Blue Ridge Parkway Artist Finishes New Heart Painting and I love Daffy Duck

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I was so glad to get back to painting today.  Too much to do this week and I finally got to the studio this morning and completed a new Heart painting from my Whimsy series.  I put it up a little while ago and it already has well over 100 hits.

Still having trouble with my camera software.  I just put up a painting on Instagram and it looks fuzzy.  I know there is a focus button on my software but I can't seem to find it. 

Oh well, technology and I are always going to fight it out.  I get it eventually.  Cheers!

 

Peggy's Garden  Original 14" x 11" Oil Painting $313

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Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

I don't have anything from the Word Man today - at least nothing that I can print but we both got a big laugh out of a Daffy Duck funny on Facebook!

Daffy is at a  bar and two large women with accents are sitting across from him.  He asks them if they are from Scotland and they say Wales, you idiot.  So Daffy says, "Okay, are you two whales from Scotland?"  He didn't remember much after that.

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Star City  is on Special all December!

Tiger Stare  20" x 16" Original Oil Painting $670

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Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  Original 25" x 18" Pastel Painting $960

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Star City   25" x40" Original Acrylic Painting  $2000

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist is Almost Ready for Christmas and Martian Rocks...

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I still have a couple of Christmas chores that I will do as soon as I get off the computer.  Looking forward to family time tomorrow and taking it easy.  Hope everyone has a great Christmas!  If you don't celebrate Christmas, then Happy Holidays!  My rear end is getting real sore sitting here so it is time to get going!

 

Boats on The Chesapeake Bay  Original Watercolor Painting has been Sold

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Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

Clyde does not like cell phones.  He hardly ever has his on and oftentimes doesn't even take it with him.  He pays about seven dollars a month and is required to add at least 60 minutes every three months.

He just added more and now has 1000 minutes on his phone.  I told him he could probably call Mars. He said the Martians would probably offer a lot of rocks in exchange for hamburgers.  I think I will keep my hamburgers.  Rocks from Mars does sound interesting but the only time I am not hungry is right after eating so...no.  Keep your rocks, Mars.

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Star City  is on Special all December!

Tiger Stare  20" x 16" Original Oil Painting $670

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Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  Original 25" x 18" Pastel Painting $960

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Star City   25" x40" Original Acrylic Painting  $2000

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist's Painting on the cover of The Inflectionist and Bioblitz this weekend!

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So pleased that the paper issue of The Inflectionist is now available!  My painting, Morning Stroll at Isle of Palms is on the cover and there is a great article on me in the magazine!

 

The Inflectionist is an online magazine.  Paper copies are available twice a year.

I am excited to be selected for this great publication!

Most of the writers possess journalism degrees and some of the team are actually well known figures in the music and literary industries, including Kevin Stea (who was in Madonnas "Vogue" and Michael Jacksons "Black or White") and Adam Jacot De Boinod (a writer for the TV show "QI").

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Morning Stroll Original 40" x 30" Oil Painting  $2425

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Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

The Bird Man is looking forward to the Bioblitz this weekend!  Check out the information and join this great environmental effort!

Rocky Knob BioBlitz September 18th/19th, 2015

 

The Blue Ridge Parkway will soon be holding its first BioBlitz in almost 15 years and would love to have you join us for our next one. A BioBlitz is a 24-hour biological inventory of a designated area conducted by people with a wide variety of specialities and experiences. BioBlitzes have been used on the Parkway and elsewhere to get a better idea of what plants and animals are at a site, and to allow site managers to better manage these important natural resources.
 Our job is to protect the natural resources in our park. Unless we know what’s out there, it’s awfully hard to protect it. Your species lists will tell us what we have and what to be concerned about.

