.

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Friday, June 11, 2021

Post 140: A Painting in Progress and Done: I Turn Orange and Fall

Painting Name: I Turn Orange and Fall

SKU: 06CA21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 10x10 The Edge Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
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What Brought About this Painting?
"I Turn Orange and Fall" is a painting geared toward the PWAS (Prince William Art Society) gallery at Clearbrook Center for the Arts at Tackett's Mill for the September / October Fall Theme wall. The theme is of course, autumn / fall seasonal paintings.

Painting in Progress Images…


Friday, June 11, 2021 10:32 AM: I don't see any orange yet.



Friday, June 11, 2021 7:23 PM - Now I see some orange! I think I'm done with this guy, what do you think?

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Post 139: Winter Series: Black Icicles, 4x12 Acrylic on Canvas, set of 3

Painting Name: Winter Series Black Icicles

Title: Black Icicles 1
SKU: 06BX21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 4x12 Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
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What Brought About this Painting?
For the PWAS (Prince William Art Society) art gallery at Clearbrook Center for the Arts at Tackett's Mill, in Woodbridge, Virginia, the gallery has a theme wall to the immediate right when you come in the door. (Free to visit, so you know) The theme changes bi-monthly and of course for November and December the theme is Holiday/Winter. In preparation of that upcoming theme I am offering this (probably) 3 canvas series on Black Ice, or Icicles as it were.


Black Icicle 1

Black Icicles 2 and 3 are currently on the canvas and will be uploaded here as they are completed. I have an idea for something on the theme wall for September and October which also follows is a Fall theme....I look for ideas that are not the usual fall leaves, pumpkins etc. 

Title: Black Icicles 2
SKU: 06BY21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 4x12 Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
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Black Icicles 2

Title: Black Icicles 3
SKU: 06BZ21AC
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 4x12 Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2021
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Black Icicles 3

All 3 Winter Series Black Icicles



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