Lyrical Earth

Acrylic on Cardboard (diptych)

2 (3.5" X 5.7")

The horizon line is pushed to its top extreme. The of the sky is emphasized in this way instead of diminished.  I tried to capture the various colors of a slice of earth. 

I am working on a much larger version of a piece that I completed about a year ago. I am posting several views and close ups of it. I have always liked it, but lately I have been receiving quite a bit of positive feedback about it. 

New Website for John E Lynch

I cannot believe how long it has been since I posted here. My major project has been to create a new website for my uncle. Fortunately he saved everything. I am cataloging,  photographing and uploading almost everything. It will be what I consider a very large website.  I am posting the first page to give you an idea of the outline. There will be several hundred works of art posted, photos, memorabilia and first hand accounts. It is taking me an enormous amount of time, but I feel it will be worth it. I am also going to make many pieces available for sale at very reasonable prices. Please keep checking back.

Major Clean Up

I am going through the paintings first. We have pulled every oil from the racks, and I have found a couple of interesting things. I own more James Kelly Paintings that I thought. I also have at least a half dozen of his works on paper. I also found a George Bireline. I will attach that one to my next post. Also two mysterious painting by a "Nason".

Here are the Kelly's- all are quite different from each other. I am sure that the first was done at their studio on Walnut Street- Probably the third - the same time- I think that I saw that one in a photograph of their studio.

New Works Posted

 I cannot believe that I did not write here the whole month of June. By the way, Art at the Source went very well.  I now have some of my pieces at the Cafe Noto in Winsor, California as well as at the Santa Rosa Country Club.

I am in the middle of a major project. Several years ago I looked at what I had originally thought were blank canvases that my uncle has stored in a old wooden box. He had probably not looked at them since art school. Most are dated 1947 to 1949. That would put it as a combination of Bradley University and San Miguel Allende. I am in the process of stretching these pieces on to canvas. A few are too damaged to be stretched, but most are fine. Among them are three by James Kelly. I am putting one here, already stretched. I call it the Negro. That is what they would have called it in 1947, unless of course they called him by name.

Also I have photographed a number of great works on paper. All are available to be seen on my John's web site. I have also revised some of the links and eliminated some of the old bad links. You can link straight to the works here. I have included one outstanding sample. Most are for sale.

 

Here is the direct link

John's Salon

Those who read this blog in any kind of consistent basis know that I greatly admire and emulate my late uncle, John Lynch. He left behind many scraps. I have used some of these scraps and entered them into my giclee of The Grand Salon. It is my plan to use many of these as templates, inserting things in the frames that strike me. They may fit a theme, or just fit a design that I am envisioning. I hope that you like it. I do.

The Pope's Seal of Approval

A new piece- the title is either inspired or badly improvised. It is what came to me just after I did it. Also with that title I thought that it deserved a better frame and some red binding around the edges. What do you think?

Carnegie Hall

I have been away for a few days. I have been in New York City. Our choir joinned four others to sing Verdi's Requim at Carnegie Hall on Monday night. We had three days of practice in NYC with the wonderful conductor, John Rutter. Carnegie Hall owns all of the rights to photos taken there. The only photos with me in them have a logo placed over them to order photos. What a racket. Nevertheless it was a peak experience of my lifetime.

My Mailing Campaign through MailChimp

I recommend this group. It is free to get the basics. You may have gotten one of my emails. I would love a response.

Grand Salon

Here is a painting that I have not posted on my portfolio. I have thought of doing a Giclee, and individually creating a different scene in each of the rectangles. Each Giclee would be 100% different. I am also creating a postcard to send out on my mailing list as well as an email list. If you want to be added let me know.

I also have a piece that they are using for the catalog. Prehaps I loved it when I sent it in, but now I am not so crazy about it. Yet, I have received some complements. To add to this problem, I am not totally pleased with the image for the catalog. It could be my bad photography. I have also made some changes (for the better) since I took this photo.

On another point: I have been looking at an analysis of hits to my web page. It appears that most people arrive here by searching for "Amalfi Coast" or "Amalfi Coast map". This was a wonderful trip that I took to Italy about 3 years ago.

My Youtube Connection

I posted a video with a little more resolution on youtube.

See a better version here.

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Present Portfolio

I created a quicktime movie of my portfolio. It runs to 270 mg. I am not certain that I can load that much, but I will compress it, then perhaps make a smaller version if this one doesn't work. I have reduced the size to 87 mg. I will learn the limits of posting video. It is taking more than 30 minutes to load the video. It says "Processing Video" for about 15 minutes now.  Well there appears to have been an error processing my video. I will leave the icon here and try to upload it again.

Well I have gotten two error messages and here are the two videos below. I may remove one or both. Neither works.

I used the custom feature on Quicktime and managed to get a half size show down to 18 mg. I was afraid that if I set it any lower that the quality would suffer. Also I removed all audio. Still I cannot get the movie to load. I created a 4.8 mg small movie also. I will load that now. It appears to have worked.

As I feared the quality is abysmal. I will at show one photo of a piece for comparison. (Silver Tide)

Mail Chimp

I went to a workshop for Art at the Source last night. I found a great alternative to help me market myself: Mailchimp. It's free. They do mass emailings without having to worry about getting a reputation for spam. So this is my shameless promotion for today. Want to sponsor me "MAILCHIMP"?

Figure Drawing

I have started attending drawing sessions on Monday and Wednesday evening. On Monday I go to Aubergine's just down the street from me. It is a friendly bar with food and live music. Monday is set aside for artists to draw volunteer models (clothed). One must get there before 6:30 p.m. to get a good seat. On more than one occasion I have been forced to the sidelines. Nevertheless it is great to draw with a glass of wine and listening to sweet acoustic guitar music.

Wednesday Jim Curtis has his tradition figure drawing at the Sebastopol Art Center. I am coming back to that after a break of about three years. I will publish some of my nudes at a later date.

Here are some of my drawings from Aubergine's.

New Web Page

I went to a workshop today to help us artists market ourselves. I must first tell my story- perhaps in great detail. I am depending on you, dear readers, to tell me to stop if my early life interest in art is too much detail.

Also I know now that I must link my yahoo, tweet, pinterest, stumble upon, etc., accounts with each other. At this point I am having trouble getting my wix page looking and structured the way that I want.

Nevertheless here is the link: www.edlynchartist.com

Be patients as there are likely to be a lot of changes in the next few weeks.  Art at the Source is coming soon.

St Joseph's Seminary

I spent seven years of my young life at St. Joseph's Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.  The priest teachers and fellow students were a formative part of my youth. As a teacher I have worn it as a badge of honor that it took me five years to make it through high school. It was 1963 when myself, Seth (from Georgia) and Dennis (from Brooklyn, NY) joined in taking Freshman classes again.

I was stunned when I happened upon the location on Google maps. It showed the Wilberforce School, instead of St. Joseph's as the Princeton lakeside location. Sure enough it appears that the Vincentians sold the property to a Christian private school. William Wilberforce, having almost single-handedly eliminated slavery from Great Britain and its colonies, appears to have an awesome resume. Yet I was somewhat irritated watching the school video, watching young scrubbed teachers listen to little children recite the story of Noah's ark.  I am still not that certain about the degree of protestant fundamentalism taught to children, but it appears by the video heavily so.

I also was moved to see where some of my former classmates ended up. Some were still not far from home: Philadelphia, New York and Maryland. Greetings former classmates! Have you watched the Wiberforce video?