 It will be fun!!! Normally fun isn’t supposed to be a justification for a scientific endeavor, yet we’re looking forward to getting in the field with old acquaintances and making new friends. What could be better than walking through the woods with fellow naturalists looking for plants and animals?
The BioBlitz will begin at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, September 18, 2015 and continue until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, though people are welcome to begin anytime Friday morning if they are want to get an early start. On-site registration will start at noon at the Rocky Knob Picnic Area pavilion at Milepost 169. Activities for schools will also begin Friday morning. We will hold the BioBlitz rain or shine.
The BioBlitz will be held in and around Rock Castle Gorge in the Rocky Knob area of the Parkway near Floyd (VA). The approximately 3,600-acre site is located along the Parkway between Milepost 165 near Tuggles Gap and Milepost 174 at Rock Castle Gap. This area includes mature second-growth forests, seeps and streams, wetlands, successional forests and agricultural fields.
We are inviting specialists, naturalists and nature lovers to join us for all or part of the 24-hour, 2-day event. Participants will be provided a map and information about the area and then set free to inventory anywhere in the site. There may be opportunity for non-specialists to join specialists with their fieldwork.
 Do not travel alone! Let someone know where your group will be and when you will get back.
Only park vehicles in safe locations off of roads and be sure to follow all traffic laws. Pull out of the
way for faster moving vehicles.
Use care hiking on slippery and uneven surfaces. Do not exceed your capabilities. ) Watch where you place your hands if you search crevices rocks, under logs, etc.
Carry a first-aid kit and other safety gear with you.
Weather can rapidly change at this time of year; be prepared for inclement weather.
It will help the Blue Ridge Parkway manage its natural resources.
It’s a great chance to meet face-to-face with people you’ve talked to on the phone or whose publications
you’ve read. Spend the day with your colleagues. Develop new personal and professional relationships.
It’s a chance to learn something about your local area. There’s more to the Parkway than just the road!
Come on out and see what’s out here!
 It will be fun!!!
Please turn in a list of what you find, or let us know when you plan to share your findings, before leaving the BioBlitz. Information we would like are species names, locations where they were found, numbers observed, etc. We will happily accept copies of photographs of what you find. Collecting any specimen is only allowed with a permit issued by the Blue Ridge Parkway. Please apply for permits early https://irma.nps.gov/rprs/Investigator/Index . We will have a closing session at 2:30 Saturday afternoon where everyone can share their findings.
Registration can be completed ahead of the event at http://goo.gl/forms/RC9F4fOnVs . Or you can register on-site at the Rocky Knob Picnic Area pavilion at Milepost 169 beginning at noon on Friday. Contact Bob Cherry, Blue Ridge Parkway Wildlife Biologist, by email at Bob_Cherry@nps.gov if you have any questions.

The Blue Ridge Parkway, in linking the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, is dedicated to enhancing the outstanding scenic and recreational qualities of the corridor that it traverses; conserving unimpaired its significant natural and cultural resources, and promoting in perpetuity the public enjoyment and appreciation of the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. Learn more about the Parkway at www.nps.gov/blri

 

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Riverview at Dusk is on Special all September

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Riverview at Dusk  Original  20" x 16" Oil Painting $670

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Yin Yang Spring  Original Acrylic  Painting NFS

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Bloodhound   Original 10" x8" Oil  Painting $168

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Another Favorite Floral, and HELP!

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I am still going through my portfolio to showcase my favorite florals but I thought I would also show two new additions to my new series, Suggestions! 

Spotlight Rose  Original 7" x 5" Oil  Painting    $75

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Fall Light  Original Acrylic Painting    NFS

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Fall Light is another sensuous, colorful painting from my series,
Suggestions. This time I saw a lot of shapes that looks liked trees so I added a setting sun in an autumn setting. I am very pleased with the soft light in this one.

Fall Light  Original Acrylic Painting    NFS

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Search is another sensuous, colorful painting from my series,
Suggestions. I am starting with an abstract expressionist surface and then looking for forms that appear in the paint. This time I saw a profile on the left side so I turned the painting into an intense girl's face.  I am very pleased with the blue tones in this one.

 

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I'm sure my husband is sick of hearing me complain about computer problems. It really is not practical to drop it out the window and let gravity do the work.

I am pleased that I figured out the Youtube problem by clicking rather then applying logic to a machine with an illogical mind but now I have another problem that is driving me nuts.  I do not have the time to retweet all the people on twitter that re-tweet me.  I have close to 16,000 followers.

I have Tweet Adder which is supposed to take care of a lot of the work but when I add names to the AutoTweet section, nothing happens.  I followed the instructions of a tutorial and NOTHING HAPPENS!   I am still spending a ridiculous amount of time re-tweeting others.

I have asked people on one site and didn't receive help.  If anyone here knows how to get the AutoTweet going on Tweet Adder, please let me know! 

Thank you!

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Ridgeland Winter Beauty is on special all December!

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 Winter Ridgeland Beauty  Original  8" x 10"  Oil Painting $168

 

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Burning Shore   Original  Oil Painting has been Sold

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Lion Explosion  20"x16" Acrylic Painting  $670

 

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Staunton Ghost Story near The Blue Ridge Parkway and What an Error!

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Spinning     Original Tempera Painting has been Sold

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One of my favorite florals.  I am especially pleased with the movement that gives the flowers the appearance of spinning in the space!

Pawleys Island Evening     Original 30"x40" Oil Painting      $2425

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This is a beautiful home on the north end of this great South Carolina resort!

Flower Backyard     Original 30"x40" Oil Painting       $2425

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This painting combines my love of architecture with flowers

Staunton Theater Ghost Story

The Gypsy 4 Theater of Staunton was once an Opera House. A fire broke out in the mid 1900's and significant damage was done to the building.

According to a former projectionist, very strange things have happened there.  Once while threading a movie the person's eight inch braid was lifted straight up in the air.

A young blond girl, dressed in white and about eight years old was sitting on the pallet playing with the projectionist's hair!  She silently laughed and vanished.  The projectionist's mother
claimed to have run ins with the girl also, and she is a skeptic concerning paranormal sitings.

I found this ghost story on Ghosts of America online publication.

Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

I have mentioned several times that my naturalist husband is uploading bird sightings to Cornell University.  Yesterday he told me he is ranked 10th in the country for this information.  In a number of blogs I wrote he is uploading over 2000 files.

