Blue Ridge Parkway Artist Escaped to the Lake and I wear them...

 

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

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Heading for the lake in a little while!  Got to get away from work and relax with a friend.  She lives on the lake so we are practically swimming in her back yard!  Love it!  Super cheers!

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KENDALL KESSLER ART

 

Nesting  Original 8" x 10" Mixed Media Drawing  $190

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards,  Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting  http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/nesting-kendall-kessler.html

I am real pleased with the attention I am getting on this expressive mixed media work!  I put it up a couple of weeks ago and it has already surpassed the 1000 hit mark!  Yes!

 

 Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

Most of the time, even when it is hot, I wear pajamas.  If I don't, after a while I wake up and have to put them on.  My temperature seems to change a lot during the night.  Clyde says the same thing.

There is a great funny on Facebook that cracked me up!  The cartoon is of an apartment fire and someone backing down the fire escape with out any clothes on.  The caption reads, "Good reason to always wear pajamas!"

 

 

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Cone Flowers by a Path  is on Special all  August

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Coneflowers  Original  30" x 24" Oil Painting $1470

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Nesting  Original 10" x 8" Mixed Media Painting $190

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

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Burning Shore  Original Oil  Painting has been Sold

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Blue Ridge Parkway Biltmore Ghost and My Latest Pawleys Island painting!

 My Artwork

I am very pleased to present the first of my latest shore scenes from beautiful Pawleys Island!  I love the shore and we get there once a year.  South Carolina has great beach resorts but my favorite is Pawleys Island.  

One of my best-selling prints, Marsh View at Pawleys Island, is one of my favorite paintings!

Pawleys Island Sunrise on the Sand is a sumptuous look at how the light reflects off the wet sand.  In this sunrise there is more morning light on the sand than the water, hence the title.

Pawleys Island Sunrise on the Sand    Original 30"x40" Oil Painting      $2430

Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at    KENDALL KESSLER ART

Breakers at Pawleys Island   Original Painting has been Sold

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The Biltmore Ghost

The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina was home to  George Washington Vanderbilt who was one of the heirs to the Vanderbilt industrial fortune. He was born into a mountain of money and never had to work a day in his life.

When he was  26 he traveled to Asheville with his mother and loved the area so much that he purchased 126,000 acres and built a fabulous vacation home there The house is so big that one could sleep in a different bed room each night and not sleep in one twice for a year!

George was an avid collector of books, art, and artifacts and had a huge library.  He and his wife had lavish parties and he usually had to be called out of the library to greet guests.
When he died in 1914 the estate passed through his daughter to his grand sons.  They decided to open the house to the public. 

It is the largest privately owned home in America and the setting for a number of successful movies including Being There, starring Peter Sellers.

Today there are reports of ghosts on the premises. George is said to be seen in the library where he often retreated during storms.  His wife's voice has been heard asking him to join his guests.  The parties seem to still be going on. People sometimes hear laughter and loud voices at the pool which is no longer in use.

I got this ghost story from Stories from The Mountains online publication

Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

Yesterday I listed books on Appalachia that The Blue Ridge Discovery Center suggests for great reading about this gorgeous area of the world! 

 I forgot to mention A Natural Sense of Wonder by  Rick Van Noy includes a chapter on Clyde.     Rick Van Noy is very impressed with the naturalist work my husband does and we were pleased he included him in his book!

Here is the list again!

For the Blue Ridge:

• Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders - An Appalachian Mountain Ecology, George Constantz 
• A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, Christopher Camuto

Other must reads:

• A Songbird Journeys - Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds, Miyoko Chu
• The Trees in My Forest, Bernd Heinrich
• Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
• The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner 
• Home Ground - Language for an American Landscape, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney

• A Natural Sense of Wonder, Rick Van Noy

Ghost Story near The Blue Ridge Parkway and The Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally is Tomorrow!

My Artwork

Isle of Palms Sunset     Original 30"x40" Oil Painting      $2425

Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at    KENDALL KESSLER ART

This is where my head is at right now!  Looking forward to our South Carolina shore visit!

Fast Water Wildwood Park    Original Oil Painting has been Sold

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Beautiful view of Radford Virginia's popular park!

Today I came across a very interesting ghost story written by "an old man" according to the writer.  It is intriguing to me that the author has a theory that perhaps we see these things when we are young and more perceptive to what is around us. He has not had a supernatural experience since this story.

As I have mentioned before, I am a skeptical person but I have had four strange events in my life that I cannot explain.  Interestingly enough, the latest one was a few months ago and I am not young by most people's estimation of what young is.

Lunch Bucket Man

The writer's story happened when he was a student.  He was traveling home to Roanoke via Rt. 81 via Wildwood Road.  Supposedly the Wildwood Inn has quite a spooky reputation. The Inn was closed and he was pretty much the only car on the road.

As he approached the ramp to Wildwood Road he saw a tall thin man holding a lunch bucket, not a pail, but a bucket.  The writer said he had seen that type of bucket carried by coal miners.  When the car lights passed over the man there was no shadow. 

He didn't move or change expression.

He seemed to vanish and the writer tried hard to figure out what had happened but could not come up with a logical explanation.  He has not had a similar experience.  This was in the early 1980's.
I found this story on Ghosts of America online.

Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

The Mount Rogers 40th Naturalist Rally is tomorrow!  I wanted to be sure to alert everyone again to this great event!

The 40th Annual Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally

This BRDC signature event highlights the crown jewel of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia.  The Mount Rogers area, which includes Virginia's three tallest peaks, has long fascinated scholars and explorers.  Not only is there a wide variation in altitude, there are many different ecosystems and mini-ecosystems within a short drive or hike of each other.

The 2014 Rally will be May 9 & 10.

Friday Night Speaker -  Nancy Lee Adamson PhD, Pollinator Conservation Specialist - East Region, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. An Introduction to Native Bees and Other “Beneficial” Arthropods of the Mid-Atlantic - learn about common native bees we can support by protecting and planting pollinator habitat. The program will highlight nesting habits of some of the 500 species of native bees in Virginia, as well as other pollinators, predators, and parasitoids that benefit from pollinator habitat.

Friday night entertainment - Ronald and Ellie Kirby will be bringing in the evening with some traditional old time tunes.

DOOR PRIZE! - David Richert has offered a free afternoon consultation on forest management as the friday night door prize.

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.



Be sure to check my Limited Time promotions on Fine Art America.  Three landscapes this week.  Two Blue Ridge Mountains prints and one Pawleys Island print.

Bringing the Shore Inside and The Mute Button

As I have mentioned before I have spent a lot of time at the beach and I am mesmerized by the ocean and the beautiful shore atmosphere.  Two of the paintings I am working on are shore scenes from the Isle of Palms.  One of them is the shore and the other is of the canal area that circles around to the sea.  I am pleased with both of them but the one with the shore holds my attention the most.  I feel like I brought the ocean into my home and I just want to walk into the picture.  I guess that is why I am a representational artist.  I love nature and I want it in my house and eventually placed in other homes.  I am in nineteen states, Washington D.C., Canada, Germany, and Australia.  I want to greatly increase the number of locales where people can feel what I feel. Hopefully, next week I will be posting these new paintings.

There is a commercial on TV that has been running forever regarding back problems.  I ruptured a disc when my son was two so I know how painful a back injury can be.  A back problem is nothing unless you have one.  This commercial has been shown so many times it has become quite aggravating.  The first line is I have so much trouble getting out of bed in the morning.  When my husband hears that he says I have so much trouble getting to the mute button fast enough!  So glad there is a mute button.  It is my favorite button on the remote.

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