I don't know how I got that so wrong!  He has already uploaded 15,000 files and says he has over 30,000!  Wow!

Kendall Kessler Special Promotions!

Every week I put up three of my popular paintings in the Limited Time Section of Fine Art America under Buy tab!   Here are the three that are ending tomorrow evening.  40% off regular price of a large canvas price with a 30 day money back guarantee including shipping!

Natural Rhythm

Burning Shore

Blue Ridge Jewels

Pleased to Sell Another Print of Burning Shore and My painting is still hijacked...

I decided I would like to blog more than once a week to keep my friends informed on what is happening with my work and since I just sold another large print of one of my favorite paintings, Burning Shore, to a great Arizona patron, this seemed like a good day to write some things down.

Burning Shore is my favorite small gem paintings.  The original is owned by a great New York patron but print sales are growing of this captivating piece.   It is available on my website and one just about any kind of household and business item - even toys on Zazzle!



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I just notified a lawyer about the theft of my second best-selling print, A Break in the Clouds, on Funstatic.  I have sent a Cease and Desist order but the email came back.  I hit their red delete button on their site and filled out their form three times and the painting is still there for free downloads.  I posted three comments on their site demanding they take it down to no avail.

Let's see what a lawyer can do about this.

I usually try to have something funny in my blogs but I don't think I can manage that twice a week so I will hopefully have something in the next blog.

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Latest You Tube and Flying out the Window...

I am very pleased with my latest YouTube video on Beautiful Beaches!  The colors in the first ones are great!  The last one is a little low in color due to the lighting in the room I used to made the video.  Since I say welcome to Towhee Hill Studio at the beginning, I guess I should use my studio but the spacing is so awkward in there and the light is better in the computer room.  Anyway, here it is so be sure to look.  If you put my name in the search all four will come up on the first page.

    http://youtu.be/GZL_rm12bCU

   
My husband and I are getting so sick of the political commercials and the stream of phone calls to vote the way the caller wants us to.  We are constantly clicking the mute button but the ringing phone is getting on our nerves.  I think there will be one positive outcome of this presidential election.  Out landline is going to fly out the window at a hundred miles an hour and we will just turn off the cells.

Sold Another Print of Reaching Out and New National Holiday!

Just sold another print of "Reaching Out" to a great patron in Universal City, CA.  This is now my number one best seller.  "A Break in the Clouds" is second.

I am pleased to add the last of my three new large paintings.  I love the shore and wish I were there right now.  This painting was based on a morning photograph I took under unusual atmospheric conditions that I enhanced in the painting.  This painting is a celebration of color and brushwork that has a mesmerizing quality about it.  The light is moving in and out of a hazy morning and the warm/cool color relationships are like jewels shimmering on the surface. The painting has a visual energy that seems to burn from with-in.  As I mentioned before I have been told by many artists and patrons that my work is like that of Van Gogh's work because of the burning intensity in the colors.  I do greatly admire the effect he got with his impasto layers.  It is stunning.

There are so many political campaign commercials on right now that it is becoming extremely tedious.  My husband and I are so tired of them.  We can hardly get to the mute button fast enough.  We have decided that this country can add another Holiday and call it National Hot Air Day.  It can be celebrated with fog horns the day before the election and the day after.



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Check out my Best so Far! and If a Small Dog can do it...

Out of the three large paintings I just completed, "Isle of Palms Sunset" is my favorite.  More than ever before I have brought nature indoors.  This is an extremely intense vista of the canal side of the beach where the water was lit up with the sunset.  My exuberance is in every brushstroke and every color nuance.

Lately on TV there is an advertisement for some sort of mesh to attach to doors so people won't let the bugs in while they go in and out of the house.  It is done with magnets and the manufacturers proudly show a small dog going through the mesh and then it closes back.  My husband said if a puny little dog can open that mesh then I bet three mosquitoes could hold it open while a whole hoard flew in the house.  Don't think so but he sure did paint a funny picture for me with those words.  Who is the artist in this family anyway?  Writers sure can do amazing things with words.

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Beach Time is Coming and Getting Rid of Them May be the real Art

It is no wonder I have a number of beach scenes in my portfolio. I have been going to the beach almost every summer of my life and it won't be long before we are there again! Even if I didn't like to body surf I would still love the beach. I just like staring at the water and the house we rent is on a canal with dolphins! I wish we could stay longer than a week but it is better than no beach time. Got to get my salt water fix! I have relatives that hate the beach. They don't like the sand. They say it would be a great place with out the sand. I love the sand and I especially love walking in it along the breakers.
I am still having trouble with my leg at times but that will not stop me.

Last night we were watching a I Love Lucy re-run and Lucy explained to Ethel that catching men is like riding a bike. Once you learn, you never forget. My husband added that for some women the real talent is not catching them but getting rid of them. I think he may have something there. Can't say I want to get rid of mine though.

Hope everyone that celebrates Easter has a great time!